![]() The delivery of my pallet justified the shipping cost. My package has arrived-Well, six of them, to be specific. Since I already won the bid, I had to pay for the shipping, which ended up costing $390. This is classic for online shopping - the shipping ended up costing more than the package itself. Shipping the pallet to our office in New York City cost a whopping $220! The other option that wouldn’t require paying for shipping would be to drive to a warehouse in Indiana to pick the pallet up. When I was about to pay, I was shocked by the shipping cost. I ended up getting the pallet which claimed to be worth $1,516 by placing a winning bid of $170, which I believe is still a bargain. On the product detail page, it clearly notes, “Items are not inspected and may or may not be functional.” But surprises remain - since they’re returns, you have no idea about the condition of each item and if they actually function or not. The website provides a list of what products are in the pallet. ![]() Search for the category you want and a list of pallets show up. ![]() Shopping on is similar to shopping on Amazon and eBay. I chose home appliances, which I thought would be easy to resell. My co-worker Alec and I decided to buy our own pallet. “The whole idea here is to increase the profitability for the vendor and at the same time increase the profitability for the reseller.” Buying and receiving the pallet They process every single item on the pallet and then they repalletize to do the sale,” Medina said. We have people who own their own warehouses. “We have people who just buy from us to flip goods. People buy returns that are then delivered in pallets or truckloads for business purposes. “What determines that is the data that we have collected over the years, whether we’re going to profit more or not,” Medina said, adding that it depends on how fast they want to get rid of the inventory, they can set a bid process or fixed price. Platforms like Direct Liquidation do the math and decide what products should be put in the same package and how much they cost. The pallet of Amazon returns we ordered online. “So if you use something for seven days, it has fewer chances of having more wear than if you use it for 30,” Diego Medina, director of Direct Liquidation Sales, told Yahoo Finance. Amazon shoppers can return goods within 30 days while customers at can only do so within 14 days. The longer the retailer’s return period is, the worse the quality the returns may be. Liquidation platforms buy returns from Amazon and repackage things. You can choose the product category, but you can’t decide what products are in a pallet. On those websites, shopping for liquidated returns is similar to shopping for daily items from Amazon- but with a huge discount and orders come in big pallets. Now websites like and Direct Liquidation sell merchandise from major retailers, including Walmart and Amazon. As e-commerce evolves, this liquidation process has also moved online. ![]() Warehouse liquidation has always been how retailers remove inventory. Some online marketplaces allow you to buy Amazon returns online- items are not individually packaged but are bundled in huge pallets based on categories. Turns out there is a multi-million dollar business behind mounting Amazon returns. (Photo: Yahoo Finance) Big business in returns ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Amazon returns has spawned an entire secondary market. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Continue without accepting’ or ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices or learn more. Third parties use cookies for the purposes of displaying and measuring personalised advertisements, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we will also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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