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On the flip side, it seems people have become somewhat entitled by Walmart’s “we’ll take anything back”. Such as trying to return unused generators to local ret

On the flip side, it seems people have become somewhat entitled by Walmart’s “we’ll take anything back”. Such as trying to return unused generators to local retailers after the hurricane has passed.

bombcar 4y ago
Unused? Costco had to stop returns on TVs because people were “renting” them for free for the superb owl.
- CoastalCoder 4y ago
  Please, please do not correct that typo!
  - city41 4y ago
    You'd probably like https://reddit.com/r/superbowl https://reddit.com/r/superbowl
  - indymike 4y ago
    Fixing that typo can be an expensive correction.
- NikolaNovak 4y ago
  Oh man. Unwanted memories. I used to work at Future Shop (basically Best Buy) [don't judge I was young:]. Every summer people would buy a camcorder, go on vacation, then return a sandy "unused" camera. Every time people rant (rightfully!) about corporations are bad, I think of any experience I had in retail and realize sure but people are assholes too :-D
- nucleardog 4y ago
  Unless it's different where you are you can still pull the Super Bowl rental at Costco. Returns on electronics are still accepted, just time limited to 90 days instead of "forever". What it was to prevent was lifetime free warranty and upgrades. Buy a laptop, use it for 3 years, come back and say "I don't like it anymore.", get your money back, buy new laptop with upgraded specs... repeat. And before you think this is theoretical, when I worked there we had a guy return a TV. It was a ~7 year old rear-projection TV that was bought before the 90 day policy was implemented. It had died well out of warranty. So he returned it, got his ~$4k back, walked out on the floor and grabbed a $2k LCD and went home with a brand new LCD TV and $2k in his pocket in exchange for his 7 year old broken TV.
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  - ivegotnoaccount 4y ago
    Wait, they accepted to refund a broken, 7 years old product ? How was this policy not abused to the point of killing the company ?
    - chid 4y ago
      Well I think most people would not return in this sort of scenario.
    - tshaddox 4y ago
      I believe Costco will cancel (and refund) a membership at their own discretion. I’ve read stories online that they have cancelled memberships for clearly exploiting return policies, as well as other things like grossly mistreating warehouse employees.
      - genocidicbunny 4y ago
        Yep, exactly this. Costco is willing to eat a few people abusing the system in return for those sweet sweet membership profits, but if you start to seriously abuse the system they have zero problem kicking you out. I saw this happen first-hand while I was waiting in line to renew my membership. There was a man in front of me in line who from what I overheard of his conversation with the manager was returning something like his 5th tv in a year. The manager gave him his refund and then rescinded his membership and had the man walked out of the store.
    - bombcar 4y ago
      The secret sauce: Costco sent that TV back to the company who sold it, and deducted the value from the next invoice. If Samsung, etc didn't like it, Costco would drop them as a vendor real fast. So the merchants would eat it. Apparently it got bad enough that they stopped eating it.
- analog31 4y ago
  In the music world it's called "guitar center free rental."
rr808 4y ago
Return "dead" Christmas tree in January? https://nypost.com/2018/01/10/woman-returns-dead-christmas-tree-to-costco-in-january/ https://nypost.com/2018/01/10/woman-returns-dead-christmas-t...
- analog31 4y ago
  It's pining for the fjords.
MomoXenosaga 4y ago
I pay fifteen euro per year to have unlimited shit delivered and picked up at my house 7 days and nights a week. How a delivery service is supposed to make a profit on that is beyond me, it's sweatshop level of insanity, but it is my capitalist duty not to ask questions and just consume people and planet be damned.
- robocat 4y ago
  > unlimited shit delivered Europe farmer’s protest: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=manure+protest https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=manure+protest > sweatshop level of insanity Turkers: https://www.vocativ.com/410794/are-virtual-sweatshops-the-future-of-work/index.html https://www.vocativ.com/410794/are-virtual-sweatshops-the-fu... > capitalist duty toil? profit? consume? capitalist heteropatriarchal citizen’s duty to literally produce people? work while experiencing pleasure? > consume people Accept Cannibal diversity today > planet be damned Worship beastly numbers

bombcar 4y ago

Unused? Costco had to stop returns on TVs because people were “renting” them for free for the superb owl.

