How to Return Something to a Store

Returning something to a store can be simple or time-consuming, depending on that store's policy. Know the procedures before you make your purchase.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Sales Receipts

1. Find the sales receipt for the item you wish to return.

2. Take the item and the receipt to the store with you.

3. At the store, ask where items to be returned should be taken.

4. Present the receipt and the item to the cashier or customer service representative.

5. Declare your reason for the return.

6. Request an exchange, store credit, credit card credit or cash.

7. Follow the procedure as explained by the cashier or customer service representative.

Tips & Warnings

• If you request a credit card credit for your return, you must have your credit card with you when you return the item.
• Some stores will accept returns without receipts, especially if the item returned was a gift.
• "I decided I don't like it" is a perfectly acceptable excuse for returning an item.
• Keep all receipts for at least a month after you make a purchase. This will make returning easier.
• Many stores only offer store credit for returns, and some do not accept returns on sale items. Check store policy before you buy.
• Used items may not be accepted for return.

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on 6/30/2009 Riofy: In most locales, of course the vendor has the right to refuse returns. Especially if your stinky bare feet have been wearing them.

More to the point, this eHow represents exactly what I don't like about eHow.com: this entry is facile to the point of being an insult.

Honestly, "How to return something to a store?" Are you kidding me?

Create a separate site called eHowForTheMentallyChallenged.com , and put junk like this over there. I generally like eHow.com, but simple-minded entries such as this are all-too-common and annoying.

[Riofy]

on 9/16/2008 I bought this billabong flipflops in one store here in dubai, because i like it very much though i will have a financial suicide if i will do so, but this did not stop me from buying the flipflops. After buying, i decided to wear the flipflops, but after 30 minutes of walking in the mall, my feet hurts because of the metal on it and i wanted to return the flipflops or replace it with another, but the store supervisor refuses to accept it? Does they have the right to refuse of the return?