Employees of a luxury car showroom in China were left flabbergasted this week after a woman marched into their shop and paid for a luxury BMW with small change.
Six hours were spent by the car dealership employees to count one customer’s money.
The businesswoman, Ms Li, reportedly turned up at a dealership in the city of Zhengzhou and used 100,000 small denomination bank notes to purchase the BMW 730Li.
The wrinkled green notes – each worth one yuan or around 10p – came to a total of around £10,000 and weighed around 220lb.
According to reports, Ms Li paid the balance on a credit card.
The stunt came at a price for the dealership’s employees.
 It took 20 of them around six hours to count Ms Qiong’s fortune.
In an interview with a leading daily, Jia Tinghai, the dealership’s marketing director, captured her reaction to the purchase in three words. “Oh my God,†she said.
Ms Li told local media that because she was “often busy she had decided to keep the banknotes until she was able to spend them all at once when buying a carâ€.
The incident follows reports earlier this year that a man from Hebei province had used coins to buy a car costing more than 50,000 yuan.
“He said he’ll pay in petty cash. I thought it was old and small notes, but never expected they are all in small denomination coins,†one of the sales team was quoted as saying.