3DHubs schaltet ab 01.Oktober 2018 alle Privataccounts ab
Es geht ein Raunen durch die 3D-Druck Szene, denn ab dem 01.10.2018 schaltet 3dhubs.com alle privaten Accounts ab.
Der Grund, laut einer von 3dhubs veröffentlichen E-Mail, ist, dass man sich mehr auf das B2B (Business to Business) Geschäft konzentrieren möchte.
Man möchte einen hoch zuverlässigen Service anbieten.
Bereits im Februar hatte man dies schon angekündigt, doch nun schein das Ende für viele Private Nutzer des beliebten Dienstes gekommen zu sein.
Hier ein Ausschnitt aus der Email von 3DHubs:
“On Monday, October 1st, 2018, we’re going to completely switch our 3D printing service to the Fulfilled by 3D Hubs
Email von 3Dhubs.com an seine Nutzer
offering. This means that it will no longer be possible for Hubs outside the Manufacturing Partner Program to receive
orders on 3D Hubs.
This email explains why we’ve decided to make this switch, what this means for you, and the options you have going
forward.
Why are we doing this?
3D Hubs’ mission is to make manufacturing easier and more accessible. Since we started we have produced more
than 1.7 million parts for customers through our online platform and global network of manufacturing Hubs. We’ve
noticed that as our platform has improved over the years, the customers who order most often are businesses. As we
discussed back in February in this blog post, it has become more and more essential for 3D Hubs to deliver a highly
reliable and consistent manufacturing service to our customers.
To achieve this we started building Fulfilled by 3D Hubs at the end of 2017. We tested the impact of a more controlled
and consistent manufacturing service and customer feedback has been so overwhelmingly positive, it is hard to
ignore. Since launching this service, we have seen significant growth in the usage of our 3D print service, particularly
by the professional user group. We’ve seen customer order value doubling since January. Therefore, over the past year
it has become clear that in order to best serve our growing number of professional customers, 3D Hubs has to double
down on standardisation. That’s why we are taking the hard decision to move away from our original peer-to-peer
model and become fully B2B focused.
What does this mean for you?
As of Monday, October 1st, 2018 Fulfilled by 3D Hubs will be the only option for ordering 3D Printed parts on 3D Hubs.
On this date, the following services will be discontinued:
Platform Orders to non-manufacturing partners
Embeddable Order widget orders
Individual Hub profile pages
Unfortunately, based on your 3D Hubs order history you don’t qualify to become a Manufacturing Partner. This means
that you won’t be able to run your 3D Printing service on 3D Hubs from October 1st, 2018.
If you’re not looking to run a commercial 3D printing business but still want to offer your 3D Printing services locally,
you can consider joining our Talk Maker Forum. On this new subsection of Talk, Hubs can freely connect with local
makers, hobbyists and students interested to get their projects 3D printed. While this is by no means a full blown
replacement of our peer-to-peer platform, we hope we can keep supporting makers, hobbyist andstudents to keep
printing locally.
Weiter geht es nur für diejenigen, die den „Fullfilment Standards“ entsprechen und unter anderem eine gültige Umsatzsteuer-ID vorweisen können.
Man konnte heute bereits an vielen Stellen im Netz nachlesen, dass man über die Entwicklung und Entscheidung seitens 3DHubs mehr als enttäuscht ist, denn der Dienst ist durch seine breite Community berühmt worden.
Zu welchen Netzwerk die verprellten Nutzer wechseln werden bleibt abzuwarten, denn gerade im deutschsprachigen Raum gibt es kaum Alternativen.
