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This article is written and posted by someone with no sense of logic what so ever. Would really love the OP to explain the full process of profiting from this b

by water9 3y ago

This article is written and posted by someone with no sense of logic what so ever. Would really love the OP to explain the full process of profiting from this because the guide is basically: 1) Collect shoes 2) ??? 3) Profit. Nothing about this story makes any sense.

Scoundreller 3y ago
> Nitu said she has lost sleep trying to make the packages stop coming, and so far she's accrued Collect-On-Delivery customs charges from UPS that now exceed $300. > "I refused to pay, and the dispute with UPS is still ongoing," Nitu said. "They're completely unreasonable. I tried to explain the situation and they were not nice, let's put it that way." Every Canadian hates it when someone sends them a UPS ground package internationally without taxes/duties prepaid.
- kwanbix 3y ago
  Just reject them. Can't you?
  - bell-cot 3y ago
    You're actually standing on your doorstep 24x7, to make sure no delivery people just leave packages?
    - kwanbix 3y ago
      Well, I work from home myself, so most of the time I can.
dwroberts 3y ago
Nowhere does it say anyone is profiting. Unscrupulous sellers are disposing of items they don’t want by sending them to a random address so they can avoid (more expensive) fees for them returning to their origin
- water9 3y ago
  Why not just use a dumpster and/or fire? Why would you dispose of inventory as a seller? That's not how stores work
  - CSMastermind 3y ago
    Because the seller is in China and they're already paying to have the product shipped to the US so they can sell it on amazon.com If the product doesn't sell they don't want to continue paying fees to store the inventory in Amazon's warehouses and they don't want to pay the fees to have it shipped back to China so they put a random address in and tell Amazon to return the unsold product to there.
    - water9 3y ago
      And so the poor American can’t deal with the surplus of items that another person in China is literally selling to pay the bills to LivE. oh the humanity that poor woman receiving all that free merchandise that she could return get off her lazy ass and sell like the person in China for money. Oh wait, she’s privileged. She lives in America. She doesn’t need it. Why does she just complain about it online then
      - erik_seaberg 3y ago
        She didn’t make or test these and can’t stand behind their quality.
  - btilly 3y ago
    This isn't stores. This is people buying stuff off of Amazon, and returning it in the mail. The vendor doesn't have an address in North America, and shipping it to a dumpster is harder than a random stranger. So they just have returns go to a random stranger.
  - sethhochberg 3y ago
    The sellers don’t always hold their own inventory, or even have space to. They might not even be in the same country where they’re selling. They have crates of stuff shipped from the factory directly to Amazon, and from here they presumably can’t simply tell Amazon “throw it all in the dumpster” if it isnt selling well - or maybe Amazon charges them fees for that. It’s now expensive or impossible for them to return it to where it was made, it’s not selling, and they are paying Amazon to store it. So on the short list of bad options for a dropship seller, you make the call that it is cheaper to ship these unwanted things somewhere than to pay for them to sit in storage. The incentives here are pretty deeply flawed. These giant online marketplaces make it really easy for sellers to have almost no skin in the game.
dzaima 3y ago
..would you be fine with forcibly having to do a new job that you have absolutely no desire to do? And these are most likely cheap crappy things, never mind ones that got returned, so worse than the regular amount of crappy, so it could easily just not be worth your time to figure out what to even sell it as, assuming anyone would even want to buy crappy returned things that came from who knows where. And then there's the customs charges, costs if your resold items get returned, and probably some other things, that would likely just guarantee unprofitability. If it was so simple to re-sell returned things with a profit, I'd imagine plenty of companies would already have noticed, and would be providing "please send me your crap" addresses to these sellers who can't be bothered to handle returns, and pay a couple pennies to said sellers or something.

by water9 3y ago

Scoundreller 3y ago

> Nitu said she has lost sleep trying to make the packages stop coming, and so far she's accrued Collect-On-Delivery customs charges from UPS that now exceed $300. > "I refused to pay, and the dispute with UPS is still ongoing," Nitu said. "They're completely unreasonable. I tried to explain the situation and they were not nice, let's put it that way." Every Canadian hates it when someone sends them a UPS ground package internationally without taxes/duties prepaid.

kwanbix 3y ago
Just reject them. Can't you?
- bell-cot 3y ago
  You're actually standing on your doorstep 24x7, to make sure no delivery people just leave packages?
  - kwanbix 3y ago
    Well, I work from home myself, so most of the time I can.

dwroberts 3y ago

Nowhere does it say anyone is profiting. Unscrupulous sellers are disposing of items they don’t want by sending them to a random address so they can avoid (more expensive) fees for them returning to their origin

water9 3y ago
Why not just use a dumpster and/or fire? Why would you dispose of inventory as a seller? That's not how stores work
- CSMastermind 3y ago
  Because the seller is in China and they're already paying to have the product shipped to the US so they can sell it on amazon.com If the product doesn't sell they don't want to continue paying fees to store the inventory in Amazon's warehouses and they don't want to pay the fees to have it shipped back to China so they put a random address in and tell Amazon to return the unsold product to there.
  - water9 3y ago
    And so the poor American can’t deal with the surplus of items that another person in China is literally selling to pay the bills to LivE. oh the humanity that poor woman receiving all that free merchandise that she could return get off her lazy ass and sell like the person in China for money. Oh wait, she’s privileged. She lives in America. She doesn’t need it. Why does she just complain about it online then
    - erik_seaberg 3y ago
      She didn’t make or test these and can’t stand behind their quality.
- btilly 3y ago
  This isn't stores. This is people buying stuff off of Amazon, and returning it in the mail. The vendor doesn't have an address in North America, and shipping it to a dumpster is harder than a random stranger. So they just have returns go to a random stranger.
- sethhochberg 3y ago
  The sellers don’t always hold their own inventory, or even have space to. They might not even be in the same country where they’re selling. They have crates of stuff shipped from the factory directly to Amazon, and from here they presumably can’t simply tell Amazon “throw it all in the dumpster” if it isnt selling well - or maybe Amazon charges them fees for that. It’s now expensive or impossible for them to return it to where it was made, it’s not selling, and they are paying Amazon to store it. So on the short list of bad options for a dropship seller, you make the call that it is cheaper to ship these unwanted things somewhere than to pay for them to sit in storage. The incentives here are pretty deeply flawed. These giant online marketplaces make it really easy for sellers to have almost no skin in the game.

dzaima 3y ago

..would you be fine with forcibly having to do a new job that you have absolutely no desire to do? And these are most likely cheap crappy things, never mind ones that got returned, so worse than the regular amount of crappy, so it could easily just not be worth your time to figure out what to even sell it as, assuming anyone would even want to buy crappy returned things that came from who knows where. And then there's the customs charges, costs if your resold items get returned, and probably some other things, that would likely just guarantee unprofitability. If it was so simple to re-sell returned things with a profit, I'd imagine plenty of companies would already have noticed, and would be providing "please send me your crap" addresses to these sellers who can't be bothered to handle returns, and pay a couple pennies to said sellers or something.