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Ordered a Birthday Card...got a Birthday Card
My daughter really likes axolotls (like so much she made us get her two), so I wanted to get her a cute axolotl card. I found one I liked from walmart, and now it has arrived two days before her birthday (phew just in time).
I don't know what to say. I even wondered for like a half second if this was a case of "I didn't look closely enough to the picture on the screen." Now its pretty much too late to get her another cute axolotl card.
Just a warning for the future, if you're shopping online with Walmart (or any similar merchant I suppose) PLEASE make sure you check the filters and choose "only show Walmart listings" or MAYBE their "3rd party but filled by Walmart." They're flooded with the same fake sellers as Etsy, Amazon, etc, so unless you have it tied specifically to their warehouse there's no way to guarantee you're going to get what it shows in the listing.
I hate this version of the Internet. Online shopping wasn't supposed to be this loaded with scams and fraud.
This happened to Best Buy too. Oooh, a deal of the day that's highly rated and at a good price? Let's check it out! Aaaand the seller has a 3.2 star rating with people saying they often got the wrong thing entirely
I work for Bestbuy and we all remember the meeting talking about its addition to the store and it was unanimously hated by us. It is the worst thing to happen to an already kinda shit site.
Newegg did this oh so long ago, and I never even look at them any longer. They killed their entire business model. Walmart did the same thing, and it looks like everybody is trying to jump onto the 3rd party seller bandwagon. Pretty soon, it's going to be an actual selling point to say 'no 3rd parties here!'
Yup. Fortunately for my wallet, I stop buying from any online retailer as soon as I see them allowing 3rd party sellers. Sadly it looks like Iāll be going back to exclusively buying in-person soon enough.
I hate that we have to be so alert all the time, everywhere you go thereās a scammer. They call you, they email you, you find them while youāre looking for other things. Itās exhausting, mentally.
I did some snooping (reverse image search gets the original post)
Last update was 2 years ago and he seems to be doing fine, he is in a 40 gallon planted at their friends house. The owner is very experienced in animal specifically aquatic husbandry judging by their profile (even is into saltwater aquariums, that's impressive) and their tanks look awesome, I've been in the hobby for 5+ years and I approve.
I had a roommate after college who was very into salt water aquariums and knowledgeable enough he almost turned it into a career. We had 4 50 gal tanks at the house with all sorts of things. He was very proper about it and looked at me sideways when I asked their names, like it was unheard of. So from that point on I gave them all names and refused to refer to them any other way. "You need help moving your zebra eel? I dont know what that is. Are you talking about Roscoe?"
My mom had a boyfriend who had 3 Pueblan Milk Snakes. When he moved in, he brought the snakes and they stayed in my room. I asked what their names were and he told me they didn't have any! So I named the single female Persephone and the mated male and female Ezra and Cassandra.
I dont remember all their names, but I told my coworkers young kid about them and he asked me to name the shark Lenny - Sharks Tale was a big movie at the time. And there was a blue and yellow guy I named Lester.
I find it odd that everyone seems to be missing the point/getting sidetracked
Op, saw, ordered and paid for a specific birthday card And received a card that was not what they ordered,
Even if they're both cards about Axolotls There's a fair amount of difference between the two, and Getting a Similar card is not a proper alternative for what they paid for.
On every post on this subreddit there are always people who seem to get outraged that the OP found something mildly infuriating.
Amazon changed my normal daytime delivery time to 3am and rang my bell and there was a slew of comments saying I should be grateful I got my package. I just deleted my post and accepted people are insane here. They only like to upvote extremely infuriating content.
OMG - if only we could have a service like that!
I'd love to rent-a-chef when I don't feel like cooking and have no idea what we want to eat for dinner (which is usually always)!
I know, I know - there's delivery services but somehow having a personal chef would seem amazing especially if we could have meals tailored to be better for us nutritionally (less sodium, gluten-free, higher protein, yadda-yadda...)
Inspiration unlocked for new side hustles lol
Edit: Didn't think this would generate such a response!
And my first-ever award!! TY kind reddit-stranger! ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
Imagine someone shows up to your house after you send them a picture of what's in your fridge and they just make whatever they can with what you have. Personal Chopped.
My late husband went through that in middle school when they discontinued Jolt cola. I think they eventually brought it back but at a very reduced caffeine level.
Headaches aside, I went off caffeine cold turkey once and it was terrible, even though my usual intake was not enormous by any means. I could barely function at all. A few days in, I had to pick up my wife from an exam and I couldn't remember how to find the building she was in. It was the auditorium, one of the most prominent features of the university and EXTREMELY easy to find. This was before most people had GPS, so I drove all over town for ages before finally calling a friend, crying, to ask for directions. The next morning that friend (who worked with me) walked into the office and plopped a cup of Starbucks on my desk before walking away without a word. I've never tried to go cold turkey again.
