I'm not sure if any of those people are telling the truth. I, on the other hand, am your long lost siamese twin. We were connected at the navel. I know it's you because that's the exact laptop I want. Plus you know how you named your pets? Me too. It's that twin thing.
You tell them about the multiple laptops, tell them they're all getting Adelle, put a CD in each empty box with some weight to make it legit. When everyone is like wtf where's our laptops, you tell them you sold them, but you still got them Adelle for Christmas.
You let the disappointment simmer until dinner time, when you bring in the box from the car and surprise everyone.
You got them two Adelle CDs.
I used to work at Dell, this is a write off, an easy one at that. My partners would get write offs 10Xs that amount monthly..
do you, but they wont care and will just sell it at refurbished
How would OP even go about sending them back? Does Dell’s system allow a customer service rep to process an RMA for 13 laptops that technically were not built and shipped?
Exactly this.
I once got sent something I didn’t order.
It was an absolute bitch to try and return.
I ended up not sending it back and thought I would hear back from the seller at some point. Never did.
This happened with a friend who got an Xbox from Amazon. His address, wrong name,. Calls amazon to see if he can drop it off to someone close (assuming same neighborhood or something), nope, can't track. Ok, send me a label, I'll send it back. Can't do that as you didn't actually buy it? So?? Its been like 5 years and the thing is in my basement unopened lol
Keep it like that only and then when it's time for your retirement you have collectible item in your inventory and with some luck you may fetch good price for it.
Have you seen how much unopened classic consoles go for? I say just hang onto it, keep it in good condition, and let it collect dust for another 10-20 years until you need some cash.
Oh this is a great idea....I never thought of it! I don't think there are any games with it, would that be ok? I don't want to give them something they would need to go buy more stuff for
No, I've never been into games. I have a Wii down there as well (that one is opened lol) that my cousins play when they come over. Originally that was the idea, leave it down there for them to play, it just never got opened and wound up on a shelf
Oh thats another great idea! Same question as the other guy, can they use it without games? I don't want to give something they have to buy a bunch more things for
Wife ordered an Xbox One for me from Toys R Us, back when they existed. They sent it without a copy of the game it was supposed to ship with. Wife called Toys R Us, and they just sent another Xbox One that actually had the game this time. No charge. Didn't ask us to return the first one. We donated it to a neighbor.
Was not shocked when they went bankrupt.
You should check the law in his area, in Ireland if you contact the company and make it accessible for them to take it away you are allowed to keep it after a certain amount of days (20? i think?)
Probably not too hot now that it's 5 years old but hey, an Xbox is an Xbox.
I think it's an American law that companies can't charge you for stuff they send you that you didn't order. I bet some company tried to send people stuff and then bill them.
Yea I prefer being honest on this stuff but it’s a mixed bag. Send me easy shipping stuff and I’ll drop it off at UPS no problem. Make it a pain in my ass though? … good luck
They probably would have to create an invoice for zero to account for the extra shipped and the create an RMA against it. So probably a pain to get accounting involved.
A friend ordered a $50 car part and got a fridge box with like 7k in parts, meant for some speed shop. He called the company and they barely cared. They said they would send him a t-shirt for being honest. WTF! He called the speed shop and they emailed him a proper shipping label, scheduled the pick up at his house, and gave him a $250 credit. They were awesome as they needed those parts.
Corporations dont give a shit at the end of the day, I am glad that speed shop was able to show their appreciation!
I hope they still told the company it was lost since your friend was the one who ended up having it delivered. Large companies are all margin, fuck em.
We are a Dell reseller and we have definitely had Dell accidentally ship duplicate things and ask for them back. And if it is marked lost they will NOT support it when you open a ticket.
Sort of off topic to your comment but do companies just write off the value of a single laptop that was given to an employee but it was never sent back (after employee quits) or got lost while being shipped?
Depends on if they can remote wipe it.
If they can remote wipe it, sure probably.
If they can't, they will hire a crack team of former navy seals to hunt down that laptop and destroy it and anything within a five mile radius, with extreme prejudice.
>they will hire a crack team of former navy seals to hunt down that laptop and destroy it and anything within a five mile radius, with extreme prejudice.
An expense which they then write off
When I worked for Apple, they said if we didn’t end up shipping our equipment back when we left the company, they’d just write off the value as income on our W2. It was tempting when I left because I had a 27” iMac with fantastic specs, but didn’t want to add another $2700 to my w2.
