illegal or just "good shopping practices"?

[HYHYBT]

I specifically said I was *exchanging*, not returning.

A product that was defective, not damaged by me or worn out.

A product that could be returned, if I wanted to make a fuss over it (and quite possibly without; some stores have looser policies than others) but for which the process would be simpler for everyone involved with a receipt and box.

Just as with a regular return, the store is only out money if they don't bother sending defective products back. That's their option, and their problem. Either way, nobody is out *anything at all* that they wouldn't be out if the exact same item had been returned to the exact same store with its own receipt and box at the exact same time and manner.

[siead_lietrathua]

i guess we will be divided on it though, since i still see it as lying, no matter the circumstances, while you seem to find it to be acceptable. so, agree to disagree then?

[Andara Bledin]

I absolutely would not buy a second item in order to return a defective first item for which I didn't not have the basic sense to keep the receipt and/or packaging. It's underhanded, at best, and while I would have returned the first item anyway, had I still had the materials required to do so, I would not do so in such a manner. It's not honest, no matter how you look at it, and I will not be dishonest in such a manner.

However, that said, I can see how somebody with a different sense of morality regarding the issue could see such a situation as reasonable, and while in their case, I wouldn't necessarily think less of them for so doing, I would still find the practice, in and of itself, to be distasteful, and those to use it less worthy of trust.

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[depechemodefan]

I understood from hyhybt's first post is you get a first item and it's defective but you have no receipt. YOu buy an identicle second item and keep receipt. You go back with the first item but you mention it's defective.

I have an aunt I was going to go to Chicago (13 hours away) in my car. I got the route from googlemaps but she wanted a gps device. I didn't have it but got one from a friend. She said we could have bought one and then returned it after the trip for a refund (kind of doubt it, since it's an electronic) but that is how she is. Use something once and then return it. Like my uncle (not her husband) bought a baby swing for his grandchild. They could only use it for a week because the baby kept on falling out. He was going to sell it at a garage sale (it cost $90, he wanted $50, no one wanted to pay that even though it was hardly used). My aunt badgered him to return it for a refund.

Since it was used (even for a week) I think he shouldn't return it.