I am also not thrilled that the return deadline for a lot of my purchases is so soon. I was livid when the holiday houses cost DH 60. more than they would have if he had ordered that later that same eveing (went on sales hours after the order was placed). I went ahead and ordered a second set, intending to send the originals back, but now that I've seen how very lovely (and fragile!) they are, I'm glad I got a second set. My 3 DDs and DH tend to break everything they come into contact with, so I'm thrilled to have a backup! I also got the WOD Xmas tree that went on sale for 39.99. I paid more for it, but again, ordered another when it went down to 40 (and got an additional 30% off). I think these crazy sales at DS.com was a ploy to get people to order frantically, before the sale deadline, then introduce another sale to get more people to order frantically again. I wonder how many people actually go back and recheck the sales on things they've already ordered. I'm guessing its not a lot. Maybe we've all just been ordering too much from them????