the listing

I don’t know enough to know what I don’t know, but the price seems pretty low even for a used 3d printer. Do the pictures or description give any indications?

edit: Thanks to everyone for the replies! I woke up and saw a bunch of messages and was like, “oh crap what did i say this time.”

Prevailing opinion seems to be it’s probably a fair price, but my lack of experience makes it a risky choice.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    It’s been modded, which is always a crapshoot. It could be a stellar printer, or they’re lying, or they think it prints amazballs, but has really low standards. Or it could be even more amazing and their standards are just straight up OCD.

    From what they say, the mods are fairly common for creality printers.

    It’s also super common to mod your printers, especially lower-end brands like reality.

    I would suggest asking if they could do a test print- and give them the filament to do it with. Something like a Benchy won’t take too long, or too much filament. Also if it comes out nice ask for what they used as print settings.

    If it prints well, 150 is a spectacular deal.

    That said, I wouldn’t suggest entering non a used printer. Too many things to go wrong. (I’d also suggest avoiding the lowest end of printers.)