People Confessed Hilarious Online Order Mishaps That Had Everyone Laughing

If you’ve ever shopped online, chances are you’ve had some kind of order mix-up at one time or another.

I’ve had packages show up at my door of things I never ordered, and other times things didn’t look quite the same as they had looked online.

I’ve rounded up some of the funniest stories of order mishaps…it’s always nice to feel like crazy things don’t just happen to us, right?

Hope these bring you some laughs!

Janene

#1

My 90-year-old mum was v upset at an online shopping mistake (3 doormats the size of small planets) but rallied when I told her I bought a rail ticket for the wrong day & a friend ordered 50 bananas instead of 5. Any funny stories of online errors I can pass on to cheer her up?

— Rachel Ward (@RachelWardbooks) December 7, 2023

#2

A girl I used to work with bought her first flat, and was broke, but needed furniture. She went onto eBay, which she had never used. Bought a load of furniture, dirt cheap. When it arrived, it was in a small box. It was furniture for a doll’s house.

— Lady Zen 🇿🇦🇬🇧 (@CSG1973) December 7, 2023

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I never grow tired of laughing about how I bought this knocker off the Internet for my front door. Disclaimer: I do not live in a doll’s house. pic.twitter.com/oOdg8aa4UC

— Lara Williamson (@LaraWilliamson) July 4, 2020

#4

A young SEND lad ordered what he thought was 10 bees for his garden. Turned out to be 10000 His startled mother had a call from the post office to collect the delivery asap as the contents 'were getting very angry'. Lad now has proper hives and makes honey!

— Rose (@Rose73526444) December 7, 2023

#5

My son works for a supermarket delivery hub, somebody had mistakenly ordered not 450g of broccoli but 450kg. Somehow the mistake made it through the whole distribution chain before anybody realised. That day there was an extra delivery van scheduled containing just broccoli.

— 🦖🟩Non-compliant⬜gender skeptic🟪🦕 (@LancsK8) December 7, 2023

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When we were first dating, my now husband was a bit embarrassed when the flowers he had ordered turned out to be artificial rather than real – 12 years later I still have them and they cheer me up whenever I look at them.

— Dr Sue Sherman (@SueSherman) December 7, 2023

#8

Bought notebooks for the kids w/cartoon characters & ‘inspirational messages for students’ on them (like ‘dream big’ w/a pic of Barbie). Got them a month later from China &the inspirational messages were hilarious. Our favorite was “go to school always, don’t get fat with baby.”

— 🐀 (@Guiness_Pig) December 7, 2023

#9

Store was out of the size I requested, so this was their substitute and now I gotta open a diner pic.twitter.com/bYjYDIiDzG

— meghan (@deloisivete) August 22, 2022

#10

Recently invited to speak at a conference and was asked which of my two affiliations I preferred to go on my name tag. Probably University of Central Lancashire, I replied. So that's what they put. pic.twitter.com/UqbPTieXvj

— Sandi Mann (@SandiPsych) April 25, 2018

#11

Well, not a mistake as such but, one time when ordering tampons from Tesco, they didn't have any and substituted them with … bananas. The delivery driver was so embarrassed, poor guy.

— Hamburg (@I_am_Hamburg) December 7, 2023

#12

A woman in our town accidentally ordered 20 skunk costumes for her 2 dogs. She decided to give them away and then all the dogs who got costumes met up at a local park dressed as skunks. 🤣

— Renee Rodriguez (@reneeblrod) December 7, 2023

#13

Another friend ordered a small cake tester knife and ended up receiving a 2 foot long ceremonial sword!

— Jo Southern (@JoSouthern4) December 7, 2023

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I sent my husband a link to buy me 12 lb weights for exercising, but the link went to all weight options, starting with 1/2 lb. So he came walking into the house, swinging the tiny weights wildly, like a power walker 🤣

— emilybooklady (@ejohnson3131) December 7, 2023

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I accidentally got the wrong size bed 😭 pic.twitter.com/7FcQnd2fvW

— mae (@_maecol) September 13, 2021

#20

I ordered a 16 piece flatware set from target and instead of 16 pieces they sent a singular mug. I called and was like hey, u only sent me a mug! and they were like so sorry. we will send u a new set!! and it arrived today. and it was. one singular plate. I can’t stop laughing

— ellie schnitt! (@holy_schnitt) May 27, 2021

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