HELLO FRIENDS!! this week we ventured to an amazon liquidation store to get ourselves some treasures 💸and also figure out what it was all about, lol. what did you guys think of our haul?? 🧐 PS -- quick note -- the in-store shopping segments were filmed in late July/early August, when the mask mandate in NC was lifted -- which is why you see a mix of mask & no-mask! hope you guys have a great weekend
You know you've made it as a TH-camr, when instead of getting kicked out of a place for filming, you're invited to the back of the store to film some more.
I guess it's because she is generally a very respectful, calm, mature TH-camr. None of the crazy stuff, no disrespecting staff, no pranks. I would feel safe inviting Safiya to film the back of my business too.
I almost imagine with how much they purchase weekly that the staff doesn’t pull a few things for themselves as a bonus - but so much good awesome stuff comes through that eventually it probably looses its appeal and you only grab what you really want/need after awhile and the novelty wears off lol
I'm sure staff sorts out the stuff they want. I know for a fact goodwill does this and stores like ross and tj maxx! I'm sure they've seen a lot of drones and otherwise expensive things come through, and that staff member likely didn't put that Apple watch in a bin lol
@@crazylatingirl94 a friend of mine worked at Amazon and he told me that the staff are the ones who actually take the goods out of the boxes, because they only had a computer system that checked the labels on the boxes of retuned goods or undelivered packages, so they only had to make sure to scan the box when they’ve returned it to the warehouse and it was all good. He told me that literally everyone was stealing and doing these tricks, some people even got 60” TV’s, PlayStation’s, phones, laptops etc. If someone thinks that these liquidation companies are getting the real good stuff they’re dreaming because they won’t even make it all the way there in the first place 😂.
I like that these things at least get resold instead of going to landfill... reusing is definitely better than buying new and you're getting *mostly* like new stuff
Yes, but just like buying a used car... you're running the risk of buying other people's problems. No thank you. Edit: I had no idea that there were so many sealed returns being resold this way. That definitely seems like a fantastic deal.
@Diana Meza Even if the product isn't damaged or doesn't work a lot of time ppl will buy stuff and keep bits returning the rest of it, so even if you get a good deal you might be ,missing key parts of the product.
As soon as I saw it I was like oh no 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 poor saf to be fair these things actually were once advertised and somewhat used for legit herbs. In australia the news just did and article on why people love the $12 coffee grinder so much 🤣🤣🤣
She can use it for other herbs and spices, though. I have a cheap grinder that was definitely designed for pot but I use it exclusively for cardamom pods, because cardamom is so overwhelming I don’t want it in my regular spice grinder.
I am an employee of an amazon, these aren’t necessarily returns but products that we can’t verify the vendors legitimacy, or when products are missing serial numbers etc, still a great deal.
I just realized how much trash we generate while watching this. It blows my mind how many of these online products we buy and discard ends up being a trash that needs to be disposed. Our needs seemed to be infinite but we only have finite resources. Its truly mind-blowing how this video put it in perspective for me
right? im surprised at the lack of comments on this. Seeing all this made me feel so uneasy about just HOW much garbage we produce that we dont need >.< so much excess.. tho i think more of these types of stores would be good tho, making sure said excess at least gets a home and lowers the need to buy so many new items
It’s easy to feel poor seeing all of this stuff and thinking, “I don’t have that,” but really it’s just a bunch of stuff no one needs, produced from slave labor, and generates tons of waste.
Same, I find this really interesting but it's also deeply unnerving. Just the sheer amount of stuff and imagine how many stores like this exist around the county. Very disquieting.
Worked in a warehouse for years. Always made me laugh when people would say shopping online is better. They have no idea how much plastic is used, the amount of gas needed to ship the items everywhere, and just the shear volume of waste.
This is cool, but there’s a part of me that’s just really uncomfortable. Like we just throw so much away, it’s insane. It’s better that it goes here where someone might find and use this stuff, but the fact that all this stuff exists at all is insane. Whether it’s food or items or clothes, we waste so much that could mean everything to someone else, and keep producing at breakneck speeds in sweatshops just for most stuff to end up in the trash.
I would even argue that people paying pennies for items worth hundreds make them even more prone to throwing them in the trash if they don't like what they get and can't sell it further. It seems like a never ending cycle of waste no matter how you put it :(.
Returning is not throwing away, and people rarely return things for fun or to waste something. Where ANY product exists, there will be "all this stuff." Waste exists all over the world, even more so in poor countries. At least here we are starting to find ways to reduce and manage waste, including the kind of waste that damages the ocean and other ecosystems. This way people can potentially get items that they otherwise may never be able to afford and could mean a lot to them, and also it's unethical to officially donate items that may not function or be unhygienic, just like it's unethical to donate food that may make someone sick or donate clothes that are dirty and have holes in them
I think one of the reasons why people are so wasteful there is that they can return stuff like that (clearly used, broken, for no reason other than "I don't like it"). The fact that you can return a half-finished piece of cosmetics in the States is mind-blowing to me.
I'm also sick of online shopping as a whole and videos about it in particular, although this one at least puts a spin on it where the items get repurposed. But shipping alone takes such an unneccesary toll on the environment... Not to mention the work conditions most of these items are produced in. The whole topic is a downer for sure.
@@GeneralSorrowliterally even saf says it’s so specifically for bid she couldn’t even use that shit for smthn else. there’s a j on the box. it’s for weed🫡
I wouldn’t be concerned for ppl with low income, cause most of this stuff no one really needs… These are not obligatory life items. As an example I would not be really concerned buying a motorized device for my face… i can buy an exfoliating face foam from the drug store and be as healthy without the electric “toy”. However, if I were low income, I would be interested in buying some medical equipment, like a blood pressure meter for cheaper. But most of the stuff you can clearly live without. And not spend a penny on it.
@@ValeriaNotJoking yea, but depending on where you are money-wise, if you’re looking for stuff for gifts or yourself that aren’t necessary, but would be nice & you can’t afford full price, this seems like a great option
@@ValeriaNotJoking shoot. i had to spend no more than $3 a day on food when i moved out at 18, making just $900 a month (in '06). this kind of store would have been heaven
the guy talking about having nightmares about that chocolate is such a relatable retail experience. i work at a bookstore & corporate has had us pushing this one book for the past 2 months. come january if i ever have to look at it again im going to go feral
I work at a Dollar Tree, and all they keep sending us are these boxes of off brand Honey Buns, Swiss Rolls, and Nutty Buddies. NO ONE buys them, and we always end up damaging them out and/or marking them down %75 because we'll always have hundreds of them that weren't sold by their expiration dates! It's a huge waste of food!
Once I store I used to work for, bought hideous scarves in heaps. No one would buy it and we were told to upsell it. Seeing those boxes gave me aversion to green.
I work at Amazon, and almost had a mini heart attack at 9:51 when Saf showed the telescope. little f*cker caused trouble for us for about a month because, for some reason, the barcode on the box didn't work and packers couldn't pack them out 🙃 edit: kept watching the video and saw a lot more stuff that have haunted my dreams at least once.
I was scared you were getting kicked out for filming. But it was so endearing that you were offered a tour and behind the scenes peeks instead! Just goes to show how great your content is that people all over love it ❤️
What nice store owners or management. Take note business owners, that's how to handle it when someone comes in filming your business. Good advertising for that place, people like to shop at places where the owner and management is nice.
The struggle is real. I tried to buy a spice grinder and was so confused about the results I got on amazon. Palm sized metal boxes, air tight, perfect size to put in your pocket and take with you etc. I was like 'why would I take my ground coriander seeds outside'? Weed is illegal in my country and I only tried it like 20 years ago. But I did find a grinder for cooking, not smoking, eventually.
$1 day at my place you can get some good stuff, there’s isn’t a ton left, but we have a .50 cent day and there REALLY isn’t much but if you really look you’ll find a few things. $1 day- clothing, toys, pet stuff, kitchen utensils (like packages of them), wall art, maybe phone chargers, glassware, kitchen cups, different glass jar containers. (That’s some stuff I’ve seen there on $1 days, you lol randomly come across something really good though)
I adore Safiya and like to think in many many years she’ll greet the nursing home worker in her bathroom with “Helloooo friend… and welcome to another sponge bath”
Coming from a licensed esthetician here in NC, that microderm machine looks pretty good! Here are few tips if you continue to use it: 1. Keep the skin taut when running the tip across your skin. 2. Never leave the machine in one spot, it should always be moving, you might get hickies bahahah 3. How you were doing the nose was perfect! 4. Try not to do this more than once a week as it could be too much exfoliation on your skin. 5. Make sure to use a moisturizer/serum after as you’ve got some fresh skin that needs hydrating! Hope that helps, love your videos!!! 💕💕💕💕
I had one of these and would ALWAYS end up with redness around the chin even tho I kept it moving, but it got broken and seeing this video made me miss it lol
It’s insane teachers are having to buy their own supplies. This story would be SO HELPFUL if they donating some of their items to underserved schools and inner city schools!!!!!! And if there is luggage and basic items very helpful to children in foster care. Ahhh this could be so helpful to so many people. I’m hoping they donate items that don’t sell.
