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I’m not sure what you’re getting at?
Company has a launch time for new products. YouTubers make videos about products, where they’re free to criticise those products. They have sponsors from different companies to support that video.
Are you claiming it sinister because they’re given a time when the product can be show so it’s fair to all creators?
More often than not, they are signing an agreement to not say anything negative in order to get the sponsorship.
I just watched one of these four videos (top left) and they were happy to point out the positives and negatives of the printer.
Am I to believe I was incredibly lucky choosing that one?
Tom Sanladerer pointed some disqualifying flaws at least. Not just praise. But still - as far as I’m considered - no Tux, no Bux. I’d rather buy an inferior or more expensive printer that I can thinker with for as long as I own it, rather than relying on faith to not get locked out of my own printer.
Looks like the embargo just lifted
I hate the age of “viral marketing”. Are we still pretending the YouTubers aren’t just marketing tools?
Some are genuine and trustworthy, but finding them is a needle in a haystack and Youtube will rarely lead you directly to them (because of course, it’s not in their interest to do so). Others are at least transparent when they’re being marketing tools. The ones that try to hide it and pretend to be “organic” when they’re shilling trash are the worst.
If you are genuine and trustworthy, you will never get a printer to review
Aurora tech is untrustworthy? What about my tech fun? Functional print Friday? There are definitely a handful of YouTubers I trust with a review of a 3d printing product, who have public review policies and take principled approaches. At least two of these are pillars of the community and it’s a huge boon to the company to even have a review from that reviewer, even if it isn’t glowing.
He’s OK, but he’s still in it to make money, not just for fun.
It annoys me to no end just how prevalent Bambu is.
I don’t like them either but I am strongly considering getting one because all the reports that it consistently works out of the box without any kind of mods as I need to just send prints to it and get a good print out without any fiddling about every time
These days this is true of many other brands as well. The early days of your printer showing up as a kit full of bits and requiring you to spend as much time wrenching on it as using it are gone, unless you deliberately go and seek something like that out.
Qidi, Anycubic, Prusa, Creatality, and probably tons of others I can’t think of off the top of my head also make machines that are unbox-and-use.
I think they have a reputation more than reality that came about because everyone was upgrading from $150 Ender 3’s so in comparison it was incredible.
The 3d printing nerd shown at the top couldn’t get petg to print out of the box.
The problem is they make a really good printer at a really good price… But with them locking down their printers, I won’t be buying another.
They are really good machines for the price, and i will hold of the lock down update to the best of my ability. Next one ill probably build a voron or something that can print with high temperature.
