Amazon May Have Sold You Products From An Actual Dumpster

Mistreating workers, not paying taxes, selling trash… and passing the savings on to you!

It seems Amazon is under fire yet again, this time for the actions of a few of their third-party sellers who have been, well, selling you trash. And no, we don’t mean inferior junk like Trump Vodka, we mean literal trash. Like from a dumpster.

According to a new investigative report in The Wall Street Journal, multiple sellers admitted to the outlet to having acquired their products by dumpster diving.

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A seller named Jesse Durfee said he sells toys and video games he finds in his town dump. Another seller named David Gracy told reporters he sold humidifiers and keyboards he got from a dumpster. As Gracy put it:

“Amazon’s not going to ask, ‘Where’d you get it from? Did you get it from a dumpster?'”

A seller named Wade Coggins told the Journal he purchases some of his items from clearance sections of stores but also gets things from abandoned storage units and, yes, from dumpsters. He then repackages the items in cardboard boxes because products sold on Amazon are supposed to “look brand new.”

Are they though? Is everything really supposed to look brand new?

Secondhand items are all over Amazon’s third-party seller stores, everything from vintage vinyl LPs to used golf balls to collections of baseball cards.

It’s not like those things could be brand new. But that’s a far cry from items actually coming from out of the trash…

WSJ combed through thousands of comments on products from the past two years to see if complaints regarding quality were consistent with the worst one might expect from trash products — and found about 8,400 out of the 45,000 used words like “unsealed, expired, moldy, unnaturally sticky,” or other similar language.

Specifically these comments were not on secondhand collectibles but on perishable products where quality is essential — like food, over-the-counter medication, and makeup.

A spokesperson for Amazon told People this was just a few “isolated incidents” and that selling items taken from the trash “has always been inconsistent with Amazon’s high expectations of its sellers and prohibited by the Seller Code of Conduct.” However, they also said they updated their seller policy “to more explicitly prohibit this type of behavior.”

Isolated incidents? With over 8,000 grossed out comments?

They continued:

“Any negligent and potentially illegal activity by a few bad actors is unfair to the vast majority of exceptional sellers. We have expanded the scope of our existing supply chain verification efforts including increased spot checks of source documentation to ensure seller compliance with our policies. We will take appropriate action against the bad actors involved, including possible legal action.”

Have YOU ever bought food, makeup, or medication from Amazon sellers and found it to be… trash-like? Is it on the company to ensure quality — or caveat emptor when it comes to unknown sellers??

Let us know how you feel in the comments (below)!

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