Originally Posted by
Steady Stiching
Brother sewing machines are made by the same company that makes Babylock I believe.
Yep. Brother.
However, it is true that the mass-market machines are lower quality than the machines available only through dealers. They do that to hit a price point. (There are a few machines that overlap mass market and dealer levels. A dealer actually told me that a machine he can sell but is also available at Walmart to just buy it there and he'll sell me a warranty- he can't price it that low.)
However, a mass market machine at Costco, Walmart, Amazon are all the same; the CS6000i isn't different at one place over another.