• Amazon sent me a better version of the item I ordered, is this normal? (ordered $50 item, got $100 i
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I ordered a Blue Snowball microphone from Amazon and was pleasantly surprised to find a Blue Yeti in the box. Original packaging, not opened, everything included in brand new condition. I was only charged for the Blue Snowball. I'm pretty curious as to how something as automated as Amazon can send the wrong item but better. Anyone have this happen to you before? I doubt they would, but is there a possibility they recognize their mistake and ask for the item back?
[QUOTE=Cjmax;45737958]I ordered a Blue Snowball microphone from Amazon and was pleasantly surprised to find a Blue Yeti in the box. Original packaging, not opened, everything included in brand new condition. I was only charged for the Blue Snowball. I'm pretty curious as to how something as automated as Amazon can send the wrong item but better. Anyone have this happen to you before? I doubt they would, but is there a possibility they recognize their mistake and ask for the item back?[/QUOTE] It's their mistake. Legally they can't ask for it back I think.
I'd wait a while to see if they send anything about it. If not, then enjoy your gift from amazon
Mistake at the shipping center, they probably won't even notice. It was their fault, not yours, use the product you paid for (even if it's not exactly the one you ordered), and if they DO ask for it back, deal with it then. I unintentionally got a third-party gamecube controller like that, but in-person. Was buying it and a game at Futureshop (owned by Best Buy in Canada, practically the same thing at this point), and they had a barrel of these dumb "0WNED!" 'gamer' ballcaps they were giving away to anyone who purchased a game or game accessory during whatever promo. The girl at the till swiped the controller over the anti-theft deactivation pad, but then she interrupted herself to tell me about the hats (which were on the consumer side of the till). I grabbed one and a second one came with it, so there was a slight bit of fumbling around to put one hat back and get the other scanned in for me. Then she put the gamecube controller in the bag without even scanning its barcode. I didn't notice that I wasn't charged for it until after I got home and FS was already closed for the night. :v: I decided I [I]could've[/I] gone back, but it was an honest mistake and if anything the girl at the till might've gotten in shit, so I decided to just let things be. I once got a video card that was supposed to have 256MB of vram but had 512MB at no extra cost. I called it a lucky day and got hyped while I installed it. [editline]19th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Phrozen99;45737987]It's their mistake. Legally they can't ask for it back I think.[/QUOTE] I'm sure, legally, they can ask for it back. I don't think they can legally [B]force[/B] you to give it back, unless it was some sort of exceptionally fucked-up special circumstance. Which this isn't.
This mic is crazy good. I'd be hard pressed to give it back. Here I was expecting some simple mic, and I get one with the works. This thing has like, four mics. I recorded myself talking and you could hear where I was moving in the room, down to my clothes ruffling or creaks in the floorboard. Only downside is I was getting a mic that wasn't too large so I didn't have to deal with a large footprint. This one stands a foot high, weighs five pounds and I've got nowhere to put it. Time to do some rearranging.
that thing can switch between cardioid and omni/bidirectional. use cardioid for speaking and things like that if you don't want to pick up those things like rustling clothes and floorboard creaks [editline]19th August 2014[/editline] nice catch, by the way. it does happen kind of often
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