I had not one, but TWO friends who have purchased expensive embroidery machines, only to let them sit in the boxes for MONTHS before even opening them! They said they were just to busy to get to them. Well, I would have called off work, hidden at home and played, before letting a new machine sit in a box, but that's just me.. But it's not a leap to see how a purchased machine could remain unused and then just given up. It happens.