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To be getting really pissed off with this

206 replies

Sunshinealldayandnow · 25/02/2023 17:10

Someone keeps ordering deliveroo food to this house. We haven’t ordered anything and don’t use Deliveroo. It’s been happening every day for the past few weeks, sometimes multiple times a day. I’m starting to get really annoyed. If we are not in/don’t answer the door then the deliveroo driver just leaves it outside right outside in front of the door. Sometimes multiple bags as the orders have been that big. Someone is obviously doing it to us but no idea who. The drivers can’t tell us the phone number of the Deliveroo account that is making these orders due to data protection, I have asked them multiple times when they knock on the door. What do I do? Aibu to be getting really pissed off with this?

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WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 25/02/2023 21:46

No, I meant if the OP had mentioned that she herself was a bit pushed for cash at the moment, the. The other person might have been ordering some meals for her as a gesture of kindness.

One family-worth of takeaways at 7:30pm on 3 consecutive Saturday nights, maybe.

Three times as much as the family can likely eat - in three separate deliveries, after midnight?! Not so much!

Verbena17 · 25/02/2023 21:52

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 25/02/2023 21:46

No, I meant if the OP had mentioned that she herself was a bit pushed for cash at the moment, the. The other person might have been ordering some meals for her as a gesture of kindness.

One family-worth of takeaways at 7:30pm on 3 consecutive Saturday nights, maybe.

Three times as much as the family can likely eat - in three separate deliveries, after midnight?! Not so much!

Ohhh I missed the ‘after midnight bit’.
yeah - sounds dodgy!

Dery · 25/02/2023 21:53

Actually, I would involve the police. This feels like a particularly strange form of harassment. The police would able to trace who is placing the orders. It’s not funny - it sounds like you’re being targeted in some way.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 25/02/2023 21:55

It may well be some kind of criminal enterprise; or it could just be an extremely wealthy troll/prankster/sadsack who thinks it's hilarious and doesn't care about the cost.

Think some kind of scenario like on TV - Ant & Dec or Michael McIntyre-style pranks - where they obviously have an enormous budget and will spend whatever it costs without thinking twice; except with the TV ones, they pick their targets carefully and use people and scenarios where the joke will be appreciated.

Otherwise, I wonder if it could be some kind of glitch based on your postcode somehow being programmed in as a default one for their machine, and never being changed for the order. If somebody asked you to give a 'sample' postcode-based address, you might say something like '1, AB12 3CD' - except this could well be an actual ordinary address for somebody living in Aberdeen. Same as somebody in Bedford presumably has the number 01234 567890 (and probably gets endless calls on it from taxi companies wanting to buy it off them!).

SunshineLoving · 25/02/2023 21:58

Surely someone can't keep forgetting that their address on their account is incorrect. You wouldn't keep paying and ordering food to an incorrect address by accident.

This seems very intentional and as a pp said, it's harassment.

uncomfortablydumb53 · 25/02/2023 22:14

How creepy I wouldn't eat the food either
Have you recently moved in?

Bionesque · 25/02/2023 22:18

Possibly a student whose parent is paying and who doesn't much care or need/want to follow up on non-deliveries.

CLola24 · 25/02/2023 22:37

Sorry this is happening to you. Its clearly bothering you and understandably so. This is a form of harassment. The police ought to investigate this for you, should you choose to take it further. Before anyone comes at me I used to work for the police and this exact situation was investigated and was not uncommon.

LaurieFairyCake · 25/02/2023 22:48

Well I think it's someone in your life with plenty of money who is angry with you

Like an ex-partner....

The only person I know this has happened to had an angry ex

Andanotherone01 · 25/02/2023 23:01

I fail to see what your problem is…but then I’m a greedy bugger

CooCooNut · 25/02/2023 23:12

Andanotherone01 · 25/02/2023 23:01

I fail to see what your problem is…but then I’m a greedy bugger

OP already said what the problem is, folk are rocking up at her door late at night, waking her and her kids and she's left to dispose of the deliveries.

Schnooze · 25/02/2023 23:12

Look hard around local houses to see if anyone is watching you open the door.

XanaduKira · 25/02/2023 23:14

BellaJuno · 25/02/2023 17:45

I can’t believe some posters think the OP has any responsibility to make sure the food isn’t wasted. Frankly it’s a very odd situation and most rational people would want it sorted. I’d contact Deliveroo head office and ask what they can do to stop it happening. It’s verging on harassment.

Totally agree with this. It's absolutely harassment.