I doubt they almost ever have anything that doesn't sell. A dollar for anything, even if it's garbage is a huge consumer driven idea. People like to think they're getting a deal, even if it's on junk they don't need. It should be criminal that your job doesn't cover the tools you need to do your job.
They should donate that kind of thing before they set it out on the shop floor. (Obviously schools should be able to provide these basic necessities to pupils so teachers don't have to buy them, but in the absence of that...)
I thought the parents of the students buy the teacher supplies. That is what the tissues, markers, and other stuff on the list are for. But it is sad that if a teacher wants to decorate or even have supplies, it either comes from the parents or their own pockets instead of using a modicum of the budget wasted only on administrators instead of the classrooms.
In a way it’s good that these places exist because otherwise this stuff would all end up in landfill. However, I think we’ve really got to change the way we view purchasing. If we put thought and time into purchase decisions we wouldn’t be returning as much as we are. Obviously sometimes we will be unhappy with a purchase due to sizing etc, but we still can sell it on ourselves or give it away to someone rather than returning it to a company who (without places like this) will put it straight into landfill. Not to mention the extra CO2 emissions from you returning your random plastic kitchen gadget. Respect your money, respect workers, respect the environment.
Yeah seeing people buying hauls of stuff from Amazon with the assumption that you will return a lot of it is not sustainable. You never know if it's going to be resold or just go in the trash.
I think it's complicated because if, for example, you buy a blender that doesn't work, you can't give it away or resell it. You can take the loss but you will still throw it away. As for items that can be resold (mostly clothes), there needs to be more pressure on companies to actually resell those items instead of calculating that the costs of reverse logistics are too high. Similarly, if rules were altered, companies would have more incentive to manufacture higher quality gadgets that would be less likely to be returned. This would drive up costs for products but it would ultimately be better for consumers to have confidence in the products they were buying.
A large part of the responsibility should lie on the massive companies. Amazon does not give a single care about the environment. Consumers can only do so much but these multimillion dollar companies can do so much more
@@AmandaTitus85 I agree, but I also think we can do a lot. For example, we can buy from companies that care about the environment/their products. There are companies that take back their packaging and recycle it into more packaging for their products. There are also companies that take back their products and repair them or recycle them into more products they sell. It’s even better to buy secondhand- or better yet- buy less things.
Some times though it's because they send the wrong product... It happened 3 times during the Amazon Prime days this year. And you have to return the incorrect product to get the right one sent out. I mean I could have bought the items again and sold / gifted the wrong ones ... but it didn't make sense to pay twice for an item I wanted...
I'm really glad all these things do end up getting bought, and the treasure-hunting aspect of it will likely make people Treasure the items they did find so they don't end up in a landfill later anyway, but- the fact that one company's waste can fuel an entire, separate economy is. kind of unsettling if you step back a little.
Very professional, and so much fun to watch. I am 70 year’s young and always looking for a good bargain on Amazon. You really opened my eyes into doing this. You both make a great team! God Bless 😊
People like that guy with the airfryer make me annoyed with stores like this. There's one here near me that does waves like this, but they make everyone from the first wave leave at a specific amount of time after they go in. Charge a $1 entry fee and only allow one buggy per person(leeway with large package items) It works extremely well and is very fluid. I just hate people that hoard stuff from others, only to end up reselling the crap on like Facebook marketplace lol
That was my first thought. It's gonna attract all the worst people, like Black Friday all over again. But Saf and Tyler were so nice, it didn't leave such a bad taste in my mouth.
i went to this store a couple weeks ago! on Wednesday it’s very limited - nothing hi-tech like the haul on friday, a few bed sets and kitchen gadgets, random bits and bobs that are not worth more than a few dollars (i remember sunglasses, socks, HDMI adapters) and yes a lot of chocolate haha
I definitely think that in these types of stores you shouldn't be allowed to "hoard" a corner for yourself because lets be real here, that guy probably got all those products for the sake of reselling them for a mark up and that is scummy. There should be policies/rules to prevent this type of behaviour such as not being allowed to have more products than what you can fit in your shopping cart.
Coming from a small business owner who sells on Amazon: if a package is opened and used Amazon will (hopefully catch it and not send it out as new) then ask the business if they want to pay for shipping to ship it back to the business or pay (less money) for Amazon to "dispose" of it for them. I'm guessing that's where these items all come from. Also little known fact, people think Amazon loses money from returns but make so much it doesn't matter. Amazon only loses money on their own brand products. For any third party seller, the third party pays for that free shipping and free returns, plus pay amazon processing fees. So they don't lose money and in fact make a little from liquidation sales
@@banshee1133 not if it has been clearly opened and used. We don't have any way to talk to the Amazon workers so we can't tell them how to check or what to look for, so some shady people will take advantage on this and return only half things (like taking tips and filters from the microdermabration tool) and get a full refund. We can send it back to ourselves and see if it has been used or if it can be repackaged. We donate anything we can't sell but it is the most expensive route to ship it back to ourselves. If items are reported as broken or if the item is inexpensive to begin with, I imagine a lot of companies going with the Amazon disposal route because it's more cost effective.
We have an auction website in my country that began as an auctioneer for bankrupt companies having to pay off their debts by selling their equipment. They also turned to selling returned items from stores, and I've got some quite good bargains out of those (from what I know from those times I bought something that way they usually look well cared for by the first person who bought it, some things were still sealed).
I used to work at Amazon dealing with liquidations and it’s not any liquidation companies that deal with the liquidation but instead it’s actually Amazon itself: all we did was throw the items in the box without worrying it would break or not because to us we told it was just trash. And so therefore I would just pocket some stuff lol.
That's so cool that the store employees recognized you and offered to show you guys the process! Made for a much more informational video than just "This is kinda what goes on, from what we understand"
I love how Saf respectfully falls in line even though the owner knows her. I mean the owner possibly told her to fall in line to be fair. But just look at her minding her own businesssss and being respectful
This is actually really smart for everyone! The company’s get ride of returns they can’t sell themselves. The store that get this items makes a CRAP TON of money. And the customer gets stuff for cheap to do with as they please!
Holy Moses, that’s A LOT of returns. And that’s just ONE location in the US. 😱 Can you imagine how much crap people buy combined, if this is only a fraction of returns?! 😳 Materialism is through the roof!
I know at my local ups store they have 3 giant boxes they just toss the returns in, i live in a tiny town in Vermont and those boxes are always full of returns when i go in
Materialism is a big part of it, yes. But it's also that home delivery is simply not the best way to get some things -i would even say MOST things. These centers exist, and also Kohl's stores handle Amazon returns. I don't know if all of them do, or only a few kohl's. But at the one i worked at last year we had at LEAST 20 returns per day, if not more. It might seem convenient, but adding in the disappointment of getting a damaged or inadequate item, having to pack it, take it somewhere, and then still end up needing to actually find a good version of what your looking for and get that instead -it adds up. I really believe that 95%+ of the time people are better off just shopping in person
With rent and utilities, buying the stock, paying the trucks (if that is a part of it), and paying the employees, I don't know how these stores manage to make enough money. Maybe they just make way more than I'm picturing..?
@@mynameisnothere9465 Just imagine the amount of items, I think it all adds up to a reasonable sum. And I think they buy the returns really cheap since Amazon probably just ships it off unsorted to the best bidder instead of paying money to have staff organizing the items.
I suppose the risk of getting nose hairs in your microdermabrasion kit is the price to be paid for nicely priced products hahaha The microdermabrasion part killed me though hahah Tyler: Don't do it, no stop. Don't. Saf: Okay. ... I'm gonna do it again. Tyler: Alright But seriously there's so many good finds in this video! I had no idea that's what they did with the returns!
Amazon definitely doesn't do that with all of the returns. I watch some dumpster diving videos where people are constantly finding Amazon returns in Target and other store trash dumpsters, stores that take Amazon returns. Amazon evidently doesn't even want the items sent back to them at all. A lot of times the returns haven't even been opened. Weird, right?
