Offering solutions in personal printer segment, MakerBot’s lawsuit is finally over. Sued by the consumers with the allegations of selling broken printers, the evidences against the company were found insufficient.
The class-action lawsuit that was brought against MakerBot about a year ago has been dismissed by a Minnesota court. The Stratasys-owned MakerBot was accused of fraudulently misleading investors and customers after serious glitches in the MakerBot’s 5 th Generation Replicator 3D printer became apparent, but this lawsuit was dismissed due to a lack of strong evidence.
This led to the lawsuit, which argued that the problems could be traced back to poor quality control, an overly-aggressive growth strategy, and the company’s inability to own up to their mistakes. “Defendants rushed MakerBot’s 5th generation printers to the market despite their knowledge of serious quality and reliability issues plaguing the printers,” the lawsuit stated. “Because the new MakerBot printers were so poorly designed and manufactured, significant number of purchasers demanded refunds, repairs, replacement printers or parts which were costly to MakerBot given that the 5th generation printers were under warranty. The replacements were equally flawed and prone to failure.”
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