Given that the base model is $20k, how much are you going to save buying direct? Once you've paid for shipping, import fees, the time and hassle of dealing with it all, I don't see how you can save enough to be worthwhile.
Actual price on those is maybe seven grand. You're right, there's costs but in reality you could get a better machine to the US for fifteen, if you worked at it.
Sorry, here's a bit of philosophy. Not everyone is the same. Some people make complex stuff for Northrop, some people make flaming skulls for license plates on harleys. Some people have customers with way more money than brains, some people foolishly get themselves into making $100 parts for $29.95 Making stuff is such a big field, I think the people who proclaim "must have this ! must have that !" are not being realistic.
They must have this or that ... but there's lots of other people out there who are not like them. We don't
all need to drive a mustang, or a toyota, or an SUV, or a pickup, right ? So let other people choose what's best for their situation.
I don't feel a need to be the china chamber of commerece but sometimes someone asks a question and I don't mind giving a possible answer. If someone wants to pay $165,000 for a umc 500 (actual cost plus tax), that's their decision, none of my business but if they dont know, there are other more performant less expensive options. Just like most threads here, if someone says "I'm drilling 3" holes with #4 morse taper drills" then someone will mention there's better ways to do that. That's the point of a forum, no ?
And while moble techs would be nice, there is something to be said for a user base you can talk to in your country.
Ime, everything is a balance. What we'd like is a devlieg that fits in the space of a bridgeport and costs as much as a harbor freight minilathe, with a programming guy from lockheed in a shed out back
What we're gonna get is less attractive ... but I look at some of this stuff here and think "If I'd had this in 1980 instead of what I did have, I'd be rolling in money and wouldn't have all these ulcers".
For some people, there is an opportunity dividend. There's some okay stuff available in China. There's advantages and there's drawbacks. That's all.
If Syil has even a basic supply of parts in the US it's an advantage.
Don't want to rag on them but I believe all they do is buy low, sell high.
I have heard the voices saying "need local parts and service" but if you do that, there's no financial advantage. So why would anyone buy your unknown instead of, for example, Haas ? At least it's a known quantity.
The situation is different in China, there they are local companies. But why should they expend effort selling to the US ? It's a much smaller market against established names, for what ? They have plenty to do at home.
In some cases there's a quality advantage (yup, I can point to five better 5 ax mills than the UMC for way less money) but for most people, they are too indoctrinated to see that and when you start spending over a hunnerd grand, then it's management people making decisions, not guys who know what linear motors are.
Interestingly enough, one place I like has a single purchaser in the US - no dealers or anything - and that's Eaton. So that's another use-case, where the buyer is big enough to know what they're doing and smart enough to recognize value. But they don't need me to tell them.
Anyhow, in op's case I don't see why he doesn't just scrounge up a clean used V33. Get the pallet changer model. Ticks pretty much every checkbox and we can go back to arguing over the merits of a taper attachment on a south bend.
p.s. Syil doesn't know a damn thing. All they would do is the same thing you can do, send an email to the company that makes the machines. In their case, they could write it in chinese but ... for tripling the price, that's service I can do without.
Others may think different.