If you picked up that electronic picture frame, you should know that parents/grandparents go nuts for those if you give it to them pre-loaded with family pictures. My grandmother has had hers for a few years now and still loves to show it to me every time I visit with the new pictures.
My dad got one of those for all the digital photos he’s been taking of our family on vacations since 2002. He liked it so much he recently set up a dedicated TV next to his souvenir shelves just to display a slideshow of photos from an old iPhone.
Omg you just reminded me of how my grandmother had gotten one and she used to always be so excited to upload her new pictures to it 🥺 and it would play in a slideshow, it was so cute
Had so much fun shopping with Saf as well as testing the various purchases. I am a senior senior so don't think I could handle the store hassle but I can live vicariously! Totally enjoy your channels.
You can't tell me the employees and managers of that store aren't the first people to either buy or stash the actually good items. There's just no way.
Probably minimum wage jobs so it's a perk of the job. Worked for a mail order book place in the 90s and once a week you could go and buy books by weight from the returns.
That's what I've been thinking. There is no way that they would put a Kitchenaid stand mixer or a sealed apple watch or something like that in the bin to sell it for $10 each.
@@LilybethII I feel like they add a few items so that the lucky shoppers tell their friends or promote on social media.. like that mini 2 drone cost $600 and I doubt it made it to the sales floor
@@CHiMEiD050 I’ve never heard of that brand before. I wonder if it’s anything like Bueno chocolate. There’s been so many times I got a bueno from the store and when I opened it it was so melted. The disappointment 😆
@@jessicapace4235 I have a thing for voices like that lol always have. If you like his voice, look up who Anuel AA is 😍 (sorry ahead of time if you don’t speak Spanish, Anuel does have some interviews in English as well though).
This is super interesting but it's also really sad - we live in a time when we have such an excess of things that people just don't need. So much wasted plastic, packaging, co2 emissions from the trucks - it's madness! But also I am conflicted because it is more likely to be redistributed and go to good use.... I can't decide.
The signs on the liquidation store suggest that it is for eBay reselling. A lot of these things won't get used by the people who are purchasing them but will be for resale. A never ending cycle.
The whole human race is a blight on the planet. The key word is balance. We will never find that balance, we have gone too far. Eventually we will destroy the planet and ourselves with it.
This is actually so awesome to see! My family works in recycling and there's sooooo many items that can be used that have to be recycles because of business policies- just like amazon and others, other companies can't sell certain opened items or its just not worth the price to repackage and sell, so it gets trashed. I'm happy people are making ways to sell still usable items!
Safiya could literally make a video of her watching paint drying and I would still enjoy it. She is such a bright light in all the craziness and darkness that the virus caused. No matter what I am feeling, she always makes me smile.
RTGame, a gaming youtuber and twitch streamer tried a literal "watch paint dry" stream where he used someone's paint drying video on youtube and just sat there talking to chat. I wanna say that stream broke records for him but I honestly can't remember (chronic memory loss is "fun" x.x )
I worked at one of the Amazon slavehouses-i mean warehouses* for a year. It's honestly crazy how much seemingly good stuff gets moved to the liquidation center. And sometimes people make mistakes when inspecting returned items so perfectly good items get caught in the loop too
Paul Reveres ride: Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, “If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.” That's the first verse 😁
Your weed joint making machine - you could grind up other stuff to make. How about peppermint to add to sachets? How about things that burn easily for fire starters and perhaps dip them in wax to make them burn more quickly? Grind up sage to make cleaning sticks - see if they burn OK for house cleansings. Use more scented herbs to make popouri sachets, add to dishes to scent a room, or better yet, add to a small tie bag to either hang in the shower or add to the tub to soak in an herb 'tea'. And some of these herb 'joints' may work well in a sauna to make it smell nice when you are steaming. A great compact way to carry your herbs with you for meditational healing. So there you go. Not a 'wasted' purchase. (get it?)
This honestly made me curious of seeing if there are any local to me. I'm curious to see what kind of stuff I could find. Like those laptops they were going through could be a steal at $10 depending on the specs.. I'd love to find a store that does this for larger things too like TVs, monitors, furniture, etc. once again just to see what I could find.
my family got one of those massage chairs and we've uncovered a phenomenon called massage face, where upon sitting on the chair everyone makes the exact same funny relaxed eye half open face slightly slack face the second they sit on it. I laughed out loud 24:28 when Tyler showcased this phenomenon perfectly
That head is actually a practice dummy for people to learn how to do hair! I’m in cosmetology school right now and we use them, just Incase anyone was curious! They’re actually very expensive too
I would say it depends, some of the heads can be expensive. My school made us buy really pricey ones from a place in NY that was made with real hair. But I also bought artificial hair heads off amazon for like $30-$50, and compared to the around $100-$150 each of the real hair heads they’re not that expensive. But I know that you can get better quality ones that cost more money then just the cheap ones I got
@@madzilla6812 yeah I know, I just mean generally, I know the human hair ones cost a lot more and those are the ones required at my school, even then though I would consider 50 dollars expensive for just a synthetic head, of course it’s definitely a fair price but I’m not rich so 50 dollars is a lot from my perspective
I love your videos, especially how real and honest you are! Thank you for not censoring anything and literally showing anything and everything! You guys crack me up!
I think the best way I can sum up me feelings about these stores is that they're a great solution to a problem that should never have existed in the first place. I'm glad all this can get reused but holy fuck I hate this capitalist dystopia we live in.
The waste is a problem, but why bring capitalism into this? Capitalism is an economic style for how things are sold, excessive consumerism is a cultural thing and has to do with the buyers, not the sellers? Or a behavior developed through growing up very spoiled. As for the large amounts of excess products, this once again has to do with the buyers? They keep returning perfectly intact products instead of using them. Or at least this is my understanding, ofc correct me if I’m wrong on smth, but I always remember capitalism being taught as an economic system
@@thetiredworm2100 well this quantity problem is a direct result of capitalism as the core value of all companies under capitalism is the maximization of profit, that means all other values that a company might have will always be overshadowed by the goal of making as much money as possible. I'm not even exaggerating that's exactly how it's written in economy text books. But if you have even juuust a smidge of life experience you KNOW that profit comes at the cost of people that actually did the labor and the environment. You could solve some issues by setting more regulations but people would complain that that's communism (it's not, it's just government doing their job).Capitalism created sentences like this -produce food if you can profit, if not let them starve
@@thetiredworm2100 it's very nice of you to defend big companies that mass produce, I'm sure they're very thankful. Reminds me of how companies created the term litterbug to shift the blame of the growing plastic waste onto the public instead of admitting that switching from returnable glass bottles to single use plastic bottles was a bad move
interesting, I didn't think about that, in some ways its true, but I can also think of this store as a positive thing as it can count as a thrift shop.
It feels so strange to me watching this video because whilst the stores are great for getting good deals, it just feels like an ode to our over-consumption and over-consumerism. I like that it allows people to get things at a great price if they otherwise couldn't afford it, but I dunno, it also feels kinda annoying with the way that some people are trawling these stores for their "side hustles" when less well off people could definitely benefit from getting some of these things and getting good use out of them. Great video still though. I could see that there were things that even I could use there!
I’m naïve and didn’t even think about all the scalpers going to these places to resell the stuff for inflated prices till I came to the comments. Very sad
I know, right? Especially when Safiya panned to someone stocking lots of units of the same item-like it was obvious hoarding to probably resell. Scalpers are the worst 😩
@@folknaur Ya that pissed me off a little. I like get maybe getting two, b/c you never know if they are going to work b/c they are used. But it seems to be against the idea in my opinion of what these places are meant to be and/or should be.
@@folknaur I mean, I totally don't blame people for wanting to get a little extra money, but a lot of the times, scalpers tend to really rip people off, and that just leaves a bad taste.
The excess of our society is truly outstanding. If the powers that be would only reorganize so that people wouldn’t have to go without. Clearly it’s just a matter of reallocating resources. We have more than enough to give…. Just no monetary incentive to get it there.
my favorite thing about Saf and Tyler moving to NC like probably 15 minutes away from me is that if they show a place in a video thats interesting, I can just stop over there casually. Legit this store is 5 minutes from my work
For someone who lives in Europe - this store gives me *Every store on news on black friday* vibes. People just standing in the super long line and spending time going through all that stuff, gloating when they find a cool thing.. and for what 😅
European way of buying used stuff: things that still have warranty, only buying it after you've seen it working AND secretly inspecting the seller's house to see if they look generally clean
I love that even though they got a hookup from the inside, they still line up every time like a normal customer. This is what separates them from most influencers/content creators out there.
