EMPISAL EXTREMELY POOR QUALITY!!!

I bought my wife wife an Empisal Dressmaker 120 A Sewing machine for R 1600 at Game Festival Mall in Kempton Park for a Christmas present last year. She only used it a couple of times when it started to give problems. The thread tensioner ceased to function, the needle kept on breaking and the thread also kept breaking. I returned it to Game for repairs under the 1 year warranty period. I went to collect it today after 4 weeks and to my dismay, when I returned home, discovered that they had not returned it with the bobbin case. Fortunately I have a spare one, so I proceeded to test the machine. After about 2 minutes the thread broke and discovered that the thread tensioner was not working again. I am extremely disappointed in the service that I have received from Empisal and I do not recommend that anyone purchase an Empisal as the quality is extremely poor. Seems like I'll be stuck with a broken piece of junk now as the warranty expires on 26 December.