Am I crazy for reading through this and still thinking SRY is possibly the best vendor for my situation / needs? Probably. However, being new to all of this and reading through as much as I can, looking at all the vendor posts, the reviews / rumors etc on each, I can't find another vendor that has:
1) The lowest prices
2) Testing (and no doubt about actual product, or at least not anything worse than countless other vendors who are nonetheless trusted)
3) domestic USA shipping (for speed / convenience / lower risk / cost)
4) Payment options of PayPal and aliblahblah. I'm not messing with crypto or bank wires.
The only other competitive vendor is QSC, but they lose out on the USA warehouse factor (and maybe the payment options? idk). The rest are either not keeping up with current pricing trends, or charge $40+ for what is essentially free / cheap / bottom of barrel shipping costs that Chinese pay for shipping to USA, or don't provide testing or long out of date testing.
No I don't work for SRY nor have even ordered from them yet, nor gaf. Just my thoughts as a newbie evaluating vendors and deciding what is important to me. Everyone need to decide for themselves which factors are important for them