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by ethbr0 1655 days 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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krasin 1655 days 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/G3EDYEF6KU...

2. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...

3. https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...

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ethbr0 1654 days ago
That would pretty much explain it. Thanks for taking the time to link it together. Suppose this is a situation of "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
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adanto6840 1655 days 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
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kymaz 1655 days 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.
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flotwig 1655 days ago
Yeah, I noticed that too, someone's getting scammed.
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