this “forum” is very hard to navigate when its tossed in to a huge list of other topics/questions with no separation of posts.
as for pricing; you are not close to what he myself and others have been saying for years now. not only are the options not there for us hubs to use but also many options that are there are not found by customers and neither have you corrected excluding any way to add cost of material based on infill requirements nor support materials for FDM printers which are well over 95% of the hubs. hence we get ZERO jobs in over a year even with active printer, high rating, good pricing etc.
the 3dhubs price is only counting min infill not extra infill that some items need nor any support material and now it also includes their 15% fee so hub prices will be going up to compensate for that. this is part of why most hubs have not had an order for more than a year due to customers think we are ripping them off when its really 3dhubs hidden pricing. most hubs have left due to this.
this so called thread is more like a rats nest when trying to follow all the different subjects in one very long page of posts.
to summarize;
most of the concerns with 3dhubs ‘pricing/fees’ started over 4 years ago when they started they promised lots of things that still have never happened and each ‘added feature’ since has only compounded the mess. this is why the site has failed so miserably for both customers and hub owners. 3dhubs is only interested in their own profits and site traffic. not customer satisfaction nor hub owners interests. most ‘projects’ have only given false impressions to customers that 3D printing is faster and cheaper than mass production from China. which is impossible. and has resulted in hub owners loosing money and time wasted filling orders in unreasonable time frames and lost income. it could have been a great idea for a new industry if done right, but now other sites have tried to copy their methods and further ruined our image with prospective customers due to poor customer satisfaction and lack of educating people on what is or is not possible with 3D printing today. I was a ‘top hub’ in my local area a couple years ago with only 4 completed jobs in a year. thats pitiful and why the other 12 hubs near me dropped out. I tried to get with them as ‘hub mayor’ and promote to local schools but a couple schools where very strict about any involvement in anything that MAY be profitable for others not employed by the schools. (seems students Education is not what they are concerned with only money). and that was using postcards provided by 3DHubs that took 2 months to arrive btw.
I alos had local meets for people interested in 3D printing both as a business and just public. as well as attend other such meets. so I truly did try to get things rolling but after pushing a dead horse up hill by myself with no offers to aid, I just found a different horse to ride. seems most people are not that interested in 3D printing industry ATM. maybe when they can tell the machine “make me whats in this photo in under 10 minutes and for less than $1” that may change. HAHA
I didn’t find references to it yet, so here is a request:
maybe it would help us Hub owners to be able to have a “sample price calculator”, where we can upload a sample STL and see what the pricing would be, in stead of us having to go through the trouble of making a dummy order?
Just wondering if there is somewhere I can change the ‘Hub cannot print invoices’ that is shown on my hub? I can’t find it anywhere and I can print invoices.
Where do I set the build volume of my printer? I have a custom RepRap Mendel printer which is larger than a standard Mendel printer. I believe I’m being filtered out of customer searches because 3DHubs thinks my printer is too small.
You might want to contact support to see if you can get a custom printer added. But be aware that 3DHubs doesn’t actually allow the full use of your print bed. They subtract 10% from your available bed size. I have an 18x18in print bed and they take away almost 2". They do this to ensure you can print the orders successfully, but I’ve missed out on a couple orders that I could have printed if rotated slightly.
How do I find the specifics on “HD” printers. There is no real guidelines besides how you need an “industrial grade printer” and a rating of 80% 5 stars? I can’t seem to find this information anywhere?
