At Garden Center they think that payment has been made, then unpleasant surprise follows: ‘slipped in the meantime in a devious way’

They wave with a receipt. And say they have paid. So the forklift driver loads the sauna on the van. And the ‘buyers’ are gone, at Garden Center Fonteyn in Uddel. Moments later, the ‘purchase’ appears to be a shrewd theft, of 25,000 euros. “An expensive communication error,” says owner Dolf Nieland.

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