Dolphyngyrl

I would not be using this dealer, mine services all my machines including my walmart one if it bever needed it.

mea12

The little brother 4x4 machines have been around for decades now..started with the PE150 i think and they embroider as well as the $$ ones just on a smaller scale. For your intended purpose, it should be just fine. You can easily do attractive labels but true, not much room for long names..in that case you can use initials and fewest words possible. I think it will take up to 5 letters in the medium font? Anyone know?

Stitchnripper

Not to get too far off topic but we have had many discussions on whether Walmart Brothers are any good. I think the overwhelming response is that they are, for what you get. A good basic machine that in almost all of the time works right out of the box. My three Walmart version machines did. All different. Why would a dealer care where the machine was purchased?

Anyway, good luck with your decision and I would always choose a Brother machine first.

Geri B

I once bought a brother from Walmart...then read some negative reviews here, returned it....bought a babylock from a dealer....hate it.....will go back and buy the brother that I originally had! JMHO

Barb in Louisiana

I have a Brother Project Runway from WalMart. It's about 6 years old. Never been serviced or oiled. Good little machine. Doesn't embroidery, but I just wanted a lightweight machine that I could take to classes & on trips. I would buy it again in a heartbeat.

Now that I'm thinking about the oiling, I think I am going to have to investigate how to oil it myself. What was I thinking? My older machines have to be oiled every few times you use them. I'm surprised the baby Brother has done as well as it has, with the lack of care it has been given.

Onebyone

She had a problem with it and the Brother dealer fixed it, no problem. No put down where she bought it.

Why wouldn't you use the dealer that fixed the machine and didn't care that it came from Walmart?

bdschafer

I looked into this machine at Walmart and they are not available anymore?!?!?They have the newer SE400, but will they substitute it for the 500??? It's not even available on line!!

gale

I don't think they'll have it in stock until Black Friday or whenever their black friday sale starts.

gale

I think my sister has the SE400 and she said she can't hook it up to the computer to download different designs onto it. She has to use some kind of a card and card reader for it. Maybe it's not the same model she has...

eta: never mind-her machine is the SE270D.

Cari-in-Oly

The SE400 is an older machine than the PE500. Walmart doesn't sell the 500 on line, they only sell it in the stores.

Cari