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Few people probably abuse the system too much. There are scamming forums and services for Amazon refunds. Scammers take 10-20% of the item cost for refunding it
by searchableguy 6y ago
Few people probably abuse the system too much. There are scamming forums and services for Amazon refunds. Scammers take 10-20% of the item cost for refunding it without giving the original.
A trend I observed here among college students is buying clothes for a party or instagram selfie and then returning it.
Small sellers get screwed pretty hard. You should check their forums.
- glitchcrab 6y agoWait, people genuinely buy clothes (although this is more like borrowing) just for the purpose of taking a selfie? I can't even begin to comprehend how desperate they must be to look good and fit in.
- adambyrtek 6y agoYes, this is so common that there is a name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardrobing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardrobing
- glitchcrab 6y agoOh the practise I'm aware of, it was more the application of it which surprised me here. I guess it makes more sense (although that's stretching the definition of sense) when you apply it to influencers (a connection I failed to make initially).
- shiftpgdn 6y agoWait until you hear how much food foodie influencers throw away after they get their money shot (it's all of it.)
- jhbadger 6y agoBack in the days of brick-and-mortar shopping there used to be people who bought a large screen TV shortly before a big sports game and then returned it afterwards. A lot of stores revised their return policies because of this.
- copperx 6y agoI'm curious about the policy. "You can't return a TV if there has been a sports game on TV".
- lotu 6y agoJust like the super bowl or World Series or whatever.
- ponker 6y agoYou could institute a restocking fee on any returns.
- dylan604 6y agoIf the restocking fee is low enough, people would just consider it a rental fee. You'd need to make it close to 50% fee to discourage the massive returns
- kelnos 6y agoIf the restocking fee accurately represents the cost to the store to repackage it and put it back out on the floor, and probably lower its price -- perhaps with a little left over -- then I think everyone comes out ok here. The returner gets to "rent" a TV for a weekend, and the retailer gets to pocket a little money for allowing the "rental" to happen, while covering the cost to resell the TV.
- bluedino 6y agoBest Buy doesn’t have that policy, I don’t think any of the major retailers do.
- m463 6y agoI remember hearing from someone that in some parts of florida, the retirees would come down for the winter and just before returning to go back north, flock to the store and return a bunch of stuff.
- kelnos 6y ago> A trend I observed here among college students is buying clothes for a party or instagram selfie and then returning it. Ok, yeah, so buying something and finding a creative way to hide the tag so you can wear it to a single event and then return it is common enough that it's a decades-old TV/movie trope, but... buying something just to take a selfie for Instagram and then return it? What has the world come to...