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Who is going to get you in trouble for this. The “warehouse police” don’t exist.

NotYourLawyer 2y ago
The warehouse lady has a boss presumably. And the boss might be annoyed at the diminution of value for the items going to auction.
- lostapathy 2y ago
  Warehouse lady might also have added value by turning 5 pallets of low-value junk into one pallet of slightly more value plus 4 pallets of low-value junk. If pallets normally bring say $100 each but by letting the stroller lady consolidate the strollers into one pallet that she'll pay $250 for, everybody won.
  - jorts 2y ago
    Except for all of the customers who ended up with less valuable pallets assuming they expected more quality items to be there. If they knew exactly what quality they were getting and paid less then I agree it’s a win for all.
    - lostapathy 2y ago
      If you're just buying pallets of random returns, removing one category of items from that random pallet may not even devalue the pallet for that customer either. Heck, it might even make the pallets more valuable to have less variety in them (after all, the stroller-only pallets became more valuable when they are stroller-only).
      - hattmall 2y ago
        Cherry picking pallets is a big deal and all the warehouses try to say they don't, but everyone does it. The only one I went to that was legit, had people line up outside when a truck arrived and everyone bid on the pallets as they were coming off the truck. Not surprisingly the value I got out of those pallets was 10-20x more than from other pallet warehouses. All of the other places are cherry picking and reorganizing pallets to elicit higher bids and tend to run their own parallel retail / resale operations. It's probably necessary though because the guy selling directly off the truck went out of business last year.
  - NotYourLawyer 2y ago
    Except next month and every month after, no one buys the pallets.
    - lostapathy 2y ago
      I maintain those pallets might be more valuable to other sellers with other stuff instead of strollers. If I'm running a business selling small stuff in flat rate postal boxes, and I don't want to deal with being a stroller mechanic, having broken strollers out of my pallets (and having other stuff instead) is actually a positive for me.
mike_d 2y ago
The deals with these warehouses generally forbid it, and there are in fact investigators working on supply chain compliance (warehouse police). There is a line out the door for these mixed pallets, and if you are caught fucking around they will sell to someone else. If you want pallets of baby strollers, or even a specific model/type of stroller, for refurbishing or whatever - the retailers want you to go direct to them. They'll happily sell direct to you, but you need to buy a truckload or more at a time.
- salawat 2y ago
  >and there are in fact investigators working on supply chain compliance (warehouse police). So much for right of First Sale I suppose. Or has licensing so pervasively invaded our economic system that there isn't even the pretense of an equitable position in mercantile activity anymore? Honestly, the further I dig into modern colloquial business practice, the more and more it appears everything is predicated on bad faith from the supply side from the start.
  - mike_d 2y ago
    Right of first sale still applies. Nothing obligates a company to continue selling you goods if they don't want to.
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multjoy 2y ago
Bribery offences do.
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The warehouse lady has a boss presumably. And the boss might be annoyed at the diminution of value for the items going to auction.

lostapathy 2y ago
Warehouse lady might also have added value by turning 5 pallets of low-value junk into one pallet of slightly more value plus 4 pallets of low-value junk. If pallets normally bring say $100 each but by letting the stroller lady consolidate the strollers into one pallet that she'll pay $250 for, everybody won.
- jorts 2y ago
  Except for all of the customers who ended up with less valuable pallets assuming they expected more quality items to be there. If they knew exactly what quality they were getting and paid less then I agree it’s a win for all.
  - lostapathy 2y ago
    If you're just buying pallets of random returns, removing one category of items from that random pallet may not even devalue the pallet for that customer either. Heck, it might even make the pallets more valuable to have less variety in them (after all, the stroller-only pallets became more valuable when they are stroller-only).
    - hattmall 2y ago
      Cherry picking pallets is a big deal and all the warehouses try to say they don't, but everyone does it. The only one I went to that was legit, had people line up outside when a truck arrived and everyone bid on the pallets as they were coming off the truck. Not surprisingly the value I got out of those pallets was 10-20x more than from other pallet warehouses. All of the other places are cherry picking and reorganizing pallets to elicit higher bids and tend to run their own parallel retail / resale operations. It's probably necessary though because the guy selling directly off the truck went out of business last year.
- NotYourLawyer 2y ago
  Except next month and every month after, no one buys the pallets.
  - lostapathy 2y ago
    I maintain those pallets might be more valuable to other sellers with other stuff instead of strollers. If I'm running a business selling small stuff in flat rate postal boxes, and I don't want to deal with being a stroller mechanic, having broken strollers out of my pallets (and having other stuff instead) is actually a positive for me.

mike_d 2y ago

The deals with these warehouses generally forbid it, and there are in fact investigators working on supply chain compliance (warehouse police). There is a line out the door for these mixed pallets, and if you are caught fucking around they will sell to someone else. If you want pallets of baby strollers, or even a specific model/type of stroller, for refurbishing or whatever - the retailers want you to go direct to them. They'll happily sell direct to you, but you need to buy a truckload or more at a time.

salawat 2y ago
>and there are in fact investigators working on supply chain compliance (warehouse police). So much for right of First Sale I suppose. Or has licensing so pervasively invaded our economic system that there isn't even the pretense of an equitable position in mercantile activity anymore? Honestly, the further I dig into modern colloquial business practice, the more and more it appears everything is predicated on bad faith from the supply side from the start.
- mike_d 2y ago
  Right of first sale still applies. Nothing obligates a company to continue selling you goods if they don't want to.

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multjoy 2y ago

Bribery offences do.

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