Originally Posted by
tmiw
Someone used one of my cards a few years back to buy some stuff online. I think they were trying to ship stuff to them but the website shipped to me instead. UPS was a bit reluctant to take the box back until I explained what happened.
A friend of a friend got drunk and bought a porsche off of ebay once. The best part was that he lived in New York and had nowhere to park it. So he found somewhere in New Jersey to park it and went to drive it on weekends.
Not that I'm suggesting that that's what happened to you
In your case, you would absolutely not have to pay for return shipping. You can just file a chargeback since the account use was unauthorized. You are under no obligation to ship it back at your expense.
FWIW, magstripe in no way requires that stores hang onto your creit card info after you use it. They just have poor security practices. I'm sure that they will continue to have poor security practices in the future.