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I think they would have been more successful if you could have actually gotten them for the products you wanted, not just a random selection of stuff you probab

I think they would have been more successful if you could have actually gotten them for the products you wanted, not just a random selection of stuff you probably never ordered.

capdeck 8y ago
... and just add that to the shopping cart (don't make an actual purchase) so I can review and click order next time I am buying stuff. May be there was such an option - don't know - never used the buttons.
KingMachiavelli 8y ago
Exactly, why not sell a generic version? You could limit it to products where the vendor has uploaded the appropriate logo/image that will be displayed on the Dash button but that would shift determining what products consumers would use a Dash button for onto the Vendors. Then again, I agree that most people willing to use a Dash button are also the kind of people willing to use an Echo, save the uber privacy concious minority.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
  Well, they did have a generic version. The “Enterpris” button is designed to work with AWS IoT, you press it and it publishes an MQTT message to your IoT Core ARN. What you do from there is up to you - usually you would invoke a lambda to go do something.
kalleboo 8y ago
In my case even for the products they had, they didn't include the packaging size I usually order
iceninenines 8y ago
They did make them more generic later. I remember because I almost accidentally bought one. :)
michaelt 8y ago
I'm pretty certain the Dash button was what, in the grocery industry, is known as a "supplier-funded promotion", i.e. the buttons were subsidised by the supplier whose logo was printed on them. So when you buy a $5 Dash button for Tide Pods™, Amazon spends $11 to make it and ship it to you, of which you pay $5, Amazon pays $2, and Procter & Gamble pays $4. Amazon and P&G both gamble they'll make up the loss on the button with profit on your extra purchases. This explains a bunch of weird features: * The reason Dash buttons were only available for some brands is because only some brands had agreed to pay the subsidy. * The reason they ship with the logo sticker already in place, instead of a single item with a big sheet of stickers? Because the sticker is for the company that paid the subsidy. * The reason non-Prime customers couldn't buy them? Because if you don't have free shipping, they think you won't press the button enough to make up their loss. * The reason the AWS button costs more? Because nobody's subsidising it (plus the fact they charge what the market will bear, obviously) * Why would they discontinue them? Because it turns out the gamble on extra sales doesn't pay off.

I think they would have been more successful if you could have actually gotten them for the products you wanted, not just a random selection of stuff you probably never ordered.

capdeck 8y ago

... and just add that to the shopping cart (don't make an actual purchase) so I can review and click order next time I am buying stuff. May be there was such an option - don't know - never used the buttons.

KingMachiavelli 8y ago

Exactly, why not sell a generic version? You could limit it to products where the vendor has uploaded the appropriate logo/image that will be displayed on the Dash button but that would shift determining what products consumers would use a Dash button for onto the Vendors. Then again, I agree that most people willing to use a Dash button are also the kind of people willing to use an Echo, save the uber privacy concious minority.

SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
Well, they did have a generic version. The “Enterpris” button is designed to work with AWS IoT, you press it and it publishes an MQTT message to your IoT Core ARN. What you do from there is up to you - usually you would invoke a lambda to go do something.

kalleboo 8y ago

In my case even for the products they had, they didn't include the packaging size I usually order

iceninenines 8y ago

They did make them more generic later. I remember because I almost accidentally bought one. :)

michaelt 8y ago

I'm pretty certain the Dash button was what, in the grocery industry, is known as a "supplier-funded promotion", i.e. the buttons were subsidised by the supplier whose logo was printed on them. So when you buy a $5 Dash button for Tide Pods™, Amazon spends $11 to make it and ship it to you, of which you pay $5, Amazon pays $2, and Procter & Gamble pays $4. Amazon and P&G both gamble they'll make up the loss on the button with profit on your extra purchases. This explains a bunch of weird features: * The reason Dash buttons were only available for some brands is because only some brands had agreed to pay the subsidy. * The reason they ship with the logo sticker already in place, instead of a single item with a big sheet of stickers? Because the sticker is for the company that paid the subsidy. * The reason non-Prime customers couldn't buy them? Because if you don't have free shipping, they think you won't press the button enough to make up their loss. * The reason the AWS button costs more? Because nobody's subsidising it (plus the fact they charge what the market will bear, obviously) * Why would they discontinue them? Because it turns out the gamble on extra sales doesn't pay off.