I’m going with this theory. By default Amazon wish lists are searchable by the public, ostensibly so you can see if your friends and family have wish lists on Amazon, and if so you can buy them a gift from said list.
I could see someone at XYZ Realty deciding this year instead of sending out calendars to all their customers, they would search to see if they had wish lists on Amazon, and send them the cheapest thing on their list as long as it’s below some price limit. It wouldn’t surprise me if there was software that will just go through their contact list and do that automatically. So if your friend was just using the wish list to keep track of the ice cube trays he was considering, or just added them by mistake, the realty might have seen that and sent them to him. (And if your friend has never done business with XYZ Realty before, maybe he just has a similar name to someone who has).
Yeah, I was wondering this. Does OP’s friend have, or has ever had, any dealings with XYZ Realty? Or has OP’s friend done any real estate related internet searches? It’s hard to imagine that searching for ice cube trays would attract any attention from a realty company. But if OP’s friend is doing any on-line realty research, that could have attracted that attention. Then if they could also discover his ice cube search, they could connect the dots.
Talked w/ the guy later and asked if he ever figured out the delivery. He said something like it was ordered from Walmart but delivered by Amazon. Sounded sorta confusing to me, and I didn’t try to straighten it out.
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For the OP, I’ve ordered from Amazon before and been surprised when a box showed up from a different major online retailer (for example, Petsmart box when ordering dog treats). Maybe the inverse happens as well?
It’s plausible some Amazon warehouse worker put the gift note in the wrong box. I have had something similar happen before, in my case I sent a gift to someone but they got the correct item but a gift note for someone else.
It’s called drop shipping, it’s actually pretty common. That means he could have had the same thing from Amazon for cheaper, which is odd since he claims he actually did find it on Amazon first.