Laptop delivered, not ordered by me?!?!?1 - Page 3

Interesting thead.
Let me get one thing straight, was the laptop delivered to YOUR door or to "your friends" because this whole ordeal smells strongly of BS. You contradict yourself multiple times, sometimes even in the same post like this gem here:
On a different note, which model was delivered? Im dying of curiousity.

What I don't get is how people are accusing him (or his friend, whoever actually had the package dropped off at their place) of stealing? They're already actively trying to return the package! It would seem that some of you think the act of picking up a wallet of the street and contacting the person to give it back to them is somehow stealing.

Contact UPS to send it back to Dell, if they aren't willing to do that then talk to Dell. If Dell still isn't interested in taking back the package then I guess you should make a report to police about it just so it's documented that you've tried returning it. Not as if the police could do anything since Dell should have all the information in their system.

If it was me I would wait for Dell or UPS to try to contact me. I would keep the box and not open it for 3 months, if after 3 months no one contacted me about the box I would open it and consider it mine.

I am sure the rightfull owner already filled a claim, and Dell probably already shipped a new unit to them with the right address and everything. Either UPS or Dell will end up paying for it, but that's not your problem.

Yeah, hold on to it, you can try a little harder to get to the bottom of it. And you tried, whos gonna spend a month trying to return somthing that the manufacture does not care about?

All the people that are saying return it...your just mad it didnt come to you. He tried, would you try as much as he has?

Smells of identity theif. You/r friend needs to check your/her records

doesn't matter. if your name wasn't on it, you didn't order it, no one ordered it for you as a gift, it is theft.

again, the important thing is to do a couple of things. first of all is to ensure that the thing wasn't ordered under your name or using your ssn or credit. second, if you don't want to send it back to ups or dell, then turn it to the police. if ups or dell calls, give them the police case number. if they don't and the time for finder's keepers passes, it's yours. much better than getting in trouble for something stupid that you know is not yours.

just drop it, keep the computer and be happy

i just went through this with dell on an item i was emailed showing delivery status. what dell can do is see if the names match for who purchased the item. if purchased through dell financing, call dell financial services to see if your social security number matches any open accounts. they won't give account information away, but they can confirm if you have an open account under your social security number. if purchased through a credit card, you can ask dell which bank card. they won't give the number away of course, but you can get the bank card issuing company (i.e. bank). call that bank and tell them an item was bought using a credit card and the item was sent to you and that you are concerned if someone used your information to gain a credit card. they can check to see if your name and social security number come up as an open credit account with them without having to know the credit card number. also, again, get your free credit reports from the address i listed (you are allowed one per year from each of the reporting agencies for free). just know that updates to credit reports are quarterly, so if there is an account open within the current quarter, it may not necessarily show up.

it's easy to dump the computer off at the police station and make a couple of phone calls about your credit.

about the police turn in, though, different states have different laws regarding turned-in items. not every state or locality allows the finder to reclaim the item if no one claims it. but again, it's far better than to deal with getting caught with stolen merchandise.

Dudes!

I dont know how old you guys are, but theres a law. If you get something delivered to your door that you did not order, its yours to keep.

( if any of you oldees remember the commercial with the eskimo holding the new fan, saying thanks )

Im not sure if it was changed within the years, but its only up to your moral standards of what to do with it.

there is no such law. why would you use a commercial to base your facts of law? that is ridiculous. The law in most states states that if you obtain something by accident and know that it is not rightfully yours, you must notify the rightful owner.

i'm presuming that the package had someone else's name on it but with the wrong address. if so, the package was charged to someone else who is the rightful owner, not the person who accidentally received it. if the package is tracked to you, you could be charged for the item.

either way, if the package was named to you or not, i would still be concerned about your personal information having been used.

Let's just drop the issue on the theft of the item in that package.

I mean the most important thing is to make sure that your friend is not a victim of identity theft or some other monkey business. I feel that's the most important thing & turning the package to the police is definitely a great idea as I think that it should be the safest thing to do. You definitely do not want to suffer any "consequences" due to a moment of greed!!

Good luck to your friend. Hope she gets everything sorted out soon & nothing is being stolen from her.

Note: The consequences I'm referring to are identity theft.....

um, the commercial was not an entertainment spot or an advertisement for product. It was produced by the US Post Office to alert the public to a "new law". Nothing ridiculous I gurantee. It was to guard against a noxious gambit, where companies were just sending out products and then sending bills. If you didnt want to keep the product, then you had to go through an arduous proces of replying with the enclosed forms and typically you paid a shipping charge.

below is a snippet of a suggestion, you can google the actual law.

I found several cars in the parking lot this morning.. They don't belong to me, but by golly, no one is in them, so I assume I can have them.. Now how do I drive multiple cars at once, I don't know..



I would probably do what the OP did, contact the delivery people, contact Dell, tell them to come get their junk.. If they don't, keep it.. I mean, hell, what is the OP going to do, throw it in the garbage? That's stupid..

As long as the OP made reasonable effort, no one came to get the item(s), it'd be stupid for him/her to..throw it away.. so.. enjoy it!

BTW.. that was MY DESKTOP! I WANT IT BACK!

I'm not sure what you are asking with this whole thing

You say that you want to return it, etc. But you have come to the conclusion that it is NOT stealing since it came addressed to your/her door.

If in your eyes there are no legal consequences, outside of moral issues, then why did you even start the thread? Then you said that you/she wont even open the box, because it isn't even an OPTION to keep it.

So it sounds like you have tried to return it with no avail, but keeping it is not in your mindset anyways.

And I can't justify why you are shooting everyone down that wants to know what it is? I do, everyone does. It isn't every day that you could possibly have thousands of dollars worth of product delivered to your door.

I guess the only answer you want to hear is keep on calling/emailing until you get it off of your hands. Good luck

P.S. If this goes on for another week or so, it is your civil duty to keep that mother!