Try your luck in Brussels: Shop sells still-sealed unwanted Amazon parcels

BRUSSELS: A store has opened in Brussels promoting unruffled-sealed undesirable Amazon parcels by the kilo, successfully a lottery trace which might catch the holder a linked accept as true with, a smartphone – or a worthless trinket.

The store known as “Pile ou Face”, French for “Heads or Tails”, is positioned come the central sq. Build Flagey and gives the parcels at €16 (US$17.40) per kilogramme. Clients decide a box amongst the handfuls saved within the shop and some birth them on the disclose.

“It is cherish playing. I paid €40 and I got three or four headphones, I did a precise job,” acknowledged Paul, who declined to present his last name.

Gisele Peeters is rather disappointed, even though. Her €14.40 parcel contained an venerable-vogue phone with a dial. “Or now not it is now not something I’d bear purchased. I might attempt to resell it,” she acknowledged.

Arnaud Userstam, who primarily based the shop, acknowledged linked watches and smartphones are the devices folks are happiest to fetch, nonetheless others return home with garments, or customarily especially uncommon devices.

“A lady got 100 toothbrushes for dogs,” he acknowledged.

Userstam started the alternate after he and his wife puzzled what took space with parcels with offer issues after experiencing the peril themselves. They came all over out other identical shops existed in diversified areas.

Pile ou Face signed contracts with the large US e-retailer Amazon in Europe to fetch parcels that weren’t retrieved from pickup areas, that were returned by possibilities or merely got misplaced.

Userstam did now not account for on the contracts, even though he acknowledged that previously these parcels were precise destroyed.