I just got off the phone with AM. They are trying to decide if they are going to get any more FP 0673 motors in stock for this season. This will depend on demand and if they can get them before the end of the season. Let’s help them decide by e-mailing and/or calling them to let them know we would like to buy more.
Bruce
We, for one, were planning on using a pair of those motors on our machine. This is unfortunate.
Us too. Why wouldn’t you want the FP with the higher RPM and max power for something like a shooter?
Im sure our team will need more so i sent them an e-mail. Thanks for the heads up.
I already emailed Andy about this a few hours ago. If these were available, I’d definitely be using two of them on the robot this year.
I also spoke with Andy on the phone earlier yesterday, it sounded like the chances were slim
Back and gone again in a matter of hours. Is there any chance of more coming in in the next few days?
Really? I didn’t even notice…
I think we will be looking for teams local that are not using them, since the 0673 came in the 2011 KOP.
0673’s went on sale as of 7 minutes ago.
Have fun!
And out of stock again…
I hope you all got your orders in.
I had some in my CART and when I checked out I got the out of stock message. Kind of hard to understand how that worked AM.
Bruce
Aww man:(
And were out of stock 6 minutes after they went on sale. So they were already gone by the time you posted.
All I can say is WOW.
300 motors in 6 minutes…
How did people know when they would go on sale? I was checking frequently this morning…
I wonder how many teams actually got to place an order?
E-commerce must work at a faster pace than my fingers type.
If they handled this shortage like their others, it is likely that teams placed orders with AM before hand so when the stock came in it was possible that 200 were already claimed leaving only a few still available. At that, it wouldn’t be unrealistic for teams to order 10 at a time.
If I see someone posting on Chief Delphi or ebay offering 0673 motors for sale at a markup, I’m getting my hammer and comming to find you… 
I was able to get some by being logged in and ready to go right at 12:00 EST. I signed up with AM’s e-mail notification a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday I got the email alert that they would go on sale at noon today. Those alerts really do work.
There must have been tons of people on their site at that time because it slowed to a crawl.
@Bruceb, the items are not actuall take out of the datadase inventory until the sale is completed. Someone else must have completed the sale just prior to you which meant that they were no longer available to you.
They did not allow preorders
On AndyMark’s site, if a product is out of stock, you can enter your email to be notified when the product becomes available again. He also posted a message on the 0673 motor page that indicated it would go on sale as of 12pm (noon) today.
Fox46, I’m not sure that people could pre-order these motors or anything that is “out of stock” for that matter. I tried that through the website and as soon as you click on add to cart, you get a message that says:
“(00801-0673 F-P (Fisher Price) motor (am-0821)) is currently out of stock. Please click “Email when Available” Below to be one of the first notified.”
From what I have seen from their POS (point of sale not the POS) you can’t buy more items than they have is stock. Getting it into your cart is not the same as buying them. Not sure if they had 200 already claimed if that were the case. I have a feeling that there were several folks who bought several at a time.