If you have no local dealers, then it would really be worth your while to travel to a major quilt show to test drive all the machines on display by the vendors. I think you could make a costly mistake just blindly buying something off the internet. There are so many variables from one machine to another, not just in price, but in features, ease of use, availability of customer support, and replacement parts, etc. This is not a purchase to make without first doing all the legwork. There will be machines you will definitely prefer over others. It took me a long time to zero in on which machines I wanted (there were only two at that time), and then quite a while before I found a used one within driving distance which I thought was well maintained and worth buying. I remember I made myself graphs to keep everything straight, both in comparing different machines, then again in comparing the available used machines of the brand I had decided on.