Ankara - Confusion over a new currency introduced in Turkey earlier this week led to a man willingly paying about $10 000 (about R60 000) for a small pastry, Sabah newspaper reported on Tuesday.
While banking authorities in Turkey have described the introduction of the new currency as a success, both the man, named as Kerim Bey, and the pastry shop failed to notice anything strange about charging 14 thousand new Turkish lira for the cake.
Sabah reported that Bey had purchased the pastry by credit card on Saturday, the first day of the new currency, and that both he and the pastry shop had confused just how much it should have cost.
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Under the old currency the pastry would have cost 1,4-million lira (about R6), by Saturday with six zeroes taken off the currency, the price was 1,40 new Turkish lira. Instead Bey was charged 14 000 new Turkish lira.
| 'I only bought a pastry!' |
He received a phone call on Sunday from his bank asking if he had spent so much money the day before, to which Bey replied, "I only bought a pastry!"
The transaction was then cancelled. - Sapa-dpa
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