UPS Sends Me $90,000 in iPod Nanos

[raultherabbit]

I'm glad some folks still have honesty.  Good on you mate.  You did the right thing, for all we know that was $90,000 in donated ipods for poor kids or something.

 

++karma > 450 ipods.

[Yoinkerman]

Another update: Apple contacted UPS, so just now UPS corporate called and a very nice woman said that the $25 gift card was simply all that the person who gave it to me was authorized to do (I guess they have free reign to give those out), but she wanted to buy me an iPod (Don't know if it's a Nano or what, but it's not important) and $250 iTunes gift card from my local Best Buy.

 

That seems pretty reasonable

[SteveGrabowski]

Another update: Apple contacted UPS, so just now UPS corporate called and a very nice woman said that the $25 gift card was simply all that the person who gave it to me was authorized to do (I guess they have free reign to give those out), but she wanted to buy me an iPod (Don't know if it's a Nano or what, but it's not important) and $250 iTunes gift card from my local Best Buy.

 

That's good to hear. I'd be happy getting that for doing the right thing.

[Sicarius]

Good on you, I'd be very tempted however. Maybe UPS will give you a little something if you end up speaking to the manager.

[SirReallySam]

That's INSANE D:

[Litargirio]

For those wondering, I am contacting people to get it straightened out and no, I'm not "keeping" any of them, I'm giving it back to them as it was given to me, with the box slightly opened, because I thought it was for me.

 

Darn, you could've used them to make an epic iPad giveaway here on LinusTechTips... You know, since Apple makes $182,789,000,000 a year, and some other people don't have the luck of being able to afford expensive stuff.

 

Or you could've donated all that money to charity.

 

Such a shame you decided to help the richest people in the world and forgot about the poor ones.

[Sicarius]

Darn, you could've used them to make an epic iPad giveaway here on LinusTechTips... You know, since Apple makes $182,789,000,000 a year, and some other people don't have the luck of being able to afford expensive stuff.

 

Or you could've donated all that money to charity.

 

Such a shame you decided to help the richest people in the world and forgot about the poor ones.

They're a rich company because they worked for it. Steve and co didn't get given the money for their company. I hate Apple as a company but you can not take it away from them; they've done well.

[DJSchmitty]

I guess it's Nano-t a problem.

[Zweihander]

Yo, I need a new Ipod. Just slip one out. They will never notice.

 

Yo-dawg!   B)

[RevoltTrain]

LTT giveaway?

[FireofDestruction]

If You Get 30 Thousand Dollars MAKE S BEASTLY COMPUTER WITH IOADJAIOHAWIFGUIAGAIFHAWIFGAUIFEGUGUWAFGSEUAFWUIAFGAUIFGWUIAGFUIGW GDARUDESFHSEFSEFSJKEFHSJKEHFSANDSTORMAWEFSEFSFSE

it could become the new most expensive pc on pcpartpicker i think the current one is 16000 or something like that

[Alurit]

I've been to bookings twice here, sued the shit out of the NYPD .Sued my landlord because she said I cant smoke in the building staircase; whipped out a 30 page 2002 NYC smoking act PDF, and told her that until she does what's stated int he document I can smoke here and even if she does, until my lease is over I still can smoke in the hallway [fuck the people who complain].

 

Even got free rent for a few months because of her "harassment".

 

I don't mind the ride considering I'll be getting a fat settlement check afterwards. (My parents pay monthly for an awesome lawfirm)

 

I'm 21, 4.0 GPA, columbia, go to school for free, get 5k/semester cash for keeping my GPA (TY tax payers), and sue the shit out of people for fun.

 

Trust me, if you were a cop in texas, I can see why you're not one now.

 

Also NYC > United States. What goes on in texas does not go on in NYC; we're Superior to every state and city.

 

Also doesn't matter what state you're in; the the mail thing is a federal statute, it's sent to him, so it's his; doesn't matter if they made a mistake.

 

I doubt you where even part of a police department, you probably wore a diarrhea green shirt in a sheriffs office in a small town in the middle of nowhere that nobody knows the name of.

I always wondered why can sue someone for almost no reason like that? In almost every european country if you try to sue someone for obliviously no real reason it's unlikely to go to court but if it is you'd probably get some serious scolding from the judge for wasting his/her time, you'd have to pay the costs of the lawsuit and sometimes pay some fine for good measure.

[CielErrant]

Anyone I know would have kept them without a word, that's some honesty you've got there.

I don't see how keeping the items could be legal anywhere. What the fluff, it's obvious it was a mistake and it's obvious those goods where meant for someone else and were owned by someone else. If I tried to tell a judge "well I got them in the mail so they're mine now" he'd be like "don't bs me, it was a mistake and there's no way you didn't realise it", and that means bad faith, and that means theft, and that means jail.

[Guest Kloaked]

Shame on everyone in this thread who says to keep them.

[EpicGeekonFire]

RIP to that person's job! UPS will definitely find em and fire them. You sure you don't wanna keep at least one?  

 

 

Make that two, I want one too. 

[xillius]

thats a crazy mess up on UPS behalf they owe you.

[jakjakattack]

I guess it's Nano-t a problem.

 

That was so bad it was good.

[-iSynthesis]

Another update: Apple contacted UPS, so just now UPS corporate called and a very nice woman said that the $25 gift card was simply all that the person who gave it to me was authorized to do (I guess they have free reign to give those out), but she wanted to buy me an iPod (Don't know if it's a Nano or what, but it's not important) and $250 iTunes gift card from my local Best Buy.

Well that sucks haha i wouldnt want a 250$ Itunes card

[Leobr123]

I mean... In the states you're legally allowed to keep those... 

where did you see that and what would you do with  90k worth of apple?

[JValen_KenjiMG]

Wow Just Wow!!

[Octagoncow]

That's pretty insane. I wouldn't even know what to do if that happened to me. It's good to hear that you decided to contact Amazon/UPS about it.

[TicTac]

Wouldn't it be funny if they where all fake ......

[Guest]

Lol

[ImBleu]

Amazon put $50 on my account for my honesty when we thought it was theirs, but I have a feeling UPS and Apple won't say anything, but I'm okay with that. I feel good doing the right thing here. I could have kept them, no one would have ever known, but in the end, they weren't mine.

 

You could've given every person on LTT an iPod yo.

[StopTheWar]

What would one do with $90,000 worth of ipod nanos..........

Ebay Description:

I'm selling these pod nanos because I accidently ordered a little too much.