I'm not out there every weekend so I just want something slightly better than a road pad - i.e. Red Stuff ceramic will probably do, maybe yellow at a stretch. The only people who tell you that expensive discs are needed for normal cars in non extreme applications are vendors of such discs. Quality, basic, discs are all you need.
I'd prefer to buy from somewhere which has a public pricing policy. All this "PM xxxxxx for a price just" panders to allowing vendors to have an informaiton asymetry, not compete on price properly and their keep margins artifically high - which is bad for buyers.
Do either Zman or CS have a website I can have a look at?