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I have been getting random crap from our local amazon delivery guy (the real deal in an AFS van) for the last week - addressed to me. Proper packaging , tracking numbers etc.
But I didnt order any of it - or pay for it.
Spent ages on web chat with amazon today: turns out other accounts are sending me 'gifts'.
Possibly so that they can then write up glowing reviews of said tat.
Anybody else had this? Anything to worry about?
And what to do with things like ear wax excavators, 3m x 3m curtain lights (wft is that?) and scuba goggles?
It's a thing. It's so they can put up bogus reviews of their company and products.
send it back for refund
Do you write a lot of reviews for products on Amazon? A mate of mine reviews everything he buys on there and last year started randomly getting free stuff delivered to him by companies to review so your hunch might be correct.
No idea how it works but it might explain why a lot of the Chinese made tat on there has "verified purchase" reviews.
OK - but why not send it to themselves? Why send it to some random guy with clean ears and no interest in scuba?
And to be clear - Amazon dont want the stuff back. They said give it to a charity shop which is what I plan to do
One of the guys who used to work with me (Whole left over a year before!) was getting stuff from Amazon, dodgy Chinese phones etc, contacted him and it was nothing he ordered so it all went in the bin!
Thanks Aidy - that makes some sense. Being self employed my name and address are on my website so I'm sure that's been "scraped" by someone.
What I dont get - why dont they send the tat to themselves? So they can resell it.
Yup it’s a thing.
Well that's a quacker of a story 🙂
It’s a scam. I can’t recall which programme it was on but someone was scammed out of loads of money. This is the nearest I can find below. I would be getting in touch with Amazon ASAP
https://conversation.which.co.uk/money/amazon-prime-brushing-scam-explained/
Apparently some people are buying stuff themselves with fake accounts, so they can review it themselves. Fake accounts need real addresses so yours was chosen randomly. When I read about this it was dodgy imported goods like knockoff bluetooth speakers or batteries etc. However we received a copy of Iron Man for PS4 which is rather odd since video games are likely to be sold on journalistic reviews not Amazon star ratings. And who's doing the dodgy purchases? The developers?
It’s a scam. I can’t recall which programme it was on but someone was scammed out of loads of money.
I've not seen reports of people losing money due to brushing scams (not saying it's never happened but I personally wouldn't panic if I received random tat, apart from knowing my address was possibly on a list used by scammers somewhere. As has been said it's to allow dodgy vendors to generate fake verified reviews for tat.
I have been getting random crap from our local amazon delivery guy
Do you have a wife? I find this to be a source of all the crap that turns up at my house.