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Re:What Happens to All the Stuff We Return? by Shounak on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @02:34PM (#37151613)
If anyone is in the NYC area there's a huge store called Bingers Bargain Bins that stocks returns and overstocked items from Amazon and other retailers. They have a cool model: on Fridays inventory gets restocked and all items are $7, and the price goes down by $1 each day until everything is $1 on Tuesdays (store is closed Wed & Thu).

https://www.insider.com/new-york-city-store-sells-overstock-...

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Re:What Happens to All the Stuff We Return? by at-fates-hands on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @02:55PM (#37151898)
They did a show on this place on the Travel Channel I think.

It was pretty cool because the people who run it are pretty smart. Every day they change the locations of items so people can't monopolize certain items and it forces people to actually dig to find stuff.

I've also seen several online places who will sell you Amazon returns by the pallet. You can choose a broad, general category like "electronics" and most of the time you have no idea what you're getting since they wrap all the stuff up.

There's Youtube channels of people who buy this stuff, bring it to their warehouse, then unpack it and sort it and then they sell most of it on CL, Ebay or other marketplaces.

The secondary market for a lot of this stuff is still very active.

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Re:What Happens to All the Stuff We Return? by moduspol on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @03:40PM (#37152536)
Yes. One just opened in the Pittsburgh area, too.

https://www.yinzbinz.com

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Re:What Happens to All the Stuff We Return? by YeBanKo on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @06:33PM (#37154782)
How does one buy a bull return from Amazon or likes?
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Re:What Happens to All the Stuff We Return? by Gunnerhead on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:51AM (#37157744)
Google Maps states it’s permanently closed. Do you know if that’s actually the case?
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