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I don't know enough to know what I don't know, but the price seems pretty low even for a used 3d printer. Do the pictures or description give any indications?

edit: Thanks to everyone for the replies! I woke up and saw a bunch of messages and was like, "oh crap what did i say this time."

Prevailing opinion seems to be it's probably a fair price, but my lack of experience makes it a risky choice.

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[–] Sablebadger@dice.camp 1 points 2 days ago

@BussyGyatt consider how much you like to tinker with things... 3d printers are not quite fully hands off yet so some amount of patience tweaking research we're is going to be requested especially if you buy used.

However for a lot of people that's the fun part. Tweaking updating and printing can be all kinds of fun.

If you just want to print stuff and don't care about hardware, you will need to spend more to get a better quality machine that just prints.

Both are valid and both are fun.