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Amazon Debuts a Dedicated Shop For Kickstarter Products (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Today, Amazon announced it's teaming up with Kickstarter to offer those successful Kickstarter products a way to reach more customers through a dedicated section on Amazon's website. Via www.amazon.com/launchpad/kickstarter, the online retailer is now featuring a group of over 300 Kickstarter products across a variety of categories, like electronics, books, home and kitchen, movies and tv, and more. The products can also be browsed by theme, like STEM products, "Always be Learning," "Exquisite Objects," "Inventing the Future," and "Public Benefit," for example. The new Kickstarter section is actually an expansion on Amazon's Launchpad platform, launched a year ago. In July 2015, the retailer debuted a dedicated portal that offered both marketing and sales for hardware and physical goods from younger tech companies. Today, Amazon says it has now worked with over 100 VCs, accelerators and crowdfunders and has helped more than 1,000 launch products across the U.S., the U.K., China, Germany, and France. All startups who participate in Launchpad receive custom product pages, a comprehensive marketing package, and access to Amazon's global fulfillment network, the retailer notes.
I bought "The Secret Loves of Geek Girls: Kickstarter Edition" on there. It turns out they don't like guys with ironic beards and fixie bikes after all.
If there's a single genuine answer in the bunch, I'll be surprised.
Personally I prefer the vacuum guy. Hmm, I wonder if I could kickstarter a vacuum.
Good luck getting 2 day delivery on a kickstarter
Enjoy the oppressive censorship if you mention anything non-PC over at reddit, Twitter, Tumblr.... hell, just about any social media these days. The left is in a desperate frenzy after being horrible failures with this country along with the media trying to enact revenge for being wrong every step of the way during the primaries. At least here all they can do is try to create an echo-chamber by wasting mod points to suppress the truth but anyone can load even the hidden comments which is a huge step beyond shadow banning based on ideology or worse.
Screw Twitter, Tumblr, reddit, Facebook etc.
Use Twister p2p, based on tor and bitcoin code, it is a distributed Twitter.
Shipping products all over the world is something that can be quite complex since laws and requirements differs from country to country.
If Amazon can fill the role of shipping partner, it would be a game-changer for a lot of smaller projects.
I love stores. Nothing beats being informed that I can't purchase products from them because I'm outside the US.
How about before opening new stores, Amazon cleans all the scams and counterfeit garbage out of the store it already has.
...once they sent the notice that all must use their fulfillment system or risk delisting And the clusterf*ck system for registering as a seller separately on each major region's amazon (.com,.ca,.co.uk, ...) each is different and confusing. And somehow I was forced into a pro account (monthly $50 fee) to list on .co.uk.
of money against the time when the lawyers from the patent owners they are infringing show up with their writs.
Of course it also gives the patent trolls another place to check for warm carcasses.
This will only be good if they are available to Amazon after backer fulfilment.
I am one of many still waiting for our Growlers, after the product is being producted, due to a preference to supply Amazon and other retail stores.
I thought most kickstarter projects were just scams to separate mildly interested supporters from their money.