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I mean, sure, Amazon, cheers?

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Whach

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I'll take this as collateral for all the ads you inject everywhere. 10 for 1, not even a prime day deal. If this was fulfilled by a human, I hope they don't get shit for it. "AI" robot pickers FTW?
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Wow that's a heck of a surprise, time to snag a pci-e nvme card and run a crazy RAID! :D

Nah for real though, that's awesome. Not everyday a grand in storage is just "oops" on your doorstep.
 
Wow, and here I thought I scored with a used-like new evo plus for 30% off that actually came as new unopened.

But in all seriousness, some poor picker who's been peeing in a bottle for the past year at work is going to end up getting fired over that.

Edit: sorry feel the need to say it... no DRAM, too bad. LoL
 
sfsuphysics said:
Wow, and here I thought I scored with a used-like new evo plus for 30% off that actually came as new unopened.

But in all seriousness, some poor picker who's been peeing in a bottle for the past year at work is going to end up getting fired over that.

Edit: sorry feel the need to say it... no DRAM, too bad. LoL
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That’s why I’m hoping it was robot picked. No way to find out though….
 
sfsuphysics said:
Edit: sorry feel the need to say it... no DRAM, too bad. LoL
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Doesn't affect much when you have HMB anyway for 99% of usage :).

Whach said:
That’s why I’m hoping it was robot picked. No way to find out though….
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Yep... Just enjoy it. Nothing you can do about it and no way of knowing.
 
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Sweet score! Might wanna start a new thread in the For Sale forum.

As for some poor minimum wage shlep working 70 hours/week and peeing in a bottle taking the fall, Amazon loses hundreds of thousands of items/year due to botched packaging, misdirected shipping, theft, etc. i get packages never ordered all the time. It’s a chore to get Amazon to even consider coming back for them. I don’t even try anymore. I doubt anyone loses a job over this.
 
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I think my best was ordering a empty QNAP NAS anound 10 years ago and when I got it, it felt rather heavy. They sent the one with two 3TB WD Reds in it.

Ah well I felt Bezos could take the hit.
 
GoldenTiger said:
Doesn't affect much when you have HMB anyway for 99% of usage :).
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Oh I know, just mimicking those on SD who would parrot that a drive without DRAM was trashing all the time. I'm happy I got my score this Prime Day with a sub200 4tb ssd, so I dont have look at the ssd subforum there for a good long while... I hope.
 
I am sure they will be happy to have a return shipping label for him. Or at least worth asking them on what is the right course of action. However, not informing them at all seems not the right thing to do.

That’s just how I think about things.
 
KickAssCop said:
I am sure they will be happy to have a return shipping label for him. Or at least worth asking them on what is the right course of action. However, not informing them at all seems not the right thing to do.

That’s just how I think about things.
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you can feel guilty for him. it was their screwup and he doesnt really have to do anything.
personally, i would ask them what to do but he doesnt have to.
 
KickAssCop said:
Why not return the extras. Otherwise it is similar to stealing.
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Last time I got somerthing for nothing (a PS3? controller, marked as a gift to someone else... kind of a while ago), it was pretty hard to get anyone at amazon to acknowledge it, and when they did, they said to keep it or donate it. I think we ended up trading it for something we could use at Toys'R'Us which helps set a date :p

I would probably reach out, but sometimes they make it so hard to contact them, and I'm not sure how much effort I'd put in.
 
It is pretty easy to contact Amazon. I have done it countless times just in past few weeks.
 
The 637 billion dollar company that treats its employees less than garbage doesn't care. They actually don't care. The AI doesn't care, the third-party companies they use for customer support doesn't care, and they wouldn't even notice if everyone active on this forum had the same mistake happen to them, weekly. It wouldn't even make a dent in their daily expenses. Even if they were returned, the person that flubbed this would still be fired, or the software would be corrected, maybe. If it actually ended up impacting their monthly profits.

Sure, they can return them after fighting with the CS bots long enough. Sure, they could donate them. Or sell them for an EASY $500-$1000. But it's up to them to decide that. Not you. Not anyone else trying to guilt trip someone on the internet into feeling bad or having them face a moral dilemma. With the current state of things in the world, let someone have a win.
 
KickAssCop said:
Why not return the extras. Otherwise it is similar to stealing.
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By law, it is not. That's why there is already established case law about it. If it was against the law, I would send it back....but Amazon knows this isn't and that is why they don't bother to pursue anyone about it. Simple. And as for addressing self-respect, I doubt a multi-billion corporation would be having any ethical concerns for me/us in any scenario. Sympathy for gigantic profiteering corporations is foolhardy at best. You and I are just a transaction on a quarterly income report to them and not an entity worth of any respect once we are not financially useful to them.

