{"id":156150,"date":"2025-09-20T07:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156150\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T07:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:52:14","slug":"young-mums-desperate-search-for-her-700-stroller-after-the-pricey-pram-was-accidentally-sold-at-salvos-for-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/156150\/","title":{"rendered":"Young mum’s desperate search for her $700 stroller after the pricey pram was accidentally sold at Salvos for $12"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Adelaide<\/a> mother’s desperate plea to track down her missing $700 stroller has gone viral after it was mistakenly sold at a Salvation Army store for just $12.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ordeal began when Emma Burchell left her Bugaboo Butterfly travel pram outside the Brighton<\/a> Road Salvos while dropping off donations with her two young children earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Caught up in the chaos of the morning, she accidentally left the stroller behind.<\/p>\n

‘I just had mum brain, was dropping off donations, juggling two kids, left the pram,’ Ms Burchell admitted.<\/p>\n

Staff, assuming it was part of the donations, put the high-end stroller up for sale. By the time Ms Burchell returned to collect the pricey pram, it was gone.<\/p>\n

‘And then they thought it was stock, so they sold it for $12,’ she said.<\/p>\n

The bizarre mix-up was shared online by her cousin-in-law, comedian Josh Hawkins, better known to his 900,000 Facebook<\/a> followers as HiJosh.<\/p>\n

‘This is my cousin-in-law, and she left her $700 stroller at an op shop,’ Hawkins explained in a video that has since gone viral.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘They sold it to someone for $12.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Please watch this and see if we can get it back for her.’<\/p>\n

Hawkins’ light-hearted retelling struck a chord, with the video quickly going viral and sparking a wave of support for the Adelaide mum.<\/p>\n

‘I’ve been back twice today to speak to staff, and they’re like, ‘nah, sold it, sold it for $12′,’ Ms Burchell said in the clip.<\/p>\n

‘I know it’s unlikely, but all things are possible. If someone’s going, ‘I got this awesome pram from the Salvos’, yeah, it’s mine. Sorry.’<\/p>\n

The mother-of-two told Kidspot<\/a> she had been running on very little sleep because her husband was currently away working in the UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I was on WhatsApp to my husband, crying, saying I’m so angry at myself\u2026 these prams aren’t cheap,’ she told the publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her appeal caught the attention of pram maker Bugaboo, who stepped in to help.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Josh <\/p>\n

Josh Hawkins (left) made a video, appealing for the location of Ms Burchell’s $700 pram<\/p>\n

The company offered Ms Burchell an upgraded Butterfly 2 model, while also pledging to donate other baby essentials through the Brighton Salvos.<\/p>\n

Bugaboo has also partnered with children’s charity Big Group Hug to provide a pram to another family in need.<\/p>\n

But just as it seemed the case of the missing stroller had reached a dead end, another twist emerged.<\/p>\n

Late on Wednesday night, the mystery buyer of the pram came forward.<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The Bugaboo Butterfly stroller (pictured) purchased for $700, was sold for just $12<\/p>\n

‘I asked the cashier how much\u2026 that’s when they told me $10, so naturally I snagged it,’ the buyer wrote to Ms Burchell on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Got to the counter and they somehow charged me $12 but I didn’t care, I thought hell yeah this is amazing I’ve been looking for one for my daughter for so long.’<\/p>\n

It’s understood the mystery shopper was able to keep the pram, as Ms Burchell had already the generous offer of a new stroller from Bugaboo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Social media actually worked. It got my pram back, and more than that, it sparked so many acts of generosity,’ she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Adelaide mother’s desperate plea to track down her missing $700 stroller has gone viral after it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[100,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-156150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dailymail","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}