Well that wouldn't really fall into the category I was talking about, would it?

Look, I've made my point pretty clearly. I can't do much if people throw up supposed counter-examples which have nothing to do with the point I have made. If you don't agree with me, fine. You don't have to, but don't try and twist what I was actually saying. At no stage have I advocated people accepting crappy deals from anyone.

BTW: This thread is called "Kawai MP10 Statement", not "Is it unethical to test at retailers shop and buy online?"

Welcome to your first internet forum. FYI, threads very rarely stay on topic, much like any conversation...

moderator please? ando kicked me...

Buuaaaaahh!!!

I'm tough, but fair...

As a freelance scientist, I can say with certainty that if you divide the number of contributors by the square root of the available information, and take away the content of those who post the same sentences no matter the original question, threads stay on topic for 34.7956% of their final length.

Bulgaria is a very weird country and everything is the direct contrary of what's considered normal in the rest of the world

For example, our Kawai dealer offers lower prices than online stores. How they do manage to achieve this is beyond my understanding... However they do not have many models for testing except for the least expensive CN-series. They can't afford keeping expensive models available and you have to order blindly. And there is no chance of returning anything once you've bought it. So, despite being retailer, they are in fact a kind of an "online store" - it's cheap but you can't try before buy

Our Yamaha dealers used to charge extremely high and to some degree keep doing it. However in addition to their retail services, they began offering an unique online service recently. You choose anything (whatever it is) in Thomann.de and they can deliver it to you free of charge, so you pay only the listed price. You don't even have to go to their office, instead you fill a form on their website. However the service is not advertised and there is no link to it on their main site, thus is unknown to many people. Which leads to interesting situations. For example, I went into their shop and saw they sell Sennheiser HD-595 headphones for 165 Euro. Then I opened Thomann.de and saw the same headphones for 130 Euro. I asked them and then they agreed to sell me their pair for the lower price. However if another person unaware of the thomann service wanted to buy those, they would have sold them for the higher price of course...
So, in another sense, they have become an online store but keeping a pinch of retailer flavour Welcome to Bulgaria as we say!

Same here in Munich at my favorurite music retail store. They offer a guarantee: They will sell you all of their stock for the lowest internet price in Germany you can find (from a reputable online-store, whatever that means). Normally that's Thomann.de, so I can buy local and always get the low Thomann prices.

That's very impressive.

Well, at least now we know what to expect...