This is exactly why Best Buy charges a restocking fee on electronics. Thanks, Jimmy.
Anytime, Lois.
I dunno because I don’t buy a lot of electronics and I don’t shop at best buy, but Costco had a 90 day no questions asked policy on big screen TVs.
I admit to kind of taking advantage of that. I didn’t intentionally “rent” the TV like the guy in the story, but I did buy the TV to see if it would work for my needs. I took it to a trade show. Turned out it wasn’t loud enough (though I could’ve added external amplification) and it wasn’t bright enough/contrast enough to work in that environment. So I returned it. Indeed it was the 90 day policy that made me buy it in the first place because I did figure that it might not work for my needs. It did make the booth look snazzy, but it just didn’t work as I had hoped. So I returned it.
I hope that doesn’t make me a criminal.
Yes but some Electronics stores have a policy of charging a restocking fee no matter why you return the item. My brother bought a rather pricy computer at one of the chains a few years back and he had serious issues with it that could not be solved by product support people and they finally told him to return it to the store- then the store insisted on charging a restocking fee. He refused to pay- he pitched such a fit on their floor that other customers took notice of what was going on and they finally relented. His point was why a restocking fee for a clearly defective item- surely they did not intend to “restock” it on the shelf- we hope.