Anyone else planning on ordering the sport version and returning it?

[Knowimagination]

You guys are ridiculous. This is a piece of wearable technology that will literally be attached to your body for 18 hours per day. The idea that you can get a sense of how well it will fit into your life by fiddling with it in the store for 15 minutes while an Apple employee hovers nearby and awkwardly tries to talk fashion to you is laughable.

If you are interested enough in the Apple Watch to want to try it out for two weeks, I guarantee that Apple wants you to buy one and return it if you don't like it. I guarantee you they will still want you to buy one even if your initial expectation is that you won't like it. Because if you change your mind, they've made a sale they wouldn't have made otherwise.

This isn't like a chainsaw or something, that you could buy for a weekend project and then return. That would be clearly unethical.

And I suppose, if you couldn't really afford to purchase the Watch, but simply wanted to wear one for two weeks for free and return it before your CC bill comes, that's unethical too.

But in this case, I just don't think buying a product that you want to try out but don't expect to like enough to keep is unethical.

I'd bet that if you walk into an Apple Store, picked any product on the shelf and asked a salesman "I'm interested in this but I don't think I'll get enough use out of it to warrant the cost, can I buy it to try it out and return it if I don't like it?" they will happily sell it to you every time.

If you are interested enough in the product to want to turn over your money for it at all, you have met any reasonable moral or ethical obligation you might have. If the product is not compelling enough for you to want to own it for longer than the return period, that's not your problem and it isn't a moral problem to return it at that point.

No one is saying returning something is unethical. The OP didn't say I'm not sold on the apple watch so I'm planning on buying one and if I don't end up liking it I'll use the return policy. No one would complain at that.

The OP specifically said they just like tech and want to play with it but not actually enough to pay for and keep it. They later tried to back out of it by pretending they might keep it if they like it enough but that wasn't in the OP at all.

 

[Mr.C]

There is one thing those people who are supporting the OP are missing. There is a huge difference between buying one with the intention of keeping it and then for some reason because you don't like or it doesn't meet your needs you return it and buying it with the prior intention of playing around with it just to check it out but "planning" on returning it within the return period.

What the OP has clearly stated is that he is looking to do the latter and now he is trying to back peddle to make it seem like that's not his intention now people are criticising him. It's certainly unethical even if it is legal and within Apple's return policy.

I also can't believe the OP has the gall to actually post here with his intention to buy it and clearly return it within the return period. Also regardless of Apple's unethical practices this kind of behaviour has more of an affect on the legitimate consumer then it does on Apple.

 

[Lucifer666]

You get these threads every launch without fail.

It's just the cheaper stuff mostly. The forums are different.

Your just wasting your breath telling these people anything. This sort of thing is learned elsewhere.

 

[refslady]

How many women buy a dress or a Friday, wear it to one party Saturday night, then return it for a refund on Monday saying there was a problem with it, of they decided they did not like it?

Millions every week around the world I'm sure.

Those actions have led many, many boutiques and department stores to change some policies:

1. Some place the extra-large price tag in the center of the bodice -- no way to conceal it when wearing the dress, and
2. Refuse to take back a dress that has had the tag removed.
3. Some stores just have set the policy as 'special occasion dresses non-returnable'.

While the OP as an individual will not cause Apple to change its policy on returns, enough like him will. This is a new and different device - no contract, no switching carriers -- none of those extra activities that make a return more than a whim. I won't be surprised if there is a new policy, or at least a restocking fee when enough people have decided to test-drive watches.

 

[kovey]

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I'm interested in trying the new watch(because I like playing with new tech) but don't plan on keeping it. I plan on ordering it and taking it back before the 14 day return period. Anyone else doing the same?

You might officially be a terrible person.

 

[KPOM]

Because I want to use it for more then 10 minutes that's why. And don't worry they should have plenty of sport watches in stock judging by the reviews.

Actually, the Sport will likely sell out the quickest, since that's the one that most reviewers are saying people should buy if they decide they want the Apple Watch. You might have better luck ordering one of the pricier models of the Stainless Steel.

I do agree with the others that if you are likely not to keep it, why not wait until supplies improve and let someone who is likely to keep it get it sooner.

 

[KauaiBruce]

If I wanted to play with something like that I would just buy it and resell it. The OP has definitely added an ICK factor to buying anything refurbished for me.

I officially think the OP should now do that with a car.