Can I exchange Amazon diapers at target?

[Anonymous]

I haven't met someone before who thought lying was morally equivalent to jaywalking.

Interesting.

[Anonymous]

PS: and jaywalking on an empty street, to boot.

Are you raising kids, OP?

[Anonymous]

It's startling the number of people here justifying their lazy, dishonest behavior by calling it "victimless." Sorry but that's just the story you're telling yourself so you can keep pretending you're not a liar and cheat. As others have pointed out, if it's that justifiable don't sneak around, tell the Target employee up front what you're doing, see if they and their manager consider it no big deal. I mean it is right? That's your position, so just let 'em know.

If you're going to be a dishonest douchebag at least own it.


God, and you people are raising kids!!

[Anonymous]

I do this all the time OP. Target takes your ID and you can get a max of $70 per year for returns with no receipt or record of credit card purchase. They give you a gift card. We got a huge Xmas toy from family and returned it in this manner. Most big retailers take an ID and have an annual max. I tell the associate I do not know if we bought the item at Target. They scan the item and if it is in the system it is fine. If you are trying to game the system like the poor cousin it will catch up to you, but please return/exchange your diapers without guilt!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do this all the time OP. Target takes your ID and you can get a max of $70 per year for returns with no receipt or record of credit card purchase. They give you a gift card. We got a huge Xmas toy from family and returned it in this manner. Most big retailers take an ID and have an annual max. I tell the associate I do not know if we bought the item at Target. They scan the item and if it is in the system it is fine. If you are trying to game the system like the poor cousin it will catch up to you, but please return/exchange your diapers without guilt!

Which requires you to lie to do it.

And lying, to you, is morally neutral as well?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do this all the time OP. Target takes your ID and you can get a max of $70 per year for returns with no receipt or record of credit card purchase. They give you a gift card. We got a huge Xmas toy from family and returned it in this manner. Most big retailers take an ID and have an annual max. I tell the associate I do not know if we bought the item at Target. They scan the item and if it is in the system it is fine. If you are trying to game the system like the poor cousin it will catch up to you, but please return/exchange your diapers without guilt!

Which requires you to lie to do it.

And lying, to you, is morally neutral as well?

No idiot. I tell the truth. I don't know if the Xmas gift was bought at Target. And I just exchanged some batteries, also unsure if they were from Target. If I know where an item came from I'd just return it there. Whether OP wants to lie is her call but she could as easily just take them to the counter and say "I'd like to exchange these".

[Anonymous]

When i had an unipen box of dispers, i donated them at the nonprofit Bright Beginnings. OP, you are not very smart or moral.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do this all the time OP. Target takes your ID and you can get a max of $70 per year for returns with no receipt or record of credit card purchase. They give you a gift card. We got a huge Xmas toy from family and returned it in this manner. Most big retailers take an ID and have an annual max. I tell the associate I do not know if we bought the item at Target. They scan the item and if it is in the system it is fine. If you are trying to game the system like the poor cousin it will catch up to you, but please return/exchange your diapers without guilt!

Which requires you to lie to do it.

And lying, to you, is morally neutral as well?

No idiot. I tell the truth. I don't know if the Xmas gift was bought at Target. And I just exchanged some batteries, also unsure if they were from Target. If I know where an item came from I'd just return it there. Whether OP wants to lie is her call but she could as easily just take them to the counter and say "I'd like to exchange these".

Good on you if you weren't lying. You were, however, telling OP what she did was just fine -- and she outright admitted to lying to the store that she didn't know where they were from.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I do this all the time OP. Target takes your ID and you can get a max of $70 per year for returns with no receipt or record of credit card purchase. They give you a gift card. We got a huge Xmas toy from family and returned it in this manner. Most big retailers take an ID and have an annual max. I tell the associate I do not know if we bought the item at Target. They scan the item and if it is in the system it is fine. If you are trying to game the system like the poor cousin it will catch up to you, but please return/exchange your diapers without guilt!

