Re: Question about the Solidoodle company
KWICK wrote:n2ri wrote:brought to you by the good folks in China
Solidoodle stuff may have been assembled in the USA, but every component, except the 3D printed parts, were made in China.
yes but when they contracted Chine to make the Press, they signed Solidoodle and the design over to China basicly soon as original order was filled. all dies, design rights etc stay with China. so all funds spent on it are just gone and no more privacy laws to prevent China from cloning/selling that item for less as they did. that has happened to 100s of other campanies over the years. greed will kill a companies future faster than falling sales when you follow suit with competition that way.
if they would have stayed with their NY manufactured products this would have never happened, and Solidoodle would be the top consumer 3D printer USA manufacturer with best tech support too. there are many making plastic 3D printers like the Press already and doing better than Solidoodle done.
While I agree moving the jobs off to China may have been a bad idea specifically because of the intellectual property concerns, I think the real problems were poor customer support and long shipping delays. They aren't shutting down because a Chinese competitor is producing the same machines cheaper. They are shutting down because of how they handled their customers.
