Did you see this?  Apparently it is from Wed., Feb. 28, 2007:

http://interaliainc.blogspot.com/2007/02/costco-halts-liberal-electronics-return.html
but I didn't notice until recently.
    Quote from the article:
<< "It was awesome. It was great," [Mike] Lopez said. "It didn't take a
rocket scientist to figure out that someone was going to abuse it
eventually." >>
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Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz@acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com