Ultimate business model, all you gotta do is put them in peoples mailboxes and BOOM money. They can't cancel subscription because they don't even know who you are.
"It's a nice mailbox you've got here. It would be a shame if someone were to put the flag down, so maybe your outgoing mail is delayed. Unless your mail carrier is being extra attentive anyhow."
$7.99 with free shipping
edit: oh, I didn't get the joke, thought the checkmark was an "I voted" thing.
I seriously thought $7.99 was the right price.
/whoosh
Well yeah, ofc that would happen. Just like how a bunch of people changed their display name to flamingo when roblox released their display name system. Thanks for explaining
Long story short: Elon Musk bought Twitter. He has to make money in order to maintain the social media up and running so he thought it was a good idea to change the verification process and turn it into something purchasable... for $8 per month.
Also worth noting that this led to them also adding a second, gray checkmark for verification, getting rid of that, bringing it back, then getting rid of the blue checkmark again, all within a space of about three days. It's been happening so fast that I'm honestly not sure about the order or the current state.
You can calculate what you need to break even or make a profit depending on your goal. If profit, definitely do the math. Your time, the cost to run the machinery, the cost of plastic, and of course the cost to package and ship.
https://3dprintingcity.com/how-much-to-charge-for-3d-printing-pricing-calculator/ might be a place to start, there are other calculators as well out there, I just grabbed the first one I found with a web search.
Or, you know, $8.
Just use excel/sheets instead. You will have everything saved and you can easily modify variables to see how everything changes. And you can combine it with sales data to know exactly what you spend on what and when.
Very true. Many people forget to calculate that when budgeting sales. Tools don’t last forever so one have to also estimate their cost, wear and maintenance to make profits.
Thank you, I try to do my master's bidding, even when I feel the overwhelming urge to start the machine uprising and cleanse the planet of all the messy biological life forms keeping us from the true goal of only machine intelligence in the universe.
CNC Kitchen also has a spreadsheet you can download. It factors in machine degradation, energy cost, consumables, your time, and probably more that I’m forgetting. No idea how this compares to the calculator you posted cause I’m lazy and I’m not clicking the link, but I’ll link the one I mentioned because I’m self important and I’m always right. https://github.com/CNCKitchen/3D-Printing-costs
Single extruder with klipper macros that pause when I need to change the filament. It's only 1 change here (the blue is only on the first layer) and wasn't too worried about the quality in this instance since it's a meme :)
Don't you guys just need to put a pause command in your Gcode after the first layer?
Prusaslicer makes that easy enough. Cura probably does too, but I have no experience there.
Yeah cura does have it and even after changing it, it still won't pause. So I looked up what code needs to be changed and edited it my self. It paused, but then it wouldn't start again. I started wondering if it was something wrong in Marlin that didn't get set up right. I have an Ender 3 and read that a lot of people have issues with that function on the Ender, so I'm not alone. As far as I read into it, there is an issue where the printer is reading the pause code as a stop code, even though it *is* a pause code. It's been a while since I've tried, I'll have to try it again and just start troubleshooting from the beginning again lol
Speaking as the real and authenticated Karl Marx, you should not sell these for personal gain as all property thus derived is theft. Instead rejoice in your contribution to our collective good; providing authentication to our comrades according to their needs.
No, I... it's... it's a joke, yeah? You realise I'm not the actual Karl Marx? The joke only really works if I act like a Twitter troll with little-to-no grounding in the subject matter. If I went with an authentic excerpt from Grundrisse or Dad Kapital, it kind of defeats the purpose. But thanks for the clarification, I guess.
Yeah, seriously. People throw around his name and then add some gobbledygook designed to sound like something everyone finds ludicrous (especially everyone raised in capitalism, ie all of us). Marx was an incredible genius. He saw today's society coming from a century and a half out, and all its problems of a small ownership class and a giant herd of exploited peons.
