One Camera One Lens Loc: Traveling

This is straight out of LaLaLand where I worked as a photojournalist for about 28 years.
This morning I took my D4 I got yesterday and went out an shot a few frames to see how it worked.......Great. I got home and sitting in my entry way was a box. I proceeded to open it and inside, yeah you guessed it was a D4. I looked to see who it was from, a company I spoke to about a week ago had sent it out with out charging me. I called the bank to verify. I called the store and told them and nothing but stutter, dead silence and more stuttering. They literally begged me to please return it, they would pay the postage. Big deal. Being the kind of person I am I told them ok, but wanted verification they recieved it and no charging me. I could have kept it, who would know, not my style. This would be almost plausable it not so funny. Yes this really happened and maybe with a little luck you might have it happen to you. If you keep it is up to you..........

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

We need the Company name if we want to try our luck.

glblanchard

Good for you.

rocco_7155 Loc: Connecticut/Louisiana

You bet someone is in the boss' office this morning. WOW!

doduce Loc: Holly Springs NC

Hysterical.

One Camera One Lens Loc: Traveling

I am not going to give the name unfortunatley it's a company that we all have used. I figure the guy is in enough trouble, which I don't like, but it had to told. I wasn't about to be charged for it, that's six grand I don't need...........

TomballLegend Loc: Tomball, Texas

Many years ago, when our old hairy legged kids were little in the days of 8mm home movies we decided to purchase a whole setup offered on our Shell credit card. We were about to head for Expo sumthin or other in Montreal, and expected it would be fun to shoot movies. The box that the stuff arrived in was almost too large to get thru the front door(at least 3'X3') including a screen, projector, camera, film and user manual. Cutting to the chase, after the trip, when we arrived home, on the front porch was another similar box---marked paid. I immediately called Shell cust service attempting to return the thing. "Sir, we show no record of an overshipment". "Please do not return it---You have idea how much trouble it might cause". No matter what I said, it did no good. Later I traded the second shipment with a friend for a motor scooter for the kids.

Anything that can happen, WILL!

One Camera One Lens Loc: Traveling

I bought the camera as a send off to myself. I sold most of my old stuff, bought a few bridge cameras, but just had to have final D camera.Of course if I knew this was going to happen I would have saved the money and spent it on something I could use........the definition of a happy photographer, two charged batteries and a tank of gas............

HEART Loc: God's Country - COLORADO

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OnDSnap Loc: NE New Jersey

Reminds me of when my wife found $5,000 cash in a paper bag lying on the floor of the old chain store in NJ (2 Guys from Harrison) about 30 years ago...she returned it to the courtesy desk, it belonged to one of the stores vendors, she got a reward of 50 bucks.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

Brought to mind that some years ago UPS delivered 6 cartons of about 20x20x30 inches of software. I don't know how many boxes of the program was in each, but it was a bundle. I called the company to tell them to send UPS to get it but it took about 20 minutes and a threat to put the boxes out on the street as a "help yourself" before they listened and agreed to set up the pickup.

pauleveritt Loc: Erie, Colorado

Back in the 1920s and 1930s companies would send out products that people did not order and bill them for it. People were a lot more naïve in those days and would often just pay for the item. The Government stepped in and said that if you receive a product that you did not order, IT WAS A GIFT! You were legally entitled to keep the item.

Ponce Loc: Ft. Lauderdale Fl

Good for you. I had a similar situation where I received a shipment of Nikon gear including big fast glass that was going out for an event. Everything a photographer needs plus. Of course it was returned I wasn't about to be liable for thousands of dollars worth of pro gear that I would have loved to have.... HOWEVER !!!

twhrider Loc: Indiana

I had that happen last year with a promo from one of the companies we do business with. The promo was we were to get 2 coolers (think like the little coolers by the check out stands in grocery stores where you can get a cold pop) for a rather large order we placed. Part of the deal was, I told them we'd pay for the order, but please hold it until we got the coolers as I did not have a big enough refrigerator to hold all of the goods until the coolers came. Stuff came anyway, no coolers. I had stuff in my fridge at home, we had all of our little personal fridges full, bosses' fridge was full...and I was on the phone giving them the mother of all ass chewings. Well, the coolers show up two days later....the ones that they "rushed". Great. Crisis solved. But....one of them didn't work. Called and they said they'd look into getting service for it. Two weeks later another two coolers arrived. Hmmmm.....I called our local rep, and they said they'd look in to it. Called back and said "SSHHHHHHHHHH"....enjoy. If they come looking for them, then fine, but otherwise consider it a perk of the hassle you went through. Noone came to repair the defective one, but that was fine, because we had the two we needed. A month later, I get a call that they had accidentally delivered too many coolers to us, and they needed to come and get them. I said "Fine, but you're getting the one that's defective that you told me you'd have repaired 6 weeks ago that no one did anything about." Silence. Then I get a call that the driver is coming to pick them up, I need to have them packaged and ready to go, and I HAVE TO WAIT AFTER HOURS FOR THEM TO PICK UP. Ummm....don't think so. I told them if they couldn't get anyone there during regular hours, they could bloody well wait until the next day, and while one of them was packaged, since we'd never opened it, the defective one was not packaged and I'd thrown all the packing away. I'm sure they have a lovely portrait of a female canine on the wall with my name under it. Seems they wanted us to do an awful lot to fix their mistake. But then, right on schedule, the company sent their sales reps in this year to start hounding me about the large purchase promos.... Gotta love it.

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

I think I'll call up my GMC dealer and discuss the 2014 Sierras with him. Maybe.... :)