"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.

It's ridiculous she was refunded. People are so stupid and entitled nowadays.

This is the same place we went to but there were no prices up and it was in a very dimly lit room with no customer scales. We had less per bag than he did but we had x2 of them 😫 the sweets themselves barely covered the bottom of the bag. We sucked it up but never again.

If you look at picture of the sweets in the article you will notice that the sweets come to the bottom of the logo. Look at the picture of the nurse holding the bag and see how many sweets there must have been in the bag to get that far up.

Surely it’d need to cost £1.25 per 100g? I wouldn’t pay more than that for cheap processed sugar. Obviously I wouldn’t shop at one of their stalls.

Apologies, you’re right. I wouldn’t either but clearly she was ok with the price, just careless with the amount.

Some of these replies are very snobby. Whether it's fudge at Winter Wonderland, or artisan nougat in an Italian market, it's easy to get ripped off, as most of us assume the price will be a wee bit high, but not ridiculously so.

These vendors rely on the fact that most people buy goods according to the absolute price of the item and don't actually know what 100g feels like to hold. It's also hard to gauge the mass; 100g of marshmallows feels different to 100g of cheese, due to density differences.

There's also the fact that they have been chosen from multiple containers and then bagged, so it's a pain in the ass and a hygiene issue to put them back, so customers feel compelled to go through with the purchase.

I don't know it's worth going to the media, more like a lesson learned.

It’s not snobby to grasp that handmade fudge costs more than cola bottles and strawberry laces.

“Aw hun that’s awful the mean lady should’ve given u the sweets for ur hungry bubz xxxxxx”

These vendors rely on the fact that most people buy goods according to the absolute price of the item and don't actually know what 100g feels like to hold. It's also hard to gauge the mass; 100g of marshmallows feels different to 100g of cheese, due to density differences

Which is why there is a scale there.

People should take some responsibility and think before they buy something. And if they don't know, then don't buy.

I often find myself working out what is better value gram for gram in supermarkets. Often the per 100g price doesn’t reflect special offers or there is inconsistent pricing across the shelf, some loo roll is priced per sheet and some per roll for example.

It is basic maths I feel like people should know roughly the cost of food. Then they wouldn’t get suckered in to stalls like this.

Who would check the price of Pick and Mix in case it was going to be £45 for two bags?
Would you pick up a bottle of milk and check the price?

It ought to be illegal to overcharge to that extent.

An ordinary label isn’t enough of a warning. The writing is too small. It would need warning posters.

They are as good as thieves.

It depends on the mass of the bag.

Fudge is expensive.

Pick and mix is expensive.

And if I was buying something that was priced per mass, I would ask myself what that might look like when I brought it.

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Hi Rhiannon from Cardiff.

I check the price when I buy anything. If I think it's too expensive, I don't buy it. I don't pick it up, open it up, take a bite, then go to pay for it and claim it's too expensive and refuse to pay.

How is it overcharging? It’s the price.

I wouldn’t check the price of milk in a regular supermarket. I would check the price of milk in circumstances where I was likely to be ripped off or where there was a captive audience, the only shop on a caravan site for example. I’ve never been to a Center Parcs but I’m willing to bet the shop there is expensive. It’s the same thing. Shops like this in events like that are going to be expensive. No one is forcing you to buy it and the price is advertised.

I really want both fudge and pick and mix now. And I have a fond memory of a friend once treating themselves in Woolworth’s by filling a pick and mix bag TO THE TOP, knowing it would be pricey, but deciding to be decadent.

Prices should be made clear if it's being charged per 100 grams , per kilogram etc

There are places who do rip people off by not clearly displaying prices.

However, if prices are clearly displayed, then customers should take responsibility.

Basically, before buying anything, take some responsibility to see what you think it will cost.

Ask yourself is it a fixed price or does it depend on how much you buy.

And at what point is the purchase non refundable - or you have to buy it in case your hands have been over it.

How is it overcharging? It’s the price

If the price is much higher than would be expected for what the item being sold is, I’d say the vendor is making what the price is too high, and I’d call that over-charging.

Having now seen the company’s response, though, and their intention to help future sweet buyers from making the same mistake, (by helping them understand just how expensive the sweets are in advance), I think they have behaved decently.

The price is what they can get away with at that venue.

Fudge is expensive.
Pick and mix is expensive.

I think it's over priced - but we live in a world where people can set prices to what they want.

I don't blame the company. There are loads of things that I think are over priced, but I am capable of working out the price.

At £2.79 per 100g is steep but fairly normal for these sort of places so she is a dick for letting her kids buy nearly 2kg of sweets. She saw the price and scales ate on offer foe parents to weigh what their kids are picking but she was too lazy to check or supervise her kids selection so her own fault really. Unfair of her to try and do a daily mail sad face and shame the company involved. She is the dick in this scenario.

No- It was Badminton horse trials , But I think they’d probably do lots of events , as we went to Hampton Court Flower Show one year and they were there, as well .

That’s not overcharging. Overcharging is if the bag is weighed, it’s £5, and the shop charges £50 – by misreading the price or not applying a deal or fat-fingeredly putting the wrong amount in a card machine.

Vendors can charge whatever they like for fudge, that’s capitalism, baby. The price wasn’t higher than expected anyway: it was there on a sign. The issue is she let her kids buy 1.6kg and never stopped to do a quick bit of arithmetic.

That’s exactly what happened by the sound of it.
Hun Army.
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