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Amazon Shipped an Item Never Ordered

CalebrosCalebros a k a TimesNewPwninRegistered User regular
edited December 2006 in Help / Advice Forum
Yesterday I looked on Amazon to see if The Critic was on DVD yet, and it was, that was that.

Today my dad gets a notification e-mail that Amazon has shipped the DVD, is sending it to his work, and it will be there tomorrow or Thursday.

No one ordered this. I am the youngest person in the house (and I'm 18 ) so no little kid was trying to be sneaky or anything. The last item we ordered on Amazon was shipped to my dad's work, and he used a credit card that is in his name, so he would have had to ordered it else I would have had to get his credit card from him and used it.

What I'm wondering is if somehow the last time something was ordered through Amazon if someone grabbed information from that and used it again this time. It seems like if someone had stolen credit card information they wouldn't have ordered something and delivered it to us.

We're keeping the DVD because hell, I want it anyway, plus they already shipped it and it'll be a huge hassle for us now. We only had $50 in the bank it it just took $32 of it so that's a big problem right there. I'm also afraid that the next time something is looked at on Amazon it'll be automatically ordered somehow as well.

Does anyone know of any spyware that would do this or if this is something else anyone has run into? I need to know if this is somehow Amazons fault or if I need to lock down my computer and weed out the problems or what.

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  • LemmingLemming Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    You may have accidentally hit "one click ordering" or whatever. It'll use the information you put in last time and automatically take money and ship it. I think.

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  • aesiraesir __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2006
    someone got it as a gift for someone else...?

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  • CalebrosCalebros a k a TimesNewPwnin Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    Wouldn't I still have had to confirm it and pick a shipping option and stuff?

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  • bone daddybone daddy Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2006
    Calebros wrote:
    Wouldn't I still have had to confirm it and pick a shipping option and stuff?
    No, 1-Click pretty much means one click; all that stuff is saved in your settings.

    If you're worried about this happening again, go in and knock out all the saved stuff so that whoever orders will need to input everything.

    bone daddy on
    Rogue helicopter?
    Salvation122 wrote:
    Ecoterrorism is actually the single largest terrorist threat at the moment. They don't usually kill people, but they blow up or set on fire very expensive things.
  • CalebrosCalebros a k a TimesNewPwnin Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    It seems like it would at least have had a page up that said "you ordered so-and-so"

    I never saw anything of the sort

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  • HenslerHensler Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    Yeah, I was in an Internet cafe once and started clicking the One-Click Ordering rather than Add to Cart by mistake. I ordered about a dozen items on some idiots credit card before I figured out what was going on.

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  • bone daddybone daddy Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2006
    Calebros wrote:
    It seems like it would at least have had a page up that said "you ordered so-and-so"

    I never saw anything of the sort
    It doesn't look like it. The idea is, according to their help page, that you tell them what you want and then they take that, pull all your account info themselves, and then email you all the information later. Go into your account and turn it off if you're worried about it happening again, and make sure it's actually been shipped as opposed to you guys just being given a shipping estimate.

    bone daddy on
    Rogue helicopter?
    Salvation122 wrote:
    Ecoterrorism is actually the single largest terrorist threat at the moment. They don't usually kill people, but they blow up or set on fire very expensive things.
  • CalebrosCalebros a k a TimesNewPwnin Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    Hmm... I guess I somehow hit One-Click Ordering then

    I hope my parents don't think I'm lying or something

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  • bone daddybone daddy Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2006
    It's easy enough to do. A lot of people turn it off for their account for just that reason.

    bone daddy on
    Rogue helicopter?
    Salvation122 wrote:
    Ecoterrorism is actually the single largest terrorist threat at the moment. They don't usually kill people, but they blow up or set on fire very expensive things.
  • CalebrosCalebros a k a TimesNewPwnin Registered User regular
    edited December 2006
    I didn't even know it existed but I'm definitely turning it off.

    We can lock this I guess.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2006
    Are you using Firefox? A speed-enhancing extension may have 'clicked' the link when it was pulling all the links off the page.

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