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Has anyone else ordered a pair of shoes only to open the box and find... one shoe?

Best I can guess someone's ordered two pairs, split one of the pairs across the two boxes, and sent both boxes back for two refunds and they've gone straight back on the shelf.

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how would that help? either they check the returned boxes or they don't. sending back 1 shoe does not fools the inspection

An empty shoebox is so much lighter than a full shoebox that the odds of triggering someones sense of this being fishy are way higher I guess.

It matters less if it's actually true than if someone trying to pull off the scam thinks it might be. The only way to find out if that hole exists in the system is either to have an insider tell you that it would, or to try it out...

Oh, and to add further to the nonsense: the product description technically doesn't say that what you're buying is a pair of shoes. So a sufficiently automated system might mistake a single shoe for a legitimate product. It's absurd, but not impossible to see how you might end up there.

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