What! They told me it was the same price.
I think yours were $400 less because you got top loaders. :-O
No. There is an up charge for color. I could have gotten mine in white, red, or “chrome shadow”. I have a saga of a tale about these machines (3 different sets delivered here and 2 sent back.) By the time we chose this white (and chrome and glass) set, we’d already started on the red paint. Since I loved the red walls so much, the temptation to pay more to get red machines just wasn’t there any more.
I had one set of platinum delivered (arrived damaged and sent back). They were the same price, but that was because the store already had them (although the set they delivered was not the set I looked at in the store.)