theelfqueen Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 A package was just delivered to my house. Inside was a Geometry teachers manual. There is no packing slip. No sender info on the packaging. I did not order a Geometry teachers manual. In fact I've never looked at this one (it wasn't inadvertently ordered from my wishlist or something). I was worried that maybe someone shipped it in place of something else I actually ordered but that doesn't seem to be the case - I don't have any open orders. UPS says the shipper was Amazon. Amazon says they have no record of any shipment with that tracking number. WHAT THE HECK??? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frugalmamatx Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Did you order something off another website, such as ebay? Some sellers will let Amazon store the books, list them on both Amazon and Ebay, and then if it sells on ebay first they have Amazon ship it for a small fee. Amazon sometimes mixes books up, so that could be why you got something you didn't order. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrichor Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Seems like it's time to teach geometry. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 the universe is telling you to teach geometry 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberia Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 the universe is telling you to teach geometry Yup. That's what it means. Consider yourself special that the universe is talking directly to you. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theelfqueen Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share Posted June 27, 2016 I think I DID look at the Keys to Geometry series briefly online a while back .... but ummm not this book. It's so weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theelfqueen Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share Posted June 27, 2016 Amazon says that A) They don't recognize the packing number. B) There is no order info anywhere on the tag. C) It is a gift order. D) They can't like the package to an order so they can't tell me from whom? I am more confused. Who would send this as a gift? And if they did... why would it be addressed to DH? not to me or to one of the kids? It's all... SO ODD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Could one of your kids have accidentally ordered it through your husband's Amazon account? I guess if it's a good book, use it. If not pass it along or sell it for the one you really want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhioMomof3 Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 That is weird! I'd just like to say--if the universe is listening--that I wouldn't mind a mysterious package with money or new clothes or tickets for a fabulous trip. Just putting it out there... 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tess in the Burbs Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 sounds like someone was either drunk shopping, shopping on the wrong account and hit purchase to see what would happen, or your husband secretly knows your school agony and bought it for you :lol: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplejackmama Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 No clue about your geometry book. But let me tell you about MY mystery package. One of my kids ordered a V for Vendetta mask (why?!) from Amazon. It came in a padded Manila envelope covered in Chinese writing. No sign of Amazon. When I opened it I screamed. It freaked me out so bad. Said kid laughed. Jerk. 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 That happened to me once, but I got a fuzzy white bathrobe! I called Amazon, and they had no record of it. There was even an order number on the package label, but they still had no record of it. They told me I could either mail it back to Amazon, or just keep it. I kept it! It's now our guest bathrobe. :) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanny Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 On Amazon, put the ISBN number of that book into their search engine. After you have the web page for that book on your screen, either click on "I have one to sell" or send it to Amazon for a credit to your account. Sometimes, they pay good $ for books that are in demand and are in short supply. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 We just got a mystery package from Amazon: 25 packages of glow rings. No packing slip, no third party seller and nothing on our account or cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkyandtheBrains. Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Twilight Zone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zarabellesmom Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I've been trying to track that book down for ages. Wonder how it ended up at your place??? 😉 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoobie Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Keep watching DH's account. My friend got some LED light up tennis shoes (in her DH's size, ha!), and shortly thereafter realized her account had been hacked. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewe Mama Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Sounds like somebody in the universe took an Ambien 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joules Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I'm watching Person of Interest and suddenly imagining Amazon's shipping computer developing sentience. It uses the data to determine what you *really* need and sends it to you. I could see weekly episodes based on that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trulycrabby Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I'm watching Person of Interest and suddenly imagining Amazon's shipping computer developing sentience. It uses the data to determine what you *really* need and sends it to you. I could see weekly episodes based on that. What an awesome writing prompt! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Keep watching DH's account. My friend got some LED light up tennis shoes (in her DH's size, ha!), and shortly thereafter realized her account had been hacked.They make light up shoes in adult sizes! Who knew? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momacacia Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 It's a scary world when someone out there has the amazon boxes and tape. They could take over the world, and evidently Amazon wouldn't have a clue about it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahW Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 A few months ago my DH had a surprise "gift" order show up in his orders page - a UK plug for a kindle - which got sent to my aunt in America, an address we previously (briefly) sent Amazon orders to, but was no longer the default address. Would anyone else you know have your address as a possible Amazon shipping address? Maybe even the previous occupant of your house? There's something wonky going on in the Amazon software. I'm sure of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I have another Amazon story. When we were staying at my parents' home for a couple weeks last summer, I ordered something from Amazon. A couple days later I received an Amazon box (which clearly wasn't what I ordered, because it was too small) with someone else's name and address on it, which looked like it was just a few blocks away. The mailman must have just delivered it to my parents' home by mistake. (Weirdly though, I didn't get the box I ordered, which made me wonder if the post office had a digital address -- my parents' -- for that box that didn't match the label, due to some Amazon glitch.) Anyway, I called Amazon, and they said to either mail it back to them or throw it away or keep it. I guess I could have just brought it back to the post office too. But that all seemed so silly when the address was just a few blocks away. So I got in the car, drove there, knocked on the door, and told them I had a package for them from Amazon, and also asked if they happened to have one for me! They were sooo bewildered. I tried explaining, but they just couldn't get over the fact that some random lady was delivering their Amazon order to them. (And they didn't have mine!