Shopping online has many benefits including convenience for the modern, busy customer - but it can also be perilous if you don't check out what you're buying beforehand.
People from the US and the UK have shared snaps comparing the items they ordered online with the products they actually ended up with.
BUZZPLUS shared snaps of their most hilarious shopping fails in an online gallery to make the rest of us feel better about our purchasing mishaps.
They include one person who bought 'heavy duty' hiking boots but they arrived miniature for a Barbie doll.
Another person thought the personalised message box on a website was for delivery instructions and she received wireless earphones imprinted with the instructions she had left for the delivery driver.
Someone else's cat looked less than impressed after his scratching post arrived too miniature to play on.
And a grandmother who wanted a personalised Christmas stocking left blank for her unborn grandchild received an item which had 'no name' sewn into it.
Here FEMAIL takes a look at some of the most bizarre online shopping fails...