The jug and glasses that were worth £1.79 – a bargain, Melissa Seaman thought (Picture: Mercury)

A mother thought she’d got the bargain of the century when she bought this jug and glasses for £1.79.

Melissa Seaman got them off eBay but was a little confused when they turned up at her home in Worksop Nottinghamshire.

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She said: ‘Earlier in the week it was absolutely roasting and I was browsing eBay on my phone.

‘Something popped up – I just saw the picture and that it read “jug with two glasses” for £1.79 which is an absolute bargain.


‘I clicked on it straight away and thought nothing of it. When I opened the parcel I was really confused.

Your thirst won’t be quenched by the doll’s house jug (Picture: Mercury)

‘My first thought was that Daisy had ordered something off my eBay account for her dolls without me knowing – she’s quite clever for a six-year-old.



‘I thought “I’m going to kill her”, then the penny finally dropped and I laughed so much.’

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She had bought a jug that was 22mm high and glasses that are 12mm high – for a doll’s house.

She said: ‘I rang my friends and said “you’ll never guess what I’ve done” – they were all laughing.’

It’s not the first time she’s had a mishap with eBay. Previously she almost ended up owning a yacht.

Melissa said: ‘The first time I had an eBay mix-up was when I came home from a night out and bid on a yacht for £540 – luckily I got outbid.

Melissa has had eBay mishaps in the past (Picture: Mercury)

‘I can only think I thought it was listed as £5.40 and I thought it was a real bargain. I don’t know what I would have done with it.

‘The only water we’ve got round Worksop is a canal. You see the big Rosie and Jim boats going down them but a yacht would have looked properly out of place.’

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Mum-of-one Melissa regularly uses eBay to buy items for her and Daisy and on Monday, when temperatures soared to 30 degrees in some parts of the country, she clicked on the offer to buy the set without reading the description fully.

The item is listed as ‘Jug With Lid & Two Glasses, Dolls House Miniature, 1..12th Scale, Drink, Kitchen’.

The description clearly states they are miniatures and not full size items.

The devil is in the detail – it does say that it’s for a doll’s house (Picture: Mercury)

It reads: ‘All our items are brand new 1:12 & 1:24 scale miniatures for use by adult doll’s house collectors. They are NOT full size items.’

Melissa said: ‘Once one of my friends stopped laughing she asked me what the item description read – I looked at it and it clearly said they were miniatures for doll’s houses.

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‘I obviously didn’t read it properly. The eBay seller is not at fault at all.

‘My daughter now uses them in her doll’s house. Her dolls are going to enjoy the cool water I wanted.

‘Daisy is thrilled with them and keeps using up all the blackcurrant juice filling up the jug and glasses as apparently they keep running out in the hot weather.

‘I’m going to go to the shops and get one that I can see in person before buying it to make sure it’s what I’m after.’



Despite not getting the kitchenware she wanted, Melissa’s optimistic about her future eBay purchases says she will be more cautious.

Melissa said: ‘I’ll definitely read the whole listing properly in future and maybe delete the eBay app before going out drinking.’

eBay and Dolls House Gallery declined to comment.