I agree with Candace. If he's a dealer, what's he doing telling you he'll sell it on ebay, which anyone can do, and you just have to take what you get for it! Smells stinko to me. You can do that without his ?help? Babylock makes great machines, (I have/love my BL Serenade) but I feel about sewing machines the same way I did many moons ago with stereo systems: go with individual components. That way each machine does one thing and does it well. If you have a machine which serves many purposes, it may not do all those things well, plus, when one of the functions dies, then what? You already know hardly anything is made to be able to be fixed these days. With components when one particular part quits, you just replace that part, not a complete megamachine which does everything but cut the grass. JMHO Whatever you do, I think I'd do it with some other dealer. This one gives me the heebeegeebees.