[FAKE DEAL] FREE Sample of Ultra-Gourmet Swiss Chocolate

LSakuraChan on 19/04/2011 - 00:00
Last edited 20/04/2011 - 10:35 by 1 other user

Mod: This appears to be a fake company and thus a fake deal. Link removed, deal kept for discussion purposes

What could be better than rich, luxurious, creamy all-natural chocolate? Free rich, luxurious, creamy all-natural chocolate, of course!

Fill in the form below and we'll ship you a free sample of our ultra-gourmet Swiss chocolate:

This offer is specifically for Australia and New Zealand.

You should be receiving your sample of chocolate in 4-6 weeks, and possibly much sooner.

May contain traces of nuts. None of it is safe for persons with allergies.

NOT MADE IN CHINA.

General Discussion

Comments

  • randoom on 19/04/2011 - 00:06
    +1

    Looks good (free) to me. Now to see how it tastes when it comes through.

  • mxyzptik on 19/04/2011 - 00:08
    +1

    Very nice, thank you.

  • issh on 19/04/2011 - 00:09
    +1

    That's awesome

    Gimi Chocolate, Inc.
    1603 Farnam Street
    Omaha, NE
    United States
    68102-2101

    From the states

  • compingqueen on 19/04/2011 - 00:11
    +3

    I hope this arrives before I go to Switzerland so that I can compare it

  • sev snape on 19/04/2011 - 00:11

    "We may use tools such as Google Analytics to process information we collect from your browser in an effort to analyze your preferences as a user of the Site and the effectiveness of the Site."

    This is safe …right?

    • Hintswen on 19/04/2011 - 00:14
      +1

      You'd be surprised how many websites are using Google analytics. I say it's safe, some people don't like Google having their data. You can block it if you have an ad blocker (you just block the Google analytics domain so the scripts won't load).

      Frankly the information Google collects and shows the webmaster is the same info the webmaster can collect anyway, so there's really no point blocking it.

      • sev snape on 19/04/2011 - 00:17
        +2

        Yeah I'd say Google probably has all my info anyway :) Thanks for the tip.

      • nulled on 19/04/2011 - 10:47

        How to block Google analytics using Adblock?

        • Hintswen on 19/04/2011 - 11:12

          If you really must, block google-analytics.com and that's all.

          Be sure to notify the webmaster of every website you go to that you hate them and don't want them knowing how many people are visiting their website.

  • A Banana4scale on 19/04/2011 - 00:12
    +1

    Vendor reliability and trustworthiness on WOT is poor. I'd be very wary of using the site. However privacy and child safety are excellent.

    WOT
    Just a precaution!

    • POWERevolution on 19/04/2011 - 00:33
      +1

      +1 to WOT poor rating….better stay away from this freebie!!!

      • voteoften on 19/04/2011 - 01:17

        I never heard of WOT, but did a WOT on Scoopon and was surprised to see their server is in Hong Kong.

        • StewBalls on 19/04/2011 - 01:19
          +4

          Yeah, if it was housed in Australia you wouldn't need to search for it; you'd just follow the angry mob waving flaming torches & pitchforks to the server! ;)

  • wiz187 on 19/04/2011 - 00:12
    +6

    Hope to enjoy this, while using my free pen:}

  • Chemiluminescence on 19/04/2011 - 00:12
    +1

    Mmmm 90%

  • MHLoppy on 19/04/2011 - 00:29
    +4

    The fine print: Limit one per household. Australia/NZ only. Offer begins April 14th 2011 and runs for a limited time. Must be 18 years of age or older.
    Our chocolate either contains nuts or may contain traces of nuts. None of it is safe for persons with allergies.

    So you can't pull a broden and submit brooden, bruden, brodeen, brodun, brodan and broden snr under the same address.. that said you could probably do a whole street then wait for the postman :P

  • z00m on 19/04/2011 - 00:37
    +7

    This is great but do you guys remember that sweet free pen?

  • c64 on 19/04/2011 - 00:42

    do they even sell products in australia? why are they giving out free samples?

