The sort of basses they sell can only really be sold in that way, your average pmt customer buying typical fenders or squier basses can choose one from a pile of unopened boxes so the last display bass is discounted and will have been mistreated no doubt, a custom Roscoe is what it is, the bass on the hook is the bass you buy unless you want to wait, you don't really have a pile of xotics on the shelf out back do you?