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Someone's sent me a sex toy via Amazon...

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GreenMarkerPen4myHen · 09/11/2020 12:06

I'm a relatively new poster under this username but I've been on Mumsnet forever (Korean lady, penis beaker, Pom Bears). I know this sounds very odd but I swear I'm not trolling, or lying.

So last week I got an Amazon parcel addressed to me and there was a sex toy inside. I didn't buy it and there is no record of it in my Amazon orders page. However, I did browse it a few months ago. My husband didn't buy it for me either - I have asked! So who sent it?

Could Amazon possibly be rewarding my loyalty by sending me a gift and they kindly selected this sex toy for me? It's unlikely but I can't see any other explanation - maybe some stupid algorithm came up with the idea?

I'm a bit spooked out because the truth is, I have been toying with the idea of buying this thing; however, I haven't searched for it on Amazon (or elsewhere) since well before March. Can Amazon read my mind...? I haven't spoken about it to anybody either.

Or do I have a secret admirer and they thought this would be a good way to show their affection? Grin My birthday was a few days before the delivery and I think that might be linked.

This a mystery.

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Frollocks · 09/11/2020 13:29

I get unsolicited gifts via Amazon all the time. At first I contacted Amazon via the chat facility and each time they promised it would stop but I still get them, sometimes two a week. Only way Amazon will attempt to help is if you quote the long number on the packaging. Due to gdpr they won't tell you who sent it though.
So far I've had 3 x hair clippers, shaver, yoga mat and blocks, led lights, kitchen mat, toy guns, water purifier, an ecig which my DW uses and more.
Reviews in my name tend to appear a couple of weeks after I get them but Amazon don't seem to care.
Nothing to do with my account and someone else is paying for the stuff but I wish more of it was of use to me.

MrsJBaptiste · 09/11/2020 13:30

@GreenMarkerPen4myHen Name change fail? 😁

Glad to know it was good!

ILoveYoga · 09/11/2020 13:31

OP, I’m chuckling at your last update

Otamot · 09/11/2020 13:33

I had something very similar arrive anonymously- hair removal cream, very soft on the hands.

AndromedaDud · 09/11/2020 13:33

OP you might want to get your name-change-fail post deleted... err if you can without it leaving your username up there. MN might change it to your OP name.

Fatted · 09/11/2020 13:35

I had this the other week, but it was a really shitty purse, rather than a sex toy. I think I would've been more alarmed if it was the sex toy!

alltoomuchrightnow · 09/11/2020 13:38

hahha Green Marker.. a welcome gift then!
All i got unordered, were some semi transparent rubberised leggings from Wish! That wouldn't even fit a toddler.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/11/2020 13:41

It might be somebody having a laugh - they've just done it for the buzz.

Bluntness100 · 09/11/2020 13:52

My guess would be this is your husband too,

Years ago when I was in my mid twenties, I had not long moved in with my new husband and my father called me up and said in a really disgusted voice “blunt if you wish to buy pornography please have it sent to your home and not mine”

Someone sent me three hard back sex books, I am one hundred percent not shitting, expensive ones at that too. Whomever it was mustn’t have known I’d moved out obviously, and I’ve no idea who it was or why. But they obviously had money to burn. The vendor wouldn’t give me the buyers details.

I was actually really embarrassed and had to convince my father I hadn’t ordered them and if I was going to order them I’d order to my own home. He gave me the side eye for ages over it too. My husband and I took them home and binned them. It was just creepy.

Bluntness100 · 09/11/2020 13:53

Sorry that should say now husband not new husband 😂

ShortSilence · 09/11/2020 14:02

@Frollocks

I get unsolicited gifts via Amazon all the time. At first I contacted Amazon via the chat facility and each time they promised it would stop but I still get them, sometimes two a week. Only way Amazon will attempt to help is if you quote the long number on the packaging. Due to gdpr they won't tell you who sent it though. So far I've had 3 x hair clippers, shaver, yoga mat and blocks, led lights, kitchen mat, toy guns, water purifier, an ecig which my DW uses and more. Reviews in my name tend to appear a couple of weeks after I get them but Amazon don't seem to care. Nothing to do with my account and someone else is paying for the stuff but I wish more of it was of use to me.
Seriously? You sound so relaxed that someone posts reviews in your name — how are they actually doing that if it’s nothing to do with your account? Confused

I’d be pretty unsettled if someone unknown was posting opinions about anything in my name online.