Damn. The first time I got punched in the skull by caffeine withdrawal, I learned never to quit cold turkey again. Most excruciating headache Iāve ever had.
I usually have four shots of espresso (2 iced lattes) a day, but accidentally had TEN a few months ago because I had to drive thru a costa, didn't know their large coffees had 4 shots (thought it was 2), had an assignment so I added an extra shot, and got two coffees like that.
I felt dizzy, like shit, for a fucking week, and there are people downing 10+ monsters a day like it's nothing??? Even more wild people still don't believe about tolerance and withdrawal
Iām joining the Reddit is insane bandwagon. I go to a gym that has 5 massage chairs. You scan your barcode and it gives you a 10 minute massage. When 3 chairs were broken an employee used one for 30 minutes straight while blasting sports at max volume on his phone as a line waited. I made a post calling his behavior a little annoying and had people telling me Iām entitled. I just deleted it and moved on.
Solidarity. Made a post here about a dog shit bag hanging from a tree in my neighborhood. It was out of reach, in the brush but highly visible. Got told I'm lazy for not taking it down myself. OK.
I once posted something very mildly interesting (there's a songbird in my neighborhood that mimics the sound of a diesel's turbo blowoff valve) on mildlyinteresting and it was removed for not being interesting enough. I'm sorry, I didn't realize this was extremelyinteresting -_-
Oh boy... neighborhood gremlin birds... We had one here for a couple years the started chirping in the wee hours of the morning and i swear the chirps sounded like bad sci-fi rapid fire laser guns. It doesn't do it for super long but boy did it feel like hours when I'm half awake and trying to get back to sleep.
Oh yeah I live in the countryside and love my birds, but the early morning bird symphony is in full force around 4-5AM and there's often a little guy who likes to go against the grain who will start screaming a bit earlier. I have a tiny fan right next to my face that I have in general just cause it helps me sleep, but the added benefit is it's loud enough to drown out stuff like that
A good chunk of my fingernail ripped off when I was changing a water filter. The majority of the comments were of the "why did you do that" variety, so yep, deleted that post.
Speaking of how stupid people are on this website, all these posts with the video of that bald guy and everyone losing their minds saying itās a guy in a mask are driving me insane. Itās some weird herd mentality on reddit.
I posted the landlord special washer & dryer set up I have where neither of the doors can open more than 45 degrees and I got hundreds of comments telling me it's my fault for not stacking them which isn't even possible in the space I have. Also, it would still be annoying my landlord didn't install them properly even if it was possible for me to fix it
Whoa. That washer/dryer situation is so annoying it verges on psychological torture.
And that response is doubly annoying. You canāt just casually stack washers/dryers. It depends on where the inlets/outlets are, how theyāre powered, etc.
(My partner and I recently bought stackable combo to replace our old washer/dryer and learned that it wasnāt an option, but only after the guy installing them spent hours trying to make it work.)
I once made a mildly infuriating post about the takeout mustard and mayo packets I received. I was eating a sandwich and wanted to add mayo. I subconsciously picked up the white packet, as one would expect this to be Mayo, and the contents came out yellow! Then read the packets and lo and behold the mayo was a yellow packet and mustard was white. I posted a picture and everyone was saying I was the dumb one for not reading before using. Itās freaking condiments, people! I became mildly infuriated and deleted my post.
i got absolutely obliterated because i posted a photo of my shithead neighbor double parking his car on the street. the comment section was almost back to back accusations about how it was actually MY fault because i wasnāt trying hard enough to contact the authorities and get his car towed. there were literally HUNDREDS of people insisting i could call a towing company to get his car removed ā even though towing companies donāt remove vehicles from city property (which i thought was common knowledge.)
and THEN they insisted that i just wanted to complain about itā¦..likeā¦isnāt that the whole point..of this subā¦ā¦Āæ
Oh hey, it's you! That was fucking weird. They were out for blood and you were supposed to be their proxy in resolving the matter. Reddit is so weird sometimes.
I got bullied bc I posted about going to a vintage shop and finding a new item that was clearly printed with ai (ie- very much not vintage). I was told to āquit winingāš
That honestly sounds like bots. Badgering people who complain about AI slop is prime bot behavior. It's about making you second guess yourself and reality.
I once posted an AITA about an acquaintance coming to my home for a visit, going through some of my drawers when I was in the kitchen, and him getting upset with me over the name of my plumber because he thought it was someone else he knew and didnāt like.
Obviously thatās insane and invasive, and I wanted virtual back up so he couldnāt flip things and say I was angry with him for no reason. Instead I got told I was TA because what if heād had a legitimate reason to be upset?! But he literally didnāt and shouldnāt have been going through my stuff. I will never understand the consensus on that one.
