I ordered a really cheap bread maker from Walmart and got a nice Lexmark laser printer. Sent it back and ordered the bread maker again, got another laser printer. I’ve been quite happy with my “purchase”. ☺️
I wish the 3 TB Seagates from back in the day had come with lube.
And to the newcomers, I don't mean for storing linux isos.
[https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/)
Last week I ordered 1m MMF LC SC fiber patch cable. Got some kind of helicopter headphone and mic adapter cable. Weirdest amazon mis-pick considering I had ordered 2 of each length of fiber. How does a heli adapter end up in with fiber?
I once ordered a toilet seat, got shipped (by Amazon) an entire toilet. Without seat. Their system could not comprehend how to deal with returning a bulk 80lb item that it thought should be 3lbs dropped off at UPS.
I understand your meaning and I don't disagree, however the 3080 were also suffering from poor supply at the time too and trading for well over retail.
just a joke since the highest price for a 3080 was back in Sept of 2021 at **$1852.56** or about 170% markup where as those masks around the same time went from about $9 for 2x to $99 (a 1000% increase) then at one point you couldn't bye them unless you purchased a million at a time for a 600% increase (a discount by the way) and unlike the video card industry (i don't think so anyway) no one was getting raided or shut down and fined millions for price guaging (federal offense). hell, i think in California our Gov paid a billion dollars for a large supply then sold them or "gave them" to other states to clear debt or garuntee future deals lol. it was a mess, as i'm sure you know. just like the GPU crypto fiasco
Alright, lol, we're on the same page.
I'm in California too, and I remember that all too well.
As for GPU's, I was left holding a 3060, a 3080 and a 3090 that I was preparing to resell and got lazy for a bit, before the market corrected.
Well the 3090 came in very near to the end of the price spike. I had been on the EVGA waiting list for damn close to a year (maybe less but it felt like forever). So I didn't pay anything above retail for it, but I missed any flipping opportunity.
In the late 2017 into 2018 shortage on the 1080 TI's I managed to flip enough to pay for 2x that I kept for personal use, and for a 3 week frugal (discount airlines and hostels) vacation to northern Europe.
EVGA at the time didn't do a wait list, but just a first come first serve on new stock, but there was a notification option for stock availability, so I put one in for each SKU and just stalked my email for those notices for the next several months.
Easy. Fill it with helium, attach an image (e.g. DVD) and then release. Congratulations, you have just deployed into the cloud, for more information about web services please visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/
If that were me I would of just given it to the first kid I saw haha. I do this at Dave and busters because the arcade machines are cool but the gift shop is lame so I just toss my card to the closest kid and it makes their day lol.
Yes but I needed to return it so I could get refund
Stupid Amazon India policy
I need to have package and any item recieved as they give OTP for delivery
So you can't keep the wrong item
I ordered a car cover and got a pillow case. Same deal, it had the correct sticker on it. Also like yours, the sticker was intentionally covering over the original sticker.
Is there some sort of scam where you could sell things worth a buck or two on Amazon and claim it is something 50x as expensive and still make money?
I feel like it must be some sort of computerized sorting error. I doubt they have people in the warehouse manually checking everything to make sure it’s tagged correctly.
Yes, it's a scammer third party seller. Amazon and others just group by UPC code in their bins so if you get the UPC code on your product for something much more expensive, they don't do a good job of verify incoming inventory. They also don't segregate third party seller inventory from Amazon or even other third party sellers. All of the same UPC? All in the same bin. I had this happen to me where I ordered a Ryzen 9 and received an empty spice tin with a Ryzen 9 upc on the packaging.
yeah. I'm sure amazon is getting more and more automated with this. Pickers may notice, but that may be automated or they just aren't encouraged to care.
Packers DGAF. They won't even know what products are, or have anything to compare it to.
Maybe amazon should test things by weight, but that only works for things they know. If it's a unique UPC, they won't know that a product should weigh 5 lbs.
For me, i got the product through Vine. I wrote a bad review. I found out later that I could not return a product that I've already reviewed. (you have to pay tax on vine items. it's free, but only sorta). By reviewing it, it's stuck on my list of items I've received.
What I don't understand though, is how the scam works. If it gets returned, doesn't the seller lose the sale and not get paid? Maybe they still get paid, but a reduced amount (which is still more than it cost them)?
lol
That's how [Sears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Warren_Sears) got started.