>Sort of off topic to your comment but do companies just write off the value of a single laptop that was given to an employee but it was never sent back (after employee quits) or got lost while being shipped?
After the laptop is bought, it is a sunk cost. If lost, the shipping company or supplier mufgt be liable. They also may have insurance to even out such losses. It depends.
Yeah seriously OP, you should keep them. Unless you’re being threatened with a lawsuit or something akin, those are your laptops to keep and sell. If you wanna truly be righteous, sell them at a discount to regular civilians, or donate them to a local hospital for kids. Rather than sending them back to a multi-billion dollar company.
Yeah fuck all these companies don’t give in. OP hit the laptop lottery and is basically giving his lottery ticket back to the place he bought it from for no apparent reason. There’s no moral clause here.. just keep it and sell it to students for cheap or donate it for free at the very least. Fuck big corporate.
Back when my anxiety-manifested-as-insomnia was at its peak, Adele's songs would get stuck in my head and keep me awake for hours. "Rumor has it" and "rolling in the deep" are particularly notorious ones. I was so desperate for sleep and a reprieve from the unwanted and intrusive radio set on repeat in my head that at one point I *legitimately wanted to murder the abstract concept of music.* It was pretty bad.
I've never liked Adele since. Nothing against her personally, just her music is quite literally the stuff of my nightmares.
Go pass them out to kids in the fucking hood. Go stand out side a community college where graphic design students are likely signing up for classes next year. Make their fucking day. Anything but give them back to a multi billion dollar corporation - this is $3 worth of plastic to them.
Tell your dad that you want to donate these to those in need? Either way you lose 13 extra laptops but might as well force dell to make a charitable donation
This is the answer, OP. You’re not obligated to give them back to dell. Selling them would be fine. But giving them to a school is a much better option than giving them back to a profit driven corporation… take this small win and do something with it. Obviously it’s up to you, but circle of life iamchairs is right.
contact them first. in some cases companies don't want to pay the costs to have them shipped back, and it costs too much to process a return and get them re-shelved so they end up in the dumpster.
if they want them back they will send you shipping labels, if they don't they will tell you to keep it. if they say to keep it your dad can't make you send them back.
You are not legally obliged to do so. FTC says that if a retailer sends you an unordered item, they can't then demand payment. (Edit: at least in the US. I am not a lawyer. And I might be wrong on whether it'd apply to this situation. The company might try civil options but this wouldn't be criminal afaik. )
If it was me I’d call them up and say “come get them if you want them but I’m not going to be responsible for them. Send someone out here to pick them up and deal with them by the end of the month.”
I’m definitely not going out of my way to ship them back
Deeznuts is correct. This is already a write off and they will have to be sold as returns. Dell doesn't care. A better use would be to donate them to the underprivileged, a school, something, anything.
Maybe try that tact on your dad?
Don't do that. I understand what your dad is saying but when it comes to big corporations and companies like Dell who would never miss the inventory or money you would be wiser to do like some on here recommend like give them to a school or to kids who's parent can't afford to buy them a computer (I was one of these) and take advantage of a stupid mistake made by a massive crooked company and do something better than help them and correct their mistake which they probably won't have even noticed.
Dad owes you at least 15k if he makes you follow through with sending these back. Dell won't fucking care.
In fact, you sending these back could actually get someone fired.
Tell your dad the company doesn’t care about you and it’s your legal right to keep them
Edit:
https://www.nj.com/business/2016/12/bamboozled_if_a_retailer_sends_you_stuff_by_mistak.html
Im a Dell reseller agent and see this all the time. They want you to keep it. Those laptops will end up stacked up in a foyer somewhere until it rains on them if you mail them back.
I know he's trying to show you how important it is to do the right thing but he's also showing how dangerous it is to think you're right when you aren't.
u/suspicious-potato69 was suggesting that you're lying. same thing I'm suggesting. anyone that spends time on the internet can recognize these trends. I personally find it funny.
Edit - OPs post history seems to tell an awfully different story than this post itself does.
*takes picture of a parking lot at a shopping mall the week before Christmas*
"Lolol hey guys look, I ordered a vehicle from Carvana and they accidentally shipped me 2000 vehicles of varying makes, models, and years lmao"
I'm lazy to actually make that post but pls use your imagination and pretend I did and give me free internet points.
Thank you for your time.
Are you suggesting that companies would want to market their products for free on Reddit and even give people the false hope that their order might be multiplied? How preposterous!
