cobnut
September 18, 2018, 9:55am
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@secliways not sure what you mean by “partners network is an extra”, do you know precisely how much printing is done by Shapeways’ own factories and how much is done by their partners? Does it matter? It’s still possible that a 3D print delivered by Shapeways was printed by a 3rd party, just the same way that 3DHubs prints are. DId you not read this part of the linked page?
“As a production partner, you are integrated into our materials offerings and ordering processes, and fulfill orders placed on Shapeways.”
Oh look, there’s that phrase “fulfil orders”. It’s spelled incorrectly, but I’ll let them off.
My example of Amazon was in respect of your definition of “fulfil”, not how they treat their sellers, but regardless, if you think all Amazon sellers are happy and satisfied with how they operate, you should browse through their seller forum sometime. Take a read of this, seems oddly familiar, doesn’t it?
I’m just about to throw the towel in on our amazon account. Our sales have consistently slid on this platform despite (when we used to receive it) good feedback. It seems the final nail for us is being flagged ‘At Risk’. This happened I think because...
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ALL businesses have to make tough decisions from time to time, and occasionally those decisions impact the people that were there at the start. It’s not ideal, but often the only alternative is that the business fails totally and then everyone loses.
“Fulfilled, or not fulfilled That is your question”. And you are totally missing my point of view. Peace out!
OLCE
September 18, 2018, 8:39pm
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I felt this coming from soooo far away. When they were starting “Fulfilled by 3DHubs”, adding CNC, adding Metal 3D Printing,…
I began on my own next to 3DHubs by starting a website, Facebook page,… and I get more (and higher value) orders through that than I ever got through 3DHubs. I’ve had a lot of customers complaining about Shapeways prices, this is going to be the same with 3DHubs. Businesses will find other partners, other manufacturers.
This is an insane backstep to all the Hubs, and I’m convinced that they just signed their own death by making this move.
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Bit confused at the new pricing. Will the Manufacturing Partners still set their own pricing or will 3D Hubs have standardized pricing across their different regions?
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cobnut
September 20, 2018, 7:11pm
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My understanding is that all pricing, including postage, will be set by 3DHubs.
I have no problem doing B2B, but I don’t have enough time to fix my “Response Time” for stuff sent over weekend/overnight… This seems like arbitrary parameter which does not makes sense since I cannot set schedule of any kind for my 3D Hub.
So what happened now ? My hub 5.0 star hub with 50+ orders will just disappear ?
bhudson
September 21, 2018, 6:16pm
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Your response time needs to be yellow to apply. If your statistics are yellow or green you should be fine, especially if you let them know that your response time is because of the overnight orders. You also have to have the “instant order” option enabled for all printers.
If you do not apply to the Fulfilled by 3D Hubs program or if you are not accepted, yes, your Hub just goes away.
I still dont think overnight orders count to the time. I get a few a week at night and my respond time still is in the 1-3min on average.
But if worried about it turn hub off at night and then back on in morning.
I’ve been told by a member of 3D Hubs customer support that reviews and performance metrics won’t be part of the new system and therefore won’t be carried over anyway…with a week until Oct 1st I wouldn’t worry much about the metrics much anymore.
MakeHub new link this one doesnt expire…
Metrics still matter though if you are not a manufacturing partner and are trying to get values in the green before change occurs.
What makes you think manufacturing partners aren’t already selected? Would it make sense to send emails to non-selected hubs telling them they were not selected and would be removed from their platform, risking all the issues with people trying to take customers away from 3d hubs, only to still be looking at hubs and see if they can get in the green before Oct 1st? This is starting to sound like a conspiracy theory.
Get your facts straight before saying this is a consipracy theory. 3D Hubs DID send an email out to people that would be kicked off the site. I present exhibit A -https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tBYMn4AhatU1BHcWVo11xaVROXbqBo48/view
You misunderstood me. The conspiracy is that hubs still have a chance to be selected to be manufacturing partners. If you got the email you’re gone. Even you get 100% metrics now, it’s done.
It’s interesting, I received the ‘getting kicked off email’ whenever it was sent out. But yesterday I received an email saying my request to become a manufacturing partner was still being reviewed even though I never requested to become a manufacturing partner.
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Customers are still reviewing 3D Hubs. If 3D Hubs sees you are receiving poor reviews, they will remove you from the program.
