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This Person’s Attempt To Order A Box Of Boxes From Amazon Fails So Badly, It Becomes A Meme
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This Person’s Attempt To Order A Box Of Boxes From Amazon Fails So Badly, It Becomes A Meme

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Dave Meslin just posted what could be considered as a modern-day social media version of Groundhog Day. In the original 1993 fantasy comedy, weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) finds himself inexplicably living the same day over and over again. In Dave’s real-life re-enactment, the man kept receiving the granola and Harry Potter coaster deliveries even though he ordered plain boxes.

After Dave realized he’s stuck in a hilarious never-ending loop, he detailed the whole ordeal on Twitter and his thread instantly went viral. Continue scrolling to read how everything unfolded and let us know what you think of the story in the comments.

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Interestingly, Meslin isn’t the first one to experience the “real-life” Groundhog Day. The Telegraph reported that a student was forced to drop out of university after a bizarre case of chronic déjà vu left him unable to lead a normal life.

The 23-year-old stopped watching TV, listening to the radio, and even reading newspapers and magazines because he couldn’t help but believe he had seen it all before.

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He explained to the doctors that he was “trapped in a time loop” and said he felt as if he was reliving the past over and over and over again.

The story went viral after details of the case were published in the Journal of Medical Case Reports. Doctors were baffled because the man didn’t suffer from any of the neurological conditions that are usually seen in people who experience frequent déjà vu – which is French for “already seen”.

Some speculate that panic attacks may have led the poor guy to get trapped in the phenomenon. Also, his condition may have been inflamed by taking LSD.

Eventually, someone transformed the whole story into a meme

If you find yourself in similar circumstances, feeling that each day is the same and you’re living in a rut, try new things. Ronald E Riggio Ph.D., the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology, said it’s the best you can do if you have little or no vivid memory of the time flying by.

Go to a new place for dinner, try a new sport, take a trip to somewhere you’ve never been to before. Meet new people or get to know your colleagues you pass each day at the coffee machine.

In short, you break out of the rut by breaking down your routines.

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tuzdayschild
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't want to scare but you might have to leave your home to get these boxes. Here's what you do: (1) get in your car (2) drive to Lowes (3) purchase boxes there (4) return home with purchase

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
Community Member
4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or go to dollar General. On stocking days they will give you their boxes. For free.

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Parmeisan
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't understand how it matters that the granola company orders their boxes from the same seller. Why would there be a granola sticker underneath the box sticker unless it was shipped to the granola company first? He's going right to the box company. Half of me thinks I'm missing something and/or just not getting it, but half of me thinks it doesn't make any sense and he hasn't actually figured out the reason for this yet. Anyone got a different way to explain it to me?

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Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The replacement sticker was poorly applied to the new package (both barcodes are visible). Instead of scanning the granola or coaster label barcode, the box manufacturer barcode was scanned, resulting in a robot or employee placing that box in the pick bin for boxes (instead of being placed in the pick bin for boxes). A robot or an employee then picked from the correct pick bin, but the wrong product was stored there. They then failed to notice the competing barcodes, scanned the wrong one again, and moved it along as if it were the desired product and not the incorrectly placed box. This is what happens when everything is reduced to machines, computers, mindless process and procedure. We see it with human bureaucracy and we see it even more with automation. Unless you pay humans to do human-brain-powered work, you end up with humans doing mindless tasks because “they don’t pay me to do more than the minimum”, and they’re often not even ALLOWED to put their brains to use as needed.

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Julie BT 120
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also had a really bad amazon.ca experience. I was shipped a broken product and when I followed the return instructions it was delivered to some random person's home address in Toronto. Poor woman was receiving 10-15 return packages to her house every freaking day for a few months. They had even used her home phone number in their shipping instructions. I never did get my money back or a replacement product, and the poor woman ended up calling the police because Amazon refused to take any accountability or do anything to fix the problem. Ihave been boycotting them for over a year now.

