Fulfillment by Amazon has finally arrived – where Amazon do the whole warehousing, fulfillment, customer service/returns and sales bit for your product(s)…
They’d been doing this for some large-scale ‘partner’ companies (Toys ‘r’ us, not sure who else), but now they’ve rolled it out to well, pretty much anyone.
So, prototype ideas in CAD, get a single fabbed production sample built by a company in the states, and get production ramped up in China, fedex the goods to Amazon and just worry about marketing…
The virtual manufacturing company run by a single person becomes a reality…
I’m so excited by the potential of this- it’s like the last link in the chain…
(Via Dave Winer.)