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Sorry but don't work that way any products that are edibles. CAN NOT BE RESOLD BY A COMPANY ONCE ITS RETURN BY A CUSTOMER. MANY REASONS FOR THIS.THEY COULD HAD POISONED IT AND RETURN IT. SO BY LAW IT HAS TO BE TRASHED
It very much does work this way. It's not supposed to and Amazon will state that they do not return a food item to inventory to be sold again. However they do this.
Most big names and contract manufacturers have a policy that is "as soon as the product leaves our doors and it is returned for any reason, it is automatically trashed." They do this because it makes returns vastly easier and it hedges the risk of a customer suing.
I know this from experience. I used to own a contract manufacturing facility dietary supplements on Amazon for 5 years as a revenue stream. One item was a blister pack. Since we sold volume about once every 2 or 3 months a complaint would make it through stating that pills would be missing out of the blister card. Naturally for the first few complaints we assumed that a blister card would make it off if the line with a pill missing and that open pocket would be sealed. We upgraded our line to have a laser eye to address the "supposed" manufacturing problem.
The complaints still came in with missing pills. Finally our customer service team started following up with the customer directly. Sure as shit, ever single customer that complained of missing pills would send us a picture of the blister pack that was clearly damaged and had a pill pushed out of the pack. Now we know it wasn't on the manufacturing end. Amazon was taking returned product and putting it back into inventory even though we have explicitly sent them documentation that we have instructed "if any product is retured for any reason, could even be wrong address or undeliverable, it must be disposed of."
This was a massive battle with them that resulted in them still doing what they do because it's Amazon.
One the customer side we had over 1 million orders that were fulfilled of our products on Amazon during the 5 years we sold on that platform. I can tell you extremely crazy return stories of customers doing really stupid things at returning items to get their money back. This isn't at all too surprising.
Just a FYI if you ever get an item that has a barcode sticker on it and the barcode begins with "LPN" that was a previously returned item.
This is why I say to never to buy your supplements from Amazon.