My sister and my mom got angry at me because I refused to let my sister use my Amazon prime account to buy a set of car seat covers for her new Fiat 500 that, side comment, is ridiculously overpriced to begin with but also outside of our possibilities but she still bought it on a whim, with the intention of replacing them with some used ones and then returning them making them pass for the new ones and get a refund. Apparently some friend of hers did it and got away with it so she wanted to do it too.

Her argument to get mad at me, and probably a lot of you will agree, is that Amazon is a multi billion company with questionable marketing practices and that regularly throws away unsold products since it costs more for them to keep them. Also Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world and spends his vacations on space.

I don't live in a rainbow cloud full of unicorns, I fully get all that. But my sense of ethics isn't relative to how little someone would be affected by an immoral action. I don't want to steal from them no matter how rich they are. Also I'm sure that there must be some trust rating involved when it comes to refunds. I've been a client for several years and couldn't be happier with the service: on one occasion I ordered two units of a magnesium supplement and only one arrived. I called the customer service and got a refund. On another time I made a €150 purchase from a third party vendor that never sent it nor replied to any of my mails. Complained to Amazon and got a refund. If I did what my sister wanted I'm sure that, if I got away with it, I'd be completely blacklisted from making any kind of return in the future.

So, am I being a Ned Flanders here?

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Edit: Wow! Thanks so much for the replies.. and yes, I agree that obvious NTB are annoying and of course I didn't doubt for a second of my stance but the argument that Amazon being a big company removes all moral dilemma is way more prevalent than I would have imagined, in fact I didn't have anyone back me up on this in person. I'm glad I'm not the only one seeing this that way.