I bought a Viking Designer SE embroidery machine about 7 years ago thinking it would my forever machine, however, I just bought the Babylock Crescendo (same as the dreamweaver)...so even though my Viking still sews and has never has a repair...I wanted something different. I really didn't enjoy the embroidery, so that was my excuse to trade down to the BL. I paid something like $6000 for the viking and now only worth $1500-2000. So like cars resale values aren't great.
SUGGESTION....wait until the new Brother machine comes out and in a couple weeks and see if the prices go down. I bet they will.