Hello Everyone,
First let me say I am new to 3D printing and am learning fast, sadly by making mistakes. and I wanted to share the first mistake I made in the hope that no one else out there does.
I researched printers around the $1000 price range and kept seeing a brand called Malyan out of China, particularly the Model M180. I could not find anyone selling it here in the US so I contacted the company directly. They offered the unit to me at a great price of Under $800 delivered. I checked out there warranty and was happy with. I got the unit and found that I had to assemble about 40% of it myself with NO INSTRUCTIONS of any kind. Well after a few hours, it was together. Hooked up to my PC and sent the first test print to the printer (a simple 1" square cube) and I got a really nice shape I can not even begin to describe. I contacted a friend that does 3D software to come over and see what is wrong. well 2 days later my friend came over and somehow got it working.
Everything was great for about 2 weeks. Then for no reason the printer would only print solid material for the first 1.5" then everything above that was like support density. I contacted the manufacturer and to make this part short, they blamed everything from the filament to my local weather for this problem. Let me start by pointing out that there warranty was full replacement within 90 days. That is where they screwed me, that warranty was ONLY for unit shipped within China. Well after 3 weeks of emailing back and forth with is company they offered to send me a new unit if I give them a security deposit of $700 and ship back the unit I have. Well after finding out that the cheapest shipping I could find for this unit from the US to China was $450. Well that was not an option, then they offered to replace my extruder heads and main motherboard, again if I send the old parts back. I took the cheaper option.
Well 2 more weeks passed and I finally got the new parts and put them in and guess what happened... The same thing as before. Now they will not even reply to my emails.

WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT BUY ONE OF THESE UNITS, THEY ARE NOTHING BUT A BOAT ANCHOR OR SOMETHING COOL TO VIDEO BLOWING UP!!!

Well lesson learned and I am the happy owner of a New Robo3D R1+

Red Eye