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When will people realize all these places do is drive shop rates down?
Maybe in the Machining world but in the Fab world they are our fastest growing customer. We only take the jobs that meet our vetting process...the margin contribution has to be there or we will not take it.
I think how they price things is much more accurate for fab work, because I've done both fab and machining for them and found their prices on something lasered or waterjet to be about right (which makes sense, because in my opinion, it's way, way easier stuff to quote, especially if you take the time to set up your program and keep it up to date.)
I've done quite a few jobs for them on the CNC side as well, and eventually realized that after all the additional work they require (pictures, detailed inspection reports for parts that don't have prints, stringent packaging requirements, all the invoicing and the non-stop emails) that it wasn't worth doing for what I was making. I also got a couple of parts kicked back due to "surface finish issues" which were milled surfaces better than their spec calls out. One of their random inspectors didn't like the tool marks apparently, despite Xometry saying all surfaces can be left as machined unless otherwise specified.
As far as the race to the bottom: Xometry just bought MakeTime, which I thought was a much better alternative and paid way better for shops. They're just rolling all the customers and suppliers into the Xometry platform, which should drive prices even lower for shops. Hooray.
We did the sample part and got all signed up. It's at the point where I am about to unsubscribe. I looked over everything that came in for the first couple months and couldn't believe the bs prices. Half of the jobs you can barely purchase the material for what they want to pay for the final product. I guess at least you don't have to waste your time quoting to not get the job.
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