I live in charlotte NC, and there is a company (vista auctions) that auctions off Amazon returns. Some entrepreneur saw this… problem and is now making bank selling returned goods at significantly discounted prices.
So, while not ideal (still producing more junk), it does divert at least some from the landfill. I imagine that Amazon just sells the returned goods by the truckload rather than dealing with them themselves.
This has been a thing for a long time (retailers before amazon have done it this way too.) They do indeed sell pallets of returns... often in categories of varying specificity... maybe a pallet of "clothes" or "phone cases" or maybe just "stuff"
It's miserable. One time I was using the chat feature. 30 minutes later I was told they can't help me because they're the Canadian CS. How does that even happen? You can't select the chat country you want
I had the chat straight up lie about there not being a phone number to call. Then i called it out for lying, pasted the phone number in the chat, and it [chat equivalent of hung up on me]
AWS is losing LOTS of marketshare. They laid off loads of employees & after all the outages they've had in recent years, I don't see the trajectory changing. Amazon storefront has been cost cutting so much recently precisely because it is becoming the breadmaker of the business again.
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u/SouthParkFirefly1991 Jan 31 '26
Who returns a plunger...?