Hobby Shops: Is it fair?

[JERRY2KONE]

No thats really not right. I see this kind of stuff all the time with Amazon.com. People order shoes, but are not sure what size will fit them correctly so they order six different sizes of the same shoe. They find which one fits them and ship the rest back using the free return system. This is fine for the big companies that have this free return service, but even that bugs me. When you are dealing with a mom and pop type of shop they don't have the huge funding or capital that some other places do, and cannot afford to do stuff like this. If you do it once they might let it go, but if you do it more often they could end up banning you from their store. I have stuff sitting in my collections that I have ordered in error. The way I look at it is if you order something by mistake you eat the loss and find a way to sell it yourself. It's not your hobby shops fault that you made a mistake. Don't dump your ignorance on them. That is just not fare to them. A shop like that has a very tight budget to work with and cannot afford to have huge inventories laying about. Especially if it is an item that they do not usually sell. You asked, so I am sharing a different perspective.