After sitting a bit too close to the stack last night, I decided that I need to do something about spl's.
I looked at the ety's and the shures and found that the e1's from shure are actually made by Westone. Found an Ebay auction and the dude is selling the UM1's for $99 shipped (new)
There is an auction for $86 on an open box set now with free shipping too
here