Ender 3 vs Geeetech A10

[curious aardvark]

how is the a10 bed mounted ?
Also is it direct drive extruder or bowden like the ender 3 ?

They are the two things that would stop me buying an ender3. That and all the people on here with problems with them.
Does seem to be proportionally larger than most other cheap machines.

hmm, looking at pictures I;d say they are the same machine. So probably go for something else entirely :-)

With an i3 you need a bed that's got side supports, not just a centre support that uses sideways wheels. Not very stable.
Also there is never any logiccal reason for an i3 to have a bowden extruder. The carriage can easily support a direct drive extruder without any slowdown.
I'd also go for dual z-motors for the z axis.
weirdly my dirt cheap ctc i3 prob has all those features.
It does have other issues :-)
But mechanically it's got all the bits you want in an i3.

No don't buy one as a first printer :-)
Things like the print bed not actually being solifly fixed to the print frame are a problem, move the printer and the bed loses calibration. I'll be solidly fixing mine to an aluminium base plate to fix that particular issue.