Renting your machine to your business

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This isn’t a topic that I’ve seen discussed directly, but there have been some related discussions about external pricing. There’s probably some difference between what is a fair rate to rent internally versus the rate that you might rent/charge for external users, but these discussions might be a good jumping off point:

https://community.glowforge.com/search?q=pricing%20tips

This one in particular is a discussion about wholesale pricing, which may be a bit closer to your case:

Pricing on making wholesale items? + Business marketing tip

There have been a fair number of pricing discussions, worth searching for. One of the consensus conclusions is “More than you would think.” One principle to remember is that it’s not so much about the cost to you as it is about the profit and avoided cost for them. If it makes them money to buy from you, they’ll buy. (And the ones who want to lowball your prices may be customers you wouldn’t want for the long term.) (Anecdote: back when my mother was a cpa, I asked her how she could justify sp…