Today, I got denied a refund for my dream coffee machine. I've overdrafted my bank account to buy it on Offer Up for an excellent price, but USPS delivered the package to a wrong address. Someone got it for free. Offer Up won't refund me because it says "delivered" on the tracking page. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I received a promotional message offering a half-off deal on an expensive coffee maker. The only reason why I received the message is because I bought that same coffee maker yesterday and I signed up to their mailing list. FML
Today, I received an email from a shipping company telling me they had dropped off a package of expensive electronics at the front door. Too bad someone stole it before I made it to the door. FML
Today, I finally got a product I ordered two weeks ago as a free trial-only pay shipping deal. Also today, the same company took an extra $130 out of my account without authorisation. Best part: when I called to sort things out, they told me they had no record of my order details. FML
Today, I sold a dresser on OfferUp. When I arrive at the customer’s house to deliver it and discussed the payment, she got upset and called me a selfish, greedy bitch because she’s a "single mom on food stamps." She berated me to the point of tears. I left without getting my money. FML
Today, I bought a $3000 HD camera. It never shipped to my house, so I was concerned. I then realized I had given the seller the address for a house in California. I live in Maine. FML
Today, the $800, large capacity, professional carpet steam cleaner my husband supposedly bought me for Christmas got "lost in the mail". So did the refund. FML
Today, I went to the pickup location where the email from Amazon said my package was, but they didn't have it. Through order tracking, I then found out that it has been delivered to the wrong location, on the other side of town. This has happened twice in a row now. FML
Today, I overdrew my account and ended up paying an extra 35 bucks for a 1.99 item. It was an application on the iPhone that is supposed to help me keep track of my money. FML
Today, I went to the bank to find out why I still haven't gotten my refund for when the ATM gave me a cash dispenser error and cancelled the transaction, but the money was taken out of the account anyway. The error happened on Friday of last week, it's Wednesday. FML
Today, I found out that FedEx delivered my $700 package to the wrong person. The person who signed for it didn't even spell my name right. FML
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Allie614032 34
I'm sorry, you overdrafted your bank account for a COFFEE MACHINE? You know you can't live solely on coffee, right?
distortedcognition 17
Did we learn to check the address twice and not to overdraft?
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chessu 21
I've had stuff noted as delivered when they haven't been (and then turned up 3 hours later!?), so I can get behind that and I can imagine it being quite hard to prove you did not in fact receive it, but the fact that you took out overdraft for a coffee machine is a bit insane! I can imagine the thought process being something like saving money long term cause you won't have to buy it from coffee shops, but honestly, an overdraft? Unless it's a house or a car, if you can't buy it out, you can't afford it.
prncsjnlca 10
Also not such a good deal with overdraft charges huh. Haha
Sinshine 28
Why in the world would you overdraft for something as mundane as a coffee machine?!
skippydoda 32
I'm sorry but YDI 100%. No coffee machine is worth an overdraft.
lexos 16
Idiots like you are one of the reasons we had a financial crisis. Never overdraft for things you don't need.
weazle 13
You just have to call them up again, it’s better if you use chat as you’ll have a record, and tell them the item never came and you want a refund. If they say no then you just dispute it with your bank and wait it out.
WHSKitty4ever 23
# 1: you’re an idiot and you need to learn how to budget. It wasn’t a necessity (and this comes from a coffeeholic, lol), so the purchase could’ve waited. # 2: that’s what you get for not using eBay # 3: take the issue up with USPS.
WHSKitty4ever 23
OP, you do realize that the machine cost you way more than what you originally paid, right?
interesting33 37
isn't it illegal for the people who got it to keep it, as it is your property?
stormy0307 16
Yes it technically is. But it’s also incredibly hard to prove they have it.
Amy78_fml 11
I had a package delivered to the wrong house once. It was my kid's Halloween costume so they were excited and we kept refreshing the tracking page. It changed to delivered and we had been home all day and it wasn't here. I called UPS and told them about it. They told us what house it was delivered to and me and my kid walked up the road about ten houses, and took it right off the porch. It was correctly so I called them pack to complain. Later that night the UPS delivery guy showed up at my door to look at the box's label. He claimed it was wrong in their scanner system. I suggest you get the police involved if they won't give you your coffee maker. This is theft.
prncsjnlca 10
I assure you the police don’t care. Don’t waste their time on this. Be an adult and call USPS. 🙄
Huldan MeGroyn 13
I love all these people judging because the OP was over the top about a coffee machine. Who gives a ****? You've never had/wanted something others called "mundane" but you were excited over? Honestly. As you dump 200 on sports jerseys and 300 on a hair dryer. Get out. Let the OP have their passion
lexos 16
Of course but I would never in my life overdraft my account for something I don't need
Huldan MeGroyn 13
Who's to say it happened by choice? Everyone has had that bill they forgot about hit at the worst time. The FML wasn't based on the overdraft; that's just icing in the cake. The problem is the fact that the company isn't doing something about a clear and costly problem.