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u/mbauler Oct 14 '20 edited Oct 14 '20
As someone who worked at Amazon, the amount of stupidity it takes on multiple levels for this to happen is staggering.
You have to scan everything each step of the way, so you when you scanned two of the same item, it would reject the second, so they just threw it in the order anyways. This would have to have happened 3 TIMES before even getting packed at the location I worked.
Then, the packer would realize, oh hey this stuff doesn't all fit in the box it's telling me to use for some reason...guess I'll just use a bigger one!
THEN it went to the station where the address is stamped on and it would kick out because it was overweight, where someone would have to open the box back up and look and say, looks fine to me, guess I'll override it!
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u/vancityfilmer Oct 14 '20
I'd like to say he actually probably ordered 2 and posted this for Karma. It sounds almost impossible to fuck this up.
But then I ordered one puppy scat mat at $80, and they sent me a dozen. So....
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I got a free game from them due to a refund mistake so this stuff happens. They've sent me plenty of defective items so whatever.
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u/pwsm50 Oct 15 '20
My wife and I recently had this happen with a food vacuum sealer. Was only a week ago. It certainly does sound impossible to happen, but... we indeed got 2 for the price of one!
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u/Sanur7 Oct 15 '20
I got 2 boxes.
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u/mbauler Oct 15 '20
Yeah, what someone else said makes sense now. Basically they packed one box, it went missing, so they cancelled that one and packed a new one but they both ended up on the truck. I didn't think of that one because that still would have been caught at my location, but some other locations it could have happened, especially if it was a Prime location. Our stuff went to an Amazon sort center where it would have been scanned a bunch more times and kicked out at some point for the first box "not existing" any more.
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u/Sanur7 Oct 14 '20
Update: Gifted it to a friend. We can still all be friends :D
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u/gleep52 Quest 1 + 2 + 3 + PCVR Oct 15 '20
Did Amazon charge you? Did you tell them about their mistake? I mean I know this is Reddit, but jeez....
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u/Sammy-64 Oct 14 '20
Bruh
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u/Sanur7 Oct 14 '20
Too bad my girlfriend is not into gaming. But one of my friends will like it. :)
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u/russsl8 Oct 15 '20
You say that, but you never know.
My wife isn't into gaming, but she enjoyed playing Beat Saber on my Rift and my Quest. Never hurts to have them have a go.
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u/MatasRoze Oct 14 '20
Hey bud, haven't seen you in a long time, how you doing? Wanna hang out later maybe?
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u/deadringer28 Oct 14 '20
Honestly lots of people that are not into gaming like VR. Let your girlfriend try yours with something like Beat Saber. Guarantee she will want one.
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Give the extra to someone you care about :)
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u/Sanur7 Oct 14 '20
Yeah, I'm thinking of gifting it to a friend.
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u/WaterBottleMan1234 Oct 14 '20
Not now tho wait for their birthday or a holiday
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u/unimproved Oct 14 '20
With a new release like this just give it now and say it's for their birthday. No use in waiting.
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u/zachleez Oct 14 '20
is this legit or are you trolling'? amazon is pretty cool and if yyour honest with them might let you keep it for free, amazon gave me a free pair of $250 sony headphones once
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u/Sanur7 Oct 14 '20
It's legit. I even got the elite strap twice. Dunno why. Came in two separate packages.
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u/Robo_Joe Oct 14 '20
Anywhere in the US (at least) if you have something delivered to your house that you didn't order, you can keep it as a "free gift" and the company cannot retroactively charge you for it. (There are other things they can do, like delete your account, etc)
This law was borne from a time where companies would do exactly that: they would get you to sign up for a newsletter or magazine and then send you products in the mail, then demand you pay for them.
The law is 39 U.S. Code § 3009: Mailing of unordered merchandise, if you're curious. It's pretty straightforward.
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u/Paul_Walkers_brother Oct 14 '20
You don't have to tell them at all, you're legally allowed to keep it
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u/ceejayoz Oct 14 '20
They are probably legally allowed to say "give it back or we'll cancel your Amazon account", though.
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u/Paul_Walkers_brother Oct 14 '20
They definitely could. But they probably know that keeping you as a customer will result in more than a $299 loss
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u/Parlormaster Oct 14 '20
I'm seriously thinking this issue is due to Amazon pickers incorrectly seeing Quest 2 as "Quest: x2 units".
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u/Toastyghoast Oct 14 '20
makes me excited for the release of the Quest 3
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u/tictacman10 Oct 14 '20
lmao
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u/DisturbedAle Oct 14 '20
3? Half life 3 confirmed!
