What have you ordered, which turned out substantially bigger

[mr_fibuli]

CC said:

We got a Panasonic 36" CRT (TX-36PF10) in 2000 - think it was £2100. At the time there were only 3 CRTs at 36" - Sony, Toshiba and Panasonic - comparing them side by side in the one shop we could find stocking all of them, the Panny looked the better picture (IMHO).

Getting it home was a challenge as we also lived in an upstairs flat with no lift.

Since then we've moved it to our new house, and after that to FiL's flat, where he still enjoys using it to watch the cricket today. He's got Sky SD (no HD), and the picture still looks great - better than a HD flat screen displaying an SD signal.

17 years on it's still going strong and I wouldn't be surprised if it's got a good few years to go.

So, pretty good value in both £ per Kg and £ per year service.

Picture from a few years back in the flat. (That's not me in it).

P1020813 by conradsphotos, on Flickr

Edited by C&C on Friday 13th January 11:20

I had that exact model too. We struggled with it over several moves - even with 2 people it was a real pain to move round as the hand holds were only wide enough to get the tips of your fingers in, and I think it weighed about 90kg. One time though there was a kitchen fitter on hand - he asked if we needed a hand, and then plucked it out of the boot of my car single handed as if it was a 14" portable.

[budgie smuggler]

Reverse one here.

I ordered what was supposed to be a replacement motor for a kids ride-on train.
Big heavy thing, approx 20 cm long. Could only find what I needed on eBay, and shipped from China which was a nuisance. Good price though.

It took weeks to arrive. I was expecting a rather large parcel, only to be greeted instead by an envelope containing this:

[S11Steve]

Another one here who fell for US pizza sizes - I didn't realise that 14" was the radius/slice, not the diameter of the whole pizza. The waitress didn't check beforehand as "most of our customers order one of those for themselves"...

Luckily the table next to us took ours, and I shared most of the missus' huge pizza.


I also mis-ordered a box of Post-It note pads at work. Instead of a pack of 12 pads, I got 12 cartons. Each carton had 12 packs of 12 pads.

1728 Post-It pads for an office of 5 people...

[Shakermaker]

A few years ago in a previous role, I had the daily responsibility of collating and filing reports each day in the office. Had to maybe file 10-12 bits each morning into a clip file.

I was getting a bit frustrated with the dinky little hole punch that had come to the office, it didn't really do a very good job and only went cleanly through maybe 2 or 3 sheets of paper at a time.

I asked the office manager for "a slightly bigger hole punch" with the expectation of one that would do 10-12 sheets at a time cleanly. I wanted something like this:



But no, thanks to our supplier relationship giving us huge discounts on stationery, she ordered the biggest hole punch instead.

So I then got this turn up:



Which would happily chomp through 150 pages in one go and produce some pretty heavy chads in the process. it would also go through metal, fingers.. anything.

[King Herald]

I ordered a printer from ao.com, thought I'd throw down a few quid extra to get something reasonable quality....

When it turned up I thought they had sent me a bloody washing machine, it is huge, the printer itself is two foot square by a foot tall. When I actually had a proper look at the order I realised I'd spunked out for some A3 printer scanner office type equipment.

Of course, I had unpacked it all, peeled of dozens of bits of tape and pulled out numerous bits of packing before I realised it was really not what we needed, but it was too late to return it by that point.....

[wolfracesonic]

S11Steve said:

Another one here who fell for US pizza sizes - I didn't realise that 14" was the radius/slice, not the diameter of the whole pizza. The waitress didn't check beforehand as "most of our customers order one of those for themselves"...

Luckily the table next to us took ours, and I shared most of the missus' huge pizza.


I also mis-ordered a box of Post-It note pads at work. Instead of a pack of 12 pads, I got 12 cartons. Each carton had 12 packs of 12 pads.

1728 Post-It pads for an office of 5 people...

Have you used them all yet?

[mko9]

wolfracesonic said:

S11Steve said:

Another one here who fell for US pizza sizes - I didn't realise that 14" was the radius/slice, not the diameter of the whole pizza. The waitress didn't check beforehand as "most of our customers order one of those for themselves"...

Luckily the table next to us took ours, and I shared most of the missus' huge pizza.


I also mis-ordered a box of Post-It note pads at work. Instead of a pack of 12 pads, I got 12 cartons. Each carton had 12 packs of 12 pads.

1728 Post-It pads for an office of 5 people...

Have you used them all yet?

If you haven't wallpapered someone's office, or completely covered someone's car out in the car park, then you are doing it wrong.

[cheddar]

Shakermaker said:

I'd be doing Smashy and Nicey Bachman Turner Overdrive all day on that thing

[King Herald]

S11Steve said:

Another one here who fell for US pizza sizes - I didn't realise that 14" was the radius/slice, not the diameter of the whole pizza. The waitress didn't check beforehand as "most of our customers order one of those for themselves"...

Luckily the table next to us took ours, and I shared most of the missus' huge pizza.

.

Flew to the USA for work, New Orleans, but some motel out on the highway. Restaurant down the road, had to walk along the grass to get their, no 'sidewalks' as nobody walks here.

Anyway, I ordered a burger in the restaurant, but then felt a bit cheap and a touch peckish, so ordered salad bar too.

Salad bar turned out to be almost a mobile restaurant, with every salad and fruit known to man, including fried chicken, and burgers......

My burger arrived seperatly, with a plate of fries as big as my fkin' head!!

