Best fashion purchase ever. Seriously. A heavy duty packing tape dispenser.
I buy a lot of things via mail and this makes wrapping up those return boxes so much easier, it is invaluable! I snapped the pic right after taping up, I kid you not, returns for Zappos (five boxes), Kate Spade Saturday, Lands End, Nordstrom and J Crew.
I post in jest, but also because I was really surprised to learn that everyone wasn't as comfortable as I am with returns. I do returns so regularly that I've invested in a tape dispenser. I worked retail through college and it would never, ever have occurred to me that a person should feel bad about returning a new, unworn item or even a worn one that didn't hold together properly. I saw so many returns, I just take it as a given. (I'm not talking about bad returns: not just worn, but worn out items, or things a person has ruined through their own lack of care, or things that a person has held onto for a year before returning.)
I think of returns as a way that a company entices you to take a chance on something new. If you take it home and it doesn't work with what you have or if it looks different in your home mirror, you should feel free to return it. No harm, no foul. It allows a buyer to be more impulsive and often means that a retailer sells something to a customer at a higher price than they would otherwise be able to entice them to purchase a risky item for. I'm an impulse purchaser, but a wait and see wearer, so returns are an important part of my purchasing strategy.
Are any of you like me? Are returns an important part of your purchasing strategy?
I buy a lot of things via mail and this makes wrapping up those return boxes so much easier, it is invaluable! I snapped the pic right after taping up, I kid you not, returns for Zappos (five boxes), Kate Spade Saturday, Lands End, Nordstrom and J Crew.
I post in jest, but also because I was really surprised to learn that everyone wasn't as comfortable as I am with returns. I do returns so regularly that I've invested in a tape dispenser. I worked retail through college and it would never, ever have occurred to me that a person should feel bad about returning a new, unworn item or even a worn one that didn't hold together properly. I saw so many returns, I just take it as a given. (I'm not talking about bad returns: not just worn, but worn out items, or things a person has ruined through their own lack of care, or things that a person has held onto for a year before returning.)
I think of returns as a way that a company entices you to take a chance on something new. If you take it home and it doesn't work with what you have or if it looks different in your home mirror, you should feel free to return it. No harm, no foul. It allows a buyer to be more impulsive and often means that a retailer sells something to a customer at a higher price than they would otherwise be able to entice them to purchase a risky item for. I'm an impulse purchaser, but a wait and see wearer, so returns are an important part of my purchasing strategy.
Are any of you like me? Are returns an important part of your purchasing strategy?
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