You've all heard me say this before but here I go again! In my opinion (and the opinion of the Korg, Yamaha, Roland, Generalmusic, Solton marketing people) most of the chain stores do not have qualified and trained people to sell these arranger keyboards. They tend to sell by price alone and not by features and benefits. Very few of the big chain stores do well with any of the arranger keybords unless it is the inexpensive Yamaha and Casio models. Sales have proven this point around the country. This is not the case in every store, but in many. If Sam Ash lowers the price in this instance, it is probably because they do want to get rid of the PA80's and not replace them. It has also been a hard retail market place since Sept.11th and reducing prices might just be something Sam Ash needs to do to raise money. Look at what Ford did with interest rates on new car sales!
George Kaye