Janome machines

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So, my aunty's boyfriends mum moved over here [New Zealand]a while ago, and she went to some group for people new to the country or something. anyway, she met this well-off American couple, and the wife is a quilter. And now theyre going back to America, and she has to sell here machine, a fairly new computerised Janome that she paid about $2000 for about a year ago.
And she wants $600 for it, so she can get rid of it quickly.
And my parents want to get me a new machine for christmas, seeing as I have at the moment a fourth-hand teeny tiny Elna Lotus from the early 80's at the moment, and have been having a few problems with it.
I *was* thinking of getting an industrial machine, but this seems like too good an offer to miss - does anyone know anything about the reliablility of Janome machines, if the have a good/bad reputation, etc...