It happens sometimes that Amazon or other suppliers send too much merchandise, and then a few people are happy about ‘too much’. A gamer recently received a notebook worth 5,000 euros, even though he ordered something completely different.
Some might know this: You order a package from Amazon, and when you open it, you find that there is way too much in the box. A gamer recently received 10 memory sticks instead of just one, and another gamer received 10 SSDs instead of one module.
Now a gamer reports that a friend ordered a new notebook. But the device he actually received is worth five times as much.
Gamer receives wrong notebook and panics as he checks his account
A gamer wanted to buy a new notebook for travel. He travels a lot for work and wanted to play a bit in the hotel. He eventually ordered a gaming notebook for around 1,000 euros. When a friend helped him set it up, he realized that he had received the wrong device. This caused panic for the buyer (via reddit.com):
When I saw how he took the laptop out, I immediately knew it wasn’t what he had ordered. It turned out that MSI had sent him their Titan GT77, a $5,000+ laptop. He panicked for a few minutes as he checked his order, and both the receipt and his bank statement showed that he had paid $999 to MSI.
Needless to say, he is overjoyed, and I was completely stunned. I have had some shipping errors in my favor (and some RMAs that led to upgrades), but never anything nearly this large.
What kind of device is this? The Titan GT77 from MSI is a high-end model and costs at least over 4,000 euros in its base configuration. However, if you want the full configuration, the price can go over 6,000 euros (via geizhals.de). Here, you can also get a Core i9-13980HX with 64 GB RAM, 4 TB SSD, and a GeForce RTX 4090.
For that money, you could also get a powerful desktop PC and probably still buy a good display for it.
How does the community react? Many explain in the thread that similar things have happened to them:
- In one case, the order for a gaming chair was canceled twice, but both chairs were still delivered to him.
- Another ordered an iPad and accidentally received a second one.
- Yet another ordered a ladder and instead received a dehumidifier.
Such mistakes happen in retail all the time, and people are sometimes more or less happy about the extra goods.
Sellers almost always notice that goods are missing
Do sellers find out? The argument of such ‘lucky ones’ to do nothing and silently keep the goods is often that no one would know that they received too much. So why report goods that no one knows about anyway?
Often, sellers or service providers protect themselves against such mistakes. For example, packages are weighed, and it can already be noticed here that the shipped package is too heavy. Or sooner or later, the error will be noticed in the booking system. Especially expensive models are often secured.
Therefore, it is not unlikely that the 5,000 euro model has also been secured and that it will be noticed at MSI when a high-end model, which is certainly sold less frequently, suddenly disappears.
So don’t rely too much on your ‘luck’ here and don’t enjoy hardware that doesn’t belong to you for too long.
Problems with returns: Sellers like Amazon do not always show themselves to be accommodating or helpful with returns. This is exemplified by the story of a family father. He received the wrong GPU on Amazon, but the seller had refused a refund:
