If I was selling this plane, that probably would be the actual shipping cost. The box for an arf is oversized and heavy when priced for a walk in person like myself. I shipped out an arf box and it cost me around 20 bucks at USPS, and they're the cheapest. It was only a 25 size stick too.

True that a lot of people make money on their shipping charges, especially Amazon.com, but sometimes it does cost that much to ship something.