Thank you everyone for your help. I have to say I'm pretty proud of myself, I've done most of the things ya'll are advising to do as far as research goes. I shot an email back to the Janome dealer about that price and apparently Janome had sent them the wrong price and that they would honor the website price. Still a bit high according to what everyone here has said. But that's ok since I'm still researching which machine would be best for me so I may not even end up with that one. Hopefully sometime soon I'll be able to go and actually test out the machines and put all your advice into practice.
How do you find out the MSRP of a machine if it's website doesn't state the price? Just contact the manufacturer?