There would be no extra cost to Amazon and likely even cheaper since they don't need to truck it to landfill and pay tipping fees.ĭisagee with "no extra cost to Amazon". They could just tell the bin stores to "come and get it" from their warehouse charging them some small fixed amount, e.g. Part of the reason I like AWD, and this thread, is that it might offset some things getting dumped, plus it saves me money! Some of that is on us to buy less crap from Amazon. Too bad big corporations don't have to care. I definitely agree that the environment should be a concern. Which then means many of these items could still end up in the dump, albeit not directly through Amazon's hands but because of third-party buyers. It also offsets Amazon's responsibility to properly handle some returns since it's been legally sold. They could do that, some might come running in hopes of a deal. "intimate apparel," opened food or perishable containers, etc.īTW my concern isn't for Amazon's bottom line it's for the environment. There would be no extra cost to Amazon and likely even cheaper since they don't need to truck it to landfill and pay tipping fees. They could just tell the bin stores to "come and get it" from their warehouse for some small fixed amount, e.g. They might start whittling it down once one becomes less profitable. Amazon probably has multiple ways of dealing with tons and tons of returns, so they just utilize them all. I suspect that the overflow goes to the bin stores as well. Warehouse sales are supposed to be where the name brand returns go to but even then the volume may be too large to process (some industry reports say as much as 1/4 of products sold online are returned.). I suspect that most of this 3rd party stuff goes to bin stores as Amazon's own warehouse sales system just can't handle some of the volume and many of these vendors don't want to see similar/same/different branded discounted merchandise on Amazon as that would deflate their sales. As such, many 3rd party vendors elect to have Amazon get rid of the stuff for them rather than paying the crazy fees for dated inventory. We know that they charge 3rd party vendors a fee to process returns and they charge them if the inventory doesn't move fast enough through the warehousing system. The problem is Amazon doesn't know which way to go especially when the volumes become large.
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