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What on earth????
Oct. 29th, 2007 09:50 pmMy DS ordered a lovely new Dell computer online and has been watching it gradually make its way here for the last couple of days. Today it arrived, and we were under strict orders to not open the box until he got home from work.
Well, guess what was in the box? Not a computer -- even though all the packaging matched his order, from the Dell shipping box, to the shipping label with the order form and receipt, to the "how to set up your computer" pamphlet inside and a nice white Inspiron box for the laptop computer. But inside the nice white Inspiron laptop box were...
Nine sets of United States Mint uncirculated commemorative coins -- and nothing else.
Very nice coins, they were too -- but when you've been waiting for a new top of the line laptop computer, somehow coins just doesn't do it for you.
I was actually away when DS unpacked the box, so I came home to find a very disheartened and crushed son, and a very disturbed hubby, who was blaming himself for not opening it upon receipt to be sure the order was correct. However, once Mom comes home, then order is restored.
I urged DS to get online in a chat with a Dell representative, and he did so. The end result is that they are reshipping his computer and want him to send back the order he received so they can investigate the problem.
What seems likely to us is that some sneak in the Dell packing department thought he/she had struck on an easy way to take home a nice computer, and when they were filling the order they replaced the computer with the coins. Not sure where the coins came from, as that's not something Dell deals with, but who knows? Maybe they came prepared. The way everything is packed fits this theory, rather than there being a sneak in the DHL shipping office!
Hopefully Dell will investigate and catch the culprit before any other hard working young DS's who just spent a wad of their hard earned cash from their first job end up getting something they didn't order and have no imaginable use for.
My Dear Son is laughing about it now, because really, it's just about the weirdest thing that could happen -- but he's still at loose ends for another week, waiting for the next computer to show up. It better not be commemorative coins this time!!!
Well, guess what was in the box? Not a computer -- even though all the packaging matched his order, from the Dell shipping box, to the shipping label with the order form and receipt, to the "how to set up your computer" pamphlet inside and a nice white Inspiron box for the laptop computer. But inside the nice white Inspiron laptop box were...
Nine sets of United States Mint uncirculated commemorative coins -- and nothing else.
Very nice coins, they were too -- but when you've been waiting for a new top of the line laptop computer, somehow coins just doesn't do it for you.
I was actually away when DS unpacked the box, so I came home to find a very disheartened and crushed son, and a very disturbed hubby, who was blaming himself for not opening it upon receipt to be sure the order was correct. However, once Mom comes home, then order is restored.
I urged DS to get online in a chat with a Dell representative, and he did so. The end result is that they are reshipping his computer and want him to send back the order he received so they can investigate the problem.What seems likely to us is that some sneak in the Dell packing department thought he/she had struck on an easy way to take home a nice computer, and when they were filling the order they replaced the computer with the coins. Not sure where the coins came from, as that's not something Dell deals with, but who knows? Maybe they came prepared. The way everything is packed fits this theory, rather than there being a sneak in the DHL shipping office!
Hopefully Dell will investigate and catch the culprit before any other hard working young DS's who just spent a wad of their hard earned cash from their first job end up getting something they didn't order and have no imaginable use for.
My Dear Son is laughing about it now, because really, it's just about the weirdest thing that could happen -- but he's still at loose ends for another week, waiting for the next computer to show up. It better not be commemorative coins this time!!!
