A U.S Customer who brought an instrument from synthplanet:

"I shopped around for a while to find a good digital piano. This same model KR-177 (IDENTICAL) sells for $2,800 at our local Roland dealer, which I thought was a BIG price, so I checked the internet. I found this piano, brand new, at Pianodepot.com, for $1,260 plus $180 shipping (it took only 2 days to get it from Europe to North Carolina via UPS!) (Yes, it's 110V and the plug is correct and the manual is in English) This site is out of Belgium, and their website is very segmented, but I ended up saving more money than I spent!!! The local dealers had pretty lame arguments why I should buy theirs for $3,000 as opposed to one from Europe for $1,500 with shipping (no warranty, no bench). Is the warranty worth $1,500 extra? I could buy another for that. I am very pleased. The US dealers are making a big killing on these things. I would have felt screwed if I had paid 3 grand. I guess that's why I saw a Mercedes parked out front of the local Yamaha dealer in Greensboro. They wanted $3,995 for a CVP103 Yamaha that you can get from Europe for less than half. They said that was a sale price. That's about twice the list price from Belgium."
A customer from USA

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Well, there are similar Questions over at Motivator.com, who are paying over $2,500 for a Motif 7 a hundreds of Dollars or so LESS will get you a Motif From synth planet....a Motif 8 that is.

Suppose it does break down? - suppose you break a key on your Yammmy 9000? would you expect to pay many hundreds of $$$ to get it right?. We are talking the worst scenario here By the way, since I have been having keyboards for over 20 years, and not a hitch with one of them (well over 20 boards).

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