Wheresthebeach · 25/02/2023 23:17

I’d contact Deliveroo head office and call 101 to log the issue. It’s harassment.

threeplusmum · 25/02/2023 23:33

I have no real useful advice, but I hope it does get sorted out asap. Keep us posted pls.

justasking111 · 25/02/2023 23:37

It's creepy. I would log with the police. It's stalkerish

Nedmund · 25/02/2023 23:43

@Sunshinealldayandnow
Do you go out and collect it or do you answer a smart doorbell?
Is there anyone who would want to scare/upset/watch you?
Do you live with a partner?
If you have a tricky ex, could this form some sort of motive (silly as it sounds but for example, 'leaves the kids to go down for deliveries' or 'can't/never cooks for the children)? If so, perhaps being watched by them?

The fact that they are paying and giving the code suggests that are really invested in whatever they want to achieve. I would report it to the police non-emergency so it's logged as harassment. I'm not often on the MN call the police side but this may end up building a bigger picture.

Mirabai · 25/02/2023 23:48

Wheresthebeach · 25/02/2023 23:17

I’d contact Deliveroo head office and call 101 to log the issue. It’s harassment.

You can’t contact Deliveroo head office, you can send a comment to their customer service chat but good luck with that. If someone somewhere is paying and sending to an actual address they won’t and in all fairness probably can’t do anything about it anyway.

LikeTearsInRain · 26/02/2023 00:08

could be a current or former affair partner

Cuppa2sugars · 26/02/2023 00:17

Check your bank statements.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 26/02/2023 00:23

Surely someone can't keep forgetting that their address on their account is incorrect. You wouldn't keep paying and ordering food to an incorrect address by accident.

But for the fact in this case that they seemed quite able to state the required code, it could be very plausible indeed for somebody with dementia or another cognitive disability/impairment to keep doing this again and again and then forget every time.

I used to have a sweet old man calling me on a regular basis - he wanted somebody else that he knew with the same name as me. He was always so very apologetic and embarrassed when I kindly and gently told him he needed the other person, but he still kept calling. In the end, when I saw it was his number, I just ignored his calls, as I knew that would perturb him less than getting through to the wrong person and feeling foolish and embarrassed.

I can well imagine somebody like him ordering something again and again and forgetting that he had ordered, forgetting that he needed to collect it from the doorstep or just thinking that it wasn't working and he had to keep trying. Maybe he might have previously lived in the house whose postcode he's quoting for orders, or forget and mix up his own postcode and accidentally transpose a couple of letters or numbers.

Plenty of older folk without any cognitive impairment still struggle to get to grips with online purchases and transactions and severely lack confidence that they've done it properly or that it's worked. It's a huge concern nowadays, how many things are online only; it suits the majority of us much better that way (including a great many elderly people who do get it), but there are still a lot of vulnerable people (not only elderly) who are just left behind and forgotten about.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 26/02/2023 00:33

Not that it's likely to be the fault of the delivery drivers, but could it actually be a criminal offence to leave an unordered and unwanted takeaway on somebody's doorstep? Might it even technically be flytipping? Even if it's not an inherently bad thing, if it emphatically isn't wanted?

I've often wondered this about unaddressed leaflets that Royal Mail put through your letterbox: is it actually legal for them to do this? If you don't want the leaflets (as most people don't), then they've effectively just deliberately deposited rubbish on your property, without your desire or any form of consent (like they do the rubber bands on your drive, but that's another matter). If I were to go around stuffing empty crisp packets or other random (non-hazardous) rubbish through lots of people's letterboxes, I'm sure I'd be committing an offence; so why isn't RM guilty of this too - especially as an empty crisp bag would probably offend a crisp fan less than a leaflet advertising a local steak house might for a vegan household?

LuluLehman · 26/02/2023 01:14

I have only read a few posts on here so I apologise if someone has already said this, but I remember reading about a case of someone being stalked and one of the ways in which the perpetrator harassed them was to order Deliveroos

I don't want to alarm you at all but I think you should call the police as this is harassment. I mean, someone sending three delivery people to the house at the same time! Surely the police can demand to know who's doing it and put a stop to it.

LuluLehman · 26/02/2023 01:17

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll "it could be very plausible indeed for somebody with dementia or another cognitive disability/impairment to keep doing this again and again and then forget every time."

If this is the case there is someone with dementia somewhere who is starving hungry! I don't think that's what's going on. It sounds more deliberate to me.

Dery · 26/02/2023 01:40

I’ve already said this but will say it again - get the police involved. This sounds targeted and sinister and the police should be able to find out who’s placing the orders.

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