As an Amazon employee, we do sell things that are damaged. The shoes I receive and stow have holes in the boxes and are smushed but our OM says it’s ok. Also as an employee, Amazon sucks. Don’t give them money.
As a person who has bought a lot of things from Amazon and needs to stop, you're absolutely right. I can confirm sometimes Bezos sells us obviously messed up or even counterfeit things. It's sad. He has plenty money to have a higher quality business.
I haven’t purchased anything from Amazon in 3 years. Unfortunately they own so much other stuff that I can’t get away from them (AWS is the obvious one but also Whole Foods, Twitch, IMBd, and soon the freaking lion movie studio). Shocking how much of a stranglehold they have on the world.
As someone who works in Vendor Returns (liquidations) at Amazon, its great to see the stuff actually gets bought. Unfortunately Vendor Returns also deals with the recycling, which is literally just really good, unused, returned stuff, that goes to the trash :/
Man that sucks :(... I have to return some boots that don't quite fit, it's sad to know they might just end up in the trash for no good reason. I don't know if I'll buy clothing/shoes on Amazon anymore tbh.
I love that you leave the stuff that the video was actually about in your video description! Unlike all these narcissistic TH-camrs just leaving an overload of self-promotion leaving nothing the video was even about. THANK YOU FOR BEING BETTER! 💞
I volunteer at a charity shop and the behind the scenes part definitely reminds me about sorting donations. Especially the part where we have no idea what something is.
I live in Raleigh too so ever since yall moved here it’s so exciting when you film about local places! I remember checking the Treasure Hunt out when it first opened, it was chaos
its good that they do this instead of throwing it all away, usually companies prefer to throw things away than give the idea you can get their product for cheaper
You really dredged up a memory for me. When I was a little kid, my dad had these water torpedos from when he was younger and we used to chuck them in the water and basically race to collect them. Don't know why it was fun but I have very distinct memories of it being fun and it brought a big smile to my face c:
HELLO FRIENDS!! this week we ventured to an amazon liquidation store to get ourselves some treasures 💸and also figure out what it was all about, lol. what did you guys think of our haul?? 🧐 PS -- quick note -- the in-store shopping segments were filmed in late July/early August, when the mask mandate in NC was lifted -- which is why you see a mix of mask & no-mask! hope you guys have a great weekend
first!
I wish they had them in the UK!
Love you 🥺🥺
Your amazing ❤️
“HELLO FRIENDS” never gets old
You know you've made it as a TH-camr, when instead of getting kicked out of a place for filming, you're invited to the back of the store to film some more.
Ikr? It was so nice of them to actually invite them to do that. And ngl, a really smart marketing tactic as well. Win-win, I say XD
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I guess it's because she is generally a very respectful, calm, mature TH-camr. None of the crazy stuff, no disrespecting staff, no pranks. I would feel safe inviting Safiya to film the back of my business too.
Yeeees
Yeah
The delivery guy having an existential crisis over chocolate had me rolling
For someone who works in production at a thrift store. I felt really bad for the guy and was very relatable to me
Well, it's chocolate, you either love it or hate it, both have intense passion behind them 🤣
Who returns Biscolata???
@@hobistinyheartbag Right?
I bet a food bank would gladly take anything he's not able to sell...
I'm going back for a second massage chair.
Hello
HEY
Love you Saf you make the best TH-cam videos ❤️
Do it
I would too
If I was an employee there, there is no way I wouldn't have a friend come through and store the best stuff in a special place.
I almost imagine with how much they purchase weekly that the staff doesn’t pull a few things for themselves as a bonus - but so much good awesome stuff comes through that eventually it probably looses its appeal and you only grab what you really want/need after awhile and the novelty wears off lol
I'm sure staff sorts out the stuff they want. I know for a fact goodwill does this and stores like ross and tj maxx! I'm sure they've seen a lot of drones and otherwise expensive things come through, and that staff member likely didn't put that Apple watch in a bin lol
@@crazylatingirl94 a friend of mine worked at Amazon and he told me that the staff are the ones who actually take the goods out of the boxes, because they only had a computer system that checked the labels on the boxes of retuned goods or undelivered packages, so they only had to make sure to scan the box when they’ve returned it to the warehouse and it was all good. He told me that literally everyone was stealing and doing these tricks, some people even got 60” TV’s, PlayStation’s, phones, laptops etc. If someone thinks that these liquidation companies are getting the real good stuff they’re dreaming because they won’t even make it all the way there in the first place 😂.
@@HAIRHOLIC_1 after someone returns it or before they ship it to the person who ordered it?
@@josieandjimmy.1 after they get returned, or undelivered
The weed grinder being called a 'herb & spice grinder' has the same energy as companies marketing vibrators as 'personal massagers' lol
‘Adult novelties’
Its essentially how they make it through customs
Why won't it post my reply, I've tried 3 times grrrr
It also gave me big 90s era Disneyland calling shot glasses “toothpick holders”.
Also, the best grinder I’ve ever purchased. I wish I got mine for $10 lol
I like that these things at least get resold instead of going to landfill... reusing is definitely better than buying new and you're getting *mostly* like new stuff
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Same, honestly.
Yes, but just like buying a used car... you're running the risk of buying other people's problems. No thank you.
Edit: I had no idea that there were so many sealed returns being resold this way. That definitely seems like a fantastic deal.
@Diana Meza Even if the product isn't damaged or doesn't work a lot of time ppl will buy stuff and keep bits returning the rest of it, so even if you get a good deal you might be ,missing key parts of the product.
Interesting that people keep commenting like this stuff *won't* end up in a landfill someday in the future....
I love how innocent Saf is about the herb and spice grinder until she opened it and was like oh oh no no no haha
As soon as I saw it I was like oh no 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 poor saf to be fair these things actually were once advertised and somewhat used for legit herbs. In australia the news just did and article on why people love the $12 coffee grinder so much 🤣🤣🤣
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Well, it's all legit in MICHIGAN
She can use it for other herbs and spices, though. I have a cheap grinder that was definitely designed for pot but I use it exclusively for cardamom pods, because cardamom is so overwhelming I don’t want it in my regular spice grinder.
I went to go buy it and it’s actually $150 on Amazon. $10 is a literal steal lol
I am an employee of an amazon, these aren’t necessarily returns but products that we can’t verify the vendors legitimacy, or when products are missing serial numbers etc, still a great deal.
yeah that makes sense, all the stuff seemed very unregulated, hair, dirt and weed,
Spin, spin spin 😅
I just realized how much trash we generate while watching this. It blows my mind how many of these online products we buy and discard ends up being a trash that needs to be disposed. Our needs seemed to be infinite but we only have finite resources. Its truly mind-blowing how this video put it in perspective for me
right? im surprised at the lack of comments on this. Seeing all this made me feel so uneasy about just HOW much garbage we produce that we dont need >.< so much excess..
tho i think more of these types of stores would be good tho, making sure said excess at least gets a home and lowers the need to buy so many new items
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing....so many pointless things
It’s easy to feel poor seeing all of this stuff and thinking, “I don’t have that,” but really it’s just a bunch of stuff no one needs, produced from slave labor, and generates tons of waste.
Same, I find this really interesting but it's also deeply unnerving. Just the sheer amount of stuff and imagine how many stores like this exist around the county. Very disquieting.
Worked in a warehouse for years. Always made me laugh when people would say shopping online is better. They have no idea how much plastic is used, the amount of gas needed to ship the items everywhere, and just the shear volume of waste.
This is cool, but there’s a part of me that’s just really uncomfortable. Like we just throw so much away, it’s insane. It’s better that it goes here where someone might find and use this stuff, but the fact that all this stuff exists at all is insane. Whether it’s food or items or clothes, we waste so much that could mean everything to someone else, and keep producing at breakneck speeds in sweatshops just for most stuff to end up in the trash.
I would even argue that people paying pennies for items worth hundreds make them even more prone to throwing them in the trash if they don't like what they get and can't sell it further. It seems like a never ending cycle of waste no matter how you put it :(.
Returning is not throwing away, and people rarely return things for fun or to waste something. Where ANY product exists, there will be "all this stuff." Waste exists all over the world, even more so in poor countries. At least here we are starting to find ways to reduce and manage waste, including the kind of waste that damages the ocean and other ecosystems. This way people can potentially get items that they otherwise may never be able to afford and could mean a lot to them, and also it's unethical to officially donate items that may not function or be unhygienic, just like it's unethical to donate food that may make someone sick or donate clothes that are dirty and have holes in them
I think one of the reasons why people are so wasteful there is that they can return stuff like that (clearly used, broken, for no reason other than "I don't like it"). The fact that you can return a half-finished piece of cosmetics in the States is mind-blowing to me.
