I have never had a complaint about the cost of minnows or for that matter anything else at the DAM store.....If you will count them you will find you have twice as many as you ordered and therefore its still a bargain. I do understand that they had a power failure during one of the storms and lost power and that affected a bunch of minnows.....but I am sure if you got some bad ones that a talk with the owners and they would try to make it right.