Chocolate tasting club

judygarland

I've just signed up for the Choc Tasting club offer and missed a vital step of adding the £10.00 discount code. It appears that they send you an invoice with your first box of chocolates rather than asking you to pay up front.

Do distance selling rules apply? Do I have a cooling off period in which to cancel the contract? If they were open to take calls, I would be calling them to cancel it immediately.

bris

DSR do not apply to perishable goods, so no, DSR will not apply to chocolate.

unholyangel

bris wrote: »

DSR do not apply to perishable goods, so no, DSR will not apply to chocolate.

DSRs do apply to perishables. However, regulation 13 of the DSRs state goods that deteriorate or expire rapidly are exempt from the right to cancel (regulation 10).

Personally, any time i've looked at the BB/expiry date of chocolate, its always been at least a year in the future - therefore implying they do not deteriorate or decay rapidly.

If thats the case with the OPs chocolates, then DSRs would apply imo.

judygarland

bris wrote: »

DSR do not apply to perishable goods, so no, DSR will not apply to chocolate.

As I ordered the goods last night after the office had closed and wish to cancel a 9am this morning, they have hopefully not actually dispatched anything to me. Would there be a cooling off period on the contact that I have entered into? It's a club where they send you a box of chocolates every now and again which you can cancel at any time.

System

Why the need for 2 threads on the same subject?

bris

unholyangel wrote: »

DSRs do apply to perishables. However, regulation 13 of the DSRs state goods that deteriorate or expire rapidly are exempt from the right to cancel (regulation 10).

Personally, any time i've looked at the BB/expiry date of chocolate, its always been at least a year in the future - therefore implying they do not deteriorate or decay rapidly.

If thats the case with the OPs chocolates, then DSRs would apply imo.

But how do you know how old the chocolate is in the first place before sold? It's perishable goods, so DSR will not apply.

unholyangel

bris wrote: »

But how do you know how old the chocolate is in the first place before sold? It's perishable goods, so DSR will not apply.

Did you even read my paragraph?

DSRs DO apply to perishables. They are ONLY exempt from regulation 10.

OFT consider fresh food and fresh flowers as perishables (and yes they do specifically include the word fresh both times). Would you consider chocolate a "fresh food" normally?