Originally Posted by
urbanknight
The best way I ever found a saddle was to buy one used on ebay, try it for a few weeks, then buy another one and sell the definite losers. When I found a winner, I would have bought a brand new one if the used one wasn't in great shape. In the end, you end up paying pretty much just shipping for each saddle you try.
+1, that's the exact route I took too. If it's not an unbearable pain-in-the-behind but not the most comfortable thing, I kept riding on it while ebay-ing for the next model to try. In the end, I broke even or +/- $10 from trying 8 saddles.