    • mxyzptik on 19/04/2011 - 00:46

      From their website: they have only been going 2-3 years … are going for growth (say 840% last year) … and private investors …. doing free samples US, Canada, UK, here … and want to do an IPO within the next 12 months or so.

      "Swiss" chocolate made in Nebraska.

  • ur2dads on 19/04/2011 - 00:49
    +3

    Omg, OzBargain has been simply delivering in the last 12 hours.

    • A Banana4scale on 19/04/2011 - 00:53
      +2

      and most of them first posts as well.
      I have suddenly noticed an influx of first posts, getting very good acceptance within Ozbargainers!

  • the_pharmacist on 19/04/2011 - 01:02
    +2

    probably just one piece of chocolate in the mail that's already melted during the postman's adventure

  • mxyzptik on 19/04/2011 - 01:18

    "At the beginning of 2009, a middle-class Swiss-American named Leon Gerr found himself at a crossroads. He was recently made redundant … and no longer had his cushy financial office job. Nobody was hiring, and he had a family to support. His young son Lukas, munching on a slice of his father's celebrated Christmas chocolate, asked innocently, "Why don't you sell your chocolate? It's delicious!"

    Within a year he had registered himself as a company, acquired a small facility with top-of-the-line equipment to produce his famous better-than-ever chocolate, and was ready to start selling. What started as a crazy pipe dream turned into a viable business, and today Mr. Gerr works as CEO of a small but growing company in the gourmet chocolate making field."

    We are not like "Cadbury … Nestle" who "produce high-sugar, low-nutrition junk food that is contributing to the epidemic of obesity."

    • StewBalls on 19/04/2011 - 02:22
      +1

      We are not like "Cadbury … Nestle" who "produce high-sugar, low-nutrition junk food that is contributing to the epidemic of obesity."

      Ok, call me a chocolate n00b, but how do they make milk chocolate that is any less sugary or fatty than competitors yet still with comparable flavour/texture???

      Dark choc I can understand, but if they have milk choc products then I call shenanigans on that boast! ;)

      • Kkuba on 19/04/2011 - 12:55
        +2

        They probably make it out of expensive ingredients, to justify an expensive price of the product, which then means that it is out of reach for a lot of consumers, a lot of the time, which means it is not bought on a regular basis, which means it does not significantly contribute to the epidemic…

        …maybe? lol

  • notstingey on 19/04/2011 - 01:51
    +5

    Gimme Gimi chocolate. I'm going to write a thankyou letter with my new pen.

    • c64 on 21/04/2011 - 21:42

      lol you got double scammed :)

  • Adamiam on 19/04/2011 - 02:43

    Gotta love the free stuff.

  • bluesuby09 on 19/04/2011 - 07:37

    6-8 weeks for delivery. Thank goodness it's no longer 40 deg!! Chocolate is always better when it's free :)

  • young_dazza on 19/04/2011 - 07:38

    I love gourmet food.
    Ultra-gourmet sounds even better than gourmet, so it must be good, right?

  • SupeNintendoChalmers on 19/04/2011 - 08:38
    +4

    'NOT MADE IN CHINA'

    Lol, win

  • Candour on 19/04/2011 - 08:56
    +3

    the choc is good
    but another link for lip gloss asks you to buy other offers so be careful!

    • jacklynhydejr on 19/04/2011 - 09:45
      +1

      Yeah, makes you wonder about the first offer when such a pop-up follows!

    • brendun on 19/04/2011 - 10:18
      +1

      I was filling out that lip gloss thing for the gf and then realise I got sucked into this other thing. Have contacted them to unsubscribe.

    • odysseus on 19/04/2011 - 19:40

      Had similar thoughts when I got there. Wish I'd known first so negging this so others can make up their own mind (I wouldn't have filled mine out had I known).

  • daydream on 19/04/2011 - 12:49
    +2

    There appears to be no chocolate company at their listed address when I Googled it . See here and here also. They are making free offers available around the world… Hmmm.

