Steve,
I've not done a price comparison or even searched for lowest prices lately.
I've been so pleased with Scaled Instruments with his prompt attention, lack of salesman BS and coming across as truly customer oriented that I've ordered the few things that I have over the last years from him.
Too bad his company is so darned hard to remember, and that it sounds a lot like Burt Rutan's company out on the California dry lakebed.
It is possible someone else is a few dollars less expensive, but the majority of time this company has been as low or nearly so as I've seen.
that being said, there is little margin, these guys work hard to keep in business, and no doubt there are others to whom I cannot attest, who have as high of a customer loyalty as this one.
Make your choice, order your VP2 and hope that this causes the VP3 to come out soon!
Dale
K9ELD