How good is a sub ?100 3d printer ?

[curious aardvark]

Did i already mention how much I dislike arduino ide ?
The only place I've found to set the baudrate is: tools, serial monitor. Where i set it to 250000 and it seems to work fine.
However when i come to upload I get this in the error message:

C:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/bin/avrdude -CC:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -patmega1280 -carduino -PCOM2 -b57600 -D -Uflash:w:C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino_ build_722464/Marlin.ino.hex:i

System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

Using Port : COM2
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 57600
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

And as far as I can see that's the reason it won't upload.
Had a look at avrdude.conf and it says: don't edit this file as it will be overwritten next time you compile.

Which would suggest that something, somewhere is telling it the baud rate is 57600.
AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH !