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TL;DR Amazon Europe will require sellers to provide a return address in the country of purchase, or provide automatic refund without return for purchases under £20.

Amazon updated their terms and conditions. I received a similar email from each of Amazon UK, DE, FR, IT, in their respective language. This is the English email from Amazon UK.

Don't know about the US.

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in germany this happened because for chinese sellers it was so cheaper to send garbadge to random adresses instead of sending it to a recycle factory or the likes. so if a product was not bought anymore they needed to get rid of it. and send it on masses to random adresses. here is a video (in german) about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT4IJYzbMi0

I most european countries it is also prohibitly expensive for customers to send something to other coutries. So in turn we world only buy cheap shit from Amazon that we knew we wouldn't care to return anyway.

Naturally this limits the opportunities for Amazon.

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