I put money on the bike mid January (Giant OCR1). It's from the LBS in my town. There's a shop in a town 60 miles away offering the bike for like $799 instead of $1000. My boyfriend says that I should ask the shop about the price difference and kind of fish for a reduction. I had already put money down about 2 weeks before shop number 2 started their sale.

I explain to my boyfriend, if I had known about the sale before I put money down, I may have patronized the other store or at least negotiated the price tag. But, I think that the shop in town here does decent business, there's people that really respect his repair work. He had to order the bicycle for me from a different store. I don't know how much of a mark up he was able to make.

Convienence is handy, I can ride less than a mile away to get my bike fixed. It wouldn't take long for me make up that difference with gas money driving the bike to the shop 60 miles away. My mom lives in that town, I get there often... But my boyfriend thinks I'm getting screwed.

I don't like confrontation, and I really don't want to burn bridges. I just figure that it's wrong timing and there isn't much that I can do about it. I don't want to be naive either.