Lindt "Deluxe" Chocolates - complete rip off

shadowknightz

They were definitely a present! I even confirm this in the first post when I mentioned checking the pricing online because I didn't know. I meant to write 'received' instead, fixed my post now.

shadowknightz wrote:

I've checked the prices of this box of chocolates online (as I received mine for a present) and it's about £8.99, which is ridiculous. I advise strongly against buying this.

geordie_joe

babs2008 wrote: »

If I'd bought them myself I'd choose ones I liked - never mind how may layers there were.

But the point of the thread is that the manufacturer made the box look like it had more layers in it than it really had.

How would you feel if you bought a box of eggs, sealed so you couldn't look inside, but it was the size and shape of a 'dozen egg box'. Don't say you would never buy a box of eggs without looking inside to check they weren't broken, just pretend you did because it was not possible to look inside the box when you bought it.

So you've bought a box of eggs, expecting it to contain 12 eggs, because it was shaped like a box containing 12 eggs, but you open it and find it only contains 6 eggs. Every other 'egg compartment' is filled with waste cardboard.

How would you feel? Would you feel cheated, tricked, conned because you picked up a box that you expected to have 12 eggs in it and it only contained 6?

How would you feel if people in here said "It's your own fault, it says on the box Weight 6oz, everyone knows an egg Weighs 1oz, so the Weight 6oz tells you there are 6 eggs in the box."

And you are sitting there thinking "It was a 12 egg box, I didn't look at the weight, I just expected a 12 egg box to have 12 eggs in it".

This is what happened to whoever bought the box of chocolates, they bought a two layer box containing one layer of chocolates.

The thing to remember is, this isn't the only box the manufacturer produced, there will be millions of these boxes all round the country. And the OP is just telling people that it may be a two layer sized box, but it's only got one layer in it, the other 'layer' is just cardboard padding.

No different to them saying "I opened a four finger kit-kat and two of the fingers were cardboard dummies".

babs2008

geordie_joe wrote: »

But the point of the thread is that the manufacturer made the box look like it had more layers in it than it really had.

How would you feel if you bought a box of eggs, sealed so you couldn't look inside, but it was the size and shape of a 'dozen egg box'. Don't say you would never buy a box of eggs without looking inside to check they weren't broken, just pretend you did because it was not possible to look inside the box when you bought it.

So you've bought a box of eggs, expecting it to contain 12 eggs, because it was shaped like a box containing 12 eggs, but you open it and find it only contains 6 eggs. Every other 'egg compartment' is filled with waste cardboard.

How would you feel? Would you feel cheated, tricked, conned because you picked up a box that you expected to have 12 eggs in it and it only contained 6?

How would you feel if people in here said "It's your own fault, it says on the box Weight 6oz, everyone knows an egg Weighs 1oz, so the Weight 6oz tells you there are 6 eggs in the box."

And you are sitting there thinking "It was a 12 egg box, I didn't look at the weight, I just expected a 12 egg box to have 12 eggs in it".

This is what happened to whoever bought the box of chocolates, they bought a two layer box containing one layer of chocolates.

The thing to remember is, this isn't the only box the manufacturer produced, there will be millions of these boxes all round the country. And the OP is just telling people that it may be a two layer sized box, but it's only got one layer in it, the other 'layer' is just cardboard padding.

No different to them saying "I opened a four finger kit-kat and two of the fingers were cardboard dummies".

Woah calm down, I just asked a question and was only making a comment - which was my opinion and I wasn't suggesting it was right or wrong.

I have also had these boxes from lindt before and I don't think they look like the manufacturer has bulked them out with cardboard.

I hope I didn't come across like I was having a dig at OP. Sorry if I did!

geordie_joe

babs2008 wrote: »

Woah calm down, I just asked a question and was only making a comment - which was my opinion and I wasn't suggesting it was right or wrong.

I am calm, and you wrote that if some bought you a box youn wouldn't care about how many layers there were in the box. I was simply point out that if you had bought them thinking there were two layers in the box, then found one layer was a dummy, you would care.

babs2008 wrote: »

I have also had these boxes from lindt before and I don't think they look like the manufacturer has bulked them out with cardboard.

You say that now, but in post #11 you say IF you were bought them and IF you were given them. No mention of you having had them? How else could you have them but by being given them or buying them?

You had the chance to say you had them and didn't think they were bulked out, so why didn't you take it?

babs2008 wrote: »

I hope I didn't come across like I was having a dig at OP. Sorry if I did!

You did come across as having a dig at the op, you also came across as someone who had never had these chocs, by your use of the word 'IF'.

Now you come across as someone who is trying to defend what they have said, after being told they are wrong, by changing your story from 'if I had them' to 'I have had them'

Sorry if I have got you wrong, but I can only read what you write.

jenniewb

Thanks for the heads up. I buy chocolate boxes as gifts (men are so hard to buy for!!) I don't tend to look at the weight unless its in Thorntons and comparing the value for money per different sizes.

I now know the box looks bigger and better then what it offers inside. This would have likely caught me out if I'd seen it on offer around birthday/Xmas time so am grateful for the warning. As far as the men I know go, volume matters much more then how the box looks and I'd far rather a happy bloke rather then a disappointed one!

chesky369

I've never liked Lindt chocolate anyway! There are much better expensive chocolates around. But I guess we've all bought things enticed by the wrapping in our time, and been let down at the contents - bit like men really.

juno

I had a dream about these chocolates last night! Perhaps this is a sign I shouldn't be on my computer before bed.

zenseeker

chesky369 wrote: »

But I guess we've all bought things enticed by the wrapping in our time, and been let down at the contents - bit like men really.

And women, let's not be sexist here, half the ladies out there are good ol' mutton dressed as lamb.