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Ms. Toad

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33. No. I buy the book to give to someone at a baby shower -

Sat Jan 14, 2023, 07:14 PM

Jan 2023

and a half dozen others buy the new parents the same book. I buy a book for a birthday or Christmas present - and discover the recipient already have that book (or hate that author). I buy the book for a class, which I drop because it turns out the professor is a right wing nut job I wouldn't be able to stand for the semester.

At least 90% of my book-buying falls into one of those categories, since most of my personal reading is either my audio book subscription or checked out from the library.

You really aren't imaginative enough to think of reasons a book might be returned, other than to cheat the system? Do you assume the same of people who occasionally need to return other things?

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independent bookstore owner slams customer who bought $800 of art/cook books for holiday decor [View all] Demovictory9 Jan 2023 OP

simple - a no returns policy. you buy it its yours. books are not likely to stop working nt msongs Jan 2023 #1

That's an extreme response to what appears to have been a single jerk. Ms. Toad Jan 2023 #3

How would it drive away customers ? JI7 Jan 2023 #6

I have lots of choices for where to buy books. Ms. Toad Jan 2023 #18

Trying to think why one would return a book? I'm moonscape Jan 2023 #25

Answer: he never intended to read the books... brooklynite Jan 2023 #27

I get that. I was replying to moonscape Jan 2023 #28

If I buy a book as a present, for example, Ms. Toad Jan 2023 #29

I do not see her tweets as a "slam", just frustration with a terrible asshole of a niyad Jan 2023 #2

Agreed Demovictory9 Jan 2023 #4

Maybe exchange or store credit but not refund . JI7 Jan 2023 #7

Per the article, the customer got a store credit. But the return policy needs niyad Jan 2023 #8

Idea cherish44 Jan 2023 #5

Oh, I think the customer spent a lot of time thinking it through. tanyev Jan 2023 #16

I would not avoid a bookstore with a policy of "all sales are final". Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2023 #9

You gotta' be kidding me NJCher Jan 2023 #10

Yep. These could have been library books. intheflow Jan 2023 #24

Amazon allows books to be returned. I did it once when Croney Jan 2023 #11

Wow...how selfishly entitled was that! electric_blue68 Jan 2023 #12

I RARELY return things. Even Amazon has noticed as I've gotten accelerated service hlthe2b Jan 2023 #13

me too.... returned maybe 3 items out of a hundred purchases BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 2023 #30

friend works in retail. Amazed at how much gets returned. dembotoz Jan 2023 #14

A book store that allows you to return the books is a library. bottomofthehill Jan 2023 #15

A 30-day return policy is pretty standard, Ms. Toad Jan 2023 #19

So you buy the book, read it, and return it? Beaverhausen Jan 2023 #32

No. I buy the book to give to someone at a baby shower - Ms. Toad Jan 2023 #33

But do you agree that store credit should be the only way to return? Beaverhausen Jan 2023 #34

Those are two different questions. Ms. Toad Jan 2023 #37

The seller says returns are actually very rare, @ 1%, usually Hortensis Jan 2023 #26

We can't take that book back it's been in the bathroom. Hotler Jan 2023 #17

I bought a book from Amazon about Dec 10th for my daughter's xmas gift panader0 Jan 2023 #20

The only things I've ever returned anywhere are excess building supplies, like two unneeded sinkingfeeling Jan 2023 #21

Using books as props - sort of sums up what's wrong with so much of our society. yardwork Jan 2023 #22

I'd be willing to bet the asshole who did this, can more than afford to buy Carlitos Brigante Jan 2023 #23

The customer needs to be identified and banned. LiberalFighter Jan 2023 #31

The bookstore's owner is Rebecca George from VOLUMES BOOKS TdeV Jan 2023 #35

🌞 Demovictory9 Jan 2023 #36