I know far too little about these machines to comment on whether it's a good machine or what it makes sense to pay for it in general, but only you can decide whether it's a good fit for you.
The one thing I would say is that if you do decide it's not for you, you should emphasize the bent frame and say that the damage was more than you were expecting. From what you've said, they should take it back without too much hassle if you say that, but if you tell them it's bigger than you thought it was, they might think you should have known that before you had them ship it to you and become less accommodating.
I prefer to avoid buying anything major mail-order unless I'm already familiar with the exact model and I'm just trying to get a decent price. Over a year ago I almost bought a pretty expensive camera lens mail order, because I was so convinced it was just what I wanted, but I waited until I could get to a shop that had one, and 10 seconds with the real thing proved that it was not the product I had imagined it to be; it wasn't a *bad* lens but it didn't match the wonderful picture I'd built up in my mind.
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Date: 2005-12-09 09:11 pm (UTC)The one thing I would say is that if you do decide it's not for you, you should emphasize the bent frame and say that the damage was more than you were expecting. From what you've said, they should take it back without too much hassle if you say that, but if you tell them it's bigger than you thought it was, they might think you should have known that before you had them ship it to you and become less accommodating.
I prefer to avoid buying anything major mail-order unless I'm already familiar with the exact model and I'm just trying to get a decent price. Over a year ago I almost bought a pretty expensive camera lens mail order, because I was so convinced it was just what I wanted, but I waited until I could get to a shop that had one, and 10 seconds with the real thing proved that it was not the product I had imagined it to be; it wasn't a *bad* lens but it didn't match the wonderful picture I'd built up in my mind.