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  • The crew 2 was $1 on steam. I use linux. The game has anticheat :(

  • 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

  • Bought an ECM for my vehicle. It didn't work, truck wouldn't prime the fuel pump or start. Returned it.

  • Ordered a shelf, it was never handed off to the courier. Complained, got it redelivered but they sent it to the wrong address. They seem to have refunded me twice... haven't received any money back yet, but the shelf is due to arrive tomorrow so we'll see what happens

  • Train ticket!

    I got it because I ended up being able to catch an earlier train, instead of the train I was expecting to catch and had bought a ticket for.

  • My refund was for a pack of tomatoes, boring! So I'll tell you a funny refund story I heard today. Friends, mostly a bit squiffy (driver aside) were trying to book a hotel at their destination on booking.com. There were rooms available in hotel A. "Check the reviews" said Ms Sober. "Nah, just book it!" said Ms Squiffy.

    Booking made, they tried to contact the hotel. No answer. Reviews were AWFUL. "Rats behind the bar" type awful. Fast forward to arrival aaaand the hotel was closed. They moved on to hotel B, where they learned that hotel A was shut because the owner was in jail for repeated violation of food hygiene standards.

    So they called booking.com for a refund. "We can't refund you until we've heard from the proprietor." "The proprietor is in PRISON." "Well we'd still like to give a chance to get in touch."

    It took them weeks to get their money back. Moral of the story is always try to book directly with the hotel.

    I just had a look and apparently it's back in business.

    Review from this month: "Refused to stay, checked in 3 rooms & all checked out within 10mins of arrival, the disgusting place is a health hazard, taps not working, mould all over walls, the place needs closing down."

    Owner: "Sorry this not true just looking for refunds."

  • Govets, they say they have products in stock but they will never ever ship.

    They also want a driver's license picture and a selfie for a fucking server part

  • 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.

  • College payments. Received a $1500 grant payout three weeks into the semester, which left me with about $100 to claim.

  • 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.

  • A controller, because im a dingus who didnt bother to make sure it had the right connector for my phone (it didnt)

  • I bought a power supply for a second hand monitor and found that the 90-degree angle on the plug meant it couldn't actually go into the socket. I took it back to the shop and the owner offered to solder a straight plug onto the adaptor for me - but couldn't find one to use, so he gave me my money back.

  • Last week I bought one of those giant vacuum insulated travel mugs (not a Stanley) from a discount variety store, along with a bunch of other things. After I paid, the cashier asked "do you want the receipt?", I normally say no, but this time for some reason I said yes. After I left the store, my kids needed to use the restroom, so while they went I sat down on the bench and absently looked through the receipt in my hand. I immediately noticed I got charged twice for the mug. The cashier must've double scanned it. I went back to the store, showed a manager my receipt, and they refunded me the difference.

    That was technically my last refund, but the last product I actually returned was a set of tws (true-wireless-stereo) IEMs (fancy earbuds). They were a brand new model just released with great reviews, I bought them from Amazon, received them, and used them about a week. During that week I noticed every time they were in my ears, my ear canals got super irritated and my ears felt warm. And whenever I removed them the insides of my ears would be crazy itchy for hours afterwards. It got to a point after a week of use that my ear canals would swell and close up about 15 minutes after I put the earbuds in my ears. Didn't take a rocket surgeon to work out I was allergic to whatever material that earphone was made of. I still had the box and all the packaging, submitted a return to Amazon with the comment "my ears are allergic to those earphones" and they accepted it no problems, I got a full refund.

  • GTA V on Steam, but not because of AntiCheat that makes the game unplayable on Linux. I just don't like it. It's not fun.

  • Asus Zephyrus g14 (2022).

    It started to randomly shut down. I sent it to Asus for repair 2 times, but they always claimed that they could not find the issue. After realising that Asus was not gonna help me, I sent it back to the seller for a refund, which took 3 Months, a lot of emails and a phonecall to actually get.

    In total between the repairs and refund I spent about 6 Months on this issue.

  • A Denon soundbar, that had a mysterious HDMI conflict that couldn't be fixed after multiple reparation attempts.

    It's good that or most prominent webshop does reparations instead of automatic rebates, however I had to mail it back three times. And the second to last time they returned it saying it wasn't broken.

    So when I mailed it up the last time they initially refused to refund, as 'it hadn't been repaired three times yet'.

    Luckily they found it impossible to fix the problem, hence I got my refund. I'm happy with my JBL that was 50 Euros cheaper.

  • 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.

  • Amazon sends me open, broken, defective, and/or outright used items all the time these days. So I have a lot of returns, and if I get two in a row, I take a refund instead because their whole inventory of that item is probably too polluted to get a new one. If only there were any other ways to get some things, I'd quit buying from them, but with the lack of small specialty stores, even in cities, it's so hard to find so many things in physical stores anymore, and smaller online stores can't compete, especially for items that need to be tried a lot to find the right size or type.

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