Posted on 05/23/2018 4:48:16 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Amazon's flexible return policy may not be as risk free as you think.
The company bans shoppers for violations, which include returning items too often, according to The Wall Street Journal. Some users aren't told what they did wrong.
Amazon boasts free and easy returns for several of its items, which has pushed many brick-and-mortar stores to offer the same policies as they struggle to compete with the e-commerce giant. But it turns out Amazon's return policies may come at a price.
Dozens of people have taken to Twitter and Facebook to complain about Amazon closing their accounts without warning or an explanation, according to the Journal.
Paul Fidalgo wrote about being "exiled" from Amazon for "excessive returns." Other people noted they had also been banned from the site for similar reasons.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
It’s OK Mears no store can be 100% perfect.
:)
Was it a store policy thing?
A crime?
Girlfriend freak out that you wouldn’t buy her that $500 watch?
That last one totally ruined a otherwise great trip to Newport RI a while back...
That’s a good start imo. Here at our fav WM the perfect voter group is constantly returning product. This raises prices for the rest of us...it’s like a another tax.
I once worked for Service Merchandise. They could have been Amazon. Their IT and distribution systems in the early 90’s were state of the art. All they had to do was connect all that to this newfangled thingy called the Internet and off they’d go.
Did not happen because their CEO, Raymond Zimmerman, was about a 47 on a 1-10 arrogance scale. If it wasn’t his idea it was crap, and since he didn’t think of it he rejected all suggestions to do this out of hand.
I had the displeasure of meeting him once. A more disagreeable chap you could not find.
A company calling itself Service Merchandise does exist.
It is an online-only jewelry store. After the bankruptcy Raymond Zimmerman bought the internet domain from the bankruptcy court, nearly two decades after rejecting employee input that the internet was real.
They had some good music in the Seventies and Eighties...after that, I stopped listening to new music...and started plumbing backwards into Jazz and Classical!
Lawn mower broke? The city is threatening to fine you? No money? What do you do? Go to walmart and get a mower and mow your yard. Then return it.
Gosh, I never thought of that. Maybe the guy who owns the vacant lot next door should look into that; the grass (weeds) are about 4 feet tall, now, and I sure wish he’d come and mow it. |8¢\
“To do a good job of shopping you need to just hold it and see it. Read the instructions. Ask the store clerk questions. We’ve just been screwed too many times. I prefer the “brick and mortar” stores.”
I’ve discovered the opposite, with few exceptions like talking to an actual plumber in a hardware store, it’s a fool’s errand getting meaningful information from the majority of brain-dead high-school dropouts who are hired as clerks .... I get for more information and far better information by reading online information about a product, including specs, weight, dimensions, PDF manual, and pros and cons of dozens of previous buyers ...
“Service Merchandise”
i still remember buying stuff from service merchandise as well as a similar outfit called LaBelle’s, both being catalog showrooms ... they came along just a few years before the internet ... had limited selection but the stuff was very high quality with good prices ... still have a teak salad bowl set from one of them ...
I used to work in the camera department of Lechmere when I
was fresh out of college. Great job to have while hunting for a career position. Lechmere was a great store to shop in; they were great to their employees too. That was a fun summer! Thanks for sparking the memory.
Depends. If a store has a policy that says lifetime guarantee, then, technically, it’s gotta be good forever. I have a beautiful Land’s End wool blazer I bought at a thrift store, that is still in perfect condition, and it was old when I got it, and I’ve had it for 20 years. They used to make things that lasted, like that. And for every pair of run-down shoes returned, I’ll bet they sold millions of items that have never been returned. And their prices reflected the quality, so I doubt it hurt their bottom line. Sears used to guarantee their boys jeans would not wear out at the knees, or they’d replace it, no questions asked. I’m sure people bought those at garage sales, and, since they’d probably been handed down half a dozen times, they eventually WOULD wear through the knees, and people would go back and get a free pair. Technically, they were not doing anything wrong -— there was no rule that you had to be the original owner. I, personally, couldn’t have done that.
Lechemere had a great camera department.
what store did you work at?
Scary, isn’t it, that they film every single person in the store. I had a charge on my bank account, from Wal-Mart, that was charged twice. I no longer had the receipt, but I went back to the store, and they went in the back room, checked their records with my bank card number, found the transaction, and refunded the overpayment. I was impressed, but with everything on computer, no sweat, I guess.
LOL. Leno had some great stories about his father.
I worked at the Lechmere in Manchester, NH summer of 1982. Great place to work. Even though I had moved on career wise, I was so sad to see them go out of business.....
now that you mention it, we also had a lot of GREAT after
work parties too.
The good old days...
Montgomery Ward bought them out then put both chains out of business.
ugh
Well, the cookies I ordered from Wal-Mart were delivered as a package of buts and pieces. I sent a note to customer service that I was not happy about it, but so far, they haven’t sent me any new cookies. (I ate them anyway, but it was not very good customer service, if you ask me....although I WAS a little snippy about it...)
Welp, it was pretty obvious you were making that number up. That rate is probably well north of 75%! LOL.
Sigh... BITS and pieces -— not BUTS and pieces. (If they’d been BUTS and pieces, I would NOT have eaten them, no matter WHAT!) :D
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.