However, I am a fan of PC hardware deals. This certainly was one for me.
 
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Whach said:
By law, it is not. That's why there is already established case law about it. If it was against the law, I would send it back....but Amazon knows this isn't and that is why they don't bother to pursue anyone about it. Simple. And as for addressing self-respect, I doubt a multi-billion corporation would be having any ethical concerns for me/us in any scenario. Sympathy for gigantic profiteering corporations is foolhardy at best. You and I are just a transaction on a quarterly income report to them and not an entity worth of any respect once we are not financially useful to them.

However, I am a fan of PC hardware deals. This certainly was one for me.
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Well done for defending yourself from moral warriors, with good logic. And congratulations on extra drives. 👏
Amazon is a psychopath megacorporation, they don't care, you should have no doubts about keeping the items, legislation is on your side anyway. 💯
 
KickAssCop said:
Why not return the extras. Otherwise it is similar to stealing.
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If it was anyone else, I would ask them, but since it's scAmazon, FUCK THEM! Let them jump through hoops to get them back if they want them.
Wished I was that lucky!
 
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lol this is the kind of stuff that has never happened with me...

It's always the opposite.. I order multiple of some specific item.. and always end up getting shorted..
Always get that one packer that failed basic Math 101 and shorts me
F'ers
 
jlbenedict said:
lol this is the kind of stuff that has never happened with me...

It's always the opposite.. I order multiple of some specific item.. and always end up getting shorted..
Always get that one packer that failed basic Math 101 and shorts me
F'ers
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Just imagine if it was 8TB drives.
 
GoldenTiger said:
In the USA if someone sends you something unsolicited, it's yours. Even if he wanted to return the extras, there's no real way of doing it with Amazon.
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Be careful here; there's nothing more pedantic than people discussing things on line...other than the law! ;)

"Unsolicited" carries a specific meaning, which is something someone didn't ask/request/want/etc. When someone knocks on your door in the afternoon and tries to sell you something--that's unsolicited. When a company sends you something to entice you to try their product--that's unsolicited. When you order something, however, it's not unsolicited--you solicited (asked for, requested, wanted to obtain) that product. When a company sends you an extra of something you ordered that's not unsolicited...it's a mistake (not my opinion--not a moral/ethical position--it's US law) and mistaken shipments must be returned albeit at shipper's expense, time, and trouble.

So the bottom line is that if OP received a box of product out of the blue that could be construed as unsolicited. If the box of product was the result of shipper sending 10 instead of the 1 that was ordered, that's a shipping mistake. The former could be grounds to keep it (but to be clear, there's no slam dunks in law so there are still going to be contextual factors, case law, and local law dictating the conclusion) whereas the latter is not.

To be clear, I don't care one way or the other and Amazon may not either. In terms of ease of return, however, it's as simple as going into the order, starting a return, and choosing "did not order" as the option and a free shipping label will generate and they'll even come to your house to pick it up. I've done this exactly one time for an order that delivered multiple boxes of the same thing but since there was only one label UPS literally couldn't process the pickup and it became such a hassle everyone (including Amazon CS) just said fuck it. But the point is it's not as cut and dried as you get to keep whatever lands in your mailbox regardless of the circumstances, which is how people generally misconstrue/misunderstand the laws GoldenTiger is referring to. Those laws were intended to protect people from scams and inertia selling (sending someone something they didn't ask for and then billing them for it) and aren't intended to punish merchants for genuine mistakes.

If you want an analog in the law, consider the commonly held belief that a business must always honor a listed price. Many here know that it's not so simple--a business does not need to honor a price mistake whether in-store or online. The law handles mistakes differently from choices. Even behaviors that occur by genuine mistake of fact (not mistake of the law, though, which is never a valid defense) that would otherwise be crimes are not considered criminal.
 
This exact same thing happened to me 15 years ago or so. I ordered 2 x2.5 SSDs, maybe 256GB ones..., think they were OCZs, and exactly the same, they sent me an entire box, was 8 of them...

Because I had it shipped down to Costa Rica, to ship them back would of cost a pretty penny, I actually reached out to Amazon and told them about it, they told me to keep them, their mistake.

What I would do, just in case, hold onto them for a couple weeks, do not open them, just to see if your CC gets charged......probably wont...but just incase.
 
mope54 said:
Be careful here; there's nothing more pedantic than people discussing things on line...other than the law! ;)

"Unsolicited" carries a specific meaning, which is something someone didn't ask/request/want/etc. When someone knocks on your door in the afternoon and tries to sell you something--that's unsolicited. When a company sends you something to entice you to try their product--that's unsolicited. When you order something, however, it's not unsolicited--you solicited (asked for, requested, wanted to obtain) that product. When a company sends you an extra of something you ordered that's not unsolicited...it's a mistake (not my opinion--not a moral/ethical position--it's US law) and mistaken shipments must be returned albeit at shipper's expense, time, and trouble.

