Quote Originally Posted by Bloodwych View Post
Community projects are the place for these kinds of things unless they can get the price right down. I do enjoy watching people build machines in threads; having it all done for you does take away the sense of pride at having something fairly unique.
Spot on, there. Even with (or if) a reduced price, the compromised nature of these things really makes it not worth buying, for me. Now as a project or a labour of love... very neat. Also a good conversation piece, but it'd be a bit of a boring conversation if it ended with 'yeah, I just bought it like that'.