Originally Posted by
oldnslow2
Well.. i can get them from my LBS for $63 since my son worked there for a number summers and they give me the employee discount.
But I found them for $45 shipped online from a vendor that has almost 50,000 feedback with 99.7% positive.
Beware the ebay ratings that are not 99.9 or 100%. I don't mean I won't shop with such vendors, but I also recognize that I could have a problem. It is a calculated risk. Why? It is very difficult to give bad ratings on ebay. There is a lot of red tape. The "system" keeps asking you if you are sure. Then the vendor comes back to you and whines about what a s#%thead you are for dissing them, and begs you to change the rating. 99.7% positive out of 50,000 sales means 150 people persevered to down rate that vendor. And those same folks resisted any attempt to get them to change their rating. And even with the specter of a bad rating, the vendor couldn't kiss and make up with the buyer and make the bad rating go away. There is a reason for that. That is not insignificant. In order to a vendor's positive ratings to be meaningful, they have to be VERY nearly perfect.