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Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn’t. I find it terrifying that we allow corporations to be this f*****g mindless AND powerful. I find it terrifying that this is a norm, that we are powerless as consumers to do f**k all about it, and that believers in the religion of laissez-faire capitalism run around proclaiming that consumers are the “invisible hand” that “regulates” the so-called “free” market, declaring that government regulation is bad, and then going on to slander pro-social systems as “communism”.

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Jill Pulcifer
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Almost all actual stores will give away boxes if you ask, some you dont even have to ask, they just have a place where they put their boxes for breakdown and your just welcome to em.

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twdragon avatar
Terrakian Dragon
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Going through the same event over and over... like the repeating loop the character goes through in Groundhog Day. You really don't get stuff like this, do you?

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Jo Choto
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like if you got to keep everything Amazon sent you by mistake, for free, then Amazon would not be making any mistakes at all any more.

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Full Name
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazon does in Canada, even cameras worth a few hundred bucks. Happened to me once. I ordered and accessory for a camera and they sent the camera instead. Now I have two. Took me multiple calls and dealing with multiple people but in the end I got to keep it all.

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Steve Cruz
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know Walmart is EVIL, but not anymore evil than Amazon, so that's where I ordered boxes for my move. They arrived, but there was no hanging bar for the wardrobe box, so I sent a note asking for a correction. I was told KEEP the boxes I received and I would receive another shipment. I did: another batch of boxes (FREE) and the hanging bars for the wardrobe boxes. SCORE!

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Lin Baum
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once ordered a package of 8 picture frames. They came, they were lovely, I used them, recycled the box. 3 days later, I got another identical package of picture frames which I did not order. Asked for a return authorization, not ordered, couldn’t get one because they never charged my account. Called Amazon, explained the situation, and was told that’s not possible. Went back and forth, gave up, thought ok, i tried, I have some free frames. Three days later another package of frames, another phone call, another person telling me "that’s not possible". This happened 4 more times when I finally begged them to check their shipping records. They got back to me, OMG, so sorry, will send email how to return at no charge, thank you, thank you, thank you. That was summer 2018 and I still have the fekking packages of picture frames, now in storage.

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Stannous Flouride
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you try to get humans to act like machines and dock their pay when they don't keep up with your oppressive work demands, you are removing the one thing humans are supposed to do better than machines: think logically.

dysamoria-accounts avatar
Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or just THINK AT ALL. There is no such thing as “artificial intelligence” in the real world. But we DO have a f**k-ton of “artificial stupidity” by way of mindless systems and algorithms that “clever” people think they can use for everything...

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We Were On A Break!
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I laughed out loud the entire thread but the 3 packs at the end was the cherry on top that made me really burst in big laughter

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Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yay, this is the “technological marvel of the future”. Mindless corporations who employ/abuse wage-slave workers, offer “customer service” that consists of a few humans trapped reading out tightly restricted scripts from ineffectual isolated silos, and an overall system run by an utterly thoughtless set of Kafkaesque procedures and hyper-stupid “AI” algorithms. Occasionally the stupidity of the system (or malicious compliance via a disgruntled/abused employee) provides customer bonuses like when I received three CARTONS of Earl Grey tea, rather than three BOXES of Earl Grey tea bags (it’s like Amazon stealing from itself). But when it’s not an accident that helps you, it’s a nightmare of absurdity trying to get it acknowledged, let alone corrected. Note that this entity is displacing real stores, and we poor are driven to support them. Proof that corporations are not people and should never be allowed to have any benefit of personhood (such as “money = speech”, “Citizens United”).

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Meyer Weinstock
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wouldn't it have been easier to buy them at a brink-and-mortar location? -gen-X'er scratching his head...

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Clavelle
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am cracking up! That meme from Good Place...Lol!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Lisa Chambers
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LMAO! The bar code post is the best. There are lots more products out there that will either get you boxes you didn't order OR products you didn't order in boxes.

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AnnieLaurie Burke
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ll “just go to a damn store. You know, a physical place, with things in it. Things you can see.” Wow! So, do they really still have those?

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Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some still survive... but these huge corporations are killing them off by using their vast profits to undercut competitors on product pricing and “convenience”.

