Bought a really nice TV a couple of years ago. About a month later, the manufacturer had a really big price drop. Microcenter has a really nice 60 or 90 day price guarantee so I popped into the local store and got about $800 back.
Amazon sent a mouse mat that was the wrong box in the first place QcK Heavy instead of QcK, and even worse, inside was a dirty old mouse mat from a different brand entirely. It was annoying to post it back (internationally, they aren’t in my country) but they refunded without issue at least.
Clip on sunglasses. I’ve bought from same online place for a couple of years now. I discovered they offered a blue tint mirrored finish style.
When they arrived they were tinted on the wrong side! I wonder how many pairs were made incorrectly. I would think many, many pairs.
Steam. A zombie game I got didn’t perform very well on my Deck.
I believe it was a steam game that didn’t work through proton. Valve customer service is amazing! Happy with the trade-off where the flash sales ended to enable them to offer refunds.
I bought a pair of Birkenstock dupes on Amazon and they were at least 5 sizes too big. I ended up with a pair of Crocs that are styled like Birks and even look like leather. Crocs are my jam. I’ll take the hate.
Kerbal Space Program 2.
Tons of performance issues, bugs and I was generally not satisfied with the game even though I’ve put probably thousands of hours into the first game, which always ran perfectly on my computer. Believe me, it takes a lot for me to not enjoy a physics-based game and I really wanted to like it.
Amazon told me my package had to be returned presumably for damage so I got a refund two days before the package arrived undamaged.
Total War: Warhammer
…because a friend suggested it, I gave it an honest try within the refund grace period, and it wasn’t my kind of game.
Kerbal Space Program 2.
Yeah it’s looking really bleak over there…
I guess technically a refund? I returned tools I rented from O’Reilly to fix the timing chain on my truck. 250,000 miles and still runs like a champ, just ignore the noisey lifter haha
One-size-fits-all batman cat mask was not so one-size-fits-all
For context - This cat’s name is batman.
And not Catman?
College payments. Received a $1500 grant payout three weeks into the semester, which left me with about $100 to claim.
Sewing machine. It was cheap as I am just learning and didn’t want to drop heavy change. I actually returned it and bought another one. Both had shit bobbin casings (I think that’s what they’re called). Literally said, “fuck it,” returned it, and youtubed how to sew by hand. Much less frustrating.
Online grocery order had a like-for-like product substitution, but the substitution was from a producer that uses a slightly different set of ingredients, one of which I have an intolerance of. Sending it back garnered a refund… and might have helped train an algorithm somewhere.
That is, if they have some kind of semi-random procedure to choose which customer gets a substitution, someone else who’d be more likely to accept it might get it instead, and I’ll get the product I can eat.
I think those substitutions are picked by the person filling your order. We got a hilarious substitution from Walmart once. My wife ordered a bottle of thyme or oregano or something similar. They were out of stock so the worker went to the garden center and substituted it with a fucking potted plant of thyme or oregano. We both laughed our asses off at their choice but it wasn’t what we needed.
My grocery store ways texts a photo of what’s available and I tell them what will work.
The place I use allegedly uses robots to pick the orders, so, in theory anyway, it’s a machine making the decisions. Or someone sat in front of one, rather than on the warehouse floor.
