Shoes. I bought 2 pair of shoes from the same maker in the exact same size. One pair fit, the other both too small (in length) and too big (in width and depth) so no size was gonna work.

I bought a power supply for a second hand monitor and found that the 90-degree angle on the plug meant it couldn’t actually go into the socket. I took it back to the shop and the owner offered to solder a straight plug onto the adaptor for me - but couldn’t find one to use, so he gave me my money back.

Last night, hotel sucked. Went to a better hotel. Not really a refund, but we weren’t charged for the rest of our reservation.

Amazon sends me open, broken, defective, and/or outright used items all the time these days. So I have a lot of returns, and if I get two in a row, I take a refund instead because their whole inventory of that item is probably too polluted to get a new one. If only there were any other ways to get some things, I’d quit buying from them, but with the lack of small specialty stores, even in cities, it’s so hard to find so many things in physical stores anymore, and smaller online stores can’t compete, especially for items that need to be tried a lot to find the right size or type.

Bought a really nice TV a couple of years ago. About a month later, the manufacturer had a really big price drop. Microcenter has a really nice 60 or 90 day price guarantee so I popped into the local store and got about $800 back.

Amazon sent a mouse mat that was the wrong box in the first place QcK Heavy instead of QcK, and even worse, inside was a dirty old mouse mat from a different brand entirely. It was annoying to post it back (internationally, they aren’t in my country) but they refunded without issue at least.

Clip on sunglasses. I’ve bought from same online place for a couple of years now. I discovered they offered a blue tint mirrored finish style.

When they arrived they were tinted on the wrong side! I wonder how many pairs were made incorrectly. I would think many, many pairs.

I believe it was a steam game that didn’t work through proton. Valve customer service is amazing! Happy with the trade-off where the flash sales ended to enable them to offer refunds.

I bought a pair of Birkenstock dupes on Amazon and they were at least 5 sizes too big. I ended up with a pair of Crocs that are styled like Birks and even look like leather. Crocs are my jam. I’ll take the hate.

Kerbal Space Program 2.

Tons of performance issues, bugs and I was generally not satisfied with the game even though I’ve put probably thousands of hours into the first game, which always ran perfectly on my computer. Believe me, it takes a lot for me to not enjoy a physics-based game and I really wanted to like it.

Amazon told me my package had to be returned presumably for damage so I got a refund two days before the package arrived undamaged.

Total War: Warhammer

…because a friend suggested it, I gave it an honest try within the refund grace period, and it wasn’t my kind of game.

Kerbal Space Program 2.

Yeah it’s looking really bleak over there…

One-size-fits-all batman cat mask was not so one-size-fits-all

For context - This cat’s name is batman.

I guess technically a refund? I returned tools I rented from O’Reilly to fix the timing chain on my truck. 250,000 miles and still runs like a champ, just ignore the noisey lifter haha