Few years ago, my company was authorized distributor for professional video products. Under that agreement we were obliged to purchase some models as demo units at special discounted pricing. We were also not allowed to sell it for some period, I think 3 months or so. Sometimes we used to sell it sooner, sometime later, but always! every unit we sold was covered by standard 24 month warranty.
I suspect this is the thing with Agilent dealer, he had to purchase one 3000 series as demo, and your order conveniently came at the "right" time. So they ordered the demo at special pricing, told you that your order is delayed (they never ordered it), and pocketed nice margin in price.
Only thing is, now they won't honour the warranty, altough the don't have to say to Agilent they sold the demo...
I don't know what is the thing with Agilent dealers in SE Europe, I asked two times for two different quotes, and both times I had to resend the inquiry. Once I received a response that they never got my first request, but even then they didn't gave me a quote!
Second time I again had to resend inquiry, and I received a quote with 2 or 3x inflated price.
So Agilent, change your dealers in Croatia and BiH, obviously they do more harm than good!