People are sharing hilarious online shopping fails, and who among us hasn’t been there?
Online shopping is a bit of a crap-shoot. There’s no way to know for sure that what you order is what you get. We don’t know what the warehouse looks like, how the items are stored, who packs them up and sends them out. Of course, we love to imagine a small mom-and-pop operation receiving every order and wrapping them up with care and attention. However, we know, from a plethora of online shopping fails, that the reality is probably quite a bit more dystopian than that.
Ironically, the very platform that allows for such a disregard of quality control, i.e., the Internet, is also our savior for fails like these.
Folks who’ve been on the receiving end of totally-the-wrong-thing have been sharing photos of the items they ordered, versus what arrived.The results are…#omgcrying ? ? ? ?
The French team.
I ordered a BLUE Jays jersey online. This is what I got. Thanks @SportChek #GuessINeedANewJersey #BleuJaysBlueJays pic.twitter.com/TCSjNQtg2Q
— Becca Foord (@Becca_Foord) February 24, 2017
Dad shoes.
My dad ordered shoes online and this is what he got 😭😂 pic.twitter.com/C6jRohNhWD
— ☾ (@downeyrth_lover) February 11, 2017
Tent fit for a wifey.
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Tiny gumballs!
so my little cousin wanted a gum ball machine for Christmas and my mom ordered one online..this is what came😂😂 pic.twitter.com/KRo0YsqOgB
— kayliii (@kayliparker19) December 16, 2016
“You said you wanted a baby cake.”
What I ordered vs what I got.. I can't really 💔 pic.twitter.com/xn7HvcyPuk
— Just Cleo (@PsychoPatra_VII) February 25, 2017
Apologetic minions.
what I ordered on eBay vs what I got today 🙃 pic.twitter.com/doocajBmrb
— ashleigh (@acskii) January 25, 2017
Medical equipment.
Tried to buy new tweezers on @amazon. I should've checked the size. I think I accidentally ordered medical equipment 😂#onlineshoppingfail pic.twitter.com/dbXhIQdTJ7
— Alyssa Donovan (@AlyssaDonovanTV) December 14, 2016
40 bananas??!
Thought had ordered 4 bananas.
Nope. #onlineshoppingfail pic.twitter.com/YL6R1xbqCb— Rangoon Sisters (@RangoonSisters) November 3, 2016
Smallest water fight ever.
What you get for pre ordering your weekend fun: smallest water pistol in the world. #onlineshoppingfail #parenting pic.twitter.com/dbrxVzcnPj
— Kate Bolton – Comms for Good (@ktb2007) May 7, 2016
Most of us have had at least one such experience. It all goes to show that, sometimes, convenience is not king, and in-person is maybe the only fool-proof way to shop. Yet, we can’t be mad. Because, well, laughter is good for us.