[talksthetorque]

Just found the thread, and an impressive introduction with the oversize spherical Italian dish.
Here's my contribution from a Danish fast food emporium. Well, it was on expenses. Passport shown for scale.


Oh, and they had the local equivalent of autotrader to read while I was waiting.
Z4M coupe ( about £15k over here at the time) for £65k

[GuinnessMK]

As mentioned in another thread, I accidentally ordered 10x too much concrete for a job once. It was for a specialist weekend job, so we'd ordered extra fibres and rapid setting additives, and the site was already 40 minutes drive from the mixing plant.

I was OK when the first wagon turned up. Not so relaxed when the second one turned up, and began to panic when a third arrived as I was on the phone to the plant trying to cancel the remainder of the order!

[john2443]

S11Steve said:

Another one here who fell for US pizza sizes - I didn't realise that 14" was the radius/slice, not the diameter of the whole pizza. The waitress didn't check beforehand as "most of our customers order one of those for themselves"...

Luckily the table next to us took ours, and I shared most of the missus' huge pizza.


I also mis-ordered a box of Post-It note pads at work. Instead of a pack of 12 pads, I got 12 cartons. Each carton had 12 packs of 12 pads.

1728 Post-It pads for an office of 5 people...

Solution and approriate comment all in one go

[S11Steve]

mko9 said:

wolfracesonic said:

S11Steve said:

I also mis-ordered a box of Post-It note pads at work. Instead of a pack of 12 pads, I got 12 cartons. Each carton had 12 packs of 12 pads.

1728 Post-It pads for an office of 5 people...

Have you used them all yet?

If you haven't wallpapered someone's office, or completely covered someone's car out in the car park, then you are doing it wrong.

I changed jobs in 2005 after the order mishap, but when I went back in 2010, there were still 7 or 8 boxes left. The business closed later that year, so not sure where they went.

A few desks were wallpapered while people were on holiday at various times though. I'm sure I've got pictures on an old laptop somewhere though.

[Rostfritt]

S11Steve said:

I changed jobs in 2005 after the order mishap, but when I went back in 2010, there were still 7 or 8 boxes left. The business closed later that year, so not sure where they went.

A few desks were wallpapered while people were on holiday at various times though. I'm sure I've got pictures on an old laptop somewhere though.

Probably taken home by the staff. I remember when I was younger my Mum's office was closed down and she was made redundant. They had a huge amount or random stationary they no longer needed so the staff could help themselves. For some bizarre reason they used A5 paper for something so had loads of it. I think she bought home a few boxes. This was in the 90s and there is still a cupboard with about 20 packs of 500. So a lot of the stuff I printed off at uni for revision etc was on A5.

[Vitorio]

Shakermaker said:

For when regular cover sheets just wont cut it, and you NEED 5 mm stainless steel inserts instead.

[Halmyre]

S11Steve said:

mko9 said:

wolfracesonic said:

S11Steve said:

I also mis-ordered a box of Post-It note pads at work. Instead of a pack of 12 pads, I got 12 cartons. Each carton had 12 packs of 12 pads.

1728 Post-It pads for an office of 5 people...

Have you used them all yet?

If you haven't wallpapered someone's office, or completely covered someone's car out in the car park, then you are doing it wrong.

I changed jobs in 2005 after the order mishap, but when I went back in 2010, there were still 7 or 8 boxes left. The business closed later that year, so not sure where they went.

A few desks were wallpapered while people were on holiday at various times though. I'm sure I've got pictures on an old laptop somewhere though.

I've experienced the opposite, electronics firm I worked for ordered 6 packets of something or other (resistors or something) that came in packets of 100 but were priced individually. Imagine the Production Manager's delight when the much-needed order arrived - 6 resistors. I think this was around the time the PM was asked to provide a projected figures for the next six months. He bought a copy of Old Moore's Almanac, stuck it in a brown folder and presented it to his boss with a flourish.

[hidetheelephants]

Evilex said:

Lots of paving slabs. I figured it'd take 50, because , hey, it's got to accommodate 6x burly adults @100kg a piece, right?
Wrong. Crawled home with it resting on its bump stops with zero suspension travel!
Maybe I should've googled it's MGW first and subtracted it's ULW.

Euro bodies are generally counted as 80kg by carmakers and not many cars give you more than 250kg on top of that.

[V40TC]

sadly no pictures
but Mrs V40TC purchased a cherry wood handmade TV cabinet (pre flat screens) from Ebay.
step son went to collect as he lived close by, but could not get it in his car.
so we travelled Devon to Suffolk with Trailer
when we arrived at a very large residence
we were shown said Cabinet and it was big but the room was massive
I did not pick up on this.
it then nearly filled a 7/4ft trailer
when we got it home we could not get it in the house
so through the Studio and nearly to the living room
we got it in but could not get the sofa back in.
defeated we offered it the charity shop
they arrived with a luton transit
they then said we would not get it in the shop and promptly left.

finally dejected and defeated I had to chop it up for the Tip

[Shakermaker]

since my image search for that hole punch the other day I am now getting email alerts asking if I am still interested in the Rapesco office hole punch.

Also how have they got away with being called Rapes Co for so long?

[duckwhistle]

Friend's daughter moving into a flat, dad spots some nice looking furniture going cheap on Gumtree. Asks me for a hand to collect. Longish drive in a borrowed van only to find it was a collection of doll's house furniture.