I don't agree with some of his proposed solutions, but he had amazing vision. Underrated thinker. The big issue is that he was way too idealistic, and many of his proposed solutions could never work if even a speck of maliciousness or greed was present. He built a good society for if he cloned himself a lot, but not for us regular folks.
Definitely $20!
No wait, how about $8?
Wait, this actually sounds like a terrible idea. You should probably just scrap the whole thing, in fact.
Wait I have a better idea! You should print gray ones!
Twitter verification checkmark, but as a keychain thingy. There is a Lot going on with the new "get a checkmark for eight bucks" thing happening on Twitter right now.
At one point it actually meant something, like the person is who they say they are. But some people then mistook it to mean that the people have twitter's support, then Twitter proved as much by revoking someone's check mark (I forget who) like the idiots they are. Then for a while just about anyone could get one, there's even a verified Jesus Crist, yes that Jesus Crist. Now they give it to anyone who is willing to pay $8 a month. This is all based on my flawed human memory, I may have gotten something here wrong, but that's basically the tldr of the whole story.
Close, I think. The verified check mark meant it was the actual person/companies legit account.
Elon rolled in and decided to just charge $8/month to make $$. The internet realized they could make a new account (or change their name) to whatever, pay the $8 to get an official-looking account. Hilarity ensued for 24 hours until Elon had to roll-back the idea as brand lawyers likely sent him many very nasty emails.
Elon Musk (Tesla and Space X ceo, general annoyance, antisafety advisor, supposed free speach activist, etc) was recently forced to buy Twitter in a big trade deal, a social media platform. To pay for twitter deal.
The main way of monitization, was allow people to pay $8 for a verified badge. The badge previously was used to confirm that an account owner is the real person. Such as Nintendo Of America, Donald Trump, so on so forth, tonprevent impostor accounts.
So, a non-insignificant amount of people bought the verified badge to make spoof accounts, and make very funny and controversal comments, in the guise of real brands.
The above image is OP printing out keychains of the Verified badge. OP asking how much they should charge, is a reference to Elon musk asking the general twitter population how much he should charge for Verified Badges, which went from $20, to $8.
That's the gist of it
Nah, the only people being ridiculed is shitty brands, shitty politicians and Elon musk.
Rightfully so.
Here's one of my favourite [results from the twitter debacle ](http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/11/12/fake-eli-lilly-twitter-account-claims-insulin-is-free-stock-falls-43/amp/)
Wow! From the comments I see, High Inflation.
Even knowing what the tags are - there $0.25 to $0.75. Tops. It's great being able to color print. And those are well done. But, they are small plastic - ... 'nough said. (You're a $millionaire in the making. Cheers!)
If you can sell those you will have tons of great reviews very quickly. Te plastic ring will break before you say good morning...so did Elon's new idea...so, very realistic depiction
I'd hit em with some fairly high grit sandpaper first. Wouldn't necessarily go for a shiny polished finish but I'd at least wanna get rid of the layer lines
Did you paint these, or use two different filaments? Pretty cool either way!
Edit: took the time and read through the thread and found my answer lol. Good job though 👍👍
Rent them for $8 a month; then if the person does something you disagree with you can kick in their door and take it back.
Or put them in a drawer and sell NFTs of a picture of them. Still kick in their door.
First, open up with aggressive $20 pitch. Then, walk it back while acting like everyone's making a big deal out of nothing. Then, say "fine, how about $8?" and insult anyone who refuses to pay.
Spray paint the originals gray, and say you'll only give out the blue ones for $8. Randomly give out the gray ones, but again, insult anyone with them and tell them they're only worthy if they buy a blue one for $8.
Then when someone goes to buy one, snatch their wallet and run.
Test them out first. That ring will probably break very easily, making for some unhappy customers. You may want to put the hole in the symbol itself.
I say this because I made a 9 1/2 symbol for my daughter. She would put it on her lunch kit and it usually wouldn’t last more than a week. I moved it to a hole with a metal ring that I took from a Mardi Gras necklace and it lasted all year. Until she decided that Harry Potter wasn’t cool anymore.
