We purchased a versacut when we purchased our roland printer as part of a package and we like it a lot. Makes our life easier. BUT we got it 1/2 price at full price I may have looked for an alternative.
we use the hand-e-cut which is basically the same thing as the versacut
we got the 60" and paid about $300 or 400.00 (not pos it was about 5 years ago) but it goes up to 3/4" thick only bad thing i found was if you don't hold it down tight it can shift a little but other than that works good
i have cut coro, foamboard, sintra, pvc and alum