It’s a review grift.
They create an account, use a random address (yours) order their own product and ship an empty product, then review it as 5 stars which shows up as a real fulfilled order.
Back in the day you’d at least get the shitty item for free, but now they’re just empty packages.
Hmm, what makes it so they have to ship any package at all? I know some wares are delivered to Amazon’s warehouses first, and then sent to customers from there, meaning Amazon would know whether it was shipped, but presumably the seller can’t control which package goes to which address…?
Or is it a direct delivery to the customer, but Amazon organizes the shipping, so that a delivery is reserved at the parcel service and Amazon gets notified, if the reservation isn’t taken?
Even if not shipped from an Amazon warehouse, it comes with an Amazon envelope and tracking number.
Because they used your address when they picked a random one, and had to trigger tracking that it was delivered, you end up with an empty envelope.
If they didn’t send the envelope, tracking would show it was never delivered.
The whole process is designed to trick Amazon, they don’t care about who gets the empty envelope.
Does Amazon have a way to report this? It seems trivial to set a “I got an order I didn’t ask for” page, then ask for tracking numbers. Genuine mistakes happen but they would probably find the regular offenders pretty quick.
For that to be useful, two things would have to be true:
- The problem would have to be big enough for it to be worth Amazon’s man-hours developing and maintaining a solution
- Enough recipients would have to be willing to go through the hassle of reporting (for Amazon’s benefit, not their own) instead of just tossing the empty package and moving on with their day
It’s probably more likely that Amazon benefits through higher sales so has no incentive to fix it.
I’d be irritated. First, I’ve boycotted Amazon, so it would be really bizarre to have them send me something. And more so, that’s a lot of wasted resources for “nothing.”
Oddly threatening
Don’t be fooled, this is the Wonder Woman Vibrator, Airplane Edition.
I deliver for them and we get these more often than you would think.
Maybe someone forgot they had “Air” on their amazon wishlist?
Airmazon
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Someone ordered a Nothing Phone, hold the phone.
Is not mad. He said lmao, not roar
He meant “letting my angries out”
Rawr
They seem more confused than mad, but sure
Way to look a free envelope in the face. Smh.
Obviously working the system as mentioned by someone else, but I will say as someone in shipping, if we find an empty package, we still at least get it to the area station if not the actual customer so a claim can be made by them. It does no good to not send it through at all, as then no one has any idea where it is.
Also, a good place for a reminder, make sure your stuff is packaged well. While this seems to be a fake thing to bump ratings, cheap packages and tape fail A LOT in going from here to there, and even in the case of theft (which does happen), a securely closed package is a lot less enticing than one that’s partially open. I just saw one last week that looked a lot like this, but was certainly a legit shipping. Hoping it wasn’t medication, but it simply was a badly sealed envelope that came open and lost its contents somewhere. Probably under a belt somewhere, with no markings to trace it back to be recovered (which is also a good idea, have a phone number or address in a few places inside, not just on the outside).
What’s the problem, you got exactly what you ordered!
The house numbers on my block always skip one.
For example, if my block number was the 10th block, on the odd side of the street, the house numbers are 101, 105, 109, 1013, 1017. And on the even side, they’re 100, 104, 108, 1012, 1016. (Sub dividing houses is common here, maybe they wanted extra addressing space?)
Sometime last year, I caught an Amazon driver stalking through the back yard, as he tried to find one of those in-between addresses. Sadly he didn’t just leave the boxes at the map pin.
But… Where are 102 and 103 then? Are they on a separate street?
Oh wait I get it now. It’s a weird choice but ok. Where I live we just subdivide by adding letters. E.g 20 subdivide and becomes 20 and 20A.
Passive agressive advertising by Amazon… great
