Ok, so when I saw the bike I fell in love with it. It's a nice looking ride. When at the shop talking about it seemed like a good deal. It has some things I really like that I didn't expect on it. On the flip side it has some downfalls. At the time I saw it I knew nothing about it. Only what was said at the shop. Which not much was said other than what I could see for myself: "yep, thats a GT. it's steel and has disc brakes." It's not much of a "touring" shop, actaully I'm not really sure what they are steered towards... but none the less a good group of guys there willing to help and not bike snobbish. I'm not complaining about this shop at all. What I'm getting at is I was unawre of the over pricing of it at the moment. I know shops cant compete with the I-net. It's just once I got home I started researching the net. I found the msrp being 850$ when it first came out. I also found multiple post of people getting them from other shops for around 600$ give or take(some lower some higher. Nothing as much as I'd be paying. Currently performance is asking 850$ so thats probably the best I have to go off of I guess) Knowing that now I guess I'm just asking myself (and others) if the (what appears to be) inflated local price sounds right? All be it I didn't ask if they changed anything on it. So maybe they did... I'll have to go back and stop bothering the forum till I figure it out. Guess where I'm heading later today. Thanks for the replys guys!

One last thing about the first shop I mentioned; They didn't "bad talk" exactly but still just with what they were saying was not right. I did work at a shop back in high school days I know how it is... er was. Isn't QBP like one of the biggest distributors? Hard to warrenty my a$$.