That happens far more often than people realize. Manufacturers, particularly Chinese manufacturers, don't want to deal with used stuff so they'll offer steep discounts or even to just simply keep it if you try to return it. I have a handful of things that were totally free, one of them a $1,500 electronics item, just because they didn't want to process the return merchandise. That, and it tells you the massive markups on these things that they CAN do this.