Hi all,
I've lurked around this forum for about a year and I want to start by saying a big Thank you to all the X700 users for sharing their experiences and advice! Now that I finally registered I thought that I'd share my own experience. It's kind of long so I wrote it up on my blog: Buying a laser cutter for your Hackerspace - Flashgamer
To say the least, it was not exactly smooth sailing and CNCCheap was notoriously bad throughout the process. I would not recommend buying anything from them. Overall we're now happy with the Redsail laser itself, but we went through a lot of the issues mentioned in other threads here on CNCZone.
J