The Internet is an electronic neocortex given birth to a new collectively-conscious species.
Yesterday I called my hardware store to buy a BBQ. They didn’t have one in stock. Since I was already on their Website showing me that they had some in the next town’s store I bought one Online to be delivered free at the store near me which was out of them. I paid with PayPal. The operation took me 10 minutes.
Ten minutes later, I changed my mind and decided to cancel. I called my near-by store and reached the same guy at the service desk to cancel. He found my order on the Internet, confirmed my name, and canceled the order.
Then I thought of PayPal and wondered how I would be refunded. Low and behold, while I was thinking about that I received an email from PayPal that my money was refunded.
All this in no more than 20 minutes: Place the order online; PayPal confirm my payment; cancel the order; PayPal confirm the refund. Amazing!