If you buy any S3 gear, you can submit a ticket and get your points back, and the item returned...as much as you want. I bought the Vengeful Gladiator's Shieldwall, tanked TK, petitioned. Then I had to buy it again for an emergency ZA run with the guild I was applying for...so I petitioned and got it returned again. Now I have a S3 mace and it pwns