The case for reading the fine print before buying online

Unless you're an avid dollhouse collector, you probably don't need -- nor do you likely want -- doll furniture. 

But that's what you might end up with if you're not careful while shopping online.

Take, for example, this desk lamp from Reddit user bolthead88.

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And for skeptics who don't believe these mistakes actually happen, fellow Redditors shared their own teeny furniture mishaps in the photo's comments.

"I get an email a couple days after delivery, and he tells me that he thought he was buying an actual croquet set," writes camplightsatnight. "He wasn't upset and he didn't want a refund, but he wanted to tell me that he will forever read the descriptions* of the items he will be buying very carefully for the rest of his life."

There's even a This American Life story about accidentally purchasing a doll-size table-and-chair set for a full-size home.

In short: Read the specs.

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