Posted on 01/18/2014 1:47:01 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Amazon.com knows you so well it wants to ship your next package before you order it.
The Seattle retailer in December gained a patent for what it calls “anticipatory shipping,” a method to start delivering packages even before customers click “buy.”
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Yeah, that drone demo video was pretty cool. I got to wondering, though, how they’d handle “signature required” stuff. Picture awaking to a pounding at your front door from a drone that isn’t going to leave until it gets your signature and scans your id.
Signature-required stuff will either still come by truck, or they’ll have you put your signature on file, and then put a QR-code sticker that the drone can read beside your door to stand in place of the live signature.
The more of those centers they build, the more business they can pick up by doing fulfillment for small businesses. One thing they’re going to have to work on, though, is some means of limiting the number of vendors for a particular product. I regularly buy things like audio cables, and find myself having to flip through page after page of the exact same cable to find the cheap one.
I see something I might like to have and buy, go through all the rigamarole, and when I see the final ticket, I decide ... naaahhhh ... what was I thinking .. I can't afford that .... and click out of it all ...
And Amazon has already shipped it ?
The might have shipped it from one warehouse to another, they haven’t actually shipped it to you.
They are using the same technology that ObamaCare used to count the number of people that signed-up, even if they didn’t sign-up.
It’s OK just as long as The Doctor doesn’t have us cloned, miniaturized and injected into our own bloodstreams to search out viral alien life forms.
HMMMMM. Last month I ordered 2000lb of Staurolite from a location in FLA. It took a few days to get here to NY. This month, without any warning I re ordered and it got here in hours. Surprised the hell out of me.
Just add the software module to Obamacare and get your vote done......if you complain there is a free lobotomy scheduled.
“Especially since the law says that if someone sends you something you didn’t order, it’s yours. (And yes, I think this is the rock upon which this idea will founder.) Warning: IANAL.”
I am certainly no lawyer but from my days in Biz Law classes this was the case. If you are sent something, specifically to your address with your name on it, that you did not intentionally enter into a contract for.......it’s yours. Bang. Bad on the shipper. They cannot and should not ask for it back.
Now, if you receive something mis-addressed or with someone else’s name on it you should in all good conscience contact the shipper for correction and re-delivery but if they never know it I guess it’s just your lucky day.
Brilliant hire!
LOL!
I’ve had Prime for a little over a year now. I’m quick to order miscellania now rather than run to the store. You can’t beat the convenience.
I need to start looking at the food side, I haven’t done much of that.
Did you write that in white font?
Gods eye. Reminds me of the book, sci fi.....The moat in Gods eye...
Rest easy Dr. Who, the Daleks were all exterminated!
Amazon didn’t want to tax you.
They where forced to tax you by your state.
Direct your anger at the right place.
Even if they had not charged you tax you where still responsible for paying said tax.
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