Dirty Tesco trolley shelters flogged on Facebook for £250 as 'glamping huts'

25 October 2023 , 18:01

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The dilapidated huts formerly stored Tesco trolleys (Image: Jam Press)

A man who is selling dirty Tesco trolley shelters for £250 has claimed they are ideal ‘glamping huts’ despite cracks in the plastic and filthy casing.

Gordon Crumpton has listed the huts, which still feature the popular supermarket chain’s logo across the side, on Facebook Marketplace. The shelters are so dirty and neglected that it is impossible to see through the side of them. They are typically used in car parks for shoppers to return their trolleys to after loading the car and consist of a white metal frame, plastic windows and domed roof.

He has listed six for sale on the social media site and they can be picked up in Ormskirk, Lancashire. Photos show the battered shelters standing on his farm and looking far from their peak condition with grey and green smudges from the weather alongside a rusty metal structure.

Gordon reckons the worn-out structures still have some life in them (Jam Press)

But Gordon has insisted the unwashed and grubby trolley shelters can be put to use by glampers, who enjoy camping but want something more comfortable than a tent. Despite his best efforts to sell the shelters, he has seen his efforts mocked online by Facebook Marketplace users who compared the listing to Jurassic Park and joked: “Tesco’s finest.”

Gordon isn’t the only seller on the site to be accused of overselling a product with fundamental flaws. Earlier this month, a dad was spotted trying to flog his DFS sofa for £750, despite the leather cream three-seater coming with scribbles from a black marker pen all over it. Each cushion on the piece of furniture had different markings on it, including a child’s scrawling showing a car.

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