“In two days, we will have sold three tonnes of packages.
» With her eye fixed on the stalls around which a swarm of buyers gather, Sarah Rech predicts the very near end of all the stock of packages she has brought.
It's only late Saturday morning and since the day before, this retailer has set up shop in the gallery of the Villevert shopping center in Senlis (Oise), with a concept that is all the rage almost everywhere.
His company, like many others, buys packages by weight from e-commerce platforms that could not be delivered.
Packages which are resold as, by weight also.
“It’s 3 euros per 100 g, 30 euros per kilo,” explains the sales manager.
And for buyers, it will be a surprise because we buy without knowing what might be inside.
“I saw an ad and I came out of curiosity,” says a young man about to buy three packages.
We'll see what I find, I'm not looking for anything in particular and I have no idea what might be in there.
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Branded shoes and headphones
Others are already much more experienced in this type of ephemeral sales and have achieved some good deals.
“I came yesterday (Friday) morning and for 54 euros, I got a pair of designer shoes and headphones,” explains a man who loaded an entire cart with packages.
I came back yesterday afternoon where I picked up a very large box for 140 euros, which contained a large heated mirror.
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Many buyers have left with packages whose contents they were unaware of at the time of purchase.
Advantageous choices, based on the appearance of the packages but above all a good dose of success because it is not easy to guess what these mystery packages contain.
Most buyers hope to discover high-tech devices there, but this is not the majority of unclaimed packages.
On the other hand, you can find quite a few clothes there, you just have to be lucky to find an item that you like and that is adapted to the size of the buyer.
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The formula is attractive and wherever these sales are organized, stocks go very quickly.
“We have already visited Nanteuil-le-Haudouin and Othis in Seine-et-Marne, and each time, we sell all the stock,” emphasizes Sarah Rech.
To fuel these sales, we purchase parcel stocks throughout Europe.
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In the gallery of the Senlis supermarket, the sale will continue until the exhaustion of stocks this Saturday, which are constantly renewed since a law of January 2022, the platforms are prohibited from destroying these packages which have not could not be distributed, provided that they are not foodstuffs.
Their return to the circuit via these ephemeral sales is therefore everyone's business, starting with buyers, delighted to treat themselves to the thrill of opening a package in the hope of finding a good deal.