Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwanted Items

Re:Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwante... by wincy on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:01AM (#25726048)

I bought a mattress off of Amazon a few months back. I like it but my wife hated it. So I went to return it and Amazon said I could keep it. Put it in a guest bedroom, whatever I wanted. Refunded me the $400. I’m laying on it right now and sometimes feel guilty, but my wife is sleeping on our old queen sized bed so I guess I don’t feel that guilty, since eventually I’ll still need to get a mattress she likes.

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Re:Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwante... by radihuq on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:59AM (#25726426)

Apparently mattresses can't be reused/resold (at least in Canada) so mattress companies usually either pick up the mattress and donate it[0], or tell customers to keep them

[0] https://answers.endy.com/hc/en-ca/articles/360004784591--How...

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Re:Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwante... by wincy on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:20AM (#25730046)

Bed bugs are an awful scourge that you don’t want under and circumstances. I was an exterminator a lifetime ago and dreaded when I’d see those telltale track marks of blood.

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Re:Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwante... by issamehh on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:45PM (#25733948)

This is the hell I have come to live and be trapped in partially as a result of the pandemic. Those things are pure evil manifest.

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Re:Amazon, Walmart Tell Consumers to Skip Returns of Unwante... by cafard on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:35PM (#25736273)

I believe that Goodwill will not accept mattresses or pillows, at least in Washington, DC.

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