I`d prefer to buy locally but on the other hand a reseller should earn your business each and every time you walk in their store or click on their website link. This is done by offering an item as a best value. Since any authorized dealer can sell you an item with the warranty local dealers that want to sway customers must offer incentives to offset the conveinence of the internet. Incentives can be knowledge, Having the item in stock, or discounts on future items or service just to name a few. Many retailers complain that they just can`t compete the fact is they really don`t want to. They want their markup and the margins they had in the past. After all what`s stopping them from opening a e-tail store to compliment their brick and morter.