AIBU to expect a refund from this craft lady?

[Swimming2512]

There is a craft lady who has a Facebook page. She does Christmas boxes (they're lovely) and I brought one from my son. She then showed me some of her other makes that are Christmas themed, so I could save on the postage (as these other bits were not being put up until November) so I thought that was nice of her.

Before anyone says Santa is naff, don't bother we love Santa in this house! She had these 'milk for santa' things, that she specificity said she had made them, etc. They were £5. My stuff arrived, all fine.

About a week later, I go into a shop similar to Poundland (everything very cheap) there they were £1... I brought one just so I could compare it, so I was 100%.

It is the exact same thing.

I message her and tell her and she goes "yeah, so?" and she explains that I never specifically asked if she made it!? Yet she clearly sold it to me as "these handcrafted bottles", I didn't really see the need for me to then ask as she has already stated it!

AIBU to want a refund?

[phillipp]

Am I the only one who has bothered the read the OP.

"She had these 'milk for santa' things, that she specificity said she had made them, etc. They were £5."

If you actually read the whole OP the OP says 'and she explains that I never specifically asked if she made it!? Yet she clearly sold it to me as "these handcrafted bottles"'

The seller sold 'handcrafted glass bottles' not 'glass bottles that I have made'.

As I said before, if you see something in a shop that says 'handcrafted' do you believe they have staff in the back churning them out?

[IceRoadDucker]

YANBU. It's a shame people are being so smug because they wouldn't have been "had", but that doesn't make this woman's behaviour okay.

[Bulbasaur]

That's false advertising. Deliberately leading the buyer to assume an item is something else is fraud.

Ebay had a similar problem where people were taking photos of new Xbox's and selling them with Picture of Xbox in title, while clearly displaying item. The buyer bought it for a couple hundred, and got a literal photo. Judge ruled it was deliberate deception and fraud.

You're not signing a contract when you buy something. The onus is on the seller to make sure it's clear what they are selling. It's not on the seller to scrutinize and find deceptive loopholes.

Will anything come of such a small amount of money? No. But it's still fraud and therefore illegal. I'd report it to facebook, let them know what's going on. They'll most likely shut the page down.