Wardrobing or "Retail-Renting"

One more piece to add....

Retail fraud can also come into play if you don't actually own the item you are returning.

Let's say you tuck a dress into your purse and then walk up to the customer service counter, say it was a gift and ask for the money.

You didn't own it. You never paid for the item or had that item's value given to you in gift. You then lied about the return and retail fraud is possible.

I'm totally on board with that, because it's blatantly taking an item that belongs to the company and selling it right back to them without paying.

I was just a little confused on receiving an item that may or may not have once belonged to the company and asking to return it to them. I was confused on whether the onus is on me (as the returner) or on them (as the company whose return policy allows for whatever it is they allow to be returned). If the company's return policy forbids them me from returning it, then that's life. So it goes. But if they allow me to return an item that I was given and I don't know what store it came from and I have no documentation of its original purchase or use or whatever? Then that's where I was a bit lost. Kind of a gray area.

Point being = I have no intention of breaking any laws, and based on your responses, I'm more than certain that the transaction that happened was perfectly legal and legitimate.

I thought most stores did not take books back? Unless you could prove that someone bought you the same book, and you took BOTH copies into the store to prove that.....

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Quoting PandorasBox

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I thought most stores did not take books back? Unless you could prove that someone bought you the same book, and you took BOTH copies into the store to prove that.....

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But that is up to the retailer. Each is allowed to set their own rules.

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Quoting cyjeff

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Then let me put it to you this way.

It all comes down to what you say when you return it. Even a worn dress isn't inherently illegal to return... if you say it was worn. However, the moment you pull out the price tag that wasn't torn off and spray it with Febreeze and tell the nice clerk it was never worn, the situation borders on criminal.

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In this example - would you have to volunteer the information that it was worn? If you simply said "I'd like to return this dress" and the clerk never asks any followup questions, is that fraud?

Thanks, Unca Jeffy.

I know many places have a sign in the book department that there is absolutely no returns on books or magazines. Figuring someone bough it and didn't like it, bought it, read it, wants their $7.99 back....