well if you get your money back and decide to get a different brand of bow you have a choice, one thing to think about one crossbow brand is easy to maintain but heres my thoughts on strings breaking I dont care what type bow you shoot I think if your string breaks when you are aiming at a deer or whatever animal it dosent matter if you can change your string yourself or not your nervs will prolly be so frazzled that your hunt for the day is over.. I have one of each a wheeled bow and a recurve , I have had to change three strings on my recurve at 10 bucks a string I have had to have the string on my wheeled bow reserved once at 10 bucks, and I shoot the wheeled bow a lot more than the recurve I just like it better but thats just me.. the most important thing is that you are happy with and comfortable with whichever crossbow you get next, dosent matter which brand as long as you are happy with it..