No you aren't a bit slow - I did not do this structure until years after I started and found out others do.  Your closest counties or your biggest counties with volume you give your lowest price, depending on the size or ease of the county records in the other counties you adjust your fees slightly upward and attach a minimum fee to that county i,e., lets say I did an order for 20.00 in my main county - a county either depending on distance or how small or still in books - I charged 25.00 for this order but this county also attaches a minimum of 40.00 - so in this outer county if a company sent me 1 order I would charge 40.00 - if they sent me 2 orders I would charge 2x25.00 my normal charge because the charge for 2 is above my minium.  This helps the cost of travel and time if you are stuck with no one else ordering in this county during your turn around time and small increase in time per order because of lack of volume and distance traveled.  Most of us a current owner search would cover the minimum fees but with a small doc retrieval - it would not.  The reason so many of us have had to do this is some people sometimes tend to make one county their base and they undercut everyone - then the company using them just wants you to do the outer counties - which are very unprofitable - as I see it more as a service that I provide my valued customers because they use me in the inner counties.  I have stopped letting anyone use me for outer counties only without me being the 1st or 2nd vendor in my main counties (unless large project clients) - told them go to the guy your using in ...such and such county and tell him to do it - he should be willing to go the extra mile because he is the one receiving all your volume work :)   Like I said more of a problem with doc retrievals, filings, mort/release reports than title work - have I explained this well enough?