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RE: newest INDX picture

cwbullet — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:13:48 +0000

A lot of other forums and hobbies have this. Great idea.

Posted by: @jurgen-7
Posted by: @iftibashir
I do wish manufacturers would offer a trade in deal for unused or removed parts. Manufacturers can easily refurbish and reuse parts in other printers, or have a much better reach in placing them in their online stores as refurbished parts (and still make a profit on top!).
They would certainly lose money on that. All the hassle of receiving returns, doing incoming inspection, going back & forth with the seller about missing or damaged parts, refurbishing, debating with buyers whether that scratch is par for the course of not...
But how about a used-parts marketplace here on the forum? Direct transactions between users, Prusa just offers the (free) platform.

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Jürgen — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:32:23 +0000

Posted by: @chmax

I like the idea! Let's open a thread with "offer/search"... it should be easy!

From my experience in other forums, it would be better if a bit more structure could be enforced, by a simple form or such: Is this an offer or a search? Where is the buyer/seller based (country or state)? What is the item? What is the price, fixed or negotiable?

Even with all that information provided, each trade tends to turn into a small thread of its own -- with questions about the item, questions whether it's still available, "bumps" when it has not sold after a while... So a whole forum section, with one thread per trade, is probably the better structure.

RE: newest INDX picture

chmax — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:26:54 +0000

I like the idea! Let's open a thread with "offer/search"... it should be easy!

Posted by: @jurgen-7
Posted by: @iftibashir
I do wish manufacturers would offer a trade in deal for unused or removed parts. Manufacturers can easily refurbish and reuse parts in other printers, or have a much better reach in placing them in their online stores as refurbished parts (and still make a profit on top!).
They would certainly lose money on that. All the hassle of receiving returns, doing incoming inspection, going back & forth with the seller about missing or damaged parts, refurbishing, debating with buyers whether that scratch is par for the course of not...
But how about a used-parts marketplace here on the forum? Direct transactions between users, Prusa just offers the (free) platform.

RE: newest INDX picture

iftibashir — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:26:02 +0000

But how about a used-parts marketplace here on the forum? Direct transactions between users, Prusa just offers the (free) platform.

I'd support that!

RE: newest INDX picture

Jürgen — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:16:13 +0000

Posted by: @iftibashir
I do wish manufacturers would offer a trade in deal for unused or removed parts. Manufacturers can easily refurbish and reuse parts in other printers, or have a much better reach in placing them in their online stores as refurbished parts (and still make a profit on top!).

They would certainly lose money on that. All the hassle of receiving returns, doing incoming inspection, going back & forth with the seller about missing or damaged parts, refurbishing, debating with buyers whether that scratch is par for the course of not...

But how about a used-parts marketplace here on the forum? Direct transactions between users, Prusa just offers the (free) platform.

RE: newest INDX picture

iftibashir — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:03:09 +0000

For me, reselling on eBay is a very, very, very last resort. I still have all the parts for my Bambulab Vortek upgrade, including the main toolhead and X-Axis and the heatbed - both valuable parts in terms of cost. Trying to re-sell them is easier said then done. Reason why I use eBay as a last resort is because of how one sided the system is - the buyer could purchase, remove or swap over a part, then return the item as not working, or not as described, and eBay will force the seller to accept the return, pay return postage, and provide a full refund - leaving me even more worse off then I started!

I do wish manufacturers would offer a trade in deal for unused or removed parts. Manufacturers can easily refurbish and reuse parts in other printers, or have a much better reach in placing them in their online stores as refurbished parts (and still make a profit on top!).

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hyiger — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:01:45 +0000

Posted by: @jurgen-7

It looks like Prusa have discontinued the "Buy the Core One+ now, get a $100 voucher for a future INDX upgrade" deal. Maybe they concluded that it draws attention to the issue of having to rebuild and discard the tool head shortly after purchase, and actually deters potential customers?

Yep, the "Osbourne Effect." Companies tend not to learn from the past mistakes of others in this regard. Seems Prusa may have been aware of it after all.

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docsascha — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:34:39 +0000

I upgraded from the mk2 with mmu1 to the MK2.5S with the MMU2S then for some time the System worked as expected Then bought the MK4S with the Voucher for the CoreOne Upgrade, did not wanting to wait any longer since the old Printer’s troubles bored me

Will Upgrade to the INDX, since the multicolor/multimaterial bug bit me again but do not want to install my MMU3

Prusa as a company should and hopefully will make the right choice for the company’s sake and for us, who like and support their not only nickels and dimes approach to business

RE: newest INDX picture

Jürgen — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:39:03 +0000

It looks like Prusa have discontinued the "Buy the Core One+ now, get a $100 voucher for a future INDX upgrade" deal. Maybe they concluded that it draws attention to the issue of having to rebuild and discard the tool head shortly after purchase, and actually deters potential customers?

RE: newest INDX picture

hyiger — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:29:41 +0000

I can definitely understand the need for the QIDI or a H2D for engineering filaments. Prusa's only offering, the HT90, is priced well outside most people's budgets (unless you are running a business) and for $4K more you can get an IDEX 22 which has much better specs. But to Jürgen's point, if I were running a print farm I would want the vast majority to be the same machine and maybe have a few specialty machines in the background.