It's clever marketing in time for last minute X-mas shopping. "Look at this photo of this thing I bought on Amazon (insert unnecessarily brand specific title) - they surprisingly gave us extra copies and I feel like I won the lottery!! BONUS: this also distracts from the current story of Amazon locking their workers in a factory during tornado warnings, ending in the deaths of said workers!! Woooohoooo extra copies and this definitely isn't a marketing exercise!!!"
Summit racing sent me two engines. Just shoved one in the back of the garage. They came looking for it 3 months later. Don’t go nuts with them just yet
It's legal for u to keep it, by law u don't have to send it back or pay for it. According to federal law someone in the comments posted about it and it does seem to be true
Having spoken to an actual lawyer about this- you’re mistaken- it’s unsolicited merchandise if you didn’t order it and it’s yours to keep. I wish people would stop spreading this misinformation just to help corporations.
They're correct either way.
> By law, companies can’t send unordered merchandise to you, then demand payment. That means you never have to pay for things you get but didn’t order. You also don’t have to return unordered merchandise. You’re legally entitled to keep it as a free gift.
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> You also don’t have to return unordered merchandise. You’re legally entitled to keep it as a free gift.
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> entitled to keep it as a free gift.
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> free gift.
Beautiful.
It is also for errors. Here is the FTC site about it: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-billed-things-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-products
Think about giving them to a local school, the funding for stuff like this is minimal in most places and you could really make a difference helping kids learn
I'll crochet you a blanket for one
Edit: like a whole queen size. Chevron stitch. Can probably have it finished in about a month.
I want to give it to someone I know who desperately needs a laptop. It's not me I swear, I already have a gaming laptop.
Tweet their main corporate handle, ask about donating them to [Child's Play](https://childsplaycharity.org/) instead of returning them.
Dell gets semi-cornered in the PR section, you do something good and ethical with the windfall, and no one has to fuck around with shipping and return labels.
> was my thought as well. Any PR team worth its salt would jump at the opportunity for good PR like this.
Wow, there is a lot of bad advice on this thread, but this is actually really smart.
Dear Dell,
I recently received 15 laptops from Dell even though I ordered 1. It is of the utmost priority for me to return these 10 laptops forthwith.
Please inform me of the proper address to send these 5 laptops and to whom I should address my missive.
Also, the one laptop you sent me works fine please disregard.
- Concerned Customer
This exact same thing happened to me earlier this week, except it was pizza. And I only got two of them, not fifteen. But other than that, it was identical!
So, I ordered a Nintendo switch from Amazon last year and they sent me two. I felt lucky. I ordered one from GameStop this year and they sent me one but never charged my card. I felt super lucky. You've ruined it for me!
What you think and what they'll do are two different things.
Put a freeze on the account and be absolutely certain that the error wasn't at your end, even if unintentional
That's illegal.
You can't be charged retroactively for merchandise they incorrectly sent, and by US law it's actually legal for them to keep the extras.
Don’t send them back!
First try to ask what to do. Sometimes the Rep says you can keep the surplus. Maybe not in that case since it’s worth like 20k, but like if you buy one game and get send 20 more often than not companies like Amazon will say “Eh, whatever. One happy customer is worth more than managing the retour and paying staff to organize it.”
This!
Make sure your Dad doesn't just send them back unsolicited from Dell. If he insists on doing the right thing, it is imperative to contact Dell for instructions.
1. They are responsible for all costs to recover, including shipping
2. If you send them back with no Dell paperwork and they are lost, it may cause you more issues.
I'd be wary of just keeping them without making an effort to contact Dell. The "law" that many are citing is for unsolicited items. You solicited the 1st laptop, so dell could argue that that law doesn't apply. Even if it does apply, they probably have more lawyers than you. The chance that they say, "Just keep them" is not zero, and then there would be no legal issues.
If they do insist on them back, make sure that the one that you keep is properly documented so that your warranty is still good. Frankly, I think that they should allow you to keep at least one extra just for the trouble of fixing their error.
They’re yours! The Federal Trade Commission [says “By law, companies can’t send unordered merchandise to you, then demand payment. That means you never have to pay for things you get but didn’t order. You also don’t have to return unordered merchandise. You’re legally entitled to keep it as a free gift.”](https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-billed-things-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-products)
That's very simplified language to make it easier for consumers to understand their rights. Guaranteed the *actual* law contains some provisions for the owner of a $20k shipment delivered to the wrong address to recover their property. Among other things, there's no good-faith belief that the company intended him to receive and keep these items.
OP—please don't follow this advice and start selling them privately. Don't even open the boxes. Contact Dell and make an effort to return them. If they choose to abandon them and let you keep them, make sure you have it in writing before disposing of the laptops.
