Well thats what I am trying to figure out. The way it sounds to me is that all the people who have turned away from monokote have just gotten bad roll after bad roll after bad roll. If it was hit and miss you would not see quite as strong of a siding toward ultracoat but rather a neutral could go either way type feeling. And to ask a question about your above question, How many rolls do I need to buy from what location before I come across a bad roll? I buy my monokote from local hobby shops in Alabama and I buy whatever stock Tower Hobbies sends me. I dont know if Tower sells "the good stuff" or what but I have never gotten, to my standards, a sub par roll of monokote that has exhibited any bad characteristics that people have stated above and on other threads.