Posted on 08/11/2024 1:14:55 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Talk about the cost of doing business.
A shameless Costco shopper put the popular warehouse retailer’s generous return policy to the test — and tested the patience of social media observers — by dragging a three-year-old couch back to her local store.
California-based realtor Jasmen Reyes recently performed a public demonstration of the limits of the guarantee via a video posted to her TikTok account where she attempts to return the unwanted furniture — said to be worth approximately $1,400.
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If they offer an all-you-can-eat appetizer, Imma order one — and everybody can share it!
We took back a new microwave to Walmart. They said we had to send it back to the manufacture. It said on the box to bring it back to the store.
We were in line with about 10 people. My husband was furious and pointed this out. After several minutes the stubborn clerk called the manager and they agreed to take it.
Lesson learned.
In a big box store I’m familiar with, a customer brought back a toilet...used. Sometimes riding mowers or snow throwers are brought back after a season of use. Tools are brought back after use. I heard a customer brought back automotive tires to a store that never sold tires. More often than not, customers demand, management capitulates. There are unreasonable customers. There are customers who scam.
One can only hope she spends a big commission on a trip to Disney World for her most likely horrible kids. Then the buyer of the home backs out due to a technicality at the last minute.
I’m a Costco member and I’ve never had to return anything I’ve bought there. Costco can and should tighten up their return policy to prevent this kind of abuse. The costs incurred by accepting used furniture from people like this will be passed on to the rest of us who hold Costco memberships.
There used to be a great store up near where I live. Back in the Seventies and Eighties, it was the best place around to get nearly anything, electronics, furniture, you name it.
They had the best inventory, and the best return policy. If you brought it back, you didn’t need to have the receipt and could say nearly whatever you want when returning it.
I knew people personally who would get a television to watch the Super Bowl, with the full intention of sending it back after the game.
I knew people who purchased high end cameras to take on vacation with them, and would return them when the vacation was done.
I thought these actions were so repugnant, because the company was trying to do right by its customers. After a few decades, it went bankrupt.
If I know someone who does that kind of thing, and is proud of it too, I develop a snap judgement right then and there, and it isn’t a good one either.
A friend of mine used to work in the “returns” dept at LL Beans. (Lost her to a complications of surgery, years ago.)
Anyhow...
They never say no, or at least have that reputation.
She opened a box that had a jacket in it that had been
sprayed by a skunk!
Beans allowed the return.
She told me a hilarious story about a lady who bought some winter tights
that kept slipping down every time she shifted gears driving to work.
Slipping down on first one side, then the other.
At a traffic light she lifted up her body trying to pull them up.
The man in the car next to her was, well, real
interested in the moves she was making!
By the time she got to work, the crotch of the tights were
a little below the hem of her skirt!
This was written in a letter, and was just so funny!
Wish I could remember it all!
Wow😅
Do you know what the LL stands for in LL Bean?
Me too.
UM. Leon, I don’t know the second L name!
I USED to know!!
Leon Leonwood? (Had to look it up)
You win the door prize.
Thanks. I buy their merchandise. I really like their shirts.
Someone who I knew processed insurance claims.
A woman went to the doctor complaining of an u usual discharge that was bright purple.
After an investigation they found out she had recently been fitted for a diaphragm and told to use some jelly when to insert it and used Welch’s grape.
I agree.
Returns should be with reasonable limits.
Defacing or damaging something should immediately disqualify it from being returned.
And after 3 years of use, no way unless it can be proved to have been actually defective. You got your money's worth out of it.
Bean told me no over some turtle necks I had bought where the body of the t-neck had shrunk so much it wouldn’t tuck into my pants. The sleeves were still the correct length but the torso part shrank. And the stuff still looked virtually brand new and they told me no, because it had been used or worn or some crap.
Never bought any more turtle necks from them again, because that was also not the first time they shrank like that. The other times weren’t as bad and the sweater was still wearable.
If you still have the box and packing materials they might take it back.
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