On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:47:50 +1000, Sylvia Else
wrote:


Only if Home Depot are misrepresenting returns goods as being new.

It is a violation of federal law to return a 'returned' item to stock
if the item has been opened, tampered with, or could have been
alterened in any way by the party returning it. This provision is
often ignored by many stores. This provision is always ignored by HD,
and a couple of other stores that will remain unnamed! bg


But what the previous poster is proposing is of course fraud. If he's
doing it, one day he may get caught and prosecuted.

Or, we can hope that that 'new' one he bought was the same broken one
he returned six weeks ago!