Making it hard for customers to return things marks the halfway point of this survey of ways to lose customers because while it’s something that really aggravates customers, it’s not something they’ll all experience.
You may have (and hopefully do have) lots of customers who will never feel the need to return anything. For them, it probably doesn’t matter that to return an item to your business, a customer needs to have not only a properly dated receipt but be trying to return the item between 2 and 3 pm on a Friday in a week with a full moon.
Which is great. Because if they ever do decide to return something and find out that it’s super difficult or even impossible, you’ve lost them.
Avoid stress on both your parts and handle returns the right way, so that your customers go away happy and will be willing to return to your business and buy again.