The biggest mistake and the worse case scenario happened all at once...
Dear people of Wakanda,
I bought the Cricut maker 4 and after trying to make stickers with it for 12 hours the same day I got it, 8 hours the second day and 10 the 3rd day,
about 100 to 150 sheets of sticker paper, a roll of laminating vinyl and holo laminating vinyl that I lost cout as to how many sheets I used,
nothing ever worked no matter what setting I used (I did a lot of research btw),
no matter what type of paper I used, even their own materials where useless, the stupid machine would still drag the blade through everything and everything would have serrated edges,
after many hours and many many tears later (Yeah I cried out of anger A LOT)
I sent an email to their support, at 3AM in the morning, obviously angry, crying and frustrated,
Only for them to say that i had to chat with support after a 4 day wait for a response, and surprice surprice i was rold that once the machine is open they don't take any returns even if it's just to test the machine once, even if the machine is shit, all they can do is waste my time and THEN deem if it needs a warranty replacement, 😑
Explain to me how the hell would anybody know an unsuspected victime would know that the machine is shit if everyone online puts it into a pedestal and nobody seems to have this type of issued because only few people use it for what i need specifically, so i fell for it,
I had them make me go through making 1 sticker to prove their point which obviously didn't work, I was treated basically like i lied about everything even though i sent pictures of everything,
they promised to send me the premium blade within 10 days, and swore that it'll fix everything,
a month later it arrived but funny thing is after the 1st day and 12 hours and hours of angry crying,
I went on Amazon, used my Affirm and placed an order for the Siser juliet and let me tell you people please DO NOT BUY A CRICUT...
The Siser Juliet is almost perfect in every single way and there was barely anything I had to do, of course it has it's querks like any other machine specially because is a bit more of a hands on machine but once you set it you can forget it,
it worked like a charm from the get go, specially because it has a test button so you know how the cut is going to come out before you sacrifice 100 to 150 sheets of stickers, you can pause the work and resume it, you could cut directly from the machine itself, it has a screen on it where you can save presets,
It has a camera that automatically detects what you're cutting, you can adjust speed before and while you cut, same thing with depth/strength,
I regert the cricut like nobody's bussiness and now I dont know what to do with it, is just sitting in a box unused and I don't ever want to look at it, everytime I looked at it I started tearing out of anger feeling like a failure because I couldn't make it work, I shouldn't feel like this,
I purchased the machine to start my sticker bussiness and to be honest Cricut is not it Siser is the way to go, also the pay wall is not that crazy in comparison, the Leonardo design studio it is a bit different from the cricut's but I feel like is more intuitive, technically I had to learn everything from scratch because is different but once I got the hange of it I was unstoppable and it even took me less time to do even 1 sheet in comparison to the Maker 4, and out of 50 sheets I probably only wasted 3 and that was 100% human error due to using thicker vinyl after SOMEBODY OVER HERE, wasted all my regular vinyl...
Please I'm begging you don't make the same mistake I did and just buy the Siser Juliet from the get go, I promise it'll make your life easier instead of a living hell...