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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3221460" data-attributes="member: 41321">I guess it wasn't technically IN the book, but here's my story.I've never had a local gaming store when I was into games, so I used to buy a lot of books online, many of them from eBay.  I forget which book it was, but I remember being surprised at the box when it came.  It was much larger than necessary for a D&D book, so I didn't immediately realize what it was.  When I opened the box there was no packaging, but the book was obviously laying on top of something.  I removed the book to see a jar of green powder.  It had a label, but it was a home-made printed label and hard to read.  I gathered from it that it was some sort of cleaning substance.I emailed the seller and asked if he had left the jar in the box by mistake.  He denied it.  He claimed to not know what it was.  I sent him photographs and everything.  I even called the shipper (UPS, if I recall) to see if they might have opened the box and put something extra in by mistake, but they said that they rarely open packages and even when they do they note on the package that it had been opened (this had no such note) and they do not take anything out of the packages, just move stuff around, so they couldn't have accidentally put something extra back.  Plus, I could not think of any reason why the seller would use a box so big if he hadn't planned on putting the jar in there as well.I pondered calling the police, but I just ended up keeping it for a few weeks (in case the seller suddenly realized what it was) and then tossing it.  That's one of the weirdest things that's ever happened to me.</blockquote>

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