The Rogue Amazon Gift Card

Late last night I received an email with a $50 Amazon gift card. The email subject said “Mom and Dad Cox sent you an Amazon Gift Card!” My birthday was months ago and this gift was obviously not intended for me.

Trying to be a Good Samaritan, I hopped on Amazon’s customer support chat and told them about it. If it was $50 on the ground I wouldn’t feel too bad about keeping it unless I explicitly saw someone lose it.

The support person looked into it for a few minutes and came back with this response:

On one hand, I feel better since the gift should be getting redirected back to the right person. On the other hand, how do I know that the support person isn’t going to just pocket the $50 themselves? I just literally told them, “hey, here’s $50 that’s going to be unclaimed.” I can’t help but read the “please the delete the email” as “please delete the email so that you don’t try to apply it and find out I took it.”

Oh well! Hopefully this does correctly make it over to whichever other David Stoker was actually supposed to get this. Happy birthday to him!