<story><title>Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged</title><url>https://www.apple.com/in/shop/help/returns_refund</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sans-serif</author><text>In my experience Americans sort of take for granted the breadth and depth of consumer protection you enjoy. I&amp;#x27;d wager that in an insignificant portion of countries Apple expanded to, they have had to significantly cut back on refunds&amp;#x2F;warrantees they offer to combat fraud and abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DaiPlusPlus</author><text>&amp;gt; In my experience Americans sort of take for granted the breadth and depth of consumer protection you enjoy.&lt;p&gt;As a european, it&amp;#x27;s amusing to hear you say that as the majority of European countries have far, far more stringent consumer-protection regs than the US, such as mandatory 2 year warranties, distance-selling laws, legal rights to a refund or replacement, and so on. Apple&amp;#x27;s 90 day warranty is a joke when you can buy the same product, for almost the same price after factoring-in VAT, with a 2 year warranty only a 5 hour flight away...</text></comment>
<story><title>Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged</title><url>https://www.apple.com/in/shop/help/returns_refund</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sans-serif</author><text>In my experience Americans sort of take for granted the breadth and depth of consumer protection you enjoy. I&amp;#x27;d wager that in an insignificant portion of countries Apple expanded to, they have had to significantly cut back on refunds&amp;#x2F;warrantees they offer to combat fraud and abuse.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>I worked at a chain pizza place growing up that advertised its money back offer if you didn&amp;#x27;t like your pizza.   When they advertised it I just assumed a lot of people would take advantage of it.&lt;p&gt;Our store was one of the busiest in the US for a single store.   One guy ... just one guy abused it regularly.   Beyond him almost nobody ever took advantage of the offer at all...  Easy enough for the store manager to tell that guy to knock it off and there ya go.&lt;p&gt;What I assumed was a crazy &amp;#x2F; unwise policy, effectively cost them nothing, hardly was ever used, didn&amp;#x27;t require any new processes at all, and amounted to just a advertising slogan.&lt;p&gt;I was surprised and impressed.</text></comment>