It will DEFINITELY be worth it and you will love that machine, I can almost guarantee.

But I thought you were maxed out at 15 machines?  

 

An update on my two arrivals today:

#1 came from  Canada (in record time even!) Machine did not have a case. The carriage was secured with a foam band wrapped around the machine.  Then it was wrapped in plastic, then fat bubble wrapped. It was in a form fitting box that was placed in another form fitting box that was finally wrapped in a plastic bag.  It arrived intact and the machine works fine.

#2 came from 2 states away.  It was it it's case and there was stiff foam in the space between the ribbon cover and case lid.  The case was bubble wrapped with styrofoam around the four sides. That was placed in a bigger box with about 5" of packing chips all around.  The machine is natch and workng fine. 

#3 is supposed to come next week. Let's hope my luck holds up.

My 3rd machine came today.  The streak is over.  It came damaged and it had the shortest distance to ship.

It was "double boxed" but no other padding other than some thin bubble wrap wrapped once around the machine in the case. No packing chips.  No spaces at all between both boxes.  The jostling during transit must have knocked the contents around because a knob broke in two and some other thing is not working right.  I emailed the seller and he wants to look for a replacement knob but should I chance keeping it and finding something else wrong afterwards? Should I just return it (at seller's expense)?

Well here's a biggie--it's not even the model it was advertised as.  It's still a nice looking machine but with less useful features than I thought I'd be getting with the model listed.