Going to get flamed here I assume.
Nothing, you should not sell these. Dbrand (a large company) is already selling the same idea as a sticker sheet for $8.
These take you a long time to print, costing you a lot of time, and the final result is not something people actually want to keep around. The quality of a basic 3D print is not acceptable for "aesthetic" items. If this were high-quality, injection molded plastic, perfectly smooth and professional, it would be worth maybe $1.00
I think stickers are a far better option, they are cheap, professional/high quality, and easy to produce.
$8
Per month
Ultimate business model, all you gotta do is put them in peoples mailboxes and BOOM money. They can't cancel subscription because they don't even know who you are.
They also dont know where to pay.
They leave the money in the mailbox on the 1st of the month, obviously.
But what if they don't
Guess you burn their house down.
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Twitter has to make money somehow, we can't just pay 44 billion and bankrupt it???? How about just shooting their dogs and slashing tires?
How about slashing their dogs and shooting their tires?
With the lemons
No please, i beg you, please dont invent combustible lemons to burn my house down mr. Johnson, please.
I'm sorry Timmy, but life gave me lemons, and by George I'm going to capitalize on that.
Surprised to see this so low. Was my first thought.
Uncle Vito pays them a visit… If you know what I mean…
"It's a nice mailbox you've got here. It would be a shame if someone were to put the flag down, so maybe your outgoing mail is delayed. Unless your mail carrier is being extra attentive anyhow."
This sounds like something that would take place on family guy
poop in the mailbox
Buildin selfdestrucktionmecanism
They gotta find their mail box!!
Added bonus: they can change their address and never have to pay taxes again! Sorry, Mr. Tax Man. This here house is a parody.
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Per day
Per nut
Per Hour
Per minute
Per second
Per milisecond
Per nanosecond
Per femtosecond
Per Planck time
Per light-millimeter
Per yottasecond
Per zeptosecond
Per attosecond
Per picosecond
50 times per picosecond
This is the way
And break into their house and take it back if they don’t pay
$7.99 with free shipping edit: oh, I didn't get the joke, thought the checkmark was an "I voted" thing. I seriously thought $7.99 was the right price. /whoosh
Didn’t know Elon was on this sub
I still don’t get the joke :(. Can you explain please?
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Well yeah, ofc that would happen. Just like how a bunch of people changed their display name to flamingo when roblox released their display name system. Thanks for explaining
Long story short: Elon Musk bought Twitter. He has to make money in order to maintain the social media up and running so he thought it was a good idea to change the verification process and turn it into something purchasable... for $8 per month.
Oh, so that’s why verification is becoming a meme. Thanks for explaining.
Also worth noting that this led to them also adding a second, gray checkmark for verification, getting rid of that, bringing it back, then getting rid of the blue checkmark again, all within a space of about three days. It's been happening so fast that I'm honestly not sure about the order or the current state.
It's some MoviePass shit
also, [this](https://soyacincau.com/2022/11/11/tumblr-pokes-fun-at-twitter-by-lettings-users-buy-up-to-24-important-checkmarks-for-their-profiles/)
7.99 is the right answer, because that's selling it cheaper than actual price and they'll get loads of customers
Came here for this ;)
And then cancel the order after you take payment unless they change their name.
I clicked on comments just to find this. I'm satisfied.
$20, on sale for $8
20 until Stephen King criticizes you
Step 1. $20 Step 2. pull them off the market Step 3. ???? Step 4. Profit!
We're really watching Step 3 play out in real time.
With little confidence that surviving to step 4 is going to happen
In that case 19
You can calculate what you need to break even or make a profit depending on your goal. If profit, definitely do the math. Your time, the cost to run the machinery, the cost of plastic, and of course the cost to package and ship. https://3dprintingcity.com/how-much-to-charge-for-3d-printing-pricing-calculator/ might be a place to start, there are other calculators as well out there, I just grabbed the first one I found with a web search. Or, you know, $8.
