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I purchased a three-pack of the Take Back Bags - $45. Filled each with clothing, shoes, linens, etc., and returned them via UPS. The return process was fairly easy using a QR code then dropping the bag off at my neighborhood UPS Store, so yay for that. My return bags earned me 90 points total, which I thought would be like $90 as a gift card to use for things I actually need -- gas, groceries, cat food from Chewy. Instead, you use the points to purchase small discounts on goods and services from brands I’ve not heard of or to purchase small discounts from brands I’m already buying from elsewhere -- and if I watch the sales, I don’t really need the Trashie points to get the discounts. I did use some of my points to buy a small credit to use the next time I book a hotel I’ve used in the past in NYC, but when I went to use the middleman’s website required for making reservations and using the credit, the prices were higher than what I had paid going directly to the hotel’s website. I like what Trashie is trying to do -- reduce the textiles that end up in landfills -- but the point system currently feels like it encourages people to buy more stuff. It just feels wasteful.