Look outside of the villages for stores that sell those beds. I am sure you will find them at a lower price.

Don't know if this will help, but I have seen them listed on Craig's List (new & used).

We ran into a great deal on a queen Murphy bed with bookcase/drawer units on each side that was in the Leesburg paper's classified ads. Hubby did quite a bit of work to get it dis-assembled, moved here, re-finished with sealer, then cut down and installed in our third bedroom/office. We'd been checking the papers and Ocala Craig's list frequently, just dumb luck finding this. My sis likes it better that the regular bed in the other spare room. Good luck, hope you can find a good deal somewhere.

Can you tell me name of the place you bought your Murphy bed?
Thank you
Joanne

Some years ago we bought a used full-sized wall bed for $300. in south FL. Just the mechanism and the mattress. We had a company build an enclosure for it for $900. It worked great. We sold it to a neighbor last year after listing it on Craig's list, and had calls about it for two months afterward. The Murphy Bed Co. at that time wanted $3500 - $4000.

I saw the plans and hardware at Rockler, maybe you could hire someone in the wood workers club to build you a simple one.

We had horizontal ones in the lake cabins we rented out when I was a kid.
My dad and his handy man/carpenter buddy build them.

If you altered the plan a bit to use Ikea cabinet doors as the doors are a lot of the labor in the project as I remember, maybe it wouldn't be a big deal.
Maybe I am remembering it that way as my job was to do all the sanding and after the 8th one I felt like I had been sanding doors all summer.

Don't know just a thought.

Buy a copy of the Orlando paper in the supermarket. You will see people who advertise those beds and many other things. They are usually not located in the bubble and you may find a better deal.