Aldi shoppers fume as highly-anticipated wooden toys sell out MINUTES… and are already on eBay for ‘triple the price’

PARENTS crossed the UK are fuming aft missing retired connected Aldi’s caller woody artifact scope - lone to find it connected eBay for “triple the price”.

The fund supermarket’s Wooden Toy Event landed successful its mediate aisles yesterday conscionable in clip for Christmas and sold retired successful minutes. 

The constricted variation scope contains 84 toys, mostly made from wood, according to the Aldi website. 

But contempt its volume, a fig of loyal customers missed retired connected nabbing immoderate of the woody toys. 

Aldi bosses adjacent warned shoppers to “run, don’t walk” to their nearest store up of the drop. 

They said: “They’ll beryllium gone faster than your accidental of a lie-in.”

This meant mums and dads were queuing up extracurricular stores from 6am successful anticipation of nabbing immoderate of the toys for their kids. 

Among the champion buys were the £24.99 Little Town Wooden Aldi Supermarket and £9.99 Little Town Wooden Toy Roleplay Bags.

The £7.99 Little Town Wooden Cuthbert Cake was besides highly desired. 

However, besides successful the early-morning queues were resellers looking to bargain aggregate of each disposable merchandise to instrumentality them connected eBay for an inflated price. 

And now, conscionable 24 hours aft the launch, items from the scope person been listed for “triple the price” connected the auction site.

Among existent eBay listings from the Wooden Toy Event is the Cuthbert Cake for £35 positive £3.99 postage - a whopping £31 mark-up. 

Another seller has listed the Takeaway Roleplay Bag for an eye-watering £25 positive £6 postage - contempt it costing little than a tenner in-store. 

Others are trying to flog the Wooden Aldi Supermarket artifact acceptable for £59.99 positive £6 postage - much than DOUBLE its archetypal price. 

A fig of virtuous Aldi customers person taken to TikTok this greeting to stock their upset astatine resellers. 

“The information you haven't enactment limits connected however overmuch radical tin bargain - shame connected you Aldi,” 1 slammed. 

“People are greedy and capable up respective trollies to resell. It’s awful.”

“It’s truthful disgusting that resellers spell successful and bargain everything to merchantability for profit, portion america mean people can’t get to Aldi aboriginal successful the greeting arsenic we person to spell to work,” a 2nd bashed. 

“There should beryllium a bounds per item,” a 3rd said. “People going successful aboriginal getting 5 of each is appalling.”

Some shoppers adjacent complained that resellers are listing the items connected Vinted, which is against the second-hand app’s policy. 

Other shoppers urged Aldi to instrumentality enactment against resellers. 

One suggested: “You truly request to enactment restrictions connected these toys arsenic radical are selfishly buying them to resell for brainsick amounts connected Vinted. 

“It’s truthful unfair for radical who privation affordable toys for their kids.”

A 2nd said: “If you made much of things, past radical wouldn’t person to bargain overpriced ones disconnected eBay, and determination would beryllium nary inducement for radical to overbuy and resell astatine hugely inflated prices.”

Aldi confirmed connected its TikTok leafage that the astir shops "have had their lot" of the woody toys - meaning they won't beryllium restocking.