| ▲ | monster_truck 7 hours ago |
| You are _not_ getting one of these for less than $300, and because of this post and many like it, there are countless scams selling just cases for them at this price from a dollar or two of filament. |
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| ▲ | jorvi 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This always makes me ambivalent about enthusiast blog posts. Like on the one hand, cool that the knowledge gets spread. On the other hand, whenever one gets popular, another hidden gem skyrockets in price or becomes semi-permanently low in stock. |
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| ▲ | kylec 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If it's advertised as a case and it works, why is it a scam? I don't own a 3D printer, nor do I know anyone who does. If someone is designing, printing, and selling a useful product, why is that a scam? |
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| ▲ | collingreen 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think they are saying people mislead customers into thinking they are getting a "$60 gaming pc" when they are actually just getting a 3d printed case with nothing inside. | |
| ▲ | Brian_K_White 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Automatically no 3d printed case is worth $300 because it's not possible to make it good enough quality. A metal and wood case could be worth $300. A good design is worth something, and a good printing job is worth something, and the convenience of a service is worth something, but no amount of good design and quality printing job and service convenience can make a 3d printed case worth more than about $50 before shipping, and it would need to be somehow pretty special design to overcome some basic material and process weaknesses and still be functional and look good to be worth that much. | | |
| ▲ | evilduck 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | $300 is too high, but $50 is too low. 3D print sellers aren't doing injection molded parts at scale, nor offshoring the labor. For GP's linked case file; between the filament, the compatible linked switch and fan hardware not purchased by the thousands, and someone paying themself at least minimum wage to print all 46 individual parts and then to partially assemble and package it up nicely (and not counting printer hardware depreciation or electricity), $50 for it is not a viable product to sell or to run as a business. That's the price I would budget for making it myself with the 3D printer I already own and not counting my time as a cost, not something I would waste my time with selling. | | | |
| ▲ | 14u2c 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The cases are $60, the "original" price, not $300. Search ebay for BC-250, they're everywhere. | | |
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| ▲ | noahbp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Because the sellers are categorizing them as computers on ebay and filling in all of the appropriate specifications as if it was the computer, and only putting in the description "CASE ONLY, DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY COMPUTER PARTS". |
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| ▲ | bugbull 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
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