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  1. hi

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  2. cannot edit co-creator - why not

    I cannot seem to edit my co-creator on an item? What am I doing wrong?

    can this be seen to please

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  3. Free shipping coupon to shop owners who hit some threshold in sales

    A lot of sellers are printing the models they are selling. Tested models+Great pictures= more sales. Could Shapeways help the sellers, for instance by offering them a free shipping coupon ?

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  4. Discount on fixed costs when ordering more than one item

    Wouldn't it be an idea to give a (progressive) discount on start up costs when you order more than one item and/or your total order exceeds a certain amount.

    Especially when ordering a silver model which consists of several parts, the amount of start up costs is relatively high. With a system as described, ordering multiple silver parts would be much more attractive.

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  5. sub-categories for "Model trains" ?

    There is a huge choice of "train" models, while that's great, this can lead the casual model railroad buyer to have a frustrating user experience. This category is now a mixed-bag of everything scale railway related in a lot of different scales.

    I'm wondering if adding some sub-categories, for instance scales, could be an option (1:45,1:76, 1:87,1:160,1:220, other scales) ? This would be the most logical step.

    Or maybe just add three subcats ("rolling stock","accessories","vehicles") in the "Train" category ?

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  6. allow partnership manufactures onto shapeways store platform

    Licensing the shapeways store platform to other manufactures (partner agreements so it shouldn't effect the pre-existing 3d printing component of Shapeways as a company?) allows designers to offer a (potentially) greater number of goods/added value via the Shapeways store platform.

    By adding further manufacturing processes to the Shapeways stable, designers could produce certain items at a more attractive price point - this could be very helpful for 'sets' feature/functionality, for example producing flat bases for displays, frames and so on via laser etching or providing electrical components for lamps etc.

    Implementing this would be almost entirely a commercial/software side solution…

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  7. blacklist

    I would like in my user profile to have a blacklist of makers who's goods will be
    excluded from my view when I browse or look as a potential customer.

    I don't want to cause any negative feedback, I would just rather not see what
    is offered by certain makers out of lack of interest for any of many possible reasons.

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  8. student editions of mayor CAD-Programs - Licence problems

    As I read the Tutorials about Solidworks and how to export to .stl files, I missed any hint regarding the Licence of those Student editions.

    If anyone would read the Licence of those educational editions, he could find a paragraph which clearly forbids any commercial use of the Program and its models.
    This would make any of those models sold in a shop illegal.
    So I would like to see a note on the tutorials page which hints at those legal issues.

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  9. Linking of items (more items from this designer)

    Should be used in a more intelligent way:
    The four items could be used as:
    previous item of the designer | next item of the designer
    (thus allowing also to loop around in the item view mode)
    customer defined item 1 , customer defined items 2
    (this items should be editable by the shop owner and can be used for:
    - generating a loop of selected topics
    - connect similiar items
    - connect multi item pieces

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  10. Bring back most popular this month

    During the last updates the sorting criteria "Most popular this month" got lost.

    This was a very nice feature to check if new items or advertisment shows any results in additional acitivities on a certain item.

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  11. property panel: sliders should be consistent with property

    the properties "flexibility" and "transparency" should have an inverse direction for the sliders: the more to the right, the more flexible/transparent.

    rgds,

    -alex-

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  12. Bulk Editing Options

    I have a massive amount of models, somewhere around 300 or so. there is presently no way to edit multiple listings together. For example I may upload multiple varients of a single shoulder pad model. these models each need indipendently edited even though they all enter the same categories, the same key words, the same markup, the same available materials, even the same basic descriptions and title with minor changes.
    A system to edit the CSV to update the title, description, matierials, markup, keywords, categories, etc would solve this.
    Alternatively a template system where I can define presets for keywords,…

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  13. Quantity

    Place a small box near " Add to Cart " that allows customers to choose Qty' before adding to cart. Yes, there maybe the function like "sets", or customers can choose Qty' after adding to cart. But I feel these are not convenient, as many of us are used to select Qty' before adding to cart.

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  14. Downloadable spreadsheet of all my orders combined

    Hi I would love an option to specify dates and dowload an excel spreadsheet of the orders that I have placed (combined in a single spreadsheet). This is because I order quite a few of my own products and it would be very helpful for my accounting.

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  15. Clarify when customer must request earring hooks

    I ordered a pair of draw your own earrings
    http://www.shapeways.com/model/112908/draw-your-own-earrings.htm
    but they were not shipped with earring hooks. The customer service rep quickly resolved this for me (thank you!) but noted that in future I should send an e-mail requesting hooks after I place an order. The product web page explicitly says in step #4 "Order your earrings in your choice of material. Shapeways will turn your drawing into a printable 3D model, and ship it to you with earring hooks included."

    My product improvement request is to either:
    * Ship earring hooks automatically
    * OR change the web page…

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  16. Co-creator improvement: Pending orders

    Currently, if a customer is interested in buying an item but isn't sure their request can be fulfilled or has a question, they will either avoid purchasing or will have to send a PM, rather than assume risk of a problem. I would like the option for customers to be able to customize an object without paying. This would allow them to be sure they will get what they want without risk, and give an opportunity for shop owners to log requests and take suggestions for product development.

    Some time back, a bug in the Shapeways system allowed me to…

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  17. Restore refunds for misprints

    Recent feedback:

    I know we have been refunding these kind of prints in the past, but since we have put this on the website we are warning people that this can happen and we unfortunately can't compensate this any more. I know that this is a disappointment, but this is the way 3D printing does work. You can see print lines on models, which we call stepping, and this does happen a lot with these small airplane models.

    We have tried a lot of things, by putting them differently in the printer, but unfortunately it does happen to these models.

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  18. Frosted Ultra Detail is misleading.

    I was disappointed to find out that Frosted Ultra Detail was misleading... and I think many others have, too. please rename this option.
    I was expecting it to be frosted consistently in coloration or texture, like frosted glass... it turns out that it is only half "ultra detail" and the other half "frosted, crappy detail" making it useless for anything remotely sculptural. Half of the detail will be crisp and the other half will be obliterated. Please show examples of this so people do not continue to be misled.

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  19. Product specific voucher

    Allow shop owners to offer a voucher for a specific product. The shop owner would pay the Shapeways production cost only (not the markup). This could help shop owners who want to market a product.

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  20. Error messages for particular materials

    Sometimes the material I want is not listed and I can't tell why. I can't iterate a design for a specific material without feedback about it

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