Back on January 21, 2017, I ordered this black faux leather platform bed, in anticipation of it arriving on time for my January 24 move-in date to my new apartment. The bed was supposed to arrive on the day of my own arrival, so the timing would be perfect. I ordered a mattress to go along with it (which is also visible in the photo).

My bed got lost.

After waiting an extra six days for my bed with an unknown shipping status, lost somewhere in OnTrac Shipping’s facilities, I reached out to Amazon to see exactly what they could do about my lost bed. After realizing that I am a Prime member and I was supposed to receive my bed a long time ago, they sent out another one on January 30, 2017.

That bed successfully arrived on February 2, so I was finally able to assemble the bed and place my mattress on it, rather than leaving the mattress on the floor. Then, something very interesting happened.

Apparently, after 13 days of my original bed aimlessly wandering around, nowhere to be seen (because the tracking number had no updates since January 24), it had somehow found its way to my apartment. So now, in the span of two days, I have two beds.

I’m obviously going to return that bed, because I only paid for one bed, and I don’t need a second bed to begin with anyway. But, I hope that at least OnTrac will be the one responsible for relocating this 90-pound bed back to the manufacturer or warehouse, rather than Amazon having to pay for an error they did not commit…