If you are familiar with the Wizard, you might want to look into their lease program. I have been leasing from them for 14 years or more and they are very reasonably priced. The thing I like about leasing is that if anything goes wrong they fix it at no cost to you, and when you want to upgrade you just turn in your old one for a newer model. I know that Valiani and Gunner have good machines as well because I have several customers who have given good reports on them, but the Wizard is the only machine I have ever had so it is the only one I can speak for. I will say this though, in todays market not having a CMC is a bad move for anyone in the business. No matter how small your shop is you will not be able to compete without one. This is the statement that I made about CMC's and I think it applies here as well:
For years now, I have had the opportunity to council new framers. The one thing I always tell them is that for the cost of leasing a Wizard CMC they can't afford not to have one. Most of their competition will have a CMC and if they want to compete in today's market, it will be the most important piece of equipment they will ever have.
The first time I realized how valuable my Wizard was to my business, was the day a school called and ordered 250 of the same sized mats for an art show that was just two days away! Attach-EZ hadn't even been born yet and I was still a one person operation with only one day to complete the order. If not for my Wizard, I would have had to turn the job down. My cost for materials was around $300 and the school paid $8.50 a mat. That one job almost paid for my rental payments for the next year. It also showed me how foolish I was to worry about the cost of getting into a CMC in the first place.
Even now, with so little time to do framing, I wouldn't be without my Wizard. And if you have ever seen me at a show, you also know how much I depend on it to teach innovative ways to mount all sorts of 3D art.
Right now Wizard has refurbished 8000's for $7995. I loved my 8000 and would highly recommend it.