I was just having this debate in my head, as well. I was going to order some pellets from A-Maze-N, but then I looked at price vs. the big bags of pellets you can get at the farm store, so I had to do some research. As mentioned before, the bulk pellets might be 20% flavor wood and the remainder is Alder or Oak. The A-Maze-N pellets are 100% of the flavor on the label. That probably wouldn't bother me much, if I was running a pellet grill. However, the A-Maze-N pellet smokers are all about adding flavor, so I'd rather have 100% flavor wood in them. What really sealed the deal for me, was getting an e-mail from A-Maze-N this morning. Right now, they're running a 20% off fall sale on their pellets. Between that and the free shipping deal, I got 60# of top-quality pellets for just a shade over $1/lb. That might seem really expensive, but those pellet smokers only hold about 1# of pellets. That makes it about $1 per smoke. Not that pricey at all.