[aaaaaA3]

>b) People returning stuff after short-use is, like it or not, a fact of life in today's world. Ask anyone who sells fashion goods ... girls buy stuff for the Friday night party and return it on Monday. It happens and it's basically a cost of doing business. If the stock is any good, it will get sold anyway, just as nearly-new instead of new.

You get blacklisted very quickly if you do this.

[jghn]

Not to mention it's basically giving those people an interest free loan funded by the rest of us.

Perhaps if a business lost sales to "girls buy[ing] stuff for the Friday night party" they might gain them from people like me who see the prices as higher than I'd want to pay in the first place.

[traceroute66]

>You get blacklisted very quickly if you do this.

Maybe maybe not, but then you end up returning to point a) ... along comes Amazon with Prime Try Before You Buy

[c22]

On the other hand, I've received items from Amazon before that were clearly previously opened and returned, sometimes with missing pieces, once the item was clearly defective. Due to this subpar experience I no longer order anything from Amazon since, personally, I'd rather not spend my time returning things and their slipshod policy almost guarantees I will have to.