makibox bought the wrong hot end and the almost 100% failure of that as well as costs for putting the hot ends together themselves are what broke the camel's back.

They had no 'shit happens' budget and blew through the shipping money and were then unable to ship the machines they'd already sold. And it all got worse from there.

basically bad business.

The tiko people sound abit more savvy. But common sense would tell you that if you can sell a delta 3d printer for $179 - then you could sure as shoot sell it for $250.
And actually have an 'oh bugger' budget for when things go wrong or get delayed.