[Closed] Amazon empty box?

Piff paff poof

Exactly same happened to at Christmas, Garmin empty box delivered

To be fair Amazon were great, no questions asked and sent me a replacement straight out.
Common occurrence it seems

What kind of people do this.....

Scum.

I used to work with a guy who would routinely do this. He also only ever self-scanned half his shopping and if he bought from eBay and it wasn't sent tracked he'd report it lost. He wasn't badly paid, or up to his eyeballs in debt, he was just a thieving toe-rag.

Piff paff poof

Was it sent from Durham?

I used to work with a guy who would routinely do this. He also only ever self-scanned half his shopping and if he bought from eBay and it wasn’t sent tracked he’d report it lost. He wasn’t badly paid, or up to his eyeballs in debt, he was just a thieving toe-rag.

I just can't understand that mentality, although I suspect it's not that uncommon.

Was it sent from Durham?

Nice!

Aye, tbf amazon have sorted me out, but aye, there's some right theiving bastards about.

I bought an SD card off Amazon once and got a shoebox sized box which I thought was empty until I found the loose card stuck under a flap inside.

At work we sell a lot on Amazon and Ebay, the untracked Ebay orders were much more prone to getting lost in the post and never arriving, meaning the buyer got a refund. We now have barcodes on all envelopes (even the untracked ones) and funnily enough the rate of missing orders has dropped to almost zero.

Sorry, I'll stop with the similarbutnotreallyrelevant stuff now.

Jings, that’s poor, was it the big cardboard box just empty, or the actual Garmin box ?

Similar thing happened to us at the weekend. We bought an external hard drive from Amazon and received an empty box. They sent us a replacement, delivered the next day with no hassle. I wonder if they just assume that a certain percentage of deliveries are going to be like this?

Nice!

I'm so glad that didn't go completely to waste.

Working in tech support a very long time ago, I was on the phone with a completely unrelated Geoffrey Durham who was demanding that we return his PC when we hadn't even received it yet. I told him "I'm sorry sir, but I'm not a magician." The lad on the next desk had to put his customer on hold while he recovered, he about swallowed his headset.

I bought a G Shock watch direct from Amazon last year. The watch that arrived was clearly a fake G Shock. Its common for folk to swap legit stuff for fake, Amazon don't check the returns.

It was a large ish cardboard box with a garmin box inside which was empty for me.
My saving grace was the package had been weighed and the weight was displayed on a sticker. The overall packaged weighed less than the watch itself so there was no way there could have been a watch inside to start with.

I used to work with a guy who would routinely do this. He also only ever self-scanned half his shopping and if he bought from eBay and it wasn’t sent tracked he’d report it lost. He wasn’t badly paid, or up to his eyeballs in debt, he was just a thieving toe-rag.

Unfortunately there are some people in this world who just see these instances as an opportunity to blag something for nothing ☹️

Amazon will have a policy whereby if you are a regular customer then there will be a series of thresholds for missing, wrong and damaged (MWD).

If your MWD rate is low then you basically won't be questioned when you get an empty box.
Above another threshold they are likely to check and if you trigger another threshold they will refuse to do business with you.

I bought a G Shock watch direct from Amazon last year. The watch that arrived was clearly a fake G Shock. Its common for folk to swap legit stuff for fake, Amazon don’t check the returns.

It’s not just returns

Amazon run co-mingled inventory

So Amazon sell Product A

Amazon market place sellers are also allowed to sell product A and have Amazon hold the stock for it and deal with the logistics. So they ship their pallet of stock to Amazon.

When this happens unless the market place seller pays for there stock to be kept separate it all just get mixed together. In a big pile of product A

The market place sellers probably aren't getting their supply direct from the manufacturer (ie grey market at best, at worst fakes) and this all gets mixxed up into the pot

So even if you buy from Amazon it might not be amazons stock that you receive.

iPhone chargers, iPhone cables and memory cards are really bad for this as the fakes externally look so sim to the real product.

memory cards are really bad for this

Annoying as it is, the swerve here is to always choose OEM / retail packaging over their eco offering. The stuff in Sandisk-branded blister packs is considerably* less likely to be bollocks than something in a little brown box.

(* - anyone else read that in the voice of Rik from the Young Ones or is it just me?)

Annoying as it is, the swerve here is to always choose OEM / retail packaging over their eco offering.

I just avoid Amazon for anything like that

The cost difference between online and bricks and curry’s/Argos/Asda etc has narrowed enough and the volumes of fakes online means the high street my usual source(not something I’d have thought 10 years ago)