So my fiance and I are going to be moving soon (in the process of buying our first house), and we have this elliptical machine that we bought from Costco that is an enormous pain in the @ss to move....so I thought "hey, Costco always takes returns, maybe they'll take this!" Turns out they will, but they need it boxed up when they come pick it up.

So that leads me to my question....does anyone have a big box that I can have/buy? Or do you know if I go to a store that sells kitchen appliances (like refrigerators) if they'd have boxes just laying around in the back or anything?

PM or respond in this thread if you can help me out at all....much thanks!

 

My friend returned a 5 year old (yeah, I know) TV to Costco without the box. He simply ranted a truck from U-Haul for 20 dollars (including 30 miles) and bought it back to Costco. He ended up getting $2000 back from a 5 friggin year old TV. lol

 

Yeah, they said that if the company was to come pick it up, it had to be in a box....but maybe I should call them back and see if it's okay for me to just bring it back to the store and return it without a box. I'll have to rent a truck or something because our trailer is for bikes only....no possible way to put this monster on it!

And your friend is the reason they don't allow returns like that anymore....haha, I'm guilty of doing the exact same thing (okay, mine wasn't quite as expensive, but same idea)

 

He's story actually isn't that amusing. On the day he was returning the TV, there was a old couple who was also returning a OLD AZZ refrigerator. Only thing is... it looked like it was more than 10 years old (some heavy cosmetic damages were seen).


And Costco accepted it.

 

Is that the policy for Costco...return anything purchased from them, no questions asked?

 

It was. Not anymore.

 

U-Haul has giant boxes... not sure if its big enough, but you should check

 

They used to take anything back, but now they have 90 day return policies for certain items, like TV's, computers, mp3 players (electronics), and maybe some other things....I can't recall for sure.


And I'll check u-haul this weekend. I needed to go get boxes there anyways, so hopefully they'll have big ones as well!

 

i go to ikea and staples and ask for boxes. They are always friendly and go to the back of the warehouse and checks for me. hope that helps.

 

What size? PM me I probably have one

 

when are you moving?... I'm moving this weekend so if you need boxes you can have mine - but they won't all be empty for a week or 2... I don't have the one big one you need but a bunch of others...

 

I'll try that out if Eric doesn't have one that will work....thanks for the tip!