A Toronto Man Got Nearly $1000 Of Wine For Free Thanks To An LCBO Error

We can only dream of mistakes like this! 🍷
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An Ontario man got very, very lucky this week thanks to a Toronto LCBO and an online error. Mohammed Asaduallah received around $940 worth of absolutely free wine last week after noticing that the price listed online for one bottle was $0. And, honestly, it's just got us wishing we'd seen it first! 

Asaduallah, a local entrepreneur and business owner, told his story in a lengthy Twitter thread on August 19 and it is absolutely worth the ride.

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"Last week, I picked up 24 bottles of red wine worth a total of ~$940 from the LCBO — for free. I am not joking. Here's what happened,” he began.

Asaduallah went on to explain that, as he was browsing a group in which sales and coupons on alcohol are often posted, he noticed a post stating that a specific LCBO wine was on sale for zero dollars on their website.

At first, Asaduallah says he thought it surely must be an error and that it would not allow him to check out with free wine in his cart.

He added a bottle of whiskey to the order, to hit the LCBO’s minimum online purchase of $50.

Much to his surprise, it actually allowed him to check out with four whole boxes worth of wine — all for free.

After over 10 days with no shipment confirmation email, he was assuming it was an oversight that would be rectified. But then, the news came in.

There was a four-box order of wine waiting for Asaduallah at his local LCBO! 

When he entered the store, he saw a small box waiting for him and assumed he had only received his whiskey. Just then, though, the cashier told him to wait, as they had to go "get the boxes." His wine order had gone through.

In yet another surprising twist, Asaduallah realized, upon leaving the store, that they had not given him the bottles of wine worth $12 each that he ordered.

Instead, he was masking off with four boxes of bottles that were three times as expensive, priced at $36 each.

He actually decided he would be a good samaritan, re-enter the store, and ask about the mix-up.

But even after that, following a lengthy conversation with both management and customer service, LCBO allegedly let Asaduallah walk away with the four boxes of wine for a total of almost $1000 worth of wine.

After all, he didn't techinally do anything wrong! 

Narcity reached out to LCBO for comment.

But, in situations like this, it's best not to ask why, but to ask wine not.

We're all very jealous, Mohammed.

  • Abby Neufeld was a writer at Narcity Canada. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Professional Communications at the University of Victoria. Her past work has been published in The Toronto Star, Bitch Media, Canadian Dimension, This Magazine, and more. In 2019, Abby co-founded The New Twenties, an environmentally-focused literary and arts magazine.

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