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Most people are happy, and even excited, when an Amazon packages arrives at their home, but it's been a real nightmare for one California woman.
Over the past year, hundreds of oversized Amazon packages have shown up at her San Jose home. She hadn't ordered any of them and didn't want them. The packages were all faux-leather car seat covers from a Chinese seller, and they just kept coming. They have completely taken over her home. She eventually found out that the company in China was using her address as a return center, without her permission. Customers who bought the seat covers and wanted to return them were told to send them back to her address.
The woman made repeated phone calls to Amazon and even received a $100 gift card as an apology, but the boxes kept coming. Amazon eventually told her to donate the items or just give them away, but the woman wasn't satisfied with that suggestion and demanded that Amazon come and collect them. Ultimately, that's what they did. The company says it is also cracking down on foreign companies, like this one in China, that abuse Amazon's return policy by posting random U.S. return addresses.