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buy (something) sight unseen

To purchase something without seeing or examining it first. When I decided to buy a house sight unseen, I knew it would probably need a lot of repairs—and I was right!

buy something sight unseen

to buy something without seeing it first. I bought this land sight unseen. I didn't know it was so rocky. It isn't usually safe to buy something sight unseen.

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It's lucky that the products it specialises in selling, like big-screen TVs and high-end audio equipment, are big-ticket items that many customers still feel uncomfortable buying sight unseen from a website.

Best Buy's secrets for thriving in the Amazon age

In addition to the federal government, parents are responsible for not monitoring what their children are watching and doing, oftentimes even buying sight unseen the videos the kids ask for, or even demand.

Just playing a role

There's more risk in this method, but if you've done the homework and thoroughly communicated your desires, buying sight unseen can be the right option.

Draft day: it's the biggest commitment besides having children. This is how to do it right

In our region the brand is only available online from www.zoyapolish.co.uk but worth buying sight unseen because of being completely free of harmful industrial chemicals like toluene, formaldehyde and dibutyl phthalate which can trigger various skin complaints.