The ethics of purchasing from Amazon with the intention of returning the product are questionable at best, and downright dirty at worst. And with these two dashcams it's unnecessary. Returned products cannot be sold as "new" again, so the seller, manufacturer, or both will sustain a loss which has to be compensated for by increasing the selling price to allow for those events. That hurts everybody everywhere
Almost all of us here who do dashcam reviews and beta-testing post vids on YouTube. Those all suffer from YouTube's compression techniques but can give a general idea of what you'll get. And most of us also post links to raw video of these so that you can see exactly what the cams do just the same as if you took the vid yourself. If you can't find raw vids, ask the member who did the review or test- most of us will gladly send you a raw file link on request
My AQ139 vids all have links to my raw files which I placed on Google Drive for anyone to access. If you want something in specific conditions just PM me and I'll try to get it for you.
Buyer's remorse is never a valid reason to return a product which is why many store disallow it. Open return policies like Amazon has are meant to handle non-performance issues and outright lies in the product description and while it can be misused, when enough people do that those policies or the product prices will change leaving us all worse off in the end
Do your research before buying then you'll most likely get the product you want the first time around which is easier and better for everyone
Don't go cheating the system just because it's possible.
Phil
There is absolutely nothing unethical about ordering an A139 from Amazon (or whoever also offers such 30-day return warranty) and testing it for 29 days and returning it on the 30th day if it doesn't work for you. There's a reason why companies offer 30-day warranties, and not 3-day, 5 days or 10 days, and that's because they know some customers will take longer than others to make a decision. There are also a plethora of other reasons, such as accounting for customers who might had been away or on a 2-wk vacation during the 30 days. There is also nothing unethical about ordering and trying their N4, and returning it if it does not met your expectations. Of course, if it takes you only one day to know the A139 or the N4 won't work for you, then return it on day 2 or simply keep it for 28 more days and don't forget to return it before day 30. If that was the business offer that Amazon (or whoever) extended to you and to which you agreed and are thus entitled to, I fail to see how there would be anything "unethical" about taking advantage of such offer by trying the items for whatever amount of time within that 30 day allotted period you find necessary.
THERE IS, of course, a problem with the consumer who interprets my recommendation above as implying
order it with the premeditated intention to use it for free and then return it as used as and as beat up as possible so you intentionally cause a loss to the seller, something I never recommended, suggested or even as little as alluded to. I was stunned to read someone claim something tantamount to claiming to be able to read my mind (
"Buyer's remorse is never a valid reason to return a product") and sad to read how someone can respond to my comments with advise against a practice that didn't enter my mind even in the most remote of it forms (
"don't go cheating the system.."). I am sorry to say it but this reminds me of the words of someone I know who used to say
"thieves judge based on their own conscience as thieves"... Again, it's all about industry standards: in some countries, places or regions the offers will be better than in others but its because it takes companies more effort to entice customers from those countries, places or regions to purchase unless the offers are better. I may not be a dashcam reviewer or a beta-tester posting vids on YouTube, but you can bet your money I like to spend my money wisely and be a smart and educated consumer because, as one retailer's ads used to say, "educated consumers are their best customers".
Companies don't care about ethics, they care about the bottom line, money. Likewise, as a consumer, I could care less about ethics, and care about the bottom line on my pocket, that is, who is the seller who will save me the most money. A company's job is to deliver the least product for the most amount of money while still staying in business, and a consumer's job is to obtain the most product for the least amount of money while still not violation any laws. That's the way it is, the way it has always been and it's the way it will always be, and any consumer who doesn't understand that simple principle is condemned to be dollar foolish. Likewise, companies that don't run their business by that principle are destined to be overrun by those companies that do understand it.
Thanks to data mining, companies know which customers they can extend certain offers to (e.g., 30-day no-questions-asked returns) and which customers not. If you, for example, spend US$10,000/yr purchasing from, say, Amazon, you will be more highly coveted as a customer than one who only spends some $100/yr. It's the same concept that banks, mortgage companies and car leasing companies have been using the extend credit for ages. Thanks to data mining you will also be courted more aggressively (i.e., with offers of a larger selection of products priced over a larger price range qualifying for their 30-day money back warranty) than the same $100/yr customer.
Companies selling online aren't headed by fools: when a customer orders, for example, 3 different red men's coats, these companies already know --even before the product ships-- that the customer will try them all on and then return 2 under their 30-day warranty. And the company is all too happy for that anyway because they know that without such warranty they would had sold ZERO coats to that customer because the customer would had instead walked into a brick-and-mortar store, try on all 3 coats, and buy the one that he liked best...all likely from the competition, not from them. This behavior is, of course, different from the customer who orders even one single coat, leaves its price tags on, taping them or otherwise hiding them to the interior of the coat, wears it every day for 29 days, returning it on the 30th day. They offer 30-day warranties because that's the industry standard; i.e., that's their way to compete with other businesses. If it is not the industry standard, they offer 30-day warranties to take customers away from businesses who aren't offering such warranties. Either way, however, that's part of a company's cost of doing business. If someone wants to feel sorry for them, then perhaps that explains why that person isn't the head of a large company somewhere.