Agreed. Thankfully, square footage is always listed on the paper-towel packaging, so you really can see how much you’re getting.
And that’s a bad thing? 
I remember eating those long, long ago - we’d add additional cheese and veggies to try and make them tasty.
I was looking at toilet paper awhile back, and for one particular brand it was available in two types, single rolls and double rolls (with 32=64 on the package). The single rolls were 220 sheets per roll, but the “double” rolls were only 264 sheets per roll - only 20% bigger. Not just misleading, but out and out lying.
But it’s the same price! (Part of the marketing bullshit ripoff crap is the companies will reduce the amount of the product, say, sell a 10 oz bag of potato chips instead of the old 15 oz bag, but still charge the same price. That means of course, the chips are more expensive, but they company will claim it’s not, because “it’s the same price as the old bag!” Not per ounce, it isn’t. Ripoff.)
And “bastards” is way too nice a term for them. But discretion supersedes.
Any consumer product that claims it will “detoxify” or eliminate “toxins” is by definition a ripoff.
Deceptive packaging on stick deodorant. For you stick deodorant people out there, before you use it; hold it up to a bright light. The actual deodorant takes up less than 1/2 of the container.
Ok that sounds sorta reasonable. But for the price they charge you’d think you’d get a whole book. There really is no way to resell it if pages are scattered. It is a racket! This is the single most ridiculous thing, and high priced, that I have had to purchase for my college student. It really chaps my ass. She gets a book allowance in her scholarship, but it still makes me mad. I hope I never have to buy a book for $192.00 again. Stupid University!
Another item to be bought by the listed measurement (in the case of deodorant in the U.S., ounces). Though there isn’t a lot of variation, except when one of the deodorant companies puts out a “10% more!” package.
In 2018, textbooks should (but apparently aren’t) largely be distributed as electronic files. Textbooks could still be priced “too high” ($150 hardcover, $60 electronic file), but at least some of the manufacturing and production savings could be passed on to students. Would be nice, at least.
Well the container itself is really hard plastic and it is not something that can be cut into with a box cutter. Brands like Neutrogena and L’Oreal are the worst, as are the higher end department store brands. Look how much of this is container and how much is product. And the bottom sometimes may even have a dimple in it to remove even more volume from container:
Here’s another with an inner chamber that you can see:
https://www.ulta.com/hydra-genius-daily-liquid-care-normaldry-skin?productId=xlsImpprod15541129
Some bottles have chambers that you can’t see but you can tell from the feel of the bottle it is there. There are just features of these that I feel are unnecessary. I would rather have more lotion, less container.
Yes. Another case of too much package, not enough product.
When Mott’s started selling “Light” apple juice, they advertised “50% the calories!” and such. A quick look at the nutritional label showed that they were just selling 50% juice / 50% water pre-mixed. For the same price.
Well, I don’t know how to show this, and I am not cutting into my fairly new tube of Crest Pro Gum Health…but no one else has noticed this sort of pillowy feel to toothpaste tubes? And how hard they are now to get the last bit out? I can tell there is trapped air in there after the tube is empty…I’ll get back to you on this one.
I guess it my day to make questionable claims about ripoffs.
I wonder what happened to the lawsuit against McCormick? They started putting 1.5 oz of black pepper in the same size container that used to contain 2 oz. They changed the label to update the quantity, but otherwise the tin looked exactly the same.
The downside of that is you pay $600 for a text book that has no resale value because campus books stores won’t buy it back.
At least in that case, they need some room at the bottom for the dispensing mechanism.
That’s why I find it so frustrating. I am on the hook, and will continue to allow myself to be ripped off as repeat customer. I do try to look for comparable, less offending products and store brands where I can.
My SO has worked for 25 years for one of the major textbook publishers, and we speak about this sort of stuff often. If it makes you feel any better, the whole industry is probably in its’ death throes. Between digital media, open source material, and the fact they usually don’t own/control their software platforms, it is killing them. He is glad to be at the end of his career and is hoping to hang on for a few more years until retirement now that he is at the executive level. They all know the clock is ticking on the relevance of the traditional textbook and their entire business model.
UltraSonic Pest repellers. They dont work.
As Jackmannii said, anything (other than a laxative, which sorta kinda does) anything that supposedly removes “toxins” is bullshit.
Tried to buy Cake at a grocery store lately?
It’s all flavorless, sugary goo.
I paid $4.59 at Kroger for half a Sour Cream tube cake. I slice them and freeze in ziplock sandwich bags. Got 6 slices.
That would be wonderful if there was any taste. Is it too much to expect they’d real vanilla and sour cream?
I like German Chocolate Cake, when I can taste the chocolate. Don’t waste your money at the Grocery Deli. What would four teaspoons of real Cocoa cost? Compared to that artificial crap they use?
I’d happily pay an extra dollar to get cake that actually had flavor to it. Excessive sugar doesn’t count.
The only way to get good tasting Cake is to make it yourself from a proven home recipe.