Hmm.. well, I guess I can try again tomorrow and see if it's truly within the calendar year. The last time I returned anything without a receipt was January.

MONK seasons 1 and 2 were on sale for $19.99 at Borders during their pre-Thanksgiving sale and that is probably all they will give you in credit, so you should avoid those two sets.

Here's the old page showing all the boxsets that were on sale at Borders and which will likely net you only $19.99 in store credit.

http://bordersmedia.com/coup/thanksg...le/boxsets.asp

I'll try. If not, I'll unleash the scammer in me and buy some DVDs, use all my GCs and then return the dvds so that I can everything back on one card.

I returned 2 sealed dvds to them last year after xmas...

Had to show licesnse, sign 3 forms and THEN they had to MAIL me the gift card 2 weeks later!!!

What a crock of...

Be happy that they didn't ask for a sperm sample! On the other hand, that might not be so bad afterall.

Sweetness. I took back Blade Runner (blu) Harry Potter (blu) and Disturbia (HD-dvd) to Borders. Got $107.xx in credit. They had Disturbia at $39.99 in their computers.

hi,
i was wondering if sam's club/costco will do returns without receipt? also, does sam's club have the same limit to 3 returns w/o receipt/yr? Does anyone know if sam's club shares thier database with walmart, that is, if I made 3 returns w/o receipt at walmart already, will sams club then deny the return?

This thread is turning shadier by the day...

This is why the stores are clamping down because of all the dishonest
people who try to pull a fast one..Can you blame the Stores???
DG

When I originally started this thread, I was hoping for an easy answer to exchange a Christmas gift that I already had with no receipt/gift receipt and some of you have been a tremendous help with that.

But, now IMO this is going a little out of control with some of you trying to take advantage of this and getting more credit for previously stored unopened merchandise. That's just wrong.

I wouldn't feel too bad. I mean, they are getting perfect merchandise in return. Which they will just slap a price tag on and put it back on the shelves.

Saxon

Not Borders. If you use your Borders gift cards online at Amazon, Borders only sees a fraction of that money. Amazon gets all of the money and pays Borders a small % of the total. This is the main reason that Borders is going to set up their own online site this year.

It come down to lying about the purchase and how do you know for sure what they will do with it???

I don't know for sure but what else would they do with it? Give it away?

Saxon

I still wonder how people think this is shady. If a store is allowing a return w/o a receipt then why is that a problem? The store is completely within their right to refuse the return and send the customer on their way. As long as the items are factory sealed products that the store carries, I don't see any issues with someone taking something back to a store.

No, it's not. The main reason is they are a huge book seller, and see how much money can be made by doing the fulfillment on their own, rather than relying on Amazon to do it for them.

I thought that's what I said.

Six Feet Under got me $59.99 today (2 seasons). They are $19.99 at Best Buy right now.

Just because a store is lax about preventing you from doing something does not make it an ethical thing to do. Try returning an item which still has another store's price tag on it. That will give you an idea of whether or not Borders wants you to do this.

What does ethics have to do with it? Is it a moral grey area? Maybe. Is it illegal and fraud as some have claimed? Absolutely not.

If Borders didn't want me to do this, they wouldn't let me take them back at all. Simple as that. If they have an issue, they need to change their return policy.

To me, I see it as an added bonus for being a valuable customer. I'm far more likely to spend money at a store if they will have good customer service with returns.

So you don't think it's shady to intentionally buy clearanced items from one store and return it to another store for full price? It may not be illegal, and it certainly is store policy, but when people abuse policies like this, as you say in another thread, the store will change their policy and that hurts people who legitimately have lost their receipt. Costco recently changed their pretty open policy, and many stores like TRU and Target no longer take anything back without a receipt.

To the guy that says this doesn't hurt the stores at all because they'll just sell it anyway... it becomes an inventory problem. What if they can't sell the item until it gets clearanced? They pretty much bought it from you for full price and then have to take a loss if/when it doesn't sell. If they do sell it, they pretty much break even (they probably do a little better if they force you into a gift card that you have to use at their store, but still). It probably doesn't hurt big chain stores, but I'm sure smaller stores feel it.

The shady part, to me, is not someone legitimately forgetting a receipt and wanting to return something, especially around Xmas time. But when people start asking what the best way to store hop to get over the exchange limit, that's a little sketchy.

Good post Fujishig.

Stores have spent decades trying to master ordering exactly how many titles they will sell at maximum price. And they order them at roughly half price. When we return items that aren't from that store, at a minimum they "lose" 50% of the value of that item, and that is if they sell it at full price, which they aren't likely do to since they already ordered what they calculated they would sell.

Buying cheap to return high is no different from shoplifting.

With one, you get arrested and go to jail. With the other, you get a gift card. BTW, I agree, that's a good post, fujishig.

You are making a gigantic leap in assuming everyone is getting low cost items from one store, and taking them back to another. Many people here got these items as gifts without receipts, and have to take them back to some place.

As I recall, almost every store will be able to look up a purchase if you pay with a means, other than cash. That is, if you buy with a check, debit card or credit card, you are covered if you lose the receipt. No store, that I'm aware of, will allow the return of a huge ticket item without a receipt. And, I'm not aware of one person that goes into a store and pays cash for something. So, essentially, the crowd of people doing this are people with movies and games.

Sure, stores have put stop gaps in place, and I'm all for the store protecting themselves. However, again, if the store is allowing me, you or anyone else to bring back certain items after Christmas without a receipt, I see nothing wrong in using that policy.

For the record, any time I take something back to a store, I often buy items far exceeding what they took back from me.

Case in point, I got $70 in credit for taking back two HD-DVDs from Best Buy, and I bought a $500 Blu Ray player. Whatever they may have lost on taking back the movies, they more than made up for in the sale of a high markup electronics item. I'm not saying it is that way for everyone, but it is generally always that way with me.

Hardly. They need to change their return policy then. All I have returned in unwanted, sealed items that they give me store credit for. However, maybe they should price items at a reasonable price, otherwise they wouldn't get screwed having to mark them down to Best Buys price.