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Many retails don’t buy the inventory directly, it’s still owned by the manufacturer/seller. Returns cost money in the operation but the actual product is free t
by vineyardmike 4y ago
Many retails don’t buy the inventory directly, it’s still owned by the manufacturer/seller. Returns cost money in the operation but the actual product is free to them. Lots of returns end up in the trash too.
While Amazon may pay for the shipping, many low quality products are probably losing money for the seller when returned.
- dskrvk 4y ago> Lots of returns end up in the trash too. Yup, apparently until recently Amazon didn't bother finding a new buyer for the returned products and simply trashed most of them. Now there's a cottage industry of people buying returns in bulk, sorting through, and reselling the quality stuff (kind of like the industry around auctioning unclaimed storage unit contents). However, I imagine that many cheap products even now don't go through the auctioning process and go directly to waste. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66qOop6J8Q8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66qOop6J8Q8