Target sends me $300 gift card by mistake--whats my play?

[jafeather]

Seriously...if you contact them and tell them of the mistake they are going to tell you to keep it. Do the right thing and tell them and you get to spend it anyway.

[captZEEbo]

it's okay to steal from faceless corporations. It's a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark.

[XXXNoahXXX]

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Seriously...if you contact them and tell them of the mistake they are going to tell you to keep it. Do the right thing and tell them and you get to spend it anyway.

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there is maybe a 2% chance of this happening.


"Hey, you guys sent me this card for $300 I didn't deserve"

"Can you read me the serial number"

"934809Lkj-3240dj"

"thanks, the card has been deactivated. we appreciate your honesty in this matter and will be sending you a 10% off coupon as a thank you."

<click>




This isn't some company shipping an extra battery with a camera, for $300, they'll do something.

[Yeti]

i'd keep it but it doesn't really make any sense on the grand scale of my morals.

if it was actual products amounting to $300 somehow i'd feel way worse.

i once ordered $60 of books from amazon, they didn't show up for a couple of weeks. i asked them to resend, then i end up with two lots. i didn't return them out of laziness and felt awful for ages

[solids]

When I respond these moral-type threads, I'm typically in the "honesty" camp.

But, in cases like these where major companies [censored] up my order, I usually just keep the money and consider it a retard tax.

Also, LOL at the clown who thinks keeping it is a felony.

[pirateboy]

Honestly, nothing is going to happen if they send it. THEY MEANT TO SEND IT, just for an incorrect reason. It wasn't like the gift card just flew itself to you. If you spend it, they get pissed, you say "I thought it was a gift because of the hassle before." End. 0% chance anything happens to you.

[Mr.WeakTight]

sorry, it's a gross misdemeanor. if it was $500.01, it would be a felony.

keeping something that doesn't belong to you = theft. Since Target is a Minnesota co., here is their statute:

"Acts constituting theft. Whoever does any of the following commits theft...:
(1) intentionally and without claim of right takes, uses, transfers, conceals or retains
possession of movable property of another without the other's consent and with intent to deprive
the owner permanently of possession of the property;

Also, as far as nameless, faceless, evil corporations, that hardly describes Target. They give a lot of money back to the community. They do not screw their employees a la Wal*Mart.

[pirateboy]

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sorry, it's a gross misdemeanor. if it was $500.01, it would be a felony.

keeping something that doesn't belong to you = theft. Since Target is a Minnesota co., here is their statute:

"Acts constituting theft. Whoever does any of the following commits theft...:
(1) intentionally and without claim of right takes, uses, transfers, conceals or retains
possession of movable property of another without the other's consent and with intent to deprive
the owner permanently of possession of the property;

Also, as far as nameless, faceless, evil corporations, that hardly describes Target. They give a lot of money back to the community. They do not screw their employees a la Wal*Mart.

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I'm pretty sure it belongs to the OP. I bet it was addressed to him. Thus, his.

[Autocratic]

Hold on to it for long enough for them to realize they made a mistake. If/once they don't, shopping spree.

[kitchma]

I remember a PSA from my childhood where an Eskimo recieves a swimming suit in the mail (or something equally absurd) that he never ordered. The point of the PSA was that as a consumer, you do not have an obiligation to pay for something that you did not request.

All I could remember about the ad was that it was one in a series and that the messages always ended by asking the viewer to write to some federal agency in Pueblo, CO for more information.

Unbelievably, I googled "pueblo colorado consumer" and found it on the first hit. Gotta love the internet.

http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/m...ome/rights.htm

"Remember, at-home shoppers have the right to...Consider unordered merchandise a gift and be free of pressure to return it or to pay for it."

I'm not saying its morally right, but I don't think they can force you to return.