I'm also sick of online shopping as a whole and videos about it in particular, although this one at least puts a spin on it where the items get repurposed. But shipping alone takes such an unneccesary toll on the environment... Not to mention the work conditions most of these items are produced in. The whole topic is a downer for sure.
The waste of first world countries is criminal when third world countries don't even have basic needs. We suck. Fr.
Saf buying the herb grinder has the same energy as my mom buying an oil and vinegar cruet that looks suspiciously like a bong
i looked it up and its actually for pot and makes joints 😂💀💀💀💀
It’s definitely for weed lmao
As soon as she grabbed it and showed the box, I was like 👁👄👁
Which time ?🤣
LMAOOOO I’m dying
saf buying a weed grinder by accident is literally such a saf thing to do😭
That's not the only thing it can grind.
@@GeneralSorrowliterally even saf says it’s so specifically for bid she couldn’t even use that shit for smthn else. there’s a j on the box. it’s for weed🫡
@@v7014 It can be used for tobacco grinding.
May God bless you all and your loved ones and have a blessed day, night and life!✝️💞
Also the fact weed is illegal in NC…
although the amount given back is highly unsettling, this is honestly a great idea for those who might not be able to buy this stuff at full price.
I wouldn’t be concerned for ppl with low income, cause most of this stuff no one really needs… These are not obligatory life items. As an example I would not be really concerned buying a motorized device for my face… i can buy an exfoliating face foam from the drug store and be as healthy without the electric “toy”. However, if I were low income, I would be interested in buying some medical equipment, like a blood pressure meter for cheaper. But most of the stuff you can clearly live without. And not spend a penny on it.
@@ValeriaNotJoking yea, but depending on where you are money-wise, if you’re looking for stuff for gifts or yourself that aren’t necessary, but would be nice & you can’t afford full price, this seems like a great option
@@ValeriaNotJoking yeah or buy it here then resell it for a higher price
I agree, is maybe why I was dissapointed to see 2 affluent TH-camrs go in to buy.
@@ValeriaNotJoking shoot. i had to spend no more than $3 a day on food when i moved out at 18, making just $900 a month (in '06). this kind of store would have been heaven
the guy talking about having nightmares about that chocolate is such a relatable retail experience. i work at a bookstore & corporate has had us pushing this one book for the past 2 months. come january if i ever have to look at it again im going to go feral
I’m sorry for bringing up a sensitive topic…. But what book was it 👀
I used to buy things that had sat on the shelves too long because I was tired of seeing them. It’s the little things that start to grate on you.
We had cinamon scented tp that we couldn't get rid off for a year. I'm sure it's still somewhere in the back.
I work at a Dollar Tree, and all they keep sending us are these boxes of off brand Honey Buns, Swiss Rolls, and Nutty Buddies. NO ONE buys them, and we always end up damaging them out and/or marking them down %75 because we'll always have hundreds of them that weren't sold by their expiration dates! It's a huge waste of food!
Once I store I used to work for, bought hideous scarves in heaps. No one would buy it and we were told to upsell it. Seeing those boxes gave me aversion to green.
Why is Tyler literally the nicest most respectful person?!?
Ikr!
Because Safiya is too 😁😁
I work at a coffee shop in Raleigh and he came in a few weeks ago and he genuinely is!!
We all need a little Tyler in our lives....and safiya. They are "good people"
Because his mama raised him right. We need more Tyler's in the world.
I work at Amazon, and almost had a mini heart attack at 9:51 when Saf showed the telescope. little f*cker caused trouble for us for about a month because, for some reason, the barcode on the box didn't work and packers couldn't pack them out 🙃
edit: kept watching the video and saw a lot more stuff that have haunted my dreams at least once.
I was scared you were getting kicked out for filming. But it was so endearing that you were offered a tour and behind the scenes peeks instead! Just goes to show how great your content is that people all over love it ❤️
This would never happen in LA the move was definitely a good move
Right? I was thinking "She's so getting kicked out". It's nice that the owner was a fan.
@@yuancheshizumi1292 wtf I know your a bot but still wtf. 😀
Yeah it was awesome
What nice store owners or management. Take note business owners, that's how to handle it when someone comes in filming your business. Good advertising for that place, people like to shop at places where the owner and management is nice.
Dying over the ‘spice grinder’ that’s actually a very expensive joint loader 🤣
Yes saaaaame 😂
My first thought! 😂😳
Came here just to read this
I had to make sure someone pointed that out lmao. That picture def had some green herbs in it..
The struggle is real. I tried to buy a spice grinder and was so confused about the results I got on amazon. Palm sized metal boxes, air tight, perfect size to put in your pocket and take with you etc. I was like 'why would I take my ground coriander seeds outside'? Weed is illegal in my country and I only tried it like 20 years ago. But I did find a grinder for cooking, not smoking, eventually.
I NEED to go to one of these stores lol I’ve been seeing them all over TikTok too! Honestly it’s a brilliant business idea
Omg my two favorite TH-camrs !!! Yes you shouldd make a video out of it
omg hi take me to the lost luggage store please
@@safiya LETS DO IT. We will bring our Tylers and it will be a party
Samee
@@hopescope yes! Collab!
i think it would be cool to see a haul on what’s left on the $1 day
At the store in my town, it's a lot of empty boxes
$1 day at my place you can get some good stuff, there’s isn’t a ton left, but we have a .50 cent day and there REALLY isn’t much but if you really look you’ll find a few things.
$1 day- clothing, toys, pet stuff, kitchen utensils (like packages of them), wall art, maybe phone chargers, glassware, kitchen cups, different glass jar containers. (That’s some stuff I’ve seen there on $1 days, you lol randomly come across something really good though)
Broken random parts, plastic packaging and filth is what's left!
@@CynthiaBrooke96I’ve also seen lots of things like phone cases and such left over on the $1 day as well
Tyler’s priorities “ooo a Cat bed”
Safiya’s priorities “look a drone”
i am not a bot
Safiya innocently purchasing the herb grinder was hilarious, and sounds like something I would do XD
Product name was too well camouflaged to get past insane laws.
Who doesn’t love fresh herbs 🤣🤣
oh.. OHHHH
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT 💀😭 i screammmed !! She posted the ads for it too . shes so innocent 😭
Ah yes, an herb grinder to make brownies...
As a follow up I'd love to see what you could get on the $1 day. Is it all rubbish or are there a few gems?
I agree! I'm desperate to know what $1 Wednesday is like!
Probably not very exciting stuff
I really want to see what is left before they restock everything.
@@entwashian chaos
All the broken a d dirty stuffed animals and other children's toys, presumably.
Honestly, the fact that they resell these things at all is GOOD news. At least it's not ALL going to dumpsters!!
I adore Safiya and like to think in many many years she’ll greet the nursing home worker in her bathroom with “Helloooo friend… and welcome to another sponge bath”
"Today we're combining all of the nursing home food into a Franken meal"
🤣😂
Jajajjaja
@@DogNamedWatson "Today we will be doing a Nursing Home Craft Faire Shopping Haul"
Lmao
Can u guys go again on a "one dollar" day to see what's left?
Even if not for a whole video, for shorts?
Seriously! I really wanted to see that. I was shocked that on Thursdays, all the crap was sold 😱
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Jas please!
This is such a good idea!!!
Ooohh that is def a good idea!
Coming from a licensed esthetician here in NC, that microderm machine looks pretty good! Here
are few tips if you continue to use it:
1. Keep the skin taut when running the tip across your skin.
2. Never leave the machine in one spot, it should always be moving, you might get hickies bahahah
3. How you were doing the nose was perfect!
4. Try not to do this more than once a week as it could be too much exfoliation on your skin.
5. Make sure to use a moisturizer/serum after as you’ve got some fresh skin that needs hydrating!
Hope that helps, love your videos!!! 💕💕💕💕
I had one of these and would ALWAYS end up with redness around the chin even tho I kept it moving, but it got broken and seeing this video made me miss it lol
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@@TheEtherny nice!
This was the comment I was hoping to see.
It’s not microdermabrasion tho
It’s insane teachers are having to buy their own supplies. This story would be SO HELPFUL if they donating some of their items to underserved schools and inner city schools!!!!!! And if there is luggage and basic items very helpful to children in foster care. Ahhh this could be so helpful to so many people. I’m hoping they donate items that don’t sell.
I doubt they almost ever have anything that doesn't sell. A dollar for anything, even if it's garbage is a huge consumer driven idea. People like to think they're getting a deal, even if it's on junk they don't need.
