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User Buys $100 Worth Of Amazon Return Pallets, Receives 40 DDR5 RAM Sticks Worth $7000 (wccftech.com)
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Redditor Hits the "Jackpot" As the Amazon Return Pallets Gave Him a Surprise of 40x 16 GB DDR5 RAM Sticks for Just $100

We hope this doesn’t convince you to waste your money on Amazon return pallets, but this story might tempt some to try their luck. While we have been posting reports of users getting free hardware worth hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars, this is one of the craziest stories so far. The user u/Apprehensive-Dig2898 posted that he "Hit the jackpot with Amazon return pallets".

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 33 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Huh?

Return pallets have been a thing, they're always $100 and usually include $10 of the same plastic junk.

When someone actually hits like this, it's a one in a billion chance and that's why it always makes the news cycles. Which causes everyone to buy one.

Amazon isn't losing money on these, and there's a good chance they intentionally let boxes like this go out only when they're not selling enough pallets.

Meaning the absolute worst time to try it is now. And it's never really a good idea.

You're better off buying an actual lotto ticket, at least that's easy to throw away when you lose.

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 25 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Return pallets sound like an absolute con.

Basically Amazon disposing of their unwanted trash (which they would normally have to pay to get rid of) by giving it to members of the public to dispose of instead.

And somehow convincing those people they should pay for the privilege.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

Yep, Amazon is already paid, it's stuff the seller values so little that when it's returned by a buyer instead of paying a small restock or shipping fee, they leave it unclaimed.

The absolute only way this could happen organically is one buyer ordered all that RAM, and for some reason returned it. Then the seller's only logical reason for not paying a restocking fee or even shipping to get product back, is the seller went out of business.

Sure, it might happen once or twice, ever. But after that, you still have to be the one that randomly gets that pallet.

It's not just buying a winning lotto ticket.

It's someone else finding a lotto ticket for a drawing that's already happened, and buying it for an insane markup even though it's almost guaranteed to not be the winning numbers. Hell, more like you're the third person to buy it after someone found it.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 14 hours ago

It's not directly a con. It's actual returns, and god damn they get a lot. Whether it's worth it to try and get a net profit of anything is another thing. It can happen, but it's probably low.

Also, a great Climate Town on the very subject.