<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>I agree. Buy from a manufacturer not a revender at discount or you never will get possible info. that you might require....Michel Moschos </span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, April 10, 2014 11:39:38 AM, "aaron@ottawarobotics.org" <aaron@ottawarobotics.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">A 3D printer in the lab is worth two on Kickstarter.... Or so the saying <br>goes I suppose.<br><br>Its likely not a scam, but it looks to
me like the initial $199 and $249 <br>prices were there simply to drive demand and jump start the kickstarter. <br>That initial boost in the earnings of the kickstarter brings the rest in <br>at the higher prices where they actually have a chance of making some <br>money.<br><br>I'll be surprised if they hit their time targets though... it seems <br>pretty aggressive unless they already have everything sorted.<br><br>Anyhow, buying something like that on kickstarter where you can't <br>expected to even see it for another year is madness. There are plenty of <br>lower priced printers on the market already that can be bought and used <br>immediately. Sell that one when the kickstarter is over and the new <br>printer is proven.<br><br>Aaron<br><br><br><br>On 2014-04-09 14:05, andrew Szeto wrote:<br>> Pretty interesting thread over on reddit about all of this today:<br>> <a
href="http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/22jhlw/cheap_3d_printer_raises_1_million_on_kickstarter/" target="_blank">http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/22jhlw/cheap_3d_printer_raises_1_million_on_kickstarter/</a><br>> <br>> definitely a skeptic on this end, but awesome if they can make it<br>> happen.<br>> <br>>> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:59:26 -0400<br>>> From: <a href="mailto:dougcommons@rogers.com" ymailto="mailto:dougcommons@rogers.com">dougcommons@rogers.com</a><br>>> To: <a href="mailto:lab@artengine.ca" ymailto="mailto:lab@artengine.ca">lab@artengine.ca</a><br>>> Subject: [Lab] afordable printing???<br>>> <br>>> <br>> <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/m3d/the-micro-the-first-truly-consumer-3d-printer" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/m3d/the-micro-the-first-truly-consumer-3d-printer</a><br>> <br>>> <br>>>
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