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[quote=Anonymous]It's pretty common knowledge that a lot of online shopping returns are either immediately tossed in the trash by the vendor (or they tell Kohls or whomever processes the returns to toss them) or don't actually get returned to the store/made available for direct sale again, rather they get acquired by resellers/bundlers.  This is widely reported on.

I try to avoid participating in this travesty.  I don't buy loads of stuff from cheap vendors like Old Navy or Amazon clothes, with the expectation of returning half of it -- because i am 100% sure when i buy a $8 shirt from old navy, if i "return" it, it's not going back to Old Navy - it's going into the trash or being acquired by a reseller.  Same thing with the $15 random item I bought from Amazon that ends up not meeting my needs. So i don't buy a lot from those vendors.  To the extent I end up with this kind of cheaper stuff I don't want, we eventually sell in a yard sale, or put on facebook marketplace for free, or I give to my housecleaner who either keeps stuff for herself or donates to her church (which has an active donation program).

But I'm curious whether there is a level of store/price point where you can be pretty confident that your returns are actually going back to the store and actually being resold by that store.  I live in a smaller metro area, and our local shopping is total crap so i buy online. Realistically, i need to return stuff that either doesn't fit or doesn't look good. And i almost always do my returns within a few days of items arriving.  But I'd prefer to know that my returns aren't going in the trash pile.

If I'm buying from mid- and higher-price brands, is it pretty certain that the items are going back to them and being resold?

Like, i just bought three pairs of pants from Paige Jeans for their Black Friday 30% off sale, but only liked 1 of them on.  Before 30% off, they're priced around $250 each. Can I assume Paige is taking them back and re-selling? Same thing that i just bought 2 skirts direct from Alice and Olivia in a rush for an event, and only want to keep the one that I preferred on.  $250 skirt - can i assume the return is going back to A&O?  What about athleisure like Vuori? What about more "mid range" brands like Jcrew? I'm thinking they also take stuff back, because that's why they basically made all their sales "Final Sale" only? Or is this all a total crap shoot and I should assume all of it is potentially headed for the trash heap? What about non-clothes stuff like brand name electronics? [/quote]

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