Many online retailers charge “restocking fees” on returns if the purchase price is refunded back to the customer's credit card, but charge no such fees if given as store credit.

if the purchase price is refunded back to the customer's credit card, but charge no such fees if given as

for purchases that are refunded to the customer's credit card, but not when those purchases are refunded as

when the purchase is refunded back to the customer's credit card, but not given in the form of

if the purchase price is refunded to the customer's credit card, but not if the refund is given as

whose purchase prices are refunded to the customer's credit card, and charge no such fees if refunded

I am not able to understand how two elements in the correct answer choice is parallel. How to arrive at the right answer for this question? Please advise

the correct way to approach parallelism is not to try to figure out why two things are parallel but rather to identify any ways in which the sentence violates parallelism. how do you think the correct answer violates parallelism?

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Tim Sanders
Manhattan GMAT Instructor

I feel that the given sentence does not have any parallelism issue....
charge “restocking fees” on returns if the purchase price is refunded back to the customer's credit card, but charge
verb (charge) x parallel to verb (charge) no y.

Please clarify if I am not thinking in the right direction

Problem with B and C purchases cannot be refunded to credit card only price can be refunded

Problem with A and C -back and refunded are redundant

Problem with E instead of and, but is necessary to express a contrast

Only D expresses the parallelism correctly

if the purchase price is refunded to the customer's credit card, but not if the refund is given as

not sure there are any questions here; please re-post if you have any issues you need us to address..

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Tim Sanders
Manhattan GMAT Instructor