Yeah Im not that big on used gear...if its something thats still on the market I can get my hands on. Used or...vintage for some things is a good thing a very good thing.

Ebay...lol NO, even IF the transaction goes down without a problem you get the gear and its working the way you want...you still stand a chance that you just paid for some stolen gear. Someone lifts some gear in XXXX town...they cant play gigs there with it, they cant take it to a pawn shop without risk.......yet they can Ebay it :P

Heck one of the members in this very topic just lost a bunch of cash to a Ebay deal gone bad Not to say they are to blame for the dishonest actions of someone else. Note to the person...I hoped against hope for you and I was happy for you when you got your funds back from alternate sources.

"Speaking of the Motif ES my small keyboard experience is with pressing buttons to selects sounds rather than searching trough menues or using touch screens so perhaps the Motif ES' so called complicated OS might actually suit me ."

Perhaps it will...go demo the hell out of one, just when you do...PLEASE turn off the click track. Its funny as heck when someone wants to check out the sounds then you hear CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK on top of everything :P

" I have played around with Yamaha portable PSR keyboards in stores and while I'm sure the Motif ES is much more complex I found the PSR boards easy to navigate ."

Yup they are easy to navigate...and to an extreme the low line Yamaha boards can be workable within 80s synth pop ( whatever ). Something you MIGHT want to think about...cause if this is your "first" keyboard a 200$ PSR295 could bring you much enjoyment ( within reason ). Cause its 200$ for around 700 sounds, a five track sequencer, some reverb/chours effects, user banks to store your voice edits and so on. 700 voices when you can split and combine them gives lots of options. Heh plus maybe Im stupid or something...but stuff like synth square leads, transformation, many string sounds, electric pianos, some organs and stuff ( raw tone ) sound fine to me on it ( to spite its not a synth synth :P ). The only real lacking for what you might want to do...would be the fact the PSR295 lacks pitch bend/mod wheels, but its 200$ so what can ya say. Just know this is random idea mode Im throwing at you, not end all be all anything.

More random for you...cause you said Roland and spoke of navigation. The Juno-D ( while it doesn't have a sequencer < its got little arps for drum loops and stuff >)...I LOVE its interface. Its one of those things where its so simple you wonder why you dont see it more. All its soundbanks for FX / Drums / Keys / Guitar / Bass and so on have buttons from left to right ( or the other way around :P )...press a button scroll a bit simple as that. Its also got pitchbend/mod and a beam controller...plus real time knobs that let you adjust sustain/decay/resonence and all that ( much like the four knobs you see on the Triton ). Plus its got some nice samples in it...just basic FX stuff like a stream of water, thunderstorm, windhowling and whatnot I would put right next to a Triton without much worry. Juno-D also has a fair amount of effects to toy around with. NOPE the Juno-D is not a retro analog synth and YES you will encounter many that hate it just for this reason...but it puts out some nice sounds and if you feel you could deal with some drum loops and arps in place of a built in sequencer you might dig it. For me the Juno-D has some sounds I would use over stuff offered on the Triton/Motif without debate. Hahaha plus its black has to get some props for that with all the silver star trek boards floating around.

I wish you the best of luck with your keyboard shopping...cause to a point finding a keyboard you like is harder then finding a guitar a bass or an amp that suits you or at least is balanced with what you want to spend.