>>2790745I dont think it has anything to do with price. Ive never seen those dots before so I took out my fly rods to check, the top is a “cheap” $195 Clearwater rod and the bottom is a $650 Thomas and Thomas rod. The top has nothing. The bottom has a dot for the first piece and then just these numbers where a dot should be, and it all lines up with proper ferrule placement. I guess they think I’m an retard for spending so much on a rod.