The day Nestle turned thier back on me...

I read your post about the sprees. Id like to elaborate this more.
Please send me an email vickie0213@aol.com

"The entire box was a skid mark on the underpants of society."

Hahaha... oh man. I had the same problem with a giant packet of
Starbursts. The red ones taste so gross they make me ill, and that's
ALL the packet contained! Go you!

"The entire box was a skid mark on the underpants of society."

Hahaha... oh man. I had the same problem with a giant packet of
Starbursts. The red ones taste so gross they make me ill, and that's
ALL the packet contained! Go you!

This is so lame! you need to calm down and think about this. people
right now are laghing at you and shaking their hads. you are not two.

I don't think that Nestle is too consumer friendly. I had bought 2.5
gallons of bottled water since I live in earthquake country and they
leaked all over my carpet, floor, and ruined the leg of an antique
cedar chest. I notified them and all I was told was that I would have
to CALL them! Why? I gave complete details and the lot number. All I
wanted was my money refunded on the water that was lost, not the
replacement for my carpet that molded and the ruined leg of the cedar
chest! I feel for you, I truely do!

See what you get for not splurging and getting Wonka Shocktarts, or
chewy runts?

Man... Willy is cryin' chocolate tears!

take the 1.56 and buy a three pack of easter egg dye and dye the
yellow ones green blue and red.

Gimme a BREAK!!!!!!!!! OH DEAR GOD HAVE MERCY! THE WORLD HAS COME TO
AN END!!! who gives a flick if there are only two colors! buy another
freakin box.

if you ask me this is quite childish and you must have been one
spoiled kid!

I had to laugh this week in Disney, as I came across and entire shelf
of these at eye level in one of the Disney stores and thought of this
post!

I have another question.. why don't you have a bank account??

They don't produce candy with only you in mind. They're trying to make
money by selling it to anyone with enough dough to purchase it.
Individual is not a word they give a crap about. I'd suggeat you shut
up and go buy another box - but at least stop the childish complaints.

Satire is a lost art my friend, and you have succeeded tremendously!
:) Thank you for all you're doing in the fight against corporate
bigotry.

See,

Something very similar to this happened to me.

I was having lunch with some coworkers, and we had purchased a bag of
Almond Joys miniatures (so everyone could have two). Well, on the
package, and EVERY bar, were the words, AlmondS, with the s being
emphasized. Though, lo and behold, only one almond present in every
bar.

This infuriated my friend, and I called the one 800 number to ease her
stress. When I explained my complaint (after being on hold for five
minutes) there was a pause of about one minute. I could tell the
girl had muted the phone and was laughing at me. I demanded
retribution, since it was definitely false advertising, but the phone
cut out. Since I didn't want to wait again another five minutes, I
never called back.

I think you guys need to lighten up. I really don't think this poster
was being serious....

If anything, this just shows that plugging in other letters works on
mindless peons like us. ;)

is this for real....WOW the ignorance of complaining people is
outstanding....but of course i have seen worse people arguing with me
because i didn't give them their 2 cents change, because wherei work
we rarely have pennies. the pennis we do have are of cheap people that
tip us with them.

Its letters like this that ruin what this website is all about. And
eventually companies will stop reading and responding to anything sent
through PFB.

I also think the spamming of this letter on all the other letters was
immature.

Honest injun.

It is only $1.29 Just tell them youll take ur business elsewhere
besides it is only a dollar and 29 cents dont spend your time wasting
away trying to get a dollar twenty nine back if it is over $5 then I'd
say go for it.

Good Luck

your pathetic... get a life

Obviously there are letter writers such as this one who are just
interested in writing a humor piece for others to comment on and have
no real issue. Might I suggest giving them a platform by which to do
so? It's easy, given the laid back tone of the response sections below
the shared letters, to forget that when writing these letters, we are
writing them to places of business. These businesses, for the most
part, value consumer feedback and may see PFB as a valuable tool for
staying in touch with their consumers. Letters like this, while
humorous, weaken the validity of PFB as a reliable means of feedback.
And the CSR reps who must take such letters seriously and attempt to
"resolve" the issue to management's satisfaction don't appreciate it
either - trust me on this one. So a separate means for displaying wit
without bothering those consumer relation employees with a heavy
workload, and hence better things to do, would be appreciated...oh,
wait. That's what our blogs are for. Nevermind.

Now this is what bother me about Planetfeedback - apparently there are
people with nothing better to do than write ridiculous letters like
this one just to they might get posted.

The unfortunate thing is that if I were a company and I received lots
of letters like this via Planetfeedback, I would probably start
ignoring them - which is a shame because I think this site performs a
great service.

was this letter meant to make people laugh or are you really
complaining?

The letter is overly dramatic, and uses crude analogies, but I have to
admit I love it.

Kudos Scott for placing the blame with Nestle and not writing a "I
hate X place because they wouldnt let me exchange my bad candy"
letter.

First of all, it's Nestle turned ITS back - not "their" (or, in your
case, the misspelled "thier").

Secondly, crass remarks such as "skidmark on the underpants of
society" make me think that you're not a very large contribution to
society, either.