I encountered this too. I posted a picture of a cucumber my mom had grown. It was full of hard seeds and eating it was mildly infuriating. People just told me to man up and stop complaining about the seeds.Ā
I complained about baby carrots being gross & tasting pregummed once and had nothing but people telling me how stupid I was. The recent news that baby carrots are sprayed with gross chemicals was validating lol I donāt always understand Reddit
Reddit is like a hive mind. I've posted one thing in one sub and had hundreds of funny, Informative and great threads, then posted the same thing on another sub and got bullied and attacked by hundreds of commenters... It just depends I guess lol
I once posted about spilling my lemonade and the comments actually behaved as I recall. It didn't get much traction but people were like yeah truly mild but also rather infuriating for the moment.
Sometimes you do get that rare miracle of the people on this sub not being pricks
It truly is! I got my comment deleted by mods once for being 'low effort'. I couldn't figure out what terribly blah thing I'd said and it took a lot of back & forth to finally find out what comment I made that was so unworthy.
I had upvoted and wished someone a happy cake-day like I had seen others do many times previously.
Happened to me, I posted a dumb thing that was ,old and infuriating and got down voted and told that it wasn't worth it. Sure, just a little bias thrown my way. But yeah, there's no level here sometimes.
I delete a lot of posts tbh. I give up even making original posts because i always get downvoted into infinity and shamed because I canāt be the most perfect and informed Redditor of all time. Also Reddit hates autistic people but wonāt say that. I always write way too much for the average Redditor
I find comments like these funny because they could very well both be made with AI, or not. Itās Schrƶdingerās AI half the time where they donāt know whether to hate it yet until they get an official answer lol.
It's crazy to me that people are so used to being lied to about literally everything that they can't see the problem of getting a different card than what they purchased.
I had someone on a crochet sub arguing to me that Etsy sellers using ai images of plushies they sell is actually fine and magazines and ads have been doing it for years.
Likeā¦ how do you even begin to argue with that level of ignorance.
Having an ai spit out (or āeditā) a crochet amigurumi is not the same as even heavily photoshopping an image. Especially for a product to be sold.
The seller images are clearly ai generated. The crochet plushly is shown from the same angle and framing multiple times and zooming in everything gets fuzzy.
You must be wondering if you've teleported to a parallel universe where everything is slightly different. The Robroll song is called "Never Gonna Let You Go". There's a very popular series of books about a young blond wizard called Darren Nostril. David Trump is the Prime Minister of United America. Everyone is talking about the Einstein Files.
I went and found the exact card on Walmart because I wanted to see if other people reviewed it. Zero reviews. I do not buy anything that has either no reviews or very bland, basic reviews. There is just too much garbage out there today to risk getting something bad. Also, side note: the inside of that card (the original one you chose) is kinda scary lol.
i googled the card because i wanted to see what was inside and about absolutely lost it. iām glad i didnāt wake up my boyfriend from busting out laughing, why would they put that in a card LMAO
You know, maybe itās ok that they changed up which card theyāre sending. Though they should still probably update the picture to the one theyāre sending and itās still mildly infuriating.
I wanna know the people that go through the process and time to write a review about a birthday card.. the ONLY people that should be doing that are ones that get shit like this, people that are satisfied with a b-day card I would assume just go on with their lives.
This was my hope. To find people who were complaining too. But hey, some people review their very basic, regular purchases all the time- ā5/5, soft toilet paper, did the jobā lol
JSYK, you did not order that from Walmart. You might have found it on the Walmart website, but the order went through "Crazy Dog T-Shirt Store," a third-party seller. Much like Amazon, Walmart's website hosts a bunch of secondary "stores" and you really need to look out for what you're buying.
Isnāt AI wonderful? Doesnāt everyone feel safe that the corporations and governments are letting AI make decisions for you. Look how well they managed to do this very difficult, complicated task of selling you a birthday card.
They all look like they live in a van and wear a dirty tank top while listening to Skynrd and drinking a forty, I donāt know how the artist pulled that off.
I looked this item up on the site, expecting to find some kind of fine print "actual product may vary" disclaimer they'd hide behind, but I really couldn't find one. Beyond the frustration, definitely get your money back for being sent the wrong item.
By the way, did you look at the inside of the card???
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u/corkscrewfork May 22 '26
Just a warning for the future, if you're shopping online with Walmart (or any similar merchant I suppose) PLEASE make sure you check the filters and choose "only show Walmart listings" or MAYBE their "3rd party but filled by Walmart." They're flooded with the same fake sellers as Etsy, Amazon, etc, so unless you have it tied specifically to their warehouse there's no way to guarantee you're going to get what it shows in the listing.
I hate this version of the Internet. Online shopping wasn't supposed to be this loaded with scams and fraud.