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People on this forum brag about how they would never abuse a store's return policy such as Costco's. The supposed people who do abuse a store's return policy are lambasted by forum members, but sharing a Carfax account is perfectly legitimate to these same members. Carfax does not agree with you. Here is what Carfax has to say about it.
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