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Best Amazon order screw-up?

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Zapx · 05/09/2026 12:15

This is a good one I reckon. Order was for a music stand light - instead I’ve just received a cat collar. 🤣 Shame we don’t have a cat really!

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LukaModricsMidriff · 05/09/2026 12:38

2 Sage coffee grinders when I’d only ordered 1…..

FreddysFingers · 05/09/2026 12:38

Cake storage tins when I'd ordered vanilla essential oil 🤣

FreddysFingers · 05/09/2026 12:39

Haha maybe it's an omen and you need to rescue a kitty 😉

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Zapx · 05/09/2026 20:31

FreddysFingers · 05/09/2026 12:38

Cake storage tins when I'd ordered vanilla essential oil 🤣

That’s a good one 🤣

And no, I’m not taking it as a sign we should rescue a cat…!

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Yello24 · 05/09/2026 20:37

Got three boots once. Walking boots. So a pair and a single one. They were all in a box together. Very odd. Difficult to return as I kept the pair so didn’t know how to create a return for one boot that was theirs. Ended up throwing it away.

Hatty65 · 05/09/2026 20:45

I can't remember what I had ordered, but I was once delivered a set of 'lockpicking' equipment, which was interesting.

Sadly, although told to keep it I never tried it out on the neighbours...

WimbleOfWombledon · 05/09/2026 20:47

I ordered one eyeshadow palette and they sent me a whole box of them. Enough to do my make up for the rest of my life!

needapokerface · 05/09/2026 21:03

Ordered a vape and tank and got 2 packs of starbucks coffee pods

ShakyBake · 05/09/2026 21:36

Back in '98 was one of the first orders I placed on the internet for midge cover spray (we lived in Scotland). I'm unable to say the term now as it's derogatory but a singing small person turned up

FreddysFingers · 06/09/2026 12:33

Zapx · 05/09/2026 20:31

That’s a good one 🤣

And no, I’m not taking it as a sign we should rescue a cat…!

Hehehe 🤣

Iwilldoitnowinaminutemam · 06/09/2026 13:39

Ordered a washing line and they sent me a bag of “fluff”

Best Amazon order screw-up?
Disturbia81 · 06/09/2026 13:46

My mum got a brand new Apple Watch that she hadn’t ordered, they just told her to keep it! I mean come on, surely a driver in the area could have picked it up.
She’s had other stuff too.
I order a lot and never get freebies 😤😂

LotteLatte · 06/09/2026 13:54

A box of 18 soaps when I ordered one bar.

KittyCorncrake · 06/09/2026 13:57

Strange -I order stuff almost daily as is my goto retailer and haven’t (yet 😂) had anything not ordered

dudsville · 06/09/2026 14:00

I ordered an ugly rug to go for a very specific purpose, so it was more of a temoporary necessity than something I was looking forward to owning. I recieved a giant box of them, I think there were about 8 in total.

I ordered some gardening shoes - I recieved 2 lefts.

agri · 06/09/2026 14:05

I ordered 2 gender reveal cannons and got sent some super glue instead.

MaterMoribund · 06/09/2026 14:10

Two pairs of walking boots. Tried to return one pair but was told repeatedly that I had only been sent one pair and that perhaps I had ordered one of the pairs from somewhere else but forgotten about it Hmm. So I ended up with two very nice pairs of £100+ boots, not for want of trying to do the right thing!

gillybombilly · 06/09/2026 14:14

I ordered The Sound of Music on DVD for my mum and received a squeaky toy carrot.

I was told to keep it and had one very happy dog.

Bonkers1966 · 06/09/2026 14:27

I ordered one argan oil face pack sachet for less than £2 . The sent me a box of 12. You gotta love those kids at the fulfillment centres. Bless them.

itsallaboutmememee · 06/09/2026 14:43

Not amazon but ebay

I ordered 6 face flannels

6 showed up

Then another 6

And another

Then another

I ended up with over 50 face flannels,so I contacted them and they sent me a shirty email saying I'd conned them and that I had to send them back at my own expense

I refused and said they could send me a label and I'd post them back

Never heard another thing so kept them

And promptly never used them as I hate the feel of the wet fabric...

FortyFacedFuckers · 06/09/2026 17:16

I am disappointed reading this as my DP & I get multiple deliveries a day from Amazon and this has never happened to us!

KittyCorncrake · 06/09/2026 19:44

gillybombilly · 06/09/2026 14:14

I ordered The Sound of Music on DVD for my mum and received a squeaky toy carrot.

I was told to keep it and had one very happy dog.

😂😂

Greenwriter76 · 06/09/2026 19:46

Yesterday - I’d ordered night cream and I got a Tommee Tippee bottle machine replacement filter 🤣

Koulibiak · 06/09/2026 19:52

I ordered a teapot for MIL. Got a toad house delivered 😳

MakingforMindfulness · 06/09/2026 19:56

Not Amazon but Debenhams. Last summer I added a £3 Christmas decoration to an order to get to the free P&P threshold. They delivered a 6ft pre-light Christmas tree, listed at £90 on their website.