This is as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

And this is Ordering stuff from the internet, written , and concerning Humour

A friend of mine relates this story that recently happened. Names have been changed to protect the incompetent and the guilty :-) Friend: Please can I have 1 $ITEM. Equipment supplier website: No problem; it'll be in the post. (time passes) (parcel arrives) Friend: good lord, I ordered 1 $ITEM and they've sent me a lot more than that of them. How lucky for me! (time passes) Equipment supplier: We sent you too many $ITEMS. Give them back! Friend (with glint in eye): How many too many did you send me? Equipment supplier: <tumbleweed> Friend: How many too many? Equipment supplier: <tumbleweed> Friend (slightly testily): How many too many? Equipment supplier: We sent you one too many; you ordered 1 $ITEM and we sent you two. Friend: Oops! What a silly mistake to make. Here, have the extra one back. Ahaha. I'm never that lucky!

Comments

Alan Pope

AIUI there's no obligation to send any of them back or even pay for them. Your friend didn't ask for the extra stuff. The contract between them was for 1 $ITEM, not 2 or 5. So they should consider it a gift and say thank you to the supplier. :)

Chad

He may or may not be under any legal obligation to return the items (at the distributors expense), but he most certainly is under a moral one. This comparison may not be the best, but we in the open source world certainly want people to do what is right with code, perhaps we should have the same kind of regard for the property of others.

God, I sound like my dad...

Nick Fitzsimons

If your friend is in the UK I believe he's supposed to notify the vendor that they've sent him goods he didn't order, and that they are at liberty to make arrangements to collect them from him. If they decide it's too much hassle to arrange collection, he gets to keep it. IANAL, etc.

Alva

Humanity says you should ve returned yourself.

........and so even if the supplier asked to return back, you did'nt lost something for which you ve paid. So where's the pt of being unlucky.

Junaid

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Margaret

I think your friend's trying to act smart. Pretending so innocent as if he's not aware wat the vendor was askin him to return.

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