Secondary Moral -- Never, ever buy anything that comes in a box that has
been opened. It is almost surely to have been purchased and returned for
whatever reason. If it is the last item in stock - run like the wind, for
it is almost certainly going to be defective in some way.

Bob Swinney


"User Example" wrote in message
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I bought a $500 rug from the local Lowe's once. When I got it home I
noticed that it had several flaws [unraveling border, mistakes in the
pattern]. I took it back for exchange. They had another just like it so I
took it home. I looked at it and it also had similar flaws. I took this
one back for exchange but they were out so we went to another nearby Lowes.
This time I asked them to unroll it at the store before I bought it. Sure
enough, it was also messed up. They didn't have another one of the rugs so
I drove across town to a different store. Again, I asked the man to show me
the rug first. This one look OK but not perfect. I could live with the
problems though so I bought it. At that point I asked if they were selling
seconds (mildly defective items) and he said no. I don't really believe
him. I think they are indeed selling rejects.

But anyway, a couple weeks later I go to the first Lowes and go look at
the rugs just for the heck of it. Sure enough, the two defective rugs
that I returned were right back on the shelf. I could tell because I had
to wrap them in my own plastic. This is after I made a point to tell them
that the rugs were defective.

Moral of the story... don't buy a rug from Lowes unless you look at it
first.

But I do have to say that they never gave me any hassle about returning
the rugs or having them take them out of the plastic and show them to me
before buying them.