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I'm writing this review one hour after I used this machine for the first time. I only passed my sandwiches through the machine SIX times and THIS is what happened!! (See photos.) I have been a paper crafter/stamper for over a decade.  I have been using the Sizzix Big Shot for the past 8 years.  I teach a card class once a month and do a LOT of die cutting.  I thought the Gemini would help when it came to prepping for class.  NO.  I read through the instructions over and over again.  I even typed up a spreadsheet so that I didn't make a mistake with my sandwich.  I followed the instructions TO A "T".  Here's what happened... I only cut with the dies that they sent for free with my machine.  I was too afraid to put my OWN dies in the thing.  Even though I was only cutting one sheet of basic-weight cardstock, the machine moaned and groaned as it fed through, cracking and popping all the way.  I tried to hit the reverse button, but it didn't work.  That was also concerning.  I would think that if a sandwich is too THICK that the machine would spit it back out at you, but sadly that wasn't the case.  I ended up with MAJOR WARPING on the clear cutting plates, the metal shim and the magnetic shim.  When I tried to emboss with a die (the instructions tell you how to do this), it cut ALL THE WAY through the rubber shim on the first pass.  Tore it to pieces.  Here's another thing that happened that was TOTALLY CRAZY--I attached my spreadsheet on the machine with 6 pieces of scotch tape.  It was perfectly flat against the machine with no gapping.  When the sandwich fed through the machine, it was twisting and warping my spreadsheet to the point that I thought the tape was going to give way!!  When the sandwich fed through, the spreadsheet went flat again.  As far as how well it cuts the dies...it's total crap.  Using the recommended sandwich, it STILL didn't cut every piece of the die all the way through.  It took me 3 times as long as it should have to poke the pieces out of the paper with my piercer tool. Bottom line - if someone gave me this machine for free, I still wouldn't use it. P.S. I bought this item as a PRIME listing (2-3 days shipping, right?), but when I would track it, it said that my item would arrive on a certain day, then they postponed the delivery date 3 times. After 10 days, it still had not arrived so I called Amazon. They said that it was shipping from overseas and that was what was causing the delay. I told Amazon that it shouldn't have been a prime listing! Amazon probably contacted the seller because two days later it arrived. I was SOOOO excited.... until.........