Truthfully,a 15 year old Janome is worth that much. Parts are getting harder to find for these older machines and it is not a true embroidery machine. I have a much newer 5000 with all of the embroidery and it is worth 250. Per eBay. It's a great machine, the 9000' certainly worth the 140. This is not a step down from the 10000. They stopped producing these in 1995 according to their Investor packet, and made the 4000, 5000, 6000, 6500 and so on. This embroidery operates on a "scan & sew" memory card that is no longer supported. You plug the card into your "scan & sew" unit to copy designs and resize them then plug the card into your machine and sew it out. Without the s & s, you can't do embroidery.