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.
I’ve seen a number of stores that have a more or less unconditional return policy, with exceptions for cameras, camcorders and laptops, because those are the items most often “bought” for vacations and then returned. I wouldn’t be surprised if more stores offer store credit instead of cash refunds.
My wife works at a scrapbook store and had a guy come in and buy an expensive “storage on wheels” thingie for his wife. They have a clear “no returns except for store credit” policy, it was a clearance item and he was asked three times whether he didn’t maybe want a gift certificate instead. He insisted, wife didn’t want it, he tried to return it for a refund and raised a huge stink several times, but the store owner held fast, bless her heart. Waddya mean, I have to live with my poor decisions? It ain’t fair, I tell ya! Sheesh...