The prices are about the same, the legitimate dealers provide jobs for Americans. As the products advance like the Benelli line they have to have actual real legitimate dealers.
States that stop titling vehicle on age or title vehicles with a bill of sale are inviting fraud and they have to spend time a resources searching to check if vehicles are stolen or not.
Nothing wrong with titling a vehicle that you know is new and not stolen, but people are selling untitled vehicles online and that is really inviting criminal activity.
If people and their government stop maintaining proof of ownership that invites fraud seems so naïve to me.
A really good example is CSC selling only direct, it’s a dead-end once the vehicle hit market prices and with relative worth people will not buy them without a licensed dealer.
The online direct business model is limited to real low end products. I think the wholesalers are greedy and not smart enough to see the big picture, loss of sales, limited and short sighted, selfish.