I got gypped
Richard Thead
A couple of weeks ago, I got a bag of Fritos out of the machine at
work that had an incomplete seal and the contents were stale.
Remembering some of the stories of all the freebies obtained from
manufacturers when something was wrong, I decided to call their
800 number.
My bounty just arrived yesterday... A $1 off coupon for any Frito-Lay
product.
Screwed in Tucson,
Rick
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In article <4qc4li$1...@news.azstarnet.com> th...@azstarnet.com (Richard Thead) writes:
>From: th...@azstarnet.com (Richard Thead)
>Subject: I got gypped
>Date: 20 Jun 1996 18:18:26 GMT
> A couple of weeks ago, I got a bag of Fritos out of the machine at
>work that had an incomplete seal and the contents were stale.
>Remembering some of the stories of all the freebies obtained from
>manufacturers when something was wrong, I decided to call their
>800 number.
> My bounty just arrived yesterday... A $1 off coupon for any Frito-Lay
>product.
>Screwed in Tucson,
>Rick
I did slightly better - I pointed out a printing error in the "1934 Hershey's
Cookbook" (or whatever the newish reprint is called) - and got 2, $2 off
coupons for Hershey products. Me love chocolate!
Nancy Dooley
"Celebrate our State." Iowa's Sesquicentennial year, 1846-1996.
kevin
In article <4qc4li$1...@news.azstarnet.com>, th...@azstarnet.com (Richard
Thead) wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago, I got a bag of Fritos out of the machine at
> work that had an incomplete seal and the contents were stale.
> Remembering some of the stories of all the freebies obtained from
> manufacturers when something was wrong, I decided to call their
> 800 number.
>
> My bounty just arrived yesterday... A $1 off coupon for any Frito-Lay
> product.
>
> Screwed in Tucson,
Screwed? What, did you think that getting a stale bag of 60 cents chips
entitled you to a carribean cruise?
OddlyEnuff
This isn't people food related but the folks at 9 lives were so shocked
that a pou ch of thier Tender Meals was basically sawdust they send us
(5) free coupons @ 1.29 each AND a free vet visit! Talk abou t service!
Oddly...@aol.com
aka LJ Colten-Smith
"It's really all quite
beyond my control, you see"
Mimi Hiller
Richard Thead wrote:
>
> A couple of weeks ago, I got a bag of Fritos out of the machine at
> work that had an incomplete seal and the contents were stale.
> Remembering some of the stories of all the freebies obtained from
> manufacturers when something was wrong, I decided to call their
> 800 number.
>
> My bounty just arrived yesterday... A $1 off coupon for any Frito-Lay
> product.
I don't think that's so bad, really. At least the phone call was free.
A couple of years ago, I visited my family in Baltimore. Every day, my
stepmother would pour me a big glass of Grove Stand orange juice...that stuff
is really good for no sugar added.
When we came back to CA, I made it a point to start buying that...but guess
what...it was awful. So I called the company and asked what gives...they
couldn't understand what happened, but they sent me two coupons for free half
gallons of the stuff I could buy at other stores, plus two $1 coupons.
Well, the two free ones were no better, so I called back and found out that
they use California oranges for the juice they market out here. I should've
known. Well, I got a free gallon...for what it's worth.
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kevin (k-mc...@nwu.edu) wrote:
: In article <4qc4li$1...@news.azstarnet.com>, th...@azstarnet.com (Richard
: Thead) wrote:
:
: > My bounty just arrived yesterday... A $1 off coupon for any Frito-Lay
: > product.
: > Screwed in Tucson,
:
: Screwed? What, did you think that getting a stale bag of 60 cents chips
: entitled you to a carribean cruise?
Yes. And then some.
Kristin Axberg
In article <31C9F2...@cyber-kitchen.com>, mi...@cyber-kitchen.com says...
>
>Richard Thead wrote:
>>
>> A couple of weeks ago, I got a bag of Fritos out of the machine at
Here is my "Got gypped" horror story......
Domino's Pizza......our pizza showed up with a hair in it....a black hair to
be specific...both my husband and I are blond, so it obviously wasn't from us.
