Originally Posted by Ya_know
Buy it online. I was looking at a few Yamaha receivers recently, both at best buy and Sound Advice, both stores were at least $100 more then the total shipped prices I was seeing on the web, and the higher you went on the model, the greater the savings! Because it's not a real storefront, price match guarantees won't work, so you can't even go in and haggle the price down at the retail chains. I haven't got it yet, still researching the online vendor, I don't want to get ripped off. But it's real simple, use the retail chains to get scoped on the product, by model number, and search the web later for the best price!