Amazon customer orders £500 laptop - but receives two boxes of Weetabix instead

An Amazon customer has been left 'baffled' after opening up what he believed was a £500 laptop - only to discover two boxes of Weetabix. Adam Yearsley, 40, ordered the HP laptop last week as a 'treat'.

The loyal Amazon shopper, from Urmston, Trafford, had never had an issue with the online giant before. But after the parcel arrived, Adam was left stunned at what he discovered inside.

"I use Amazon all the time," he told the Manchester Evening News. "I've never had an issue before.

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"I thought I would treat myself to a new computer. I ordered it, paid £500 for it and a couple of days later it was delivered.

"When I opened the parcel it was two packets of Weetabix, a 24-pack and a 12-pack, sellotaped together in the shape of a laptop."

Adam says the box appeared to have been 'tampered with' before he opened it. Fearing he had been the victim of a 'scam', he reported the incident to police.

"I've been quite distressed over it," Adam said. "I don't know how it's happened.

"I was very baffled. I thought maybe my partner had ordered the Weetabix but I had to give a code to the delivery driver because it was an expensive parcel."

An Amazon spokesperson told the M.E.N.: "This has been resolved. We’ve contacted the customer directly, apologised and refunded in full."

Bizarrely, it's not the first time an Amazon customer has tried to open a new laptop from the firm, only to find cereal instead. Last November, The Northern Echo reported that a woman from York received a box of Kellogg's Corn Flakes when she was expecting an £850 laptop.

The following month, the BBC reported on a Staffordshire mum who ordered a laptop as a Christmas gift