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Poll results I find shocking

Post by blythburgh » Sun Oct 18 2020 8:03am

The swagbucks poll of the day question yesterday was:

How often do you receive parcels at your home?

Pretty much every day 8%

A few times a week 21%

A few times a month 36%

A few times a year 16%

Very rarely 11%

Never 5%

OK this is just a members poll and not a real Market Research one. But why does anyone need to order on the internet every day or a few days a week? How much of what they are getting is sent back?

Sadly some returns are sold off cheaply but too much of it is sent to landfill. And we all pay in terms of environmental damage and theamount firms have to charge more just to cover the costs of off loading items as below the usual cost.
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Re: Poll results I find shocking

Post by kevinchess1 » Sun Oct 18 2020 9:13am

But what was the question?
Was it too do with Bonking or sozzled?
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Re: Poll results I find shocking

Post by Sarah » Sun Oct 18 2020 10:53am

Online shopping, presumably; but could that include things as mundane as digital music/movies/games, ordering lunch or paying for parking?
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Re: Poll results I find shocking

Post by Richard Frost » Sun Oct 18 2020 11:13am

This was the question:

How often do packages arrive at your home?
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Re: Poll results I find shocking

Post by Sarah » Sun Oct 18 2020 11:31am

So all physical deliveries then; that could make Wizzard happy, they wished it could be Christmas everyday!
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Re: Poll results I find shocking

Post by Chadwick » Sun Oct 18 2020 2:39pm

Richard Frost wrote:
Sun Oct 18 2020 11:13am
This was the question:

How often do packages arrive at your home?
So not a question about internet shopping per se.
This could also include purchases that are delivered to the home, food shopping, or purchases from local suppliers now offering delivery, as well as the obvious Amazon purchases.

It also includes 'over-shopping', and then returning unwanted items, but these are usually returned in saleable condition (eg. ordering clothes in two sizes to see which fits best).

But the question and answer does not address how many of these parcels are returned, so any comment on that is just conjecture.
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Re: Poll results I find shocking

Post by blythburgh » Mon Oct 19 2020 7:59am

Chadwick wrote:
Sun Oct 18 2020 2:39pm

It also includes 'over-shopping', and then returning unwanted items, but these are usually returned in saleable condition (eg. ordering clothes in two sizes to see which fits best).
Unfortunately only a percentage are sold on to other outlets like The Original Factory Shop or sold on ebay. I have read many of the returned items are sent to landfill.
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Re: Poll results I find shocking

Post by Sarah » Mon Oct 19 2020 9:28am

I doubt that happens to many items from Amazon (for example); they're not exactly a company known for wasteful behaviours... returned "open box" goods are commonly resold through their warehouse and they often advise customers to keep items that aren't economic to return/resell.
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Re: Poll results I find shocking

Post by kevinchess1 » Mon Oct 19 2020 2:56pm

Chadwick wrote:
Sun Oct 18 2020 2:39pm
Richard Frost wrote:
Sun Oct 18 2020 11:13am
This was the question:

How often do packages arrive at your home?
So not a question about internet shopping per se.
This could also include purchases that are delivered to the home, food shopping, or purchases from local suppliers now offering delivery, as well as the obvious Amazon purchases.
Could also include Royal Male packages. Answers will be skewed by people like StockportcountyNIL who gets loads of drugs delivered every week :?
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Re: Poll results I find shocking

Post by blythburgh » Tue Oct 20 2020 8:34am

Sarah wrote:
Mon Oct 19 2020 9:28am
I doubt that happens to many items from Amazon (for example); they're not exactly a company known for wasteful behaviours... returned "open box" goods are commonly resold through their warehouse and they often advise customers to keep items that aren't economic to return/resell.
Clothes are the items most often returned. Buy 6 items, try on all, buy one send back five is more common than you would think. Too many people use internet shopping for clothes like they would a shop. But the difference is they are packaged and not off a hanger. So very difficult for firm to resell at a decent profit margin.
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