BufferBox: Amazon Lockers? We Had That Idea First
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BufferBox: Amazon Lockers? We Had That Idea First
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Re: BufferBox: Amazon Lockers? We Had That Idea First
#2Any idea how fast will Amazon Lockers be rolling out across the US? Which metro's are they hitting first?
Re: BufferBox: Amazon Lockers? We Had That Idea First
#3Any idea how fast will Amazon Lockers be rolling out across the US? Which metro's are they hitting first?
"Amazon Lockers are currently located in Seattle, New York, the Washington, DC area, and London."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...
Re: BufferBox: Amazon Lockers? We Had That Idea First
#4What a perfect solution for peer-to-peer delivery and selling/buying stuff from craigslist! Amazon may have their lockers, but there's plenty of room for this take on use cases that Amazon wont (yet) - run fast!!! :)
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#5Any idea how fast will Amazon Lockers be rolling out across the US? Which metro's are they hitting first?
"Amazon Lockers are currently located in Seattle, New York, the Washington, DC area, and London." http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...
I was offered local locations (all 7-11s) for an order I placed to the SF Bay Area yesterday, so it looks like SF can be added to that list.
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#6this has huge potential if they do it right. Let vendors pay with bitcoin. Let them pre-ship product that can be unlocked with a qr code. suddenly the silk road gets a lot more interesting.
Re: BufferBox: Amazon Lockers? We Had That Idea First
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Amazon Lockers are currently located in Seattle, New York, the Washington, DC area, and London." http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...
I was offered local locations (all 7-11s) for an order I placed to the SF Bay Area yesterday, so it looks like SF can be added to that list.
Did you end up getting your order shipped there? I was given the option ship an order to one of the lockers in SF on Monday, but when I tried to select it, I got an error. In any case, it suggests that they should be available in SF soon.
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#8this has huge potential if they do it right. Let vendors pay with bitcoin. Let them pre-ship product that can be unlocked with a qr code. suddenly the silk road gets a lot more interesting.
In a high-tech area, sure. In an area where vendors/customers don't even know what "a QR" is, Bali et al. will simply be wasting their limited storage space on a vastly unpredictable demand for products.
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#9It'll be interesting to see Amazon square off against a startup. They've been doing battle with B&M stores, Google and Apple. It'll be interesting to see how they deal with a company several orders of magnitude smaller than them. With the amplifying effect of YC behind them, it'll be interesting to watch.
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#10These lockers are good, but what I think we should really improve is the quality/performance of our mailing/delivery systems. The lockers are just a patch to the existing lame systems.
If a company can deliver all days in a week (including weekends) and all time in a day (including evenings and nights), and the delivery men really called before they left a note, that company would win the game.