Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture
by noisy_boy on Saturday January 02, 2016 @10:40AM
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As a person staying in a country without US-like return policies, I'm incredibly jealous of the choices American consumers have. Out here, its more like "buy it if you want, we can't open the packaging for you to see how it feels in your hand and we won't accept returns unless it is defective (or you are exchanging it for something more expensive)".
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It's a real tradeoff. On the one hand, a liberal return policy is great for consumers. But if its abused its a source of enormous fraud and waste. Unfortunately I doubt there any good solution to the problem.
Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture
by colejohnson66 on Saturday January 02, 2016 @07:27PM
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Doesn't Amazon ban you if you abuse their return policy? Especially if you have Prime which causes them to pay original _and_ return shipping
That requires tracking individuals, which doesn't work for brick-and-mortar stores (yes, those still exist... ;).
Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture
by michaelbuddy on Saturday January 02, 2016 @11:41PM
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you very much get tracked by brick and mortar stores, not all but many. Just did a return tonight, and once again had to give them my information in order to complete the return. depends on the situation of the return, whether you had a receipt or not, whether you were already on file, or if you had paid with credit card and they could track that.