She gave everything to passers-by.
Virginia resident received more than 100 Amazon packages she didn’t order.
Cindy Smith said boxes recently started showing up outside her Prince William County home, and she soon received about 1,000 headlamps, 800 glue guns and dozens of pairs of binoculars.
“Many people told me that I was strange. I went with flashlights and glue guns in the car. I handed them out to everyone I met,” she shared.
The boxes had Smith’s address, but Lixiao Zhang’s name, which she had never heard before.
“At first we thought it was a scam,” the woman said, referring to the process where an online seller creates fake sales of their products to artificially inflate the number of 5-star reviews.
Liz Geltman of Washington, D.C., faced a similar situation in May, when her home was quickly filled with packs of baby sheets she didn’t order.
Amazon officials said they looked into both incidents and found that the Smith and Geltman packages were the result of suppliers sending packages to random addresses to remove unsold items from Amazon’s fulfillment centers.
“It all comes down to money,” New York attorney CJ Rosenbaum said of the scheme. “You have sellers who are in China who just pick random addresses. And then when they need to pick up their goods from Amazon warehouses, they just send them there because it’s cheaper for them.”
For its part, Amazon said that the seller’s account was closed.
Recall that the pensioner donated his old sofa, forgetting that hid $30,000 in it. He hopes to get his money back.
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