Galena hopped inside a package full of products they were returning to Amazon.
How much are they returning that they could lose a cat amongst it all?
Do they think that Amazon is a rental service?
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2024
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There are Amazon products intended to be sent back, like try before you buy. Or half the cheap junk you end up with instead of what you actually ordered.
Even a standard shoe company expects at least half the pairs to be returned, it’s just part of how online shopping for something that needs to fit works.
(I’m not supporting the model, is wasteful af, just saying, they could just be doing normal rural shopping.)
My understanding is that Amazon doesn't vet their returns and simply take it as a loss. There is a secondary industry where people can buy pallets of returned items, kind of like storage wars.
I wish Amazon would actually return items to stock if the items are in good condition but they chose not to.
Story time.
I bought a Dewalt thickness planer off of Amazon. For those unfamiliar, this is a 90-pound, $700 power tool, you put a board in and it shaves it thinner and maybe also flatter and straighter.
It arrives in its retail box closed with packing tape, pretty typical. I unpack the tool, find a few things the manual instructs you to attach are already attached. I open up the top cover, and there are a few wood chips inside the planer. Huh.
Go to fire the thing up, it turns on, feed in a test board, the infeed roller grabs it, it starts planing, it gets about to the outfeed roller and stops HARD. I still don't know if it was the carriage alignment, or a problem with the outfeed rollers or what, but it WOULD NOT feed a board through. What I had on my hand was a $700 sniping machine.
I call DeWalt first, and they say "Well you can send it to us for repair, it is under warranty, but you will have to pay to ship it and it will be a few weeks. It's probably faster to return it to Amazon in exchange for a new one." Which is ultimately what I did.
The second planer that arrived showed up in a similar retail box that was shrink wrapped. The former was bare cardboard taped shut, remember.
I'm pretty convinced I was shipped a defective returned unit.
They resell returned items as a Warehouse item.
Amazon doesn't vet their returns
I don't know where to start first to make puns about that. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader.
I've bought some Amazon returns at auction and it was about 50/50 for usable items and completely worthless (broken air fryer with food in it) junk. I've also both things from Amazon that we're obviously returns - torn packaging, parts missing, etc.
Don't judge. Some of us have a stack of arriving boxes and another stack of returning boxes.
Well that comment about "try before you buy" makes it seem a bit more reasonable!
An employee of the return center opened the box and to her surprise, found Galena safe and sound.
The employee could have had a worse day...
Ok... I have a serious question. Why is there an XKCD for the weirdest possible reality?
answer:
‘cuz
For a week the cat was in both locations but also neither.
I already practice extreme paranoia with my furballs due to one of them sneaking into the reusable shopping bags and making it almost all the way to the car before I noticed my 8 year old seemed to be having trouble with what should have been empty bags.
New fear unlocked
I'm always worried one of my cats may find the laundry machine barrel open and decided to take a nap in it... before I mindlessly stuff it with clothes and turn it on for a 4-hour cycle.
🎶 And the cat came back, the very next day! Oh the cat came back! They thought he was a goner! 🎶
They failed the parenting test.
I thought cats are usually shipped to Abu Dhabi
Cat-man-do
Only if they have a name like Nermal.
without her and her family’s knowledge, Galena hopped inside a package full of products they were returning to Amazon.
I wonder if someone in the family is "surprised" and "relieved" on the outside but very disappointed on the inside that their plan to get rid of the cat got foiled.
Right!? Like I'm sorry there's no fucking way this was not intentional. So we are expected to believe this cat just stayed perfectly quiet and motionless while the box is getting taped up? Bet the cat was drugged and shipped. This is some Dennis Reynolds level fucked up shenanigans.
Poor kitty
Looks like somebody finally figured out what Schroedinger couldn't