A user buys about $100 worth of Amazon returns, totaling 25 kilos. In the end, he gets lucky and receives valuable RAM. Such finds, however, are very rare, explained an expert who specializes in returns at that time.
The English-language magazine WCCFTech reports that a user bought Amazon returns. For 25 kilos, he paid about $100, which is about 80 euros. Such returns are usually boxes with unspecified contents and are often sold online as mystery boxes. In most cases, these boxes contain junk or at least worthless stuff.
In this case, the buyer got lucky: Instead of junk, the user found 40 DDR5 RAM sticks in the return. However, the chance of such a lucky hit is very low. This was also explained by an expert who specializes in buying returns.
Return pallets are hardly ever worthwhile, explains an expert
The German magazine Stern previously explained that Ralf Hastedt, managing director of Avides, a company that has been working with Amazon in returns business for over 20 years, that most of these return boxes contain junk. It is very unlikely that one would find valuable items here, as Amazon filters out valuable products before:
This is 99.9 percent fraud. You will never find an iPhone, a Playstation, or similar goods in such boxes that Amazon can easily resell as returns on its own.
And Amazon often sells such returns directly again, and through its label Amazon Retourenkauf: Here you get a few percent discount on items that have gone back to Amazon.
Moreover, such large returns are usually only sold to businesses. That is to people who resell such items commercially. Sales to private individuals are generally not intended.
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