Pure Pleasure Total ripoff won't allow returns with unopened merchandise within 1 hour of purchase Stewartville Minnesota

It's a sex shop, I would hope that they do not accept returns on clothing, tags on or not. In fact, they usually cut the tags off whenever I buy anything there.  If i knew they took returns, I'd never shop there again.

Dear Joe,

Unfortunately, you are one of the millions of consumers who simply doesn't bother to ask the right questions or actually read any signs posted in a store or on the registers. Working in customer service, this truly is a sad habit that I see far too many people fall into. Everyone expects that they can have their way and do whatever they want, which is basically what you're trying to do here.
Pure Pleasure is one of the best Adult Shops in this region, one of the reasons they are one of the few around. Here's the thing: YOU NEED TO ASK A STORE ABOUT IT'S RETURN POLICY. You can't just assume because you kept the tags on the item that you would be able to return it. I'm sure your grandmother told you the saying about what it means to assume.
So next time, instead of trying to cover up the fact that you are, basically, a complete idiot, think before you make a purchase anywhere while assuming that the policy is what YOU believe, not what the store upholds.
I have NEVER had trouble with this store before, and it sounds like you were just mad because you didn't even think. Next time, instead of buying your wife a gift from a sex shop, maybe you should try Victoria's Secret or somewhere less...adult. I'm sure your wife will appreciate you not wanting to make her into a complete w***e.

1st your original premise is flawed. No one ripped you off, no one swindled you. A swindle or a rip-off would be if you paid for something and did not get it or paid for something and got something other than what you paid for. No store is required to take any type of return, unopened or otherwise.

2nd there is obvious exaggeration in your title as to travel from the store to you hotel (by your own admission) takes 20 minutes one way. That is 40 minutes round trip. To be within your time frame means that you gave the gift to your wife, had a conversation with her determined that she did not like that and left within 19 minutes. Which is suspect. This puts in to suspect your explanation of your "polite" conversation with the store clerk.

3rd It is not the only adult store within 50 miles.

4th the others are absolutely right. Accepting a return for lingerie is likely not against the law. However I can assure you that reselling said lingerie is definitely against the law. If you bought a sex toy it is in the same boat.

5th I have been to this store and bought items from there. I was on the fence about what to buy getting advice from that very manager and she was VERY upfront about her return policy.

1. There are notices posted throughout the store, as well as on the side of the cash register facing the customers as they check out, clearly written in black print on a pink background (easily readable) that due to the nature of their business all sales are final. The store is quite upfront about this and makes no attempt to hide their policy from their customers. Joe does not mention if he missed seeing these signs (one of which would have been clearly visible a few inches from him as he bought the outfit) or was somehow misled by the sales staff as to their return policy. He appears to have assumed he could return it.

2. Regardless of what the law says about returns/exchanges - would anyone want to shop at an "adult" store that took returns? Most of what they sell comes into contact with a person's bodily fluids at some point, and no matter how short a time period has passed between the sale and an attempted return, the sales staff has no way to know where the item has been or what has been done with/to it. The no-return policy seems to be a reasonable attempt by the company to protect the health of their employees and customers as well as their image as a clean and professionally-run business.

In the future, Joe can avoid this experience by asking about a store's return policy before making a purchase. True, most places have a fairly straightforward no-questions-asked return policy, but a store selling adult novelties and lingerie has a pretty good reason for not wanting the products they sell brought back into the store.

1. There are notices posted throughout the store, as well as on the side of the cash register facing the customers as they check out, clearly written in black print on a pink background (easily readable) that due to the nature of their business all sales are final. The store is quite upfront about this and makes no attempt to hide their policy from their customers. Joe does not mention if he missed seeing these signs (one of which would have been clearly visible a few inches from him as he bought the outfit) or was somehow misled by the sales staff as to their return policy. He appears to have assumed he could return it.

2. Regardless of what the law says about returns/exchanges - would anyone want to shop at an "adult" store that took returns? Most of what they sell comes into contact with a person's bodily fluids at some point, and no matter how short a time period has passed between the sale and an attempted return, the sales staff has no way to know where the item has been or what has been done with/to it. The no-return policy seems to be a reasonable attempt by the company to protect the health of their employees and customers as well as their image as a clean and professionally-run business.

In the future, Joe can avoid this experience by asking about a store's return policy before making a purchase. True, most places have a fairly straightforward no-questions-asked return policy, but a store selling adult novelties and lingerie has a pretty good reason for not wanting the products they sell brought back into the store.

It's a state law in most, that you cannot return an item from a "Sex Shop", once it's left the store. It's not only store policy, but state law in most places. Could you imagine using or wearing something from a "Sex Shop", that come to find out, may have been worn or used by someone else previously?

Come on, think about it!

It's a state law in most, that you cannot return an item from a "Sex Shop", once it's left the store. It's not only store policy, but state law in most places. Could you imagine using or wearing something from a "Sex Shop", that come to find out, may have been worn or used by someone else previously?

Come on, think about it!

It's a state law in most, that you cannot return an item from a "Sex Shop", once it's left the store. It's not only store policy, but state law in most places. Could you imagine using or wearing something from a "Sex Shop", that come to find out, may have been worn or used by someone else previously?

Come on, think about it!