‘What’s the most expensive thing you’ve accidentally received for free in the UK?’ – 22 people who got remarkably lucky

12.

‘Last week I bought a KitKat Chunky from the vending machine that knocked another KitKat further down out the machine. That was a good day.’
–khaotyx

13.

‘Ryanair paid my late flight compensation twice. They messed it up by getting the currency wrong the first time around. I can’t remember the exact value but say instead of £1000 they paid €1000 leaving a small shortfall they owed me.

It took months, but eventually they paid out, expect the paid me the original full GBP amount rather than just the difference. Get it right up ye!’
–Cultural-Ambition211

14.

‘Ooh yeah, me and a friend had a couple of ciders and had got to the point where we decided we wanted to continue the evening of drinking. Decided to Uber from the supermarket (because we were feeling lazy), six cans of pink gin with lemonade, nothing crazy, just 3 each.

What arrived were six full-sized large bottles of Gordon’s pink gin, no mixer. Suffice to say I think we spent about £12 on the lot, and got absolutely wankered in the process. I still can’t drink the stuff now 8 years later.’
–mitzubee

15.

‘A huge box was delivered to my door containing 50 dog toys valued at £20 each. Seemed like an Amazon error so I left it by my door. A week later, another box shows up. Then a third. After a month or so I figured no one was coming for them, so I listed all the items on eBay and sold them for £10 each – £1500 profit by the time they were all gone!’
–ride_to_ruin

16.

‘I ordered £25’s worth of pieces from LEGO’s spare parts service. When the order arrived, it was weirdly heavy… LEGO had sent me everything I ordered plus £150’s of additional parts, mostly multiples of the parts I had ordered. I called LEGO’s customer service line and explained what had happened. After checking that I hadn’t received paperwork for someone else – I hadn’t – they said I could keep it all!’
–Darth_Zander

17.

‘Ordered my wife a small designer handbag (about £200 in the sale). The brand sent me the larger, newer, not on sale version (about £600) for the sale price of the small bag. Looked like the best husband ever by mistake!’
–Thi13een

18.

‘Computer monitor just turned up at my front door during Covid with no explanation. Worth about £800. No explanation- my address, someone else’s name. Couldn’t find them on LinkedIn or Facebook or anything. Used it myself for a good few years, my son still uses it as a gaming monitor!’
–Resident-Survey571

19.

‘Full bathroom suite. Company sent wrong sink. Called to complain, they apologised and said they’d send the correct one. Weeks later another different wrong sink arrives. This happened three times before I got pissy and demanded correct sink sent be next day. Lady apologised and said she’d refunded the sink and made new order for next day delivery.

Correct sink arrives, plus an email saying my refunds been processed. Bit odd so I check my bank. My feeling when I realise they’d refunded the entire suite they already sent and only charged me for a sink.’
–utukore

20.

‘Ordered Autosol metal polish from Amazon, they actually sent me this huge high-end microscope (worth hundreds).
Contacted them, they told me to keep the microscope and sent out the metal polish. I had zero use for a microscope so ended up selling it.’
–Sea-Climate6841

21.

‘I ordered a Tesco Whoosh delivery – about £25 of ingredients (it was the ingredients for “The Soup” if anyone on the Reddit slow cooking sub is here!).

Instead, I got four chocolate eclairs, 60 Tetley teabags, kitchen roll, a litre of whole milk… and 80x Benson and Hedges Superkings (about £60 apparently?) Tesco refunded my original order and told me to keep and make use of the wrong order as I see fit. Now I just need to know what to do with £60 of snouts.’
–murdochi83

22.

‘An entire bathroom suite. Came home from work in the 90’s and it was in my front garden. Wrapped in plastic. No delivery note, no nothing. Just a full on bathroom suite. Knocked on all the neighbours doors, asked over the local pub (no social media then obviously). No one had a clue. I left it there a while and then sold it through the Free Ads in the local paper.’
–Capital_Jump110

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