The value of his scrap gold

I have a friend that has a real bad luck. I know that right now a lot of people reading it will try to convince me that I am wrong and that there is no such thing as bad luck. I know that for most of the people bad luck is connected with the fact that someone is lazy and doesn´t work hard enough for his life but that´s not the case this time. This friend is really unlucky and there is no reason behind that. Even when everyone around him is doing OK he always has to face some kind of problems. I know that he is extremely frustrated with that. It applies even to the most simple things in life. Recently he wanted to establish the value of his scrap gold for example. He wanted to do this because he needed to get some money in order to pay for some dues that he had. It seems like a very simple operation and no one should have any problems with that. As you can imagine he wasn´t able to establish the value of his scrap gold for some reason. Every store he visited was closed at the time and he couldn´t use online services because there was no network connection. How else can you call it but bad luck? I think that some people just have something about them that attracts bad luck and they are not able to change it. That´s all there is to it, don´t you think?