Cricut maker for $498 and cricut bundle at Harvey Norman for $598. Buy gift voucher from ShopBack to get further 5% off. Work out to be around 570 which I think is a good deal.
Also sale today only at Costco for cricut easy press2 bundle. $329 ($50 off)
You don't need to pay for access, you can design for free.
it appears they tried to implement a subscription fee recently but had to walk it back. They wanted to make it so if you did more than a certain amount of uploads then you needed to pay a monthly or yearly fee and most users would easily exceed that.
in regards to it being delivery only, spoke with a HN support worker and if the components are in stock at your local HN then they can make it available for click and collect, its not a boxed bundle with a different code. after doing research into the recent attempt to make previously free services charged, still thinking about buying it. Also only champagne color.
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