A TikTok video making its rounds on-line is as soon as once more making individuals marvel how unfastened or inflexible shops are with their return insurance policies.

The video was posted by person @marleyshow1 proper earlier than Christmas final yr. Seen by over 5.8 million individuals, the fast video included a caption that learn, "I attempted the bathtub&physique work take your empty candles again at no cost ones and it labored."

A basket stuffed with candles appears as if they'll be exchanged for brand new and seemingly an identical candles positioned subsequent to the money register. The TikToker then posted a fast rundown of his receipt.

This begs the query: What's the return coverage at Tub & Physique Works?

The reply is extra sophisticated than one may suppose. On its web site, the corporate has a return coverage assertion that's temporary and to the purpose: They "simply need you to like it."

"Return something, anytime for any cause. 100% Assured," the coverage acknowledged. "If at any time you are not fully happy with the standard of our merchandise, chances are you'll return them to any of our Tub & Physique Works or White Barn Shops within the U.S. for a full refund, topic to the phrases of our Return Coverage."

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The return coverage at Tub & Physique Works has prompted confusion in shops and on-line. Above, consumers exterior a retailer in Harlem, New York.Noam Galai/Getty

A Tub & Physique Works spokesperson advised Newsweek: "Our return coverage is meant to assist prospects who've points which are associated to poor product efficiency or unsatisfactory buyer expertise and isn't meant to be taken benefit of when a product performs as anticipated. If a product has been totally used, it could appear that it has met its efficiency expectations."

Over 4,000 TikTokers chimed in on the video and retailer coverage.

"As a shower & physique works worker it could possibly solely be half burned or much less," one individual commented. "We cannot take it should you burned the entire thing."

Whereas some customers claimed the coverage relies on the shop location and maybe the worker behind the counter, different customers stated this alternate tactic would not work.

Some customers stated it is individuals like the unique poster that trigger costs to extend as a result of they merely will not buy new merchandise, with one person referring to the candle alternate as "theft."

One person was blunt of their response to the video poster: "I may by no means stroll in and try this so embarrassing."

There have been individuals as effectively who stated that Tub & Physique Works will not lose sleep over such transactions due to their measurement and scope as an organization.

"[A]ll these ppl within the feedback are forgetting it is a multimillion $ chain retailer," one individual stated.

This isn't the primary occasion when the coverage, for the return of candles particularly, has been introduced up in web circles.

A Reddit thread relationship again two years requested if used candles may very well be swapped for model new ones.

"Tub and Physique Works is 100% assured, which if there's somebody unsuitable with it otherwise you did not just like the scent then sure you may alternate it however the quantity of consumers who attempt to get free candles from fully empty ones every day is ridiculous," one Reddit person stated on the time.

A current article from September in The Listing claimed, per info gathered from a Tub & Physique Works worker, that the shop will not commerce new candles for used ones—not to mention settle for and discard previous or used candles within the first place.

Replace 01/07/2022, 9:35 a.m. ET: This story was up to date with a remark from a Tub & Physique Works spokesperson.