By the way, when I bought my Terry Damselfly online, I had I think 30 days to try it and could have sent it back. I bought two different saddles, actually, tried both and sent back the one I didn't want.

Not sure if you can do that with the types of saddles you are looking at, but you might find a site that will let you. Also, work on developing a good relationship with a local bike shop. We have a good relationship with ours and the owner lets my dh try out saddles. I don't know if they would have done that when he was a brand new customer, but we have bought a tandem, two nice road bikes, two kids bikes and all kinds of misc. bike stuff there over the years ... and sent them lots of business. Not only does the owner allow dh to try saddles, but he brings them over to the house! He's like the pizza delivery guy. He was also going to give my husband a nice loaner bike while his was being worked on, but he didn't really need it. Anyway, you may not be able to do this now, but if you build a relationship somewhere, maybe you'll be able to do this sort of thing in the future.