I picked three, but with these caveats...

No fishing rod has three or four hundred dollars worth of component parts in it...none, not even close.

When you drop that kind of change for a premium rod, you are not only buying the rod, but buying a couple of them, and they are already covering the "warranty" rods with the initial payment.

It's kind of like buying insurance, and the expeditor fee is kind of like a deductible.

Just like insurance companies, they make money on some people who never break their rod, and they lose money on some people who break a few...but the expeditor fee probably covers the majority of the cost of the rod, anyway, so you'd have to bust quite a few to make them actually lose money on the deal.

No rod company that offers good warranties ever made any money off of me

Fish on...

Todd