OP here...received e-mail back from Maxxis today. Turns out yes, tire dealer was jerking me around. Copied and pasted reply below. Undecided if I'm going to forward reply to Les Schawb Corp office or exactly what my next step is going to be. Probably nothing other than not do any more business there and give others a "heads up" of what happened to me.
Pat,
We have plenty of inventory in the ST225/75R15 10 PR M8008 out of our warehouse in California. There has not been any time this year we have had that SKU on backorder That is probably all we need to say.
Thanks for your inquiry and interest in Maxxis Tires.
Best Regards,
Your Maxxis Support Team
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