Frollocks · 09/11/2020 14:56

I'm relaxed because it's just initial and surname neither of which are unusual, not connected to my account in any way. No record in my account of any reviews, comments, payments.
There was one review in my name for the ecig which was shockingly poor grammatically which made me think about complaining again but it was £40 worth and DW likes it.
Anyhoo, todays "gifts" are a light up dinosaur and eye mask.

ShortSilence · 09/11/2020 20:51

I would be so desperate to know who it was ShockGrin

frontlegsofacow · 10/11/2020 04:08

@Turnedouttoes

I’m sure there was someone on here a while ago who had a mystery package of hotel chocolate from Amazon. Not nearly as exciting as a sex toy though and I can’t remember if she ever found out where it had come from
I received some mystery posh chocolate (not Hotel Chocolate) and posted on here. I did find out who it was off (a very kind friend) but the lack of note until I found out freaked me out a bit. If I received an anonymous sex toy I'd be quite worried tbh
StarlightLady · 10/11/2020 05:44

At busy times, wrong items can get delivered, so l would just look at it as Father Christmas has come early.

Vibeys are an essential piece of kit (they outsell washing machines) and every woman should have at least one. I’m in my 40s (just) and always had several on the go since my teens and proud of it.

‘Suggest you follow this procedure to be double sure.

  1. Change password.
  2. Check there have been no incorrect purchases on account.
  3. Take off knickers.
Voyager54 · 10/11/2020 06:24

Hi Op how very bizarre we received green felt separators for cooking pots a few weeks ago that came from Amazon which we returned.

To contact Amazon on the home page there should be a section that says customer service you can either chat or they will call you back.

Good luck

LunaNorth · 10/11/2020 06:30

@StarlightLady

At busy times, wrong items can get delivered, so l would just look at it as Father Christmas has come early.

Vibeys are an essential piece of kit (they outsell washing machines) and every woman should have at least one. I’m in my 40s (just) and always had several on the go since my teens and proud of it.

‘Suggest you follow this procedure to be double sure.

  1. Change password.
  2. Check there have been no incorrect purchases on account.
  3. Take off knickers.
Going by OP’s review, Father Christmas isn’t the only one...
StarlightLady · 10/11/2020 07:04

@Voyager54 - It looks to me as if the OP got the better deal!

User258544 · 10/11/2020 07:06

This never happens to me. I got uber excited to receive a mobile phone and thought I won a competition. No it was a work upgrade.

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GreenMarkerPen4myHen · 10/11/2020 07:06

Hi, thank you for your ideas. No way I can return the toy now, you would have to prise it from my cold dead hands...

That is not to say the whole thing is odd and worrying! I have gone on the Amazon's customer service section but I couldn't see a chat function anywhere? I couldn't work out how to talk to someone (human or bot) without an order number...

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HoppingPavlova · 10/11/2020 07:08

Probably an Amazon mistake. My DH got a huge box containing dog stuff. We don’t have a dog. It definitely came from the Amazon facility. He contacted them to advise he had received this and they basically said glitches happen and to keep the stuff. Again, we don’t have a dog. We have kept the large car seat protector as we can use that as a waterproof picnic rug. All the rest we put up on the curb in the box with a sign saying ‘brand new, mistaken delivery, take what you want’. It all went. Amazon couldn’t be less interested and sounded like it wasn’t uncommon.

ktsa4 · 10/11/2020 07:13

On the app go to the customer service section it should be there somewhere.

Greysparkles · 10/11/2020 07:17

Are you a member of any Facebook amazon wish list pages? Where you share your list and someone buys you a gift?

As sometimes if you don't clear your basket properly it can end up sending a gift to the wrong person

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GreenMarkerPen4myHen · 10/11/2020 07:19

Well, I'm reassured this is probably nothing sinister and disappointed it's not a secret gift from a besotted admirer

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GreenMarkerPen4myHen · 10/11/2020 07:22

The toy has never been in my wish list, but this is the really odd thing - I have seriously considered buying this specific toy. It's almost as if somebody had read my mind. I have not discussed it with anybody at all, so it's not as if someone could have any inkling. And I haven't searched for it for many months!

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