So you're saying it's the retailers fault and our buddy Jimmy here is a victim.......you MUST BE a democrat.
For a lot of electronics, the only way to really know if it will work for you is to take it home and try it. That’s easier if the company allows you to return it, and good for the company because you might buy something you would otherwise be too nervous about working.
But people who abuse this mess it up for everybody else.
What you need is a way to track who buys and returns things, so a store can see if you have purchased the same or similar item and returned it before.
“People wouldn’t return stuff in such a manner if stores did not allow for unconditional returns of non-defective merchandise.”
Ew, I guess you’re “one of those people”.
No hate the player, people like that are why in the 90s stores didn’t do unconditional returns of non-defective merchandise, and why stores will go back to that. Thus these people make our lives more difficult, they’ll make it more difficult to return mistakes. The same way shoplifters spawn magnetic tags and systems that treat us all like criminals. Bad apples spoiling the barrel.
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Hate the spam, not the spammers!
This is theft. It’s also low behavior.
I’m disturbed with the concepts of “It’s ok if you can get away with it.”
when I was growing up, anything electronic that left the store working was not returnable.