Seems to me returning the cutoff little one foot pieces of trim to Depot for cash back is pretty petty and deserves a place in the ‘Clever Crap Hall of Shame’.
As does what dustinf wrote in another post 67273.14
If you return paint the cashier will open the can to make sure it’s full of paint, and not water. I returned a few gallons of primer, and the lady told me she had to check. People had been using the paint, and returning water.
So to quote Cloud…
“What other “clever” crap do people try when running their scams?”
‘Nemo me impune lacesset’
No one will provoke me with impunity
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Beat you by 3 minutes, suckah! :)
As far as I'm concerned, just returning to HD to shop is a shame.
I've told this story in here before (I think) but one time I stood in line behind a man who had rented an airless paint sprayer the day before. He sprayed paint and then returned it the following day.The clerk politely told him he would need to take the paint sprayer home and attempt to clean it up and the customer acted kind of offended and that he was above cleaning dried paint from an expensive piece of equipment.I don't know what ever happened but I'm guessing it was difficult or impossible to remove dried paint from the paint equipment..++++++++++++++++
-Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain-
Thats how I got my 40' Werner ladder for $50. Somebody bought the ladder, ($327) painted something, got paint on the ladder and then returned it.
Lowes took it back but must have decided they couldnt sell it that way.
The week before I had finally put a ladder rack on my truck.
Great timing.
Recently was at the local yard in need of a 5/8" splined masonry bit for the Bosch hammer drill. The clerk took a $30 Makita bit down off a hook to show me. When he unscrewed the plastic tube, out fell a bunch of concrete crumbs and the bit was still covered in rock powder from the previous customer who bought it, took it home, used it, then returned it. I've seen evidence of prior use (broken seals on packaging, pitch residue, etc.), on expensive router bits at the same store. I guess $30 is a lot of money to some people.
Some people are just jerks.