You should have told the both stores what you just told us. Tell them "Thanks for the advice, but I'm not really interested in it. I want feathers because I like them, do you want to fletch them or not? If not I can get a fletcher from cabela's for half of what you want to fletch them and do them myself."

I personally think they are full crap, I still think feathers are the best thing going for a stable arrow. Blazers steer well but have no forgiveness at all, you might as well have metal wings on the back of your arrows.

I buy my arrows fletched already most of the time. I don't really care what color fletchings I use, so I just get what ever they have in the size I want, I'm not too picky. I have never had a shop try to talk me out of feathers. I have had them say they like vanes better or they are more popular, but not try to talk me out of it.

I have an Arizon Easy fletcher if I want to do my own, but I'll be honest fletching arrows is about the least fun thing in archery to me. I would just as soon buy them done already. And I can darn near get arrows pre fletched for the prices you quoted just to have them fletched. I shoot aluminum though.

Paul