I was shipped 67 pounds of sensor tags

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
D

dmw16

Diamond Member
Nov 12, 2000
7,608
0
0
So last night when my wife got home there was a fairly large box on the door step. I am naturally suspicious and half thought it was a bomb, but when the time she'd called me it was already opened, so nothing I could do about that...

Inside the box are 67 pounds of hard plastic retail store sensor tags. So I grab the tracking number and call FedEx and they tell me that the shipment originated from an account owned by American Eagle. So I call them and they have no record of the shipment and they are investigating.

But here's what makes it even more odd. The label wasn't generated by FedEx (no bar code, not a standard company shipping label) it was just typed onto a piece of paper and taped on. And stranger still is that my name was backwards (last name first and first name last) and the zip code was wrong.

Maybe I'm paranoid but I'm a little weirded out by the all thing. What does ATOT think?
 
Jeeebus

Jeeebus

Diamond Member
Aug 29, 2006
9,181
901
126
dmw16 said:
What does ATOT think?
Click to expand...

You need to leave the house. NOW. Remove the battery from your cell phone and throw it in the freezer. Grow a beard. Move to Brazil. Start selling mangoes. I only hope this advice reaches you before the imminent F-18 strike.
 
waggy

waggy

No Lifer
Dec 14, 2000
68,143
10
81
I think you now have 67 pounds of stuff to play with! wooooo!
 
twinrider1

twinrider1

Diamond Member
Sep 28, 2003
4,096
64
91
Odd. There was a scam going around here where the criminal has a large order of Legos delivered to your address (paid for with bogus PayPal Pay It Later accounts because they're easy to set up). Then they'd wait outside of your address on delivery day and snatch it from your porch and sell the Legos.
But I don't know how profitable 67lbs of sensor tags would be for a thief.
 
D

dmw16

Diamond Member
Nov 12, 2000
7,608
0
0
twinrider1 said:
Odd. There was a scam going around here where the criminal has a large order of Legos delivered to your address (paid for with bogus PayPal Pay It Later accounts because they're easy to set up). Then they'd wait outside of your address on delivery day and snatch it from your porch and sell the Legos.
But I don't know how profitable 67lbs of sensor tags would be for a thief.
Click to expand...

Me either. If they were worth something I could have kept them.

FedEx is coming to pick them up today.

What's weird is that whoever it was was able to use American Eagle's FedEx account.
 
E

Exterous

Super Moderator
Jun 20, 2006
20,569
3,762
126
Go to a nearby mall and place them on random people. Sit back and watch the fun as they keep setting off the alarms
 
P

pelov

Diamond Member
Dec 6, 2011
3,510
6
0
What if you've been spending your nighttime hours as a Tyler Durden sort and opened up your own after-hours sex shop specializing in selling the biggest and blackest of all dildos? It would certainly explain the sensor tags and the strange looks you've been getting.
 
amdhunter

amdhunter

Lifer
May 19, 2003
23,332
249
106
Keep it. Not your fault and legally you can do whatever you want with it.
I bet they are worth a good penny on Ebay.
 
highland145

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
43,973
6,338
136
Your wife's other personality is trying to tell you she's a klepper like my ex Winona.:'(
winona-ryder_630.jpg
 
D

dmw16

Diamond Member
Nov 12, 2000
7,608
0
0
American Eagle called back and now their loss prevention people are involved.

Wonder if someone tried to steal these to sell or they are non-functional ones they wanted to put on in a store in place of real ones to make shop lifting easier?
 
rudder

rudder

Lifer
Nov 9, 2000
19,441
86
91
Someone bulk ordered them online using a stolen credit card. I am curious though... is 67 pounds of sensors roughly the size of an alternator?
 
Don Vito Corleone

Don Vito Corleone

Elite
Feb 10, 2000
30,029
67
91
dmw16 said:
American Eagle called back and now their loss prevention people are involved.

Wonder if someone tried to steal these to sell or they are non-functional ones they wanted to put on in a store in place of real ones to make shop lifting easier?
Click to expand...

The latter would seem to make sense, but it seems like a lot of work to go through to steal fairly inexpensive clothes. The whole thing is definitely strange in any event.
 
dave_the_nerd

dave_the_nerd

Lifer
Feb 25, 2011
16,994
1,622
126
dmw16 said:
What's weird is that whoever it was was able to use American Eagle's FedEx account.
Click to expand...

Not really. It's a 9-digit number, and the package is shipped and delivered way faster than the accountants at AmEagle will notice a single-package discrepancy on their monthly invoices.
 
D

dmw16

Diamond Member
Nov 12, 2000
7,608
0
0
So I heard back from American Eagle.

Turns out the sensors came from their store in Palmdale, CA which has been shut down (tracking number and an attempt to call said store confirms that piece) and the sensors were supposed to go to their vendor in Florida.

Not totally sure how my name ended up on the box. Best guess is that either there was a foul up in FedEx's system with the barcode, or the shipping label got ripped off and they somehow thought it was for me.

Very odd, but at least there was some explanation.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom