In addition to following the advice of others in this thread, you should talk to your local Brother dealer to see what sort of deal you could get on a used Dreamweaver. Believe it or not, there are a fair number of people trading up for the new Dream Machine. I turned in my less than two-year-old Dreamweaver as a trade-in towards mine since they gave me almost what I paid for it to begin with. I know they won't sell it for that much and that part of the trade-in value was just bargaining down on the price of the new machine. They have lots of used fairly recent models available now, particularly the big dealers, due people doing this same thing.