1. I print more designs that are not my own than those I made.
2. No, but if the design is very thought out and useful to me I would pay for it.
3. Yes I have uploaded my models to thingiverse.
4. Both, I do want to make money selling things I make and designs that I put a lot of time into. I also enjoy adding to the community and will add free models that were not time consuming for me to make.
5. It depends on what the other designs are going for and what people are willing to pay. For a completely unique design I would charge a few dollars more because of less competition. For something like a phone case where there are many designs I would try to stay competitive.
P.S. I have not put any of my 3D models for sale yet so I don’t know concrete numbers, these are just my general plans for the future when I eventually do start selling them.
Hi @yolandamui, thanks very much for your feedback, it is very helpful. Just a quick question, which option do you think you would prefer for selling your models?
1. Sell them for a fixed price everytime someone downloads them (for example $1)
2. Sell them for a fixed price and it doesn’t matter how many downloads you get (for example $100)
2. Not yet , a reasonable price lies in the uniqueness of the design, reasonable is a price wher a part of the design hours and full print fee is calculated. price calculation depends on the quatity you’r expect to sell!
3.Yes
4. Of course to make money
5. The problem is the ownership of your design, i tackle this by printing it on demand with my own printer, so they will be owner of the product but not the designownweship!
1. Yes 2. No. I would never pay unless I knew I could make hundreds on the return and there’s no way to know that. 3. No. I would if I make something cool not worth anything. 4. I would expect the lions share of profits if my model brings in money from ads/number of downloads, and I’d give the website a percentage, otherwise they would only get uploads of failed prototypes for example.
Hi @nino, thanks very much for your feedback, just a quick question regarding the ownership of the design problem you raised. Would you be more comfortable uploading your design if customers could only stream the design not download it or would you prefer just to sell the physical product only?
I would rather sell them for a fixed price every time someone downloads them. Making more money on a design in the long run is more important to me than getting a big up front payment.
