Amazon should reimburse me right?

[TheBlueKoala]

Ordered protein bars (16). Came yesterday. Best before limit date 03.2026. Seriously? So in a couple of weeks. Tried to return but they wouldn't have it- since it's "food" you can't return- safety reasons I get this. But shouldn't they atleast reimburse me- I mean I bought these to have for atleast 4 months.

YANBU - Ofcourse you should be reimbursed!

YABU- Just hurry up and eat them all before March.

Eggs are fine for ages too. And if you are in a shop, you can check the dates yourself.

YABU. Amazon CS's default position is always to refund cheeky customers like this, but ultimately the bars were in date and even going beyond that would have been fine. I've got protein bars/ energy gels which are well out of date but they are still absolutely fine to use.

What is going to happen now is that the bars will just get wasted, which I think is the worst thing out of all of it just because OP is hung up about what is a pretty arbitary date.

You probably got them cheap because if the short bb date. They'll be fine for ages yet.

Oh don’t be so pedantic.
The date says the end of March, of course OP can eat them after then. My point was more that there is still TWO WHOLE MONTHS in which to eat them if OP is worried about the date and them not tasting as good.

No, not a leap. It's being entitled and applying your own rules.

Errr well surely you realise that some of us sometimes forget to check the date, despite our best intentions?

The best before date on eggs can be up to 28 days after the eggs were laid, so if they are only 2 days before their best before date they may be nearly 4 weeks old.

Sounds like you wanted a freebie tbh. You saw the short dates and ran with it.
Absolutely ridiculous

I wanted to return the product but it was refused hence my ranting on MN. It was @Plumbernightmare who told me how to go about it. I had an Amazon account for 10 years and this will be my first "freebie" as you say. Normally I will return the product and change it but you can't with food stuff.

I will check out from this thread now because tiresome posters have been quite offensive saying I'm a scammer, entitled, wanting a freebie etc when all I wanted is to return the product and be reimbursed.

Thank you to those who have commented nicely- even if the majority if you thought I was unreasonable- it's noted😉

And there is still nothing wrong with them. Unless you want poached eggs or meringue. The egg whites go more liquidy the older the egg is. Lesson hard learned 😂

You are joking right???
03/26 is end of March!! Surely you can eat 16 bars before then?

You won’t even eat them 8 weeks before they’re out of date?

That's not what I meant.
I meant you're being daft because the bars are good until the end of March, which is weeks away.

I have plenty of phobias of my own. Many irrational and I'm working on this.

How long are they supposed to be kept for? I'm wondering what the preservative is. Presumably these are marketed as "healthy" so it probably isn't sugar.
My thought is that you might be better off avoiding them. They're probably UPF, as most products of that ilk are.

No, there's exceptions to the distance selling rule, mainly for health reasons. So food is exempted because of short shelf life and because it could have been tampered with. You can't return earrings because you might have worn them and then pass on infection, etc

If you won't eat them - can you take them to a food bank rather than them going in the bin please?

It's not pedantic. Best before dates are arbitrary and should be got rid of. They don't help people like the OP with phobias because they induce needless worry.

Here in France they've mostly done away with them, telling people to use their senses instead.

I suspect you and I ordered the same ones from Amazon as it happened to us too. And it’s not something we would eat everyday, more like once a week. We were disappointed because usually a chocolate bar has about 6 months on it and these bars are not cheap. We have ended up eating some after the date of expiry and they’re fine but you shouldn’t have to. I think that they should have been listed as short date items.

Or you could say that it’s weird your friend was watching guests on her security camera without any actual reason to do so! WTF, you cannot condone that? You have a right to privacy when staying in someone’s property, the cameras should be for when something has gone wrong so that you can see what happened IF completely necessary or a dispute occurs but not just to be looked at as standard, in real time 🤮

This.

Commercial protein bars are UPF, never mind references to ‘natural’ ingredients and ‘healthy’. The latter is a very woolly term and sugar, in the strictest sense, is a natural substance.

If you don’t have access to cooking facilities after your workout, just eat a boiled egg, a handful of nuts and an apple or a banana.

Are you unaware that a large amount of the stuff on Amazon is being sold by much smaller retailers using Amazon as a shopfront?

You have very likely deprived a small trader of income, completely unreasonably.

How dare you only want 1 bar a week? Be a complete fat bastard and have one every day. With a glass of wine and a line of coke.

2 months isn't short dated...

Ok.

If they don’t have a day as well, that means they don’t go out until wind of March. And is it Best Before or Use By? If best before they will last for months. Though yes, it is a bit bad of Amazon