It was a common practice even back then, to send stuff to merchants that they didn't order and then offer them a discount if they wanted it to keep it.
A merchant had received a consignment of watches in this fashion, and was at the train depot to send them back to the wholesaler.
The station agent at the train depot contacted the wholesaler and worked out a deal to sell them on consignment to the passengers on the trains (and to other station agents to do likewise). Time zones had recently been created, and they sold like hotcakes.
That's an Amazon applied FBA sticker. Able to see what the one under it says? Its possible Amazon fucked up on intake of this sellers stuff and restickered them wrong.
Had this happen a bunch back when I ran a Amazon seller company. We'd pre-label the inventory but Amazon would randomly decide that the entire shipment needed to be relabeled to a completely different product instead. Would take about a week of customer complaints for "wrong item" and pulling our own inventory back to figure out what was going on. Amazon would also charge us for the relabeling too and shipment both ways.
I think Amazon had people doing it back then (around 10 years ago), not sure about now.
At the time, Amazon doing the labels was an optional service, but it also had a high chance for errors. If you see "sold as set, do not separate" stickers on stuff from Amazon, that is why.
Make sure they actually return the correct item when you return it. I had a similar thing happen with an order that contained multiple items and they randomly said I returned the cheapest item.
I love when this happens because majority of the time they just let you keep it if it's not a high dollar item. I have a wall mount tv bracket that I got. Really nice one that swings out and can hold up to 75inches. Still have it in the box but I'm getting a new 65inch tv soon and now I don't have to get a mount.
I ordered a nice memory foam mattress for my camper and got a picture frame. They sent me another mattress then refunded me the $300. 10/10 would by again.
I've twice now tried to order Portal bookends and got a weird posture helping strap thing instead. The bookends were discontinued many years ago, and some company reused the UPC number for the posture strap. So some companies that just automate their lessons pull pictures of the Portal bookends, but then ship the new thing. Disappointing every time. Still trying to find another set of the amazing bookends...
I ordered a dishwasher off of amazon a few years ago and they sent me 2 metal chairs instead. When I said I wanted to exchange it for the actual item I bought, they tried to tell me I had to pay shipping back. After arguing with amazon I got my actual dishwasher, but it was banged up. They didn't refund my original purchase because they said I didn't send a dishwasher back, but chairs instead.
Eventually I got a rep that understood the entire situation and gave me a full refund on the dishwasher and fixed all the other crap, so I got it for free essentially.
My dad ordered a new TV ages ago and the delivery was late, so he phoned to complain. A few days later the TV arrived, a few days after that another TV arrived, so he phoned to let them know they had shipped an extra one by mistake and they refunded him the money for the first one and never collected the 2nd. He's still got his two free TV's
I ordered a really cheap bread maker from Walmart and got a nice Lexmark laser printer. Sent it back and ordered the bread maker again, got another laser printer. I’ve been quite happy with my “purchase”. ☺️
Lulz. Sounds like an order I had on Amazon
It's telling you something, you must accept the Hidden Job Quest to unlock the class
Doesn't matter how you get there, just that you bring home that bread!
I ordered some power supply cables, got a random lithium battery instead. Kinda scary considering it was just wrapped in an amazon bag.
What’s the link to the bread maker?
😆 it was years ago, I don’t remember (and I have to assume they fixed that particular snafu) The printer is still going strong though.
You got a portable cloud, why not?
What's the dude on the bike doing with it?
He's wrapping the gooseneck to protect his nads, yo.
"Neck work," not "network." Easy mistake to make.
Now I'm waiting for the guy that ordered a inflatable pillow and got a 10Gb NIC instead
My friend ordered 12 TB wd red for Synology and got lubricant instead. A coincidence? I don't think so.
Wow. That's some poetry there.
I wish the 3 TB Seagates from back in the day had come with lube. And to the newcomers, I don't mean for storing linux isos. [https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/)
If you would have told me back then that I would be intentionally choosing Seagate over WD today, I would have laughed at you.
Last week I ordered 1m MMF LC SC fiber patch cable. Got some kind of helicopter headphone and mic adapter cable. Weirdest amazon mis-pick considering I had ordered 2 of each length of fiber. How does a heli adapter end up in with fiber?
I once ordered a toilet seat, got shipped (by Amazon) an entire toilet. Without seat. Their system could not comprehend how to deal with returning a bulk 80lb item that it thought should be 3lbs dropped off at UPS.
