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We bought a chair for our balcony from Ikea a couple of weeks ago but in true Ikea fashion, they had lots of stock of the chair but none of the cushions that make it comfortable to sit in. I e-mailed Ikea, who said that it was a seasonal item and that they wouldn't be receiving any more stock this year. Grrr!
In the meantime, I paid £5 extra for the same cushion from a seller on eBay, who claimed to have posted it to me last week and it had yet to arrive. They'd been really evasive about giving me a tracking number and I'd resigned myself to it never arriving. Double grrr!
But wait! I took my wife out for lunch today and on the way home, I suggested that we take a different route. As we neared our flat, I spotted a £20 note on some grass nearby. When I picked it up and checked to see if anyone near us had dropped it, there was nobody to be seen. As I was walking back to my wife, I found another £5 a few feet away. I'd never found this much money before.
When we got in, I sat down and checked my phone. A minute later, Ikea e-mailed me to say that they had the cushion in stock in our local branch. We decided to go there straight away, so we went to the bus stop, just in time to see the bus arriving ahead of us and it was going to pull away... until it sat there for two minutes and we just walked on. We went to Ikea and found the cushion, which was new and sealed, returned as an unwanted item by another customer earlier today. Coincidentally, it cost £25- so we appear to have gotten it for free. When we left Ikea, the bus arrived immediately and we just hopped on again. Just after we arrived home, it started raining.
Since then, I've asked the eBay seller for a refund and decided to play the lottery- just in case.
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