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Erik Walters
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had the same with MyMemory when ordering LGK30 phone data charger. Somehow they shipped a phone to USB converter. No cord, just a tiny converter as if I will plug my phone into it horizontally. Luckily for me I shipped it back and tweeted them to get refunded. Amazon got it right first try.

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Patrick Kenlock
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bought ten pairs of hinges from iromongery direct, they sent me one hinge and a chocolate bar. I ate the bar and called them. They promised to send the hinges by return. Next day I got ten pairs of the wrong hinge. I phoned. They said “we don’t have the hinges” so I ordered slightly different ones. Those I got. Turns out the supplier (yer, yer) put the wrong barcode on their hinges. Then I needed a new rear bumper for my Mercedes. The garage ordered it and had it delivered to the body shop repairing the car, it took two weeks. When it came was for an earlier model and had the later model barcode on it. Mercedes said... it’s the supplier!! They sent the correct one by courier next day. And don’t mention books lol

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Danielle Ibclc Cpst
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of the James Veitch bit about his roommate and rubber ducks. https://youtu.be/f5d8pVg3Qtg

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Jonathan Nelson
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Having worked for Amazon picking orders, I see at least two big problems here. 1) the scanner should not accept the other barcode, the fact that it did (does?) means that the ICQA (inventory control quality assurance) team is screwing up big time. 2) having also worked as a packer, I am equally amazed that the computer allowed the item to be packed! There are a few safeguards in place to prevent something like this from happening, including the weight of the package!

dysamoria-accounts avatar
Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the exact problem with isolated silos of automated mindless process and procedure. When ONE step breaks, the whole system goes fucko. Very much like a bug in a program function resulting in s**t falling apart much farther down stream.

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Imitating
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This story sounds like my online ordering life... I always seem to end up with the oddball thing that has to be resent multiple times before my order is right.

marinarios avatar
Marina Rios
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

try ebay instead of amazon. never had any trouble. idk why people are so obsessed with amazon.

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Craig Silberman
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

btw, that Purely Elizabeth granola is so damn delicious, that I started eating it all day long

mralt avatar
M R (alt)
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Step one. Order 26 boxes. After you receive 26 boxes of idiotic stuff, still those 26 items into 1 box, ship it back to them. Let them know it's all in one box and that, yes, you're aware that they want it shipped separately, but that they offered you no choice as each time you ordered a box that may have been used to ship things in, they sent you the wrong items that are now contained in a single box.

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Melissa Hudson
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't believe anyone would actually pay money for boxes. What is this fuckery??

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Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you don’t live near businesses trying to dispose of boxes, or if you need specific sizes, yes, you need to buy boxes. Especially if you’re selling your own goods that need to be shipped in boxes!

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patriciaross avatar
tuzdayschild
Community Member
4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't want to scare but you might have to leave your home to get these boxes. Here's what you do: (1) get in your car (2) drive to Lowes (3) purchase boxes there (4) return home with purchase

jacobbeccagizmothesquirrel avatar
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
Community Member
4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or go to dollar General. On stocking days they will give you their boxes. For free.

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parmeisan avatar
Parmeisan
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't understand how it matters that the granola company orders their boxes from the same seller. Why would there be a granola sticker underneath the box sticker unless it was shipped to the granola company first? He's going right to the box company. Half of me thinks I'm missing something and/or just not getting it, but half of me thinks it doesn't make any sense and he hasn't actually figured out the reason for this yet. Anyone got a different way to explain it to me?

dysamoria-accounts avatar
Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The replacement sticker was poorly applied to the new package (both barcodes are visible). Instead of scanning the granola or coaster label barcode, the box manufacturer barcode was scanned, resulting in a robot or employee placing that box in the pick bin for boxes (instead of being placed in the pick bin for boxes). A robot or an employee then picked from the correct pick bin, but the wrong product was stored there. They then failed to notice the competing barcodes, scanned the wrong one again, and moved it along as if it were the desired product and not the incorrectly placed box. This is what happens when everything is reduced to machines, computers, mindless process and procedure. We see it with human bureaucracy and we see it even more with automation. Unless you pay humans to do human-brain-powered work, you end up with humans doing mindless tasks because “they don’t pay me to do more than the minimum”, and they’re often not even ALLOWED to put their brains to use as needed.