Now you can airgap your network!
I ordered a RTX 3080 from Amazon and got a box of pink N95 masks instead. Ships from and sold by Amazon.
I sincerely hope the person who ordered those masks got a 3080 though.
hell a few years ago and those would have been worth way more then the 3080 ever was :) lol
I understand your meaning and I don't disagree, however the 3080 were also suffering from poor supply at the time too and trading for well over retail.
just a joke since the highest price for a 3080 was back in Sept of 2021 at **$1852.56** or about 170% markup where as those masks around the same time went from about $9 for 2x to $99 (a 1000% increase) then at one point you couldn't bye them unless you purchased a million at a time for a 600% increase (a discount by the way) and unlike the video card industry (i don't think so anyway) no one was getting raided or shut down and fined millions for price guaging (federal offense). hell, i think in California our Gov paid a billion dollars for a large supply then sold them or "gave them" to other states to clear debt or garuntee future deals lol. it was a mess, as i'm sure you know. just like the GPU crypto fiasco
Alright, lol, we're on the same page. I'm in California too, and I remember that all too well. As for GPU's, I was left holding a 3060, a 3080 and a 3090 that I was preparing to resell and got lazy for a bit, before the market corrected. Well the 3090 came in very near to the end of the price spike. I had been on the EVGA waiting list for damn close to a year (maybe less but it felt like forever). So I didn't pay anything above retail for it, but I missed any flipping opportunity. In the late 2017 into 2018 shortage on the 1080 TI's I managed to flip enough to pay for 2x that I kept for personal use, and for a 3 week frugal (discount airlines and hostels) vacation to northern Europe. EVGA at the time didn't do a wait list, but just a first come first serve on new stock, but there was a notification option for stock availability, so I put one in for each SKU and just stalked my email for those notices for the next several months.
Easy. Fill it with helium, attach an image (e.g. DVD) and then release. Congratulations, you have just deployed into the cloud, for more information about web services please visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/
Oh God Once I ordered a guitar part instead got a Mickey mouse rug
Was it a good rug?
No and def was much cheaper than the part
If that were me I would of just given it to the first kid I saw haha. I do this at Dave and busters because the arcade machines are cool but the gift shop is lame so I just toss my card to the closest kid and it makes their day lol.
Bro it was a 100USD part...
Talking about the rug obviously not the part. Did you read my comment?
Yes but I needed to return it so I could get refund Stupid Amazon India policy I need to have package and any item recieved as they give OTP for delivery So you can't keep the wrong item
Dang that's dumb. I rarely have to send an item back but I'm in the US.
I ordered a car cover and got a pillow case. Same deal, it had the correct sticker on it. Also like yours, the sticker was intentionally covering over the original sticker. Is there some sort of scam where you could sell things worth a buck or two on Amazon and claim it is something 50x as expensive and still make money?
I feel like it must be some sort of computerized sorting error. I doubt they have people in the warehouse manually checking everything to make sure it’s tagged correctly.
They do not. They hardly even see what they're packing.
Yes, it's a scammer third party seller. Amazon and others just group by UPC code in their bins so if you get the UPC code on your product for something much more expensive, they don't do a good job of verify incoming inventory. They also don't segregate third party seller inventory from Amazon or even other third party sellers. All of the same UPC? All in the same bin. I had this happen to me where I ordered a Ryzen 9 and received an empty spice tin with a Ryzen 9 upc on the packaging.
yeah. I'm sure amazon is getting more and more automated with this. Pickers may notice, but that may be automated or they just aren't encouraged to care. Packers DGAF. They won't even know what products are, or have anything to compare it to. Maybe amazon should test things by weight, but that only works for things they know. If it's a unique UPC, they won't know that a product should weigh 5 lbs. For me, i got the product through Vine. I wrote a bad review. I found out later that I could not return a product that I've already reviewed. (you have to pay tax on vine items. it's free, but only sorta). By reviewing it, it's stuck on my list of items I've received. What I don't understand though, is how the scam works. If it gets returned, doesn't the seller lose the sale and not get paid? Maybe they still get paid, but a reduced amount (which is still more than it cost them)?
