nost of the time I order from my local hobby shop becase of the fact that I'm lucky enough to have a shop that cost usually $10 t0 $20 less then most items from tower. I am a supper saver member but even if the order was more then $150 were I get the shipping free I still usually find it ia my hobby shop cheaper. So I don;t mind driving the hour to get the the shop. now if something wasn't on hand I usally call him then run for it. other then that i might get a radio online if I wasn't a spaciffic channel. but 90 % of the time I just run to the local shop.