{"id":38456,"date":"2020-04-08T10:57:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=38456"},"modified":"2020-04-08T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:58:20","slug":"amazon-extends-return-window-for-customers-through-end-of-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/amazon-extends-return-window-for-customers-through-end-of-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon extends return window for customers through end of May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/amazon-prime-box.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20961\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/amazon-prime-box-1024x679.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"amazon-prime-box\" width=\"620\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/amazon-prime-box-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/amazon-prime-box-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/amazon-prime-box.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Announced earlier today as a change that will potentially help customers in struggling financial situations or anyone that overstocked on consumables, any Amazon customer that&#8217;s made a purchase between March 1 and April 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.aboutamazon.com\/company-news\/amazons-actions-to-help-employees-communities-and-customers-affected-by-covid-19\">will be able<\/a> to return items prior to May 31.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Amazon limited all returns to a window of the first 30 days upon receipt of shipment. The only products with a longer time window are Amazon Renewed products and baby products, which have a 90-day return window.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, the new policy is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S.: Items purchased between\u00a0\u00a0March 1, 2020 and April 30, 2020 can be returned until May 31, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Italy, Spain, France, Turkey, and the Netherlands:\u00a0Items purchased between February 15, 2020 and April 30, 2020 can be returned until May 31, 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amazon isn&#8217;t the only company to extend return policy windows due to the coronavirus. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple will accept returns for 14 days after physical locations reopen.<\/li>\n<li>Macy&#8217;s extended the company&#8217;s return policy by 30 days.<\/li>\n<li>GAP extended the return window to July 1 for all purchases.<\/li>\n<li>J. Crew extended the return window up to 60 days for recent purchases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced earlier today as a change that will potentially help customers in struggling financial situations or anyone that overstocked on consumables, any Amazon customer that&#8217;s made a purchase between March 1 and April 30 will be able to return items prior to May 31. Previously, Amazon limited all returns to a window of the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[537,436,2236,1951],"class_list":["post-38456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-amazon","tag-online-shopping","tag-returning","tag-returns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38456"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38462,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38456\/revisions\/38462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}