[ThrowawayTestr]

Retailers don't want their excess inventory to be sold at a discount. They'd rather it be destroyed. A small fee to have someone else destroy it is just a business expense. The OP should have put "sell" in scare quotes.

[blitzar]

> A small fee to have someone else destroy

They just write it off, Jerry.

All these big companies, they write off everything.

[Ntrails]

Donate it to some charity which will ship it to Africa for you, so you can get the tax write off, _even better_