You are probably paying for it one way or another unless they are not paying shipping. I just placed an order through Tower and the item locally selling at one of the LHS for $159.99 was $109.00. The bad thing is that I still had to pay tax since they have a warehouse in state and shipping since the purchase was less than $150.00 The good thing is that I still got another $20.00 off of the $109.00, basically convering the shipping and tax. That's a big savings as far as I'm concerned: $159.99 + tax vs. $89.00 ($109 - $20) + tax + @ $8.00 shipping.