We called and told them and got a runaround, but then after pretty much
promising to have the DNA checked from the 3 hair types, we were promised a
fresh pizza. Well we waited and waited and after about 2 hours and thougts of
these Dominos Pizza people spitting on our pizza, dropping it on the
ground,and all sorts of other disgusting things, we called them back..."oh,
we're sorry, we forgot!" Sure, they were having too much fun at the expense
of our pizza, and immune systems. Well , we got our pizza finally, but we got
attitude from the driver....we didn't eat the pizza...we were too afraid.
ANYWAY, I called the local office the next day and complained about the
service. Two days later we received coupons for 2 free pizzas--any kind we
wanted, and a bunch of half off coupons, free toppings, etc....anything they
could throw at us, which we promptly threw in the trash!!
Kris
Richard A. Ifft
My father used to work in the food industry. One of their customers,
every year, used to buy the box of 100 tea bags. Every year she would
count the tea bags. If she counted 99, she would complain. For a
while, they would send her a new box. After comparing notes with the
other similar companies, they found she was doing this kind of thing
with products from all the companies. So, they decided simply to
rectify the error. If she complained that one teabag was missing, they
sent her one teabag.
Beth.
pjh
axb...@hqpacaf.af.mil (Kristin Axberg) wrote:
>
>Here is my "Got gypped" horror story......
>
>Domino's Pizza......our pizza showed up with a hair in it....a black hair to
>be specific...both my husband and I are blond, so it obviously wasn't from us.
>Kris
>
We had a completely different experience with Domino's: after our pizza
arrived more than 30 minutes after we ordered, we received the $3
discount they promised. We took it inside and opened it up and
found...someone else's pizza. It was bacon, onion, and green olive.
So we called the manager, who very politely told us to keep the pizza,
and that they'd make the one we'd ordered and bring it right away. The
driver was at our house within 20 minutes, the second pizza was free, and
the manager included two coupons for free pizzas! We also found that
bacon, onion, and green olive pizza is pretty tasty.
pjh
OddlyEnuff
>>Notice I did not post the brand or type of cereal, just the
happening. This way it won't stop anyone from purchasing it.<<
YUUUUCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!! please stop us!
Jackee
Well, I' ve got one that beats all of yours, my folks eat cereal like
crazy, 3-4 boxes a week. Needless to say, we buy it when it is on
sale. One day I went to get a new box of cereal, which I had just
purchased four days prior along with 11 other boxes, all same brand
and all made by same company. They were all from the same lot number,
too. While coming up the steps, I thought this box of cereal is
heavier than usual. I was telling mother about it being so heavy and
she said that dad had made the same comment to her about the previous
box. I set it down on the top of the counter, prior to putting up and
was doing something else, I looked over and coming out of the top of
the box were what appeared to be maggots. Make a long story short I
called the 800 number and they send coupons to replace all boxes of
the cereal. Tried to tell me we had stored it too long. Funny no
other brand or type that I had stored had them and these had just been
purchased. My father said that they were not maggots but some type of
bug that is found in grains. Well, I haven't eaten cereal again since
that day but they gave me over $50 in coupons.
happening. This way it won't stop anyone from purchasing it.
Jackee
nancy-...@uiowa.edu (Nancy Dooley) wrote:
>In article <4qc4li$1...@news.azstarnet.com> th...@azstarnet.com (Richard Thead) writes:
>>From: th...@azstarnet.com (Richard Thead)
>>Subject: I got gypped
>>Date: 20 Jun 1996 18:18:26 GMT
>> A couple of weeks ago, I got a bag of Fritos out of the machine at
>>work that had an incomplete seal and the contents were stale.
>>Remembering some of the stories of all the freebies obtained from
>>manufacturers when something was wrong, I decided to call their
>>800 number.
>> My bounty just arrived yesterday... A $1 off coupon for any Frito-Lay
>>product.
>>Screwed in Tucson,
>>Rick
>I did slightly better - I pointed out a printing error in the "1934 Hershey's
>Cookbook" (or whatever the newish reprint is called) - and got 2, $2 off
>coupons for Hershey products. Me love chocolate!
