I have been looking at various lathes from 12x24 up to 14x40, all Chinese due to price.

Grizzly, PM, Enco, WT and HF are primarily what I'm looking at.

For some reason it seems like the 14x40's are actually cheaper than the 13x40's.

Does anyone know why that is?

Are the 13x40 more accurate, or in any way better? Or is this just a weird anomaly in pricing?