Here's that book you'll be ordering later this year

by bad golfer

Posted: 10 years ago 5 replies

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Using "anticipatory shipping," Amazon knows you so well, they can ship you stuff before you order it.

Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It - Digits - WSJ

yoangov 10 years ago

I read the article, and I must say this is a very innovative concept. This will definitely help the ones of us who are doing amazing affiliation
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yukon Banned 10 years ago

That's nuts even If a buyer has a history of buying from the same category.

According to the patent, the packages could wait at the shippers’ hubs or on trucks until an order arrives.

Good luck with that because the product won't be sitting on a loading dock/truck for free (days/weeks/months/years/eternity).
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- Dan Riffle 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  Good luck with that because the product won't be sitting on a loading dock/truck for free (days/weeks/months/years/eternity).
  
  Forget that. They'll just have their drones hover over your house until you place your order.
  
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  yukon Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Dan Riffle
  
  Forget that. They'll just have their drones hover over your house until you place your order.
  
  I wish they would, the first thing I would order is a big butterfly net. Lets see how long it takes the 2nd drone to disappear.
  
  There will be a bunch of drones on eBay...
  
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seasoned 10 years ago

That is an *********OLD********** technique! They have been doing it for over 100 years! OLD TIME General stores HAD to do it! HECK, I was telling some people at a restaurant only last friday that their corporation was STUPID for IGNORING buying patterns!!!!! They are shipping that place a product that DOESN'T SELL! MEANWHILE, what I want DOES sell, and HAS sold, and we are IGNORED! In MY case, this costs them about $7 a DAY in sales, JUST FROM ME! They could EASILY be losing DOZENS of dollars a day. Considering the cost and effort required, that is a FORTUNE! And $12/day is $3,132/year! A few years ago, I worked with an interface to allow a major INSURANCE company to do this!

EVEN the idea of doing this as a promotional item is FAR from new! A few YEARS ago, I got a snack at hotel when I returned in a welcome basket. HOW did they determine some stuff? They actually looked at what I threw away!!!!!! A nutritional company I have bought from sent me promotional items related to what I bought! I have seen a number of movies talking about places buying raw materials for a regular customer.

BTW this is NOT saying they will ship an item to YOU in advance! It is saying that they will ship more items that have statistically generated an interest in an area to the shipping warehouse for that area. That ALSO may be one way they rationalize and use their amazon prime service. Anyway, this means they can package things more efficiently, and send them using a cheaper and SLOWER method and STILL get it to you in less than 3 days. MOST of the distance that places would have had to have dealt with is ALREADY covered.

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