It is tempting, but I’m at the point in my life where I’m trying to reduce what I have, not add more junk. I used to love hitting up junk auctions, garage sales and flea markets when I was younger.
The was a recent pop up store here. BINS R US.
They had boxes and bins full of Amazon returns and misdelivereds.
It was fun to dig around in. My favorite was 1 cent books. Of course they were mostly Russian language. But there were a few treasures.
It’s an obstacle. It’s to prevent everybody from just claiming something is wrong with every purchase so they can get the refund.
By demanding that customers actually return the item, dishonest folks are dissuaded from being as dishonest as they otherwise would be.
Sure but Amazon gets pennies for the stuff they sell by the pallet.
It is if the small business seller is an “Amazon Seller” - a 3rd party that uses the Amazon platform to sell their stuff. If the seller is an “Amazon Vendor” - a place that sells their product outright to Amazon and then you buy direct from Amazon (often stocked in their warehouse), then the Amazon Vendor has already been charged upfront for potential losses. The company I worked for in 2016 was charged 20% off every purchase order for each distribution center truckful they bought from us. Didn’t matter if the loss was due to a return, or Amazon selling out-of-date product because they didn’t rotate their stock - they already received their lucre.
Yeah, I doubt if there’s any person looking at the details of what was ordered to say “We don’t need this $50 halloween costume returned but we do want this $50 dress returned”. It’s going to be based on price or random or most likely, some combination.
Amazon is generous with their return policy. But there are things they require you to return.
I found food items, personal use items they are quick to say toss it.
I recently ordered a glass honey dipper. I know, I know bad idea. Well it came broken twice. The third time they refunded me and sent me a new one. Came unbroken. It only lasted 3 days here. Dropped and broken in 3 pieces.
Yeah..dumb idea. Altogether.
I think it is unethical without an actual issue, which might indeed sometimes arise. Cue Seinfeld talking about the poor quality of Superman mask strings.