here in the US they sell pallet loads of unsold stuff for $1000 and up depending on what's on itthere are lots of videos of people unpacking pallets showing what they got
P.S. Ignore the trash on the dailymail side bar. LOL!
Seems like it would make more sense to drop-ship from the manufacturer. Then they would only make approximately what they need.
Ping!
It makes sense for Amazon. If they gave away the items that didn’t sell, very soon they would have no customers. Amazon is in the business of selling goods, not storing goods.
Skips are dumpsters.
Can’t even donate new toys to charity.
Just Damn.
They could give TVs and such to schools, veterans, women’s shelters, homeless shelters, youth centers, etc.
Amazon normally puts unsold or returned goods on pallets which are auctioned. I’ve read articles on this.
https://www.directliquidation.com/liquidation-102/buy-amazon-customer-returns-pallets-online/
I would say one thing about the “Daily Mail:” it’s lower on the food chain than just about any paper in the UK. Sensationalized coverage and outright lies are not considered to be sins, far from it.
What reason would there be that they could not sell a television or toys new in packaging? Clearly this story is leaving out critical information making the story BS.
I took a nappie once.
Ah the British
Nappies = Diapers
Bonnet = hood
Mouth = gob
Good thing we speak the same language
here in the US they sell pallet loads of unsold stuff for $1000 and up depending on what's on itthere are lots of videos of people unpacking pallets showing what they got
I recently got a refund from Amazon and they told me not to bother returning the item. It was an unusual item and I’m now guessing they didn’t want it taking up space in their warehouse.
The Daily Mail does some interesting stories but the web site is so annoying with pop up videos and crap that I no longer go there unless the story looks especially pertinent.
I have to spend a lot of time on the net researching product catalogs from my vendors, who have all gone to multiple non stop and un-pausable slide shows / carousels which are horribly distracting and of no value. I’m getting to where I hate the internet and am using only largely graphic free or static graphics sites such as Free Republic in my personal surfing.
Why is it companies and (some) web designers think that they can sell more products by annoying their customers? I told one supplier that unless they cleaned up their web site, I would no longer push their products to my customers because it was too annoying to spend any time on. I can usually get the same or similar products from multiple suppliers. Piss me off, I go somewhere else. Like they care - tone deaf marketing morons. Corporate America is incredibly dense.
Interesting factoid:
Front page slideshows have a less than 1% click through rate. And nearly all of those click throughs are only on the first slide. The rest of the frames get a click through rate of maybe .05%. Pretty ineffective marketing. I had a web marketing design person tell me they suggest their clients NOT to use automated slide shows and pop up videos and most of the clients still insist on it.
That’s what everybody does with unsold inventory.
Trying to find a problem with this..... can’t.
I mean, someone could see this problem and step in and say they will be glad to remove these items for free or for less than it cost Amazon to dump them, them donate them around the world to starving countries or something. Or? We get rid of junk that isn’t working in our homes, and companies dump or destroy things all the time. Maybe there is some island somewhere wearing LA Rams 2019 Super Bowl Champs sweatshirts.
It would seem like they could offer them at deep discounts instead of trashing them- or sell them to smaller businesses who would offer them at deep discounts- at the very least-
To the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump!
Damn, America ain’t the place it used to be if a good bit of this stuff isn’t finding it’s wa to market...
Go to a Wal-Mart returns center - same thing - containers of merchandise that can be resold is sent to the crusher.
I’m an Amazon FBA resellor, so here is what I have to add. Once we send stuff into the warehouse, we have a limited time to sell it before the storage fees eat up all of the profit. Fees are cheaper Jan-Sept and are triple Oct-Dec. Plus there are extra storage fees after 1 year, it used to be 6 months. So at some point if the product doesn’t sell and you will need to cut your losses. Amazon has a disposal fee, for 15 cents an item, they will trash it for you. Otherwise, you will need to spend 50 cents for it to be sent back to you. Depending on your product, 15 cents is a lot better than 50 cents.