Fishing - conclusion to beginner spey rod

I researched this alot, and came to the following conclusions:
1) Redshack is awesome!! They should be the first place you go to.
2) I talked to Jeff Putnam, one of the areas best spey teachers, and
his beginners hands down prefer the redington and gary anderson rods.
When I say redington *I DO NOT MEAN THE PRE SAGE
REDINGTONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
Did I stress that enough :)
The redington is a great rod, $250 and the unconditional warranty is
only $20.

3) TFO is a awesome company. For a low/mid priced rod you cant go
wrong with a tfo.

4) What did I end up going with? My choices were between a gary
anderson 8 weight grey $400 and a redington red ($250) a rio wincutter
multi tip ($150) and either a teton tioga 12 ($200) or a ross big game
6 ($425).

Gary anderson (541 582 4318) made it a no brainer. He had a used once
demo for $250(8/9 grey), and threw in the rio multi tip windcutter for
free.