Incredible!!!!!!! This country is upside down!
More required to return Chatty Cathy than to vote for president.
I can’t believe these evil retailers are suppressing the poor, elderly and minorities by requiring them to show an ID for returns.
What a racist based retail system we have.
Where are the protests, where are the democrats to defend these people that are obviously having their right to return products suppressed.
This happened to me a couple of years ago at a local Ross store. I refused to give my ID, told them I would keep the darn blouse and give it away. Also that I would not be returning to their store which I haven’t. They didn’t care.
I have no problem giving my ID to Home Depot when I return lumber or hardware I didn’t use. They often require it for store credit and cash returns, and since I generally go back to spend that money on something else in the store, it’s not really a loss for them.
The idea of storing the information to track habitual returners is a bit much though. What are they going to do, turn you away from the store or otherwise ban you from shopping there?
I don’t understand the “renting” of things though. The black community, specifically rappers, made it popular about 10 years ago to buy clothes and leave the tags on them. It became a status symbol of sorts. The fact that they were returning those items is tragic if not comical and I think a testament to society overall.
This is OK, but to vote it isn’t?
This is a country that has lost any idea of who it is. It has lost its self-esteem. It doesn’t care what happens to it.
Borders language culture. What’s left?
It does fuel the refurb market but retailers can't be happy with it.
Home Defect does this all the time. I constantly see people returning power tools after a single use. I routinely buy refurb power tools from places like CPO on the web and basically receive a brand new tool for like 40% off retail. The pool of tools out there must be astronomical.
As a contractor, I’m always returning (UNUSED) items usually for store credit. The only way I return anything else is if it is defective.
Just after being released from Desert Shield/Storm, I took a part time job for the Christmas rush at a Montgomery Ward store in Indianapolis. I worked in “Electronic Avenue”. I was floored by the many returns of previously sold merchandise purchased either during the previous Christmas or during the after Christmas sales. Most were cordless phones or other small electronics. The phones looked like they had been used in a combat zone but since they had bought the “extended warranty” (a high profit item for the store), all were “entitled” to a newer, comparable phone. No doubt they would all be returned for next Christmas if they lasted that long. I often thought this was one of the reasons Wards went bankrupt.
I did get a great RCA clock radio for myself which had a wonderful radio and sound. It worked great until my cat threw up on the speaker grill. I’ve replaced the speaker but the control wires broke and I’m still trying to find a replacement.
I knew of a way to get $15-20 in store credit for $.01. It was very widely abused and people would literally have thousands of dollars in store electronic gift cards.
Yes, $15-20 in store credit for ONE CENT by abusing return policies. Of course this was years ago and every retailer whose return policy would allow you to do this has been gone for more than 5 years.
Do not underestimate the cost of return abuse to a retailer. Every retailer I’ve seen that didn’t clamp down on this, and we’re talking multiple big box retailers, is bankrupt.
Comp USA, Circuit City, Media Play were all great... once.
Just the other day, a FReeper who shopped at Fry's commented on how while they were in line waiting, a woman attempted to return a camera. On opening the box, the clerk discovered it was a rock and not a camera inside. Then came the tears and denial, and the woman eventually blamed it on her husband waiting in the car in the parking lot. As he watched, the woman was detained until the police arrived, then escorted outside to identify her husband waiting in the car. Both were arrested.
Such as it is, who can blame stores for monitoring against this kind of fraud?
Well thank goodness the SF city council banned nudity again. I could handle just about any lame excuse from a lemming, but a rude nude lemming...forget it.
In the retail store where I work, we do not need an ID for items returned with a receipt, but we do for items returned without one. Why? Because we have quite a bit of return fraud. There are plenty of people who do not buy an item, but stick in a a bag that they bring to the store. They put the items in the bag and come to the counter telling us they couldn’t find the receipt. We have to give them a store credit, but we need their ID first. I have personally turned in 3 thieves this year who ended up going to jail because of their fraud. Fraud costs my store tens of thousand of dollars each year unnecessarily, and prices keep going up to pay for it.
Someone on one of the truck forums I am on told the story of buying motor oil at Walmart and discovering that it was used oil returned a refund.
Is there no low to which we cannot find a way to debase?
I once knew a crazy lady who shopped every day and then returned the all stuff. She was addicted to the thrill of buying stuff she could not afford. Shopping and returning purchases was her “job.” Her poor husband and children...
People, Black Friday is becoming more important than Thanksgiving. Of course, you need ID. Please, could you keep your priorities straight for a change.
While in chick filet I overheard the woman next to me say she wasn’t buying any thing today but returning things to Sears. She came shopping with her sister earlier in the week and to appear prosperous bought some stuff. sisterless that day she was returnig the unneeded items.
I bought a remanufactured leaf blower and was told that most of these were from Home depot where people would buy them, clean up their leaves and return them