Candace, let me see if this helps you. She paid $1200 for the machine. Ignoring the parts, the maintenance was almost 17% of the cost of the machine. At that rate, every 6 years she would have paid for her machine again.
I paid $42,000 for my SUV. Using that same percentage, the maintenance annually on my car would be $7,000. I actually pay an average of $250 for maintenance, sometimes higher sometimes lower depending on the actual work. It has lots of computer things that can go wrong too. So this makes the maintenance cost seem very high to me. I have some very pricey machines and I would not be happy to pay $200 annually for repairs per machine.