Amazon should reimburse me right?

Quite. Watch those kidneys, people!

Yes, this. It's aimed at people who will cane 11 boxes of them way before the end of March.

If you are really this sensitive to BB dates, online shopping for food isn’t for you. Shop in person and you can see the BB dates for yourself, or if you can’t get there, use an actual shop, call them and accept you’ll need to pay postage.

I think it’s shitty you fought for a refund, considered a low review (because there’s still two months to eat them. You’d be extra shitty if you keep shopping online for food.

That’s nearly 2 months yabu. You don’t know how long the typical date is. Shops use best before dates to rotate stock, they aren’t actually unsafe to eat afterwards

Bad review is shitty thing to do. They sold you perfectly in date food. They did absolutely nothing wrong.

Edit to add I cannot believe amazon is reimbursing legally sold perfectly fine food. Obviously not from their pocket

They should refund really because it's a short life for such a product.

But I couldn't be bothered with the hassle and they won't go bad on midnight of 31/3. In fact they will likely be fine for at least 6 months or so after that date. The company would not risk putting a date on where the quality will be questionable, so there will be a fairly large margin. Best before end is a very rough metric.

If it's an issue you can always ask the vendor before you buy.

Bulk medicines like antacids are nearly always short date which is why they are cheap. (They still work, too.)

'Best before' is not the same as 'use by'. Even if it were, they won't kill you.

It's people like you who make businesses put stricter rules around returning and refunding actual issues.

What they sent you was not a problem at all.

DH sometimes finds the odd bar of this sort of thing left behind perhaps at least 6 months out of date and just checks it's not musty when he eats it, he has never had any ill effects

The contents of most protein bars will be a lot more damaging to your health than an expired protein bar anyway.

Wouldn't most people bulk ordering protein bars be eating one a day for breakfast or at the least one after a gym visit 3 times a week?

It's 8 weeks, you should buy from a shop if you want to check it's longer, you run the risks of shorter dates wherever you buy food from online

Trouble is Amazon don’t then bear that cost themselves, they pass it on to the supplier, who may well be a small company that actually will struggle. Amazon don’t care, and they use their market clout to get away with it.

I can’t believe you have scammed a refund because of your anxiety about eating food with an 8 week expiry date.

I am guessing you have either health anxiety or suffer with emetophobia. If so that’s a you problem and not anyone else.

You won't eat them at all because it's two months until the best before date? Do you apply that logic to everything? Like milk, bread, eggs? If it's not 4 months left until they are not at their best you won't eat it? If so, you should probably stop ordering food items online and go to the store and check dates yourself.

OP, out of interest what is an acceptable best before end date to you?

Amazon usually refund a complaint the first time to keep the person happy. They are a billion dollar company with low costs

You've got 2 months to eat them. You're being ridiculous.

Given you clearly have psychological issues around BBF dates you are being very entitled. Go to the shop and check dates, don’t throw your toys out of the pram, consider shitty reviews etc because you cause the issue yourself.

If you'd bought 365 bars I would agree with you, but 16 bars with 8 weeks to go till they expire is only 2 per week. As a seller I wouldn't think it was unreasonable until the number of bars in the sale batch exceeded the number of days until the expiry. Your preference to treat BBE 03/2026 (meaning fine to eat until the end of March and not actually poisonous after that just possibly less good texture) as being actually "throw away on 1st March" is something in your 9wn head and not the vendor's responsibility.

It's fair enough to leave a factual review stating that you were sent product that was only 8 weeks off its expiry date to warn off other buyers who might be expecting a long-term supply.

Protien bars aren't generally a very good way of getting healthy nutrition though.

How often do you eat these bars?? You’ve got until the end of March to eat 16 bars…surely you eat more than one a week?

Anyway, regardless, I can’t believe you’re going to leave a shitty review on Amazon even though they’ve done nothing wrong and you accept you’ve issues with food and dates.

I don't think they should have refunded you. Someone, somewhere bears the cost of frivolous complaints like yours.

I agree.

I'm a nightmare for food dates but even i would eat them until at least April, it's only a protien bar there will be nothing wrong with it even if it's a little over the BB date. Even then if you eat 2 a week they will still be in date so I don't think they're in the wrong.