A man was left speechless after he accidentally spent £666.50 on a veggie burger which was only supposed to have cost £6.50.
Toby Wilson, 35, bewilderingly spent hundreds of pounds on the veggie burger and chips meal at Efe's Kebab Kitchen food truck while making his way home from a night out. He only realised his mistake after checking his account balance a few days later.
After noticing his account balance dropped "significantly", the HR manager approached business owner Ahmed Abdullah about the enormous payment. However, the vendor told him he'd have to find a refund through his bank, Wales Online reports.
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“It’s very frustrating," Toby said. "Admittedly, at the start, it was a bit of a funny story. I thought it would be quickly sorted out and the banks would go, 'Yep, it’s an error.'"
"But the bank is very slow at doing things. They said, “have you got a receipt?” The human aspect of it is I don’t. No one has a receipt for things like that. I have a mortgage and bills to pay.
"It is just very worrying. The point is the money is mine, and it’s a significant amount."
The vendor's owner told a local paper that advised Toby to speak to his bank for safety reasons, highlighting that it's the "legal way" of sorting it. Toby travelled to York to meet up with friends just before Christmas last year when he made the hefty purchase.
"I was out on December 23 for a sort of friends reunion," he said. "We all live in different parts of the country but go back to York. We do it every year.
"I am a non-drinker. Maybe it would be different if someone was drunk and just stumbled into to get a kebab and got it all wrong. But that’s very much not the case.
“I just ordered a veggie burger and chips, and I looked at my bank balance a couple of days later, and I was like: “What’s going on? It’s significantly lower.
“It was like: 'No way, this can’t be real!'" Toby asked his friend to approach Mr Abdullah to ask if he could provide a refund for the money he'd paid.
However, after the pair exchanged texts, Toby claims Mr Abdullah didn't refuse to give the money back, instead advising him to speak to his bank. Toby added: "“Being a large conglomerate, they have rules to follow and things like that.
"I explained the story to them, and they essentially need him to say 'Yes, it’s happened.'
“I’ve worked in hospitality, so I know how these things work. I know he’d be able to see it in his accounts and what that transaction would relate to. It wouldn’t relate to anything, because I didn’t pay £666.50 for a veggie burger. He would be able to see that."
Toby added: "Sometimes I still look it now and think “Was it definitely that?” I look at the bank transfer, and it’s got the name of his business.
“It’s not like it’s an incorrect number. It’s been paid for by Apple Pay. You can see it goes into his bank account. He added: “If it was £50, I might be able to go, “You know what, just keep it, I’m not bothered with the stress” But it’s a lot.”
Mr Abdullah stated that he was in talks with his card machine company to see if they could provide proof that £666.50 of Toby's money entered his account. He said: "I’m talking to them to prove that the money is in my account or not.
"If they prove it, or if they don’t prove it, I’m going to tell him."
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