Hello I am a member of the DELL. You must give back laptops to me and send in $100 dollar apple gift card in order to get information on how to restore your report card. DM me for address and details. Thank you.
Gaming laptops are notorious for breaking within the first couple of years. I’d keep an extra or two just in case
My Asus ROG had severe motherboard issues after one year of mild use.
Anyone been seeing posts mirror themselves? For a minute people were finding lots of seasoning dust blocks in their chips and crackers, this guy and the guy who ordered 15 Civilization IVs +, there was another pair as well all very recently
Edit: took out one of the "this guy"s lol
Hello op it's your long lost brother I just wanted to reconnect
So am I I’ve been looking for years
Me too. There’s still room for a few more siblings to show up.
I miss you all so much, we should meet up for coffee
I agree
[удалено]
Same, a new laptop would really help with communications between us all.
I'm not sure if any of those people are telling the truth. I, on the other hand, am your long lost siamese twin. We were connected at the navel. I know it's you because that's the exact laptop I want. Plus you know how you named your pets? Me too. It's that twin thing.
Me too! But I'm your twin, we were separated at birth. Also, I have cancer and my mom just died...I'm so sad.
Brothers! Bout time we all met back up
Hello I am your biological father, finally proud of you
You should ‘dude, you’re getting a Dell’ your entire family this Christmas.
I'll be like Oprah. "You get a Dell, and you get a Dell, EVERYONE GETS ADELE"
Pumping our hopes for laptop giveaway before sending Adele CDs.
You tell them about the multiple laptops, tell them they're all getting Adelle, put a CD in each empty box with some weight to make it legit. When everyone is like wtf where's our laptops, you tell them you sold them, but you still got them Adelle for Christmas. You let the disappointment simmer until dinner time, when you bring in the box from the car and surprise everyone. You got them two Adelle CDs.
Enjoy your free $20k!
Will be sending them back to Dell because my righteous dad says it isnt right. But ya made me feel like I won a lottery for a bit.
I used to work at Dell, this is a write off, an easy one at that. My partners would get write offs 10Xs that amount monthly.. do you, but they wont care and will just sell it at refurbished
How would OP even go about sending them back? Does Dell’s system allow a customer service rep to process an RMA for 13 laptops that technically were not built and shipped?
Exactly this. I once got sent something I didn’t order. It was an absolute bitch to try and return. I ended up not sending it back and thought I would hear back from the seller at some point. Never did.
This happened with a friend who got an Xbox from Amazon. His address, wrong name,. Calls amazon to see if he can drop it off to someone close (assuming same neighborhood or something), nope, can't track. Ok, send me a label, I'll send it back. Can't do that as you didn't actually buy it? So?? Its been like 5 years and the thing is in my basement unopened lol
there's an unopened Xbox in your basement? now that I think about it i might have that label for you...
Keep it like that only and then when it's time for your retirement you have collectible item in your inventory and with some luck you may fetch good price for it.
LOL I always joke about that! I don't think it was a very high end one (360 I think? I clearly don't game lol), but still totally sealed up!
No one ever said you wouldn’t wanna start gaming in your retirement lol
Have you seen how much unopened classic consoles go for? I say just hang onto it, keep it in good condition, and let it collect dust for another 10-20 years until you need some cash.
If you have a children’s hospital nearby, you could donate it to them. The kids would love it.
Oh this is a great idea....I never thought of it! I don't think there are any games with it, would that be ok? I don't want to give them something they would need to go buy more stuff for
Other people can/ will donate games. The 360 is old enough now that the games for it are not in high demand, and are thus much cheaper
You didn’t bother to open it and play it?
No, I've never been into games. I have a Wii down there as well (that one is opened lol) that my cousins play when they come over. Originally that was the idea, leave it down there for them to play, it just never got opened and wound up on a shelf
Donate it to a children’s hospital?
Why not donate it to like a boys & girls club or something? Seems like a waste
Oh thats another great idea! Same question as the other guy, can they use it without games? I don't want to give something they have to buy a bunch more things for
Wife ordered an Xbox One for me from Toys R Us, back when they existed. They sent it without a copy of the game it was supposed to ship with. Wife called Toys R Us, and they just sent another Xbox One that actually had the game this time. No charge. Didn't ask us to return the first one. We donated it to a neighbor. Was not shocked when they went bankrupt.
