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Many painful returns: Coping with crummy gifts

  • Written by Deborah Y. Cohn, Associate Professor of Marketing, New York Institute of Technology
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What happens to the gifts you get? I’m not talking about the ones that you really adore. I mean the rest of them – the ones you can’t or don’t want to use, or even hate.

The problem doesn’t end when you’ve awkwardly thanked someone and thrown away the...

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