To think £11 for four little cornflake cakes is outrageously exorbitant?

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Someone on my FB has just shared this ebay listing - four vegan chocolate cornflake cakes, each weighing 25g, £5.99 + £5 postage and packing - here.

My jaw just hit the floor - it is for charity, but even so, this is outrageous, surely?

Am I reading the wrong figures? As far as I can tell the link says £9.99 not £5.99 for 12 cakes PLUS £4.50 for postage and packing.

So the chickens get £2.50 and she gets £7.49 minus costs which presumably consist of chocolate, cornflakes, syrup, cake cases and ebay fees - still I think leaving a handsome profit!!

The extoritionate postage is justified by amazing packaging and the fact you'll have to stay home to sign for your cakes!

I have checked - the price has been changed as a result of feedback on the cost of these cakes.

@listsandbudgets - the original price was £5.99 for 4, but has been changed due to her getting feedback on the high cost of the cakes. But you are right - she is still getting a lot of profit from these cakes.

Complete rip-off. And I bet they're rank. Plamil is cheap!vegan-chocolate - about £1 a bar. And we all know cornflake cakes, by law, are to be make with milk chocolate, so she should be using one of the fakemilk vegan!chocolates available.

I've not seen vegan mini-eggs for AGES (Holland & Barrett used to do them), but maybe she could have used some white vegan marshmallows in their place?

Also, is she actually putting margarine in them? Have I misread/misunderstood that ingredients list? Because just... what the why now? And also ew.

Furthermore, you can't be a lifetime vegetarian AND vegan. Or have two people made the cakes together?

WTAH is with her telling diabetics they can't have them, too?! Unless she's snuck a massive dose of insulin into them that can magically be absorbed through the GI tract (in which case everyone should be scared, anyway), it's up to individual diabetics to decide how to manage their intake & adjust insulin dose if necessary etc. Who does she think she is?!

The P&P sounds ridiculously steep given the weight of cornflake cakes. A Victoria sponge or something, fair enough. These things?! If they didn't charge by size as well as weight you could probably bung a first class stamp on them!

Her profit margin on these things will be INSANE, even with 25% going to charity. And as charities go, it's not exactly one I'd be rushing to support.

However, I might make myself some nice Vegan cornflake cakes this afternoon. With my Organica "Chocolate Couverture Bar" that apparently tastes quite like Galaxy. Haven't had cornflake cakes for actual years, so at least some good has come of their ridiculousness...

Sorry cross posted with everyone else.

I am the worlds WORST cake / sweet things producer (as anyone who saw my very paniced thread recently about having to produce cakes for school cake stall with know ) but even I managed to produce a dozen such items with the guidance of kind mumsnetters for a lot less than that

They look tiny and shit, like a preschooler has made them!

I notice the seller has zero feedback

I'd make them myself and send the rest of the money (and the money otherwise used for postage and packaging) directly to a charity of my choice.

I have looked at her other items too. Er, she's having a laugh.

Made by a life time vegetarian and vegan, with 20 years of baking and cooking experience, in a council certified hygiene kitchen. I have a level 2 food hygiene certificate.

Surely that can't be what 20 years of baking experience gives you. Nobody has that little self-awareness SURELY

Actually I take back what I said previously: the sad truth is that people do pay this sort of money for that sort of thing, if it means it makes them look interesting and like they have money to burn. So in some ways I envy this persons audacity.

That is why I am foraging for wild garlic in dog piss covered hedgerows this weekend, and making organic pesto to sell at £10 a jar in local farmer's markets. I can glass blow my own jars to put it in for an additional fee of £15 a jar.

Come on you lot, she does have 20 years baking experience, hence why they are just so professional and no doubt expensive.

Crumbleface, I look forward to seeing you on Dragons Den!

Have you seen the fridge cake.Gross.

You get 12..

is tiffin really just melted chocolate, digestive biscuits and marg?

I thought it had raisins, etc in as well

star Yes, it actually made me feel somewhat nauseous...

I mean, just imagine getting that for Easter... :0

I need to remember to refresh before posting.

Doesn't it say 12x25g???

On second thoughts I actually think this is a little entrepreneurial GCSE project by a 15 year old hoping to complete her Food Tech coursework and make a little money until she gets her NI number through and can get a proper Saturday job.

Seriously, I do.

£9.99 for 4 cornflake flake cakes. How in her wildest dreams does she honestly think anyone is going to pay that.

Wow. If she's so super duper health conscious I at least expected the cakes to be gluten free pshh, amateur.

We should all watch them on Ebay. She'll be stockpiling the cornflakes for a rush in orders.

'May not post to Ireland' dammit, that's me out so...