Halloween Costume Sorted

Charcoal masks are all the rage in the beauty industry these days. The mask's purpose is to remove impurities through the pores due to the activated charcoal known for doing just that. This, in turn, makes it reduce acne breakouts and even does a good job of reducing oiliness.

It's often a cream-like substance that comes in a jar, and it's applied all over the face except the eyes and mouth. But this woman bought a mask shaped product, and when it arrived, it was far too small for her face. At least she has a cool story to go with her next Halloween costume.

Better Off With A Tire

Anyone with the aspiration of building a family, or perhaps a loving grandparent, would love to have a giant oak tree with a swing for the children in the yard. This person has the tree part sorted but needed a swing to complete the dream. She turned to Amazon, with some hilarious results.

We think she may have been shooting for one of those Little Tikes toy products aimed at children from infant age to four years old. What she got was a miniature swing, most likely intended for a dollhouse. Maybe the kids have some G.I Joe figures they can use on the swing.

Knock The Stuffing Out

Whenever selling second-hand goods online, people always want to make their product look good. Whether it's pinning a clothing item a certain way to add some allure, or cleaning electronics to make them look as good as new, when it comes to shoes, the important thing is to make them appear in good shape.

For this reason, people stuff tissue inside when taking photos. But when you don't have tissues, and heaven forbid toilet paper, you need to be ingenious, like this seller who stuffed the pair of Air Jordan's he's selling with his underwear. He is now two pairs short, though, because he packaged the shoes after selling them.

What A Drag

One of the single biggest fears people have about ordering online is the human on the other side, getting the order wrong. That is exactly what happened in this instance. Amazon has a meticulous system in its warehouse, specifically meant for more efficient packaging and shipping.

But it appears that whoever packed this one decided to skip a few procedures and grabbed a tank top-looking clothing item, packaged, and shipped it. As a result, the person who ordered it received a dress instead of a tank top. At least he saw the humorous side and was open to modeling it on social media as a joke.

Let's Play Spot The Difference

Another challenge buyers face when purchasing on the Internet is items being what they say they are in the image. Here is a dress that, although colored and themed the same, has so many dissimilarities, you can literally play spot the difference with these photos.

Besides the difference in models, you can see that the straps on the dresses don't match, the frill at the bottom isn't the same, and even the flamingo pattern has some differences. Also, one has a belt divider, and the other doesn't. In essence, the one looks like a princess dress; the other looks like it belongs to a fairy.

Never Trust A Bargain

Another example of misleading online images; although this time, the buyer probably could've been more diligent when reading the advert because, for products like these, most online services have dimensions on the page so that buyers know the size. But sometimes, a price can make you forget about being diligent.

This person even admitted to seeing the price, which was $10, and rushing to buy the chair. But it turns out that she spent her money on a chair she'll never be able to sit on. Because it's is a miniature suited to a Barbie doll. Maybe she has a doll she can put in the chair on her vanity table.

Never Trust A Bargain... Take-Two

Not to paint everyone with the same brush, but China had a reputation for cheaply assembled products even before online shopping was invented. This is despite big quality brands like Levi Strauss, American Girl Dolls, and Chuck Taylor All-Star all being either made or partially made there.

While those brands often get their quality standards met, some other products are just stitched together quickly and sold on the cheap. That was the case here, although alarm bells should've started ringing when this buyer saw the price of $20, especially since the cheapest one at Walmart is $69, or $30 for a kids' version.

Does Yeezy Make Slippers?

One of the biggest contributors to Kanye West's massive $3.2 billion net worth is his deal with Adidas and the Yeezy brand of shoes. At $750 a pop, you can understand why the popular footwear has made the rapper bucket loads of cash.

But when you pay that much for an item, you expect to receive the exact thing. Instead, this unfortunate online shopper received what can only be described as a rare pair of Yeezy bed slippers, perfect for cold winter nights, but not perfect if you were expecting what you paid $750 for.

That's Why You Can't Dance

It could be that whoever packaged this pair of sneakers knew the person they were sending it to and had a secret message to send. But having two left feet is a problem easily solved with some dancing lessons, returning something when online shopping can be a little tedious.

Besides needing to repackage and post back to the supplier, there's also a new waiting period, especially if you want the correct pair sent back. Some online retailers are pretty cool about it and send out a courier to pick up the package, saving you the postage costs.

Literally Wearing Your Yeezy's

So there's getting the wrong order, and then there is this. As per the post, this guy bought a pair of Yeezy's on eBay. He got Yeezy alright, but just not a pair. Instead, he got a suit. Bearing in mind that eBay is a platform for selling, return policies can be complicated.

