I have the e280 myself and I love it, but I haven’t seen the Fuze in person yet. The main difference between the two, as far as I can tell is that the e200 series has a user replaceable battery and the Fuze does not. As far as the price goes, you can find the e200s on different sites, like amazon for much less then the listed price on sandisk’s site. I have seen the 8GB version for as little as $90, you just have to shop around. The Fuze looks like a very nice little player, and it accepts High Capacity micro SD cards, so should you need it later, you could add up to 12 GB additional memory to it. The e200s only take up to 2GB micro SD cards, although that is a very nice feature to have either way. The Fuze comes in some nice colors as well, although I rather prefer the black myself. Either way, I really like the Sandisk players, and the e280 is great.