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H&M - Took Off the Price Tag But I Want to Return the T-shirt Back?
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No, it's not. Fitting rooms don't have to be used to determine of a garment fits. If the garment is marked with a size, the consumer has a reasonable expectation that to will fit the size as described. If I buy a car and walk around it and don't see anything wrong with it, can it be said that I have been given the opportunity to dismantle it to establish of anything s broken. A defect, which is obvious, is a tear or stain on the fabric, not sizing.
No but you would have the opportunity to get into the car to see if the size was right for you. The changing rooms being there is still an invitation to inspect imo. Plus you are forgetting what i quoted says an obvious defect that the inspection ought to have revealed. Not having enough leg room in a car is completely different from a brake pipe being damaged (for instance) just like a top fitting is completely different from the stitching being of poor quality.
As for the size, retailers use the sizes as "guides" only and are not exact measurements. You can pick up 2 pairs of jeans from the same store both in the same size and one pair will fit and the other wont. The reason for this is usually due to differences in design, different material being used or that they have been sourced from different companies/countries.
Whether guys clothes is different i have no idea but i know when buying my own clothes that sizes can vary quite a bit and i usually pick up a few sizes to try on to see what one fits best.You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride0 -
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You won't have any problems taking. It back, especially if you want a medium instead.
I love how people want to jam down your throat that they don't legally have to take it back.. They do because they say so in their returns policy!
People are just saying that this is down to the store's goodwill. The OP has no right to a refund, but no-one is saying that s/he won't get one. It's not "Don't ask" it's "Don't be disappointed if they turn you down".
S/he should ask for a refund, but not be stroppy if they turn him/her down, that's all people are saying. There's so much misplaced anger down to people expecting as a right what has merely been a courtesey.
As it turned out the OP asked and they got, no problem. That was good to hear!
When we go out clothes shopping there's always the ritual "trying on session" where we put on the clothes at home with other items from our wardrobe, before removing the labels. I never gave it much thought before now, but it now seems like a really good idea.0 -
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It is now again.
The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
unholyangel wrote: »No but you would have the opportunity to get into the car to see if the size was right for you. The changing rooms being there is still an invitation to inspect imo. Plus you are forgetting what i quoted says an obvious defect that the inspection ought to have revealed. Not having enough leg room in a car is completely different from a brake pipe being damaged (for instance) just like a top fitting is completely different from the stitching being of poor quality.
Cars do not come with labels saying, S, M, L, etc. They do, however, come with labels saying what car and model they are. If the car had an SX badge on it, but was really an LX, don't you think the consumer would have a right to expect a refund? Or should they accept being told that they should have known what car it was, before buying it?
A good deal of the time, fitting rooms are either closed or full, what would you call a reasonable time to wait for one to be free (or someone to come of their lunch break to open one), to try the garment on? What if it was bought as a gift? Surely you wouldn't expect the recipient to try it on at the shop first, would you?As for the size, retailers use the sizes as "guides" only and are not exact measurements. You can pick up 2 pairs of jeans from the same store both in the same size and one pair will fit and the other wont. The reason for this is usually due to differences in design, different material being used or that they have been sourced from different companies/countries.
No, they're not guides. They form part of the contract the retailer has with the consumer. Surely you wouldn't accept the "guide" if you bought something that had a label saying "Large" but it wouldn't fit a "small." Are you seriously going to accept a shop, using the excuse, "well, it's your own fault for buying it, the sizing is only a guide?" There already are accepted standards in clothes sizing (already referenced in this thread), the standards are there for a reason.Whether guys clothes is different i have no idea but i know when buying my own clothes that sizes can vary quite a bit and i usually pick up a few sizes to try on to see what one fits best.
No, men's clothing is not any different, in this respect. If the labels state what size they are, they should fit that size.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Flyboy152 - I think it would be quite hard to argue what you are saying and for it to stick. Size a lot of the time comes down to personal preference as well. Some people like clothes to be tight, others baggy.0
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Flyboy152 - I think it would be quite hard to argue what you are saying and for it to stick. Size a lot of the time comes down to personal preference as well. Some people like clothes to be tight, others baggy.
Personal preference is irrelevant when it comes to "standards." If you buy a milk that has "one pint" on the label (yes, you can still get milk that has imperial measures as long as it has metric ones as well), you may very well have a preference to accepting that it only has three quarters of a pint in the bottle, because perhaps you are on a diet. But, the agreed standard for that measurement is already established and the next person who buys the milk, will expect it contain one full pint. The same with clothing. If, for example, you expected small sized clothing to fit a certain way, but actually fitted as a medium, it wouldn't fit as you would have expected in your analogy.
The way you and others are arguing, it is a wonder why manufacturers put sizing on the labels at all.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Thats completely different, a pint is a pint you can't argue with that. When it comes to clothes if someone says something fits them, it is personal preference as to what something fitting is which is why it's hard to argue.
It's this reason I think it's important to try clothes on before buying them.0
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