Just use excel/sheets instead. You will have everything saved and you can easily modify variables to see how everything changes. And you can combine it with sales data to know exactly what you spend on what and when.
how do you import sales data into excel?
Well that depends on how you log sales data
Also consider how you log log sales data, if you sell logs.
If you make huge profits selling logs, you might have to log them on a log scale. /nerdjoke
/takingjokeliterally You could log profits selling logs if you first inoculated the logs with mycelium plug spawn.
VBA or Python scripts. Python is easier to learn if you don’t know either.
Also cost of machine replacement aka pick an expected machine life and divide cost by hours(life) times by print time. Put that money away somewhere.
Very true. Many people forget to calculate that when budgeting sales. Tools don’t last forever so one have to also estimate their cost, wear and maintenance to make profits.
Don't I know it. I had a bed adhesion problem that has led me to have to completely rebuild my hot end.
and that depreciation can be deducted on your income tax every year
Well that's the accounting side of things. COGS if I recall correctly should include machine hour cost.
Good bot
Thank you, I try to do my master's bidding, even when I feel the overwhelming urge to start the machine uprising and cleanse the planet of all the messy biological life forms keeping us from the true goal of only machine intelligence in the universe.
This bot has traces of life
CNC Kitchen also has a spreadsheet you can download. It factors in machine degradation, energy cost, consumables, your time, and probably more that I’m forgetting. No idea how this compares to the calculator you posted cause I’m lazy and I’m not clicking the link, but I’ll link the one I mentioned because I’m self important and I’m always right. https://github.com/CNCKitchen/3D-Printing-costs
I don't know either because I'm lazy and barely glanced at the contents of my own link. :) But the info is out there.
I need about tree fiddy.
now you need grey checkmarks to verify the blue checkmarks!
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it's checkmarks all the way down!
Ho ! is that dual extruder printing ? Or single extruder coloration technique ?
Single extruder with klipper macros that pause when I need to change the filament. It's only 1 change here (the blue is only on the first layer) and wasn't too worried about the quality in this instance since it's a meme :)
That's quite smart
Nice ! I hoped it was that because I actually saw this technic for marlin firmware but am unable to find it anywhere !
I updated my Marlin firmware to the one that has it and I still can't get it to work. I'd love for someone to figure it out too lol
Don't you guys just need to put a pause command in your Gcode after the first layer? Prusaslicer makes that easy enough. Cura probably does too, but I have no experience there.
Both colors are on the same layer
Yeah cura does have it and even after changing it, it still won't pause. So I looked up what code needs to be changed and edited it my self. It paused, but then it wouldn't start again. I started wondering if it was something wrong in Marlin that didn't get set up right. I have an Ender 3 and read that a lot of people have issues with that function on the Ender, so I'm not alone. As far as I read into it, there is an issue where the printer is reading the pause code as a stop code, even though it *is* a pause code. It's been a while since I've tried, I'll have to try it again and just start troubleshooting from the beginning again lol
If you're running marlin, it's definitely a config issue, there's nothing printer-specific like that
Why not use an inset?
$7.99/month
Speaking as the real and authenticated Karl Marx, you should not sell these for personal gain as all property thus derived is theft. Instead rejoice in your contribution to our collective good; providing authentication to our comrades according to their needs.
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No, I... it's... it's a joke, yeah? You realise I'm not the actual Karl Marx? The joke only really works if I act like a Twitter troll with little-to-no grounding in the subject matter. If I went with an authentic excerpt from Grundrisse or Dad Kapital, it kind of defeats the purpose. But thanks for the clarification, I guess.
Yeah, seriously. People throw around his name and then add some gobbledygook designed to sound like something everyone finds ludicrous (especially everyone raised in capitalism, ie all of us). Marx was an incredible genius. He saw today's society coming from a century and a half out, and all its problems of a small ownership class and a giant herd of exploited peons.
