I think they skirt that by saying the samsung MSRP is 11 , 999 . 99 , but the price to vendor is probably is such that 9000 is the cheapest price when rounding to the nearest thousand . Also the couple partners that samsung links to on this particular tv say the same save 3 k . avtvsuhdUN 78 KS 9800 FXZC The other likely option is that is trying to push out the rest of that particular model , so while the msrp was 12 k at release they told all the vendors to drop the price so their inventory will be low in time to push out a new model before the superbowl in february . <| sep |> hah , the imgur comments . <| sep |> Exactly . My comment seems controversial but let ' s face it , who wants to face those 3 krakens or 5 flames plus 5 portals . It will happen a hell of a lot more often with this strange change . And like I said , it ' ll literally make it constructed . That ' s not why I play arena .