Suspicious Package…
I arrive back at Casa del Garrett to find a UPS package waiting for me. I’d ordered something from Amazon but it had only shipped yesterday so I couldn’t imagine it was that. And closer inspection of the shipping label indicated it was not the product I’d ordered anyway. But what was it then?
So I open it and discover something kinda nifty but not anything I’d ordered from anyone anywhere. It wasn’t on my Amazon Wish List either, so I doubt it came from an appreciative reader. People just don’t send you things like the item that arrived on my doorstep today without at least some indication that you might actually want it. I mean…it’s nice and all…and if someone I know did send it to me I really appreciate the thought. But I’d never have bought one of these for myself.
I try to think if it came as part of something else I’d bought sometime in the past, that was, like, some bonus item you got if you bought some other thing. But no…this particular thing was only introduced into the marketplace last July. I haven’t bought anything since then that might have included this item as a bonus.
So now I’m thinking…Identity Theft. So I need to go online and check to see if someone is making purchases on one of my credit cards and something got shipped to my house instead of theirs by mistake…
I’ll keep you posted on how this all sorts out…
[Update…] Okay…The cards I use to buy things online show no suspicious activity. Neither do any of my bank accounts. I have no new credit card accounts created in my name according to my credit reporting service. I have some other accounts I need to check tomorrow morning because I have to contact those agencies by phone and it’s past business hours now. But my main spending cards seem to be safe,
This item I got today really was sent to me…it has my name on the packing slip, but frustratingly no payment information other then it was "pre-paid". There is also no number on the packing slip I can call to make inquiries. It’s a product from a well known American corporation…but there is no contact information on the packing slip for them. Just that it was sent from one of their distribution centers.
It’s not horribly expensive, judging from the prices for it I see online. Anywhere from $100 – $150. But I didn’t order it and I can’t imagine how it might have been sent to me other then as a gift, or because someone out there got my credit card info and is using it to buy themselves goodies…one of which just happened to get sent to me. But so far I can’t see any evidence of that.
I don’t have that many cards…I don’t like credit but I live with it because it’s necessary in this day and age. This is a good reason not to have too many accounts out there…so if something looks suspicious you don’t have to check out very many things. I have an account with a credit monitoring agency that sends me notification of any changes in my credit status almost instantly. When I financed the Mercedes they practically barraged me with notifications that I was being checked, and that the loan in my name had been approved. So I think I’m safe there.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Cool!
So you got the inflatable Love-Goat I sent!
I hope they sent the charger too, cause that thing just burns through batteries.
The cool thing about that model (Which made it cost a bit more then the standard ones) is that the gender can easily be changed with the velcro and latex attachments. (You know, just in case you get over this….sickness, and psychosis….Y’know, like rev Smid said: “I’d rather see you go f@ck a goat then return to the homosexual lifestyle”)
Seriously though, it sounds like an intriguing mystery!
October 24th, 2008 at 8:06 am
I thought it was “I’d rather see you return to the homosexual lifestyle then picture you wearing those sexy Calvin Klein briefs under those tight Levi low risers…” John was never too clear on the concept.
I appreciate your concern for my loneliness. And this actually works out very well. We’ve had a rash of burglaries in the neighborhood, so I stuck the goat out in the yard with its Velcro genitals dangling off the horns. Now even the postman won’t come near the house. (hey…no more bills!) A guy walking his pit bull down the street this morning saw the goat and ran off carrying his dog in his arms. I feel so secure now.
Yeah…’tis a mystery. I still have a couple accounts to check, but it looks like nobody bought this thing with my money. So either it’s a gift from someone I have yet to hear from, or I got this as a bonus for buying something else and I didn’t notice it in the fine print. But it’s a tad expensive to be a bonus something. Usually those kinds of things are cheap junk you’d not only never buy for yourself, but you tend to throw away when it arrives in the mail for free. The thing I got yesterday is kinda neat…not something I’d buy for myself but as a gift I’d certainly appreciate it and use it. I just need to know why I got it.
If I had a blog with a lot of traffic I’d almost think the manufacturer just sent it to me as a promotion of some kind. But my little web site is not nearly that popular. I recently renewed my membership in the Mercedes-Benz Owner’s Club…but I don’t think this is a Thank-You gift from them as it’s worth several times the membership dues. I have a ton of “Reward Points” on one of my credit cards (think of them as the S&H Green Stamps of the plastic money era…) that I’ve never paid any attention too because I never see anything I like in the fulfillment catalogs they keep sending me. Maybe they just decided to cash in my Reward Points for me since I wasn’t doing anything with them.
I have no idea why I got this. All I can think now is I had a birthday last month and somebody I know just now sent me something. But I have no idea who. Usually there’s a gift card included with something like that. All I know is it didn’t come from my Amazon Wish List because it wasn’t on there.
If I can’t figure it out in a couple weeks I’ll let everyone know what it was. Maybe I’ll even open it and try it out then. Right now it’s just sitting on my kitchen table, daring me to figure it out.
October 25th, 2008 at 2:37 am
No, I error: it is "I’d rather WATCH you f@ck a goat then watch you return to homosexuality"