But one thing is made clear by the platform: It's the seller's priority to cover postage for the item's return if it's damaged, misrepresented, or the seller made a fault in the listing, and you can return an item, even if the seller has a no returns policy. That's because you're covered by the eBay Money Back Guarantee, which means they'll cover the cost of the returned item.

When You Get What You Want, But Not What You Need

There's nothing better than a comfy cable blanket on a cold day. At least that's what this buyer must have thought when she saw this picture of a woman snugly tucked under one of those knitted masterpieces. This is obviously why she ordered one online.

What she received was anything but a blanket; she did get a lot of wool, though. Maybe there was some assembly required, and she needs to check the packaging for an instruction manual. Hey, maybe this photo is of her dismally failing at putting her cable blanket together!

The Pug Is In The Details

As per the story above, what this person saw in the picture wasn't what he got. But the devil was in the details—details the buyer couldn't see in the online image. When selling online, images must be the right resolution for potential customers to see everything.

Most advertising website platforms adjust images to their size dimensions, but if that image is too small, it will be stretched and distorted when displayed online. It's best to have an image that's bigger, around 1,500 to 2,500 pixels wide. That way, it adjusts down and looks sharper and clearer, allowing buyers clearly see the ocean of pugs.

Big Bear, Long Legs

Sometimes, it's all about perspective. You see, a long-legged bear sitting down isn't going to look long-legged. That's because the angle creates an illusion that the legs are the same length as the torso, which the common proportions used for teddy bears.

But this bear looks like a bit of a daddy long legs. Come to think of it, it could even be mistaken for a bear suit that daddy can wear to scare arriving guests. The moral of the story is that sellers need to be extremely diligent with photos to avoid misleading buyers.

Hanging At The Pool With Friends

These plastic pools are a pretty nifty item to buy. It removes the cost of excavating and building material that comes with installing a pool. You can also put them up in summer when the weather is hot and then take them down in winter when things get frosty.

But the best thing about pools is having friends over to enjoy it with you. That's not possible when what you get is literally a three-foot pool, which is what this guy got when he ordered a pool online. The ideal thing to do in this situation is exact your right to return the goods.

So Who Do You Trust?

In the retail market, copyright laws are very loose. Not because they're nonexistent, but because they're difficult to enforce. There are plenty of underground traders selling branded items on the cheap, and they're difficult to catch because they operate under the radar and online.

While plenty of effort has been put in to curtail these criminals, it's difficult to pinpoint and arrest someone by tracking their online presence. Fortunately, when it comes to these T-Shirts, neither one is fake, and both can be bought on Amazon for $20. However, we do sympathize if the buyer in this situation bought one and got the other.

It's Going To The Dogs

Costumes are one of the best things to order online. You can go through an entire catalog without rummaging through anything, and as long as you know you're size, your order should be easy. There's just one flaw: What if the costume doesn't look as good on you as it does on the model in the picture.

Obviously, there's the option to return it, but maybe what doesn't suit you will suit someone else, like your dog. If you wanted a costume for your dog, Amazon does have plenty of pet-specific ones, but if your costume works, as it does on this dog, then save the effort!

You Don't Always Get What You Want

Heat indicating coffee mugs are a big thing, especially in the gifting department. It's cost-effective, and it's tough to say no to a cup that tells you when your beverage is hot or cold. The only thing more popular than a heat-indicating cup is a personally branded cup.

In this instance, these methods clashed. This person was clearly a fan of this particular cup, whose lightbulb flashes when hot water is put in it. Whoever got it for him clearly didn't want to fork out the $15 it costs and had a branded cup made for him, using the picture found online. The Results are in the picture.

It's An Optical Illusion

Don't you hate it when something arrives, and it isn't exactly as it looked in the picture? This seems like this is the most common problem with shopping online. But what's really bad is when it's because of an optical illusion and not actual poor manufacturing.

For example, photographers use flashes and lights when photographing these clothing images, making colors seem a bit darker. This is bad when something is pink because it turns red in the photo. This place has a disgruntled customer who believes that he/she didn't get what they ordered. The moral of the story, once again, be diligent with photos.

Too Good To Be True

So there's an old saying that goes, if it's too good to be true, don't go for it. So, based on that saying, when this person saw an iPad going for $5 online, should he have a) Jumped on it and bought it before anyone else? Or b) Taken a step back and maybe scrutinize why something that expensive could be so cheap?

Clearly, he did the former and not the latter, and now he's five dollars short with a child's plaything for an iPad. It's not uncommon for these children's toys to be mistaken for the real deal, especially since the real deal appears on the packaging.

Hell No, That Won't Go

Here's a question, where did you order something that's so far off from the product you saw that it's actually a completely different item altogether? You don't even have to play spot the difference because it's clearly two completely different items.

