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Originally Posted by ADTech
Retailers, depending on their agreement with the manufacturers, are supposed to either return to vendor (RTV) or destroy in field any returned products since they are usually charging the vendor back for all returned items. If they fail to do either and allow the product to enter the "grey" market, the product is essentially "stolen" since the vendor already repaid the retailer for it under the terms of the purchasing agreement and it was supposed to no longer exist. The manufacturer, in turn, gets screwed because they are essentially expected by later customers to honor warranties for an item that isn't even supposed to exist anymore and any later "quality" issues get blamed on the manufacturer.
Constant problem....
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It's not just one of the thrifts, or one of the retailers that are doing this, it's ALL of them.
Like Junior described, a person can tell the retailer, by the style of sticker. Even if they do try to black it out.
By the number of units I find, I'm guessing that people must get this bug to cut cable and then they get a little intimidated for some reason and just return the antennas and their related equipment.
People on CL certainly don't have a problem w/ them.