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Sewing Machines / Re: Lidl
« on: December 26, 2018, 18:57:31 PM »
Congratulations! You should love that serger/overlocker. It's the newer model of what I have. Mine is only 3-4 thread stitches. I've been using it for, gosh, 12 -14 years. Only problems have been operator error, like not seating the thread properly in the tension disk and a couple of years when I put the foot pedal in a different cupboard panic cleaning one day and took forever to find it. Doh!
That price is almost identical to what it sells for here. If I were buying a pricier machine, over 500 USD or 400 GBP, I might go to a dealer to try out and purchase. But if you're good at learning from a manual and confident in your abilities it's less important on the mid range and introductory machines. When I bought my Brother sewing /embroidery machine I went to the dealer and they really pressured me to buy that day. The machine was identical to the Big Box version except with Disney designs built in, for $400 more. I went home to think about it and the next week got an e-mail about new markdowns for their going out of business sale that started the day after I was in there. All the extra stuff they hyped, like free cleaning and lessons wasn't going to happen and they knew it. Really soured me on the advantages of buying from a dealer. BTW they had been in business for at least 15 years so not a fly by night at all.
That price is almost identical to what it sells for here. If I were buying a pricier machine, over 500 USD or 400 GBP, I might go to a dealer to try out and purchase. But if you're good at learning from a manual and confident in your abilities it's less important on the mid range and introductory machines. When I bought my Brother sewing /embroidery machine I went to the dealer and they really pressured me to buy that day. The machine was identical to the Big Box version except with Disney designs built in, for $400 more. I went home to think about it and the next week got an e-mail about new markdowns for their going out of business sale that started the day after I was in there. All the extra stuff they hyped, like free cleaning and lessons wasn't going to happen and they knew it. Really soured me on the advantages of buying from a dealer. BTW they had been in business for at least 15 years so not a fly by night at all.