It should be criminal that your job doesn't cover the tools you need to do your job.
Teachers need pens not all these plastic junks
They should donate that kind of thing before they set it out on the shop floor. (Obviously schools should be able to provide these basic necessities to pupils so teachers don't have to buy them, but in the absence of that...)
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I thought the parents of the students buy the teacher supplies. That is what the tissues, markers, and other stuff on the list are for.
But it is sad that if a teacher wants to decorate or even have supplies, it either comes from the parents or their own pockets instead of using a modicum of the budget wasted only on administrators instead of the classrooms.
In a way it’s good that these places exist because otherwise this stuff would all end up in landfill. However, I think we’ve really got to change the way we view purchasing. If we put thought and time into purchase decisions we wouldn’t be returning as much as we are. Obviously sometimes we will be unhappy with a purchase due to sizing etc, but we still can sell it on ourselves or give it away to someone rather than returning it to a company who (without places like this) will put it straight into landfill. Not to mention the extra CO2 emissions from you returning your random plastic kitchen gadget. Respect your money, respect workers, respect the environment.
Yeah seeing people buying hauls of stuff from Amazon with the assumption that you will return a lot of it is not sustainable. You never know if it's going to be resold or just go in the trash.
I think it's complicated because if, for example, you buy a blender that doesn't work, you can't give it away or resell it. You can take the loss but you will still throw it away. As for items that can be resold (mostly clothes), there needs to be more pressure on companies to actually resell those items instead of calculating that the costs of reverse logistics are too high. Similarly, if rules were altered, companies would have more incentive to manufacture higher quality gadgets that would be less likely to be returned. This would drive up costs for products but it would ultimately be better for consumers to have confidence in the products they were buying.
A large part of the responsibility should lie on the massive companies. Amazon does not give a single care about the environment. Consumers can only do so much but these multimillion dollar companies can do so much more
@@AmandaTitus85 I agree, but I also think we can do a lot. For example, we can buy from companies that care about the environment/their products. There are companies that take back their packaging and recycle it into more packaging for their products. There are also companies that take back their products and repair them or recycle them into more products they sell. It’s even better to buy secondhand- or better yet- buy less things.
Some times though it's because they send the wrong product... It happened 3 times during the Amazon Prime days this year. And you have to return the incorrect product to get the right one sent out. I mean I could have bought the items again and sold / gifted the wrong ones ... but it didn't make sense to pay twice for an item I wanted...
The store owner really said “I know her! She’s going to love the tour I offer her.” 😅
What the hell is going on under this comment
She was so nice by allowing her to be behind the scenes 💜🥰
@@oAgL214 or he
@@AmberGrace24 I think I heard Safiya referring to the owner as "she/her" maybe I heard wrong 🤭
Sorry if this sounds weird but your smile is so radiant!! 😊
I'm really glad all these things do end up getting bought, and the treasure-hunting aspect of it will likely make people Treasure the items they did find so they don't end up in a landfill later anyway, but- the fact that one company's waste can fuel an entire, separate economy is. kind of unsettling if you step back a little.
The crazy thing is it's not just one store either, it's many
Very professional, and so much fun to watch. I am 70 year’s young and always looking for a good bargain on Amazon. You really opened my eyes into doing this. You both make a great team! God Bless 😊
People like that guy with the airfryer make me annoyed with stores like this.
There's one here near me that does waves like this, but they make everyone from the first wave leave at a specific amount of time after they go in. Charge a $1 entry fee and only allow one buggy per person(leeway with large package items)
It works extremely well and is very fluid. I just hate people that hoard stuff from others, only to end up reselling the crap on like Facebook marketplace lol
right? he was kinda rude like chill out
Same
That was my first thought. It's gonna attract all the worst people, like Black Friday all over again. But Saf and Tyler were so nice, it didn't leave such a bad taste in my mouth.
I went to a store similar to this and you could only buy as much as your IKEA bag could carry. I'm positive it was because of dudes like him.
PLEASE DO A PART 2! I'd love to see what kind of stuff is left over on Wednesdays!
And where do the leftovers on Wednesday go?
Just 1200 boxes of chocolate 🤣
I would guess thrift stores or places similar. I’d hope at least
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i went to this store a couple weeks ago! on Wednesday it’s very limited - nothing hi-tech like the haul on friday, a few bed sets and kitchen gadgets, random bits and bobs that are not worth more than a few dollars (i remember sunglasses, socks, HDMI adapters) and yes a lot of chocolate haha
I love that Safiya is wearing the key necklace that Cristine gave her as a wedding gift!
Good eye, I totally missed that.
I definitely think that in these types of stores you shouldn't be allowed to "hoard" a corner for yourself because lets be real here, that guy probably got all those products for the sake of reselling them for a mark up and that is scummy. There should be policies/rules to prevent this type of behaviour such as not being allowed to have more products than what you can fit in your shopping cart.
technically you could just take one of “his” hoarded items and it would be completely legal
i mean yeah but most people probably dont want to get into a fist fight at an amazon retuurns store@@dot558
Coming from a small business owner who sells on Amazon: if a package is opened and used Amazon will (hopefully catch it and not send it out as new) then ask the business if they want to pay for shipping to ship it back to the business or pay (less money) for Amazon to "dispose" of it for them. I'm guessing that's where these items all come from. Also little known fact, people think Amazon loses money from returns but make so much it doesn't matter. Amazon only loses money on their own brand products. For any third party seller, the third party pays for that free shipping and free returns, plus pay amazon processing fees. So they don't lose money and in fact make a little from liquidation sales
That is very interesting, thanks for sharing !
So anytime an item is returned you cannot re sell it on Amazon at all?
@@banshee1133 not if it has been clearly opened and used. We don't have any way to talk to the Amazon workers so we can't tell them how to check or what to look for, so some shady people will take advantage on this and return only half things (like taking tips and filters from the microdermabration tool) and get a full refund. We can send it back to ourselves and see if it has been used or if it can be repackaged. We donate anything we can't sell but it is the most expensive route to ship it back to ourselves. If items are reported as broken or if the item is inexpensive to begin with, I imagine a lot of companies going with the Amazon disposal route because it's more cost effective.
This place activates my hunter/gatherer instincts deep in my monke brain. Me forage, me find good deal, me bring back to cave.
Lololol
the volume of these returns is low key terrifying
We have an auction website in my country that began as an auctioneer for bankrupt companies having to pay off their debts by selling their equipment.
They also turned to selling returned items from stores, and I've got some quite good bargains out of those (from what I know from those times I bought something that way they usually look well cared for by the first person who bought it, some things were still sealed).
And the fact that this is all just from one location….🤯😳
You should see the returns section at a single Amazon warehouse. Crazy amount of work to do...
Just goes to show how many people buy from Amazon
man as an amazon worker youd lose your mind just how many packages are destroyed and thrown away in the warehouses lol
I used to work at Amazon dealing with liquidations and it’s not any liquidation companies that deal with the liquidation but instead it’s actually Amazon itself: all we did was throw the items in the box without worrying it would break or not because to us we told it was just trash. And so therefore I would just pocket some stuff lol.
That's so cool that the store employees recognized you and offered to show you guys the process! Made for a much more informational video than just "This is kinda what goes on, from what we understand"
I love how Saf respectfully falls in line even though the owner knows her. I mean the owner possibly told her to fall in line to be fair. But just look at her minding her own businesssss and being respectful
It's really rad that the owner recognized you and let you take a peek behind the scenes, that's awesome
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This is actually really smart for everyone! The company’s get ride of returns they can’t sell themselves. The store that get this items makes a CRAP TON of money. And the customer gets stuff for cheap to do with as they please!
not smart for the future of the earth and all those unfortunate to be affected negatively by that...
Holy Moses, that’s A LOT of returns. And that’s just ONE location in the US. 😱 Can you imagine how much crap people buy combined, if this is only a fraction of returns?! 😳 Materialism is through the roof!
Yeah and the garbage…
I know at my local ups store they have 3 giant boxes they just toss the returns in, i live in a tiny town in Vermont and those boxes are always full of returns when i go in
Saf even said they returned the foot spa they used in their video. So they filmed, profited, and returned it. Was disappointed by that.
