Agreed, for that money, its not worth the time to design, buy, build and test IMHO.
Any idea how much to import it though? not available yet either.


I'd recommend a prusa www.prusa3d.com
I have the previous to the last model and works like a charm. With the new one they have won best printer of the year and looks like a really good printer on a budge
That one is about £1k, are the clones as good?