Submitted by The_Undermind t3_z9a1pm in nottheonion
AutomagicallyAwesome t1_iygdsgj wrote
Reply to comment by DisconnectedDays in Valve requests Steam Deck user return the turkey fryer it sent. by The_Undermind
If Steam is providing a shipping label then he almost certainly does. Most companies will eat the cost of shipping mistakes but that doesn't mean you're legally allowed to keep items mistakenly shipped to you.
ShadowDragon8685 t1_iygkxtg wrote
> Most companies will eat the cost of shipping mistakes but that doesn't mean you're legally allowed to keep items mistakenly shipped to you.
Yes, it does.
See, back in the day, there was a pretty slick scam going on; scammers would mail out a quantity of cheap office supplies to various places-of-business. The people who received the shipments, used to receiving such shipments, would think it merely a paperwork SNAFU that it didn't have proper documentation or a person to sign for it, shrug, and put it in inventory, where it would be used. A little while later - long enough for the stuff to have been used, or partially - the scammers would send them an invoice for the goods, at ridiculous prices. I mean bottom-barrel office paper, but being billed as if it was the triple-luxury stuff that J.P. Morgan's lawyers would print the final formal version of a major, multi-hundred-million-dollar contract on. The companies would be skewered, because they had accepted delivery and had used the stuff.
FTC put a hard stop to that nonsense by ruling that anything which arrives unsolicited is a gift, and the shipper cannot hold the receiver accountable in any manner.
flyingthroughspace t1_iygnxkz wrote
>If Steam is providing a shipping label then he almost certainly does.
Please provide the legal code that, almost certainly, backs up your claim.
DisconnectedDays t1_iyge2fg wrote
It’s considered a free gift under FTC
Edit: something similar happened to me when Amazon shipped me something expensive that I didn’t order and they told me about the FTC rule
GabeTheJerk t1_iyh9tmo wrote
The FTC has ruled multiple times that if you send shit by mistake, the receiver can keep it.
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