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I like e ink but this idea isn't doing it for me. Shopping labels are cheap and easy to print, and in a world where we're staying to pay attention to the environment, this looks like a step backwards.

I also want to get a Hisense a5 and start messing with it

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It seems crazy to me to pay $300 for a reusable e-ink label when there are countless of them on the market for 1/10th the cost. here is an example, granted its smaller but even the 7x7 inch displays are less than $100.

https://a.co/d/9ahbNhQ

The only downside is that if you down want to use a phone to update them, getting hardware and software them to update them quickly was seemingly impossible.

> cheap and easy to print

If you have a printer of course.

Amazon returns drive me up the wall because unlike everyone else, they expect you to print your own labels.

That being said, if you don't have a printer, you'll also not have a e-ink label to throw away.

I suspect this could be more useful in a B2B setting (similar to how pallets are used today).

> Amazon returns drive me up the wall because unlike everyone else, they expect you to print your own labels.

I live in the EU, and I don’t know any e-commerce brands that ship you a label every time you request a return - that sounds incredibly wasteful.

My experience is they send a return label in with the product initially, and for some more high value items, they'll send a courier to pick up.

They also don't need barcodes for processing, so you can normally just write the address on the box.

UK here, and we don't print return labels for Amazon. We just take the package to the local store, and they scan the returns barcode on my phone which then prints a shipping label right there, and also doubles as an electronic receipt of where I handed over the parcel.

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