I bought the CE-200 about 2 years ago, I have had lots of issues with the machine, but the newer ones have had a change in design, or an upgrade to the design problem, that had to do with the bobbin, at present mine is in the shop with these issues again, This machine needs the sewer to follow each direction as stated in the manuels, if you are afraid you may have made the wrong choice I am guessing some of the issues have come to your machine! I do quilting mostly and this machine does not work well for that, I have joined a Quantum Futura CE- 200 forum on yahoo, lots of nice people who are helpful, this is not your mother's good old singer that you sew up a storm on. You can also call their Customer Service, sometimes they can help, when they are not in denial !LOL Rene

Like rene, I have the Futura 200 for embroidery only that does a nice job there. I hate to sew on the sucker, never hated a sewing machine in 45 years until I got to this one--Tina would block that statement, she does that you know. There is no indication of stitch width or length like my Kenmore 19365 and Singer 6235. It's all pre-sets which are not always correct for the task at hand and you constantly sew test samples to make sure you have the right length/width..between that it's beep beep beep. It was an impulse buy biting me back in the butt royal.

The problem is that a Singer is not a Singer; just a name sold to different manufacturers over the years since the Singer Corp was disbanded. I would emphasis the retailer more than the brand for machines such as Brother, Singer, MoCom, etc.