Theory of retrospective return; when one purchases a good from an auction,
online or not, in the view that should the person ever require that item in the
future, he quite possibly purchased it at a price
well below market or retail price. Therefore making a retrospective return.
James buys 65 fun size garden gnomes because they were only $15 in an online auction. Several weeks later,
James is held hostage and his captors demand 65 fun size garden gnomes. Fun size garden gnomes retail for $2 each. The Theory of retrospective return demonstrates that James
made a return of $115.