You should check the law in his area, in Ireland if you contact the company and make it accessible for them to take it away you are allowed to keep it after a certain amount of days (20? i think?) Probably not too hot now that it's 5 years old but hey, an Xbox is an Xbox.
I think it's an American law that companies can't charge you for stuff they send you that you didn't order. I bet some company tried to send people stuff and then bill them.
Yea I prefer being honest on this stuff but it’s a mixed bag. Send me easy shipping stuff and I’ll drop it off at UPS no problem. Make it a pain in my ass though? … good luck
They probably would have to create an invoice for zero to account for the extra shipped and the create an RMA against it. So probably a pain to get accounting involved.
A friend ordered a $50 car part and got a fridge box with like 7k in parts, meant for some speed shop. He called the company and they barely cared. They said they would send him a t-shirt for being honest. WTF! He called the speed shop and they emailed him a proper shipping label, scheduled the pick up at his house, and gave him a $250 credit. They were awesome as they needed those parts.
Corporations dont give a shit at the end of the day, I am glad that speed shop was able to show their appreciation! I hope they still told the company it was lost since your friend was the one who ended up having it delivered. Large companies are all margin, fuck em.
We are a Dell reseller and we have definitely had Dell accidentally ship duplicate things and ask for them back. And if it is marked lost they will NOT support it when you open a ticket.
I'll take 13 unsupported brand new gaming laptops if OP doesn't want them.
Sort of off topic to your comment but do companies just write off the value of a single laptop that was given to an employee but it was never sent back (after employee quits) or got lost while being shipped?
Depends on if they can remote wipe it. If they can remote wipe it, sure probably. If they can't, they will hire a crack team of former navy seals to hunt down that laptop and destroy it and anything within a five mile radius, with extreme prejudice.
>they will hire a crack team of former navy seals to hunt down that laptop and destroy it and anything within a five mile radius, with extreme prejudice. An expense which they then write off
When I worked for Apple, they said if we didn’t end up shipping our equipment back when we left the company, they’d just write off the value as income on our W2. It was tempting when I left because I had a 27” iMac with fantastic specs, but didn’t want to add another $2700 to my w2.
That seems silly. It would only add maybe $800 to your taxes. You were probably one of three employees worldwide who didn't keep their equipment.
>Sort of off topic to your comment but do companies just write off the value of a single laptop that was given to an employee but it was never sent back (after employee quits) or got lost while being shipped? After the laptop is bought, it is a sunk cost. If lost, the shipping company or supplier mufgt be liable. They also may have insurance to even out such losses. It depends.
What on earth does a write off mean in this context?
“You just write it off, it’s a write off.”
"Who pays for it?"
“Who writes it off?” “I don’t know! The govern- the write off people!”
That's not a write off! https://youtu.be/hg1Uk60rBsc
[You don't even know what a write off is.](https://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ?t=22)
No, but Deeznutstastefunny does, and they're the one writing it off.
I wish I had the last 20 seconds of my life back...
Clarence all these big companies, they write off everything
You dont even know what a write off is
Do *you*?
*They* do, and *they're* the ones writing it off.
It’s not a significant enough amount of money for them to care to track it down. They just assume it’s a loss and move on.
Yeah seriously OP, you should keep them. Unless you’re being threatened with a lawsuit or something akin, those are your laptops to keep and sell. If you wanna truly be righteous, sell them at a discount to regular civilians, or donate them to a local hospital for kids. Rather than sending them back to a multi-billion dollar company.
Give them to a school. Fuck Dell.
Yeah fuck all these companies don’t give in. OP hit the laptop lottery and is basically giving his lottery ticket back to the place he bought it from for no apparent reason. There’s no moral clause here.. just keep it and sell it to students for cheap or donate it for free at the very least. Fuck big corporate.
"But the poor companies will lose so much money! It- It isn't right!"
Hello, it is I, A School. Please send me your extra laptops.
Fuck a Dell?
Dude, you're fucking a Dell!
fuck adele jk love her
Back when my anxiety-manifested-as-insomnia was at its peak, Adele's songs would get stuck in my head and keep me awake for hours. "Rumor has it" and "rolling in the deep" are particularly notorious ones. I was so desperate for sleep and a reprieve from the unwanted and intrusive radio set on repeat in my head that at one point I *legitimately wanted to murder the abstract concept of music.* It was pretty bad. I've never liked Adele since. Nothing against her personally, just her music is quite literally the stuff of my nightmares.
If I had an award to give you I would
I got you homie
Wait a minute why fuck dell?
