Don't argue the value and reliability of a LHT vs. the Atlantis. They both work great and both do there job well, but they are different.
We got some additional exposure to the discrepancy between the commodity price of something, the cost of getting the job done, vs the cost of value added, when we had to justify the dollar difference between xmart bike for $80 and a $1000 LBS bike to an insurance adjuster.