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I suspect that someone in your neighborhood is using a stolen credit card to order things. They can't ship it to their house because it would be too easy for the police to find them, so they have it shipped to a random house nearby. Then they sneak over and pick it up after UPS drops it off. You are going to have some seriously upset drug addicts if you send it back to Amazon.
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Last edited by Chris Padilla; 10-09-2014 at 1:08 PM.
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That didn't work out too well for them did it?Originally Posted by Steve Peterson
I suspect that someone in your neighborhood is using a stolen credit card to order things. They can't ship it to their house because it would be too easy for the police to find them, so they have it shipped to a random house nearby. Then they sneak over and pick it up after UPS drops it off. You are going to have some seriously upset drug addicts if you send it back to Amazon.
Steve
Last edited by Chris Padilla; 10-09-2014 at 1:08 PM.
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Legally that is yours. They delivered it to your house and left it there. I would make one attempt to let them know they made a mistake and then after that let them figure it out. I would put it somewhere for a couple weeks and let them figure it out. You can probably sell it for a substantial amount of money.
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To the guy with the projector.
Never, under any circumstances, consume a laxative and sleeping pill, on the same night
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I've made 3 attempts with Amazon so far. Now I'm done. I will wait a bit to hear from them.
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A three tiered bird bath fountain was left at my door once in a similar situation. Called amazon and they said it was their mistake but to keep it since it would cost too much to ship back. Put it on ebay but could only get less 20 bucks because it was so horribly ugly.
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I did some contract software development for Amazon for a while. What you need to understand is that while their technical staff is top notch and paid accordingly, most of the rest of their employees are bottom of the barrel misfit high school dropout types who are paid minimum wage.
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Can you say "illegal conversion"?
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Yes I can. You have accused me of wrong doing with no explanation. So far as I know the law has been for a long time and still is that if someone delivers something to your home it is legally yours. You are saying if I send someone a greeting card it is still mine, it is not theirs to do with as they wish; if they throw it in the trash I can have them arrested for conversion.
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The law is very simple. If someone ships you something that you didn't order, it's yours to keep, sell, donate, throw out, or otherwise dispose of however you wish. Doesn't matter if it was an honest mistake. It's up to you if you want to take the time and trouble to track down the sender, and it's up to you exactly how much time and trouble you're willing to put in shipping it back. Honestly, my patience with Amazon probably wouldn't have extended past the first phone call, especially if they were being obtuse and difficult. I'd probably just donate it to my church to get raffled off.
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Yeah. I ordered a bunch of archival boxes once that included someone else's order worth maybe twenty five dollars. Had
his name on it. Called the company and a woman thanked me and said I could send it back. Told her, I was just calling to
tell her to send out his order.
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Don't give legal advice when you don't know what you are talking about. Someone might rely on it and get hurt.
As a practical matter they might not want it back, or may ignore you when you advise them of the mistake; and then it is yours. But it is not yours just because it showed up on your doorstep.
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Wade,
I believe John is right, Moses has the right to keep anything that he receives in the mail that he did not order. Its a very old law that helps prevent marketing groups from sending items in the mail and then demanding payment for goods that were not ordered. This happens often with magazines and other periodicals, its a brute sales technique that involves threats to turn the debt over to a collection agency if you don't pay for the items received.
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Bill sent me this link that provides some information concerning this topic.
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles...ed-merchandise
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