Originally Posted by
yote223
As far as shopping locally, The 2 shops in town are for a lack of better words are rather "Elitist". They don't have much time for us middle of the road folks and zero time fore the budget minded.
As a shop owner, I never mind someone who is "budget-minded" so long as they aren't being short-sighted about it. What good is a cheap wheelset if all it is is cheap? My father-in-law has a farm, and uses power tools frequently, but just can't seem to pull the trigger on a really top end drill for $300. So he buys half a dozen cheap B&D drills a year, and spends $600 doing it, because $300 is too much!

Meanwhile, my nice drills just keep going. That is what I mean by short-sighted.