Is this a scam?

[LittleEntrepeneur]

In the run up to Christmas, I ordered a few presents online for DD. As they arrived, we hid them away and unboxed and wrapped them when we got the opportunity then discreetly disposed of the boxes. DH and I didn’t buy presents for each other or DS online so all were DD’s.

On Christmas morning, DD opened all her gifts that we had bought her. However, one of the gifts clearly wasn’t for her. It was a very expensive item for an adult. To begin with, I thought DH had bought it for me, but he just looked blankly at me and said he hadn’t bought it. He did remember wrapping it, however. It is not clear from the box what was inside so that kind of makes sense.

I Googled said item and it was worth more money than DH would ever pay. It was a truly luxury item.

I put in a cupboard and forgot about it. Then last week when we were out, a woman knocked at our door saying that the parcel was hers. DS didn’t let her in but did take her number.

I called her when I got home and asked her which address it should have been sent to. Her address is miles away from us! How could this happen? Could it be a scam? How did they even get our address?

I’m happy to hand over the parcel but I am feeling very uneasy about it.

How did she get your address?

Why didn’t you contact the company it came from originally when you realised that a truly luxury item you or dh hadn’t bought had arrived?

I’d contact the company, not just hand it over to a random woman

How would she know you had it? Because if there is no known way it likely is hers. Do you want to keep it, is that it.

Im not sure how it would be a scam, sounds like a parcel delivered to the wrong place.

No, I don’t want it! It is from a luxury brand but I’m not sure which shop it came from.

I reckon it's some sort of scam and she's used your address. I wouldn't hand it over. Phone the company or keep it if you want it.

How did she get your address?

Very odd, I'd ask her to get the seller to contact you directly to confirm

If she bought something online and for some reason put the wrong address it would show on her account where it had gone to

It's taken her a long time to get in touch though

Have you paid for it?
I don’t understand why you would have wrapped something without checking what it was, and you say you disposed of the boxes before wrapping so surely you would have seen what it was?
Surely you check what you receive against what you order?
How can it be a scam if the woman came weeks later - But then how does she know your address.
It is very very odd, I would ask to see her order and then contact the person who sent.

Did you sign for it when it was delivered?

Not your problem. Contact supplier and report it as misdelivered.

Well how would she know your address and that you had it. If she was deliberately trying to deliver it to a different address she’d clearly not pick a random one miles away.

So the company has misdelivered it snd now told her where they delivered it. So give her it back.

I don't understand how she knows that it was sent to you. If the company delivered it to the wrong address then it's up to them to make contact. It's all very odd.

You can either ignore her and tell her to take it up with whatever company she claims to have ordered from or ask her for a copy of the original order. If she has used your address I would contact the police.

No, I don’t want it

Well you don’t seem very keen to give it back to anyone.

@Twinpeaksdancingman Neither of us can remember, but it was probably DH as I bought the presents so would have noticed if something was odd.

@LittleEntrepeneur

No, I don’t want it! It is from a luxury brand but I’m not sure which shop it came from.

Did you receive all of the items you ordered for your DD? Presumably one gift was missing so whichever company the missing one was ordered from is the one who mistakenly sent you the luxury gift instead of the gift for your DD?

Have you used it or is it still safely unused in the box?

If she knew your address, it must have been done fraudulently as companies don't just give out addresses willy nilly.

Contact the company and return it, don't give it to her.

@RichardMarxisinnocent Good thinking, but I don’t think Argos sell anything like this 😁.

@Justmuddlingalong Still in its box. My friend jokes that maybe DH bought it for his fancy woman. Luckily DH is a notorious tight arse so that’s not very likely 😂.

Have you recently moved in? Maybe she used to live at your house and hadn't updated the address?

What is this unwanted luxury item?

Ask her, if you want, to show you a copy of the order. That would should show your address as the delivery point.

@bellropes

If she knew your address, it must have been done fraudulently as companies don't just give out addresses willy nilly.

Contact the company and return it, don't give it to her.

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I'd be extremely concerned about how she had your address. Data protection and all that.

I think it's a valid concern that it might be a scam. But god knows what!

@ehagat Nope. Same address for years.