well to be honest, you can get them for 250 in the U.S but elsewhere the 220V-240V versions cost double! Just like the FX-888
There's a big but! For 100 bucks more i can get a JBC CD2 series but it's still pricey there and then ... it's about 640SGD which means a new SDS7102
Feels like 0 value to me but it's about 1.3 times the US price which is fair because this is serious business, anyone who buys a JBC probably has a Agilent sitting around ...
I had to pay USD 280 for the 888d, and if I would buy the 951 I have to pay USD 750 (based on currency NOK - USD today)
I found one ebay seller from USA that sold the Hakko fx951 for around $240-250 for 220volts, and ordered that one, since the price was similar to what you pay for the 951 in US I thought this was ok, but the product arrived, and it was an chinese clone, bad one at it too.
I returned it, costed me an fortune, and received an new one (The previous did not have sleep function, old Iron stand and so on), so I got this, with sleep function, it looked ok, but the buttons/programming did not work, opened it up, and what do I see..
https://plus.google.com/107561384765867748075/posts/YWnQzZyvj2t110/220volt transformer, and chinese text, yet another knockoff.. (The seller havent answered anymore, so I guess I have to take this loss)
So I found the Norwegian Hakko seller and ordered the 888D instead, at least I have something that I can trust, and wont burn down my home.