You’re saying that as if it was something that mattered.
As an illustration of my argument:
Which would you rather have?
- three sales in a week
- eight sales in a week and four refunds
Regarding Wal-Mart refunds, the 90 days in the US come from credit card posting policies. Companies don’t get their money until 90 days after the transaction. During that time, a consumer can very easily charge back a purchase to their credit card company, and the seller won’t get the money. It’s much cheaper for them to take the TV back and a credit on their own.
They have to do that because they have a “locus” in those countries, which generally means they have some actual employee.
If a company is based in state X, has their web hosting and credit card servicing set up in state X, and have no employees elsewhere, they don’t actually have to follow any laws or regulations from anywhere else.
Think about it: If they “broke” the laws or regulation, what would the enforcement mechanism be? Country Y invades state X to enforce their consumer purchase laws? The most country Y can do at that point is order their own internet providers to filter out state X, which some countries actually do. Generally, to their own loss.