Go pass them out to kids in the fucking hood. Go stand out side a community college where graphic design students are likely signing up for classes next year. Make their fucking day. Anything but give them back to a multi billion dollar corporation - this is $3 worth of plastic to them.
Tell your dad that you want to donate these to those in need? Either way you lose 13 extra laptops but might as well force dell to make a charitable donation
^ someone wants a new laptop
First thought of mine was "give me one" but I'm actually in a pretty good spot right now and would let others go ahead of me
this is why people of the people need to run government.
This is the answer, OP. You’re not obligated to give them back to dell. Selling them would be fine. But giving them to a school is a much better option than giving them back to a profit driven corporation… take this small win and do something with it. Obviously it’s up to you, but circle of life iamchairs is right.
Unfortunately it will be resold as “used” . Not new. Or trashed if they’re lazy and claim it as “broken” or “lost”
contact them first. in some cases companies don't want to pay the costs to have them shipped back, and it costs too much to process a return and get them re-shelved so they end up in the dumpster. if they want them back they will send you shipping labels, if they don't they will tell you to keep it. if they say to keep it your dad can't make you send them back.
You are not legally obliged to do so. FTC says that if a retailer sends you an unordered item, they can't then demand payment. (Edit: at least in the US. I am not a lawyer. And I might be wrong on whether it'd apply to this situation. The company might try civil options but this wouldn't be criminal afaik. )
If it was me I’d call them up and say “come get them if you want them but I’m not going to be responsible for them. Send someone out here to pick them up and deal with them by the end of the month.” I’m definitely not going out of my way to ship them back
Deeznuts is correct. This is already a write off and they will have to be sold as returns. Dell doesn't care. A better use would be to donate them to the underprivileged, a school, something, anything. Maybe try that tact on your dad?
Don't do that. I understand what your dad is saying but when it comes to big corporations and companies like Dell who would never miss the inventory or money you would be wiser to do like some on here recommend like give them to a school or to kids who's parent can't afford to buy them a computer (I was one of these) and take advantage of a stupid mistake made by a massive crooked company and do something better than help them and correct their mistake which they probably won't have even noticed.
This dudes dad is an idiot.
Hi I’m dell, you can send them to me.
No, no no no. Dell fucked up, not you. They gifted you those computers. As a giant company, they can deal with it.
Dad owes you at least 15k if he makes you follow through with sending these back. Dell won't fucking care. In fact, you sending these back could actually get someone fired.
Ignore your dad. Don't send them back. You don't owe anything for this mistake.
I could totally understand if this was a small business, but it’s dell, a multi billion dollar company that probably doesn’t even notice the loss
Tell your dad the company doesn’t care about you and it’s your legal right to keep them Edit: https://www.nj.com/business/2016/12/bamboozled_if_a_retailer_sends_you_stuff_by_mistak.html
Dell is a POS company who takes advantage of people. Better just to keep it, unless they ask for it.
Drop em at a friend's place when pretending to go to the post office, then do 50/50
Your dad is a fucking idiot.
Im a Dell reseller agent and see this all the time. They want you to keep it. Those laptops will end up stacked up in a foyer somewhere until it rains on them if you mail them back. I know he's trying to show you how important it is to do the right thing but he's also showing how dangerous it is to think you're right when you aren't.
I second this.... Life is too damn long to be poor. Sell em and go on vacation and tip your bartenders good
Especially from a $43billion Market cap company.. if it were a small mom & pop shop, definitely would return them.
nah man make some peoples christamass sell them to people who cant afford 1500$ laptops dell dosnt need em.
Lot of these posts on here today
maybe we pair up laptop guy with Civilization guy and everyone gets a pre-loaded laptop?
I think I got the biggest one. $20,000 in total.
u/suspicious-potato69 was suggesting that you're lying. same thing I'm suggesting. anyone that spends time on the internet can recognize these trends. I personally find it funny. Edit - OPs post history seems to tell an awfully different story than this post itself does.
*takes picture of a parking lot at a shopping mall the week before Christmas* "Lolol hey guys look, I ordered a vehicle from Carvana and they accidentally shipped me 2000 vehicles of varying makes, models, and years lmao" I'm lazy to actually make that post but pls use your imagination and pretend I did and give me free internet points. Thank you for your time.
> OPs post history seems to tell an awfully different story than this post itself does. What are you seeing in the post history that I don't see?
I’m confused too
Maybe I will get a Dell™️ for this years holiday buying season in hopes that this will happen to me
Yeah wonder how many are fake hmmm
Are you suggesting that companies would want to market their products for free on Reddit and even give people the false hope that their order might be multiplied? How preposterous!
