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Offline oldspice

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Mishapes Con!
« on: August 01, 2007, 06:58:28 pm »
When we were in Manchester, at the Lowery Mal, I spotted a Cadbury factory shop. Fantastic! I thought. Lots of hard-to-get Cadbury products at bargain prices!
 

How wrong can you be?

 

Hardly any Cadbury chocolate products but plenty of cheap, bagged up sweets such as wine gums and fruit chews.

 

However, in the entrance to the store was a HUGE display of HUGE bags of Cadbury Mishapes! Yum! I remember these. Dozens of wonky strawberry creams, coffee creams etc with a few toffees and bits of Cadbury CDM thrown in!!

 

How wrong could I be???

 

The bag consisted of ONLY toffees and chocolates with nuts in. NO Creams! Hundreds of toffees! They were not even mishapen! I reckon it was a con to get rid of some unpopular lines. My son was stung as well. he bought a bag and got the same contents.

 

I am furious with Cadbury! The description on the bag was " An ASSORTMENT of mishapen Cadbury favourites". PHA! LIARS!! 
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« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2007, 07:32:25 pm »
has anyone been to the Cadbury factory? i know a few people who have - only to end up being totally disappointed. so i never went.
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« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2007, 01:07:16 am »
Mishapes used to be great, but the last bag I had was all caramels too. I didn't mind too much as I like caramels, but I miss the variety you used to get in the old purple boxes.
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« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2007, 08:55:23 pm »
I went to the factory a few years back, some bargains to be had especially at easter. I remember buying a load of stuff with a short date really cheap. Some yummy stuff in the cafeteria there too.
Must say straight from the factory, especially the samples tasted fab
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« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2007, 06:38:07 pm »
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has anyone been to the Cadbury factory? i know a few people who have - only to end up being totally disappointed. so i never went.

 

I have been there and I liked it. I bought misshapes a few months back and admittedly there were a lot of caramels but there plenty of other things as well although I don't remember there being much in the way of cremes.
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Re: Mishapes Con!
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2009, 04:29:24 am »
It's one of the oldest chocolate factories, it has a long history, but they are not superior. There are so many new chocolate factories who are far ahead. Especially great ones are online chocolate sellers. Check for good ones at willie wonkas. Recently online chocolate tasting clubs are starting to become very popular among chocolate connoisseurs. You feel so preveleged to open your monthly pack of the best chocolate sweets and be one of those who influence on the next selection. It's a real tasting session. No regrets ever.
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Re: Mishapes Con!
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2009, 01:28:03 pm »
well, you expect the occasional sap trying to sell you something on this forum... but resurrecting a long-dead thread to do it? hmm.
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Re: Mishapes Con!
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2009, 02:17:53 pm »
The spam URL above...

Registered through GoDaddy
Its an afilliate site
Uses Commission Junction to track you and monitor your clicks.

My advice, give it a wide berth because this is just another example of what I have been banging on about other countries leeching money from this country.

IMHO Choc, sent them a paypal bill demanding money from GoDaddy on the abuse email [email protected] asking them to forward it to their client for forum spam advertising and advise them that their client is spamming other forums too.

I would also inclue a paypal demand to godaddy.com for a "Clean up bill" to "Remove the offending advertising" should the client fail to payup, I suggest a fee of about £250 to godaddy and to the client... well prime advertising space is not cheap, I suggest £5,000 for a month.

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