Your process sounds like a Tower of Babel to me. The interests of these entities are in great conflict and their power over your limits of time and awareness ar

Your process sounds like a Tower of Babel to me. The interests of these entities are in great conflict and their power over your limits of time and awareness are increasing all the time. In the end, your purchase is relying on so much effort to curtail price exploitation, and it misses the potentials for manipulation and misrepresentation. You feel like an independent player but a minimal systemic analysis shows you could just as likely be misled. Of course, the systems you depend on are designed to do exactly that, unless it somehow benefits them more to help you out. What are the chances? Well, it benefits them not to tell you that. Your confidence appears foolish, I am afraid. Trust and aligned interests are out the window with these systems. We can do trmendously better to one another.