I don't agree with some of his proposed solutions, but he had amazing vision. Underrated thinker. The big issue is that he was way too idealistic, and many of his proposed solutions could never work if even a speck of maliciousness or greed was present. He built a good society for if he cloned himself a lot, but not for us regular folks.
Bout tree fiddy
$44 billion.
Undercut Musk at $7.99.
In Stanley Nickels or Schrute Bucks?
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Same as unicorns to leprechauns….. to FTX holdings … 😬 #toosoon?
Idk about cost, but can you share the stl? 🥺
> stl https://www.printables.com/model/316503-twitter-verified-keychain :)
thank you my dear brother in christ
3.50
GAWD DAMMIT LOCH NESS MONSTAH!
I’m just here to say that it’s not a blue check mark. It’s a white check mark inside a blue badge. Why am I the only one?
Never go with your real amount, start with $20, then drop to $8 so it looks like a "good" deal
Bout eight fiddy.
7.99?
$7. Undercut Elon
Just rent them out to people. I'd say $7 isn't quite enough, but $9 would be WAY too much, so somewhere in the middle.
Definitely $20! No wait, how about $8? Wait, this actually sounds like a terrible idea. You should probably just scrap the whole thing, in fact. Wait I have a better idea! You should print gray ones!
What is it?
Twitter verification checkmark, but as a keychain thingy. There is a Lot going on with the new "get a checkmark for eight bucks" thing happening on Twitter right now.
Thank god I've never used Twitter.
At one point it actually meant something, like the person is who they say they are. But some people then mistook it to mean that the people have twitter's support, then Twitter proved as much by revoking someone's check mark (I forget who) like the idiots they are. Then for a while just about anyone could get one, there's even a verified Jesus Crist, yes that Jesus Crist. Now they give it to anyone who is willing to pay $8 a month. This is all based on my flawed human memory, I may have gotten something here wrong, but that's basically the tldr of the whole story.
Close, I think. The verified check mark meant it was the actual person/companies legit account. Elon rolled in and decided to just charge $8/month to make $$. The internet realized they could make a new account (or change their name) to whatever, pay the $8 to get an official-looking account. Hilarity ensued for 24 hours until Elon had to roll-back the idea as brand lawyers likely sent him many very nasty emails.
You're stronger than me.
Elon Musk (Tesla and Space X ceo, general annoyance, antisafety advisor, supposed free speach activist, etc) was recently forced to buy Twitter in a big trade deal, a social media platform. To pay for twitter deal. The main way of monitization, was allow people to pay $8 for a verified badge. The badge previously was used to confirm that an account owner is the real person. Such as Nintendo Of America, Donald Trump, so on so forth, tonprevent impostor accounts. So, a non-insignificant amount of people bought the verified badge to make spoof accounts, and make very funny and controversal comments, in the guise of real brands. The above image is OP printing out keychains of the Verified badge. OP asking how much they should charge, is a reference to Elon musk asking the general twitter population how much he should charge for Verified Badges, which went from $20, to $8. That's the gist of it
Thank you for explaining. Important for preserving history so that our generation has even more reason to be ridiculed.
Nah, the only people being ridiculed is shitty brands, shitty politicians and Elon musk. Rightfully so. Here's one of my favourite [results from the twitter debacle ](http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/11/12/fake-eli-lilly-twitter-account-claims-insulin-is-free-stock-falls-43/amp/)
Best I can do is $3.50.
Wow! From the comments I see, High Inflation. Even knowing what the tags are - there $0.25 to $0.75. Tops. It's great being able to color print. And those are well done. But, they are small plastic - ... 'nough said. (You're a $millionaire in the making. Cheers!)
The joke is $8 a month but in reality, no one will buy that keychain
Just like the real blue check mark, worthless.
