Furthermore, the site writes that at the time, snow crab legs were retailing at wholesale for around $5 per pound. And as it turns out, the price of the promotion, coupled with the cost of raw ...

A pound of claws can cost two times the price of Alaskan snow crab legs. Part of what makes these crabs so costly is the labor-intensive process of catching them. Ernie Piton: There's a nice crab.