14 DAY TRIAL // Are you ready for one of those creepy stories you can’t believe actually happened? We have one to share with you right now: a customer in India received a brick instead of the phone he ordered.
As it turns out, the customer wanted to purchase the OnePlus One, so he went to Amazon India and placed an order. A few days later, he received his product with a slight delay, but to his great surprise, the package did not contain a smartphone but a brick. The customer shared his story and a few images showing he was not kidding online and also on Amazon’s India page (as seen at Gadgetgyaan).
The online retailer reacted pretty quickly, saying they were going to look into the situation. The user also complained that upon calling Amazon custom care, he was treated very casually and was asked to be patient and wait until October 15.
He also mentioned that the packaging the phone arrived in had been tempered with, so one of the possibilities is that someone actually stole the phone from the box, before the package had the chance to reach its final destination.
The phone was probably stolen
Apparently, the device that went missing was a 64GB Sandstone Black version of the OnePlus One. We don’t know whether the situation has been resolved yet, but hopefully the customer will get his money back.
It’s not the first time we’re hearing such a story. Sometimes thieves will remove the product from the box and replace it with something that weighs approximately the same. A few years back, a woman purchased an iPad from Walmart as a gift only to discover that the package contained only notepads inside.
The OnePlus One was announced back in April 2014 and arrives with a 5.5-inch display with 1080 x 1920 pixel resolution (401ppi) and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. The phone runs on a Snapdragon 801 processor in combination with 3GB of RAM and either 16GB or 64GB of internal storage.
It also packs a 13MP main shooter with autofocus and dual-LED flash plus a 5MP frontal camera. The phone ships out with CyanogenMod 12 out of the box, but since the launch of the handset, the partnership between the two companies has dissolved.
