Entitled Stranger Expects Custom Wedding Order As A Gift

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    Organism - Hey! 6:22 AM Hello, who's this? 9:25 AM gave me your number, she said you 3d print things? 9:32 AM Yeah, I do. Are you looking to have 9:32 AM something printed? I am! She showed me the wheelbarrows you printed for your wedding, soooo cute! 9:33 AM These ones?
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    Tire - KEM MMS 9:33 AM Yessssssssss!!! 9:34 AM Lol yeah I had to print a ton of those. I'm actually not even finished with them yet I sill have about 30 more to make. 9:35 AM
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    Organism - Can you make them for me too? 9:35 AM Wheelbarrows? Yeah I can do that, how 9:35 AM many did you want? I want to give them out to my guests, so l'll need a lot. 9:36 AM Ummm okay, well, just to give you a heads up, this can get very expensive, I just want to let you know that ahead of time. 9:37 AM
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    Organism - Like how expensive? 9:37 AM Depends on how many you need really. 9:38 AM I want 250 of them with our initials and wedding date on the side. 9:38 AM Oh wow, well, just a rough estimate it would probably come out to be about $3,000. For such a large bulk order I could probably do it for $2,000 even though. And would likely take me about 2 months to fill this order. 9:39 AM
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    Product - WHAT?!?!?! That's outrageous!!! $2,000 for little plastic wheelbarrows? 9:40 AM Well, their not plastic. They are made from resin. And yeah it gets expensive and takes a long time. It would be less expensive if you could find someone to cast the model and make copies that 9:41 AM way. I don't know anyone that can do that. 9:42 AM You could order tiny wheelbarrows online. 9:42 AM
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    Azure - They won't be customized tho. Can you please give me a deal? I want our date and initials on them. 9:43 AM I did give you a deal. Like I said normally I would estimate this project cost about $3,000, I said I would do it for $2,000. That's actually a pretty good deal and it works out to about $8 each. 9:43 AM
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    Product - How about a better deal though? I think you're just trying to rip me off because it's for a wedding. Everyone does this, it's stupid. 9:46 AM Actually no, the wedding has nothing to do with it. 9:47 AM
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    Font - The moment you tell someone it's for a wedding it's 10x the price. You should be able to do this for me for like $100, or even better, for free, as a wedding gift. You have a machine that does all the work for you anyway, it's not.like you're making from by hand. What's it cost you, some electricity? It probably costs you less than $1 a day to run that machine. 9:47 AM The cost of these are actually significant. I'll break of down for you if 9:48 AM you like. Yea, you do that. 9:48 AM
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    Organism - It's going to take roughly 50g of resin per print. Using 1 machine I can print 2 at a time, each print takes 10.5 hours. Resin costs me $35 per 1000g so 50g x 125 (2 per print) is $6,250g of resin used x $35 per 1000g is $218.75 for materials. 9:49 AM Soo it cost you $200 and you want to charge me $2k see! Scam! 9:50 AM
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    Organism - I typically charge $2 per hour for printing time. 125 prints at 10.5 hours is 1,312.5 printing hours x $2= is $2,625. I'm not done yet. 9:50 AM I also typically charge $15 per print for prep and post processing, placing supports, removal of supports, cleaning the prints ext. $15 x 125 is $1,875. 9:51 AM
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    Font - That's stupid. 9:51 AM So the grand total of this job would be $4,718. With a total of 54.68 days of 9:51 AM non stop printing. stupid. Half of what you're charging is coming from."printing time" where you're not even doing anything but sitting on your| Thats 9:5
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    Organism - To be fair, the charge for printing time is because while it's printing thats a machine that I can't use for anything else. And it's going to be tied up on your order for nearly two months. That cost also maintains the printer. So changing of FEP sheets, any damage to the LCD ext. Look I know it's a big expense, you can probably get them done cheaper and faster somewhere else, but that's what I can do. 9:53 AM If you like, I can model a single one for you. It'll cost probably about $2
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    Product - I don't know anyone to do that!!! 9:55 AM I'll even give you a few colored lithos of your wedding photos for free, as a 9:55 AM wedding gift. What is a colored litho? 9:55 AM They look like this, it uses light to produce an image.
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    Arm - MMS 9:56 AM Oh yea she showed me those you did for her too. You give her all this| free.. |for You should just do the whole thing as a wedding gift, I don't see why you can't. 9:58 AM
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    Product - Oh yea she showed me those you did for her too. You give her all this free.. |for You should just do the whole thing as a wedding gift, I don't see why you can't. 9:58 AM Yeah, she's also my best friend, and when I try new things I usually send her 9:59 AM samples of them. Whatever, l'm going to tell her you're an 9:59 AM
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    Product - LMFAO you do that. Ya know, my best friend, she's going to be my best man at my wedding, l'm her daughters godfather. yeah I'm sure that'll go over well for you. 10:00 AM Just make them for me! As a gift! It's for my wedding! 10:01 AM
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    Product - No, it's too expensive, it takes too long. I can't have a printer down for that long. I also don't even know you, I didn't get an invite to your wedding. 10:02 AM F Гyou and f off. 10:02 AM Okay, the cost is $4,718, estimated production time is 60-90 days if you change your mind. 10:03 AM

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