20 More Cyber-Crazy Stories About Shopping Online

Roundups | Right | November 28, 2022

Dear readers,

It’s ‘Cyber Monday’ again! The day that proves that Black Friday isn’t enough to satiate the consumer crowds, so online shopping is here to pick up the slack! While this means that most of the customer interactions today are completed online, that doesn’t mean the customers can’t still be your typical NAR character and cause some trouble at some stage in the process.

To stand in solidarity with all those who have to deal with bad customers online, we’ve rounded up a further twenty stories from our archives about online shopping. We hope you enjoy the stories between all the online sales today!

Opening Them Up To The Possibility They Were Wrong – When they know they were wrong but it’s somehow still your fault.

Gluten Out Of Ten For Ignorance, Part 6 – If the customer doesn’t know what they want when they’re in the physical store, they’re not going to know what they want online either. Oh, and it’s still your fault!

Sales On Vulcan: Infinite Savings In Infinite Combinations – These savings are not logical.

These Capitalists Hate Robots – If online shopping is bad, online chats are worse.

Designer Profits – When expecting to make money from your business is bad business.

You Disabled Your Service Yourself – Welcome to the world of online grocery shopping, where customers expect to be able to just… not pay?

If You Want To Bypass Fraud Prevention, Offer Them Some More Fraud! – There are some very clever fraudsters out there who work at bypassing online security. This is not one of them…

Need To Lock Down Those Delivery Estimates – After unrealistic expectations about online shopping, come the unrealistic expectations about delivery.

Needs A Return For A Faulty Attitude – And after the unrealistic expectations about delivery, come the unrealistic expectations about refunds.

When Online Shopping Flops – There are those who are so confused by the concept of online shopping that they can’t even make it to the purchasing stage.

Interrupting A Fire Sale – Online shopping is such big business it’s a matter of life or death!

How Do I Get One Of Them Internets? – When they’re soooo not ready for the internet.

Droning On With Outrageous Demands – The delivery drones will never be able to penetrate stupidity this thick.

A Broad Definition Of Fraud – Schrödinger’s fraud.

Express Responses – Online pickup has real-world consequences.

It’s Not The Scanner That’s Broken – Remember the human hands that process your online orders. Also remember the lazy bosses of those human hands who need to have experiences like this one!

Not Ripe For A Refund – Ordering groceries online is a big avocado-no-no…

If You’d Known One Item Is All It Takes You’d Have Tried That Before – If only you could replace customers like they were replacement items.

Good Luck Planting THAT Refund – The internet never forgets when a sale happened, even when the customer does.

For Some, Reality Is A Substituted Item – A different kind of war on want.

We hope you enjoyed this roundup about yet more woes of online shopping! Want to send in your own story? Submit your story here!

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22 Cyber-Crazy Stories About Shopping Online