Apple Stores to drop restocking fee policy beginning January 11th

January 11 is already going to a special day for Apple (though more so for Verizon). While AT&T's exclusivity is widely expected to be a thing of the past starting tomorrow, so is the 10 percent restocking fee at Apple retail stores for those trying to return items within the 14 day return window.

The report comes via 9to5Mac. Prior to tomorrow, when you returned an opened product to an Apple Store, you would be charged a 10 percent restocking feem even if you were exchanging it, perhaps for an iPad with more storage.

It may or may not be related to tomorrow's Verizon iPhone announcement, but it's certainly a good time to announce a new policy, with all the publicity ongoing, anyway. It's unclear if this is an across-the-board (meaning all Apple products) policy or not.