The practice will continue until it becomes too abused (Like it always does), and then Apple will change their policy. Same thing happened to Costco. They used to have a return policy that let a customer bring back anything for any reason. No expiration. I know for a fact my ex-wife and my sister both returned sofas that were five years old and received a full refund so they could buy new ones. There will be those who always abuse the system and (we all) pay the price. Now Costco's return policy is 90 days.