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A pair of bicycle pedals. I regretted the purchase and returned them.

For the last case of a non-return, I got a refund on a wristband for my Fitbit, which had broken after very little use.

A controller, because im a dingus who didnt bother to make sure it had the right connector for my phone (it didnt)

GTA V on Steam, but not because of AntiCheat that makes the game unplayable on Linux. I just don't like it. It's not fun.

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.

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.

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.

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

For context - This cat's name is batman.

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.

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.

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.

Steam. A zombie game I got didn't perform very well on my Deck.

Kerbal Space Program 2.

Yeah it's looking really bleak over there...

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

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

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.

College payments. Received a $1500 grant payout three weeks into the semester, which left me with about $100 to claim.

The crew 2 was $1 on steam. I use linux. The game has anticheat :(

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.

Sewing machine. It was cheap as I am just learning and didn't want to drop heavy change. I actually returned it and bought another one. Both had shit bobbin casings (I think that's what they're called). Literally said, "fuck it," returned it, and youtubed how to sew by hand. Much less frustrating.

Got diapers instead of a laptop from amazon.

I hope to get a refund for my train ticket from last Thursday where the train was just cancelled.

Online request didn't work, so I have to go to the train station today and waste even more of my time.

Online grocery order had a like-for-like product substitution, but the substitution was from a producer that uses a slightly different set of ingredients, one of which I have an intolerance of. Sending it back garnered a refund... and might have helped train an algorithm somewhere.

That is, if they have some kind of semi-random procedure to choose which customer gets a substitution, someone else who'd be more likely to accept it might get it instead, and I'll get the product I can eat.

I've been fixing up an old motorcycle, and the weekend I was finally ready to try starting it I discovered an issue in the electrical system. I discovered this by blowing both of the fuses I had for it. I ordered new fuses from Amazon that would arrive Monday, but then decided Saturday morning that I didn't want to wait, so I replaced the existing fuse holder with a more modern one so I could get fuses at the auto parts store, and returned the older style fuses when they arrived

Tax refund.

I didn't make enough money for the year to be taxed so I got all of it back.

A game I only bought because someone else wanted to play that together on a private LAN party. That person then announced that they couldn't show up. And since I was terribly uninterested in playing that game on my own and only bought it for just that occasion, I refunded it after that news.

Ordered energy drinks on Amazon because I couldn't find the flavor at the grocery store anymore (Monster Nitro Cosmic Peach). The estimated arrival day got pushed back twice, and then the status changed to say that the item was late enough that I could claim a refund. I punched the tracking number into the UPS website and it said that a shipping label had been created, but the package was never actually handed over to UPS. My guess is that the seller ran out of stock and decided to do nothing about it and just wait for me to refund, but I guess it's also possible that someone at UPS swiped the package instead of scanning it into their system.

Either way, I did get a refund through Amazon support.

I bought a collection of DOSBOX-wrapped TSR Gold Box AD&D games from Steam. After spending more time than I recalled it needing to generate a party and then even longer getting my bearings puttering around the civilized part of New Phlan, Pool of Radiance started crashing and truncating item strings (rendering them useless and un-removeable) and dropping like 50,000 gems from a random Kobold encounter.

It was unplayable without, I assume, tracking down sketchy third-party save-game editors. However, since it took me a couple of hours to get out into the first proper dungeon, they tried to say I was past my "reasonable" preview time, which I guess in reality is treated as a two-hour hard cutoff. I ran it through the system a couple of times and got auto-denied, but eventually got through to a chat agent who gave me my eleven dollars back as Steam credit. :-)

Ordered a shelf, it was never handed off to the courier. Complained, got it redelivered but they sent it to the wrong address. They seem to have refunded me twice... haven't received any money back yet, but the shelf is due to arrive tomorrow so we'll see what happens

Govets, they say they have products in stock but they will never ever ship.

They also want a driver's license picture and a selfie for a fucking server part

PS5 controller. Stick drift.

Prepackaged antipasto gave me days of horrible indigestion

Train ticket!

I got it because I ended up being able to catch an earlier train, instead of the train I was expecting to catch and had bought a ticket for.

Bought an ECM for my vehicle. It didn't work, truck wouldn't prime the fuel pump or start. Returned it.

A fan light kit for a ceiling fan. Had a customer who needed one fixed this weekend. Picked one up from the store and didn't use it, so back it went.

Many months ago I got a refund of around $250 on an online course because I changed my mind after my purchase. It was an amazing course but I didn't see myself using the knowledge in the future. Good thing I got a refund in time.

eBay purchase. Seller claimed "a failure to update stock inventory in our warehouse"