they probably end up in a warehouse run by marcus shen, the coo of a company called v stock sourcing that auctions off literally tons of return merchandise. he says the amount of stuff they have to deal with jumped 30% in the first quarter the month following the holidays. marcus, welcome. let's start with where all this stuff comes from. how did it get to you? >> so we're a marketplace. so on both sides of the marketplace, we have sellers. those typically are retailers, brands, manufacturers who have this type of excess merchandise. so it won't be returns like you were talking about or even overstock inventory. >> so what is in it for the companies that are sending it to you? do you pay them upfront, or do you give them a cut of the auction? >> yeah. no. the great thing about our model is we're a marketplace. so our primary role is to use technology to match sellers with buyers. and, so, the benefit to them is that they are able to sell to a huge network of buyers who are, you know, ultimately going to sell this inventory downstream to consumers like you and me. >> i was just kind o

. >> marcus shen runs b-stock, one of oo a handful of online auctio platforms where retailers can off load excess or return merchandise to buyers like friedman who look forward to the holiday purge. >> after the holidays, we typically see about a 30% increase in returns. this year, with covid, we certainly expect that to be up. >> b-stock's buyers have access to more than 50 major retailers. last year, that amounted to over $5 billion worth of retail sales. auctioned off through the site all of it turned through a network of nearly 2,000 distribution warehouses across the country. >> the reselling business in general has been booming eventually, there will be a buyer for everything that i do buy. >> talk about happy returns. for the news, i'm andrea day. >>> bernie sanders and his mittens raising almost $2 million for charity chances are you've seen this image in a meme or two senator sanders sitting at the inauguration, mittens covered hands crossing his lap after the image went viral, the sanders campaign store offered this chairman sanders collection of clothing. the money went to