And, if I'm not mistaken, all Sprees taste the same, regardless of
color.

And it's not Nestle's fault you don't have a bank account. They
refunded your money. They don't have to do anything else.

"Corporate bigotry"? Oh, my head. Hurts from laughing at this
completely ridiculous comment.

And if your t-shirt size is XL, maybe you should cut out the candy,
anyway.

How's a t-shirt going to make things any better? I'm suprised they
even gave you more money than the candy was worth; in fact I'm
surprised they gave you any money at all. Nestle is an evil company;
everyone knows that. So why bother writing a letter about something so
trivial as the flavors of a roll of sprees?

I don't know if this letter was written as a joke, but in a few
responses to other letter's Scott here is pointing us to his letter.

If this letter was real well when they make the box of sprees the
colours that go in the box are random.

They sent you a check for $1.56 and you only paid $1.29? AND they
sent you a coupon (even if it was for Whoppers)? The box you got was
probably just a fluke. Get over it. It's not the end of the world.

#1 Amusement park complaint
#2 Wendy's "no spoons in the bag" complaint
#3 Amazon/porn complaint
#4 THIS POST.

Just a little more effort, and we can get the frickin' Amazon tirade
knocked down a little further and it can die the slow, painful death
it deserves.

I'm counting on you. Erik, are you listening?

I can see how this would annoy you. And I don't think it's outrageous
to ask for another box of Sprees with all the flavors.

BUT.

T-shirt? Are you kidding me? That makes me giggle... lots.

It sucks they sent you a coupon for Whoppers, clearly not the candy.
And they sent you a check. Even with no bank account, you can cash
it. Just cash it and get on with your life. Is it really worth it to
this worked up about $1.29 box of Sprees?

I had a similar experience with hershey's. I bought what I thought was
a bag of m and m's and some sneaky factory worker, probably looking
for a few laughs, or making some political support for the president.
"G "Dubaya" Bush. Totally ruined my day, then this voice in my head
(not the usual one, but one that sounded like Keanu Reeves in an echo
chamber) said "Turn them around"
Not as earth shattering as your experience was but i learned my
lesson...now I separate them in an egg carton before eating them and
make sure that i have an equal amount of each. whatever's left i give
to the guy in front of 7-11 asking for money.
Hmm i wish i kept my receipt...maybe hersheys would sent ME coupons
and a tee shirt too...

Anyway... good luck and don't let it get to you!!!

I also give Scott a thumbs up for originality. But I do like
Whoppers. Tell you what, I'll trade you some Sprees for your Whopper
coupon. I'll even take out the evil Pledge-flavored yellow ones.
Thanks for making me smile on an otherwise bleh day. :)

I also think it's hilarious you keep plugging your letter in other
letters.

Good use of what you've got to work with! Thumbs up from me.

The only person directly responsible for this is the QA person on the
assembly line of the factory in wherever the heck city Nestle is
nestled in. Take that box of candy you have and throw it off a bridge.
Then go to a different store and buy a new box of candy from a
different lot. Aside from that: YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME! I've lost
more money than that in a telephone!

Sorry about Nestle ruining your day - they suck.

Hey, now, are you "borrowing" a little from Paul Rosa? You know, in
his book "Idiot Letters" he always requested an XL t-shirt, too.
Plagiarist! :-)
I never thought to mention that Planet Feedbackers would love that
book! Check it out, guys.

Wow, that sucked.

Are you serious? Sorry you had such a crappy day, but you freaked out
because you didnt get the colors/flavors you wanted? I can guarantee
you would have had a better day if you had moved on with your life
instead of dwelling on this mishap.

All those in support of marching on Nestle and other candy monoplies
grab your gear and follow me to candy freedom

I'll take the Whoppers. Since they all look and taste the same, it
will save me the trouble of separating, counting and color coding them
prior to eating.

I once tried to take a vacation in a box of Sprees. Unfortunately, I
could not fit into the box.

Ba-da-bum-bum-ching!

Oh Scott, you're quite a funny guy!

I like you sense of humor, Scott. If I worked for Nestle I'd send you
a crate because of it. :) Nothing but purple, green and red!

You are the true day maker! I'm glad you like my humor, thanks for the
kind gesture. You rock...really hard.

What are sprees?

I've had sprees. I wasn't aware that different colors were different
flavors.

Wow, what a bummer. Whoppers make me sick. Sounds like corporate
doesn't care about the customer, or they would have tried to make you
whole again by giving you like for like. I noticed a comment about
taking it back to the store -it's not the store's fault that the
manufacturer didn't care about the quality of their candy. And, the
boxes say if you're not satisfied to contact them, not the store.
Thanks for letting us know that Nestle isn't customer friendly. I get
pretty tired of dealing with stuff like this. I have enough trauma in
my life without being disappointed by a manufacturer on something as
simple as this, so I can feel your pain. I hope you get your
replacement Sprees AND the T-shirt -you've earned it!

why didnt you return the box to the store and exchange it for another
one if its soooo important that you have all the colors of the rainbow
in there.

LMAO!!!!! Thanks for the laugh.

Sorcha