If the new keyboard is sold in the U.K. most of the top Technics dealers will mostly start of at a similar price and for instance if that price is £2,250 sterling then the buying price of the keyboard to the dealer will be somewhere around £1250 sterling. A gross profit of around 100% on paper. Set against that you have to take in the cost of operating a local dealership, allow for part exchanges and a good after sales. So we all have the choice of getting it cheaper from mass sales keyboard superstore who usually want to sell and forget it or go to an authorised Technics Dealer and get: to handle the product before you commit to buying: get chance of a part exchange deal:and also a good after sales service.
For my part when I bought my Kn6000 I chose the latter. The reason being that the Store Manager travelled 25 miles to my home to make sure I was happy with it and went through a demonstration of the keyboard with me in my home surroundings.
There are quite a few dealers around who will give you a good deal and excellent service. One particular one in the U.K who I have used many times as I have been on my travels through the different models (about 15 so far) is whitleybayorgans.co.uk who do some very deals.