Xbox users have been left baffled by a blunder that left one individual with two more consoles than they paid for.
The ROG Xbox Ally has been out for nearly a week now, and given the rather high demand, buyers have only just been receiving their units.
With such a large movement of units, mistakes and errors are bound to happen on the part of the suppliers, as one Xbox fan learned this last week.
Posting on the Xbox Reddit page, user denzao shared an image showing three ROG Xbox Ally X devices that had been delivered to their home.
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“I got three Ally X for the price of one” they posted, sharing that they had only paid for only one device and yet ended up with three.
These units were sold as part of a bundle called a Master Box, a larger box containing three units from the manufacturer which are then sent to retailers to be sold. The idea behind master boxes is to avoid the contents from being damaged by packing them together in bulk.
As lucky as denzao probably felt in that moment, they then posted, “They contacted me quite fast I must say. They are sending a QR code so I can return two of them. Quite funny. Now I know why it sold out fast.”
Denzao then posted a comment with some more context, writing: “I did return it. I live in Sweden and our law says this [...] Thought it was just a funny mistake and wanted to share.”
It’s quite a bizarre error, but it does happen. And very rarely do you ever get to actually keep the contents that were shipped to you unintentionally. You almost always have to ship them back.
“It's a shame that you had already opened all three boxes,” joked one user in the replies.
“Wouldn't it be funny if one of them got lost and ended up in my home,” quipped another.
Other users have been sharing similar stories about when this happened to them.
“I won a free guitar once. I bought the guitar and then it got lost by the delivery company, then I received a refund,” wrote one. “I bought the guitar again, received it normally, a couple days after I received another (probably the one that got lost). I tried to contact the company but no one ever reached back to reclaim so I got two guitars.”
Still, not the headache you want to deal with if you need to return it to the manufacturer.