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This really isn't an issue with FedEx per se. It's actually remotely related to Griff's message. I recently ordered a small work table at Amazon but I didn't notice it was coming from China. They immediately assigned it a FedEx tracking number when they received the order. A while later I finally got tired of waiting so I looked up the number at FedEx's site and it turned it out to be invalid. It seems that what this company does is assign the number so the item is considered "shipped" and then you can't cancel the order but they never actually shipped it. I sent them a nasty-gram and demanded they cancel the order and they replied that it already shipped (obvious lie) and they would "try to ask UPS to call back the package." That would be the package with the bogus FedEx tracking number. In the end, Amazon refunded all payments.
Watch out for scammers like this.
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Yeah, I've had that as well - Paypal is pretty good about it, although it took quite a few weeks before the refund hit my account.
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I've had it happen as well.
As a side note, it seems ebay items from China to be taking a much longer time getting here. They updated their expected delivery date to 3 months in some cases.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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This type of behavior is common among Amazon suppliers: I had several experiences where companies created real shipping labels but did not actually ship the items for days, sometimes weeks. Of course this is done so they can claim payment immediately and you cannot cancel the order. In my case the correct goods were eventually shipped in all cases. Nevertheless it irritates the hell out of me. 
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Simple solution - quit ordering stuff from China.
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Reading comprehension is obviously not one of your strong suits.
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... and the discounts are huge - up to 99%. It's from a Household Name UK sporting goods store that I get our trainers from, so not expecting much I thought I'd have a look.
Leather gloves - £0.54! Extreme weather mittens - £0.27!
I thought I'd give it a try.
Add 'em to the shopping cart, and go to checkout - expecting a ridiculous delivery charge to be the Elephant in the Room.
But no! It's simpler than that. Apparently actual orders of one item gets you the error "Quantity exceeds maximum allowed."
Ah.
Won't be bothering then. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Won't be bothering then.
It seems you have confused shopping with purchasing.
A bit like the difference between playing (as in "thanks for playing") and winning.
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If they're sold out, they should say so, not that you're only allowed to order zero of them! If that's actually the case, it's rather unethical.
EDIT: Report them to the Serious Fraud Office.
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Maybe you can still buy them one glove at a time. Try placing two orders with a quantity of 0.5 each...
(and as luck would have it, watch two gloves for the same hand get delivered at your door)
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It's a pity it's not shoes - I do have two left feet ...
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Buy none, get none for free!
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They were just after your data.
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I have determined that the amount of "evidence" of a rat "E" is equal to the mass of the Rat "m" multiplied by the square of its' food consumption "c".
That's right: E=mc2 is my theory of Rat Activity ...
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Unless someone rats it out.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Oh great, now the US military complex will start the "The Bronx Project" to develop exploding rat weapons of mess destruction.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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Wild Wastes, written by Randi Darren, has a character using an army of rat people for mess distruction.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Not only him: Clickety[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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One small nitpick: the atomic bomb was constructed using classical theory, not relativistic...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Turn it over to your cat. He knows.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I'll toast![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) that with ein Stein of beer!
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then if you have multiple rats, you get into the realm of exponential numbers, and things get really messy after that.
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Do you want mutant rats ? Because that's how you get mutant rats.
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So my coffee machine is passing through their systems as "Mr E Coffee".
That's actually a nice touch, and it would be nice if everyone did it: you can tell exactly what is being delivered when, instead of trying to track back to the supplier via the courier tracking number.
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