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I thought this story was about this house x-) "Neighbors in Tennessee city worry as Amazon packages pile up outside home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQj

by caffed 5y ago

I thought this story was about this house x-) "Neighbors in Tennessee city worry as Amazon packages pile up outside home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQjEB2sxBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQjEB2sxBw

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adventured 5y ago
When a residential house becomes a review farm.
- jaxx 5y ago
  when the house is becoming an amazon warehouse. This is crazy, i can't believe what the home owners thought of so many many boxes coming there.
  - hallway_monitor 5y ago
    There was a similar story on my local news as well. Someone's front yard filled with hundreds of packages.
- oldsecondhand 5y ago
  More like dropshipping gone wrong.
ethbr0 5y ago
I don't even understand what's going on with this one. Transcribing the blurb from the clip, from interviewing the residents of the house: "[The people who live in the house] have a friend who has a contract with an Amazon warehouse in China. They say whenever that friend's contract expires, she will send the packages to their house for the family to sort and then send back to Amazon for the company to sell."
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- adanto6840 5y ago
  Right? I seriously cannot come up with any scenario where this might make sense, not even anything remotely plausible. And they're "storing" the packages, all sorts of different shapes/sizes, out in the elements?! What the heck? My curiosity is running wild & unsatisfied. =D
  - kymaz 5y ago
    For some replacement computer parts and other such items shipped via FedEx to a certain remote location, all packages came with a coating of dust. Like wash your hands after receiving harddrive box, and then wash again after cutting the box open to keep the anti static bag clean. I guess if a shipping company can get away with it they will? Roofs and floors cost money.
- flotwig 5y ago
  Yeah, I noticed that too, someone's getting scammed.
- krasin 5y ago
  From what I understand, it's a play around the Amazon Inventory Storage fees ([1], [2]), which normally are $0.75 per cubic foot monthly, but grow to $6.90 per cubic foot, if stored for more than a year and not sold. It's possible to ask Amazon to remove selected items from their warehouse and send to any US address for a somewhat reasonable fee of around $0.32/item ([3]). What happens here is the Chinese sellers send packages to the residents of the house, and then relist items under a different account, so that the counter is reset and the Amazon storage fees are low again. That said, the residents of the house run a subpar operation. 1. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G3EDYEF6KUCFQTNM https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G3EDYEF6KU... 2. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?itemID=JQNPA23YWVA4SBD&language=en_US&ref=efph_JQNPA23YWVA4SBD_relt_G3EDYEF6KUCFQTNM https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?... 3. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?itemID=9W7FVTLY343ZBKN&language=en_US&ref=efph_9W7FVTLY343ZBKN_relt_5FKTA8LXU4TZPD5 https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...

by caffed 5y ago

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adventured 5y ago

When a residential house becomes a review farm.

jaxx 5y ago
when the house is becoming an amazon warehouse. This is crazy, i can't believe what the home owners thought of so many many boxes coming there.
- hallway_monitor 5y ago
  There was a similar story on my local news as well. Someone's front yard filled with hundreds of packages.
oldsecondhand 5y ago
More like dropshipping gone wrong.

ethbr0 5y ago

I don't even understand what's going on with this one. Transcribing the blurb from the clip, from interviewing the residents of the house: "[The people who live in the house] have a friend who has a contract with an Amazon warehouse in China. They say whenever that friend's contract expires, she will send the packages to their house for the family to sort and then send back to Amazon for the company to sell."

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adanto6840 5y ago
Right? I seriously cannot come up with any scenario where this might make sense, not even anything remotely plausible. And they're "storing" the packages, all sorts of different shapes/sizes, out in the elements?! What the heck? My curiosity is running wild & unsatisfied. =D
- kymaz 5y ago
  For some replacement computer parts and other such items shipped via FedEx to a certain remote location, all packages came with a coating of dust. Like wash your hands after receiving harddrive box, and then wash again after cutting the box open to keep the anti static bag clean. I guess if a shipping company can get away with it they will? Roofs and floors cost money.
flotwig 5y ago
Yeah, I noticed that too, someone's getting scammed.
krasin 5y ago
From what I understand, it's a play around the Amazon Inventory Storage fees ([1], [2]), which normally are $0.75 per cubic foot monthly, but grow to $6.90 per cubic foot, if stored for more than a year and not sold. It's possible to ask Amazon to remove selected items from their warehouse and send to any US address for a somewhat reasonable fee of around $0.32/item ([3]). What happens here is the Chinese sellers send packages to the residents of the house, and then relist items under a different account, so that the counter is reset and the Amazon storage fees are low again. That said, the residents of the house run a subpar operation. 1. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G3EDYEF6KUCFQTNM https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G3EDYEF6KU... 2. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?itemID=JQNPA23YWVA4SBD&language=en_US&ref=efph_JQNPA23YWVA4SBD_relt_G3EDYEF6KUCFQTNM https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?... 3. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?itemID=9W7FVTLY343ZBKN&language=en_US&ref=efph_9W7FVTLY343ZBKN_relt_5FKTA8LXU4TZPD5 https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...