    • retiredfeline on 19/04/2011 - 13:31

      This looks very dodgy, I'm glad I didn't join in.

    • MHLoppy on 19/04/2011 - 21:17

      so no free chocolate then.. sadface :<
      thanks anyway sakura, vote retracted

    • SabrinaFu on 19/04/2011 - 23:14
      +1

      that's odd, when i searched "ultra-gourmet chocolate" on google, their website was a search result (guess which one was the first result? This very same ozbargain deal.). Very weird O.o

      • Ughhh on 19/04/2011 - 23:34
        +1

        But just cause the company shows up on google search, doesnt mean its not a fake company. (Im not saying it is or its not btw)

  • POWERevolution on 19/04/2011 - 13:04
    +1

    I preferred these chocs

    • A Banana4scale on 19/04/2011 - 13:55

      Nom nom nom

      those chocs look delicious ;)

  • beccy_babe on 19/04/2011 - 13:41

    Free chocolate, always tastes better when its free!!!
    Thanks for the freebie!

  • Apostle0748 on 19/04/2011 - 14:01

    Well if anyone wants to call the owner of the domain:

    Name: Stephanie Foster
    Ph #: (909) 570-9115 (American)

  • kyoba on 19/04/2011 - 14:38

    FYI - I have Web of Trust firefox plugin and it's currently reporting that site as Untrustworthy

    • anthony on 19/04/2011 - 18:26

      I have seen them report large trustworthy sites as untrustworthy before so i do not think they are they good.

      • daydream on 19/04/2011 - 22:39

        WOT reflects user ratings so it's only as good as the community (A bit like Ozbargain!). A worthy tool nonetheless especially for those prone to clicking before thinking/checking.

  • SabrinaFu on 19/04/2011 - 23:15

    "+ve", "+ve", oh, and "+ve"!!

  • mxyzptik on 20/04/2011 - 09:33

    This is a SCAM.

    Apart from "free pen" promoters, who else shows their contact address as: " questions [at] gimichocolate [dot] com "!

    • MHLoppy on 20/04/2011 - 09:57
      +1

      I have subscription emails ;)

  • scotty on 20/04/2011 - 10:14
    +3

    Saw this comment on SlickDeals. I think it is possibly a scam. Still investigating.

    • anthony on 20/04/2011 - 10:23

      At the very least i think the link to the gimi chocolate website should be removed so that people cannot sign up.

      • neil on 20/04/2011 - 10:36

        Have removed link and put warning up the top.

    • mxyzptik on 20/04/2011 - 10:28

      "All of our chocolate comes with our informational booklet that explains why our fair-trade cocoa and Swedish traditions make for the perfect chocolate."

      Swedish???!!! There's always at least one slip :)

      http://www.gimichocolate.com/shop/

      • anthony on 20/04/2011 - 10:41
        +1

        "we conch our chocolate for 3 full days" - and if anyone can conch chocolate I'll eat the wrapping.

        You better start eating.

        Conching is where the chocolate is rolled between a roller and a hard surface.
        This breaks up the coco bean grounds and gives a smoother chocolate.

        The longer the process lasts the smoother and less gritty the chocolate is.

        http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Chocolate…

        "All of our chocolate comes with our informational booklet that explains why our fair-trade cocoa and Swedish traditions make for the perfect chocolate."
        Swedish???!!! There's always at least one slip :)

        Swedish is a language but i think in common English there is nothing wrong with saying "Swedish traditions"
        You can walk into a massage therapist and order a Swedish massage.

        This does not change that i think the deal is fake.
        Just correcting mxyzptik :)

        • mxyzptik on 20/04/2011 - 11:36

          thanks anthony, i quickly realised my mistake and hence edited my post (hoping no-one had noticed) … but thanks to you, I guess I'd better start eating … :)

          …. where can I get some traditional Swedish chocolate?

