@DaBit said in Hairspray...:
All $0.1 worth of ingredients, $19.90 in markup and advertising.
Isn't everything? I do so much stuff that's hidden by NDA so when I figure out stuff outside of that I like to shout and share no matter how trivial or useless or irrelevant. I understand not everyone is like that and I respect that. Wether they spent 2 hours od 20000000 hours developing that stuff, they figured out that stuff works it is ok they make money out of it. Yes, if I did it I'd tell the World (probably, can't be sure till it happens) but they don't have to.
Filament... well, I'll agree to disagree .. professional wire extruders for 3mm welding rod that's hardly precise used to be very expensive. The precise systems for modern filament are not something you buy in the store, so again time and money required to make it work, you need to amortize the starting cost, the cost of rnd, the cost of running .. when I joined 3D printing community 500g of neutral PLA was 60GBP in UK and I had to ship it to here for another 40GBP, pay 10% custom + 18% VAT on price with shipping + get special import tax to show that it's not some high tech bomb making food poluting stuff .. today I can get it locally for 30eur to chose from 20 brands and 100 colors .. I'm happy if everyone in the chain is making money and having 70% reduce in cost and 100% reduce in hussle 🙂
So for that binder, if it's simple, someone will crack it and enter the market and drop the price. If it is not that simple then it's probably ok that it cost that much 🙂
I love printbite 'cause no binders are needed, I find all of them messy 😞 and I hate that lot of ppl use binders so they don't have to level the bed. Bed leveling is important skill even with ABL. I have a friend that prints on window glass directly, no binder, but if he's doing large prints he uses hairspray so he can remove the object as it will stick to clean glass better than to hairspray and is impossible to remove 😄