I bought my Pfaff 7550 back in '95 for about $3,000.+. It has tons of embroidery stitches that I only used a couple of times. I was sorry I paid so much for a machine that had all these stitches that I would never use. I did find that the machine itself was great. When I started quilting I found that this same machine that I had thought of selling time and again was able to do FMQ. I really love this machine now. It still works like a new machine. It is a solid machine and it does what I need it to do. I have no regrets and I found that there is nothing out there that has what I want that my machine can't do.........except for a longarm!