I have been getting mine from the gac ( sorry but its handy at times ) and it always has been buy one get one free The reason for me mentioning my rod in the above post was that as its such a powerfull rod combined with the quality of the rainbows from my local water and the non stretch fluro it sounds like there could be a problem with yours as mine up till now is ok

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