{"id":"sams-club","page":"https://escalate.alexgaoth.com/#/c/sams-club","html":"https://escalate.alexgaoth.com/c/sams-club/","generated":"2026-10-15","company":{"id":"sams-club","name":"Sam's Club","aliases":["sams club","samsclub.com","sam's club membership","sam's club plus","sams club plus","member's mark"],"sector":"retail","also_sectors":["subscription"],"parent":"Walmart Inc.","website":"https://www.samsclub.com","official_domains":["samsclub.com"],"regulators":["ftc"],"notes":"Sam's Club is a paid-membership warehouse club owned by Walmart Inc., with its own help center (help.samsclub.com) separate from Walmart's. On 2026-10-13 samsclub.com showed a bot check and help.samsclub.com articles returned HTTP 403 to automated fetches; only the help center home page could be read. Values marked \"search-result text\" were read from search-result text of the named help.samsclub.com pages, not from the pages themselves. 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Read from search-result text of Sam's Club's Returns page on 2026-10-13; the page blocked automated fetches.","issues":["refund_request"],"source":"https://help.samsclub.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4072/~/returns---sams-club","last_verified":"2026-10-13"},{"kind":"limit","claim":"Items with no return option include gift cards and prepaid cards, tickets, collectibles, trading cards, custom-made items and Wholesale Trading (Truckload) Program purchases, among others. Read from search-result text of Sam's Club's Returns page on 2026-10-13; the page blocked automated fetches.","issues":["refund_request"],"source":"https://help.samsclub.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4072/~/returns---sams-club","last_verified":"2026-10-13"},{"kind":"policy","claim":"\"We prefer your original receipt or printed order, but if that's not available, we'll do our best to process your return without it.\" Refunds are issued as cash or credit depending on the original form of payment. 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