There is an argument that, in committing to a purchase, we are simply following the Sartrean philosophy of bad faith; that we think we are not free to make choices and are therefore at the mercy of the circumstance/dress we bought when we were pissed. In reality, itÂ’s simply that we change our mind, and are encouraged to.
This isnÂ’t great news for the shop itself. What a process it must be to deal with returns and damaged goods. The irony of the DHL T-shirt as a possible comment on the slipperiness of the shopper/seller relationship isnÂ’t lost on us.