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Whats your silliest online order mix-ups?

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Cheeseycheeseycheesecheese · 14/12/2020 11:28

I ordered my SiL a light up oil defuser for Christmas, on Saturday a parcel arrived, had the details of the company I'd ordered it from, but... it was a dancing, bagpipe playing Scottish Santa. Definitely nothing like what DH and I were planning on giving her for Christmas, I've contacted the company to arrange an exchange, but may just reorder it and give her the Santa too, she'll HATE it...

So, I know online order mix-ups happen, what have you unexpectedly opened?

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NewNameNewJob · 14/12/2020 12:18

Ordering for Christmas get together a few years ago we wanted four bottles of lemonade to use with spirits as mixers and wine and beer for those who like something a little less strong. I ordered on my phone and must not have cleared the "1" beforehand. Also ordered a "bunch" of bananas. I was at work when hubby rang to say the groceries had been delivered, with only one substitution of Sprite instead of lemonade and questioning did I not think I'd overdone it with 14 bottles of the stuff and a single banana... :( None of us even like Sprite!

Phyllidakettle · 14/12/2020 12:57

18 tubes of Pringles along with the rest of my Tesco shopping 🙄.

Simplyunacceptable · 14/12/2020 13:24

I ordered a birthday card for my Nan on Moonpig this year and I forgot to change the generic name on the front of it so it turned up saying ‘happy birthday Stephanie’. She phoned me up to thank me for the card but asked who Stephanie was Grin.

TheGreatWave · 14/12/2020 13:47

I picked my order up from Asda the other day. On the top was a 4 pack of water, the guy really took some convincing it wasn't mine.

Middle of lockdown, I had a Sainsbury's shop delivered, DH took it in and started to empty it (when they were still doing bagged deliveries) and was very confused at two random bags of shopping. A whole load of ours was missing too. It wasn't on the van, so goodness knows who ended up with ours. They re-picked it and sent it out later that day.

BearSoFair · 14/12/2020 13:51

4 bags of cat litter. We hadn't ordered any litter, just cat food. Delivery driver insisted it must be ours because 'no one else on the van has pet products'. He was adamant so we kept it in the end!

yetanothernamechange22 · 14/12/2020 20:41

We got a single brussels sprout instead of the 1kg of sprouts we thought we'd ordered. It gave us a good laugh though and I like to think the person picking the order had a good laugh too.

Belledan1 · 15/12/2020 05:54

Instead of size 6 adult size school shoes, I ordered the kids ages 6 from Next . So cute and small. Made me all emotional that I wanted that age again and not a stroppy teenager

Buntyjones · 15/12/2020 06:01

A friend of mine was drunk online shopping and told me that she'd found an absolute bargain - a solid oak table nest for £40. It got delivered a few days later and turns out it was for a doll's house!

steppingcarefully · 15/12/2020 18:01

I used to work for an office equipment suppliers. I once somehow doubled an order for thousands of pounds worth of office furniture. I was not popular!

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