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Cheap tools
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 12:11 am
by Gob
A Cardiff charity shop mistakenly sold an electrician's £200 tools for just £1 after he left them unattended.
Andrew Bickel, 39, was fixing a faulty light at the Catwel shop in Heath on Thursday as a favour for the cat re-housing charity.
He said he nipped outside to get something from his van and when he returned his tools had been sold.
"The lady in the shop was really upset," said Mr Bickel. "Fortunately I can laugh at it now".
Mr Bickel, from Heath, later posted on Facebook: "Doing a love job in a charity shop, put my tools down, went to the van, came back and the old lady on the till sold them for £1.
"Funny but fuming. Over £200 worth."
After his post was shared almost 90 times, an electrical company on Ocean Way, Cardiff got in touch and offered him a new set of tools free of charge.
"It was a really kind gesture," said Mr Bickel.
Re: Cheap tools
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 5:38 am
by Bicycle Bill
The whole story is bullshit. The woman on the till didn't sell them; it's more likely that some no-good bastard saw the guy working and when he walked away from his tools this shameless son-of-a-bitch quickly gathered them up, brought them to the register, and more than likely claimed he had found them on a counter but there was no price on them and asked her what she'd have to get for them. What was she supposed to do? How in the hell would she be likely to know the true value or source of these tools? So being as it was a charity shop, she quoted him a ridiculously low price which he quickly forked over — and then hot-footed it out of the place, probably even bumping into the electrician as he came back in.
Once again, a lowlife, scum-sucking son of a whore. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his pubic hairs.
-"BB"-
Re: Cheap tools
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2017 2:44 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Never mess with another guys tool(s).
Re: Cheap tools
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 1:37 am
by Gob
An electrician whose £200 worth of tools were mistakenly sold for £1 in a charity shop has had them returned.
Andrew Bickel, 39, was fixing a light at the Catwel shop in Cardiff two weeks ago when he nipped out to his van and returned to find his tools were gone.
He said he had a call from a lady in the cat charity shop to say his tools were there to collect, but with "no explanation of how, why or when".
Mr Bickel's original Facebook post about the mistake went viral.
He said he had enjoyed his five minutes of fame afterwards.
"I couldn't believe it," he said, "the phone just didn't stop ringing."
"The Sun newspaper came down to where I was working and took photographs, television crews wanted to film me and I even had an offer to appear on Judge Rinder," he added.
"I'm just waiting for the call to go into the jungle."
Mr Bickel said he had been offered £100 by a magazine for his story and, if it happened, he would donate £50 to the cat charity shop and £50 to a dog charity shop, after admitting he was "more of a dog person".
"I'm just glad no-one has been left out of pocket," he said.