What happens to all the returned vinyl to Amazon?

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  1. dkmonroe

    dkmonroe A completely self-taught idiot

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    This is very likely.
     
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  2. benm1976

    benm1976 Well-Known Member

    I just bought Nilsson Schmilsson from Amazon Warehouse Deals because it was significantly less expensive due to a bend in the cover. I paid $18 for it as opposed to paying $27 for a new one that likely would've arrived with a bend in the cover. I don't really mind minor flaws as long as I know what I'm getting up front, but I do feel like I work too hard for my money to pay full price for something that is damaged.
     
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  3. Phil Tate

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    I'm sure HMV used to re-sell returns as "clearance" stock. I bought several cheap LPs from them in the 90s which look scuffed and are quite noisy. Edwyn Collins' Gorgeous George and Dire Straits' On Every Street to name two. I didn't bother returning them as they had no other copies and they were only a couple of £.
     
  4. Technocentral

    Technocentral Forum Resident

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    They are melted down and re printed as copies of "No Jacket Required" for the bargain bins.
     
  5. BurgerKing

    BurgerKing Forum Resident

    Maybe it's like Costco. If you want to do business with Costco, you must agree to accept return of any item at any time for fiull credit. Sounds like a bad deal for a vendor until you consider the huge market that opens up-- which would certainly be true of Amazon as well. Just speculation on my part, no evidence whatsoever
     
  6. The Beave

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  7. OneStepBeyond

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    Let's face it, if I hadn't have put this picture there then it would have got there from someone else. :edthumbs: Cheers, Beave! :tiphat:
     
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  8. Incorrect. Costco uses resellers to buy customer-returned goods that cannot be claimed for refund from manufacturers.
     
  9. Yankeefan01

    Yankeefan01 Forum Resident

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    When I worked for a book distributor many years ago, they use to get the returns and throw them in a big, pallet sized, cardboard bin and send them to be recycled. I would guess some variation of that is what happens with returned vinyl too.
     
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  10. kwadguy

    kwadguy Senior Member

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    I hope your system is not to return vinyl and then rebuy it from Warehouse Deals.

    Amazon tracks that trick, and have blacklisted and closed accounts many times for doing that...
     
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  11. kwadguy

    kwadguy Senior Member

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    And Amazon almost never returns merchandise to retail even if it's unopened--and certainly not if it is opened. They don't reseal/rewrap. In fact the opposite is true and sometimes sealed merch is sold as used.

    It all goes to Warehouse Deals or (sometimes) the schlock channels that Amazon uses to dispose of unsaleable merchandise.
     
  12. Fivebyfive

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    They get made into bowls.

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  13. This would be after they stripped the covers first. All that changed after publishers provided them "affidavit return" privileges and then books needed to be destroyed on premise.
     
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  14. PlushFieldHarpy

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    I've bought extremely discounted vinyl that had slight defects that I suspected had been resealed/resold. I don't mind, I'll take a $10 album with a slight warp or surface noise that's still playable. With new vinyl so expensive, I imagine they get a lot of returns that are otherwise perfectly fine except that people pay $40 they expect it to be perfect.
     
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  15. BurgerKing

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    That's at odds with the Costco doc I saw a couple years ago, but whatever
     
  16. Perhaps it's different in the U.S., but I know in Canada this is what happens at Costco. I worked there for 15 years and dealt with it.
     
  17. As nonsensical as it seems I've been told that is exactly what they do. Lose 100%. It makes me very annoyed to think that the useless manufacturers never get to know about all their poor product let alone have to deal with it when it's returned.
     
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  18. BurgerKing

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    You got me curious, so I checked with a woman I know who worked returns up until a year or so ago. She says the resellers take the merchandise that Costco no longer carries, but that the vendors currently in stock are obligated to accept returns for credit. Sounds right, since Costco would have a tough time making it on a 15% markup with the enormous volume of returns they see. I can't believe the stuff people in line are bringing back
     
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  19. BurgerKing

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    I got a GZ like that once ;)
     
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  20. Graham

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    Wouldn't the soup just pour through the middle?!
     
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    I imagine they have a secondary market to funnel these, and other returned items. Anyway, Amazon is absolutely in the right as far as banning users for excessive returns. It's ridiculous.
     
  23. Man at C&A

    Man at C&A Senior Member

    Location:
    England
    Record bowls. Pure evil.
     
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  24. rstamberg

    rstamberg Senior Member

    Location:
    Riverside, CT
    I seriously doubt Amazon re-seals anything.

    My guess is they eat them. Not literally, of course.
     
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  25. JRD

    JRD Forum Resident

    Location:
    England
    They are played for a team of anti-audiophiles on a Crosley turntable in the Papua New Guinea rainforests.
     
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