>>8253526>One of the reasons it's so hard to find black Barbie dolls from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s is because instead of donating the unsold black Barbie dolls to the poor or to charities Mattel opted instead to destroy all of their unsold toys and dolls.This just proves that you have no idea how a product manufacturer actually works.
Companies destroy their unsold products all the time. It's not something they want to do, but if there's no buyer, then it's just sitting in a warehouse taking up space & money. It's more cost effective to write off the merch as a loss in the tax returns, then sell the lot for scrap to be recycled. Unlike people, corporations have no innate sense of hoarding.
And no, you can't just "give it away" to some charity organization. First, the charity would have to want your unsold merch. There's ALOT of stuff donated to charities that goes unwanted and destroyed by the charities themselves. Second, there's the charitable tax write-off vs. the aforementioned tax break on losses. Whichever one nets the bigger gain for the company. Third is the lost manpower, time, and money searching for this needy charity to give your unwanted merch to. Sometimes it's just best to cut your losses and move on.
And yes I know what I'm talking about because I used to work at a book warehouse where we frequently *gasp!* destroyed books.
