Has anyone ever had this happen to them?

Someone who’s name I never heard of sent me a book as a gift. The book is about 200 pages, but the content could have easily fit in 100 pages or less. Also, page 3 says “printed in the USA”, but the last page says “printed in Germany by Amazon distribution”. The text is very generic self help stuff. My conclusion is this book was probably written by AI, and someone is sending out copies to get it to the best seller list. Holding the book doesn’t justify the current price of € 46, and leafing through it doesn’t give me the impression that it’s dense in information, it looks to be just generic stuff.

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        5 days ago

        And it was addressed to your name? Do you do any self publishing yourself with Amazon?

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          5 days ago

          No, it was adressed to “Latwan Estrella” with my adress on the package. I don’t do self publishing, I like reading books but writing is not for me.

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            5 days ago

            Hmm. Perhaps a previous resident in your location. Maybe a fat finger address.

            At least it wasn’t directly do you… that would be super creepy.

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              5 days ago

              Fat finger adress, maybe but highly unlikely due to the uncommon name. Previous resident definitely not. I’ve lived here since 2000, and Amazon has only been operating in my country since 2014.