Your Amazon Returns Are Thrown in the TRASH

So-called "free returns” aren’t free at all. In this video, I share the surprising truth about the lies corporations tell you to make you buy more, and what REALLY happens when you send it all back. SUPPORT ON PATREON -   / adamconover   SEE ADAM LIVE - http://adamconover.net/tourdates SUBSCRIBE TO FACTUALLY PODCAST - http://link.chtbl.com/factually SOURCES: Consumers spend 1 trillion in 2022: http://tinyurl.com/yzfvb69t A fifth of holiday spending done online: http://tinyurl.com/muv56j7p Sales up 37% since pandemic: http://tinyurl.com/54ejzx7n Amazon bought Zappos for 1.2 billion: http://tinyurl.com/2twu5htr Consumers consider free returns most favored: http://tinyurl.com/3dp6633s Consumers will pay more for free shipping: http://tinyurl.com/y2ct3sdj Etsy instructed vendors to raise prices to disguise shipping fees: http://tinyurl.com/y2ct3sdj Amazon Prime has 200 million members: http://tinyurl.com/4cd8e6fk We return up to 40% of what we buy: http://tinyurl.com/2twu5htr A minimal amount of returns ever make it back to the shelf: http://tinyurl.com/2twu5htr “Apparel is like vegetables”: http://tinyurl.com/2twu5htr 34 billion pounds of textile waste: http://tinyurl.com/ytspevcv Fashion industry destroys product to avoid resale: http://tinyurl.com/3bee84wa Mountain of clothes in Chilean Desert: http://tinyurl.com/mr938t8x Robots can’t sew: http://tinyurl.com/4jabjmz8 Child Labor:    • The REAL Conspiracy to Exploit Kids   Amazon delivery drivers pee in bottles: http://tinyurl.com/4fydumyx Amazon warehouse workers pee in bottles: http://tinyurl.com/5ebdu6ea Returns in landfills nearly doubled since 2019: http://tinyurl.com/32z37ufr Some brands have their own secondhand stores: http://tinyurl.com/4pz72p7v Lululemon founder blames women for see through pants: https://abc7news.com/archive/9317396/ Lululemon founder isn’t opposed to child labor: http://tinyurl.com/ycktb4er Lululemon founder dishonest with SEC: http://tinyurl.com/2v6nx8yw