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posted Sep-05-2002
On August 5th, Staples.com charged $595.36 to my credit card for a Monitor from their online store, Staples.com. I did not place this order, nor do I want the product. Approx. a week later, the monitor arrived at my house, and this is when I went online and found the bogus charge on my card via Homelink. Looking at the packing slip, the product was ordered by somebody else. This person had the same name, but a completely different address. If you look at the UPS tracking information for this package, you will see they first attempted to bill and deliver to the other person. However, that came back as a bogus address. So, staples looked up somebody else who just happened to have the same name (me) as this person, then charged my card and shipped me this item I didn’t order!
I contacted staples via their customer support email address on 3 separate occasions and they promised to fix this, but took no action to do so. I indicated each time to Staples I would be GLAD to send them back their monitor, if they merely provided me with the ups pickup tag.
I had to actually go to the credit card company to dispute the charge.
Be VERY wary of dealing with Staples, as they WILL store your CC info, even if you tell them not to, and if you happen to have a common name, you could find yourself billed for soembody else's stuff!