return shipping is the biggest deterrent to returning stuff. i donate stuff...
You people who return gifts don’t have the courage to tell the giver, “You know, I’d rather have the money.”
On a slightly different note, Wal-Mart sells lots of big-screen TVs just before the Super Bowl.
Many are returned the week after.
“Large online retailers like Amazon are even toughening up by charging a fee — which can vary depending on the returned item — if you don’t use their box-free, label-free, in-person drop-off option.”
Why would anyone NOT want to do it that way?
I’ve done it plenty of times and never had an issue.
Large online retailers like Amazon are even toughening up by charging a fee — which can vary depending on the returned item — if you don’t use their box-free, label-free, in-person drop-off option.
Okay- why wouldn’t you go through their process if you return an item?? I do often and its no problem.
You learn something new and vitally important every day on FR. For instance, today I learned there is a “smart-shopping expert Trae Bodge.”
This is why retail stores are facing extinction.
A well-functioning society (let’s just measure that by the ability to return gifts for free for a moment...) requires that its members agree to abide by certain rules of conduct. That’s just not in style anymore.
If it's open box electronics I will usually skip it unless it's a spectacular deal, and even then I'm going to inspect it in the store, power it up and expect a full money back guarantee on it.
I guess I’m weird, never would have thought to return a gift via shipping.
This is why my family has switched over to gift cards - I have gas cards for the young adults, Visa cards for the older adults.
I just got a gift card for Hobby Lobby and will receive several more later today.
That's why he's cruising the Mediterranean in a zillion-dollar yacht while the folks at Macy’s and Zara are slaving away in the basement...and dreaming about cruising the Mediterranean in a zillion-dollar yacht.
It was given to me 45 years ago by my grandmother for a wedding gift.
My wife returned the lamp, in the box to my grandmother the next thanksgiving held at grandmother’s and said she wanted something else.
Mom said not to give my wife anything in exchange and the lamp stayed at Mom’s house for 41 years.
We did not last a year due stuff like that.
I have the lamp now because my grandmother gave to me as a gift.