@@echoecho7162 perhaps it didn't work properly
Materialism is a big part of it, yes. But it's also that home delivery is simply not the best way to get some things -i would even say MOST things. These centers exist, and also Kohl's stores handle Amazon returns. I don't know if all of them do, or only a few kohl's. But at the one i worked at last year we had at LEAST 20 returns per day, if not more. It might seem convenient, but adding in the disappointment of getting a damaged or inadequate item, having to pack it, take it somewhere, and then still end up needing to actually find a good version of what your looking for and get that instead -it adds up. I really believe that 95%+ of the time people are better off just shopping in person
this is like a mini documentary. 😮👏 So interesting and such great store concept!
ALL of her content is mini documentaries I think she has a smart person voice too
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@@lexisacci7104 yes, her voice is so satisfying to listen to! Perfect for mini-doc voice overs :)
With rent and utilities, buying the stock, paying the trucks (if that is a part of it), and paying the employees, I don't know how these stores manage to make enough money. Maybe they just make way more than I'm picturing..?
@@mynameisnothere9465 Just imagine the amount of items, I think it all adds up to a reasonable sum. And I think they buy the returns really cheap since Amazon probably just ships it off unsorted to the best bidder instead of paying money to have staff organizing the items.
I suppose the risk of getting nose hairs in your microdermabrasion kit is the price to be paid for nicely priced products hahaha
The microdermabrasion part killed me though hahah
Tyler: Don't do it, no stop. Don't.
Saf: Okay.
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I'm gonna do it again.
Tyler: Alright
But seriously there's so many good finds in this video! I had no idea that's what they did with the returns!
Hi Sara! 😃😃😃
Oh hi there Sara haha!
Amazon definitely doesn't do that with all of the returns. I watch some dumpster diving videos where people are constantly finding Amazon returns in Target and other store trash dumpsters, stores that take Amazon returns. Amazon evidently doesn't even want the items sent back to them at all. A lot of times the returns haven't even been opened. Weird, right?
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yoo sara! i was just watching your videos lol
Tyler playing around having fun in the pool is just so precious
3 cheers for the owner being a fan and giving Safiya and Ty a sneak peek!
Saf:”I was also attacked”
Tyler: “Here you go man”
lol
But thats why I love her
Lmao
If you picked up that electronic picture frame, you should know that parents/grandparents go nuts for those if you give it to them pre-loaded with family pictures. My grandmother has had hers for a few years now and still loves to show it to me every time I visit with the new pictures.
My dad got one of those for all the digital photos he’s been taking of our family on vacations since 2002. He liked it so much he recently set up a dedicated TV next to his souvenir shelves just to display a slideshow of photos from an old iPhone.
Omg you just reminded me of how my grandmother had gotten one and she used to always be so excited to upload her new pictures to it 🥺 and it would play in a slideshow, it was so cute
I got one for my parents and they love it, too. Of course, I am tech support for it, but still it was a good gift.
Wholesome thread
We got Great grandma a skylight you can email it pictures and the automatically pop up for her 100% recommend!
Had so much fun shopping with Saf as well as testing the various purchases. I am a senior senior so don't think I could handle the store hassle but I can live vicariously! Totally enjoy your channels.
You can't tell me the employees and managers of that store aren't the first people to either buy or stash the actually good items. There's just no way.
ikr especially the still sealed items
Probably minimum wage jobs so it's a perk of the job. Worked for a mail order book place in the 90s and once a week you could go and buy books by weight from the returns.
That's what I've been thinking. There is no way that they would put a Kitchenaid stand mixer or a sealed apple watch or something like that in the bin to sell it for $10 each.
@@LilybethII absolutely not! Kind of reminds me of Goodwill. Anything that's actually worth something never actually gets put on the sales floor.
@@LilybethII I feel like they add a few items so that the lucky shoppers tell their friends or promote on social media.. like that mini 2 drone cost $600 and I doubt it made it to the sales floor
The guy talking about his chocolate nightmares 😆🤣 I’d actually be very happy about having an endless supply of chocolate! & also I loveeee his voice.
I agree. Great voice!
There's probably something wrong with the chocolates if they get returned like that
@@CHiMEiD050 I’ve never heard of that brand before. I wonder if it’s anything like Bueno chocolate. There’s been so many times I got a bueno from the store and when I opened it it was so melted. The disappointment 😆
@@jessicapace4235 I have a thing for voices like that lol always have. If you like his voice, look up who Anuel AA is 😍 (sorry ahead of time if you don’t speak Spanish, Anuel does have some interviews in English as well though).
This is super interesting but it's also really sad - we live in a time when we have such an excess of things that people just don't need. So much wasted plastic, packaging, co2 emissions from the trucks - it's madness! But also I am conflicted because it is more likely to be redistributed and go to good use.... I can't decide.
The signs on the liquidation store suggest that it is for eBay reselling. A lot of these things won't get used by the people who are purchasing them but will be for resale. A never ending cycle.
The whole human race is a blight on the planet. The key word is balance. We will never find that balance, we have gone too far. Eventually we will destroy the planet and ourselves with it.
Yeah same..
This is actually so awesome to see! My family works in recycling and there's sooooo many items that can be used that have to be recycles because of business policies- just like amazon and others, other companies can't sell certain opened items or its just not worth the price to repackage and sell, so it gets trashed. I'm happy people are making ways to sell still usable items!
Safiya could literally make a video of her watching paint drying and I would still enjoy it. She is such a bright light in all the craziness and darkness that the virus caused. No matter what I am feeling, she always makes me smile.
RTGame, a gaming youtuber and twitch streamer tried a literal "watch paint dry" stream where he used someone's paint drying video on youtube and just sat there talking to chat. I wanna say that stream broke records for him but I honestly can't remember (chronic memory loss is "fun" x.x )
I worked at one of the Amazon slavehouses-i mean warehouses* for a year. It's honestly crazy how much seemingly good stuff gets moved to the liquidation center. And sometimes people make mistakes when inspecting returned items so perfectly good items get caught in the loop too
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May God bless you all and your loved ones and have a blessed day, night and life!✝️💞
not slavehouses I-😅I mean shore
@@jesuslovesyou8734 girl wtf was I on here when replying
I feel like the “one if by land, two if by sea, 10 if on Friday” joke needs more love!! 😂 so good
I cackled lol
I want a sign painted to say that.
I don't get it
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Paul Reveres ride: Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch
Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”
That's the first verse 😁
Your weed joint making machine - you could grind up other stuff to make. How about peppermint to add to sachets? How about things that burn easily for fire starters and perhaps dip them in wax to make them burn more quickly? Grind up sage to make cleaning sticks - see if they burn OK for house cleansings. Use more scented herbs to make popouri sachets, add to dishes to scent a room, or better yet, add to a small tie bag to either hang in the shower or add to the tub to soak in an herb 'tea'. And some of these herb 'joints' may work well in a sauna to make it smell nice when you are steaming. A great compact way to carry your herbs with you for meditational healing. So there you go. Not a 'wasted' purchase. (get it?)
Whenever saf posts it feels like your catching up with a good friend you haven’t seen in a long time.
I love how Tyler had to beg for a turn at the massage chair lol
Tyler saying he ate the chocolate made me laugh so much. The delivery guy must have been thrilled someone was eating them.
I'm so happy that the store owner offered you the behind-the-scenes tour. I love seeing how these businesses work!
I love that they are married and still address each other as 'dude' 😂
That's true marriage 😂😂
Is that not common??
@@TisNessie obviously not, you wouldn’t point out something everyone does, let’s use our brains here
Whenever I address mine as dude he responds with “ surfs up dude”.. he hates it haha
Me and my wife do too lol😂😂
The shipping cost was so over-the-top insane last time, this has got to be an easier way to get cheap things people have already used.
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This honestly made me curious of seeing if there are any local to me. I'm curious to see what kind of stuff I could find. Like those laptops they were going through could be a steal at $10 depending on the specs.. I'd love to find a store that does this for larger things too like TVs, monitors, furniture, etc. once again just to see what I could find.
Agreed!
my family got one of those massage chairs and we've uncovered a phenomenon called massage face, where upon sitting on the chair everyone makes the exact same funny relaxed eye half open face slightly slack face the second they sit on it. I laughed out loud 24:28 when Tyler showcased this phenomenon perfectly
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The employee having the breakdown over the chocolate was so relatable to me. It’s Royal Dansk cookie tins for me
The fact that you accidentally bought a high quality “grinder” had me laughing my ass off 😂
I have it and couldnt stop laughing when they started talking about it
Probs not an accident
i geeked when i saw that lmao
@@gracieanderson8529 there's not a stoner in the world who would move from california to north carolina they definitely do not partake
Its not even high quality, I've had so many otto returns its insane. Its like the biscolata.
