I'm rather shocked & disappointed to hear this, especially because GEM published a retail list price for their other flagship keyboard, the Promega 3, which lists at: $2,995 US dollars (according to Keyboard Magazine 11/02).

This is the SAME beef I've had for years with Technics. It really gulls me to walk into a Technics dealership to see the price tag on a KN7000 at $6,900, and then have the dealer tell me that he will offer me the deal of the century: $4,500, but only if I buy TODAY, knowing full well that the dealer cost is closer to $2,000.

Ok, some here may defend the dealer saying that's the buyers responsibility to beware, but without a manufacter set retail list (ceiling) price, this just encourages overly greedy dealers (I'm defintely NOT referring to George Kaye or Dan O'Neil here, of course) to jack up the prices as high as they think they can get away with.

Most arranger Keyboard manufacterers I know of (ei: Yamaha, Roland, Korg, etc) publish & provide a suggested list price, which at least gives us, the consumer, some idea of what the dealer should be charging, and a point of which we can negotiate DOWN from.

WHY does Technics (and now GEM, with the Genesys?!) choose NOT to provide the consumer with retail list prices. What really is the advantage of this other than encourage dealers to inflate prices as high as they can?


Scott