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@ David _ I am with you I don't open my wallet to buy into a fad. And the 3D printing has a long weight to go however we are on the verge of some significant changes as it relates to certain products that benefit from manufacturing with specific materials, i.e. the sole of a shoe for example. But complex products it will take much more development to get there, and it won't be done on Amazon and it won't be me funding it.
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From a business angle, well.... my outlook is a little sunnier. Like someone else said, this gets them in on the ground level in a spot where there's virtually no competition - there are all the little vendors they're aggregating, but nobody else doing the aggregating. I wouldn't hazard a guess as to how much this cost (or will cost) them in setting up and overhead, but I suspect not much - it looks just like their regular store, and I'm sure there's a ton of overlap in systems and processes. Maybe it's not such a big bet that 3d printing will take off. After all, we all had the same reaction - "cool, but I'll wait til it gets better". Not "if", when. Maybe that's exactly what they're expecting.