However, things seemed to just keep getting worse when buyers in the United Kingdom opened their PS5 packages to find random items instead. IGN reporter Bex April May recounted her own experience in which she opened up the supposed PS5 package and instead received an air fryer.

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Even then, there’s no explanation for how this even happened. Hundreds of consumers were either left with random items or a notification that suggested the console was delivered but no actual box showed up. Certain theories suggest this wasn’t an accident, but instead, the product of conscious manipulation.

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