Well, whether or not he filters out-of-tolerance parts (at his expense), it's just his justification for charging more for simply repackaging cheaper parts. The way I look at it, if he figured out that he can resell Vortex parts as high performance CX parts, and they work as advertised, then he can sell them for whatever price the market will bear. A lot of people criticize him for it, but it's free enterprise. He doesn't force people to buy his parts. He doesn't appear to mislead buyers as far as what the parts do, and he never claimed you couldn't find equivalent parts cheaper. Yet, with knowledge comes power... I'll buy the Vortex parts from here on out, and save 50%. That's free enterprise too. Neall