"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
06/17/2020 at 08:38 • Filed to: None | 3 | 22 |
[Update 2]
I received a surprise package from USPS. It was a battery! This is strange in several ways.
I cancelled the order after the package was sent to Massachusetts
I already received a refund for the order which was cancelled
I ordered a battery from a different vendor which was received in two days and is already installed in the computer
The package was sent from New York by some guy from an address that looks like an office building (which it could be), but it begs the question, how did the battery get from Massachusetts to New York?
If this is being forwarded by the individual who received my battery, how the hell did he get my name and address ? Surely the vendor wouldn’t be stupid enough to breach privacy and give him that information.
If this was the company sending the battery from another location, why would they refund my money and then send a battery anyway? The post date was five days after they already gave me a refund.
I don’t know the answer to any of these questions. The right thing to do is send the battery back to somebody, but I don’t know who. The name on the package is an individual, not the company I made the purchase from. This individual doesn’t have contact information and the address it came from doesn’t tie back to any company that I can find. This lonely door is the only clue:
The address on the left is numbered higher, the address on the right is for the next cross street.
We live in strange times...
[Update]
I just received the following from customer service.
“... due to some technical fault from their side...”
I’m just guessing that this is what their warehouse looks like.
I’ll be cancelling the order and making a new one from someone who has it in stock.
[Original]
I ordered a new battery for my personal tablet last week and it should have arrived today. Imagine my surprise when I checked the USPS tracking site and discovered it was delivered yesterday. To a locker. In Massachusetts. I live in Louisiana.
I don’t blame USPS. Clearly someone at the battery company screwed up the shipping labels. I’ve already been in touch with Neo (!) at NewEgg. Unfortunately, the battery came from a third-party seller. NewEgg informed them that they screwed up, but they have two business days to respond. I checked their inventory and they don’t have any more of this model. So, now what? Perhaps the person who also got screwed by receiving my battery will send it back. That’s assuming they got the notice from USPS that the battery is in the locker. They certainly didn’t get the tracking information.
I should have paid more attention when I noticed that some of the reviews indicated there have been shipping problems.
shop-teacher
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/05/2020 at 10:49 | 0 |
Ooofff!
66P1800inpieces
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/05/2020 at 11:03 | 0 |
I bought a motorcycle battery for my mom’s lawn tractor (shares a part with a Duccati!) from maxlifebattery.com (only listing them bc they did a great job). They are slightly off brand but seem to be on par with any decent sealed lead acid battery I have used for smaller equipment. They already had free shipping on the battery but wanted to get the tractor up and running by the weekend so I paid $2 extra for expedited shipping. Hour later I check to see where they are located. Yup, about an hour away. Battery was on my doorstep the next day.
Jewish Stig
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/05/2020 at 11:03 | 1 |
Sounds like a road trip!
TheRealBicycleBuck
> 66P1800inpieces
06/05/2020 at 11:08 | 0 |
I was really excited there for a second. Then I discovered that their “computer” batteries are really UPS batteries.
Cue sad trombone.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Jewish Stig
06/05/2020 at 11:09 | 0 |
The battery was shipped from Houston, so a road trip over there is feasible! Now if they would just get new ones in stock.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/05/2020 at 11:18 | 1 |
I had to google it. I’ve never heard of the place
66P1800inpieces
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/05/2020 at 11:32 | 0 |
I might actually need a new UPS battery so I am going to go and check them out again. I have one UPS for my media PC that also connects to my tv (2015 electrical code allows you to feed an outlet from a device ). I also have an old but decent APC sine wave UPS that was retired when I got the new one. I am working a lot from home so I might connect my router and such to the old UPS in case we get any power interruptions . Might be overkill.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> 66P1800inpieces
06/05/2020 at 11:45 | 0 |
I have a UPS connected to my server to help smooth out power dips. It’s not big enough to run the server for more than few minutes. I need to get the controlling software set up so it can shut down the server in an outage.
PartyPooper2012
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/05/2020 at 12:04 | 1 |
Love that! I love getting delivered messages but it’s not or elsewhere...
Hey we know you have a project going on and were hoping to work on it over the weekend, but lets have some fun. We’re gonna tell you product is delivered... but it won’t be and you have to guess where it is... If you guess wrong, 6 more weeks of winter
TheRealBicycleBuck
> PartyPooper2012
06/05/2020 at 12:24 | 1 |
I guess I could fly up there and see if I can get it out of the locker. It’s only 12 hours flight time with no stops. Probably closer to 15 with fuel stops.
Getting home might be problematic with the tropical storm coming. That $100 battery would balloon to $3,300 with plane rental and fuel.
I’m thinking that it won’t be worth it.
PartyPooper2012
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/05/2020 at 12:30 | 2 |
Hopefully the shipper refunds you the $8.99 shipping fees if you do that...
ZHP Sparky, the 5th
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/05/2020 at 13:10 | 1 |
CORONAVIRUS!
Ok...what did they ship to the wrong address then? Want to bet that it was just an empty box?
Something fishy here...nice way to hold on to peoples money with a vague promise that they will get their item someday soon. Wait until they make enough of a stink and just issue a refund. Maybe day trading with the money in the meantime.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> ZHP Sparky, the 5th
06/05/2020 at 13:50 | 0 |
I half expect somebody else’s shipment to arrive at my house.
smobgirl
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/17/2020 at 08:56 | 1 |
I wonder if there was a packing slip in there to get your address but the original packaging was damaged or something? I wouldn’t worry about sending it back though.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/17/2020 at 09:00 | 1 |
Just keep it or sell it on CL...it’s not worth the hassle at this point.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> smobgirl
06/17/2020 at 09:02 | 1 |
T hat’s an interesting thought and it makes the most sense. I think they screwed up the labels when they shipped it , but I didn’t receive something sent to someone else at my address and I didn’t receive a battery that wasn’t meant for my device.
Now I really want to see how they screwed up the shipping labels!
TheRealBicycleBuck
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
06/17/2020 at 09:03 | 1 |
I may call the company and offer to send it back if they send me a shipping label. If they say it’s not worth the hassle, then I’ll feel better about keeping it.
Michael
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/17/2020 at 09:29 | 0 |
Does the parcel have an invoice inside with your name and address?
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Michael
06/17/2020 at 09:36 | 0 |
It does not. Just a battery. I think Smobgirl had it right - the recipient pulled my name and address off the invoice and forwarded it to me, less the original packaging and packing slip. It still makes me wonder how it got from Massachusetts to New York.
functionoverfashion
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/17/2020 at 10:44 | 1 |
Related: my wife ordered something for our daughter this week and the tracking information bounces back and forth between In Transit and Delivered on May 28. Uhh, what?
TheRealBicycleBuck
> functionoverfashion
06/17/2020 at 10:47 | 0 |
D elivery guy marks it delivered before it’s delivered in order to say that it’s delivered and meet quota but forgets to actually deliver it so it gets marked in transit when it arrives back at the distribution center to be sent out to be delivered.
functionoverfashion
> TheRealBicycleBuck
06/17/2020 at 11:27 | 1 |
That makes sense, except for the delivery date being way before the order date. But it could still happen that way I suppose. Tracking of packages has been pretty wacky the past few months.