L.L. Bean has announced that they are overhauling their lifetime guarantee return policy, because people have been abusing the honor system. This is why we can’t have nice things. The Press Herald reports that the company believes people have completely misinterpreted the return policy, which basically allowed anyone with an L.L. Bean item to replace it over and over again for as long as they had the strength to do so. One foot in the grave, the other in a fresh L.L.