It doesn't even have the "wifey" tagline, which is why the buyer bought it. That and the fact that it's pretty cute too. If it was the right size, you could say she should keep it for cold winter nights, but as it stands, the best solution is to return; maybe they'll get it right the second time around.

Did You Order 50 Shades Of Gray?

It's a pretty ironic joke ordering 50 Shades of Grey from somewhere and the seller sending you a color palette of fifty shades of gray. The question is, did this person order the book or the movie? Either way, neither was well received by critics, although the demand was huge, and the films grossed $1.3 billion.

As a matter of fact, the books were panned by critics, and every single one of the movies won Golden Raspberry Awards, the highest honor for bad films. On the bright side, the music was great and the final film, 50 Shades Free, won a few People's Choice Awards.

This Wish Didn't Come True

Wish.com became an overnight sensation when people discovered that they could find anything they wanted on the cheap, and postage was free, as long as it went to a post office. But people soon discovered that it wasn't necessarily all smooth sailing with the online store.

Some people didn't' receive what they ordered. Other items were miniature versions of what people thought were the real products. Post offices also became stricter, and in many countries, they started charging for Wish packages. Over and above this, Wish became the one place people could expect to buy a cable blanket with assembly instructions. This guy even expected a mishap, although he still ordered.

A Hopeless Case

When you buy something from a retailer, you expect them to know what they're doing. When you buy something from a popular music artist's website, you expect things to be perfect. But it was anything but that for a young Halsey fan when she purchased a choker necklace from the singer/songwriter's website.

The necklace was supposed to have the word "hopeless" spelled out in separate letters from a chain. But the necklace that this unfortunate buyer got said "hoelesss" instead. Some fans actually preferred the new design and even offered the unfortunate buyer money for the item. Halsey's team did arrange to send her a new one, although she kept the original.

Are We Scooping Snow Today?

Is this really a dustpan, or is it a giant scoop for snow? It would need a longer pole to be a snow shovel, so dustpan it is. The next question is, what kind of broom would you use to accompany such a large scoop.

Also, does the purchase have anything to do with what looks like dog hairs all over the floor? Malting dogs tend to leave lots of hair behind, and it would be a good idea to get large tools to do the job of cleaning up. Plus, there's a baby bottle on the floor, and we don't want the little one eating doggy hair.

That's Not A Paw Patrol Character

This child may have wanted a completely different husky teddy. He may have actually wanted an Everest teddy, the character from the TV show Paw Patrol. The show is now in its fifth season and is the most-watched show in the world by pre-schoolers.

It's also reported that the show generates $7 billion in revenue from retail alone. But instead, he got this husky teddy bear, which isn't anything like the one in the sale picture. His one is available on Amazon, though, priced between $16 and $20. An Everest teddy bear costs between $17 and $22.

It's All Metal To Him

The band Cattle Decapitation has a few, should we say, colorful T-shirts in their catalog. One of them is this Australian-inspired piece of merchandise with these rather interesting koalas. Of course, koalas have a taste for eucalyptus leaves, not flesh, but this is more on-brand for the deathgrind band.

As a popular and well set up music group, you know they do not send the wrong shirt. So maybe this guy took a picture from the Internet and had his own shirt screen-printed. The problem with online images is that they're way too low-resolution to be blown up big, hence why the image on this one looks small.

They Sent The Wrong Package

So it appears that, in a comedy of errors, this guy ordered two Old Navy shirts but instead received security tags weighing in at 40 pounds and a coupon. Now there are a few questions that desperately need answering about this whole situation.

Firstly, how did no one in the warehouse notice that the box was hefty? Secondly, surely they have a sensor that goes off when these tags cross the line? Either way, this buyer may not have gotten the Old Navy product he wanted, but he can use the coupon for that and train like a navy seal by putting the tags into a backpack and running with it.

That's So Random

What's the strangest thing about this whole situation? That the woman's boyfriend decided to make her a collage blanket with photos of him? That the company shipped a blanket of another family? That he still gave it to her, or that she gladly accepted it?

Another big question is when the other family received the couple's item, did they not wonder who this guy is and where their blanket is? One thing we know is while this woman's blanket can be passed as a generic blanket about family and values, the other family will have to explain who the guy is on the blanket.

We Were Hoping To Use Them for Our Meetings

Here's a set of chairs we don't think any action figure or doll would be able to sit in. These guys would surely have seen the dimension of these chairs on the site and given the purchase some thought. But what's worse is that these guys probably have no sense of style.

Plastic chairs with a round wooden table don't go together. They're more suited to a glass table and tiled floors. Plus, there is no Feng Shui happening in this office; although it is not cluttered, the chairs offer nothing to the room's energy; as a matter of fact, the whole room needs a makeover.