To feel like a massive idiot?

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So I've been searching for a cheap and cheerful coffee table.
I found one on amazon for £13.99 and it looked decent.
Delivery due today.
Knock on the door ..
Amazon driver with my package
It was a dolls house coffee table
I didn't read the measurements

I was buying bridesmaids shoes for my 8 years old neice, something like a size 3. Some lovely little toddler size ones came instead :-)

This is a brilliant thread

How could you not have been ripped off by the price???

I found a BBQ With a seller on amazon last year, double smoker thing. £22. I ordered it immediately and then started to panic. No measurements on the listing that I could see etc and by the evening I’d convinced myself it was a doll house one.

Imagine my shock when the next day two enormous boxes arrived. Turns out it was a £220 misprice that the company had honoured.

I’m quite good at buying in miniature myself (once bought some bargain ice cream to find it was actually theatre sized tubs) so that stopped DH taking the piss for a bit.
I still don’t necessarily read properly though...

I love this thread

Amazing!

B0bbin I’ve actually made myself cry remembering it.

We put it in the corner at first but then the dog kept knocking it over so my dad picked it up and put it on the mantelpiece

Every time me and my brother held it together for a brief moment, he’d whisper “will there be room for the angel on top?” and set us both off again.

I've done things like that too :-).

I have the silver tea service you need to go with it

I never dared tell anyone in real life that I thought it was full size!

You can send it back under the 'Not for for purpose intended' clause, Sale of Goods Act 1979. If it's a UK based retailer!

A guy I worked with in the military was doing the department order and ordered 1000 India tags from stores (this was a Long Time Ago when such things were used).

He hadn't noticed they came in bags of 1000.

Stores didn’t query it so we had a million India tags.

I bet they’re still using them now.

My friend once thought she’d ordered a kilo of mushrooms. When her delivery arrived there was one single mushroom, all bagged up and labelled.

I just did the same on amazon . Thought I was getting bargain cocktail syrup. Nope tiny weeny bottles . Too embarrassed to return them . Gutted.

Ha op that’s funny 😂
@CameFromTheDarkside I once ordered 12 bags of new potatoes and 2 Brussel sprouts 🤣

Oh yes I did the tesco thing . Ordered 5 tomatoes. Got 5 kilos
Spent far too much time convincing the driver I was going to make soup . I am sure he thought silly old bint.

@emmylousings

You can send it back under the 'Not for for purpose intended' clause, Sale of Goods Act 1979. If it's a UK based retailer!

Not really. This would only apply if it wasn’t fit for the purpose of being a doll’s house coffee table. Here’s it just the OP’s (funny) mistake.

Done the same thing this week . Ordered a scrap book thinking it was at least A4 sized minimum ..... it fits into the palm of my hand
I blame drink click shopping.

Have told DH it was for niece to use for keepsakes..... her birthday is three months away.

Thanks for sharing OP, you have made me smile tonight .

The other year I wasn't well (my excuse) and kept ordering glass beads for jewellery making classes I thought would be say 2cm and getting ones that 2mm or smaller! Plus thinking I'd be getting 50 or 100 and getting 1 or 2!

Ex DP did the same, but in reverse when ordering the tub that was planned for kids paddling pool. He gave very, very specific measurements to the company.

Except he gave them in feet & inches. The company worked in metric. Which is how we ended up with a seven foot tall paddling pool.

We’re going to need pictures!

I’m another one who ordered toddler size 4 trainers for DS instead of adult size 4 😂 they were the cutest shoes ever though!

Don't be so hard on yourself, OP. Any idiot would feel massive stood next to a doll's house coffee table. You're just a regular-sized idiot

And you've kicked off a great thread!

When I was a student I was chair of a committee to organise an event (think charity ball type thing). We needed a cloakroom and the venue had racks that we could hire but they didn't come with coat hangers. One of the guys on the committee reported he had looked online and they were cheaper to buy than hire so he'd bought them. Brilliant, sorted. Until two days before the event when he takes delivery of... 1000 of those little plastic squares that go around coat hangers to tell you what size the clothes are. 'I was surprised they came in sizes - I thought "of course I want medium, who wants an extra small coat hanger?!"' he says . The whole committee ended up having to empty our wardrobes and just use our own and beg all our friends to do the same; I spent sodding days afterwards returning coat hangers to everyone I knew...

Actually crying with laughter here.

How could you not have been ripped off by the price???

IKEA Lack are only £17.

My boss did this once with some bargain teaspoons at work because they were always going missing. We referred to them as Barbie teaspoons but they were just small really.so small if you didn’t keep hold when you were stirring you would loose your spoon in your tea....even worse they seemed to melt when they went in a hot drink...at least it gave everyone a laugh 😆🤣