Ok... here is the summary. I did get a price to buy them retail from OTB, but I thought it was kinda high. I got the impression that if I had said I intended to manufacture and sell a product made with these the price would have been substantially different. I try not to lie to people however. I tried Hardware Elf and was unable to find it at all. Then for the heck of it I tried Amazon and found several different sizes listed with another name. The key for me was to know the name of the product to search for.
The name to search for is "Spring Frame" or "Purse Spring Frame."