Load More Replies...
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Julie BT 120
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also had a really bad amazon.ca experience. I was shipped a broken product and when I followed the return instructions it was delivered to some random person's home address in Toronto. Poor woman was receiving 10-15 return packages to her house every freaking day for a few months. They had even used her home phone number in their shipping instructions. I never did get my money back or a replacement product, and the poor woman ended up calling the police because Amazon refused to take any accountability or do anything to fix the problem. Ihave been boycotting them for over a year now.

eddienegron avatar
dysamoria-accounts avatar
Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn’t. I find it terrifying that we allow corporations to be this f*****g mindless AND powerful. I find it terrifying that this is a norm, that we are powerless as consumers to do f**k all about it, and that believers in the religion of laissez-faire capitalism run around proclaiming that consumers are the “invisible hand” that “regulates” the so-called “free” market, declaring that government regulation is bad, and then going on to slander pro-social systems as “communism”.

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Jill Pulcifer
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Almost all actual stores will give away boxes if you ask, some you dont even have to ask, they just have a place where they put their boxes for breakdown and your just welcome to em.

jim_ellington avatar
twdragon avatar
Terrakian Dragon
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Going through the same event over and over... like the repeating loop the character goes through in Groundhog Day. You really don't get stuff like this, do you?

Load More Replies...
jmchoto avatar
Jo Choto
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like if you got to keep everything Amazon sent you by mistake, for free, then Amazon would not be making any mistakes at all any more.

captaindash avatar
Full Name
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazon does in Canada, even cameras worth a few hundred bucks. Happened to me once. I ordered and accessory for a camera and they sent the camera instead. Now I have two. Took me multiple calls and dealing with multiple people but in the end I got to keep it all.

Load More Replies...
cruzarts avatar
Steve Cruz
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know Walmart is EVIL, but not anymore evil than Amazon, so that's where I ordered boxes for my move. They arrived, but there was no hanging bar for the wardrobe box, so I sent a note asking for a correction. I was told KEEP the boxes I received and I would receive another shipment. I did: another batch of boxes (FREE) and the hanging bars for the wardrobe boxes. SCORE!

lindabaum999 avatar
Lin Baum
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I once ordered a package of 8 picture frames. They came, they were lovely, I used them, recycled the box. 3 days later, I got another identical package of picture frames which I did not order. Asked for a return authorization, not ordered, couldn’t get one because they never charged my account. Called Amazon, explained the situation, and was told that’s not possible. Went back and forth, gave up, thought ok, i tried, I have some free frames. Three days later another package of frames, another phone call, another person telling me "that’s not possible". This happened 4 more times when I finally begged them to check their shipping records. They got back to me, OMG, so sorry, will send email how to return at no charge, thank you, thank you, thank you. That was summer 2018 and I still have the fekking packages of picture frames, now in storage.

stanflouride avatar
Stannous Flouride
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you try to get humans to act like machines and dock their pay when they don't keep up with your oppressive work demands, you are removing the one thing humans are supposed to do better than machines: think logically.

dysamoria-accounts avatar
Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or just THINK AT ALL. There is no such thing as “artificial intelligence” in the real world. But we DO have a f**k-ton of “artificial stupidity” by way of mindless systems and algorithms that “clever” people think they can use for everything...

