Originally posted by GregK8 I have a friend who purchased a camera and found that it already had over 2,000 shutter actuations on it. Someone obviously purchased it, used it through the return timeframe of the retailer then returned it. He's pretty pissed about this, as he discovered this after the return period for him expired.
I liken it to a woman that buys a dress, wears it to a party then returns it the next day.
There aren't enough facts available to determine if it was wrong. My son had a friend who bought lots of things just to use them for awhile, for free. Clothing, electronics, you name it. He had no intent to buy. That was wrong, and everyone else pays.
When a retailer accepts returns for any reason, they open themselves up to this abuse. If the original purchaser took the camera out twice to big events, had problems on the first go and confirmed them on the second, he wasn't wrong to return it. If he merely wanted to try out a camera he couldn't afford, that was wrong. Now, whether the retailer is wrong in representing that camera as truly new or refurbished is a separate issue. Just my opinion. You may feel differently.