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i cant imagine anyone doing this
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 5:55 am
by jimc
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Makergear-M2-de ... 1c545124a8
has anyone seen this? i dont get it. by the time you ship the printer back and forth its cheaper to just buy an assembled printer done my makergear.
Re: i cant imagine anyone doing this
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 12:38 pm
by Vprints
There's a sucker born every minute...
Re: i cant imagine anyone doing this
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 1:07 pm
by PcS
Ha ha yeah I saw this the other day while browsing printers on ebay . I don't get it either !!!
Re: i cant imagine anyone doing this
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 11:02 pm
by insta
I've thought about offering that as a service, but for the people who want an unboxed dual-extrusion M2 ... as MakerGear won't sell them that way. I'd buy the kit version, the dual extruder upgrade, keep the V3b for myself, and repack & ship it for a few hundred dollars extra. It costs me nothing to offer that as a service, but then again, that's actually my business
Re: i cant imagine anyone doing this
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 4:39 am
by lem
I'm really curious as to why MakerGear doesn't offer the V4 or dual extruder option for ordering.
Re: i cant imagine anyone doing this
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 2:40 pm
by Tim
insta wrote:I've thought about offering that as a service, but for the people who want an unboxed dual-extrusion M2
To offer a service that's otherwise unavailable makes sense. To offer a service that's already available at a similar price and a much shorter time to delivery makes no sense at all. Then again, it costs them basically nothing to put it up on eBay. The title suggests that they do this for any printer that comes in kit form. They can probably cut and paste and upload to eBay faster than they can work out the net value to the customer.
For the dual extruder, though, if I were doing the assembly for somebody else, I would have to charge a lot for the pain of cramming all the wires into the box behind the motors again. The rest of the assembly was almost trivial. But ugh, those wires. . .
Actually, it's not so bad if you modify the instructions and keep all the wires going to the right extruder outside of the box. Not only does that make enough room in the box to comfortably fit all the rest of the wires without muttering and cursing, but (and this was the main point of doing it in the first place) not running any wires between the hot-ends and the motors makes it much, much easier to swap out the hot-ends.
But I'm rambling, and have gone off topic.