          … having said that the Gimi site now seems to be slowly disintegrating :)

        • anthony on 20/04/2011 - 17:59

          … having said that the Gimi site now seems to be slowly disintegrating :)

          I can not see anything which has changed on their site yet

        • mxyzptik on 20/04/2011 - 21:10

          no, your right (again), I jhad just noticed lots of words in the wrong place, overuse of capitals & other grammatical errors which I hadn't noticed before.

        • anthony on 20/04/2011 - 21:59

          Ah, i thought you meant that pages were missing/the site was starting to shut down.

        • mxyzptik on 20/04/2011 - 22:52

          actually I just had another look, and the site appears now exactly as it was last night … but at the time I thought it might be 'disintegrating' on some of the pages there were words out of place, all over the place - but now they are back where they were (my mind wasn't deceiving me after all).

        • clandestino on 20/04/2011 - 23:17
          +1

          Someone picks up on an error (Swedish instead of swiss) - and you are arguing against it? And your argument is basically "there's nothing technically wrong with that combination of two words"????!!!

          I reckon you need to get a replacement brain.

        • A Banana4scale on 20/04/2011 - 23:35
          +3

          @clandestino
          post a bargain on the replacement brain and we will all jump on it!

    • compingqueen on 20/04/2011 - 16:52

      check out the very first post on their Twitter account: 'Gimi Gourmet Japanese Chocolate is now on Twitter! Tweeters with a sweet tooth rejoice!'
      huh?

  • daydream on 20/04/2011 - 12:16

    Might be entering the 2.0 era of hoaxsters (ie, they now have spell checkers and are spending $40 for a website) ;-) If people haven't honed their spidey-senses already from years of spam emails and junk urban myth forwards from friends/colleagues it's time to get thinking…

    • mxyzptik on 20/04/2011 - 12:35

      I agree … these guys needed to be a little more consistent:

      When talking about "Health Responsibility":

      "As a chocolate company, one might assume that we fit into the same category as companies like Cadbury or Nestle, companies that produce high-sugar, low-nutrition junk food that is contributing to the epidemic of obesity in this country. We are proud to be a much healthier alternative."

      but when talking to "Investors":

      "Our product is, however, still appealing to junk food cravers, which means we can capture both demographics."

      :)

      • daydream on 20/04/2011 - 13:50
        +1

        They'll fix that when they reach the 3.0 level of hoax/scam industry evolution ;-)

  • nubzy on 20/04/2011 - 17:10

    I applied for this and they have my adress. is that ok??

    • issh on 20/04/2011 - 17:22
      +2

      they'll probably sell our info to companies to advertised and spam our inbox
      no joke by the way, this actually happens in the real world

      • Xanthorrhoea semipl… on 20/04/2011 - 17:34
        +2

        On The Bright Side: Free Paper and Envelopes :)

        • boomerpro on 18/09/2013 - 23:11

          that's the ozbargain spirit!

    • anthony on 20/04/2011 - 17:58

      I can not think of anything they will do with your address as it is already published on-line and in the phone book.

  • Candour on 20/04/2011 - 17:38
    +1

    I think there is a government task force called spam acma which investigates and acts on these if they are reported.
    [email protected]
    maybe these should be automatically sent so they can be blacklisted.

  • nubzy on 20/04/2011 - 22:31

    That might explain why some stupid interior design college in queensland keeps sending me mail asking me to take on a scholarship course with them. Probably one of the bogus freebies on here..

  • ubcool on 22/04/2011 - 07:55
    +1

    when as anyone received chocolate in the post lol not really a great way to promote your gourmet chocolate when its all warped and melted, of course its a scam. quite a clever one aswell, who doesnt want free chocolate???

    • daydream on 22/04/2011 - 14:11

      The govt might have to resort to offering free chocolate for their next election campaign… ;-)

      • Xanthorrhoea semipl… on 22/04/2011 - 15:10

        Which one, ALP, Lib, Green, Independent or National?

        Might as well give everyone free electric cars to promote their 'Cleaner Energy' campaigns. (T&C: Electricity not provided). LOL

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