EDP in Europe

[Francois LEBRUN <fr.lebrun@free.fr>]

Hi everybody I am new to LD.
I live in France and it is incredibly hard (if possible at all) to buy 
looping tools 
other than boss RC20 here.
After trying for over 2 months, I finally bought my Boomerang
from a Swiss dealer because there was no way in FR.

Now I am looking for an EDP.

Questions : 
        - are there any EDP users on LD who are based in Europe (I'm 
pretty sure I've seen German emails) ?

        - would they have info about dealers in their country who would 
have or could have rapidly an EDP 
        + pedal board for sale ?

        - would there be by any chance somebody from Gibson USA reading 
this list who would be interested in 
        helping french people spend their money on an EDP ? french Gibson 
network seems to be in complete
        reorganisation (mess ?) and not interested at all in helping (been 
calling my dealer every 10 days for 2 months
        now, and he never has info on when he might finally receive the 3 
EDPs he says he ordered from Gibson).

For info, the tentative prices my dealer gave me are :
        EDP : 1400 euros = $1624 
        EDP pedal board : 150 euros = $174
which makes the complete thing at $1798.
Sounds quite a lot to me (specially when compared to $800 + $100 on 
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/ )

Any info on other european dealers with cheaper prices would of course be 
more than welcome.

Thanks in advance and all the best to all of you.

Francois