Dilemma: Received parcel, not mine. Poll Please?

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Got home tonight to find a parcel on my doorstep. Inside is a Sony A200 camera, bag, additional accesories and lenses.

Now the parcel has my full, exact address but not my name. I live in a house and not flats.

192 shows nobody living near to me with the name on the parcel.

There is no return name and address.

So what do I do? (please bear in mind the courier left it with no signature so they will be liable to reimburse the sender - assuming they paid for insurance which with a high value item I am sure they have)

1. Keep it and use it and count Friday 13th as my lucky day?

2. Keep it and see if the real recipient turns up?

3. Assume I have been compromised and somebody has bought it using my credit card/bank account and panic!

4. Sell it all (I reckon £400 to £500 on Ebay) and buy some new computer stuff from ocuk

5. sell it and donate the money to charity

Perhaps a passing mod could make this a poll please?
 
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Contact the delivery service and try to establish the sender using any references/numbering on the labels?

Is it a new camera?

Perhaps look to see if anyone you've bought something from online has recently sold the camera. If it's a private classified sale it'd be a shame for someone to lose out and it could've been a simple, honest mistake.
 
Check your accounts, etc. to make sure no one has used your cards.

Keep it. Tho as a good neighbour I'd ask the ones to your immediate left/right if they were expecting a parcel, but don't ask them if they were expecting a camera ;)
 
lol Theres no return name or anything i doubt they will be able to track it to the original poster then?

And if you hand it in the person who takes it will probably steal it for them selfs lol as its been delivered theres no return information etc.
 
5. Contact the vendor who sent the item and inform them that you have received the parcel. There's probably been a screw up at their end and they should pay for it to be returned at your convenience.
 
1. Good point about the courier, I'll contact them to find the sender.

2. Camera 2nd hand so I am guessing Ebay/some other forum sale

3. i know all my neighbours and the entire street. Nobody lives here with that name. But I will ask them over the weekend just to be sure.

5. Easy if you know who the seller is and I should have made it clear it is a 2nd hand sale. It was wrapped up in a bin liner.
 
genan said:
Sell it on ebay and give the money to an orphanage.
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That had crossed my mind although a different charity. However, what happens if by some chance the proper owner tracks it down to me. How do I explain I sold it and gave the money to charity.

Or should I wait say 30 days and then do that?
 
I'd definitely hold it awhile incase someone comes looking for it.

Now I just need to do a little detective work and come claim "my" camera back :D
 
Go to your bank and make sure no one has been using your account.
If its clean then wait 30 days and go take some piccys. Or sell it for 500 pound + and buy some shiny pc parts :D
 
I'd do everything I could to ensure the seller got it back. You could check completed eBay listings, Talk Photography forum etc. to start with.
 
Reminds me of this debacle from a while back. As above, was it sent by a tracked delivery method? If so inform the sender or at least enquire with the courier. :)
 
It will be from someone you have bought from before, they have mixed up your address with another name, they'll work it out soon and contact you I would imagine.
 
danza said:
I'd do everything I could to ensure the seller got it back. You could check completed eBay listings, Talk Photography forum etc. to start with.
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Checked Ebay and it's a very popular camera and lense set. In fact I found at least 6 in the previous 2 days which match. More than 20 in the previous week.

And not sure how I would approach it either. If I email a seller and ask have they sent a camera and it hasn;t been delivered and they lie and say yes, they get a free camera back.

Contacting the courier looks best. Although i despair as they won;t have a delivery signature which they really shouldn;t do and secondly left it on my doorstep for god knows how many hours. You start and feel that they should pay for it out of their incompetance. I could have come home and found that somebody else had taken it and I would never have known.
 
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I'd sit on it. Although the parcel was left on the doorstep, was it meant to be signed for, and trackable?
 
Weird that the delivery guy left it on your doorstep without any kind of signature! I'd keep hold of it for a while and see if anyone gets in contact!

edit: lcg beat me to it lol
 
Who delivered it? Contact them and inform them. Remember a lot of couriers label items for customers from a manual manifest/address label - if there is any error in the data entry from the customer's consignment note the tracking label will not reflect this. Could easily be a courier error.

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Think about how you would feel if you were the sender or legitimate receiver's situation right now.....
 
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