“Internet retailers have been saber-rattling about the need to tighten up anything-goes return policies for years. Now they’ve found their chance. When everyone’s already hooked on online shopping, why let us return things for free?” Amanda Mull The Atlantic: The Free-Returns Party Is Over. (I’m stubbornly sticking to my long term returns strategy. I throw away the packing too soon and set the item aside somewhere where it remains, for eternity.)