Seven Days at the Bin Store
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Seven Days at the Bin Store
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#2These Bin Stores show to me that the pricing of products doesn't really reflect their true cost to the environment, society and the world at large.
Our resources are finite and we tend to be so incredibly callous about this, I feel completely disconnected from it.
Most of these products should not exist in the first place.
The article also seem to imply that many of these Bin stores are also precarious businesses that aren't stable. Only the larger one(s) survive... (as usual).
But this place (HN) is probably the worst place to voice this out loud. The aspirational class of future the tech billionaires are already dreaming about their profoundly wastefull super yachts they're going to commission.
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#3> “The goal for all the reverse logistics stuff,” says Roberson, “is to keep things out of the landfill.”
Or rather, to make sure these things are bought and thrown out by consumers instead. Getting rid of unused products costs money unless you have a loophole that allows offloading it onto some poorer country (cf. Atacama desert clothing dump).
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#4These Bin Stores show to me that the pricing of products doesn't really reflect their true cost to the environment, society and the world at large. Our resources are finite and we tend to be so incredibly callous about this, I feel completely disconnected from it. Most of these products should not exist in the first place. The article also seem to imply that many of these Bin stores are also precarious businesses tha…
>(HN) is probably the worst place to voice this out loud
Yeah. I got some hate on HN for saying some store that basically sold what I call "store to landfill" junk was. Well exactly that and it probably is not worth being upset that it was going out of business. As you said it was all about the HN feelings while ignoring the massive wasteful reality for a brief spike of endorphin.
10 Chinese children lived lives of abject poverty in a factory so you can have a $5 rubber monkey mask for a 30 second work gag at the scrum standup. But hey you don't have to see them so who cares.
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#5>I don’t want it, but what am I supposed to do? It will end up in the garbage one way or another. I stuff it in my bag.
This seems to be the common thread here - judging by the pictures, the stuff in these bins seems to be 95% junk. It's trash brand new in the package. Hard to believe anyone would pay any amount for it. Almost seems like you're losing money by not dumping it directly into the ocean.
Apparently, I'm wrong enough that there's hundreds of these stores in business.
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#6>I don’t want it, but what am I supposed to do? It will end up in the garbage one way or another. I stuff it in my bag. This seems to be the common thread here - judging by the pictures, the stuff in these bins seems to be 95% junk. It's trash brand new in the package. Hard to believe anyone would pay any amount for it. Almost seems like you're losing money by not dumping it directly into the ocean. Apparently, I'm w…
>Apparently, I'm wrong enough that there's hundreds of these stores in business.
The stuff in the bins is from amazon returns. Its not a business of its own supply choices. The people that run the stores go to amazon pallet auctions where they buy the stuff unseen and hope to turn a profit on the arbitrage of what they pay vs the worth of the pallet.
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#7These Bin Stores show to me that the pricing of products doesn't really reflect their true cost to the environment, society and the world at large. Our resources are finite and we tend to be so incredibly callous about this, I feel completely disconnected from it. Most of these products should not exist in the first place. The article also seem to imply that many of these Bin stores are also precarious businesses tha…
>(HN) is probably the worst place to voice this out loud Yeah. I got some hate on HN for saying some store that basically sold what I call "store to landfill" junk was. Well exactly that and it probably is not worth being upset that it was going out of business. As you said it was all about the HN feelings while ignoring the massive wasteful reality for a brief spike of endorphin. 10 Chinese children lived lives of a…
This comment, or a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123347
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
>(HN) is probably the worst place to voice this out loud Yeah. I got some hate on HN for saying some store that basically sold what I call "store to landfill" junk was. Well exactly that and it probably is not worth being upset that it was going out of business. As you said it was all about the HN feelings while ignoring the massive wasteful reality for a brief spike of endorphin. 10 Chinese children lived lives of a…
This comment, or a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123347
Yeah.
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#9>I don’t want it, but what am I supposed to do? It will end up in the garbage one way or another. I stuff it in my bag. This seems to be the common thread here - judging by the pictures, the stuff in these bins seems to be 95% junk. It's trash brand new in the package. Hard to believe anyone would pay any amount for it. Almost seems like you're losing money by not dumping it directly into the ocean. Apparently, I'm w…
It's basically scavenging. My parents are sort of hoarder-ish and love to go buy random things that show promise on $0.25 day. I don't stop them because at least it was already going to be trash and keeps them from buying more expensive trash at the regular store.
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#10Am I the only one that feels uncomfortable returning stuff? Took me years to get to get over, and yet I'd still prefer to forego buying something rather than returning it..