A Woman Ordered A Table Off eBay So They Sent Her 40 Bags Of Live Tropical Fish

Daily Mail- When Becky Smith ordered a £185 glass table and chairs from eBay, she would have had every right to complain that the delivered product did not quite match the description. That’s after the 21-year-old full-time mother from Harold Hill, east London, opened two boxes to find she had in fact been sent 40 bags containing 150 tropical fish. The discovery – which was recorded in a hilarious video by her friend Jacqueline Johnson and posted on Facebook – has since been viewed more than three million times in less than a day. The clip begins with Miss Smith in her dressing gown with wet hair – directing 30-year-old make-up artist Miss Johnson, who lives in the first-floor flat above her, into the kitchen.  And the women start laughing when they examine the packages – with Miss Smith saying: ‘Look, look, fish, fish, f***ing what am I going to do with them? What is it? Are they taking the p***?’

I have to imagine this happens more than we think.  Places like Amazon and eBay can’t be batting a thousand. It’s impossible. Online shopping has exploded in recent years. How many things get ordered online on a daily basis? I’m gonna put the number conservatively at a trillion. People order anything and everything online now. People order their groceries online. Occasionally people are going to get the wrong stuff. Occasionally somebody is gonna order a glass table and 40 bags of 150 tropial fish are going to show up at their doorstep. That’s just the way it is.  It’s the price we pay for convenience. I will say, I feel way worse for the dude who got a table instead of his tropical fish.  That’s a way bigger letdown than the other way around. The lady who got the fish instead of the table made a funny video out of it and now she has some dope ass tropical fish. That almost feels like a win.  The guy who got the table instead of the fish is like, “Alright, now I have another table.” That stinks.

I would be curious to see the traffic numbers for Amazon on Friday and Saturday nights around 3am.  That’s gotta be where they see some of their larger traffic numbers. That’s when I do the most of my online shopping.  Come home drunk and just start scrolling through pages and pages pointless crap. One night I ordered the complete series of Seinfeld and a book on the Iditarod.  Money well spent.