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Post by ICW on Dec 2, 2013 14:51:54 GMT -5
How nuts is this?!?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2013 14:53:02 GMT -5
haha, I cant see this ending well at all
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2013 15:02:20 GMT -5
I saw this on 60 Minutes last night, pretty crazy.
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Post by Triple S on Dec 2, 2013 15:12:19 GMT -5
What's the point?
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Post by mikey1974 on Dec 2, 2013 15:20:50 GMT -5
it begins....
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Post by WMDman on Dec 2, 2013 15:26:00 GMT -5
Ohh let the fun of open season begin
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Post by facemeat on Dec 2, 2013 15:26:29 GMT -5
I don't see how they could really pull this off on a large scale, but if they can, it's a great idea.
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Post by RybackV1 on Dec 2, 2013 15:48:14 GMT -5
That's kinda insane. Not sure how they can really pull this off.
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Post by SuperJimmy12345 on Dec 2, 2013 15:50:31 GMT -5
Doubt they'll put this into wide-scale production, too costly in the short term probably.
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Post by AdamBomb on Dec 2, 2013 15:59:36 GMT -5
Regular ole Prime is good enough. I get mah stuff in two days, no shipping cost. I can wait two stinkin' days. Taking in to consideration wind and weather conditions, this could easily up.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2013 16:10:59 GMT -5
That's kinda insane. Not sure how they can really pull this off. they can't really, especially not in 30 minutes not everyone would be in a range of 30 minutes from a distribution center, but if they had more distribution centers to cover major areas - think of the cost for them to carry such a large variation of inventory across each city….they wouldn't be able to do it without it costing an arm & a leg & another arm & five more legs plus, the government would step in and have to regulate air space - even if low enough to avoid planes….their insurance costs would be enormous & if something fell or crashed, it could kill somebody also, they'd be doing all the hard work for people to copy their strategy & then regulations would change based on that, which would cost them more & more money
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Post by /X Metal Sorenges x "Mac Oh J~ on Dec 2, 2013 16:16:38 GMT -5
Regular ole Prime is good enough. I get mah stuff in two days, no shipping cost. I can wait two stinkin' days. Taking in to consideration wind and weather conditions, this could easily up. I think i'll settle with this, something could happen to the product during transit while it's counterpart via truck the risks are much slimmer.
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Post by jayrod2009 on Dec 2, 2013 17:03:05 GMT -5
That's kinda insane. Not sure how they can really pull this off. they can't really, especially not in 30 minutes not everyone would be in a range of 30 minutes from a distribution center, but if they had more distribution centers to cover major areas - think of the cost for them to carry such a large variation of inventory across each city….they wouldn't be able to do it without it costing an arm & a leg & another arm & five more legs plus, the government would step in and have to regulate air space - even if low enough to avoid planes….their insurance costs would be enormous & if something fell or crashed, it could kill somebody also, they'd be doing all the hard work for people to copy their strategy & then regulations would change based on that, which would cost them more & more money They have already announced that they are building multiple warehouses in larger citys for the Prime Air trial. Its a genius idea. Look at what they are paying for shipping through UPS and FedEx. Each item costs atleast $5 to ship. Thats a minimum. As a customer, alot of their inventory ships free over $20. Now sure they may break even with their own costs of inventory. But breaking even doesnt give you much of a profit. Cutting out a shipping service would increase their profits ten fold. Heres the best part. Their carrier service would run off of a battery! And its un maned. They will not only save money bu cutting a carrier, but not having to pay carriers to deliver their products. However it will open jobs in the flight feild an computer avionics ( sounds right to me).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2013 17:42:23 GMT -5
they can't really, especially not in 30 minutes not everyone would be in a range of 30 minutes from a distribution center, but if they had more distribution centers to cover major areas - think of the cost for them to carry such a large variation of inventory across each city….they wouldn't be able to do it without it costing an arm & a leg & another arm & five more legs plus, the government would step in and have to regulate air space - even if low enough to avoid planes….their insurance costs would be enormous & if something fell or crashed, it could kill somebody also, they'd be doing all the hard work for people to copy their strategy & then regulations would change based on that, which would cost them more & more money They have already announced that they are building multiple warehouses in larger citys for the Prime Air trial. Its a genius idea. Look at what they are paying for shipping through UPS and FedEx. Each item costs atleast $5 to ship. Thats a minimum. As a customer, alot of their inventory ships free over $20. Now sure they may break even with their own costs of inventory. But breaking even doesnt give you much of a profit. Cutting out a shipping service would increase their profits ten fold. Heres the best part. Their carrier service would run off of a battery! And its un maned. They will not only save money bu cutting a carrier, but not having to pay carriers to deliver their products. However it will open jobs in the flight feild an computer avionics ( sounds right to me). They had to raise the price of free shipping from $25 to $35 recently & it'll continue to climb. It'll prob be $50 by the middle of next year if I had to guess. The cost of Prime membership would have to climb as well. They have to make up for their extra investments in distribution centers and (Research & Development costs) somehow. The reason inventory costs would be high IMO - even with countless distribution centers - would be that they couldn't have an easy time starting out, with low carrying costs. It takes a long time for them to figure out 'just-in'time' inventory that would allow them to be profitable, while properly managing their warehouse space for what actually is sold in each area. I also think there's a lot of money that goes into creating regulations for this & they have to be a part of that (spending lots of money), because if they don't - they'll be forced to follow rules from someone that doesn't know the ins & outs or from a copying company. I'm also sure that it would be cheaper than $5 per item for them to ship…they'd have to have some sort of agreement where it isn't as expensive for such large business that they do yearly. UPS and FedEx get so much business from them, they'd be willing to take a cut…they prob bid for Amazon's business honestly. I don't disagree that it's a genius idea - I just think it's super expensive & could push prices too high for something that would be regulated for items of a pretty small size/weight. When pharmaceuticals are researched & developed, they rarely make back the ridiculous amount spent to create the drugs. That's why some cost so much. I just have a feeling that this would be the same early on & by the time they made their money back (it would be at the expense of higher costs & people would prefer to travel to a Wal-Mart or Target for the same items).
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Post by JTG on Dec 2, 2013 17:54:54 GMT -5
I saw this segment on 60 Minutes last night. I'm sure it's a ways off, but it'd be pretty incredible if they could somehow make this work.
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Post by Fleet Foxes on Dec 3, 2013 14:06:57 GMT -5
People in China already utilize this with SF express. According to people who live in China, this is a really great experience.
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Post by HHH316 on Dec 3, 2013 14:39:14 GMT -5
I can just picture people using these at target practice when they see them flying around.
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Post by That 80s Guy on Dec 3, 2013 14:46:22 GMT -5
-- That'll never work for my house out in the boonies. For 1) my place isn't even visible on Google maps and 2) I always have to direct UPS, FedEX, drivers of all sorts who're foreign to the area - how to get to my place.
The commercial itself looks TOO perfect, odds are there's going to be damage of some sort eventually (with either the product, the property of the homeowner, or it's going crash into somebody). Hell it might even do damage to some nearby car, owned by someone who had nothing to do with the transaction (similar to how a baseball is struck for a homerun and nails a car in the parking lot - yes, that cause/effect).
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Post by Scotty on Dec 3, 2013 14:56:13 GMT -5
How long until someone grabs it once it drops the package off and keeps the drone too?
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Post by Doctor Worm on Dec 3, 2013 15:21:32 GMT -5
I think this.
If Amazon can pull this off, I'm saluting them, because this opens up so many opportunities for the future. Imagine if this works, we could sue the technology for something completely awesome, like getting medical supplies to people quickly, in disastrous area. I'm so supportive of this.
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