Maybe. Try looking at it from a merchant angle, as is if you owned a computer store and offered brand new merchandise for sale. Let's say a customer walks in buys your product takes it home and plays with it and then says well you know what, I just don't want to play with it anymore I'm bored. So he brings it back, you give him a full refund and now you have to sell it as a used one for a lot less. In essence you have allowed your customer to "borrow" a new machine and "play" with it temporarily and return it and get his money back. Conceivably, your customer could do this all year long: buy a machine use it for a month or two, bring it back, etc., well you get the idea.
I am looking at this purely from a business point of view. Companies (large or small) cannot afford to let customers take home merchandise, use them, and get a full refund without suffering some economic loss.
BestBuy, for example, allows you to buy a product, use it for two months, bring it back and get a full refund (silver members) no questions asked. They in turn must sell your return at a loss as a used item. How long do you think the economy can support this?
Just my 2 cents...
Woah! That's why you shouldn't get it from stores like that. Target has the best return policy. I could have return it by Jan 2013 (opened) for a full cash return.
I had a complete opposite experience here in SoCal. The Target store would not let me return an opened iPad mini. They said electronics carry a different policy that's invisible to the consumers and the store can interpret it the way they want to. I called guest relation and they said I should be able to even if opened. I already left the store so I wasn't able to let the store manager talk to corporate. Honestly it's not worth the trouble. Try best buy I think they carry a better policy in regards to electronics.
Manhattan Beach.If you don't mind, exactly which SoCal store?
I had a complete opposite experience here in SoCal. The Target store would not let me return an opened iPad mini. They said electronics carry a different policy that's invisible to the consumers and the store can interpret it the way they want to. I called guest relation and they said I should be able to even if opened. I already left the store so I wasn't able to let the store manager talk to corporate. Honestly it's not worth the trouble. Try best buy I think they carry a better policy in regards to electronics.