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03-10-2016, 12:59 AM
The case for reading the fine print before buying online
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Unless you're an avid dollhouse collector, you probably don't need — **r do you likely want — doll furniture.*
But that's what you might end up with if you're **t careful while shopping online.
SEE ALSO: IKEA's adult coloring book will take your love of furniture to new heights (http://mashable.com/2016/01/24/ikea-coloring-book-furniture/)
Take, for example, this desk lamp from Reddit user bolthead88 (https://www.reddit.com/user/bolthead88).
And for skeptics who don't believe these mistakes actually happen, fellow Redditors shared their own teeny furniture mishaps in the photo's comments.
"I get an email a couple days after delivery, and he tells me that he thought he was buying an actual croquet set," writes*camplightsatnight (https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/49gbgh/i_ordered_a_desk_lamp_from_amazon_i_should_have/d0rqr7g). "He wasn't upset and he didn't want a refund, but he wanted to tell me that he will forever read the descriptions* of the items he will be buying very carefully for the rest of his life." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/09/doll-desk-lamp/)
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Unless you're an avid dollhouse collector, you probably don't need — **r do you likely want — doll furniture.*
But that's what you might end up with if you're **t careful while shopping online.
SEE ALSO: IKEA's adult coloring book will take your love of furniture to new heights (http://mashable.com/2016/01/24/ikea-coloring-book-furniture/)
Take, for example, this desk lamp from Reddit user bolthead88 (https://www.reddit.com/user/bolthead88).
And for skeptics who don't believe these mistakes actually happen, fellow Redditors shared their own teeny furniture mishaps in the photo's comments.
"I get an email a couple days after delivery, and he tells me that he thought he was buying an actual croquet set," writes*camplightsatnight (https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/49gbgh/i_ordered_a_desk_lamp_from_amazon_i_should_have/d0rqr7g). "He wasn't upset and he didn't want a refund, but he wanted to tell me that he will forever read the descriptions* of the items he will be buying very carefully for the rest of his life." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/09/doll-desk-lamp/)
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