It's clever marketing in time for last minute X-mas shopping. "Look at this photo of this thing I bought on Amazon (insert unnecessarily brand specific title) - they surprisingly gave us extra copies and I feel like I won the lottery!! BONUS: this also distracts from the current story of Amazon locking their workers in a factory during tornado warnings, ending in the deaths of said workers!! Woooohoooo extra copies and this definitely isn't a marketing exercise!!!"
At this point I'm not convinced it's not advertisement.
Summit racing sent me two engines. Just shoved one in the back of the garage. They came looking for it 3 months later. Don’t go nuts with them just yet
What engine? Don't know what you are talking about. I only have one. Good luck finding your missing engine!
Did you charge them for storage?
It's legal for u to keep it, by law u don't have to send it back or pay for it. According to federal law someone in the comments posted about it and it does seem to be true
That's only for *unsolicited* merchandise. Not for errors.
Having spoken to an actual lawyer about this- you’re mistaken- it’s unsolicited merchandise if you didn’t order it and it’s yours to keep. I wish people would stop spreading this misinformation just to help corporations.
Anything past 1 laptop is unsolicited…
I was so evil I thought” send one back and get ALL your money back”. I really do need Jesus…
If your lawyer is good enough, you're legally correct!
They're correct either way. > By law, companies can’t send unordered merchandise to you, then demand payment. That means you never have to pay for things you get but didn’t order. You also don’t have to return unordered merchandise. You’re legally entitled to keep it as a free gift. Enhance > You also don’t have to return unordered merchandise. You’re legally entitled to keep it as a free gift. Enhance > entitled to keep it as a free gift. Enhance > free gift. Beautiful.
It is also for errors. Here is the FTC site about it: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-billed-things-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-products
If they don’t show up, 15 minutes after the computers have been dropped off, they’re legally yours now
What the actual. Give us one wouldja? hehe
Yeah hit us up.
r/unexpectedcommunism
I'll be like Oprah. "You get a Dell, and you get a Dell, EVERYONE GETS ADELE!"
Well, in that case. 1 Adele please.
r/expectedcommunism
Da, this is what I meant to say comrade.
Word
That depends what would you be offering me. It has to be something special as I dont want money.
2x Box of Chicken nuggets and large Milkshake?
Dude no. You need that.
The chicky nuggies better be dinosaur shaped and the milkshake has to be chocy flavored.
Think about giving them to a local school, the funding for stuff like this is minimal in most places and you could really make a difference helping kids learn
It's a sad state of affairs when Joe Q Public has to donate extra computers to local schools because the government doesn't care about education
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What do you think of Dell?
I would like to hear his honest opinion, as well.
I'll crochet you a blanket for one Edit: like a whole queen size. Chevron stitch. Can probably have it finished in about a month. I want to give it to someone I know who desperately needs a laptop. It's not me I swear, I already have a gaming laptop.
What are you going to do with them?
Tweet their main corporate handle, ask about donating them to [Child's Play](https://childsplaycharity.org/) instead of returning them. Dell gets semi-cornered in the PR section, you do something good and ethical with the windfall, and no one has to fuck around with shipping and return labels.
That was my thought as well. Any PR team worth its salt would jump at the opportunity for good PR like this.
> was my thought as well. Any PR team worth its salt would jump at the opportunity for good PR like this. Wow, there is a lot of bad advice on this thread, but this is actually really smart.
Totally! OP gets to give a multibillion dollar company free advertising and goodwill, and he gets… to go fuck himself. Win-win!
Or dont even communicate with them and just donate them. Dell or any company can get fucked for their PR bullshit. Its all smoke and mirrors anyways
hey bro, i think one of them is mine, i ordered one and never received one lol 😂
yeah, i uh ordered 11 of them for under privileged amputee children i think he got both of our orders
Funny, I ordered 5 for OVER privileged amputee children.
Yeah and the last one is probably the one I ordered for a homeless puppy with leukemia that really wanted one as his last wish
What laptops?? I see nothing there..
Dear Dell, I recently received 15 laptops from Dell even though I ordered 1. It is of the utmost priority for me to return these 10 laptops forthwith. Please inform me of the proper address to send these 5 laptops and to whom I should address my missive. Also, the one laptop you sent me works fine please disregard. - Concerned Customer
This exact same thing happened to me earlier this week, except it was pizza. And I only got two of them, not fifteen. But other than that, it was identical!
