Chinese CB3200?

[Matt S]

45 minutes ago, dikman said:

You're right, for some reason this didn't show up when I searched yesterday. My google-fu must have been having a day off!! Notice the shipping charge? Be cheaper to buy one here!! Far better value getting a 441 via alibaba. I still can't find an equivalent for the 3200 on there.

Well I never recommended it mind. However the price + shipping to the UK comes to about £1700, which is about half the pre-tax price I'd have for a CB3200 locally. I'd still be liable for import duty and tax on top of that price though. Plus any costs incurred getting it set up. All pretty academic really, I'm not in the market for a Chinese sewing machine and I'd rather go through a good local dealer if I were.

I wonder how many different factories make CB3200s? They're not exactly common machines, being quite niche, and they're not straight clones either (I understand they're a mix of Juki 441 and Adler 205). Perhaps there's just not many being made.

Edited November 2, 2019 by Matt S

[dikman]

Well, the figures I got, in $AU, came out at close to new price for a Cowboy 441 bought here - and that doesn't include the 10% GST and who knows what other little charges the government could find to apply! I think you may be right about the 3200 as it doesn't show up much when I started searching various factories' websites.

Unlike the 441, which is pretty common.

It was just a thought that I had, which I will now consign to the wastebasket. If I do anything at all it will be a 441 clone.