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Twilight Zone? Given it's a Geometry book, that would be Triangle Zone. Regards, Kareni 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyoffive Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Given it's a Geometry book, that would be Triangle Zone. Regards, Kareni hee hee I am surprised this stuff doesn't happen more often honestly. Let us know if you ever figure it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanny Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I try to avoid Amazon Sellers that use FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon). The reason I do that is because if I send them a message, asking them where it will be shipped from, or if they can double check the condition of the textbook or something, they have no clue. In a week or so, I am going to order an SSD from a company that uses FBA on Amazon. I will cross my fingers and pray, after reading this thread... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Yup. That's what it means. Consider yourself special that the universe is talking directly to you. Through Amazon. Of all ways for the universe to converse with me, I hope it picks Amazon when my turn comes. :lol: :lol: I think I DID look at the Keys to Geometry series briefly online a while back .... but ummm not this book. It's so weird. Amazon says that C) It is a gift order. Did you ever have it on a wish list at Amazon? Is it possible someone you know saw it, made a note of it, then sent it to you some time later (aka now)? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 They make light up shoes in adult sizes! Who knew?I did! There was a guy in the news a few years back that stole a television and ran through a cornfield to hide. They found him because his shoes keep lighting up. :lol: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Maybe this is how Amazon deals with too much stock. "I just CAN NOT fit another geometry text on this shelf! But I'll get points off if the shift supervisor finds it somewhere else. Hey, I know what I'll do with it..." 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kentuckymom Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Years ago we received a tetherball set that we never ordered, and no one has ever owned up to having it sent to us. I don't know how these things happen, but you're not alone :). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanabug Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Well, if Amazon would like to send a mystery package to me, I've got a whole wish list of stuff they can pick from! ;) Lana 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathnerd Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 (edited) We got a delivery of a large rug for a child's room, a rocking chair and a child's night lamp from amazon. They were too cutesy and not my style and I never ordered them nor even looked at them online. Then I got a call from my DH's cousin in LA who was upset and who said that she ordered those items for herself and amazon used my address which she had stored when she ordered me some gifts months ago and sent her shipment out to my address. Apparently, amazon had a bug in their software and it picked the first address of the person listed alphabetically in her stored addresses and sent the shipment as a "gift" to them. It seemed to not use the "default address" in her account. Amazon told her to instruct me to return the items back to them, which I did. She stopped using amazon for several months after that fiasco. Something similar could be happening to OP. Maybe someone who sent you something earlier using amazon (maybe a gift) got their order sent to you. Edited June 28, 2016 by mathnerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten18 Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I did! There was a guy in the news a few years back that stole a television and ran through a cornfield to hide. They found him because his shoes keep lighting up. :lol:I cannot stop laughing. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanny Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 In fairness to Amazon, I remember, many years ago, ordering several Technical books from them, to be sent directly to me, in Cali, Colombia. That was before we had the Receiver/Forwarder in Miami. I waited way past the time they'd indicated the books should arrive here and then I contacted them. They said, do not worry, we will send them again. Eventually, both shipments arrived. ..Then, I contacted Amazon again, explained that both shipments had arrived, and that I had only paid for, and only needed, one copy of each book and that I could not afford to ship them to the USA, which is extremely expensive from here. Amazon suggested that I donate one set of the books, which I did, to the library in the Public University in Cali. I have seen many posts here on WTM where they tell people who receive the wrong thing to just keep it. So, normally, I believe they really try to keep their customers happy. I can't remember any issues, when I order things directly from Amazon and also can't remember any issues when I order from Amazon Marketplace Sellers, which are the majority of the orders I've placed with them in the past 4 years, which are shipped to Miami FL. And, as someone pointed out, once, last year, I ordered something on eBay and there was no tracking sent to me. I contacted the Seller and he/she told me it had been sent by a "Private Shipper". The private shipper was Amazon. So, probably that item had also been listed on Amazon, in addition to eBay. By the time I contacted the Seller, it had already been delivered to our Receiver/Forwarder in Miami FL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosaicmind Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 (edited) Could you have DID formerly MPD? 😉 I've got a story... I do have DID and despite usually having control over my personalities, there are times that they do the shopping. A couple of months ago one of my other parts opened up an Amazon credit card with a large limit. Then said part bought several hundred dollars worth of items, most I would use and some I definitely wouldn't (picture spandex, see thru, and chains) insert rolling eyes here. I contacted Amazon because I couldn't afford nor did I want any of this. I sputtered thru the conversation trying to explain without having them flag me as a deranged customer. It took an hour but I finally got someone that knew what I was trying to tell them and she sent me a mailing label to ship everything back postage paid and refund the amount on my new credit card. By the way, the credit card had the name of my part and not my name, which in my mind should've signaled them to question whether the card should be issued. That in itself is scary. So, my question would be the first that would come to mind if I got an unexpected package from Amazon. Though, I don't know of anyone else here who has DID (dissociative Identity Disorder). I'm the only crazy one here. 😠Edited June 28, 2016 by Mosaicmind 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I did! There was a guy in the news a few years back that stole a television and ran through a cornfield to hide. They found him because his shoes keep lighting up. :lol: That one goes in the stupid criminal files for sure. That's hilarious! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theelfqueen Posted June 28, 2016 Author Share Posted June 28, 2016 Maybe this is how Amazon deals with too much stock. "I just CAN NOT fit another geometry text on this shelf! But I'll get points off if the shift supervisor finds it somewhere else. Hey, I know what I'll do with it..." Hey those people ordered math books before. Send it to them! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaVT Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 Sounds like somebody in the universe took an Ambien I was just thinking it sounds like Ambien shopping to me! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkyandtheBrains. Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Given it's a Geometry book, that would be Triangle Zone. Regards, Kareni Hah! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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