As a retailer, I am concerned with the current trend that Korg , Roland and Yamaha have taken with repackaging the "pro" workstation keyboards.

Evolution of Rolands top workstation over the last 4 to 5 years is the Fantom, later the Fantom S and now the Fantom Super S or whatever it's called .

Korg comes out with the Triton , Triton Le , Triton studio and now the Triton Extreme .

Yamaha comes out with the Motif , Motif ES etc......
So ... from a retailers perspective , over the last 5 years we have seen alot price adjustments on alot of these products.

Suppose you were the guy to buy a Fantom for $1999.99 and than 2 months later the price get's dropped to $1499.99 . The customer loses value and the dealer's lose because we can't give the trade in value if you want to upgrade to the newest workstation, because the MAP and wholesale price has been reduced by to 30%.

See what I'm getting at ? Any comments ?

One good thing about the arranger products, you don't see the fluctuation in price points quite as much.

Dan O'

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[This message has been edited by DanO1 (edited 02-08-2004).]