>Nancy Dooley
>"Celebrate our State." Iowa's Sesquicentennial year, 1846-1996.
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PENMART
In article <4qe15k$7...@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
Beth,
Did this same customer ever return the extra teabags when she counted over
one hundred bags in a box?
My wife is a tea drinker, and goes through what I would think to be more
boxes of tea then the average person. She always uses two at a time for
one cup. Yuk! I drink tea only on rare occasions, and like my tea very
weak, and usually use one of her used tea bags. I know, Yuk! Since I'm
the one who does the marketing, and gets the privilege of paying for same,
I think I will start counting.
Thanks for infusing me with this information.
Sheldon Martin
pen...@aol.com
Richard A. Ifft
I never heard that she returned any. Of course it's possible that the
machine never packed more than 100 bags. Don't strain yourself with
all that counting.
Beth.
Len S
If she found 101 tea bags in a 100-bag package, did she return the
extra bag?
:-)
-Len
Ed Rich
A friend of mine once developed a KILLER cold (his identification) and when he
read there were 600 tiny time pills in a Contac he sat down with a pill and a
toothpick, opened the pill and using the toothpick, counted the tiny time
pills. I believe he reported there were something like 603 or so. I always
thought he was sorta strange anyway.
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Jackee wrote:
> I set it down on the top of the counter, prior to putting up and
> was doing something else, I looked over and coming out of the top of
> the box were what appeared to be maggots. Make a long story short I
> called the 800 number and they send coupons to replace all boxes of
> the cereal. Tried to tell me we had stored it too long. Funny no
> other brand or type that I had stored had them and these had just been
> purchased. My father said that they were not maggots but some type of
> bug that is found in grains. Well, I haven't eaten cereal again since
> that day but they gave me over $50 in coupons.
> Notice I did not post the brand or type of cereal, just the
> happening. This way it won't stop anyone from purchasing it.
>
> Jackee
>
I find it funny that they tried to blame you! Now that's customer service.
Unfortunately, these type of posts make me start thinking about all that goes on in the
food industry that would horrify us if we only knew. Did anyone see the story a week or
so ago on either Dateline or Primetime concerning what goes on in restaurant kitchens?
YUCK!!!! I think I'll cook here at home for a while longer.
Michael
Stan Horwitz
Ed Rich (edr...@halcyon.com) wrote:
: A friend of mine once developed a KILLER cold (his identification) and when he
: toothpick, opened the pill and using the toothpick, counted the tiny time
: pills. I believe he reported there were something like 603 or so. I always
: thought he was sorta strange anyway.
Your friend couldn't have been all that sick if he had the ability to
pursue such a boring task, but anyway, its sad that some people have so
little to do that they can sit and count items such as tea bags just to
assuage their fears that there might be less in the box than advertised.
Such people's time must truly be worth very little if they value their
tea bags more than their time. Life is way way too short to worry about
such things.
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OddlyEnuff
>>Such people's time must truly be worth very little if they value their
tea bags more than their time. Life is way way too short to worry about
such things.<<
Don't be to harsh Stan :) Some people have an obessive compulsive
disorder and just can't help themselves. We have a neighbor who checks
the stove a min of 15 times before leaving, has even started shutt ing
of the power to in the fuse box ( which she 'll also check a dozen times)
and lately calls around the neighborhood during the day to amke sure her
house isn't on fire.
It's a very sad thing to live with :(
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LeeK9
> >: A friend of mine once developed a KILLER cold (his identification) and when he
> >: read there were 600 tiny time pills in a Contac he sat down with a pill and a
> >: toothpick, opened the pill and using the toothpick, counted the tiny time
> >: pills. I believe he reported there were something like 603 or so. I always
> >: thought he was sorta strange anyway.
Considering what he was taking though I just had this image of a person
carefully opening a pill and taking out the teensy pellets to count and
sneezing(isn't that what you take Contact for...colds)and as he sneezes
600 little teensy pellets go flying all over. And of course trying to catch
them all would be a royal mess.
I think one time one of those pills broke open for me, and the little pellets
have an affinity for not wanting to be caught,sticking to things, etc.
LeeK9