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A shop has opened in Brussels selling still-sealed unwanted Amazon parcels by the kilo, effectively a lottery ticket which could win the holder a connected watch, a smartphone \u2013 or a toothbrush or two.<\/p>\nA shop has opened in Brussels selling still-sealed unwanted Amazon parcels by the kilo, effectively a lottery ticket which could win the holder a connected watch, a smartphone \u2013 or a toothbrush or two.<\/p>\n
The shop called \u201cPile ou Face\u201d, French for \u201cHeads or Tails\u201d, is located near the central square Place Flagey and offers the parcels at \u20ac16 ($17.40) per kilo. Customers pick a box among the dozens stored in the shop and some open them on the spot.\u201cIt is like gambling. I paid \u20ac40 and I got three or four headphones, I did a good job,\u201d said Paul, who declined to give his last name.Gisele Peeters is a bit disappointed, though. Her \u20ac14.40 parcel contained an old-style telephone with a dial. \u201cIt\u2019s not something I would have bought. I\u2019ll try to resell it,\u201d she said.Arnaud Userstam, who founded the shop, said connected watches and smartphones are the items people are happiest to get, but others return home with clothes, or sometimes especially weird items.\u201cA lady got 100 toothbrushes for dogs,\u201d he said.Userstam started the business after he and his wife wondered what happened with parcels with delivery problems after experiencing the issue themselves knowing that in Belgium courier services cannot resell lost parcels.They found out other similar shops existed elsewhere.Pile ou Face signed contracts with the giant U.S. e-retailer Amazon in Europe to get parcels that were not retrieved from pickup places, that were returned by customers or simply got lost.Userstam did not elaborate on the contracts, though he said that previously these parcels were just destroyed.Follow the
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A shop named “Pile ou Face” has opened in Brussels, selling still-sealed, unwanted Amazon parcels by the kilo for \u20ac16 (.40) per kilo. The shop is located near Place Flagey. Customers can win items ranging from connected watches and smartphones to toothbrushes. Some customers, like Paul, find value in their purchases, while others, like Gisele Peeters, are disappointed. The shop was founded by Arnaud Userstam, who started the business after learning that courier services in Belgium cannot resell lost parcels. “Pile ou Face” acquires parcels through contracts with Amazon, involving parcels not retrieved from pickup places, returned by customers, or lost. Previously, these parcels were destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[246,209,186,3,201,266,250,387,2017,1806,2019,2018],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-amazon","tag-box","tag-business","tag-cyprus","tag-europe","tag-gambling","tag-google","tag-lost","tag-lottery-ticket","tag-services","tag-shop","tag-unwanted-amazon-parcels"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n