Alexi Horowitz-Gazzy has a thing for a certain kind of camping equipment.

You know, like solar powered string lights for your campsite,

just to add that little magical ambiance.

You could say it's glamorous camping equipment.

A camping wine glass or corrov or like a camping cutting board.

I'm on the edge of glamping with all of these things.

I'm not comfortable enough to just like say I'm a glamper,

but I've been shipping away at the edges.

All right, so when he's not borderline glamping,

Alexi is a host of MPR's Planet Money,

a podcast about the economy.

And even though he doesn't like to admit it,

a big reason why Alexi is willing to spend money

on these less than practical items is because if he doesn't need them,

he can just send them back.

I always want the like option to return those things.

Since Alexi is a repeat returner,

he wanted to look into what happens to these things

after he gets his money back.

And I started diving into the kind of world on YouTube

of all of these entrepreneurs,

all these resellers who kind of buy palettes or boxes

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