buying stuff to knowingly return in a few days

[confidence]

I have a sony ux laptop and I went to the stony style store and purchased the GPS receiver for my trip to Atlantic City/New York this weekend.

I have no plans on keeping the receiver and will be returning it monday.

My question is this common? I know girls do this type of thing with dresses but what else is it done with?

Note: There is a 15% restocking fee which comes to $20, which if igure is worth it for GPS for the weekend, since I never drove around that area before.

But I opened the box in such a way that I'm pretty sure they won't even know I opened it.

[rothko]

video camera, obv

[apefish]

I'm going to try this with some hookers.

[gusmahler]

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My question is this common?

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There's a reason that Best Buy charges a restocking fee on video cameras, digital cameras, and laptops--to lower the number of people doing exactly what you propose to do.

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I know girls do this type of thing with dresses but what else is it done with?

[/ QUOTE ]Electronics (again, there's a reason Best Buy has a restocking policy). E.g., I just bought several pairs of headphones knowing that I was only going to keep the one I liked the best.

I've also done this with various other products, including CD players, boom boxes, DVD players, camera flashes, camera lenses, even cuff-links.

[popeye18]

My friends and I have done this several times with board games. Its awesome when walmart takes back a game with bent cards and borken pieces.