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Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture by zzalpha on Saturday January 02, 2016 @10:54AM (#10826515)
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.
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Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture by colejohnson66 on Saturday January 02, 2016 @07:27PM (#10828799)
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
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Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture by zzalpha on Saturday January 02, 2016 @08:13PM (#10828984)
That requires tracking individuals, which doesn't work for brick-and-mortar stores (yes, those still exist... ;).
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Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture by michaelbuddy on Saturday January 02, 2016 @11:41PM (#10829528)
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.
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Re:The Rise of Return-Anything Culture by zzalpha on Sunday January 03, 2016 @05:30PM (#10832871)
And all those caveats are why Amazon can catch return abusers while brick and mortar stores have a much harder time, and ultimately don't bother as its not worth the effort.
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