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Uh? They are addressed to her? She's opening them? Sell them! Profit! What's the issue here? Sounds great.

thenerdhead 3y ago
> "It's easier and cheaper for the sellers to have [returned products] sent to this random address than having it sent to China," said Hothi. "It could be that the warehouse has asked the seller to remove their unsold products from fulfilment centres, or their contract is ending." Not everyone is motivated by financial gain. Also to resell garbage products is a full time job that many wouldn't find worthwhile...
- damnesian 3y ago
  > It could be that the warehouse has asked the seller to remove their unsold products from fulfilment centres And probably the seller can claim them as "lost" and add them to operational losses. I would believe this, knowing what I know about the restaurant industry and their need to demonstrate "drawdown" to calculate losses.
wccrawford 3y ago
I wouldn't assume that "returned goods" can be sold at all, and UPS is charging her fees for some of the deliveries.
_yb2s 3y ago
These are shoes returned to a likely dishonest and fraudulent seller... if they had any value they wouldn't be dumping them on her like this. It's also possibly illegal for her to sell them.
- sumtechguy 3y ago
  Apparently some sellers keep their stuff on amazon shelves. Amazon will sometimes charge a stocking fee or a fee to send the stuff back if your business goes belly up. So the sellers will just pick a victim and dump their whole inventory on them because it is cheaper to ship them out than to continue to keep them stocked at amazon. But that may be wrong so someone with better insight could correct me if I have this wrong. This could be a side effect of the way Amazon works with 3rd party.
- whycome 3y ago
  I mean the RCMP told her to keep them... She did some due dilligence of sorts
  - vkou 3y ago
    The RCMP aren't legal experts.
- RetroTechie 3y ago
  > if they had any value they wouldn't be dumping them on her like this. A good percentage of online bought items are returned. Often, nothing wrong with the product. Wrong size, color different from expected, customer changed their mind or bought elsewhere in the meantime, bought 3, picked 1 or 2 most liked & returned the other, bought for specific occasion but item arrived too late, item looked good on website but fabric doesn't feel right, etc, etc. Many possible reasons. For seller, return shipping might be more costly than just dump product. Or was forced to clear stock due to storage costs. Doesn't mean item is worthless, just worthless to seller. But forcing random person to deal with this somehow vs. seller doing that themselves, is of course asshat way to run a business.
  - pessimizer 3y ago
    If they're worthless to a professional merchant, they will more than likely be useless to random uninterested person.

> "It's easier and cheaper for the sellers to have [returned products] sent to this random address than having it sent to China," said Hothi. "It could be that the warehouse has asked the seller to remove their unsold products from fulfilment centres, or their contract is ending." Not everyone is motivated by financial gain. Also to resell garbage products is a full time job that many wouldn't find worthwhile...

damnesian 3y ago
> It could be that the warehouse has asked the seller to remove their unsold products from fulfilment centres And probably the seller can claim them as "lost" and add them to operational losses. I would believe this, knowing what I know about the restaurant industry and their need to demonstrate "drawdown" to calculate losses.

wccrawford 3y ago

I wouldn't assume that "returned goods" can be sold at all, and UPS is charging her fees for some of the deliveries.

_yb2s 3y ago

These are shoes returned to a likely dishonest and fraudulent seller... if they had any value they wouldn't be dumping them on her like this. It's also possibly illegal for her to sell them.

sumtechguy 3y ago
Apparently some sellers keep their stuff on amazon shelves. Amazon will sometimes charge a stocking fee or a fee to send the stuff back if your business goes belly up. So the sellers will just pick a victim and dump their whole inventory on them because it is cheaper to ship them out than to continue to keep them stocked at amazon. But that may be wrong so someone with better insight could correct me if I have this wrong. This could be a side effect of the way Amazon works with 3rd party.
whycome 3y ago
I mean the RCMP told her to keep them... She did some due dilligence of sorts
- vkou 3y ago
  The RCMP aren't legal experts.
RetroTechie 3y ago
> if they had any value they wouldn't be dumping them on her like this. A good percentage of online bought items are returned. Often, nothing wrong with the product. Wrong size, color different from expected, customer changed their mind or bought elsewhere in the meantime, bought 3, picked 1 or 2 most liked & returned the other, bought for specific occasion but item arrived too late, item looked good on website but fabric doesn't feel right, etc, etc. Many possible reasons. For seller, return shipping might be more costly than just dump product. Or was forced to clear stock due to storage costs. Doesn't mean item is worthless, just worthless to seller. But forcing random person to deal with this somehow vs. seller doing that themselves, is of course asshat way to run a business.
- pessimizer 3y ago
  If they're worthless to a professional merchant, they will more than likely be useless to random uninterested person.