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baldurn:
A more honest way is to resell the equipment you do not like. The resale value is usually very good for the known brands.

BillyO:

--- Quote from: ataradov on December 27, 2022, 01:09:52 am ---In any case, I don't see how this is ethical ..

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This is an interesting.  You find in immoral, now if most others find it immoral too, then it becomes unethical.

Every time I buy something from Amazon, they go out of their way to tell me how long I have to return it.  When I do make a return, they allow for some pretty trivial reasons in their list or reasons and they have an "Other" category.  Nonetheless, they never question your final reasoning.  The process is automated and the return is authorized immediately.  Here in Canada you get your money back the minute the return postage is scanned by the post office and the return postage is always prepaid.

ataradov:
It works the same way in the US up to the point where you exceed the limits of their algorithm for "Other" and get banned.

Part of the reason is that most if not all of the returned stuff gets trashed or resold as bulk junk. I'm not sure if they do something different for high priced items, but generally a return is a full price loss to them.

It is not that easy to find test equipment that is sold by amazon anyway. And if you start doing this to stuff that is not sold by amazon, it hurts the seller as well.

BillyO:

--- Quote from: baldurn on December 27, 2022, 01:24:32 am ---A more honest way is to resell the equipment you do not like. The resale value is usually very good for the known brands.

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Sure, provided it's not faulty or otherwise unusable.

Would anyone have an objection to returning a FNIRSI or Hantek DSO2X1X scope?  I doubt it.  Of course if one followed the posts on this forum, why would one even buy either, but that's a moot point.  Not everyone reads this forum.

However, even buying a $1000 scope, should one keep it and try to resell it if they find the UI totally unacceptable?  Or some other flaw/"feature" that was buried by the specs?  Would it be dishonest to return such a thing?

tautech:
Fact is distributors get the chance to acquire demo models for customers to try before buying.

Anybody properly engaged in this industry can offer this to customers but as Fungus says all equipment has quirks however as engineers aren't we always learning new products so why would equipment be any different ?

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