This may be common knowledge but definitely a first for me. Bambu Lab P2S combo’s in BB
Went to Best Buy to get a remote and did some wandering around store (As one does) and saw this stack. The tall stack. Two boxes with AMD are HP something.
Now, if BB will sell filament at competitive prices, that will be interesting. None on floor yet so not known what price will be.
All P2S Combo’s
Funny it clearly states on the side of the box “this side up" with an arrow and they are all pointing sideways.
LOL I didn’t even see that.
Without knowing what country you call home, if you don’t interact with Best Buy and/or Micro Center, this may not make much sense.
So I’m wandering around BB aisles and come around the end of one aisle, hang a 180º and head down the next aisle and I see these blue and white boxes that from a distance look like Micro Center filament boxes. Micro Center has a house brand, Inland, that is the filament they sell. So I go right to these boxes to confirm it was 1) filament and 2) Inland branded filament. It was Insignia branded filament.
All in there were probably 15 or so boxes of this Insignia branded filament. It was all a hodge podge of different types of PLA such as a metal look PLA, PLA sparkle and the like. 1 box of PETG and two boxes of ABS.
Seeing all that filament, it popped in my head sort of “Where there’s filament, there should be printers”. Started looking for printers and almost immediately saw Bambu on one of the boxes. Started looking for something to tell me model and found a stickers that said P2S Combo.
That BB about 10 minutes from my front door so I’m going to give them a couple of days to get one on display. I’m interested in how the combo’s get priced.
For anyone interested, I went back to Best Buy today to see if they had put the printers out on display and they had.
Curiosity about the price was the reason I went back.
P2S Combo displayed was $699.98 so the same price as online.
Some interesting side items. I asked if they were going to put a machine out on display and was told no. The No was interesting because apparently they were instructed by the vendor to keep everything boxed up.
How much work is it to set up Studio with non-Bambu filament while using an AMS? Right next to where Best Buy had the P2S Combo boxes was a bunch of Best Buy house brand (Insignia) filament. So if someone with no 3d printer experience walks in, Buys a P2S Combo and 4 spools of some oddball filament, how much of a chore is that for an inexperienced new buyer?
Bought my first printer last weekend at BB - the P2S AMS2 Pro combo.
Same price as Bambu website but I had it home in minutes after the credit card charge. I’m a newbie, so I bought the Insignia brand PLA - I figured I needed filament if I was going to play with it. It was $13 a roll - but I had to ask for it. Clerk wheeled a cart out from back room with dozens of colors. She had no clue what PETG, ABS or PLA meant, she just thought they had some pretty colors.
They had the filament right next to the stack of P2S Combo’s.
One of the first projects I made was a filament rewinder so I could do a couple of things.
Since color doesn’t really matter as far as the software, I saved an RFID from a spool of PLA, an RFID from an ABS spool and same for PETG. I rarely do that but with the RFID it will save a little time over manually entering. You just have to be mindful that different brands may have different properties
KEEP YOUR BOX until it has got a few hours run time on it. That is tied to a warranty replacement of the printer. I had to replace my printer. I had sent my box to the dump right after I bought it and that lack of a box threw a significant wrinkle in the return of the dead original printer.
I should have taken a video.
My local Microcenter is one of the smaller ones, so they have to keep a lot of stock out on the floor.
The entirety of the main passage is lined with Bambu Printers on one side. Probably 30 to 40 P2Ss and 25 X2Ds. Weirdly, there were about 16 H2Cs, but 6 A1s in stock.
There is a Micro Center about 90 minutes up the road from me in Charlotte, NC.
First came across Microcenter several years ago when I went to Denver Colorado. For anyone who is into computers and various electronics, it is hard to beat.
The best buys /microcenters etc of the world are gonna be your most likely spot to get a well-shipped box. [IMO]
Every unit still gets sloshed around on a container ship on their way out of china, aint getting around that. But from there, Best buys’ ones come on a pallet to the store, and unpacked in some sort of team setting. The ones comin in the mail are pulled onesy twosy from a warehouse, handed to fedex, and individually beaten and maimed for days, till fedex rolls it out the back of the van in your driveway.
//i say that with love, buy without fear, the packaging engineering on display is actually mindblowing
