£10 for a sponge cake!

ravenjet

Making to sell, should be registered as a business seller also.

stayingupright

Hammyman wrote: »

Please don't tell me you're so stupid you think it'll be in the post for 10 days or more.

I could bake a cake at 9am in the morning, have it picked up by 3pm the same day and it be at your house by 9am the following morning, barely 24hrs old.

The seller states that they will send it standard 1st class Royal Mail, which may take longer than a day to arrive

go_cat

lynzpower wrote: »

She should be registered as a food business, and inspected by her local authority... .and given scores on the doors for her food hygiene....

absolutely and if her food hygiene is a good as the standard of the cakes she is trying to flog ......... :rotfl:

TudorRose

Should be made to register as a business as obviously making to sell at a profit.
Also no mention of food hygiene etc. If they have faith in their products I would think they would be better off trying to sell at local Farmer's Market or craft fayres etc.

go_cat

If you look on Ebay there are a couple of sellers selling homemade cakes but all mention food hygiene certificates, allergy advice for gluten/nuts etc none of which she does . She could end up in serious trouble if someone had a reaction to her cakes

Hammyman

stayingupright wrote: »

The seller states that they will send it standard 1st class Royal Mail, which may take longer than a day to arrive

So it might be 2 days old. How old do you think the cakes you buy in Tesco are? Here's a clue: The ones I used to transport did a 4hr journey to the main coldstore for our company then could spend over a day going to the Tesco RDC and then from there could be a day or more before going to the store......

alice011178

The last piece of post I received through Royal Mail Standard Parcels arrived with big footprints all over it. I don't fancy her chances of getting her 'rustic' cakes delivered safely by that method! Unless they are really, really 'rustic', i.e. crumbs. Like Eton Mess, only cake.....:rotfl:

And, I see that she has reduced her prices. I am now feeling quite hungry!:T

shaun_from_Africa

So it might be 2 days old

Or if posted on a Friday or Saturday, more likely 4 days old by the time it's received.

Also, as it's made with the "finest organic ingredients", I wonder if there are any organic preservatives added.
The majority of supermarket cakes are either vacuum packed or have plenty of additives to increase their shelf life, and may well have been packed in a sterile area. I doubt very much if any of these apply to the item shown here.

lynzpower

go_cat wrote: »

If you look on Ebay there are a couple of sellers selling homemade cakes but all mention food hygiene certificates, allergy advice for gluten/nuts etc none of which she does . She could end up in serious trouble if someone had a reaction to her cakes

Quite, looks to me like the products fall foul of the labelling regulations to boot

Brilliant!

emerald_starcat

Hammyman wrote: »

Please don't tell me you're so stupid you think it'll be in the post for 10 days or more.

I could bake a cake at 9am in the morning, have it picked up by 3pm the same day and it be at your house by 9am the following morning, barely 24hrs old.

She states 11 days despatch so she obviously isn't as fast as you at baking.