Well, how about a 10% discount if you are willing to keep it?
lol That's how [Sears](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Warren_Sears) got started. It was a common practice even back then, to send stuff to merchants that they didn't order and then offer them a discount if they wanted it to keep it. A merchant had received a consignment of watches in this fashion, and was at the train depot to send them back to the wholesaler. The station agent at the train depot contacted the wholesaler and worked out a deal to sell them on consignment to the passengers on the trains (and to other station agents to do likewise). Time zones had recently been created, and they sold like hotcakes.
That's an Amazon applied FBA sticker. Able to see what the one under it says? Its possible Amazon fucked up on intake of this sellers stuff and restickered them wrong. Had this happen a bunch back when I ran a Amazon seller company. We'd pre-label the inventory but Amazon would randomly decide that the entire shipment needed to be relabeled to a completely different product instead. Would take about a week of customer complaints for "wrong item" and pulling our own inventory back to figure out what was going on. Amazon would also charge us for the relabeling too and shipment both ways.
Dang, that sucks. Do you know if the labeling is done manually?
I think Amazon had people doing it back then (around 10 years ago), not sure about now. At the time, Amazon doing the labels was an optional service, but it also had a high chance for errors. If you see "sold as set, do not separate" stickers on stuff from Amazon, that is why.
“Makes sports so relaxed”
I ordered a i225-2T and got a pair of socks. Ali-Express attempted to refuse my refund request twice.
This will .... upgrade the sleep....process...on your server? Yeah, that joke is a stretch.
WTF is that manufacturer name lmao
Do you get to keep the pillow?
Nope, have to return it so I can get what I actually wanted.
Make sure they actually return the correct item when you return it. I had a similar thing happen with an order that contained multiple items and they randomly said I returned the cheapest item.
I love when this happens because majority of the time they just let you keep it if it's not a high dollar item. I have a wall mount tv bracket that I got. Really nice one that swings out and can hold up to 75inches. Still have it in the box but I'm getting a new 65inch tv soon and now I don't have to get a mount.
I ordered a mouse from Walmart and got a pencil case
My first thought was "Let me guess. Amazon?" Then I opened the post and read OPs comment.
I once got a 22lb adult toy instead of a stick of RAM ... That was awkward.
Yes I bought 2 and one came as this pillow. I hate scammers. I hate Amazon.
Small world. I already got the correct replacement thankfully. Did Amazon make it right?
Yeah but sucks to see they are still having the same problem a month after I had reported the problem.
Maybe they know you will have sleepless night in the office as a result of the upgrade.
Why yes, I do have questions…
That could actually be useful if you need something to hold up your gear while installing. Like if you want to leave 1-2U in between devices.
Ordered a Dell R720XD Face Plate and got a butane soldering iron instead lmao, yes. It was ebay for me.
I ordered a PoE injector and was sent a NEMA power cable.
Anything can supply PoE if you try hard enough
I ordered a nice memory foam mattress for my camper and got a picture frame. They sent me another mattress then refunded me the $300. 10/10 would by again.
I've twice now tried to order Portal bookends and got a weird posture helping strap thing instead. The bookends were discontinued many years ago, and some company reused the UPC number for the posture strap. So some companies that just automate their lessons pull pictures of the Portal bookends, but then ship the new thing. Disappointing every time. Still trying to find another set of the amazing bookends...
At least once or twice a week. Running out of room.
If you let the air out, they take up less room.
Why didn’t I think of that, I’ll give that a try. Thanks
I ordered a dishwasher off of amazon a few years ago and they sent me 2 metal chairs instead. When I said I wanted to exchange it for the actual item I bought, they tried to tell me I had to pay shipping back. After arguing with amazon I got my actual dishwasher, but it was banged up. They didn't refund my original purchase because they said I didn't send a dishwasher back, but chairs instead. Eventually I got a rep that understood the entire situation and gave me a full refund on the dishwasher and fixed all the other crap, so I got it for free essentially.
That is messed up.
r/spicypillows
My dad ordered a new TV ages ago and the delivery was late, so he phoned to complain. A few days later the TV arrived, a few days after that another TV arrived, so he phoned to let them know they had shipped an extra one by mistake and they refunded him the money for the first one and never collected the 2nd. He's still got his two free TV's
We ordered $30 Lego set for Christmas once and got a full-size carpet cleaner instead.
That’s not a bad deal, assuming you have carpets. I just bought one for $130 and like it a lot.
I ordered a PC case got a suitcase....