IN A LETTER TO MELTIO
I was compelled to write a letter to the organization 'Meltio' after being taken for one of the longest run-around possibly conceived of - and was simply DONE with that type of nonsense in our market economy. This is what I said.
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[Me, just so done.] |
" Amazing.
Such a brilliant and surely exponentially costly product. Yet upon visiting this website, I'm first told it is "10 x CHEAPER than the existing laser fabrication technologies in the market." -which is interesting since most 3D printers use laser technology and fabricate 3D designs from lasers.
The average pricing for a 3D printer on the market is anywhere between $200 USD to $2000 USD, so let's just call it an even claim of false advertisement. But let's go on, perhaps there's more. Later this website claims "Metal 3D printing technology in today’s market is in most cases too expensive, too slow, and too complex, until now." -I agree with the first part but not the second part. Although I could be wrong, after all, I haven't seen the pricing.
But small businesses make up 99.9% of the industrial American economy, I presume it's not so different globally that it would make much a difference added to that ratio. [https://cdn.advocacy.sba.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/23142610/2019-Small-Business-Profiles-States-Territories.pdf].
While according to Fusion3design, the average price/cost =
"Entry Level 3D Printers: $200 – $400
Hobbyist 3D Printers: $300 – $1500
Enthusiast 3D Printers: $1500 – $3500
Professional / Performance 3D Printers: $3500 – $6000
Industrial 3D Printers: $20,000 – $100,000"
I can't imagine your site's constant reference to how your M450 3D metal printer is so revolutionarily affordable that it would be in the reach of the general market, when the fact is - that sector of business within the market -the industrial level - is the 0.01% of the market,
when in your presentation video you state:
"Metal 3D printing technology in today's market is in most cases - too expensive, too slow and too complex - *until now* .
Meltio solves this problem and brings this long-awaited solution to the *global market*.
For the very first time in history these companies will now have at their disposal an easy efficient and expandable solution."
[https://youtu.be/7lUq_CWJ3FE]
So then.
I am annoyed at how misleading your organization is. I'm cheated of my time by your undignifying disrespect to my small business, and disrespect to 99.9% of the business world. In fact, I take it under consideration to envoke the response of every visitor to your website who had been a sincerely interest business owner, of which you cheated of their time by grammatical trick and logical fallacy, as well as in many cases flat-out lied, as highlighted proficiently through the many dissonances above.
I expect you now to prove me wrong. And I was obviously passionate enough to put this much time into my response, since this is a black-hole of un-economic discrepency, that sits in-wait to catch hopeful small startup busness owners for no other reason than to waste their time in hope that a machine which supposedly is able to be offered at "1/10th of the average price" to the inquiring market - would be within their reach.
You claim "Owning a Meltio M450 metal 3D printer has never been so easy and affordable." -in your lease-to-own plan.
How insincere could a whole community be, to forgo decency in excuse to a "business-is-business" blanket-liability protection away from individual responsibility?
Enough to the point where one individual eventually speaks up about it - as is needed.
This is not simply marketing fault your webdesigners - Meltio owners and sales managers are not allowed that excuse to throw others under the bus other than yourselves and to take responsibility.
This is about irresponsible business as a theme to our times but that doesn't give any of us any excuse when we all could clearly see such things are wrong. The current ratio of homelessness or otherwise lacking attiquite housing is 20% of humanity. That is 1/5th of all humans. Homeless or in poverty.
The inconsequential overtone of this website's insincerity is neither rare, nor acceptible, so why does it exist this way?
Do you find it proper to mock the rest of the business world with fallacious sales pitches while claiming to be affordable?
The Pope has recently said, "A “culture of indifference (...) accompanies the throwaway culture: 'things that do not affect me, do not interest me' (...) In modern culture, the closest reference to the principle of the inalienable dignity of the person is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” - as he spoke of our species in our lack of integrity for compassion.
Our lack of integrity to the consideration of the true global market, which if is similar to the American ratio would reflect of 99.9% of the market, requires integrity in-action.
Words coming up short in weight do not hold the same normalcy they did before. Now, such is not acceptible, and I consider this a reminder to the reader and whom this may concern - as it does concern you reader, and it is merely a reminder of universal human understandings which are not alien to you from the core.
Not only for my time stolen by such traps designed to real-in hope, or by my dedicated time to speak up and demand humanity and recognition of self-dignity to each who allow these things to happen - but to all of us small business owners who are stonewalled by the games of the ever-shrugging ever wealthier industrial executive officer - an equally opposite substantial apology is owed.
And not by words, this organization's words have lost their value in weight.
But I can think of at least one way which would resoundingly bring integrity back to those words, and do them justice.
You talk like your M450 could make just about anything.
How about making a product that matches its functionalities which have already stolen so much of us into false-promises - but while actually living up to the claims in affordability?
I believe it truly could change everything for the better, and it surely would give us all hope.
As a gift of gratitude, you are welcome to deliver the first one built to my apartment address.
My apartment from which I run my business from.
Such is common among most registered businesses in the world.
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