WHEN James York put a classified advertisement in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph to sell computer software, he did not expect to be contacted by a customer thousands of miles away.
But long-distance shopper Jim surfed the paper's pages on the Internet in his Arizona home and discovered that James, from Clayton-le-Moors, was selling just the item he wanted.
"He rang at about 11.30pm when I was just about to go to bed," said James' wife.
"He said he was Jim from Arizona and wanted to buy something we were selling for £10. I just laughed at him and told him the phone call would cost more than that.
"He said he had read about it in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph. I just thought, hang on, how could he read the Telegraph in Arizona?
"I thought he was just being funny."
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