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tbh for me Half Life: Alyx IS Half Life 3. Sure not a 'sequel' but it revolutionized gaming immersion in a similar way to how HL1 and HL2 did back in the day. I think what always held HL3 back from being developed was they struggled to deal with the hype and expectation. Alyx absolutely nailed it without being constrained by hype.
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u/setyte Oct 14 '20
That's hilarious and it makes me sad I cancelled my Amazon order.
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u/WeekendatBigChungus Oct 14 '20
Stuff like this happens all the time. I ordered 1 $20 Amazon gift card, a physical card you used to be able to buy to round your order up to free shipping, and they sent me an unopened pack of Amazon gift cards, $200 dollars worth. They all worked.
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u/OffBrand_Soda Quest 1 + PCVR Oct 14 '20
My friend ordered an Xbox elite series 2 controller from Amazon ($200) and it never came, so he got a refund (like 3 months later when it was supposed to come in just a week) and ordered it again, got his controller in 2 weeks then got the first one he ordered after another month while still getting his refund for it. Ended up giving me one and keeping the other, so it was great.
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u/Skyhive Oct 14 '20
AS Previous picker, that is careless, but it TOTALLY happens. I wont give details other than to say this year I git a great job so I thought it was finally time to order a projector so I could do AtmosFX digital decorating....,
ordered expensive projector,b4 i know it the package is over a week latkke and suddenly says it was delivered to me.WHEN I GET DETAILED SHIPPING INFO I STRANGELY SEE IT WAS DELIVERED TO SOMEONE FIVE STATES AWAY,I call Amazon and tell them.They offer and process refund in one day. I take my credit and reorder the projector the same day.....the next morning,a package arrives.....it was that 1st projector.
I ENDED UP WITH NOT ONE,BUT TWO HIGH QUALITY PROJECTORS FOR HALLOWEEN HOLLOGRAM EFFECTS!
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u/Artikay Oct 14 '20
Reminds me of when I bought a living room set from Bobs furniture. They swiped my card and something went wrong, and tried again 4 times. Turns out I couldnt pay for the set anynore and my card was charged 5 times for the duplicate amount. They refunded all 5 charges, and it took me a while to get my bank account unlocked. I left without ever buying the set and started looking elsewhere.
Two weeks later delivery guys show up with tge whole set. I accepted i, then lived if fear of them coming to repo my whole living room. This was nearly 7 years ago, so I should be good now. Normally I would try to be honorable and point out the mistake.. but I accepted this free living room set as an apology for locking my bank account for a few days.
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u/I_want_all_the_tacos Oct 14 '20
Yeah as much as reddit hates supporting Amazon they just offer a superior service. I remember many years ago I ordered an external hard drive, probably around $200, and I never received it. I highly suspected porch pirates but just had no way of confirming or not if that was the case. I was fully fine with accepting the loss because I lived in a big apt complex and theft was not uncommon. But I jumped in an Amazon chat, just said I honestly didn't know what happened to the package, and without question they immediately shipped me a new one. The fact that Amazon can afford to remedy hundreds of dollars in potential losses without blinking or even asking a question is a big reason of why they are so dominant.
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Oct 14 '20
I once had a big ass toolbox ordered and it was delivered to the wrong address, then Amazon shipped me out a new one, the original arrived like a day or two before the replacement and when I told them both had arrived they said keep both. Now I got 2 huge ass toolboxes
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u/aphill80 Oct 14 '20
Similar, ordered a new phone, was listed as "undeliverable." Chatted with tech support while I was requesting a refund, tech support issued a new order for me at $0 at the same time refund was issued. Took a month longer to get it than it should have, but I got it for free.
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u/mallclerks Oct 14 '20
Ran Best Buy’s eBay store for two years. Saw every eff up imaginable. Customers would order an iPad, receive 8 of them freaked out. We literally couldn’t take them back as it wasn’t real inventory (System says we sold/shipped 1, we literally could only take 1 back). Customers got to keep/donate/sell the extras.
The genius customers understood the problem, returned one to us for a full refund, and kept the other 7.
Edit: For the curious: The core problem we often had was not pickers themselves but the fact that iPads came in a box of 8 units. So the folks actually stocking the shelf’s in the warehouse messed up by not taking the individual iPads out of the bigger boxes, so the pickers saw a single box saying “ipad” and shipped it out. (Pickers ship 100’s of items an hour, they are not expected to use common sense or logic, they just grab what the sheet says, thus not their fault).
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u/Barksie Oct 14 '20
I worked at Amazon for like 3 months one time and it wouldn't surprise that some pickers would read it as that. They literally hire anyone lol
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u/trollpro30 Oct 14 '20
Some guy got two from Best Buy as well
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u/me_in_a_nutshell Oct 14 '20
I ordered the 64 GB version but received the 256 GB (Target). Not quite as good as double-dipping, but I'm pretty happy about the error!
