JohnAbercrombie
Paddler
In the past I've sometimes ordered online from MEC and if the item didn't fit, taken it back for a refund to the local store.
At the store the refund was applied to the credit card I'd used to pay with, when I ordered online.
MEC, unlike most other retailers, doesn't offer pre-paid returns by mail or UPS/FedEx, so returning to the store makes a difference of $20.
A few days ago I ordered a couple of pairs of pants from MEC. At 'checkout' I noticed that PayPal was now a payment option. I used that.
Pants didn't fit. Took them back to the store today.
No refund to PayPal accounts. My choices were a) receive a gift card which will sit in my wallet for the next x years or b) go home, package the pants, go to the Post Office and mail them back to MEC.
So just a heads up for other 'shoppers' at MEC- don't use PayPal.
I don't understand how the PayPal Merchant Agreement allows this behaviour.
That's 'it' for me, with MEC. Lots of other options out there.
At the store the refund was applied to the credit card I'd used to pay with, when I ordered online.
MEC, unlike most other retailers, doesn't offer pre-paid returns by mail or UPS/FedEx, so returning to the store makes a difference of $20.
A few days ago I ordered a couple of pairs of pants from MEC. At 'checkout' I noticed that PayPal was now a payment option. I used that.
Pants didn't fit. Took them back to the store today.
No refund to PayPal accounts. My choices were a) receive a gift card which will sit in my wallet for the next x years or b) go home, package the pants, go to the Post Office and mail them back to MEC.
So just a heads up for other 'shoppers' at MEC- don't use PayPal.
I don't understand how the PayPal Merchant Agreement allows this behaviour.
That's 'it' for me, with MEC. Lots of other options out there.
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