I don’t feel comfortable carrying a wad of benjamins into a coin shop and then carrying a monster box of ASE’s out of the coin shop. Too many opportunities to get robbed by thugs casing out the coin shop. Even if you CCW, you could still get involved in a shootout. No such worries when I wire the money to Provident and Fedex delivers the coins to my door.
I don’t blame you. Wire-transfer is definitely the way to go if you’re buying MB’s. Best deal, too, by far.
I never do that kind of volume at the LCS. What I leave with fits in my pocket. And since I’m not buying in high volume, shipping costs are more of a factor for my cost average.