I think Bambu saved me 4500$ CAD

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After confirming a few details, I was finally ready to purchase the long-awaited H2C. I added it to my cart because I don’t want to wait until December 16 for the Ultimate Combo to show up in Canada, and I don’t need the AMS HT anyway. So I added a second AMS2 Pro separately, the Engineering Plate, AC for AMS, two left nozzles, and three induction hotends to make it fully capable of 7 colors.

But… I couldn’t find any additional induction nozzles. They’re all sold out. I swear I saw them yesterday—I’m pretty sure I did… unless I’m hallucinating.

This whole thing would have been a 100% impulse purchase. All my models are single or dual-color, and I genuinely enjoy creating them. Many times I wanted to get into multicolor design, but the amount of purge “poop” honestly repels me. It got so bad I actually designed a few poop-recycling models just to do something with the waste.

Having no poop and 7 colors would be amazing—it would let me explore completely new model ideas, especially before Christmas. But with only 4 colors there’s no point; it changes nothing compared to my current P1S + AMS setup. I already find 4 colors extremely limiting when designing.

So I guess I’ll be printing white Santas and elves for people to color with markers or paint. :slight_smile:

I think Bambu didn’t calculate this properly—why advertise 7-color capability but not include enough induction nozzles with the base printer? I’m a little bitter that I didn’t get my new toy, but maybe everything happens for a reason.

I’ve literally been doing research for three days, and the moment I’m finally ready… I can’t get it. Ouch.

I’m still frustrated, but realizing I won’t be getting it—at least not soon, and definitely not in time to create a full set of Christmas models—made me step back and think. $4500 is a lot of money for a 3D printer. I could buy five P1S units on sale for that.

So now I’ll just observe how good H2C print quality actually is compared to H2D before I decide to add it to my basket again. Dang… waiting so long, getting so close, and not being able to buy it. It’s almost sadistic.

Honestly, I might just block the Bambu store on my firewall and focus on MakerWorld instead. Creating more Christmas models will be way more productive than going through analysis paralysis over a new toy.

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Plot twist: Bambu did not save me $4500
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I too am also an impulse buyer. Usually of the alcohol induced kind.

As a day 1 h2d buyer i say too the h2c buyers: enjoy the bugs! All these youtube reviews have spaghetti prime towers. I am jealous of h2c owners though. That thing looks sweet.

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That’s funny you mention this. I also don’t understand their thinking on this. I can only think it’s greed…

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If I would have to guess - that is the bug that was just patched like less than a week ago in H2D - when the right nozzle had diarrhea upon priming.
It does look almost identical to that to be honest.

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Printer went straight back into the shopping cart… I just can’t resist new tech — I must have it.

After digging through every option on the market right now, this is the printer. Full stop.

The U1 ships in April, no heated chamber, only four colors — sure, the price is cute, but that’s where the excitement ends.

Prusa’s five-toolhead beast? Massive, only one color more than four, 290°C nozzle, no enclosure… and let’s be honest, it’s not exactly winning any beauty contests.

Bondtech INDX? Maybe interesting someday, but you can’t buy it now, and the jungle of tubes definitely isn’t helping its case.

Meanwhile the H2C actually exists, prints today, and comes loaded with features no one else is offering: heated chamber, 350°C nozzle, AMS units that look gorgeous and take basically zero space.

Call it what you want — I’m no fanboy — but the H2C is one bad$$ printer.

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I don’t think it’s greed — they’ve always been generous. My P1S came with an extra nozzle even though it didn’t have to; most printers only come with one. The H2C holds, what, seven nozzles? Logistics probably played a huge role here. They were likely just overwhelmed by the sheer volume of nozzles they suddenly needed to produce. Someone didn’t do the math for day one.

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This is like a case study on how people go into credit card debt lol.

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The lowered value of the H2D hurts doesn’t it? I paid $2300 for mine in July and I’m not too happy how much its sunk to.

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Yea, i purchased the fully loaded laser one.It stings how close the h2c price is to h2d launch price and knowing the cost of the upgrade. With the wear and tear on mine $800 worth of parts to upgrade just isn’t smart.

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Not sure if i would call myself an impulse buyer but i did want to order quickly so website went live 15:00 and i got payment part done at 15:06. Hit the ultimate package quickly and only later checked what was included… So ordered on 18Nov it claimed delivery around 9dec but shipping is not expected to arrive at my door 26Nov :slight_smile:

Daniel.

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Is it lowered value or lowered price?
It is still the same machine.

When you buy high end in technology, you know that this will happen.

Buying the most performance CPU in a laptop or A new high end phone, the price usually drops already while your pre-order is on it’s way to you.

Why would the H2D or in the near future the H2C be any different?
When a new “better” successor is announced the H2C price will drop also.

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In my experience, I like to sell things the help fund the next thing. This is the first time ive had something lose half its value in 9 months. I personally cant even sell it for $1300 and its posted in portland. Where 3d printing is popular. To me, how well something holds its value, is valuable. Before the H gen, bambu held value really well. It was one of my selling points when talking to friends. Now, I will always suggest to start with a cheap model, so they can get some cash back if they dont enjoy it.

Before, I would say “may aswell get the x1c if you can, they hold value really well anyway.”

Edit: This is why I normally choose the flagship. Nobody wants the used v6 camaro, when the ss is available. This H gen has 2 flagships somehow

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Guys, come on. Stop complaining; your D2H lost half its value. Think back to last year… you were having the time of your life with that machine. You were basically 3D-printing royalty, one of the first to get it. A couple hundred bucks in “fun tax” after a full year of printing? That’s nothing. You can’t put a price on technological joy.

And relax — next year we’ll probably have an H3C with 12 colors and a built-in espresso machine or something. This is truly the golden age of printing. Remember a few years ago when the Prusa 1 cost as much as two H2Ds and printed like it was powered by sadness and rubber bands(it was still cool)? People were still proud of it, because there was nothing better.

Now we’ve got machines that actually make useful things, reliably, and don’t scream in agony while doing it. And filament? Don’t even get me started. It used to be $50 USD for a roll of depressing radioactive-orange PLA shipped to Canada from Europe, plus duty!. Now I’m over here buying gorgeous colors for $13 CAD ($9.20 USD!) per roll. Back then we had three options: black, white, and “Prusa orange.” Today? Filament Wonderland. Willy Wonka would be jealous.

And in Canada, my P1S only lost 30% of its value after a full year and 1600 hours. That’s practically stock-market performance, and definitely better than most other brands. Life is good!

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Well if the next version contains an espresso machine I will surely be in line for it!

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Come on guys. Stop complaining whenever anybody has feedback you dont like. :wink:

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Me too - and then we can also finally print coffee-beans with PLA-Coffee filament!

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Funny enough having hotends swap in with food would now be possible :slight_smile: Lets start with Chocolate filament bambu !

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If the h3c prints chocolate i may have to buy it.

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he we might be able to eat the poop !

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There are some better uses for swappable hot ends like dedicated hot end for ironing, hot end for the new faster printing 2.2mm TPU (as shown at formnext) etc.