amazon selling resealed movies as brand new?!?!?

[JurassicBD]

We just received yet another "brand new" Blu-ray, shipped AND sold by amazon, with a digital code that had already been redeemed.

This happened just a month or so back with a Universal Pictures BD. We just assumed someone mistyped their code and inadvertently redeemed ours. However this week we had it happen again, but with a title from Warner Bros. Both looked professionally shrinkwrapped, the discs were spotless, and they even came with slipcovers. But curiously, both had a sticker over the barcode cutout on the slipcover that had to be removed just to slid the case out, as it was stuck to both the shrinkwrap and the slip. I wish I looked at what the sticker said, before tearing it into pieces while removing it. The sticker looked rather like something amazon would put on a used movie they used to ship.


We're left to assume that either amazon is re-shrinkwrapping opened returns and reselling them as new or the studio is and shipping them back to amazon without testing or replacing the codes. I imagine amazon's system would catch it if customers were returning re-shrinkwrapped movies, unless most of the people buying them aren't actually redeeming their digital vouchers, and thus don't know they're bad.