So the bottom line is that if OP received a box of product out of the blue that could be construed as unsolicited. If the box of product was the result of shipper sending 10 instead of the 1 that was ordered, that's a shipping mistake. The former could be grounds to keep it (but to be clear, there's no slam dunks in law so there are still going to be contextual factors, case law, and local law dictating the conclusion) whereas the latter is not.

To be clear, I don't care one way or the other and Amazon may not either. In terms of ease of return, however, it's as simple as going into the order, starting a return, and choosing "did not order" as the option and a free shipping label will generate and they'll even come to your house to pick it up. I've done this exactly one time for an order that delivered multiple boxes of the same thing but since there was only one label UPS literally couldn't process the pickup and it became such a hassle everyone (including Amazon CS) just said fuck it. But the point is it's not as cut and dried as you get to keep whatever lands in your mailbox regardless of the circumstances, which is how people generally misconstrue/misunderstand the laws GoldenTiger is referring to. Those laws were intended to protect people from scams and inertia selling (sending someone something they didn't ask for and then billing them for it) and aren't intended to punish merchants for genuine mistakes.

If you want an analog in the law, consider the commonly held belief that a business must always honor a listed price. Many here know that it's not so simple--a business does not need to honor a price mistake whether in-store or online. The law handles mistakes differently from choices. Even behaviors that occur by genuine mistake of fact (not mistake of the law, though, which is never a valid defense) that would otherwise be crimes are not considered criminal.
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Meh, I'll see it as a scAmazon promotion, and if not, they have to prove the receiver received the mistake.
 
Wife ordered a $600 A/C unit. Waited 30 days. Nothing shows up. Shipping info never changes. She finally calls CS to find out whats up. They say they are oh so sorry and will have one shipped to us ASAP. Couple days later it does in fact come. Three months later another identical unit arrives via fadex, no knock dropped, just left it on the stoop, idiots... 50lb monster is sitting in my basement as I type this. If they want it they can send someone to carry that beyatch up the stairs. Cuz this old mans back isn't up to humpin giant boxes up stairs anymore. I consider it a replacement for the first unit she ordered two years earlier that died a couple months after the warranty expired. :)
 
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fewer than 3% of criminal cases go to trial but in the event the state would have to "prove" receipt of the package the prosecutor will simply produce the tracking information, which is considered definitive in and of itself.

but everyone always thinks they've come up with a new way to beat the system, so I imagine you and others might be thinking it'd be enough to say, "that doesn't prove I received anything." well no, the fact that the recipient didn't contact Amazon to complain they never received the package they did order proves they received the package...
 
mope54 said:
fewer than 3% of criminal cases go to trial but in the event the state would have to "prove" receipt of the package the prosecutor will simply produce the tracking information, which is considered definitive in and of itself.

but everyone always thinks they've come up with a new way to beat the system, so I imagine you and others might be thinking it'd be enough to say, "that doesn't prove I received anything." well no, the fact that the recipient didn't contact Amazon to complain they never received the package they did order proves they received the package...
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What are you on about? I bet his packing slip and order says a quantity of 1. There is no legal thing Amazon or anyone else can do to him. Its not a brushing scam, it was a mistake made at Amazon's end.

Couple years ago I ordered a router from Newegg Business. Along with said router I received.:

MB -- Gigabyte B550 Gaming X V2
PSU -- Corsair RM850
RAM -- 16 GB GSKILL Ripjaws F4-3200C16D-16GVKB

SATA 2.5" SSDs:
1x 1TB Samsung 870 QVO
4x 500GB Samsung 870 EVO
3x 250GB Samsung 870 EVO

The extra stuff came in 2 extra separate boxes with the exact same UPS label as the initial box with the Router. No packing slips in any box.

Consider it a give in life and move on. No one is and will ever be in trouble in this scenario.

According to the FTC, we can't be charged for the items that were sent that we didn't order. So they a free to us even if Newegg or Amazon or whoever catches the "mistake".

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articl...r-got-or-you-get-unordered-products#unordered
 
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What are you on about?

According to the FTC, we can't be charged for the items that were sent that we didn't order. So they a free to us even if Newegg or Amazon or whoever catches the "mistake".

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articl...r-got-or-you-get-unordered-products#unordered
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What "I'm on about" is that you are misunderstanding the reference from the FTC you are citing here. He ordered one and received more than one by accident, which is different from "unordered."
 
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