20+ People Who Received Not Exactly What They Ordered

Many of us have experienced poor service, both online and offline — for example, ordering from a café based on a nice photo from the menu and receiving something completely different. Users from our article will now think twice before ordering anything.

“Ordered a cake like this. Got this.”

“Ordered a custom embroidered sweatshirt of my girlfriend’s cat... This is what I got.”

• I am so sorry but this made me laugh so hard I ended up in tears! © miarose33 / Reddit

• It’s so bad but so good © Spiker1986 / Reddit

“Not just a failed purchase, but clearly a scam”

“Too much chemical”

"Ordered a cake like in the photo. When I arrived, it wasn’t ready. The pastry chef asked me to wait, and then she said, “I’m so sorry, I don’t know what this is but it’s not that dog.”

• Literally saving this as a future tattoo design © justalittlepoodle / Reddit

“The manicure I wanted vs the one I got.”

“Told the seller I was missing the CTRL key and he sent me this.”

“Booked a nice holiday cottage but got this. And the trailer is right next to this cottage.”

“The cake we ordered in honor of our engagement and the cake we received from the pastry chef.”

“What the restaurant advertises vs what I got in reality”

“Room service at the hotel I’m staying at, I was so excited too.”

“Ordered spinach on this pizza. There is ¼ of a spinach leaf on it.”

“The tester (top) vs the paint they actually gave us. It’s not the same color!”

“Got a free screw with the pizza.”

“Well, at least it’s for a prank.”

“That’s not what I expected.”

“The lamp my friend ordered vs what he got”

“What I paid for vs what they delivered to my wife”

“My $5 ’chocolate’ croissant”

“Ordered a litter box enclosure and got... a body”

“We thought it would be 4 normal sized brownies. But all together they are smaller than my palm for $20. Feeling bamboozled!”

“My wife ordered a beading pattern book, but instead of patterns it only contains AI written instructions on how to make such a book.”

“And this is a raspberry muffin?! It didn’t even taste good.”

“Why does it look more like apple slices?”

“Valentine’s pastry at my local coffee shop”

And here are more hilarious examples of how expectation didn’t pass the reality check.