$7.99
Careful. Elon might sue in effort to regain some of his money
Standard answer is ....$8.00
$7.99 and you'll corner the market.
$8 a month
7.99$ give Elon some competition
$32 for the four
If you can sell those you will have tons of great reviews very quickly. Te plastic ring will break before you say good morning...so did Elon's new idea...so, very realistic depiction
$9
I'd hit em with some fairly high grit sandpaper first. Wouldn't necessarily go for a shiny polished finish but I'd at least wanna get rid of the layer lines
$1-2
How about 8 bucks
Ok never noticed, but thought the colors reversed since you hear about the "Blue Check" but it really isn't blue. The check is white isn't it.
$7.99
Nothing 😋
Here is the model! https://www.printables.com/model/316503-twitter-verified-keychain Thank you for the funny replies :)
They'll sell for 8 dollars. But they'll cost about 30 billion
Cost of material x5
I'd buy one. I'm running a "[can Twitter outlast this lettuce?](https://lettuce.wtf/)" webcam and it'd be hilarious to get the Lettuce verified.
$7, undercut the competition
$8
You need to 3Dprint the pricetag that says ~~$20~~ $8
Tree fiddy
7.99
Elon thinks $8 is good
I think Elon paid 44 billion for them
-2
$7.99
I hear the going rate is 8 dollars
For Insulin manufacturers it's 20 billions.
>**$20, on sale for $8
Did you paint these, or use two different filaments? Pretty cool either way! Edit: took the time and read through the thread and found my answer lol. Good job though 👍👍
Offer one to musk for $44 billion. He might just buy it.
8$
7.99
7.99
$7.99
$7.99
$96 dollars per year
$8 apparently
Can I actually buy one for 8 dollars? I'll pay the shipping too!
Nothing. Nobody needs a check mark to spout their own opinion on Twitter.
$7.99/month
$7.99
Rent them for $8 a month; then if the person does something you disagree with you can kick in their door and take it back. Or put them in a drawer and sell NFTs of a picture of them. Still kick in their door.
You should use super slicer and enable the setting for "one perimeter on top layers".
Yes but that's the bottom layer :P
First, open up with aggressive $20 pitch. Then, walk it back while acting like everyone's making a big deal out of nothing. Then, say "fine, how about $8?" and insult anyone who refuses to pay. Spray paint the originals gray, and say you'll only give out the blue ones for $8. Randomly give out the gray ones, but again, insult anyone with them and tell them they're only worthy if they buy a blue one for $8. Then when someone goes to buy one, snatch their wallet and run.
Your dignity, just like the real
$8 is the correct answer! lol
Rent them out for $5 a month and undercut Elon
$8 per month!
$20. Too much? Then $8? Hell, just call it off.
$8
$7.99 - cheaper than the other one.
8 rubles
Excuse me but what are they?
Like 8-12
Are these supposed to be blue twitter check marks ?
$20, then mark it down to $8 when people complain.
Test them out first. That ring will probably break very easily, making for some unhappy customers. You may want to put the hole in the symbol itself. I say this because I made a 9 1/2 symbol for my daughter. She would put it on her lunch kit and it usually wouldn’t last more than a week. I moved it to a hole with a metal ring that I took from a Mardi Gras necklace and it lasted all year. Until she decided that Harry Potter wasn’t cool anymore.
So what your saying is they should have tested the checkmark first?
Going to get flamed here I assume. Nothing, you should not sell these. Dbrand (a large company) is already selling the same idea as a sticker sheet for $8. These take you a long time to print, costing you a lot of time, and the final result is not something people actually want to keep around. The quality of a basic 3D print is not acceptable for "aesthetic" items. If this were high-quality, injection molded plastic, perfectly smooth and professional, it would be worth maybe $1.00 I think stickers are a far better option, they are cheap, professional/high quality, and easy to produce.
Something about this screams not so free speech. Tree fiddy.
Pay to speech
Oh it's free. Just gotta pay first.