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by kawsper 4645 days ago
This is really nice, I wanted to get a version of Nordkapp for my father, but I feel that $100 is a bit to pricey for a 10cmx10cm version.

Nice project, and very nice with their partnership with Shapeways.

Exporting their model, and uploading it on Shapeways gives me a price of 42.65 EUR ($57.59) including shipping.

2 comments

We pin the price to $100 and vary our markup depending on volume. The most dramatic landscape in Norway, Trollveggen – the image we shown on the site, gives us a markup of exactly zero. We're running this off a small cluster of colocated boxes with SSDs to handle the IO for the elevation models. So it's mostly to keep the lights on.

That said, we hadn't tested it on flatter landscapes and the models we tested with only gave us a markup of a few dollars. The markup we put on your model seems slightly greedy. We're lowering it now to a maximum of $20.

We've deployed a fix for the pricing model capping markup at $20. Does that feel about right?
Yeah, that seems more right, thanks for answering so fast.