sale or return

noun

1. an arrangement by which a retailer pays only for goods sold, returning those that are unsold to the wholesaler or manufacturer

Example Sentences

"There could be over-supply in the market where the studio has overestimated the number that will sell. Storing product costs money and these days a lot of product is sold on a sale or return basis," he says.

From BBC

All these goods were very expensive; and she asked if any of them had been introduced, like the Yankee furniture, on sale or return.

From Project Gutenberg

When goods are delivered to the buyer "on sale or return," giving the buyer an option to return them instead of paying the price, the property passes to the buyer on delivery, but the property may go back to the seller by returning or tendering the goods within the time specified in the contract.

From Project Gutenberg

Goods manufactured by the blind had been for some years advanced to blind agents on a system known as "sale or return."

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed, I think there's as much fish as would serve double the number—and I'm sure you look as if you had your soup "on sale or return," as we say in the magazine line.

From Project Gutenberg