When someone gives me something that is expensive/easily breakable/maybe the wrong size, I always get a little envelope with it, in which they put the receipt. Some stores even do it automatically, when they giftwrap stuff (typically electronics).
So what was the incident that made you quit? Curious minds wanna know.
The problem is, how do they know you didn’t take it out and then swap it with the other? It’s again, a Catch-22.
Well as it turned out a lot of copies of Civ4 shipped with incomplete sets of disks, sadly I didn’t know that at the time or I might have used that as leverage.
Needless to say I’ve since discovered an Electronics Boutique near the Best Buy and they will be getting my games business from now on as they have a much better return policy. Not that I’m pissed off at Best Buy, they were simply shipped bad product and the clerk was adhering to their returns policy. But ultimately I’m still out $50 (and naturally will be pirating a copy & burning a new #1 disk), so someone else is getting my business from now on.
As recently as last summer, Walmart didn’t require a receipt.
However, they did ask the approximate date of purchase and scanned the UPC code so as to determine that the item actually was in their inventory on or near that particular date and what the price was.
This type of info is all at Best buy’s fingertips, as it was for Walmart. It’s just that Best Buy is a bunch of assholes.