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[3D_Hubster]

Its a sad day. No more 3DHubs. I feel bad about it and had a long talk with my boss at work today. He asked me what can you do to solve this issue not receiving any orders anymore. Building a new platform for all 3d printer users without letting them down (sorry, thats how it feels). He offered me one of his domainnames…3dprinterpoint.com and said: you can have it and build your own as we stop using it. Start a kickstarter campaign, team up with others as there will be more people with the same problem as you have. Turn a problem into a challenge…Who will help me Nevertheless,thank you 3DHubs for the great opportunity and service!

[3DReneHub]

Hey, you can join this site. There is allreay a discussion how now further.

Join the MakeHub Discord Server!

[jockspice]

Just finished looking at this myself. Within 100 miles of me, there were over 80 hubs doing FDM, including flexibles, exotics like steel and wood and PVA support etc. Now there is one. ONE HUB. They do PLA, ABS and PETG but no other types. Considering most of my orders in the last 10 months have been for flexibles, (fulfilled by 3D Hubs orders too!) this is a major gap in the market, locally at least.
I’m starting my own website in order to keep going, which is a good thing, but it is disappointing being ejected from the place I started.

[Richard_Beck]

I just got a call from a nice older sounding woman who happily asked me if I got the email about the changes to 3D hubs yesterday. I told her, “No, but I did get one several weeks ago about being thrown off October 1st.” Her reply, “ Oh, you’re a supplier?” Me, “I was a supplier and I was a customer.” She said she was sorry and did not know how those decisions were made, we talked a little longer and I finally told her, “I know this is uncomfortable, i’ lol let you off the hook and we can end the conversation.” She thanked me and wished me good luck. We hung up. She was a very nice person on the phone, put in a tough spot. I guess her call list did not show people who were both customers and suppliers. Oops.

[Lembach3D]

www.makehub.xyz try this one… see you there.

[jockspice]

I’m already there, from the initial and second times you sent the link

[keebie81]

It looks like the ability to manually choose a hub has now been removed from the order page in the USA. Even though the new system is not implemented yet.

[ProtoPrynt]

Not only are they shutting us all down they are attempting to stop us from continuing to communicate with long time hub customers that wish to follow the private hub instead of use the “manufacturing partners “ scheme

[slowbravo]

www.xyzfabs.com is a free alternative too. There are 60 listed there right now. Many cities are not occupied yet

[jockspice]

How are they doing that? All past orders are still available and I’m getting contact details from there.

[wirlybird]

Is this site still active? I have never been able to respond to an open order and everything seems very out dated.

[slowbravo]

Yes xyzfabs is actively developed and any “outdated” things can be addressed quickly. What are the outdated things?

[ProtoPrynt]

I was communicating with a customer who is not interested in the new program, tried to give my email adress and they redacted it repeatedly, fortunately my customer got it in the end but they try to stop us

[wirlybird]

Just stuff like a contest but it supposedly ended in August.

[OLCE]

But trying to prevent your customers to communicate with you (especially your customers from the hub days), and force them to use 3DHubs new platform, comes down to commercial abuse and stealing your customers. That fact on its own can be used to file an official complaint with your national competition regulator, or with the EC in Europe.
It is borderline illegal in most countries to have a practice like this

[keebie81]

They are not “your” customers, they are 3dhubs. I am pretty sure this was agreed to in a document you signed off on when joining.

[slowbravo]

yeah some free lucky draw happens from time to time there. maybe it is good to have another free draw started there today.

[wirlybird]

Anyway, not a big thing but I have been on there for a while and have never been able to actually get a job.
Either I am not understanding how it works or nothing has come in that I can get.

[slowbravo]

Probably more signups to cover major areas and that could make ad campaign effective.
A new lucky draw is there now.

[wirlybird]

I’m in on that!
I have questions on the Open Requests but I’ll take it off line to discuss.