Load More Replies...
mabsutak avatar
We Were On A Break!
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I laughed out loud the entire thread but the 3 packs at the end was the cherry on top that made me really burst in big laughter

dysamoria-accounts avatar
Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yay, this is the “technological marvel of the future”. Mindless corporations who employ/abuse wage-slave workers, offer “customer service” that consists of a few humans trapped reading out tightly restricted scripts from ineffectual isolated silos, and an overall system run by an utterly thoughtless set of Kafkaesque procedures and hyper-stupid “AI” algorithms. Occasionally the stupidity of the system (or malicious compliance via a disgruntled/abused employee) provides customer bonuses like when I received three CARTONS of Earl Grey tea, rather than three BOXES of Earl Grey tea bags (it’s like Amazon stealing from itself). But when it’s not an accident that helps you, it’s a nightmare of absurdity trying to get it acknowledged, let alone corrected. Note that this entity is displacing real stores, and we poor are driven to support them. Proof that corporations are not people and should never be allowed to have any benefit of personhood (such as “money = speech”, “Citizens United”).

meyerweinstock avatar
Meyer Weinstock
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wouldn't it have been easier to buy them at a brink-and-mortar location? -gen-X'er scratching his head...

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Clavelle
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am cracking up! That meme from Good Place...Lol!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

lisachambers2018 avatar
Lisa Chambers
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LMAO! The bar code post is the best. There are lots more products out there that will either get you boxes you didn't order OR products you didn't order in boxes.

annielaurie avatar
AnnieLaurie Burke
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ll “just go to a damn store. You know, a physical place, with things in it. Things you can see.” Wow! So, do they really still have those?

dysamoria-accounts avatar
Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some still survive... but these huge corporations are killing them off by using their vast profits to undercut competitors on product pricing and “convenience”.

Load More Replies...
mfdclanrs avatar
Erik Walters
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had the same with MyMemory when ordering LGK30 phone data charger. Somehow they shipped a phone to USB converter. No cord, just a tiny converter as if I will plug my phone into it horizontally. Luckily for me I shipped it back and tweeted them to get refunded. Amazon got it right first try.

patrickkenlock avatar
Patrick Kenlock
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bought ten pairs of hinges from iromongery direct, they sent me one hinge and a chocolate bar. I ate the bar and called them. They promised to send the hinges by return. Next day I got ten pairs of the wrong hinge. I phoned. They said “we don’t have the hinges” so I ordered slightly different ones. Those I got. Turns out the supplier (yer, yer) put the wrong barcode on their hinges. Then I needed a new rear bumper for my Mercedes. The garage ordered it and had it delivered to the body shop repairing the car, it took two weeks. When it came was for an earlier model and had the later model barcode on it. Mercedes said... it’s the supplier!! They sent the correct one by courier next day. And don’t mention books lol

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Danielle Ibclc Cpst
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of the James Veitch bit about his roommate and rubber ducks. https://youtu.be/f5d8pVg3Qtg

jonathannelson avatar
Jonathan Nelson
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Having worked for Amazon picking orders, I see at least two big problems here. 1) the scanner should not accept the other barcode, the fact that it did (does?) means that the ICQA (inventory control quality assurance) team is screwing up big time. 2) having also worked as a packer, I am equally amazed that the computer allowed the item to be packed! There are a few safeguards in place to prevent something like this from happening, including the weight of the package!

dysamoria-accounts avatar
Jace
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the exact problem with isolated silos of automated mindless process and procedure. When ONE step breaks, the whole system goes fucko. Very much like a bug in a program function resulting in s**t falling apart much farther down stream.

Load More Replies...
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Imitating
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This story sounds like my online ordering life... I always seem to end up with the oddball thing that has to be resent multiple times before my order is right.

marinarios avatar
Marina Rios
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

try ebay instead of amazon. never had any trouble. idk why people are so obsessed with amazon.

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Craig Silberman
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

btw, that Purely Elizabeth granola is so damn delicious, that I started eating it all day long

mralt avatar
M R (alt)
Community Member
4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Step one. Order 26 boxes. After you receive 26 boxes of idiotic stuff, still those 26 items into 1 box, ship it back to them. Let them know it's all in one box and that, yes, you're aware that they want it shipped separately, but that they offered you no choice as each time you ordered a box that may have been used to ship things in, they sent you the wrong items that are now contained in a single box.

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Melissa Hudson
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't believe anyone would actually pay money for boxes. What is this fuckery??

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Jace
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you don’t live near businesses trying to dispose of boxes, or if you need specific sizes, yes, you need to buy boxes. Especially if you’re selling your own goods that need to be shipped in boxes!

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