SUGGESTION: Printables.Com Search Improvement
PROBLEM (Please rethink this if intentional): Free and paid models in search results do not come up and sort together. Paid models are less prominent by being in a separate list below other search results.
SUGGESTION: Sort all model search results together, continuing to display the price on the thumbnail. Potentially add a "Free" indicator to the thumbnail for free models, or just let the absence of a price indicate that.
RATIONALE: I love that Printables is not pulling marketing BS like Amazon, where more profitable items are floated to the top. But it is crazy that you are doing the opposite... You are literally de-prioritizing paid models that might be exactly what the end user needs. Selling one's value added inventions is neither bad nor unethical. And having paid options next to free ones (sorted accurately according to the user's preference) is the best and easiest way for end users to get all of their options. You and creators will get more sales, and it's a better experience for all that will help grow the platform.
Thanks for considering it.
RE: SUGGESTION: Printables.Com Search Improvement
You are literally de-prioritizing paid models that might be exactly what the end user needs.
That might be exactly what YOU need.
I am totally opposed to this idea, unless there is a setting next to the search button that allows you to completely hide paid models. This is one of the main features that makes me LOVE printables over the competition.