Shipping resource based redirection of return items

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• creating a secondary purchaser data set including information indicative of:
• (i) identities of a plurality of secondary purchasers, with each secondary purchaser being a retailer that is interested in buying returned goods, (ii) location information for each secondary purchaser of the plurality of secondary purchasers, and (iii) contact information for each secondary purchaser of the plurality of secondary purchasers;
• identifying an item to be that a primary purchaser has purchased, received and requested to return to a primary vendor;
• determining a first secondary purchaser in the same local area as the primary purchaser based on the secondary purchaser data set;
• offering the first secondary purchaser an offer to purchase the item from the primary vendor;
• receiving, from the first secondary purchaser, acceptance of the offer to purchase the item from the primary purchaser;
• and
• responsive to the receipt of the acceptance, instructing the primary purchaser to return the item to the first secondary purchaser in the same local area as the primary purchaser.