Posted on 12/05/2021 12:19:17 PM PST by bgill
A home in a neighborhood near Chattanooga stands out -- it has hundreds of Amazon packages spread across its lawn.
A neighbor said new boxes arrive daily, and many are half-full or empty.
People who live in the area have contacted the police and city and written notes to the people who live in the home.
"When it started out there were maybe 20 packages out there, and then 100 and then thousands," said Andrea Ellison, a neighbor.
Neighbors say the pile of boxes in the front yard has been growing for months, and it's been worse than it is in its current state.
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Probably an address used for brushing reviews. Especially empty boxes.
Those of us on Free Republic are traditionalists. Read the article on FR??? You can’t expect that sort of behavior.
But you’re right. This one is worth reading.
I guess it doesn’t rain there?
I read the story and still don’t understand why there are so many boxes.
Nah. They wanna believe the house is empty, owners dead, whatever. This could go one for nine or ten pages.
“It’s dwindled down quite a bit, but, I mean, it used to be stacked all the way up to the road,” said Dustin Nash, another neighbor.
That is surprising, NOT!
Sounds like a scam by the friend.
I got a used water pick from Amazon - the replacement stopped working after the second use. Too many of their products are low end Chinese ware better bought off Alibaba - they cannot be resold or donated. They are simply junk.
lol! That scene would have fit in just fine on a couple of old shows: i.e.
Bob Newhart Show, Get Smart or Columbo.
Or a cable Cartoon series called “Adult Swim”.
Watch the video and listen!
How does that work?
Brushing is a scam in which third-party Amazon vendors send people products they never actually bought. While this may seem an odd scam at first, it is all to do with exploiting Amazon’s search ranking system. The algorithm favors items with high sales volumes and good reviews. /snip
“We all know Amazon doesn’t really resell returned items.”
Not all of us know that. I’ve bought returned items. Amazon lists them as used, coming from Amazon, and that the packaging may be damaged or altered.
That’s not true. Not only have I bought Amazon reconditioned items for myself but you can buy pallets of returned goods from Amazon. Flat rate, unsorted. There are many who buy these and the goods end up on eBay.
And Chinese vendors on Amazon are famous for bugging you to give them good ratings.
It's a risk, but I did it!
That story is not screwy, it reeks of bullshit/drop house/investigation...
"The people who live in the house did not want to be on camera but said they have a friend who has a contract with an Amazon warehouse in China.They say, whenever that friend's contract expires, she will send the packages to their house for the family to sort and then send back to Amazon for the company to sell.
An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment."
The neighbors should have a party on the front lawn and start opening boxes. I mean, they’re abandoned. Open the boxes, take stuff if they want, haul the rest to someone else’s front yard and have a yard sale.
Actually they do and there are stores that sell nothing but pallets of Amazon returns that they buy on the cheap.
I have not gone to it but there’s one in Winchester VA
I don’t buy much from Amazon except books and some hand tools. When I’m considering the purchase of a power tool or appliance, I do like to read the 1- and 2-star reviews on Amazon, then go buy what I want at a real store.
“That story is not screwy, it reeks of bullshit/drop house/investigation...”
I agree. This is too disorganized a setup to be legit. Somebody’s doing something naughty.
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