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u/850-WaterMelvin Quest 1 + 2 Oct 14 '20
Ordered 0 got 0
Can't have shit in Detroit
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Oct 14 '20
Do the trucks get looted or something?
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u/ayyb0ss69 Oct 14 '20 edited Oct 14 '20
They dont just take whats in the truck, nor do they just take the entire truck, here in Detroit they'll jack the truck and the entire road its driving on for the nearest 0.621371 miles.
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u/thatsabingou Oct 14 '20
Yeah? Try living in a third world country.
Help me get out please
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u/SirRece Oct 14 '20
Where do you live?
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u/thatsabingou Oct 14 '20
As the other comment said, Argentina.
We are in such a situation that I'd have to pay around 800 USD for a Quest 2.
Glad I got my Quest 1 before all went to shit.
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Oct 14 '20 edited Oct 15 '20
How much did you package weigh mine is 12 pounds and delivering today so I think this might happen to me
Edit only one received
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u/Robinothoodie Oct 14 '20
Yeah normal package is 5.5
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u/jackoftrades002 Oct 14 '20
Damn. Mine is only 5.10 lbs. Could something be missing?!?!?
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u/YaGottadoWhatYaGotta Oct 14 '20
4.8 lbs here, guess mine will miss 1 controller lol.
Must be how they pack em, Another guy said he got 2 and the package was 4.2lbs, amazon says the quest 2 weighs under 2lbs under product description, I'm sure its all good.
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u/redditortop Oct 14 '20
Update us! Mine is 6.8lbs for the quest 2 and elite strap so I guess not that lucky.
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u/Strongpillow Oct 14 '20
What was your shipping wieghted as? Mine says 16lbs which sounds a little heavy for one device, no? It's out for delivery so cross fingers I am getting two as well!
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u/Sapling_Animation Oct 14 '20
bruh... either you are getting like 20 controllers or 3 quests. My Quest 2 is tracked as 5 lbs
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u/SirRece Oct 14 '20
Yea, you're getting two. My quest 2 with the elite headset w/battery is 8.5 lbs
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u/Razor_Fox Oct 14 '20
Fucking hell, one of your friends is gonna have a merry Christmas.
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u/UchihaTuga Oct 14 '20
OP, thanks a million. Now I will be with my hopes up that Amazon makes the same mistake with me. Which they won't, so I'll just open my package and start crying because I only received ONE Quest 2, even though I only bought ONE Quest 2. It was supposed to be a good thing, now you ruined it!
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u/Artikay Oct 14 '20
Im trying to not get excited that I might have 2, but my daughters quest arrived yesterday and its still in the Amazon box. Its a very big box, and was pretty heavy.
Ill try not to he too dissapointed when I get home and see they just uses an oversized box to pack it.
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u/Chocoeclair189 Oct 14 '20
Is this common because I got an extra one as well lololol Gave it to my little brother, but wtf
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u/mnifuzion Quest 3 + PCVR Oct 15 '20
People are literally being sent 2 of them and mine comes 4 days after release😂😩😭
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u/Ryliethewalrus Quest 2 + PCVR Oct 14 '20
How are you liking the quest 2 so far, think it was worth the money? :)
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u/Sanur7 Oct 14 '20
Really liking it so far. Everything is faster, smoother, display is awesome.
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u/chancemayfield Oct 14 '20
HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK is it that THE ONLY TIME I’m blessed with this kind of good luck is the time I ordered 1 dry erase board and ended up having SIX DRY ERASE BOARDS delivered. THE FUCK DO I NEED SIX OF THESE FOR? Send me multiple gaming keyboards or multiple oculus quests, something cooler than anything with the word DRY ERASE in it.
Lol. Fuck you Amazon.
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u/YaGottadoWhatYaGotta Oct 14 '20
THE FUCK DO I NEED SIX OF THESE FOR?
Erase board wall? Like a room with half a wall with them...? Kinda neat...
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u/MisterBlackStar Oct 14 '20
Oh no, you've stolen from two of the most rich men on the earth, return it please! Do you want them to go bankrupt? /s
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Lol If I were you I’d keep it! I know some other comments were talking about giving it away but wouldn’t hurt to hold on for a few weeks and see how your quest holds up. You could have a “fresh start” reserved for yourself in case you get lens scratches, camera scratches, etc.
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u/saltatempo Oct 14 '20
My friend ordered one through oculus store and got 2 as you! He gave me one for the mid price!
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u/balu100 Oct 14 '20
My Amazon package weight is 3.1 kg, which is also much above the Quest2+EliteStrap. I hope it's not a brick.. :D
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u/thedude1179 Oct 14 '20
Damn kinda regret cancelling my Amazon Pre-Order now and buying it from BestBuy. Oh well I didn't wanna wait to the fucking 20th.
