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expired Posted by persian_mafia | Staff • Sep 20, 2022
Sep 20, 2022 1:23 AM
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The Kirkland furnace filter looks like a decent deal.
I've personally never needed a "Date sticker" (don't really know what that is honestly but I can imagine), and I've personally walked directly from the registers to CS and returned something many times at several different stores - not even gone through the receipt checkers, even. I literally did that exact thing yesterday.
I have 3 stores I frequent, around 30-40 miles apart from one another.
The online policy states PA's within 30 days, I can't find an official B&M policy though. That has been echoed by a couple of my local stores, but the 3rd store seems to have a more practical approach.
The reason why is that Costco's return policy (not considering "electronics") is basically forever. That means you can return "non electronics" (which is basically TV's and computers, many things you and I would consider "electronics" aren't by Costco's policy) whenever. So, let's say you want to price adjust an item you bought 3 months ago. They could say "no PA after 30 days", but you could also just buy the item, then immediately return it. Costco's returns will default to returning the highest price paid. The end result is effectively the same, the only difference is the amount of effort involved.
I've done this numerous times - in fact even yesterday, saving $85 on a bike I bought 3 months ago. I knew they wouldn't PA, so I bought the bike and walked it right to CS where they scanned my Costco card, the UPC on the box, and refunded the "high" price of $400+tax. No fuss, but I did have to haul it to the register and buy it, and an employee will need to haul it back to the pile.
Another store as I said is more pragmatic - I bought a gazebo back in May and noticed a price drop a few months later. I went to CS and told them that I knew it was past the official PA period, and that it was a giant waste of everyone's time for me to load the 3 boxes on a cart, wheel it up there and buy it, only to have them wheel it back after a return, so they capitulated (read: knew I was going to effectively get a PA anyway) and did a buy/return....... without actually walking anything to the register.
The above said, the item DOES need to be in stock at the time and cannot simply be a floor model; I generally don't go hunting for PA's, but if I notice one walking through the store and I believe it's worth my time, I'll snap a photo of the item including the "sticker" (SKU/price) and evidence of stock (they will verify that) and go to CS. In particular, seasonal items seem to bear the most fruit here, as they will undergo seasonal markdowns.
This year I've probably saved > $1000 just by being aware of price changes.
Assuming going to SR or any other grocery store is really worth the time.
Costco (and BJ's) are basically my grocery stores now - typically go once a week, get everything and save time. We have a family of 6, so buying in bulk makes sense, even if some of the food wastes - for example, a gallon of milk is cheaper at Costco than a half gallon would be at local grocers - plus I'm at Costco anyway, so it's cheaper to buy a gallon and dump some of it than to just buy a half gallon, not to mention getting that half gallon would be yet another stop I'd have to make.
My only exceptions are Aldi and a local job lot place - typically go here once or twice a month but I would be buying non-perishables.
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Again, I can't see how Costco can be inconsistent in this.
I personally have done this twice, letting the system decide which purchase to refund, and both times it refunded the higher price paid and not the most recent one.
I used to look up purchase receipts in the app to have them ready for returns, and the second-to-last time I did that, I tried to head the CS off at the pass saying I had the receipt I wanted it to go against (it was a Tommy Bahama beach chair I'd bought in June) and she told me "it will refund the highest purchase price", which it did, on a chair I purchased a second time with the sole purpose to get a price adjustment refund.
Then yesterday, the same thing happened with the bike except I just let the transaction go through and it refunded the $400 purchase price (from a few months ago) and not the $320 that I had just completed like 5 minutes prior. The transaction was - purchase bike @ register, walk to CS, tell them I want to return, they scan my member card, then the item, receipt spits out in 5 seconds, return complete for highest price paid.