I like mine. The aluminum chassis is sturdy for a robot of its size, there's no comparison between it and the acrylic chassis on the eBay bots. There's places to bolt stuff to it on all sides which I use frequently.
I have always dreamed of a BOEbot with a stainless steel chassis, but I guess that having a punch die made to handle stainless steel would cost $10,000USD or more.
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Here is the BoeBot Text from Parallax - 28125-Robotics-With-The-Boe-Bot-v3.0.pdf
This is a video review and un-boxing so you can see what is in the kit...
This is a magazine article review...
http://gaubuali.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/parellboebot.pdf
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AoU0kkHp184g9BTi_TU0p2WbvZx4?p=boebot+review