MakerGeeks

I tried the PETG my friends told me to try and it was good. Much better than PLA for most stuff. All of my PLA was from MakerGeeks, so I decided to try their PETG. It was so much better than the other stuff. Less stringy and easy to work with. It was beautiful from the first print. I can't seem to upload pictures here (i tried, not working...$(...). UploadHelper is not a function), but you can see a few of my Glow in the Dark PETG prints at http://www.thingiverse.com/make:*******, http://www.thingiverse.com/make:*******, http://www.thingiverse.com/make:*******, and http://www.thingiverse.com/make:*******. It doesn't actually look like glow in the dark plastic. More like natural plastic. The Smoke and HD Black is nice too, but I am loving the look of the glow in the dark even thought I can care less about the glow. I have 4 spools of Crystal PETG on the way. I'll review again after I have a chance to try them.

These guys not only make their filament right here in the USA, it's great quality and consistent. Their customer service is top notch as well, and they provide great tech support for their products. Do them and yourself a favor and support a small business.

From a very angry customer, I will say that I did like the filament from makergeeks.com. I ordered filament 2/13/2017 and I was charged the same day. On 3/10/2017, I contacted the customer support via the only method of email and I stated my issue and asked for my refund or my product. Today 3/15/2017 I sent another email asking to get my full refund or I would file a complaint with the Better Business Burea and within minutes of that email, I finally received a response.
With all this said, we are customers and we are not always right but its the business job to maintain decency and attend to customer issues. Not to discourage anyone from shopping at the site but be warned that you may have to contact BBB before you get support from them.
And 100% of the positive reviews here are fake, but most will ignore.

I have only had a very limited experience with Maker Geeks products up to this point, but I have been very pleased with what I have used so far. Additionally, after contacting them about a concern, they replied to my email very quickly and well outside of their advertised business hours. When I contacted them a second time (outside of business hours yet again) for an unrelated request they were quick to reply and even willing to go outside the norm of their way of doing things and make my request happen. They were willing to do this for someone who had spent almost no money with them at this point. I have been very impressed with the level of customer support that I have received up to now. Highly recommend.

I've used Maker Geeks before for filament and surprise surprise, they're still just as excellent. I made a small error when typing up the shipping info which resulted in the package making it to my post office and then being immediately sent back. You can imagine my dismay; however, Maker Geeks really pulled through and kept me updated with what was going on with the package and at the end of it all, they sent me a whole new package with the corrected address. They're really a benchmark for other filament and 3D printer hardware distributors to compare themselves to.

I have made three orders from Makergeeks. When you order filament, the "availability" always says, "Usually ships next business day." I think this doesn't mean what they think it means.

On a Wednesday in September '15, I ordered 4 rolls of filament. I was charged the same day.

A week later, having not heard that my order was shipped, I emailed them. They emailed me back the next day saying my order had just come off the machines and would ship within 24 hours. It shipped 6 days later, and I received it after another 5 days. Total time from order to shipping: 15 days. Time to receipt: 3 weeks.

In October '16, I tried again, with 4 more rolls, all of which said "Usually ships next business day." They shipped PART of the order 5 days later, and I received it 11 days after I ordered it. The other part of the order... I didn't get until FEBRUARY '17, almost 4 months later.

I made one other order in between, and I received it in a somewhat more reasonable 9 days.

But their shipping speed, on products that they advertise as "Usually ships next business day", is NOT reasonable. When I contacted them, I was given a promise that they did not follow through on, and a later order was even worse!

Not all is rosy with the filament: two spools of the PETG had poor dimensional tolerance (1.62-1.80mm variation within 10 feet in the middle of the roll). They incorrectly state that PETG has "near-zero warp-age or shrinkage" (it does warp, but for different reasons than ABS) and that it is as easy to print as PLA (it is not). They claim their filament is vacuum packed with desiccant (it is not vacuum-packed... but their ziplock-type bags are a good alternative and they do include one TINY package of desiccant).

Perhaps worst of all, the web site is chock full of hot air (much of it cut-and-pasted into EVERY page on the site), and extremely thin on hard data. Nowhere can you find a reasonable collection of temperature and other printing data. The play the "BIG SALE" game, pretending that the "normal" price on their filament is $50 a spool, and then tell you that you can get it for "as low as" $18. Well, sure... if you order 12 spools of the same type and color at the same time, but for most people you're going to be paying $25 per roll for garden-variety filament. This is not particularly cheap filament.

I do have to agree that it looks like almost all of the 5-star reviews on this site are fake.

Yes they have free (slow boat) shipping. Sadly for them, in the Amazon age, nobody is impressed with that anymore. I used to buy FlashForge-branded ABS and PLA for $13 a roll on Amazon until they stopped selling it there, and that stuff was as good as Makergeeks' for half the price (and still free shipping, and I get it fast).

Here's the thing... I DO like the Makergeeks filament I've printed. I've tried their PLA, PETG, and ABS. It prints fairly well despite the shortcomings (most of which are hardly unique to them... much of the available 3d filament is crap, even when it's not cheap).

But I'm just not sure I'm going to be buying from them in the future, because the BS factor, combined with the slow shipping and untrustworthy customer service, is just too annoying.

They have made me mistrust them the old-fashioned way: they've earned it.

I've had great results with MakerGeeks' products as well as their customer service! Not to mention, it's made in the U.S.A.!

It was taking a while to ship my order filament. I sent a few emails, but was pleasantly surprised how quickly someone got back to me each time. In the end MakerGeeks and I were able to come to suitable solution by replacing a filament on my order with a stocked version. My order was shipped immediately to my satisfaction. It is always pleasure doing business with a company the responds immediately to their customer. Great job MakerGeeks!

I ordered the wrong filament size and just shipped it back. Recieved full refund. Great filament, great quality.

I run a Makerspace at a community college and work with 3D printers on a regular basis. I know good filament when I see it, and I use Maker Geeks filament with my own personal machine. Prints come out very strong (it is a tough, higher temperature PLA, not brittle like so many others. A small piece of filament fatigues when bent, rather than snapping or cracking). The filament captures fine detail well. Layer adhesion is great, and the filament diameter tolerance is consistent. It is an affordable PLA with results comparable to very expensive, high-end filaments. I order the 1.75 mm PLA, in regular Maker Geeks colors, as well as their recycled PLA, and have been very pleased with all of them. Packaging is good, with silica gel packets in resealable bags which work well for dry storage. Labeled with proper print temperatures.
Also, the customer service is good. I have emailed with questions, and received prompt, helpful responses from the owner.
This is a good company, and I recommend this filament to fellow makers.

When I got my first 3D printer last year, I wasn't sure where to go to buy filament. I was also having trouble with the sample PLA I'd received with the printer so I was looking for something high quality.

A friend and colleague mentioned he was having great results with MakerGeeks Raptor PLA and gave me some to try. It worked incredibly well and solved all of my warping issues entirely!

Since that time I've purchased many, many kilos of filament from MakerGeeks and I have nothing but glowing comments about my experience with them and their products.

They are prompt shippers, pro-active communicators, and just all around friendly and professional to deal with.

I recommend MakerGeeks without reservation and with great alacrity!