I love a good European train station story, and I’m always down for a wacky vending machine tale, if you mash the two together I have to share the tale. It seems that the central train station in the charming southwestern German university city of Freiburg has installed an unusual vending machine.

The machine dispenses packages that contain returned merchandise from online retailers such as Aliexpress and Temu. It is much too expensive to ship the merchandise back to the retailer (usually in China), so the retailer sells the merchandise to their a fulfillment center that in turn resells it to liquidators, in this case the vending machine owner. Oddly, the packages are sold with the shipping label on them.