If you ordered an item, and got two, would you keep it?

A lady I worked with back in the 90's received her shipment of Epi-Pens from her on-line pharmacy. Usually, she got four at a time as that's all they'd give you. Well, the shipment was in a larger box than usual and when she opened it, there were *40* in there.

She called the on-line pharmacy to report the....uh...overage and was told rather snippily that there's no way she was shipped 40 of them as they.didn't.do.things.like.that. So she said "Fine", and hung up.

A couple of days later, she received a panicked call from the on-line pharmacy people asking if she had received more than she was supposed to. "Oh, no" she said, "I spoke to ________ on Tuesday to tell her there might have been a mistake on the delivery and she told me that you.don't.do.things.like.that so it must have been a figment of my imagination that I received 40 of them, so we're fine then, huh?"

There were explanations and apologies and instructions on how to send them back. She said since they were so expensive and so limited in supply and there had been such lack of communication on somebody's part, that she wouldn't feel comfortable sending them back that way and they could send someone to her door or at work to pick up the extra 36 directly from her. Hummm, hummm, stammer, stammer on their part.....we can't do that. "Sure you can" says she, "you have my home address and here's my work address and cell phone. Please call me at least a day in advance when you're ready to pick them up" and hung up. They picked them up. Way to go, Mindy!
 

Yes. Had problems with deliveries from Walmart about quilting kits. Actually I got the BBB involved and they resolved the matter. So when Walmart inadvertently sent me two kits instead of one. I kept the extra one.
 
This isn't quite the same but maybe you can relate. During period when my dad was out of work we lived in a furnished apartment on Troost Avenue in Kansas City Mo. On a Thursday afternoon I overheard mom telling dad we had nothing to fix for supper, and he wouldn't get paid till the next day. I took our dog for a walk, and their on the sidewalk down the street was a five dollar bill. I was late afternoon and rush hour, but I picked up the money and the dog and ran through the traffic to give the money to mom. It wasn't fancy but we had supper and breakfast and dad got paid.
 
This has happened as well to me a time or two; either getting two of the same item, or something altogether different. Most recently, I ordered a pin of a fox on eBay, and the dealer sent me a pin of a fish! After I laughed at this for a while, I contacted the dealer, sending a photo of what I received, who then told me to keep the fish, and sent me the correct item. I gifted the fish pin to a fisherman I knew, who put it on his fishing hatā€¦ šŸŸ
 
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