Pretend for a moment you are on a wonderful trip somewhere with your spouse or loved one.\u00a0 In your busy lives, you never have enough time to do as much with one another as you would love to do, so you decide to shop together for a gift for one or both of you at your next destination.\u00a0 You may have attended a great \u201cinformational\u201d sales pitch on a cruise ship or you may be headed to one of the many destinations where shopping is \u201cduty free\u201d or supposedly at a large discount.\u00a0 You are happy, peaceful and optimistic and have put your daily worries aside for a few hours or days.\u00a0 The sky is blue and life is good.\u00a0 You have turned off your warning radar and are about to become a victim.<\/p>\n
You shop, but you find there is quite a bit of pressure to decide on the spot.\u00a0 You see things you like, but you really have no way to comparison shop as you normally might do at home\u00a0\u00a0 You forget yourself and just wing it.\u00a0 You take a chance and don\u2019t realize what you might have done to you and your wallet until later that night or even until you get home.\u00a0\u00a0 Then, you read the return instructions and discover how very difficult it will be to get this purchase reversed,<\/span> exchanged or adjusted.\u00a0 Many find themselves in exactly this position.<\/p>\n You will find that had you been more aware of the pitfalls you might have bought the same items at home from a trusted source who would work out any and all kinks in the deal just to keep you happy, but now you have bought something where getting it made right will be nearly impossible.<\/p>\n Please, don\u2019t become a needless victim of impulsive buying when you are not in your comfort zone.\u00a0 Since it is very much like gambling when you are really uninformed, never spend more than you can afford to lose.\u00a0 You can still buy a trinket or little gift that is sentimental and meaningful, but why would you buy something really costly and risky when you may have no recourse to have any issue straightened out later?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pretend for a moment you are on a wonderful trip somewhere with your spouse or loved one.\u00a0 In your busy lives, you never have enough time to do as much with one another as you would love to do, so you decide to shop together for a gift for one or both of you at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appraisals","category-diamond-buying","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datlas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}