Hi,

I have just pulled the trigger and am waiting for the delivery of my #1 3d printer. fwiw i opted for the creality ender 3.

I will admit to allowing utubes probably sponsored content, sway my decision. but the factors i considered prime were/are:

Cost (?160 delivered via gearbest germany - no vat risk till the end of the month..)
Expected speed/time to get the machine into functional production.
(Involving a lot of learning, and 3d printing of printer additions/fixes of which the ender 3 seems to 'Need' only a few)
Cost of expected near future upgrades.
Motor drivers for quieting down, main board for enabling driver upgrade and expanding features
self levelling bed upgrade

In short i wanted a cheap as possible introduction to 3d printing with a machine that should get me up and running as quickly as possible with a full basic feature set and ability to print small useful components mainly enclosures etc for home automation solutions based on esp dev boards and Pi-0 servers.

If i made a good decision or not ? well time will tell, and my post count in here may soon become an indicator of how much trouble i have..