"Kosher" for Passover Strikes Again

So, as I've mentioned before, I've been buying my poultry wholesale, and I've been doing so for the last seven months. It's been going pretty well. The wholesaler delivers the goods to me at home, and I get stuff by the case. Last time out, I ordered a case of chicken breasts (with the bones in) and a case of chicken wings. The whole shebang cost me exactly one hundred dollars. I saved a lot of money, and I was happy.

Then came time to put in my order for Pesach. And it blew me away. Some of the stuff I ordered, no pricing problems. But the chicken breasts (again, bone-in) were DOUBLE the price they were last time I ordered. DOUBLE!! That put the price per pound at about one dollar OVER retail at the supermarket!!!

So, I called the guy this morning (he hasn't actually delivered the stuff yet, just gave me the pricing last night). I told him something was wrong with the pricing and that this is about a dollar more than RETAIL. His question? "Retail even kosher for Passoveer?"

I'm sorry. This is poultry we're talking about. Not pre-cooked goods or pre-shaped or pre-manufactured in any way. Just plain old raw, fresh poultry. WTF is the difference when I buy this stuff?! It's poultry. There's NO way for it to be anything BUT "kosher" for Passover. It's like claiming they sell "Glatt" kosher chickens!

So, he's "checking" the pricing. He said he put in a call to one of the supermarkets he supplies and claimed they told him they were selling the stuff for about seven dollars per pound. I suspect they were reporting on the boneless chicken cutlets, which do indeed sell for about seven dollars per pound.

I hate being F****D over. I really hate it.

UPDATE 1: Apparently, cases got mixed up and he gave me pricing on boneless chicken cutlets. Except the prices are higher by about twenty-two cents per pound from the case of boneless I DID order... HMMM.

UPDATE 2: He is ordering anew for us and it SHOULD arrive next Thursday, about a day before Pesach. I'll have to cook fast...