15+ Online Shopping Fails Where Folks Didn't Exactly Get What They Paid For

Sometimes, the prices really are too good to be true. Now that we're in gift-purchasing season—you know, that time of year when you suddenly remember that you actually do not have sufficient funds to make everyone's holiday dreams come true—it's time to take a look at the times people thought they found the perfect gift online… and well, it didn't turn out as they had hoped. 

Perhaps these customers didn't scan the online reviews or perhaps they failed to select the right size. Or perhaps they were totally tricked into buying something affordable that was, at the end of the day, completely unusable. The ultimate moral of this story is that if you think something is a steal, maybe triple-check that you know what you're getting. Keep scrolling below for this collection of online shopping shenanigans. When you're done, here is a compilation of hilarious spelling and grammar errors.