Dealer mark-up on musical instruments?

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Be interested to know just know much mark-up dealers add onto instruments.
I've just bought a Yamaha P35 digital piano for my daughters christmas present.
Dawsons have these for £357.
A seller on Ebay (proper music shop and registered Yamaha dealer) listed them at £325 or best offer.
I eventually got one for £270 delivered, which, considering second hand ones go for anything between £200 and £280 (and I nearly paid £220 plus delivery for one), I'm extremely pleased about.

But just how much is their profit margin for him to still be makign any money?

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Yeah - experienced the Gibson/Epiphone thing when trying to get hold of an Explorer for my son.
Dealers were telling me they had no idea of what was coming in and when it might arrive and you basically had to choose from what they had in.

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I kind of agree with you, and I actually rang the dealer and paid over the phone so as to save him some eBay fees. There's a lot to be said from trying instruments in a shop and there has to be a premium charged for that privilege. But does the disparity have to be so much.
Getting back to yamaha though, they seem to pretty much have all their outlets singing from the same hymm sheet, 2 years ago mmy daughter spent £2000 on a arius piano and every dealer in the UK had exactly the same price.