I would not buy this or anything else with a substantial price at MSRP. MSRP is almost always higher than you see in stores even on brand new products. Maybe the group that bought Weber set the MSRP at higher than normal level. They can get the big bucks early from the high end status oriented consumer who has to have the latest greatest thing. This will create a higher perceived value of the product. Later when the price is lowered, they can appeal to the value oriented consumer by saying it has MSRP of xxxx and used to sell for xxxx, so now at xxxx you are getting xx percent off.