Video Game Return Without Receipt

[CreamOfWeber]

I think it's unethical and no I have never done it.

Say you return MarioKart (purchased on Amazon for $50) to Wal Mart. Wal Mart pays you $50 for it. Wal Mart then puts it on the shelf and sells it to someone else for $50. Wal Mart made no profit off of the game because they paid you full retail price for it. Plus they pay the fuss of processing the return. Amazon, which paid $35 or whatever their wholesale price was, made the profit. I don't think that's fair, and it does "steal" from Wal Mart.

Wal Mart understands that people are going to do this, and maybe they don't really care because they have to pick their battles carefully, but that doesn't make it okay.

I would just return it to Amazon, or save it for a birthday gift for someone else. You could call Gamestop and ask how much they will give you for it.

Your logic is flawed. Whatever you spend your $50 credit on was purchased wholesale as well. So when someone buys that video game for $50 Wal-mart makes a profit. It's highly likely the make a bigger profit than selling outright as the margain on video games is abnormally small compared to most other merchandise.

 

[CreamOfWeber]

I did an online purchase for Fannie May candy. They screwed up the order big time (over $100 is wrong items sent). They told me to keep the items that were wrong and they credited my credit card enough for me to go to a local store so I could purchase the right items. I asked if I could send back the wrong items, as I just didn't feel right keeping over $100 worth of candy I didn't pay for and they said no just keep them for their error. Now I could have kept the items, given them as gifts or taken those items to the local store and exchanged them for the items I needed, but I didn't. I took them to my church and they went to a family in need. So yes, REALLY, there are people out there that do the right thing all of the time.

dsny1mom

Ever hear that pride is a sin? You might want to lower your nose a little bit.

 

[kathie859]

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