Harrods £40 Hampers NOT HAPPY

D_e_n_i_s_e

my gran used to give me £10 in an envelope for xmas, she did this every year till i was 15 (a lot of years ago)! a couple of days short of my 17th birthday she died.

my point is since then i have been given vouchers/presents worth a lot more than £10.

But to this day what my gran gave me allbeit £10 was best - as i could choose and buy what i wanted, when i wanted or simply save the money for a rainy day.

My gran always used to say 'ive decided to give you this cos i never know what you young uns want!)

To this day iv taken the same stance, many of my pressies are or will be a tesco voucher (a general purpose all round useful voucher for the elders most of them i know will use it to fill their cars with petrol if anything else) and a £10 note in a envelope for the youngs uns - no more last min running around, waiting in queues etc)

and a recent headline goes to prove my grans point!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7145221.stm

roses

I would send it back. Distance selling regulations DO apply to this.

shopsmile

Fufu, pm with your email address and I'll send you the scan.

geo555

You can use this link to see the Harrods Christmas hampers.

http://www.harrods.com/HarrodsStore/GlobalPages/Catalogues.aspx?Id=cd0c138e-51b4-4748-96d6-fb4a1889a1b0

It list the contents as:
Luxury iced Christmas cake - 400g
Luxury Christmas pudding - 150g
Christmas pudding biscuits - 150g
Christmas conserve - 340g
Brandy butter - 210g
After dinner spearmint tea - 50g
Belgian milk chocolate bar

photome

geo555 wrote: »

You can use this link to see the Harrods Christmas hampers.

http://www.harrods.com/HarrodsStore/GlobalPages/Catalogues.aspx?Id=cd0c138e-51b4-4748-96d6-fb4a1889a1b0

It list the contents as:
Luxury iced Christmas cake - 400g
Luxury Christmas pudding - 150g
Christmas pudding biscuits - 150g
Christmas conserve - 340g
Brandy butter - 210g
After dinner spearmint tea - 50g
Belgian milk chocolate bar

ALL that for £40 !!?? guess I know where not to shop

barriejohn69

It has got to be common sense though that £40 worth of goods from one of the world's most famous (and expensive) shops is not going to contain as much as £40 worth of goods from Tesco or Asda.

56cheffy

My sister bought me one of these a few years back..it was RUBBISH.

valk_scot

To be fair, does that listing not describe itself as a basket, not a hamper?

Everyone else is right though...you can buy a lot more for £45 if you go to somewhere like Au Naturelle, buy a nice basket or box, trot down to the local supermarket and take a look along the shelves. If you go to Sainsbury you'll even find an aisle of the same sort of luxury brand products that Harrods sell, but at about 1/4 the price. Bit of cheap tissue paper run through the shredder and what you'll have will look x100 more impressive than a Harrods box.

sexy_fufu

Thanks for all your copmments, Harrods are going to collect these tomorrow and refund my money so all round Great, and for your comments i think i will do my own. Thanks

photome

sexy_fufu wrote: »

Thanks for all your copmments, Harrods are going to collect these tomorrow and refund my money so all round Great, and for your comments i think i will do my own. Thanks

Glad they sorted it.

ps dont buy a hamper from there again

pps...i like your name...conjures up all sorts of images