[z4plin]

I was just going to Sealed box AirPods as I have everything required to do so,
I am still weighing up if i want to do an in-store though.
But if i were to do an instore, id also choose sealed box again.

In my experience over 35 years of social engineering, In-store SEing has a very good success rate with the sealed box method.

Sealed box on Big W went well.
The store was NOT busy and I was the only customer at the service desk. Two employees examined the box seals briefly, asked me why i was returning the item and asked for my name and my address as I was returning the product for cash. Of course I told them my real name and address lol. I was a little caught off guard when they did ask for those details but I played It off and my refund was issued there and then.

You can choose precisely when to perform the SE

The refund could have happened faster by doing it a little later in the day when it would have been busier as there were two employees at the service desk and both of them examined the seals (one of them was even feeling the seals itself) however it is hard to say whether they actually knew what they were looking for when feeling it.