Man uses glitch to pay $14 for real $14,000 Cartier earrings but people say he's a thief
The Mexican bagged a very expensive pair of Cartier earrings at a 99 percent discount
A 99.9 percent discount certainly sounds a lot better than a typical discount, doesn't it?
While the likes of five, ten and sometimes even 20 percent are common in shops, having something like 99 percent off is truly unheard of.
And it certainly is too good to be true unless you know a glitch to get around it.
Well, thanks to an error on Cartier’s website, one bargain-hunter was apparently able to pick up something pretty expensive at a very cheap price.
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Rogelio Villarreal, from Mexico, took to X after ordering two pairs of $14,000 gold-diamond earrings from the designer label's website.
He did not pay the whopping $28,0000 sum for the jewellery though, instead paying the measly sum of just $28.
I mean, talk about a bargain.
"Well, I took advantage of the opportunity and even ordered two pairs, and call me starving, but I doubt that you would have missed the opportunity," he wrote on X.
Cartier had reportedly miscalculated the pesos to dollars conversion, listing the expensive earrings as 237 pesos instead of 237,000 pesos.
Talk about fortunate, so Villarreal decided to post his lucky find on social media for everyone to see.
While much of the X platform is shocked at the glitch, some are calling Villarreal a thief.
“Would you agree if tomorrow, due to a silly mistake, you lost half a million pesos? The problem is that you don’t deserve them,” one disgruntled social media user wrote.
Meanwhile, others warned the Mexican that the designer label would likely come after him.
“It is easy for the brand’s lawyers to demonstrate that you acted in bad faith and with treachery — add to that everything you are [tweeting], it reinforces the bad faith,” the X user quipped.
"You [won’t] even be left without the bottle of liquor they offer you [after] paying the costs of the legal process."
Villarreal continued boasting over his cheap find over the following days, as he posted a series of photos of supposed communication between himself and Cartier.
At one point, he even got Mexico's consumer protection agency involved, and claims he had to fight for months to get the earrings, with Cartier allegedly trying to palm him off with a bottle of champagne instead.
And it seems he gets to keep the earnings at a bargain price despite the mishap.
“War is over. Cartier is delivering [the earrings],” he added on X.
Perhaps the luckiest customer on the planet also shared a snapshot of the earnings once they had arrived.
Talk about a stroke of luck, eh.
UNILAD has contacted Cartier for a comment.
Topics: Fashion, Social Media, Shopping
Callum Jones