ok, if i carry this, i'm going to do 3oz for 12.50 + shipping. i am going to have to confirm, but this will be for fresh kester 44 63/37 rosin activated 66um core, 0.020" diameter solder packaged in a dispenser vial. this will be a factor of 3 cheaper than you will find this amount of non-expired kester anywhere. IF there's enough interest, i will stock a trial amount as a value-add for orders, but frankly i'm probably going to end up losing money and huge amounts of time on it if there isn't sufficient demand.
that means that geekhack will lose money on it. and that's really not the point of geekhackers at all. so speak up or forever hold your peace sirs.
and i really don't care how much you can buy surplus expired stock for on ebay. i have a spool of that and i refuse to vend it because frankly it's bad solder for new solderers. you're better off getting alphametals, mg chem, chemtronics rosin blah blah or god forbid, no-clean anything than to buy that stuff. it's fine for me because i solder a lot, i have a lot of extra flux, i'm incredibly anal about calibrating my iron, i know how to sink sensitive components, and i have a closet and a room full of organic solvents.
it's not good for people new to electronics, and if geekhackers is going to lose money on something, it's going to be something that's good for the community as a whole. access to the _best_ hobbyist solder still being manufactured without having to shell-out-for-a-gigantor-spool-which-you-then-discover-is-expired is good for the community.