CoastalCoder 4y ago
Please, please do not correct that typo!
- city41 4y ago
  You'd probably like https://reddit.com/r/superbowl https://reddit.com/r/superbowl
- indymike 4y ago
  Fixing that typo can be an expensive correction.
NikolaNovak 4y ago
Oh man. Unwanted memories. I used to work at Future Shop (basically Best Buy) [don't judge I was young:]. Every summer people would buy a camcorder, go on vacation, then return a sandy "unused" camera. Every time people rant (rightfully!) about corporations are bad, I think of any experience I had in retail and realize sure but people are assholes too :-D
nucleardog 4y ago
Unless it's different where you are you can still pull the Super Bowl rental at Costco. Returns on electronics are still accepted, just time limited to 90 days instead of "forever". What it was to prevent was lifetime free warranty and upgrades. Buy a laptop, use it for 3 years, come back and say "I don't like it anymore.", get your money back, buy new laptop with upgraded specs... repeat. And before you think this is theoretical, when I worked there we had a guy return a TV. It was a ~7 year old rear-projection TV that was bought before the 90 day policy was implemented. It had died well out of warranty. So he returned it, got his ~$4k back, walked out on the floor and grabbed a $2k LCD and went home with a brand new LCD TV and $2k in his pocket in exchange for his 7 year old broken TV.
- deleted 4y ago
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- ivegotnoaccount 4y ago
  Wait, they accepted to refund a broken, 7 years old product ? How was this policy not abused to the point of killing the company ?
  - chid 4y ago
    Well I think most people would not return in this sort of scenario.
  - tshaddox 4y ago
    I believe Costco will cancel (and refund) a membership at their own discretion. I’ve read stories online that they have cancelled memberships for clearly exploiting return policies, as well as other things like grossly mistreating warehouse employees.
    - genocidicbunny 4y ago
      Yep, exactly this. Costco is willing to eat a few people abusing the system in return for those sweet sweet membership profits, but if you start to seriously abuse the system they have zero problem kicking you out. I saw this happen first-hand while I was waiting in line to renew my membership. There was a man in front of me in line who from what I overheard of his conversation with the manager was returning something like his 5th tv in a year. The manager gave him his refund and then rescinded his membership and had the man walked out of the store.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    The secret sauce: Costco sent that TV back to the company who sold it, and deducted the value from the next invoice. If Samsung, etc didn't like it, Costco would drop them as a vendor real fast. So the merchants would eat it. Apparently it got bad enough that they stopped eating it.
analog31 4y ago
In the music world it's called "guitar center free rental."

rr808 4y ago

Return "dead" Christmas tree in January? https://nypost.com/2018/01/10/woman-returns-dead-christmas-tree-to-costco-in-january/ https://nypost.com/2018/01/10/woman-returns-dead-christmas-t...

analog31 4y ago
It's pining for the fjords.

MomoXenosaga 4y ago

I pay fifteen euro per year to have unlimited shit delivered and picked up at my house 7 days and nights a week. How a delivery service is supposed to make a profit on that is beyond me, it's sweatshop level of insanity, but it is my capitalist duty not to ask questions and just consume people and planet be damned.

robocat 4y ago
> unlimited shit delivered Europe farmer’s protest: https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=manure+protest https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=manure+protest > sweatshop level of insanity Turkers: https://www.vocativ.com/410794/are-virtual-sweatshops-the-future-of-work/index.html https://www.vocativ.com/410794/are-virtual-sweatshops-the-fu... > capitalist duty toil? profit? consume? capitalist heteropatriarchal citizen’s duty to literally produce people? work while experiencing pleasure? > consume people Accept Cannibal diversity today > planet be damned Worship beastly numbers