dukefett
Super Freak
I would return them without the over the top reaction and threats. As long as sideshow allows returns then someone down the line will receive the returned items. Are they supposed to lose money selling the returned figures as used? That would force them to increase the price for these figures to cover those losses. I see the same thing with camera equipment. People love "buying" multiple items to pick out the best copy and return the rest then complain that companies should never sell returns as new. Makes no sense. Now if something it legit defective then it's a different story but even then a return without the nerd rage threats would be the way to go.
I feel like you're missing the fact that this is already built into the pricing. You don't offer free returns without figuring that into your pricing. Also you have to think about how many parts they send out for a big release. Either HT sends them bins and bins of parts or they're opening new figures and sending the parts out. All of this is factored into their pricing already.
No matter what they should not be selling used figures as new, that's absurd. They should just sell them at a discount, or sell them to retailers if they don't want to offer themselves for whatever reason. The last thing they should do is ship out returned figures with no inspection.