Online shopping gets confusing fast when a mystery package arrives with your name, address, and unexpected fees attached.

One woman pays $50 to collect it, but when her friend later claims the contents, would you hand everything over or ask for reimbursement first?

The disagreement grows once her friend demands payment for two items while refusing to cover the collection fee she never mentioned.

Check out this ‘friendly’ dispute.

AITA refusing to pay my friend for her package that was delivered to me?

I am a 19 year old woman, and I order things from online a lot.

Recently, I ordered a few things from a popular brand. My packages were spilt up so what I ordered would’ve come on two separate days (far apart), which I didn’t mind.

I picked up the first package and a week or so later, I kept seeing notifications in my email about a package (with a completely different tracking number than either of my split up packages).

I checked my bank account to see if maybe I had ordered something and didn’t remember, but that wasn’t the case.

Let’s see what happened with this mystery package.

I brushed it off and ignored it.

A few days later, the mystery package and my original package came up as delivered, so I went and collected both since they were both addressed to me. For the mystery package, I paid $50 to clear it.

As soon as I got home, I dug through the mystery package since I paid a good buck to collect it. I was awfully curious and I thought the company gifted me free items since I shop on their site quite often.

There were slippers, shorts, dresses and a few other things in the package, all which I’d never personally order but they were good picks.

I gave away one of the dresses and currently am wearing one of the shorts while typing this.

But all was not as it seemed.

Today, my friend (female, 20) sent me a message asking if I had received a package recently (I picked up the package a week ago and we talked. I did mention getting freebies and it didn’t go beyond that).

I said yes, and obviously started telling her about my freebies (again).

She asked what exactly I got, so I told her. Then, she said it wasn’t free since it was hers.

How? Well, she placed an order from the same site I buy from and put my address in to have it delivered to me.

Read on to find out how she felt about this weird situation.

Did she ever tell me about this before today? No. Am I shocked and lowkey upset? Kinda, yeah because why wouldn’t she tell me that?

I told her I took two items since I initially thought I was mine, and she could have the rest of her stuff.

However, she said I’d have to pay her back for the two items I took. I refused, since I did pay $50 to collect it, which she no longer has to, and my other friend works close to where she lives so she’d get free delivery too.

She called me selfish and a b-word and has been telling our mutual friends and my mom about what happened.

And the story she’s been telling is far from the truth.

She’s been saying I stole from her and refused to pay her back.

My mom’s saying I should pay her to keep the peace, and my friends are split on the situation.

Am I the wrong for refusing to pay back my friend after she ordered her package to be delivered to me?

AITA?

This is the strangest thing for someone to do, it’s no wonder this poor woman was confused and upset by it all.

Moreover, she’s forked out $50 in fees for something that wasn’t for her, with her friend using her then expecting everything to be okay.

Of course it’s not okay.

Let’s see what Reddit thought about this.

This person agreed that she was entirely right to hold onto the package until the $50 was refunded.

While others encouraged the woman to be smart when handing over cash for unknown packages.

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Meanwhile this Redditor spoke from experience when explaining that this woman was being completely taken advantage of.

Her friend used her name and address without warning, leaving her to pay $50 for a package she reasonably thought was hers.

She offered to return the remaining items and pay for what she used once her friend reimbursed the collection fee.

A simple heads-up beforehand could have prevented the entire mess, especially since the package never should have arrived as a mystery.

Her friend ordered the clothes, but apparently communication was out of stock.