Comments on: Complain About Products To Get Free Stuff

By: j0e

j0e — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:50:16 +0000

oh, and one more… TDK floppy disks (yeh THOSE things), bought a pack of 10, one was faulty, called up and complained, few days down the track, a free box of 50!!!

By: j0e

j0e — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:45:40 +0000

Grain Waves from Smith’s… bought one without enough flavouring, sent a feedback through their website and low and behold, a letter about why that packet could possibly have less flavouring and a cheque reimbursing the cost of the chips (apparently the cheque costs more that the value amount!)

By: chinese foooooooooooooooooooood

chinese foooooooooooooooooooood — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:12:53 +0000

i’ve been doing this for years and years. Sanitarium are a good one, complain about any product and you’ll get a gift box of mixed whatevers.

By: Juan Chavez

Juan Chavez — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:02:45 +0000

I emailed Wrigleys chewing gum about some Extra’s wrapping which had a picture of a charecterised chewing gum man on it as opposed to the traditional tiling of the words “WRIGLEYS”

I wanted to know what the hell the GUM-MAN was, and they said he was merely a prototype to test new packaging materials.

I replied in a smart ass tone asking who drew him, and if he knew that I was offended.

They simply replied, “Thankyou for your opinion”

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:52:54 +0000

Mostly tongue-in-cheek, I took an Australian cookie company to task back in 2005 over their packaging claim that their “jam packed white choc-chip cookie” actually had no jam in it at all. They acknowledged my letter in good humour and sent me several packets of every cookie product they produced (came in a large box – kids were thrilled). A few months later I came across the same cookie served up as a Qantas in-flight refreshment with the “jam-packed” claim removed from the packet. See, feedback does work!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:51:40 +0000

I once gave it to a Qantas customer service rep at Sydney Airport because they were going to charge me big $$ for trying to get on an earlier flight. I knew it was Qantas policy to charge, but I was still having a go because the logic behind it was so backwards. Anyways, I wrote in to Qantas to complain about the rep’s attitude and they mailed me back 2x $40 airport gift vouchers.

By: Jayphen Simpson

Jayphen Simpson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:51:07 +0000

I once bought a packet of paperclips & noticed that one of the paperclips was bent slightly out of shape. I complained and received 2 free packets of paperclips. I wrote a poem about this day, if anyone would like to hear it.

By: James Nelison

James Nelison — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:50:15 +0000

Years ago my little brother was disappointed when he didn’t get a tazo (the little plastic disc things) in his packet of chips. After mum rang the company to complain they sent him by post over 50 tazo’s.

In his mind it was worth it for one chip packet.

By: Julien Chevalley

Julien Chevalley — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:47:29 +0000

I once complained to Dolmio about their pasta sauces being horribly sweet.

They sent me a box full of more sweet sauces.

By: Quigley

Quigley — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:50:33 +0000

After complaining on-board a Qantas flight that I hadn’t been able to upgrade my flight (paying for it not a freebie) because business class was full but was empty when the flight took off. I received a box of 4 bottles of wine and cheeses by parcel post a few days later. Apparently the girl on the qantas check in thought it would be too hard to re-issue a boarding pass so just told me there was no seats available. Lazy cow.