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Builder splashes out on swimming pool — only to discover it’s an inflatable children’s foot spa
A BUILDER was left high and dry after splashing out on a swimming pool — only to discover it was an inflatable children’s foot spa.
Mick Daffern thought he had bagged a bargain with his £7 online purchase.
Mick Daffern imagined an 8ft long pool providing hours of fun in the garden — instead he got a 1ft square blow-up toy[/caption]
Mick’s daughter Lucy, 9, enjoys a foot spa in the new ‘pool’[/caption]
The dad-of-two imagined an 8ft long pool providing hours of fun in the garden — instead he got a 1ft square blow-up toy.
Wife Joanne went off at the deep end at him for being tight.
Mick, 50, of Wolverhampton, said: “The advert showed the inflatable up close. The perspective confused me. It was a complete con.
No diving allowed in this pool[/caption]
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“But what we got left me hysterical. I could do 4,000 lengths of this inflatable pool, no sweat.”
“My missus told me I should have known better – and I deserved what I got for being so tight.”
Last week The Sun featured mum Fleur Webb, 51, who accidentally ordered dolls’ house furniture for her patio.
