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?

She's now changed the wording to not suitable for diabetics.
Was £5 p&p for the 4 now down to £4.50 for 12. How does that work? Heavier and cheaper postage

Waiting for the next change to up the charity donation.

I haven't looked at it yet, but thought you need a licence to make and sell food (or stuff that is meant to resemble food).

Her returns policy is amusing too. If they are not up to standard, you can't have touched them or remove from outer or inner packaging. A non return policy if ever I saw them.

Buyer "My cake has a hair in it"
Seller "sorry, you've opened the package and touched them, I won't accept their return"

She does acknowledge they are perishable, and I assume if there was a hair/other contamination incident then common sense would prevail. But I suspect you'd be hard pushed to prove it given her policy.

I love that the "People who viewed this item also viewed" item is cornflakes

Yes, she has changed the number of cakes she is offering - it definitely WAS four, when I first looked at the listing.

She has had feedback on the exorbitant cost, I think.

She's now changed the wording to not suitable for diabetics

Oh ffs Do they have insulin in them?

the original price was £5.99 for 4, but has been changed due to her getting feedback on the high cost of the cakes

Hang on a sec - she hasn't actually got any feedback. Unless she's re-registered and started again so people can't see any previous comments ...?

It looks like they're not even vegan due to the vitamin d.

I hope she's got no plans to go on Dragon's den.

She'd get roasted alive

What a total rip off, surely Ebay should investigate? Palm oil? So we can assume she's not collecting to preserve orangutan habitat then? Apart from making everything that contains it taste like shit.

They sound bloody awful!
Who puts margarine in cornflake cakes?

Not suitable for diabetics wtf?

Her feedback wont appear until she has had 10 comments so we will have to wait and see what developes

Vegan chocolate?

The charity is for rescue hens!

I know some great thing to do with chickens... as long as you aren't vegan, of course.

It looks like they're not even vegan due to the vitamin d

WTF?

so some supermarket value range cheap dark choc mixed with some cereal put in pound shop cases

Good lord, that tiffin looks, um, shit.

To be fair, I don't put raisins in mine because DS2 doesn't like them but it still looks more appetising than that!

Hell no, they look grim, what a rip off!

Just looked at her items to sell, none of them look nice, I can do better myself, for half the price, cheeky sod!

I'm sorry but that tiffin looks like it came from a dog with a square arsehole

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!

They're vegetarian and vegan though. No cows were killed in the making of them there cakes.

You dont have to kill a cow to make cakes. Do you.

Wow, my five year old can make these, sod paying that!

And at the massively unethical palm oil that's killing orangutans.

You dont have to kill a cow to make cakes. Do you

Maybe that's where I've been going wrong... 😱

YNBU. But then I can't bake for toffee.

So I'd probably pay it. Plus its for charity.

Fully blaming this thread for my purchase of eye-wateringly expensive vegan "mars bars". Because you forced me to think about vegan chocolate. The vegan Easter Egg is also totally on you. Yep.

And I've not made myself non-rank vegan cornflake cakes because I fell asleep instead. But that one's The Lurgy. Would just be silly to blame some random strangers on the internet for something like that, unlike my previous clearly perfectly valid assertions.

Further to my previous post, wonder what Diabetes UK would say about the nonsense she's spouting. People who're newly diagnosed - or whose child is - might actually be alarmed by seeing something like that. And where in the hell did she get the idea from?! It's not like you see it on packs of sugar/sweet/cakes/chocolate. Oooh, maybe it's because there is sugar-free stuff available marketed as being for diabetics, so she assumed that because she'd not used it hers wasn't. If so... wow. And this is someone with the potential to be outwitted by their own rescue chicken.

Anyway:

Its for charity

Yeah 25% of the £10 she charges = £2.50 goes to charity, and I doubt it will cost her £4.50 for postage either.

You pay £14.49 charity gets £2.50 she keeps £7.50 , and excess postage charged, no way those 'cakes' cost £7.50 to make!

The charity hens are not gonna get much from her I reckon!