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Try before you buy?
coromonadalix:
--- Quote from: ataradov on December 27, 2022, 12:35:49 am ---They will absolutely have an issue if you do that all the time. Eventually they will flag your account and start limiting your returns. You also need to have a good reason for returns. If device as described and functional, but you don't like it, it is not a good reason.
I also would not say that this is ethical, since money does not come out of Amazon, it comes out of the seller's pocket. Seller can't resell the equipment as new anymore.
It is far better to find a place that rents out equipment and rent whatever you need first. This may be hard in general, since not all equipment is available that way, especially low end stuff.
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Same tought
The only thing we have here is construction equipments rentals nothing else
Trying to rent an 15k oscilloscope loll and if you damage it ??
Anthocyanina:
And maybe it would be good to also consider the environmental impact of doing that. After all, they have to carry the thing to your home, then back, and if the box got damaged, they may have to get a new box, so it would be creating a considerable amount of waste for just a bit of comfort
ataradov:
--- Quote from: coromonadalix on December 27, 2022, 04:40:48 am ---The only thing we have here is construction equipments rentals nothing else
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It does not have to be "here". Equipment rental companies would ship stuff if necessary. Although financially it only makes sense for really expensive stuff. So, probably not anything you can buy on amazon anyway. They are not going to carry low end Rigol scope.
--- Quote from: coromonadalix on December 27, 2022, 04:40:48 am ---Trying to rent an 15k oscilloscope loll and if you damage it ??
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There is insurance and stuff like this. It is not that uncommon to rent equipment and generally it works. You rent cars, and cars are more expensive than $15k.
james_s:
Amazon will let you return it but what you are proposing is effectively using them as a loaner service rather than a retailer and personally I don't consider that ethical. Can you find someone local that owns the instruments you're considering that will let you play around with it? Or maybe just find all the reviews you can and narrow it down to a few you're considering then buy the one that looks the most promising. If it really fails to live up in some way then go ahead and return it, otherwise keep it.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 27, 2022, 05:31:45 am ---Amazon will let you return it but what you are proposing is effectively using them as a loaner service rather than a retailer and personally I don't consider that ethical. Can you find someone local that owns the instruments you're considering that will let you play around with it? Or maybe just find all the reviews you can and narrow it down to a few you're considering then buy the one that looks the most promising. If it really fails to live up in some way then go ahead and return it, otherwise keep it.
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But the problem is that you don't know whether something really works until you tested it yourself. And you also need to look at it from the side of the seller: what is cheaper? Deal with sending out loaners or just accept a percentage of returns. Keep in mind that a typical margin stuff being sold is at least 60%. On clothes more like 90%. So a seller has quite a bit of margin to deal with a couple of returns that can be sold at 80% of the original retail price. For a low price item, asking them for a loaner may cost them more in labour costs than just dealing with a return.
edit: @dorkshoei: a big online fashion retailer in the NL is seeing an average return rate of 50%.
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