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The thread has given me some perspective on my annoyance…but I’m still a bit peeved at it and I’m wondering how people who get Christmas gifts are going to handle returns. Are they all going to ask whoever gave them their gifts for a receipt so they can take it back? Are people going to be forced to send the receipts with their gifts just in case the person wants to take it back…or if it’s broken and they HAVE to take it back? In which case, the box would most certainly be open as well. How is THAT going to work out?
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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).
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.