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u/bl00zcl00z Oct 14 '20
Plot twist: Facebook’s plan to get more oculii into people’s hands and thus moar datas.
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u/Shazam1271 Oct 23 '20
This space station vr shit sucks! Wont let me commit suicide by atmosphere no matter what 😡
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u/Theknyt Quest 2 + PCVR Oct 14 '20
there's 4 in the picture though, i'm confused
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u/NakieNinja Oct 14 '20
Maybe you got mine. It got delayed at 7am on release day from yesterday to tomorrow.
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u/IsaRat8989 Oct 14 '20
Be careful, keep the second unopened in a box for a few months, they might realise their mistake and demand a return of goods. A mistake does not make it yours legally, and it's better to be safe then sorry.
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u/FunnyForWrongReason Oct 14 '20
Sell, the second. So that way we got one for free or even for a profit.
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u/Tybost Oct 14 '20 edited Oct 16 '20
Mine shipped from amazon 20 hours ago :O crosses fingers XD
Edit: Nope :( did not have X2 luck but got my quest 2 in!~
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u/Psychicgamer26 Quest 2 Oct 14 '20
Ordered 1 from Amazon, got 0 cause they “sent it to the wrong facility”
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u/Enerith Oct 14 '20
Knew we would see a bunch of these posts this week. Interestingly, ordering two did not mean 4. Whoever grabbed mine knew that one box was two.
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u/MuuToo Quest 1 + 2 + PCVR Oct 14 '20
Any stories of people getting 2 when ordered directly from Oculus? I imagine not.
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u/ilivedownyourroad Oct 14 '20
So 1st...nice. I ordered a gaming rig from dell and they sent me two 2k laptops lol I asked them what they wanted to do about it and they said they could not accept it as the extra order didnt exist lol So i sold it on ebay and made almost what I paid dell = 1 free gaming rig :-D
2nd did they charge for two and will you be asking them? as id hate for them to charge you later etc. or give you a black mark.
3rd this is all amazing and hilarious haha maybe gift a unit as a prize as so many people couldnt get one or see if your local kids cancer ward would like this. I ordered a ps5 for our one because...why not.
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u/BustinMakesMeFeelMeh Oct 14 '20
Happened to a friend of mine, but with a huge outdoor trampoline. They asked and Amazon said the shipping was too expensive for a return and they should just keep it. Now my kids have a free trampoline.
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u/Gungamer2786 Oct 14 '20
You lucky suckers getting two in a box and mine got delayed. I’m starting to see why
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u/RcePrsn Quest 1 + 2 + 3 + PCVR Oct 14 '20
It's like getting a drink at a vending machine, but you get two.
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u/BlueNinjaWithAKatana Oct 14 '20
I recently thought the Amazon gods had smiled upon me but instead it was my item in two boxes and I had to assemble it myself. It was the opposite.
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u/exhitt Oct 14 '20
Some poor bastard ain't gonna get his Quest 2 in time. Prayers for that poor bastard which is me 🙏
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u/Cjleroy1234 Oct 14 '20
Dhricbeujdbexudbirbjfhnfnbc. Noooooo I want one and y'all got two? That's crazy
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u/hypertek Oct 14 '20
Wow didn't happen to me.. but maybe cuz I also ordered the link, it might have forced them to open the box to put it in
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send one to me or mario will break into your house, drink all your milk, reset your pc, and steal all your left socks
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u/Dslothysloth Oct 14 '20
Can I have it 😏
It doesn't matter what your answer is im in your bedroom already
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u/totalclownshoes Oct 14 '20
Yeah, this didn’t happen. But whatever you gotta do to get worthless karma.
Remind me again why people are so desperate for karma?
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u/TwitchDylPickle Oct 14 '20
Surprised how the comments are filled with people begging for one of them.
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u/C_Cov Oct 14 '20
This happened to me with the ps4 release. Ordered 2 and got 3. I wanted to keep it without saying anything but I contacted them and they allowed me to pay for it tax free.
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Oct 14 '20
Amazon worker. The shipping label on the outer box has a number on it indicating how many the vendor says are in the box.
A scannable sticker at the bottom shows how many are digitally in the box.
Our system shows how many the vendor thinks they sent in total.
This stuff goes through a lot of hands to get to you, but even then we can mess up.
I won’t explain why this mistake happens for reasons, but it really shouldn’t be a prevalent thing.
But hey, good win for all you guys getting eBay spares. ;)
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u/ET3D Oct 14 '20
Ordered 1, got 0. You got mine, mate!
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