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Mystery Package

  • 16-05-2008 11:05am
    #1
    muppetkiller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭


    Sorry if the title misleads some of you (perv's) but I came to work today and was notified of a Package that had arrived for me in the post.

    Now being in a financial hole a the moment I knew it wasn't something I ordered as it was registered post and rather heavy.
    When I opened it up there was a Terabyte external hard drive with no invoice or details as to who sent it ?

    Don't get me wrong i'm rather chuffed to get it free but the address they used looks like it's copied and pasted from my work email as it even has my job title in it (Which i'd never include in my address).
    I've checked with my back and nothing in my account that suggests it was ordered by me. and checked with friends too and nothing....

    Question is can I be charged for this if I didn't order it ?
    Has anyone else got a pressie in the post they didn't order ?


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  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    muppetkiller wrote: »
    Question is can I be charged for this if I didn't order it ?
    Yep. You have the right to send it back without paying for it. If you knew where it came from.
    Have you plugged it in? It could be full of kiddie porn :eek: someone trying to set you up.


  • #3
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,147 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Free hard drives! Must check the post.

    If you know what company it came from check their site for order details. Make a call and say you don't remember ordering it (claim large company or something) and check order date / billing address / billing details.


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Check the box, the invoice is often in behind the address paper on the front.

    Mike.


  • #5
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    Gift horse, mouth....


  • #6
    connundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭connundrum


    seamus wrote: »
    Yep. You have the right to send it back without paying for it. If you knew where it came from.
    Have you plugged it in? It could be full of kiddie porn :eek: someone trying to set you up.

    Watch out for that anthrax gear, or hidden explosive of some sort. Pack it up and give it back to the post office if there´s no return address supplied. Sounds well dodge.


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  • #7
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    # May, 1984

    * 01:52:00 A terminator, T-800 arrives from the future to kill Sarah Connor.[2]
    * 02:01:00 Kyle Reese arrives from the future, to protect Sarah.[2]
    * Kyle Reese succeeds destroying the T-800, but dies himself.[2]
    * Some parts from the terminator are left behind at the Cyberdyne facilities.[2]


    And now exactly 24 years later, parts begin spreading.
    Anyone else worried :eek:


  • #8
    funk-you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭funk-you


    IT dept in work probably ordered it for you and forgot to tell you. Probably a business need for you to have one. I do it all the time.

    -Funk


  • #9
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,236 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Check around, see if anyone sent it to you etc but I wouldn't plug it in...Send it back. Could be anything.


  • #10
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    I'll take it if you don't want it


  • #11
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    I'll take it off your hands, and you can claim no knowledge of it if anyone comes a knockin!


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  • #12
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    MooseJam wrote: »
    I'll take it if you don't want it
    Quiet you! Go buy my laptop! :pac:


  • #13
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Regardless, don't plug it into one of the companies computers.


  • #14
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,041 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    BT recently sent me a wireless modem.

    I don't have any accounts with BT.

    Fair play to them!


  • #15
    MooseJam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭MooseJam


    Mirror wrote: »
    Quiet you! Go buy my laptop! :pac:

    ah the lenovo, 250 was all I had unfortunately


  • #16
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    chopperbyrne wrote: »
    BT recently sent me a wireless modem.

    I don't have any accounts with BT.

    Fair play to them!


    WTF, first a memory drive and now a communications device, Skynet is nearly fully operational :eek:


  • #17
    muppetkiller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    Bad news guys ....it turns out it's a friend of mine who's not too bright..about 2 years ago he posted me a 1 gig memory stick to put some tunes on it ...and he never changed his address for his second order lol.

    I like the Skynet idea though :D


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Is it ticking? If so cut the yellow wire. Or the blue one for those color-blind among us.


  • #19
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    So you want to know if you can steal it? Sure, why not. It's Friday.


  • #20
    funk-you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,743 ✭✭✭funk-you


    Friday, the best excuse for theft that God ever gave us:pac:

    -Funk


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    funk-you wrote: »
    Friday, the best excuse for theft that God ever gave us:pac:

    -Funk

    I thought Mondays were a good excuse for killing somebody


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  • #22
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I thought Mondays were a good excuse for killing somebody
    That's why I don't like Mondays...

    ooooh ooooh ooooh ooooh oooooooohhhh....t the whole day down!


  • #23
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,041 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Mirror wrote: »
    That's why I don't like Mondays...

    ooooh ooooh ooooh ooooh oooooooohhhh....t the whole day down!

    TELL ME WHY!!!!!!!


  • #24
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    chopperbyrne wrote: »
    TELL ME WHY!!!!!!!
    The chip was set to overload. Stoopid n00bs trying to overclock tbh! :mad:


  • #25
    CountingCrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭CountingCrows


    Skynet testing its limits me thinks


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