1 Topic by adrian

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Topic: Solidoodle sees Strong Sales Press-Release from SD

http://www.solidoodle.com/press-releases/

3D-printer company Solidoodle saw business grow through the first half of 2013, with over $4 million in total sales to date since its launch.

$4000000 revenue... and still no email ticketing system. wink

But seriously for a moment....

That also works out to about 5700+ printers on an average spend of $699 - which seems a little inflated considering that MBI have only ever shipped just over 20,000 printers in 4 years..... so over half that $4Million must have been in Filament and HotEnds....  If we use a $499 benchmark, then that increases the theoertical units to closer to 8000 units... Both these numbers seem very distorted, since I recall reading somewhere that the actual shipped-units was closer to the 2500 mark ??

I guess though, thats revenue, so includes the often hideously expensive and 50% of the sales-price shipping cost on overseas orders...

MBI also claimed a 21.6% market share back in 2011, and this was based on 13,000 units shipped of an estimated 32,000-70,000 units in operation worldwide (yes, the figure was that wide... which actually gave MBI closer to 40% of the market instead of their stated 21.6% if you accept the lower total-units-worldwide figure..... )

So - Solidoodle must be serious players in the Marketshare game now.. or people buy a lot of stuff other than printers from Solidoodle...... and the total number of 3D printer units moved in the past 12mths must have positively exploded (in hard unit sales, not hype... wink )

2 Reply by RavensCrest

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Re: Solidoodle sees Strong Sales Press-Release from SD

congrat...

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3 Reply by Charles_Xavier

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Re: Solidoodle sees Strong Sales Press-Release from SD

Solidoodle also sells filament and I believe they charge for a number of replacement parts. If the average Solidoodle purchase buys their machine and spends $200 on filament and accessories, then you get down to the ~4500 printers sold range, and when you add in the shipping revenue and equally importantly, any taxes they collect (especially VAT). Even if they have only sold 3000 printers, $4mil revenue is not outrageous.

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Re: Solidoodle sees Strong Sales Press-Release from SD

not knowing if thats sales profit, or gross sales before subtracting material/labor/shipping+overhead makes it hard to predict exactly how many printers have shipped or what SD's marketshare is.

i will say that ive had my SD3 for a month and no problems to report. so they are definitely working hard to improve QC since the early days horror stories i read that made me almost not pull the trigger at all. once they get all the design issues licked :cough: jigsaw extruder :cough: and more positive press gets out about the price point and capabilities of SD products,