Really Kate, you could have given the poor guy some idea as to the kind of money he may be looking at! It is virtually impossible to find the price of a Bernina on the web, just the specs. You have to go into the dealer's actual shop to find out the cost.
(sorry to post this sort of separately, but either my reader or my server has gone haywire, and the posts come several days late, so I have to read everything on Google, then come over to Thunderbird to post)
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans