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> buying Levis from Amazon (or any other store), pick up at least a couple of pairs in the same size. At least for Amazon, keep in mind that they’re likely not

> buying Levis from Amazon (or any other store), pick up at least a couple of pairs in the same size. At least for Amazon, keep in mind that they’re likely not put back into normal circulation if you return them so you’re creating waste where there doesn’t have to be.

rurp 2y ago
I'm skeptical of this. Used sales are a thing, plus I've gotten "new" products that had definitely been previously opened. Throwing away returned products seems to go against the ethos of squeezing every drop of profit out of things.
- barbazoo 2y ago
  You're right it will make its way to to a consumer one way or another, even if it's the raw materials. It's still a lot of "waste" I think.
crazygringo 2y ago
This is not true. You can even see in tons of product listings where you can buy from "Amazon Resale". The prices are cheaper because they were returned from customers and are missing packaging, tags, etc. Amazon absolutely resells returned items when possible. And if it's not through Amazon Resale, it's by reselling them in bulk lots to people who then make money listing the items on eBay. Yes some of the absolute cheapest stuff gets tossed because it's not profitable to resell. But in many cases you're not even asked to return -- just keep it and get refunded. (As long as you don't have a history of abusing that.) Levi's are absolutely going to be resold. Amazon is a business. They're not going to eat a loss when they don't have to.
- subscribed 2y ago
  What do you mean by "This is not true"? Amazon routinely destroy returned items, see the investigation for yourself: https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millio... > Undercover filming from inside Amazon's Dunfermline warehouse reveals the sheer scale of the waste: Smart TVs, laptops, drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones, computer drives, books galore, thousands of sealed face masks – all sorted into boxes marked “destroy”. And you think they'll keep a pair of shoddy trousers? I'm sorry to disappoint you but that's unlikely...
  - crazygringo 2y ago
    I mean it is not true. And I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the very article you linked to clearly states it has nothing to do with returns. Rather: > Many vendors choose to house their products in Amazon’s vast warehouses. But the longer the goods remain unsold, the more a company is charged to store them. It is eventually cheaper to dispose of the goods, especially stock from overseas, than to continue storing the stock. It is about vendors who remove their merchandise from stock because nobody will buy it. And what are you talking about "shoddy trousers"? It's a pair of Levi's. Why wouldn't they resell them? They already sell them in the first place. It's profit. Amazon isn't exactly in the business of not making profit.

rurp 2y ago

I'm skeptical of this. Used sales are a thing, plus I've gotten "new" products that had definitely been previously opened. Throwing away returned products seems to go against the ethos of squeezing every drop of profit out of things.

barbazoo 2y ago
You're right it will make its way to to a consumer one way or another, even if it's the raw materials. It's still a lot of "waste" I think.

crazygringo 2y ago

This is not true. You can even see in tons of product listings where you can buy from "Amazon Resale". The prices are cheaper because they were returned from customers and are missing packaging, tags, etc. Amazon absolutely resells returned items when possible. And if it's not through Amazon Resale, it's by reselling them in bulk lots to people who then make money listing the items on eBay. Yes some of the absolute cheapest stuff gets tossed because it's not profitable to resell. But in many cases you're not even asked to return -- just keep it and get refunded. (As long as you don't have a history of abusing that.) Levi's are absolutely going to be resold. Amazon is a business. They're not going to eat a loss when they don't have to.

subscribed 2y ago
What do you mean by "This is not true"? Amazon routinely destroy returned items, see the investigation for yourself: https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millio... > Undercover filming from inside Amazon's Dunfermline warehouse reveals the sheer scale of the waste: Smart TVs, laptops, drones, hairdryers, top of the range headphones, computer drives, books galore, thousands of sealed face masks – all sorted into boxes marked “destroy”. And you think they'll keep a pair of shoddy trousers? I'm sorry to disappoint you but that's unlikely...
- crazygringo 2y ago
  I mean it is not true. And I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the very article you linked to clearly states it has nothing to do with returns. Rather: > Many vendors choose to house their products in Amazon’s vast warehouses. But the longer the goods remain unsold, the more a company is charged to store them. It is eventually cheaper to dispose of the goods, especially stock from overseas, than to continue storing the stock. It is about vendors who remove their merchandise from stock because nobody will buy it. And what are you talking about "shoddy trousers"? It's a pair of Levi's. Why wouldn't they resell them? They already sell them in the first place. It's profit. Amazon isn't exactly in the business of not making profit.