"Mum charged £47 for two bags of pick and mix from Cardiff Winter Wonderland"

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www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/mum-charged-47-two-bags-25576870

When I saw the headline I was shocked someone would pay that much for a couple of bags of sweets even at a place like winter wonderland, which like tourist traps and a lot of attractions are going to be very expensive.

However on reading the story the company isn't wrong in saying that the price per 100g was displayed, as well as a weighing scale being available, plus the mum let her child start eating the sweets before they had fully paid so couldn't put them back?

I don't think the stall has really done anything wrong? Apart from it being very expensive, but then that's why I don't buy stuff from these sorts of places.

There are just things you know just not to do. Like go into the pirate candy shop because it would cost you a fiver just to breathe the air.

Me too.

“Mum is a bit thick and doesn’t have the common sense to work out how much the vast amount of sweets costs before she lets her feral offspring eat them”

Are we supposed to feel sorry for them?

Why does the headline read 'mum' .... it was mum and dad!

I did similar recently and spent £35 on 2 bags. I was horrified! No prices displayed at all so it never even occurred to me it would be so so expensive. Kingdom of sweets I think they were called, set up at a 3rd party event. Didn’t help that the bags were humongous and the scoops were spades!!

I once fell for this hard lesson in Captain Candy. £102 for theee bags of sweets.

It's yet another example of how no-one is ever responsible for their own carelessness. The price was displayed and there's usually a set of scales available.

Anything that combines pirates and sweets avoid like the plague!

You let your kids shovel sweets into "humongous" bags filled by scoops that were like "spades" at an event and was surprised it ended up expensive? Are you related to the woman in the article by any chance?

Wtf. The idiots got refunded. They must have been bullied into refunding the daft sods.

These are 175g (and massive for me as a greedy haribo fan) so 1.6kg of sweets is going to be bonkers in quantity and size of bag. Parents are lucky to get a refund when they screwed up

I love pick and mix. This could well happen to me but I'd be too ashamed to mention it let alone complain to a newspaper.

Exactly. You can weigh the sweets as you add them.

Maybe a clear bag of what 100g looks like might help.

There's no way that neither parent noticed the children had selected enough fudge to equal a bag of sugar almost

Pick and mix is notoriously expensive, if you're letting you children partake you either watch carefully or resign yourself to a large bill. Common sense appears to be uncommon these days.

I feel really sorry for the company that’s obviously been bullied into refunding her by an online mummy army.

It’s really depressing that people like this can just breed.

What does 100g look like? Because a bag of feathers weighing 100g would be significantly larger in volume than a bag of sherbet lemons weighing the same.

Just like a bag of marshmallows would be bigger than that of a bag of fudge weighing the same.

it’s not fucking surprising that the kids went overboard but your comment us ridiculous.

Even if you can’t work out what 100g looks like, you know it’s fairly different from 1.6kg surely. SURELY.

1.6kg of sweets. Lol. Idiot.

Argh this had wound me up. 😤It's not the business's fault that the family ignore the pricing and can't be fucked to weigh the bags. Also 1.6kg is a shit ton of sweets and I'm sure if you picked the bags up you could tell it's a little bit more than 100 grams. It's their cockup and it pisses me off that no one is taking any responsibility for their own actions anymore. It seems that the mum is loving the attention though so I guess that's why she's doing it.

I honestly didn't think I'd be sitting here on a Saturday evening getting all annoyed about some stranger's sweet buying habits, but here I am. 😆

I mean in fairness it does seem like it was the mum kicking up the fuss. Poor dad probably didn't want it going to the press

True, it will encourage other chancers to let their sprogs eat before they pay then complain about the price and expect a refund. Too many companies are blackmailed over social media, it's akin to expecting the banks, ie its customers, to refund money lost through their naivity.

I have some sympathy for her because I very nearly did the same once at a similar place.

I knew it would be expensive, yes. And I have no firm idea what 100g feels like really but I knew it wouldn't be much! I naively assumed I'd be paying a fiver each for a quids worth of sweets and didn't put much more thought into it than that.

I let two dc get a bag each and monitored closely...it really did seem to be two fairly modest size bags, sweets only a couple of inches deep, probably less. The only scales were at the counter.

They were weighed at the counter and it came to £24. I chuckled and kind of stared at the man blankly until it got a bit awkward and he repeated '£24'. I'd genuinely thought he was joking and I was waiting for the actual price. He was not amused 😂🙈

I gave them back (not eaten at all) and said I'd leave them thanks, in a bit of a state of shock. Then I got shouted at that I wasn't allowed to change my mind after putting them in a bag. I walked away as he ranted about calling the police 🙄

I bet that if they had the price per lb (pound), there would be comments saying they don't know what a pound is.

That is a LOT of sweets. Pick a mix is expensive, Add in pick a mix at an attraction and it's very expensive.

I remember buying a quarter of sweets.

When I saw the headline I was shocked

Totally off topic but I miss read the title and thought you were posting YOUR mum charged someone £47 for a bag of sweets

1,6 kilograms!!

Wow. That's a lot.