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by totalZero 2112 days ago
It's not the core charge that makes you return a battery -- it's the core refund.
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Agreed. The point of the core charge is to make the program more palatable to manufacturers. They’d rather the customer see the charge as a line item than rise their prices to fund it. I think the line item also helps educate the customer at purchase time that the refund exists.