Does this count?
Last year, the missus decided she wanted an iPod for her birthday. Not an MP3 player, an iPod. Decided I'd get her a Shuffle and had a good look around the web to find the cheapest place to get one. John Lewis were selling them for £55 and I located a code that gave a discount of £8 on their website. So one was ordered for the sum of £50 inc P&P, delivery in 5-10 working days.

5-10 working days came and went and no iPod. So I ring John Lewis and ask them what they are playing at. They said they'd sent it out 10 days previously, on the day I ordered it on, and they would now send out another one. They even sent me an email confiming that they were doing this, which was nice.

Another 5-10 working days came and went and still no iPod. Ring them again. Same story, it was posted 10 days previously and they would send another.

Two days after this, I get home and there's three "sorry we missed you" cards from the Post Office. Go to my local sorting office and pick up my three iPods. Ace. I keep one, the missus gets one, but what to do with the other? I took it back to my local John Lewis for a £55 refund. The bloke even appologised because he couldn't refund me the delivery charge.

So, not so much "stealing from a shop" more "shop paid me a fiver to take two iPods off them".
(ScousersPet, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 14:36, 1 reply)

Similar, but far less impressive...
When I was at uni we signed up for broadband, and were sent a router.
It never turned up though, so we called for another, and the cycle repeated itself.

On the fifth try, we saw the postman, got the goods, and got online.

A few days later, the people next door said that they had a few packages that had been left on our door step over the last few weeks...
( Cawl, Thu 10 Jan 2008, 14:46, closed)