Brewmaniac

hambone, great to see you know what you want and have done your homework. Is it an independent company or a chain?
Stores like best buy, circuit city and big independent players buy in large quantity and sell at lower price, they rely on volume of sales and volume rebates(if you buy so many $ or so much from a specified category or something, the store get big rebates from manufacture at years end) car dealers rely on these as well.

So you could get it at cost. I would guess they will knock off $200 to $300, on such a large up scale model, but that's a guess. I've been out of the loop for 6 yrs. now and a lot has changed!

Sorry I couldn't be more help.