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For three years in a row I received an amazon gift card on father's day. Always intended for as far as I can tell the same person who has the same first initial
by zwayhowder 6y ago
For three years in a row I received an amazon gift card on father's day. Always intended for as far as I can tell the same person who has the same first initial and last name as me.
I contacted Amazon about it the first time and they wouldn't cancel it or issue a refund because I was the recipient, not the purchaser. I worry that someone has been written out of their Dad's will because he thinks they have forgotten father's day 3 years running.
- gowld 6y agoDoesn't amazon have a "thankyou" feature to email the sender?
- laurieg 6y agoI worry that putting "I am not your father" in the thank you message might cause even more trouble.
- saagarjha 6y agoNoooooooooo…wait a second.
- zwayhowder 6y agoIt didn't at the time iirc. It was a few years back though.
- refurb 6y agoI have lastname[initial]@gmail.com and it’s not a terribly common name, but I’ve gotten Interac payments (Canada) sent to me for little league practice (emailed back and they apologized). Most recently I’ve been getting a cell phone bill for a South African person. It had their address so I looked it up on gMaps and it was a small home in a shantytown. I just received an email telling me the service was being cut off for non-payment. No email for me to reply to.
- zwayhowder 6y agoI had another person with the same name as me put my email address in his resume. I started getting a heap of emails to come in for interviews, in a small town in Northern Ireland that my family emigrated to Australia from 150 years ago. Fortunately his phone number was in the emails, so I called him and had a great chat, he got his Nan on the phone and we spent ages walking through our family tree finding connections.
- refurb 6y agoThat is a super cool story!