Between myself and 3 sons, we have bought several bikes at our LBS. My last two bikes that I bougtht were bents. Since the owner knows me well, he gave me really nice discounts on these bents. While I have bought some things on line, I feel some loyality to the LBS, and buy far more there. But "fit fees" seems to me to be out of line. Fitting locally and buying on line should really come out about even. When you buy on line there is generally shipping fees. So unless the LBS is pricing their stuff unreasonable the price should come out about the same.