I recently bought a DeLonghi blender from Best Denkei that came with two jars - a regular glass jar and a short glass jar that threads onto a base with flat blade. I've used this for grinding both dry spices and spice pastes. It was about $100.
This ain't bad for a price of $100, I guess. What do you think? How about its performance?
I'm happy with it and would buy it again. I doubt it would hold up in a commercial setting like a bar or juice stall, but it seems to do everything I expect a blender to do.