I bought a 300 dollar elliptical... for christmas last year (my family all gave me a little money, it was great
) Anyways!! Mine broke, while I was on it, it was faulty, and I ended up rehurting an old injury, not to mention got a few nice bruises and had to take a week off exercising completely. Just picture your front leg fully extended, and your back leg extended, and it breaking so you end up doing the splits, I think it broke my crotch. My Advice? Definitely put some research into it, I thought I had, so really dig! Goodluck
-Aimee