I can't speak for this instance but I know someone returned a tent after a camping trip!!!
people who abuse liberal return policies
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My very favorite, a woman ahead of me at Costco was requesting a refund for one of their cooked chickens. She had the receipt, it was for some 3-4 weeks prior. She said it was inedible. She did not have the chicken, the remains, or the container. Just the receipt. When asked where it was, she said she threw it away. The guy working there made an exception, but told her in the future that she needed to have something, the packaging, the pieces, or just about anything from the chicken. I have returned inedible food, but if you can't get to it right away, throw it in the freezer until you can take it back.
I heard that people will buy their children winter jackets at Costco and return them in the Spring, knowing they probably wouldn't fit next season.
Returning cooked or part of something consumed is beyond gross. I worked at a grocery store for 16 years, the things people try to return is appalling.
Returning cooked or part of something consumed is beyond gross. I worked at a grocery store for 16 years, the things people try to return is appalling.
and I don't think many costco member are poor. they have to be able to pay membership dues. some people just have no shame.
When I used to work retail we caught people doing that in the store… but we had them on camera picking it off the shelf and peeling off the labels. Some people have no shame…Maybe there was a person behind you thinking the same thing of the item you were returning. I've never thought about people in front of me returning things unless they didn't have the paperwork they needed, knowing FULL WELL they'd need it. So I'm stuck behind a dumb person.That's what irritates me, not the returns policy, but the lack of paperwork thing. HUA, 'left it at home' 'my daughter's waiting in the car can't we just do this' etc etc etc.
I'll never forget the time when I was a teenager working in a Hallmark store and a woman tried to return a single card that she wrote on ...
I told her to come back the next day when the manager was present. I doubt she did.
I told her to come back the next day when the manager was present. I doubt she did.
the woman in line with the vacuums did seem to be missing something....costco doesn't reqire a receipt but they look up your purchases. the clerk had trouble finding one of these in the woman's history. she was looking further....don't know if the did find it.
The liberal policy at Costco is what caused them to revise certain things like electronics. We've seen someone returning a 10+ year old TV that broke, someone returning half eaten spoiled fruit, many people returning portable air conditioners that were purchased for a heat wave & then returned when the heat wave was over, another trying to return 2 clearly used large area rugs etc. I'm always taken aback at the things people seem to have no issue returning.
I saw a man once returning a zip lock bag full of crackers. Not exactly sure what he said but I think he said something along the lines of not liking the taste and he threw away the box. Just didnt make sense to me. Why would you open the whole box, dump it in a container or a zip lock bag and then decide to return it after tasting it? Costco issued his refund. So wasteful too. They probably threw away the whole bag. Sorry but food waste is one of my biggest pet peeve.
that's ridiculous....there are some things I'd be too embarassed to return. sometimes produce will be less than optimum but I'm not gonna go up there and request a refund on a five dollar item when it's something that can always have that potential
A HS friend of mine returned an engagement ring; he was hoping to get credit. Fiancé left him but Costco issued $7K refund back to him
I wonder how long it was since he purchased the ring. Since most of the value would be in the diamond and there's not such thing as a new diamond, I can see them taking it back. But how would the CS person know it was the same diamond? they're not gemologists.