pic: SPARK Motor Controller from REV Robotics

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Using Amazon is brilliant for teams.

I've been selling products on Amazon myself for about a year and a half now, growing into a solid part-time job (which pairs nicely with my other part-time job, customer support for a software company used by Amazon sellers). The more I learn about their fulfillment system--the one that's in service now, forget the drones--the more I'm astounded by its scale. It's a tremendous boon to small operations like REV or my business, as I know it would be way more expensive for me to have my own warehouse space and staff picking/packing/shipping for me.

One protip for the masses: Once you see the Spark go from "unavailable" like it is now to back-ordered, that means there is inventory checked into Amazon's fulfillment system and it's safe to order. When big quantities (I've found 20 is "big quantities") of an item get sent to Amazon, Amazon will usually tell a seller to ship it all to one facility* and then they'll split it all out to other warehouses across the country over a few days. Your order would then get picked and packed as soon as one hit the right destination warehouse.

*Greg, if those Sparks are getting shipped to CVG3: My sympathies.