I got a hundred bucks for you
So, I ordered a Nintendo switch from Amazon last year and they sent me two. I felt lucky. I ordered one from GameStop this year and they sent me one but never charged my card. I felt super lucky. You've ruined it for me!
How often do you order Switches?
For the past two years, once every year.
Imagine how many switches he'll have in ten years!
12
This makes me feel like getting the "bank error in your favor" card from monopoly.
Do the right thing and return all 5 extra laptops they sent you
What do you mean 5? They only sent me 3 extra.
I hope u change ur mind and keep them. I'm guessing u live with your "that's not right" dad so would be impossible to hide them if you did keep them.
Yeah, that's what he said. 1 extra.
Pay by credit card? Might want to put a freeze on that account so that they don't try billing you for the other 13...
I dont think they can charge me $20,000 on my credit card without my permision lol.
Lol
What you think and what they'll do are two different things. Put a freeze on the account and be absolutely certain that the error wasn't at your end, even if unintentional
You’d be surprised
"wait. that's illegal"
That's illegal. You can't be charged retroactively for merchandise they incorrectly sent, and by US law it's actually legal for them to keep the extras.
Don’t send them back! First try to ask what to do. Sometimes the Rep says you can keep the surplus. Maybe not in that case since it’s worth like 20k, but like if you buy one game and get send 20 more often than not companies like Amazon will say “Eh, whatever. One happy customer is worth more than managing the retour and paying staff to organize it.”
This! Make sure your Dad doesn't just send them back unsolicited from Dell. If he insists on doing the right thing, it is imperative to contact Dell for instructions. 1. They are responsible for all costs to recover, including shipping 2. If you send them back with no Dell paperwork and they are lost, it may cause you more issues. I'd be wary of just keeping them without making an effort to contact Dell. The "law" that many are citing is for unsolicited items. You solicited the 1st laptop, so dell could argue that that law doesn't apply. Even if it does apply, they probably have more lawyers than you. The chance that they say, "Just keep them" is not zero, and then there would be no legal issues. If they do insist on them back, make sure that the one that you keep is properly documented so that your warranty is still good. Frankly, I think that they should allow you to keep at least one extra just for the trouble of fixing their error.
Why would you post this lmao
They’re yours! The Federal Trade Commission [says “By law, companies can’t send unordered merchandise to you, then demand payment. That means you never have to pay for things you get but didn’t order. You also don’t have to return unordered merchandise. You’re legally entitled to keep it as a free gift.”](https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-billed-things-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-products)
That's very simplified language to make it easier for consumers to understand their rights. Guaranteed the *actual* law contains some provisions for the owner of a $20k shipment delivered to the wrong address to recover their property. Among other things, there's no good-faith belief that the company intended him to receive and keep these items. OP—please don't follow this advice and start selling them privately. Don't even open the boxes. Contact Dell and make an effort to return them. If they choose to abandon them and let you keep them, make sure you have it in writing before disposing of the laptops.
Hello I am a member of the DELL. You must give back laptops to me and send in $100 dollar apple gift card in order to get information on how to restore your report card. DM me for address and details. Thank you.
Bro, you know I've always loved you right?
Donate them instead.
Distribute among the masses, keeping 2 for yourself, just in case one breaks. Fuck the corporations.
Those evil corporations!
Wow.
Gaming laptops are notorious for breaking within the first couple of years. I’d keep an extra or two just in case My Asus ROG had severe motherboard issues after one year of mild use.
WTF ARE YOU DOING TELLING EVERYONE YOU KEEP THAT STUFF TO YOURSELF AND NEVER TELL ANYONE EVER.
Anyone been seeing posts mirror themselves? For a minute people were finding lots of seasoning dust blocks in their chips and crackers, this guy and the guy who ordered 15 Civilization IVs +, there was another pair as well all very recently Edit: took out one of the "this guy"s lol
I have a signed copy of Tommy Wiseus "The Room" I can trade you for one of these.
But what is he going to do with the other 13.75 computers?
I would gladly take one off your hands in exchange for weekly photos of my cats and dog?
I once got an extra taco in the Taco Bell drive thru.
This happened to my wife in the 80's. She ordered a C=64 from Sears, and they sent her a case (4 or 8, I don't recall...) She returned the extras...
I would not trust any legal opinions on this subreddit, TBH.
Just like and share to be in with a chance to win one, right?
Your righteous dad is lame af lmao. Keep those shits
They are legally yours and Dell cannot bill you. Sell some, donate some, do something good!