god damn tuner toys!!

I've been waiting for their TT series connecting rods to come in so I can purchase a set. I've done buisiness with them before and they always were cordial and fair priced. I sent an e-mail a few days ago asking when the rods would be in stock. They replied the next day that the rods should be there soon, and if i wanted I could purchase a set of them at that time and have them shipped to me. I was about to, but I got a funny feeling I shouldn't do it. They e-mailed me the next day with this whole paragraph about how they had 7 sets of scat d16 rods in stock, they didnt know when the TT d16 rods would even be in (glad i didnt send payement), and since I asked about the TT d16 rods they would offer the scat rods to me at a special price, and to keep in mind this "special" price was only offered to me because I had been asking about the tt brand rods. And that the first 7 people to respond would get the limited amount of scat rods they had it this price. Their astounding price was...... $285.. plus shipping.

At first I thought this was a really good deal as I had thought scat was comparable to say a crower rod in quality and price. And figured them normally around $400 a set. I looked into it a little more and actually found them for as cheap as $270+ shipping from a legitimate online store. Looking into it I found that my "special" tuner toys price was actually higher than the first 5-6 other places I found selling rods (including ebay). Granted some places were more expensive and had them for $299 ( I only browsed for a few minutes.)

Personally I originally wanted tuner toys rods for $225 because I'm on an extreme budget and spent more money on other areas of my new turbo build than planned. I know alot of older people might be reading this thinking thats not really that big of a deal, but I'm a college student trying to build a motor on the side, $15 difference is me eating for 2 days. If they were going to quote me their list price they could at least be honest with me and say, we dont have any cheap rods, here is our next cheapest alternative and free shipping or something. I don't even expect them to match lower competitor pricing, but I would have appreciated them being honest with me.

Technically they did nothing wrong, but I kinda think it's a confusing move to use that kinda language like special offering price and everything and then quote me a price thats clearly higher than other places (including ebay which is the first place I always look for shit) And, although I can really only afford the TT rods, I might save up to buy scat rods from another company just because of this (for cheaper might I add.)

Just something to think about. Nothing against tuner toys they've always been good to me and had excellent customer service. In fact i would and have reccomended them to people. if you take any thing from this it's to SHOP AROUND!!!!!