Um, Ok. Got a +$1k camera for $365. What now?

...take the shot! · Apr 24, 2017

So 1st time this ever happened to me.
I ordered a Nikon D5200 (Body only) from a company off Amazon for $365.
What I got in the mail today is a Canon EOS 80D w/18-135mm image stabilizer lens!
I double checked the address info to make sure I was the recipient, sure enough its right.

Originally I picked the Nikon D5200 because I'm familiar with it and have a lens for it, and liked that it can shoot video.

Now that I got this thing, What should I do?
- Keep it, learn it, use it.
- Keep it, write the company that I didn't get the camera I wanted, suggest they send me the right one.

Gary A. · Apr 24, 2017

Well ... the ethical and honorable action would be to contact customer service and tell them of the mix-up. (Odds are they are likely to find the mistake eventually, especially if the packing slip states 'Canon 80D'.)

Unethically, welcome to Canon. :cool-48:

Keep and use the camera and hope they don't find out. They may charge you for the difference or they may just walk away from their mistake.

I'd check with them on what a new, opened boxed, 80D is worth.

fmw · Apr 24, 2017

Agreed. You should send it back.

limr · Apr 24, 2017

A third vote for not just keeping it. Contact the company to let them know of the error and ask what their solution is.

Designer · Apr 24, 2017

It's not just you. Think of the person who received a Nikon D5200.

zombiesniper · Apr 24, 2017

As much as it sucks for you to have been teased with this, it would suck even more for someone else to have to possible be out cash or gear.
I would contact the company and let them know about the mix up. At a minimum it will get you the camera you ordered and a good standing with this company.

Gary A. · Apr 24, 2017

Somehow, I think the person who ended up with a $365 camera has already contacted the company ... the cat's out of the bag.

table1349 · Apr 24, 2017

What the late, great Jerry Clower would have told you.

“You’re Fixin’ To Mess Up”
by Jerry Clower

“Just recently I had the privilege of doing a show at Samford University in Birmingham. Some of the young people there said, ‘Mr. Clower, what’s right and wrong?’ Tell us, we’re young people, tell us, what’s right and wrong.

Well you ask a pretty good question.

So I worked me up a rule of thumb I’d like to recommend to my own children, and to young people.

If you’re fixin’ to make a decision about what’s right and what’s wrong in your life, do you ask other people’s opinion about it? That’s a pretty good indication your fixin’ to mess up. I was getting ready for a date one night when I was a little ole boy. And I walked into the side room and I said, ‘Mama, is my shirt dirty?’ She said, ‘Son, if you’re in doubt, it’s dirty. Pull it off and getcha another.’ So if you’re fixin’ to do something, and you want to know if it’s right or not, number one: do you ask other people’s opinion about it?

Number two: do you argue with yourself? Man, I have spent a million miles on the highway arguing with Jerry about I oughta do a certain thing and I knew in my heart, I was lying. So if you’re arguin’ with yourself, pretty good indication you should not do it.

Number three: do you feel uneasy when you do it? Had ya just as soon for somebody not see you doin’ what it is you’d done decided is alright for you to do?

And Number four: Can you give thanks and say ‘Lord, I thank ya for providing this for me.’? Alright, you’d done made up your mind: you’re gonna do it. The Bible says, give thanks for all things. So when you do it, can ya say ‘Lord, thank ya for providing this for me. And I some kinda thank ya, for fixin’ it where I can commit to what it is I’m doin.’?

What is right or wrong? Do you ask other people? Do you argue with yourself? Do you feel uneasy when you do it? Can ya give thanks and say ‘Lord, I thank ya for providing this for me.’? If you can’t, you better watch out…You’re fixin’ to mess up.”

Gary A. · Apr 24, 2017

I have the LA Times rule. Would I want to see my action(s) as a headline on the front page of the LA Times (replace 'LA Times' with the name of a local paper where you live).

Live your life as if the whole world is watching ... (the only exception is dancing ... dance as if no one is looking).

Derrel · Apr 24, 2017

Designer said:
It's not just you. Think of the person who received a Nikon D5200.

They'll be ASTOUNDED with the picture quality!!!!! LOL!!!!

But seriously,you HAVE to return the Kwannon...eithically, that's the right thing to do.

Timppa · Apr 25, 2017

Just write them with the mix up, and ask in the mail yourself what to do. If you would like to keep it, you could write that you don't mind the mix up, but you do not want to pay for it ^^.
I once got 6 big bottles of shampoo worth 40$ in a package extra on top of my order... I wrote "I don't mind the shampoo, I can use it ^^". But should I send it back? They said I could keep it because it would be to much of a hassle for them.

Of course, This is a lot bigger price difference.