That head is actually a practice dummy for people to learn how to do hair! I’m in cosmetology school right now and we use them, just Incase anyone was curious! They’re actually very expensive too
I would say it depends, some of the heads can be expensive. My school made us buy really pricey ones from a place in NY that was made with real hair. But I also bought artificial hair heads off amazon for like $30-$50, and compared to the around $100-$150 each of the real hair heads they’re not that expensive. But I know that you can get better quality ones that cost more money then just the cheap ones I got
@@madzilla6812 yeah I know, I just mean generally, I know the human hair ones cost a lot more and those are the ones required at my school, even then though I would consider 50 dollars expensive for just a synthetic head, of course it’s definitely a fair price but I’m not rich so 50 dollars is a lot from my perspective
I love your videos, especially how real and honest you are! Thank you for not censoring anything and literally showing anything and everything! You guys crack me up!
I think the best way I can sum up me feelings about these stores is that they're a great solution to a problem that should never have existed in the first place. I'm glad all this can get reused but holy fuck I hate this capitalist dystopia we live in.
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The waste is a problem, but why bring capitalism into this? Capitalism is an economic style for how things are sold, excessive consumerism is a cultural thing and has to do with the buyers, not the sellers? Or a behavior developed through growing up very spoiled. As for the large amounts of excess products, this once again has to do with the buyers? They keep returning perfectly intact products instead of using them. Or at least this is my understanding, ofc correct me if I’m wrong on smth, but I always remember capitalism being taught as an economic system
@@thetiredworm2100 well this quantity problem is a direct result of capitalism as the core value of all companies under capitalism is the maximization of profit, that means all other values that a company might have will always be overshadowed by the goal of making as much money as possible. I'm not even exaggerating that's exactly how it's written in economy text books. But if you have even juuust a smidge of life experience you KNOW that profit comes at the cost of people that actually did the labor and the environment. You could solve some issues by setting more regulations but people would complain that that's communism (it's not, it's just government doing their job).Capitalism created sentences like this -produce food if you can profit, if not let them starve
@@thetiredworm2100 it's very nice of you to defend big companies that mass produce, I'm sure they're very thankful. Reminds me of how companies created the term litterbug to shift the blame of the growing plastic waste onto the public instead of admitting that switching from returnable glass bottles to single use plastic bottles was a bad move
interesting, I didn't think about that, in some ways its true, but I can also think of this store as a positive thing as it can count as a thrift shop.
I'm pretty shocked like how many items are returned in a week.
and this is only one store of many. I am sure there are a lot of returned items that go straight to trash as well
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It feels so strange to me watching this video because whilst the stores are great for getting good deals, it just feels like an ode to our over-consumption and over-consumerism. I like that it allows people to get things at a great price if they otherwise couldn't afford it, but I dunno, it also feels kinda annoying with the way that some people are trawling these stores for their "side hustles" when less well off people could definitely benefit from getting some of these things and getting good use out of them.
Great video still though. I could see that there were things that even I could use there!
I’m naïve and didn’t even think about all the scalpers going to these places to resell the stuff for inflated prices till I came to the comments. Very sad
I know, right? Especially when Safiya panned to someone stocking lots of units of the same item-like it was obvious hoarding to probably resell. Scalpers are the worst 😩
@@folknaur Ya that pissed me off a little. I like get maybe getting two, b/c you never know if they are going to work b/c they are used. But it seems to be against the idea in my opinion of what these places are meant to be and/or should be.
@@folknaur I mean, I totally don't blame people for wanting to get a little extra money, but a lot of the times, scalpers tend to really rip people off, and that just leaves a bad taste.
Yeahhhhh these sorts of videos always kinda feel like a capitalism circlejerk
Y’all found my mixing bowls that got lost in the mail 😂
It's so nice that they recognized you and let you guys film a behind-the-scenes :)
The excess of our society is truly outstanding. If the powers that be would only reorganize so that people wouldn’t have to go without. Clearly it’s just a matter of reallocating resources. We have more than enough to give…. Just no monetary incentive to get it there.
Exactly, that is the reason that we see water shortages.
But it was reallocating resources!! It was much better than things going to waste and ppl got things very cheap!
SAME I was totally thinking the same thing
my favorite thing about Saf and Tyler moving to NC like probably 15 minutes away from me is that if they show a place in a video thats interesting, I can just stop over there casually. Legit this store is 5 minutes from my work
Please go on dollar day and tell us what you find!
Lucky!
literally same lol
Sameee
bro same!!!!
I'm glad you looking after yourself. People will always enjoy your videos. You just take care of yourself ♥️
It's very neat to have the store owners reaction to seeing you filming be 'Oh Rad, you want a behind the scenes tour?'
This should be a series: Saf & the Absurdist American Shopping Culture
YES! As a non-American I’m always like “huh!?”
except they live and love to see trash :^)
Allahu akbar
I'm always surprised by Americans' ability to buy tons of stuff they do not need at all 😅
Worldwide
Saf and Tyler playing in the pool with their toys was so wholesome 💖
The naked mole rat is my spirit animal! I love when they get the recognition they deserve 😊
“Well massaged back of husband = less grumpy”
“Hmm.. that’ll catch on”
I’m dead
For someone who lives in Europe - this store gives me *Every store on news on black friday* vibes. People just standing in the super long line and spending time going through all that stuff, gloating when they find a cool thing.. and for what 😅
Yeah I get there's a bargain , but, there is always a bargain there, so it's no need to go hog wild.
European way of buying used stuff: things that still have warranty, only buying it after you've seen it working AND secretly inspecting the seller's house to see if they look generally clean
This video is both fun and exciting
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Fun moments!!
I love that even though they got a hookup from the inside, they still line up every time like a normal customer. This is what separates them from most influencers/content creators out there.
As an Amazon employee, we do sell things that are damaged. The shoes I receive and stow have holes in the boxes and are smushed but our OM says it’s ok.
Also as an employee, Amazon sucks. Don’t give them money.
As a person who has bought a lot of things from Amazon and needs to stop, you're absolutely right. I can confirm sometimes Bezos sells us obviously messed up or even counterfeit things. It's sad. He has plenty money to have a higher quality business.
I have decided to do a "Amazon Free Holiday" where I don't buy anything from them bc of how they treat their employees.
I haven’t purchased anything from Amazon in 3 years. Unfortunately they own so much other stuff that I can’t get away from them (AWS is the obvious one but also Whole Foods, Twitch, IMBd, and soon the freaking lion movie studio). Shocking how much of a stranglehold they have on the world.
As someone who works in Vendor Returns (liquidations) at Amazon, its great to see the stuff actually gets bought. Unfortunately Vendor Returns also deals with the recycling, which is literally just really good, unused, returned stuff, that goes to the trash :/
Man that sucks :(... I have to return some boots that don't quite fit, it's sad to know they might just end up in the trash for no good reason. I don't know if I'll buy clothing/shoes on Amazon anymore tbh.
Wow, can I ask - does Amazon resell any returned items as new?
Do the workers not get to keep the “trash”? Or would they think u would resell it and not let you take it
@@erinfrazier1439 sadly, no it would be considered stealing. So it must be thrown away.
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Damn, those stores are crazy, didn't know that they even existed. Just one of those times that the USA feels like another planet!
"Where every Friday is Black Friday".
I wish there was one where I live.
I love that you leave the stuff that the video was actually about in your video description! Unlike all these narcissistic TH-camrs just leaving an overload of self-promotion leaving nothing the video was even about. THANK YOU FOR BEING BETTER! 💞
I volunteer at a charity shop and the behind the scenes part definitely reminds me about sorting donations. Especially the part where we have no idea what something is.
I worked in the warehouse of a non profit thrift store and I definitely get what you mean, I’m having nostalgia
I love how Saf normalizes in her videos being makeup free :-) She looks gorgeous!
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@@spideronawhiteflag you're very welcome to use the dictionary and choose the word that most pleases you when you write your own comments 💁♀️
May God bless you all and your loved ones and have a blessed day, night and life!✝️💞
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TYLER ON THE PHONE WALLPAPER
ICONIC
I live in Raleigh too so ever since yall moved here it’s so exciting when you film about local places! I remember checking the Treasure Hunt out when it first opened, it was chaos
its good that they do this instead of throwing it all away, usually companies prefer to throw things away than give the idea you can get their product for cheaper
It would be interesting to see what's left on a one dollar day
This is like a new age thrift store. But glad it’s done, we should not be wasting so much
I agree
You really dredged up a memory for me. When I was a little kid, my dad had these water torpedos from when he was younger and we used to chuck them in the water and basically race to collect them. Don't know why it was fun but I have very distinct memories of it being fun and it brought a big smile to my face c: