I am in Australia and I bought a Go Cutter and a starter pack of both strip and applique dies as soon as I found it was available here. I typed medical reports all day and then did a lot of cutting of scraps at night and I could tell my elbows were not going to put up with that for much longer. I demoed it at my local sewing group and a few of them went in together to purchase a Go and a lot of dies. I can use any of their dies in exchange for their members using mine (at the group) and this has worked well. I don't get asked to borrow my dies very often.