Never heard of it. You need to consider the kind of service you plan on getting out of a cutter, and I've read more than one post about buyers whose primary consideration was cost, and who said they never realized how much they struggled with the cheap one was 'til they bought a decent one. I will say this, though. Cutters that use the grit roller method of advancing the material versus punched holes can use small offcut pieces of material since they don't need the holes along the border to feed. Graphtec cutters are an example.
