Indeed. Rather than deal with it, there will just be some shell company in non EU they can export to and have it destroyed there...

Though that will obviously incur a larger cost than today.

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sajithdilshan 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Transportation would be costly, but it could be that in whole it would be much cheaper than discarding them in let’s say in Germany. I can imagine the price to destroy 1kg of clothes in Serbia way less than in Germany

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b112 8 hours ago | parent [-]

What typically happens is that people buy up these clothes in massive auction/lots, then just sell them on Amazon. As Amazon joins all listings together, 100 sellers of the same item all have the same reviews/etc.

So some slightly damaged shirt, or a shirt returned and such, ends up sold by these secondary sellers as new. This is part of why people destroy clothes upon return, so that secondary sellers can't buy their own returned product at $1, and sell it making more than the original seller would have.

Not to mention, all returns I've been noticing, resold from Amazon, are heavily treated now with some sort of spray. I can only presume bedbugs were getting returned with used clothing...

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sajithdilshan 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t think m that’s happening in EU. Most of the clothes I see on Amazon are the same as I find on Temu. Only the prices are higher on Amazon

	▲	b112 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure what you mean. Temu has nothing to do with this. * people buy something on Amazon, return it due to defect or just don't like it * product is currently sold in lots via auction by Amazon via bids, wholesale (not on amazon.com, but via other channels) * 3rd parties buy the lots, sort, and re-package and sell on Amazon As Amazon joins all listings for "shirt brand $x colour $y" into one product listing, this means that the original seller of the shirt, even the brand owner, now is competing with its own returns. Not sure how to make this clearer.