Accrued earnings will increase, but cash may actually never be received, because the inventory may be returned by the customer.

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Something else that Durbin did not address is what will happen to the interchange fee when a purchase is returned by a customer.

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The AWC asserts that despite having deposited the wallet into an official United States Post Office mailbox, the wallet was never returned to the customer.

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PwC added that at present Jessops would not honour customer vouchers or accept returned goods.

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When the prodigal returned, the firm's loyal customer base, starved for years of innovative new computers, rushed to snap up the slick, if rather expensive, machines that Mr Jobs began to produce for them.

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Certainly companies would not outsource customer data processing to China-based providers if there were a prohibition on having such data returned to them.

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