50 Times People Shared Laughable And Alarming Online Shopping Mistakes

Shopping mistakes online can be funny, until they show up at your door looking nothing like the listing. This list is basically a greatest-hits album of “I swear it was supposed to be normal,” from bathmats that arrive in the wrong universe to a $3 watch that somehow turns into a win.

It gets even messier when the wrong person hits “buy now.” One guy tried to help by ordering his dad a Wish package, and it did not go well, while another fiancé and fiancée ordered a navy bathmat and got something that made them laugh and trust the internet 10 out of 10. Then there are the classic comparisons: what people ordered versus what actually arrived, like the baby Yoda doll from China, where the pictures on the left and right might as well be different characters.

And yes, there are even “discrete packaging” moments that absolutely do not stay discreet.

1. I Told My Dad Not To Buy Anything From Wish, But He Made Me Order It For Him... It Didn't Go Well

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2. My Fiancé And I Ordered A Navy Bathmat And This Came, 10/10 Would Order Again

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3. The Cake That Was Ordered And The Cake That Arrived

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4. Ordered A Swimsuit From Amazon. This Is What I Got

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5. Ordered A $3 Watch From Amazon. Nailed It

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6. My Buddy Ordered A Baby Yoda Doll From China. On The Left Is What He Thought He Ordered. On The Right Is What Came In The Mail

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7. So For My Birthday, My Brother Ordered Me A Jacket That Was Supposed To Be A Size Medium. When I Got The Jacket, It Was Way Too Big

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8. Ordered A Cute Pink Pig Kawaii Cushion Plush. But The One I Received Is All Hairy And Weird

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9. What A Friend Of Mine Ordered On A Costume Site And What She Got

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10. I Ordered A Lighter; Dasher Replaced It With Packing Tape

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11. Even My Dog Was Disappointed In This Facebook Ad Purchase

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12. The Dog Bed My Mum Ordered For 99€

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13. Be Sure To Always Check The Size When Ordering Treats

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14. I Came Home To A Package I Didn't Order - I Opened It Up To Find This And Have No Idea Who To Thank

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15. What I Ordered vs. What I Got

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16. I Ordered A Sandwich On Uber Eats And Got This; Sucks For The Person That Ordered This

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17. Thought My Amazon App Was Frozen; Guess Not

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18. There Was An Attempt At “Discrete Packaging” By The Adult Site I Ordered From

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19. Picked Up My Walmart Order And They Left The Formula I Bought In Its Security Box

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20. I Ordered 4 Sliders And Received 270 Bread Rolls. Such A Waste

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21. I Ordered Nice Knives For The First Time In My Adult Life From eBay. The Seller Sent Me A Box From The Set I Ordered, But The Knives Were A Different Line With Much Lower Quality

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22. What My Sister Ordered vs. What She Received

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This is basically the same mess as the AITA post where a friend ordered expensive dinner items to celebrate his promotion.

23. Ordered These Grinches For My Sister's Baby Shower... Blown Away By What I Was Sent

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24. I Purchased A Wallace Mug To Go With My Gromit Mug. Unbeknownst To Me, I Had Ordered A Comically Small Mini-Mug

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25. Amazon Took The Picture With My Box In Mid-Air

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26. Ordered The Cake On The Left, Got The One On The Right

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27. That's What Achilles Wore When He Was Going To War

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28. I Requested 8 Bananas In My Weekly Grocery Pickup Order… They Gave Me 8 Bunches And Managed To Only Charge Me $0.68 - The Price Of One Single Banana

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29. GameStop Sent Me 4 Controllers Instead Of Just The 1 I Ordered

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30. You Also Need To Order Hips, Thick Thighs, And A Push-Up Bra, Then Dye The Clothes Red

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31. Just Ordered A Pepperoni Pizza

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32. This Is What Happens When You Order Stuff Off Facebook. What I Ordered vs. What I Actually Received

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33. What To Do When You Order A Small T-Shirt And They Send You An XXXL

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34. This Is How My Walmart Delivery Order Came. I Called Customer Service To Ask What I Should Do, And They Said Just Break It

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35. After Seeing The Pic Of My Nephew In His New Christmas Gift, My SO Thinks He “Might Have Ordered The Wrong Size”

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36. I Have A Sick Dog, So I Ordered £70 Worth Of Groceries From Morrisons Via Deliveroo. Morrisons Accepted The Order But Canceled Almost Every Item. And I Got An Onion

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37. Labyrinth-Style Doll Bought For $55. Can’t Stop Laughing

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38. The Ice Cream Cake We Ordered vs. What We Received

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39. What Was Ordered vs. What Was Received Through Our Beloved Daraz

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40. Amazon Literally Sent Me An Empty Bag, And The Delivery Picture Shows It Was Open. (Say Hi To My Invisible Graphics Card)

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41. My Mum Ordered This Online

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42. I Ordered Clint Eastwood. I Received His Derpy Cousin, Twice Removed

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43. How The Shoes I Ordered On Poshmark Arrived

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44. My GF Ordered Some Ankle Weights For Running And Somehow Got Sent This Instead... Trying To Convince Her To Just Go Out Running With The Hammer

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45. Ordered From Instacart For The First Time, And This Is How The Chicken Came

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46. So I Ordered A Spider-Man Mask A While Back, And This Is What Came In

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47. BFF Got This Bear Hat For My Cat To Recreate An Adorable Instagram Post She Saw

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48. The Bear Mask My Friend Ordered vs. The Nightmare Fuel He Received

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49. My Beautiful Order From ProFlowers

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50. I Ordered A Seinfeld Shirt From China, And Not Only Does It Have "Friends" Printed On It, But It Also Has An R Letter Missing

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After the Wish disaster, it’s hard not to notice how quickly one bad order can turn a harmless delivery into a family story everyone repeats.

Meanwhile, the navy bathmat situation proves the internet can swing from “alarming” to “accurate enough to reorder,” sometimes in the same scroll.

Then you hit the side-by-side chaos, like the baby Yoda doll and the Grinches for a baby shower, where the “what I thought I ordered” version gets absolutely roasted.

And just when you think it can’t get weirder, the lighter swapped for packing tape and the “discrete packaging” attempt remind you that sellers can be creative in the worst ways.

Ease isn't the only factor you consider when shopping online.

With the convenience of the internet, people can shop whenever and wherever they want. So we can expect more of these pictures as people keep ordering.

Nobody wants to be the person explaining why the package that arrived is not the package they ordered.

Before you and your friends argue about “fair” costs, read how OP got pushback for splitting a fancy dinner bill based on what everyone ordered.