Which requires you to lie to do it.

And lying, to you, is morally neutral as well?

No idiot. I tell the truth. I don't know if the Xmas gift was bought at Target. And I just exchanged some batteries, also unsure if they were from Target. If I know where an item came from I'd just return it there. Whether OP wants to lie is her call but she could as easily just take them to the counter and say "I'd like to exchange these".

I think we all know who the idiot is around here

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OMG people are insane. As has already been explained here, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I did it once at Target after ADMITTING to them that I probably didn't get it from Target (couldn't remember if it was Amazon or Target) and the customer service person was like "we don't really care, as long as we sell the item". Maybe she was an idiot and not following company rules, but it was no big deal. This isn't that different than buying a shirt from the Gap and exchanging it for a different size at another Gap. The horror!

No it is completely different. Gap to Gap store exchanges keep the inventory correct. Subtract XL tshirt from Gap Tysons add L tshirt from Gap Reston. What OP is doing is adding to Target inventory of diaper size 2 and subtracting size 3, however in there count they only had 1000 of size 2 and now they have 1001? Where did the extra one come from? And then now they have 999 of size 3 when they paid for 1000, where did that one go? we didn't get paid for it.


Yes people get away with it, but it is still wrong and stores use this behavior to hike up prices. LOOK. OP it's clear you don't this is wrong and won't be convinced but it is. Retailers know people do this and I'm sure they consider the price of doing business. Take the good with the bad.

No that is what would happen if I left the box of size 2s on the shelf and ran off with the size 3s. This crazy invention called computers exists and adds the box to the inventory when they scan it in. If they can't scan it in to add it they won't accept the return.

Inventory does not mean whatever "they scan in on the computer" in the store....you realize that it's someone's JOB to buy diapers for all Targets nationally. And if everyone did this, everywhere in the US, it makes it THAT much harder for that person to do their job correctly (assessing and predicting inventory) and they could actually possibly lose their job by being continuously out of stock, or overstocked, etc. Totally unfair.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally confused by this question. You purchased the diapers from Amazon, and you're trying to return them to a completely different store? You didn't buy them from Target, you bought them from Amazon. Do you typically return things to totally random stores that weren't the original point of purchase? People actually try to do this?

I know, right?

This is why retail is hell. You have no idea how weird the shenanigans people get up to are.

I'm a doc. My private peds clinic was closed Wednesday afternoons and had been for years. We were very accommodating, and I'd even make special appointments on weekend. ALWAYS fit people that day in if they called before 9 am, never ran more than 10 minutes behind. I saw everyone at least once a year, so all the families knew, and there was an urgent care down the street with extended hours.

But then one dad barrels past the "closed" sign Wednesday at 3pm, yelled at my front desk person, and brought her to tears, saying he didn't give a f--- if we weren't open -- he thought his daughter had a UTI, and he was going to stay until I saw her, and it better be quick. I was on the phone with a pediatric oncologist trying to coordinate care for a child close to dying with multiple medical issues, and I had to leave for my own specialist doctor's appointment within 5 minutes (I have a serious but stable medical condition). I was -- flabbergasted? Appalled? when he tried to block me from leaving my own office. Child had pulled out the toys in the playroom and was happily playing.

So I started double-checking to make sure the deadbolt was shot each Wednesday afternoon. It was just so bizarre and abusive.

Thank you. That was very relevant.

+1 My sentiments exactly. Start your own thread.

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Anonymous wrote:What you are proposing to do is called theft. You could literally be arrested if you try this.

What??? Hahahahaha

The drama in this thread is hilarious!

Trying to get a refund for something you didn’t buy there? Yeah, you can get arrested for that. It isn’t drama. It just is.

Not trying to get a refund do you read?

Semantics. In order to do the exchange they are extending the value of that item to her to make the exchange. It's a refund and repurchase at its essence. What if the size up is a different count and it costs less, more. What if Target's price is more expensive than Amazon's. Put a bow on it however you want but it is fraud.