A London store is selling refurbished products sold on Amazon for up to 50% off, including PlayStations, Nintendo Switches and much more.
The money from the store is going to Barnardo’s. The charity help children living in poverty.
The money from the store is going to Barnardo’s. The charity help children living in poverty.
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00:00 Yes, so we've been working with Amazon for about five years now.
00:07 They donate a lot of their products to Barnardo's that we can then resell in our shops.
00:12 So this project is actually all about Amazon's reused and refurbished products.
00:19 And what they've done is they've donated those to Barnardo's and then opened this shop so
00:24 we can sell it.
00:25 So all of the proceeds from the two weeks of this shop being open.
00:29 The proceeds are going to go to Barnardo's.
00:32 In the last year Barnardo's supported 357,000 children across the UK.
00:38 We have around 790 services and that ranges from anything from adoption through to helping
00:46 children that are in care, supporting children leaving care.
00:50 So one in four children in the UK are classed as in poverty and we're working with the funds
00:58 that we have and the funds that we're generating from this to help those children with things
01:03 that they need.
01:04 So food, essential items, things like that.
01:07 Yes, so not everything is reused.
01:10 Some of it has been returned perhaps because the box is broken or somebody bought it and
01:17 then they got gifted it again.
01:20 And then obviously Amazon have a really stringent process on their refurbished items.
01:26 So anything that's been refurbished for resale has been through that process.
01:30 So essentially everything's almost brand new.
01:33 Yes, so the Ninja air fryers are amazing.
01:36 I actually bought one myself.
01:39 But there's just such a vast amount of products and just some really great things, especially
01:46 for Christmas presents and stuff like that.
01:48 And because most of them are around 50% of the recommended retail price, you can grab
01:53 some real bargains.
01:54 Okay, well we're part of the repair route for Amazon.
01:59 So we receive returned items from users that either don't like the product that they bought
02:06 or they're not happy with it or it's faulty.
02:09 So we'll receive that item back to us and we will refurbish it.
02:13 There's obviously a very good environmental requirement for this.
02:18 The items can be reused and repaired and resold again.
02:25 This is obviously very good for the environment in terms of the materials that are used for
02:29 production.
02:30 It's a really good cause to do.
02:34 So I feel like at the moment it's going towards a good cause.
02:40 It's fantastic.
02:41 We've come down here from, we're based in Manchester, we've come down here from Manchester
02:46 with our team, very willingly to set up this and demonstrate what a good cause Barnardo's
02:52 is.
02:53 It's amazing.
02:54 So yeah, we think this is going to do a really great job for generating the much needed funds
02:59 that we need for Barnardo's to continue the work that we do throughout the year.