Christmas comes and buying gifts becomes the norm. What is perhaps less common is to do it blind, the curious business model that will arrive in Barcelona this week with the pop-up of“My Mystery Package”, an ephemeral store that sells lost surprise packages from Amazon at prices below their real value with one condition: the package can not be opened until after buying it.
“My Mystery Package” will arrive this Wednesday, November 11 at 10 am at the Montigalà shopping center in Badalona, after having already successfully passed through other cities such as Madrid, Valencia or Tarragona.
How Amazon’s lost surprise package store works
The definition of this curious business model is simple: you buy a surprise package (which you have previously been able to touch and look at, but not open), you open it and there you can find “phones, designer clothes … but also unlikely objects such as sex toys”.
The purchase price is a flat rate of 20 euros/kilo. For this price you can buy either a large package or 5 small ones, for example. To make their choice, customers can touch and weigh the package, choose it (blindly) and finally go to the checkout where they will be weighed and charged the relevant amount.
The creators of this business model, a French company, explain that the products come from purchases of lost or unclaimed packages from shipping companies such as DHL in Germany, which are then resold by weight to consumers who go to their stores.
If anyone wants to get ahead of the surprise, they can check out the company’s instagram, which features many of the products that customers have already found in ephemeral stores like the one in Madrid, where a ton of products were put up for sale and more than a thousand people went on a (surprise) search for them.
How to get to the Montigalà shopping center?
To get to the Montigalà Shopping Center from Barcelona (Passeig Olof Palme, 28-36, 08917 Badalona), you can go by metro (L1, Fondo station) and by car, taking the B-20 freeway and taking exit 20 towards Montigalà.
Other Amazon stores in Barcelona
The business is reminiscent of the Prime Deals store , a store that opened a few months ago in Barcelonawith a similar model, selling lost Amazon products obtained in auctions at 40% of their original price.
On the other hand, in Manresa also opened Gangazon, a store that sells Amazon returns where you can find products at greatly reduced prices.