Thanks for outlining the differences. I'd like to mention that OCF matches the Vitamix web site on prices, and they force all their dealers from Amazon to Williams Sonoma to do the same. The difference when you buy one from us, is the small profit we make from it goes to fund our Vitamix giveaway program for people with a lifelong need to peg feed, and a documented financial disparity which we verify by seeing that they are already on SS disability. So you don't spend any more, and you get to do good in the world at the same time. If you buy one through Amazon, please do so through the OCF link to them which is on this forum signing page. They give us 5% of your purchase back as a non profit partner to them, and it does not cost you one cent more. Just a little advertising here to try to help others. (lol)

If you save that Amazon/OCF web page url to your desktop, you won't have to look it up each time you shop there. It doesn't remember you are an OCF referral each time, so you have to enter from our link always.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.