WARNING coca-cola glasses are dangerous!

pimento

clewleswan wrote: »

Its all irrelavent anyway. The fact remains, the glasses are clearly dangerous.

I've a cupboard full of free Coke glasses and none of them have broken while I've been using them.

vuvuzela

clewleswan wrote: »

The fact remains, the glasses are clearly dangerous.

Untrue.
Two glasses out of hundreds of thousands (that you know of) has failed catastrophically. A tiny failure rate, so far. Hopefully the others will not do the same but you can't brand them all dangerous because a minuscule percentage might have had a slight manufacturing flaw. I bet every glass manufacturer will have had similar in the past.

(This is not meant at all to demean the fact that your daughter had a frightening experience).

System

clewleswan wrote: »

So if they are free, can I walk into MacDonalds and ask for a couple of hundred of them without buying anything? Probably not, because they are not free.

Everything a corporation does costs the consumer. It has to be that way. They are profit driven, and have to be because they are businesses. We can't knock them for that. Its not wrong to make a living. It is wrong to suggest that they do anything for free. The glass may come with a zero price tag to the end consumer, but somewhere in the accounts and business plan, when setting the price for ALL their products, and estimating demand and sales etc, and therefore profit, there will be a bit to work out how much profit per unit every product has to bring in in order to cover all the costs including that of marketing and promotion. And therefore nothing they 'give away' is really free.

As these glasses are being given away at MacDonalds, it seems likely to me that Coca Cola's incentive is that most MacDonalds customers will have a drink with their meal with most likely is licensed to the Coca Cola Company, thus they do it for their profits. MacDonalds could sign a contract with a competitor to Coca Cola to supply the soft drinks. Coca Cola therefore have to give an incentive to MacDonalds. These 'free' glasses go to MacDonald's customers, thus building brand loyalty to MacDonalds too, which is obviously good for MacDonalds, but is also good for whoever supplies most of the drinks at MacDonalds, ie Coca Cola.

See, not free.

Its all irrelavent anyway. The fact remains, the glasses are clearly dangerous.

I believe the majority of soft drinks at Mcdonalds are Coke products?

The glasses are free as part of a promotion. When the promotion is on if you buy a large meal (and any drink) you get a free coke glass. There is no increase in the price of the meal that week just because you get a free glass. Therefore the glass is free.

I assume they do the promotion to encourage customers to buy large meals as opposed to a medium meals. Its a marketing ploy. The glass is still free though as the price of the large meal is the same whether the free glass promotion is on or off.

They are not clearly dangerous,. One defective glass does not make a product clearly dangerous. I would be very surprised if many products have a 100% safety record when they are produced in such large numbers.

lovinituk

We've had some of the free ones from Maccy D's from when they first gave them out (years?). Used regularly and always washed in dishwasher. Never had one break or even crack on us. In fact they have lasted longer than many of the glasses we paid for as the glass is quite thick.

There will always be flaws in large batches of anything, its just unfortunate you had one of the flawed ones. You are right in reporting it to the company but saying all glasses of this type are dangerous and should be disposed is quite frankly an overly hysterical reaction.

Discodee

Azari wrote: »

I wasn't having a go or criticising.

I just thought that if someone was going to be put off something it would be better if it was sugar/phosphoric acid laden drinks.

My kids drink water out of cups with "Nescafe " on the side. Don't think it'd put em off coffee if it broke! LOl
I don't think the issue here was the drink content. It was the fact that the glass shattered. The OP is only trying to make people aware as there could be a whole faulty batch out there, regardless of what was in the glass.

P.S Sugar laden drinks are not good, no, but did you know that sugar free drinks with aspartame in are FAR worse for you? And kisa er given them all the time. It is even in calpol!!! Now aspartame SHOULD be avoided like the plague. I'd rather give them coke than diet coke anyday. (Read the list of ingredients in each. There are tons of chemicals in the diet variety!)

Discodee

goater78 wrote: »

I would argue that these coke glasses will pass standard safety checks. As they are cheap and mass produced you are always going to get the odd one or two that is poorly made and shatters easier.

There is no chance that Coke are going to recall all Coke zone glasses because 1 girl has suffered 2 small cuts. If alot of people had this problem then maybe they would so it is worth bringing to their attention like you have done.

However boycotting every coke product because a free glass shattered seems a ridiculous over reaction!

Not really. if you had a bad experience at a hotel, would you use the same one again? Probably not. It won't make OTHERS boycott coke and the OP stated that was not her intention. But I can see why she would.

System

Discodee wrote: »

Not really. if you had a bad experience at a hotel, would you use the same one again? Probably not. It won't make OTHERS boycott coke and the OP stated that was not her intention. But I can see why she would.

A similar scenario with a hotel would be to visit a Hilton, get given a free Hilton Glass and then this glass shatters when you got home(cutting a member of your family). Would this make you boycott all Hilton hotels going forward? I probably wouldn't.

Besides Coke are too dominant in the marketplace,. Its a hard company to boycott

Debt_free_soon_2

If you're wanting a quicker response in the UK Coke is 'run' by Coca Cola Enterprises, if you google it, you should one up with a free phone number for offices in Milton Keynes or Uxbridge, so hopefully no American robots! Aston from JLS used to work at the MK office (bit of trivia!)

I'm an ex employee and have heard this before but mainly due to the number in circulation ( I've only ever heard of it happening in pubs, where glasses are washed hundreds or even thousands of times at very high temperatures)


Good luck with it & incidentally ribena (cartons) contains more sugar than coke for those of you coke bashers out there! :-)

yangptangkipperbang

RandyRos wrote: »

. my kids dont drink much fizzy,

.........just enough to get free dodgy glasses :rotfl::rotfl:

liam8282

I have heard of the "free" coca cola glasses breaking before,

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4081055

a quick google also shows others have been withdrawn...

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia/story/japan-mcdonalds-recalls-flawed-olympics-giveaway-glasses