Received it on Monday but did not have time to play with it until this morning.
IT'S AWESOME and all it says it is and will do.
I'm very pleased with my purchase and certainly the price I got it for. It came brand spanking new right out of the box.
Set it up and sewed with it right out of the box. Pretty much what happened also when I bought my Singer Computerized Featherweight several months ago. This 500 sure is alot bigger than any other machine I had in this house with the exception of my Singer Futura SES 2000 machine.
I love this 500 and happy I chose it over other more expensive models. What more can a gal want to sew and quilt. It has dual-feed, start/stop button, hook up for two spools of thread, separate bobbin winder which can be used while sewing to fill another bobbin if you need it, digital, heavier machine than I expected it to be, and much more. Still have to learn it all.
It definitely is what I needed for my fiber art projects and being able to sew alot more thicknesses than I could with my other machines.
More on what it does later.
Carol