tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post1666631368156366720..comments2024-02-19T08:12:53.815-05:00Comments on The Right Thing: Many happy returns (Y2K edition)Jeffrey L. Seglinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15648051034425906705noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post-419503336583318322011-10-03T05:04:38.911-04:002011-10-03T05:04:38.911-04:00Jeffrey, I prefer to use common sense to solve thi...Jeffrey, I prefer to use common sense to solve this riddle. Any purchase we make in the work-a-day world is made between ourselves, independent of any thought process as to intent for use of the purchase. We don't worry ourselves about what the place we made the purchase is doing or thinking about why we bought the object. Take Y2K out of the equation and this purchase was just like any other purchase. Sometimes we keep the purchase. Other times, we return it. The seller doesn't ask why we want to return the object, so why did this particular return create something suspicious in the relative's mind. Seems to me the relative is looking awfully hard to find the purchaser had ulterior motives, even though it appears he did.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post-59653975824375912832011-10-02T10:30:11.759-04:002011-10-02T10:30:11.759-04:00Jeffrey,
I agree. Both sides to the contract cont...Jeffrey,<br /><br />I agree. Both sides to the contract contemplated the possibility of his brother returning the generator within the return policy. In fact, that possibility is built into the price for the unit, so availing himself of a stated contract term is not wrong. It was nice of him to return the product in the same condition in which he bought it.<br /><br />The retail industry sees a lot of 'return policy renting' and it gets FAR worse than this - buying an air conditioner and returning it after the hottest days of the summer, purchasing seasonal items and returning them after the season, purchasing and returning and then repurchasing computers every 29 days so to stay within the return policy.<br /><br />While I see nothing wrong with the brother's actions, the brother's brother might want to consider the value of holding grudges for nearly a dozen years...<br /><br />William Jacobson<br />Anaheim, CAWilliam Jacobsonnoreply@blogger.com