Thanks for the replies. I'm not looking to buy rods cheaply, but I have a 486-4 Z-Axis I'm going to put on e-bay soon. I bought it originally on e-bay, and found later two small problems that don't affect rod performance, but that someone may notice if they looked closely enough. I was thinking this may have been mis-represented as a straight factory rod to me and if the Sage outlet exists it may have actually come from there and would state that as likely in my listing. I guess I'll just go with actual descriptions of those items. First is that the wrap around the hook keeper has a small pointy imperfection in the epoxy as if stray fuzz poked through. Second is that it looks like the rod was splined quite correctly as the rod is ever so slightly off from perfectly straight between the 2nd and 3rd sections. I've commonly seen this in much less expensive rods, but never in a top line Sage before.

Thanks again.