Best Price on the Epson 5010?

i think this guy is an authorized dealer

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Epson-PowerL...#ht_897wt_1344

he is authorized
i looked him up on epson.com

Do you have the link?

I don't see him listed.


http://epson.webengager.com/HC5010/

his web site

http://www.theaterdesigncenter.com/

Epson, according to one of their sales reps, isnt allowing authorised dealers to advertise the 5010 for a lower price than the $2699.00 you have seen. He also went one step further and stated that they will not all any of their dealers to sell the 5010 or 6010 for less than MSRP. I find that second statement hard to believe, but that is what I was told.

"Epson, according to one of their sales reps, isnt allowing authorised dealers to advertise the 5010 for a lower price than the $2699.00 you have seen. He also went one step further and stated that they will not all any of their dealers to sell the 5010 or 6010 for less than MSRP. I find that second statement hard to believe, but that is what I was told."

That is called Price Fixing & last time I looked..Highly ILLEGAL!

Price fixing... Doesn't Apple do that with all of their products? They never put them on sale and the price is constant.

^^^ I didn't mean that as a knock against apple, I am literally asking. When I worked at CompUSA years ago, we were told the Apple hardware has an absolute price, and they don't play sales games like PC vendors do. A macbook pro with Processor x, and screen Y costs $2699 whether you buy it at CompUSA, the apple store, online, etc. How is the Epson minimum different?

It is actually called Resale Price Maintenance or a vertical price restraint. It is not illegal. Such agreements between vendors and manufacturers are to be evaluated by antitrust regulators and courts under a "rule of reason" test, which is not difficult to satisfy.

Price fixing is an agreement between competitors to set a price floor or ceiling, or to control supply in order to set a price floor or ceiling.

Regardless of what Epson says on price, its products are so widely distributed, I sure you will find some discounts.