I’m in the UK and had a notification my 1tb OLED steam deck was being delivered on Friday 24/11. I waited in and at 1330 hours I get a notification that it’s been delivered with a picture of it handed to a neighbour. The problem is I have no idea where this address is. I’ve asked all my neighbours (knocked on about 20 houses in the end) and no one has it. I phone parcel force and they tell me it was handed to an address in a different road by mistake. So I go there and the address (or door on the picture as its quite distinctive) is no where to be seen. I phone parcel force again and they tell me the driver will go back to retrieve the parcel on Monday. At this point I have little hope of whoever has my OLED actually giving it back to the driver so now I’m £580 out of pocket and no new steam deck. I just can’t get my head around why the package was handed to a random stranger and not taken back to the depot for me to collect. I did not give any permission for this and never do for this exact reason. I just hope someone takes responsibility for this and refunds me the £580. It’s clearly parcel forces fault but I have sent valve support a message telling them what’s happened and not heard back in over 24 hours so far. I just hope someone compensates me as this clearly is nothing I’ve done.

  • Mr_Pink_Gold@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Tell Valve what happened asap. They will refund you or send you a new unit. They will handle it with parcelforce.

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      1 year ago

      This is the right plan. If they deliver it to the address you provided and it walks off, that may be on you. But if they deliver it to the wrong address, I’m confident that it’s their obligation to make it right. (Might take some persistence on your part. Keep copies of all the notifications, doorstep photo, etc.)