Hi,
The last 24 hrs of my life has literally been crazy. A DAY OF STUPIDITY.
First, I bought a really expensive designer coat.
Secondly, someone switches my coat with theirs in a conference. I didn't realize this either, the other coat was the same brand as mine. I wore the coat and came back to the work place. But something wasn't right, for starters it didn't fit me all that well and second the material was not the same as mine. But what confirmed that it wasn't mine was the fact that it had some change and a pen in the pocket. The first thing that happened was i was really mad that i was unlucky enough to loose the coat and second, i had to lose a very expensive coat. i tried to find out if someone reported a lost coat but all in vain.
Third, in all this confusion, I thought let me go return it to the store and exchange it for a different size. Since I had bought it the same day and it was hard for me to distinguish I thought it should be ok. I went to the store gave the bill and took the next size.
I did some research on the internet to see if I am in trouble, and I am beginning to think I might be in trouble. Do you think I am in any sort of trouble? Should I go explain this and get the other coat back? I thought of doing this yesterday evening but I was afraid I might entangle myself with the shop authorities unnecessarily. I thought of giving them a call then I realized they might threaten to press charges and just ask me to pay a huge penalty. Do I need to get a lawyer and settle it through him? Or just leave it the way it is and sort it out if they send me a letter for retail fraud?
Somehow I have no clue what has to be done or what the consequences are. I would really appreciate if you could throw some light.
Thanks a lot.

