How to negotiate a good Deal on a new machine - Brother Dreamweaver? Babylock?
#11
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Midwest
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Do not finance, pay CASH, ask for the best discount based upon these terms and consider a floor model. It worked out great for me. I bought the machine I wanted and at a greatly reduced price from a high volume sales dealer. I could not be happier!
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#12
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Oregon
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When I got my machine, the dealer offered to meet the price I found online once he heard I'd been looking. Shopping around doesn't have too just be local. Here there is only one dealer per brand, one for Viking, one for janome, pfaff and baby lock, and one for brother and Juki.
#13
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Colorado, USA
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If a dealer is running an "interest free" sale with a machine at a certain "sale" price, just know that the dealer is paying 10% to GE Capital *up front* on the total (including sales tax) to write that deal.
If he writes a sale that gets paid by credit cards, he's paying about 3% on the entire total for merchant fees.
If he writes a sale that gets paid by credit cards, he's paying about 3% on the entire total for merchant fees.
#17
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
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My most recent machine purchase was discounted heavily due to a trade-in. I didn't have the trade in machine myself, but another customer had donated a broken machine for him to use for parts and the dealer was able to count that freebie machine as my trade-in and save me $200; he told me he actually has to register that trade-in info with Janome to justify the lower price or he can get into trouble with them.
So ask about trade-in value too. Even if you don't have a machine to trade you might be able to pick up a $20 machine at Goodwill and trade it in for a couple hundred dollars or more in discounts.
#18
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Join Date: Jul 2011
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I don't know the difference between the two. I purchased the Crescendo and received the stitch regulator along with thread. I probably paid too much but I really, really love the machine. Consider the dealer as well as the machine.
#19
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,018
The babylock is higher because they spend more on education and advertising, the brother will have the my custom stitch feature, babylock will not, other than that it is the only difference between the 2. The deal you get is usually dependent on the dealer. If you visit a few in your local region you will know what the going rate is for your location, it varies greatly dependent on where you live. I would go with whatever has a better deal
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