Husband brought Weatbix this week from Woolworths, not a bargain

hsk on 08/04/2013 - 08:03

Partner was so pleased with himself when he came home on Friday with 3 packets of weetbix and said they were only $1 for each box, great I thought what a bargain. On the weekend I checked the docket to see he had paid $4.60 each box, and asked him how come. He said there was a huge sign on the side of a pallet of weetbix boxes in our local woolworths and it said $1 per box, I just went onto the Woolworths site and saw this.
http://www.woolworths.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/Website/Woolwor…
Wonder what is the chances of taking it all back as I am not happy with $4.60 per box. Not a deal.

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    • Yanoflies on 12/04/2013 - 17:59

      Just buy your chicken when it drops 1/2 price at around 11 ish? Not sure what time they start.

      I only eat BBQ chicken at night now … lol.

  • [Deactivated] on 08/04/2013 - 19:02
    +3

    I don't deal with this nonsense as I rarely go to Coles & Woolworths. I suggest you do the same.

    The ACCC is a useless organisation is Australia. How they allow a product to be advertised for $1 with fine print is nothing short of a scam.

  • RockyRaccoon on 08/04/2013 - 19:45
    +3

    Save money and your kids health - get them Oats (Home brand = $1.05c) and make porridge, everything solved….

    • Macgyver on 08/04/2013 - 22:08

      Whats wrong with weat bix?

      • StewBalls on 08/04/2013 - 22:18

        Nothing IMHO, we alternate Weet-bix & rolled oats so we don't get sick of either! :)

        Truth be told, like greenpossum says, we actually buy either Aldi or other generic 'weet-bix', they all taste the same to me! ;)

        • strangeloops66 on 08/04/2013 - 23:10
          +2

          It's pretty hard to mess up the recipe for cardboard :)

        • [Deactivated] on 08/04/2013 - 23:18

          Growing up many moons ago I always preferred weet-bix over vitabrits. vitabrits just weren't the same & were far less filling (i.e. I could eat far more vitabrits, than weet-bix).

        • strangeloops66 on 09/04/2013 - 02:16
          +1

          Yes, ours was a Weet-Bix house, despite our Protestant distrust of the SDA Church (which owns Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company).

          SCT a.k.a StewBalls, you may be interested to know that Coles Smart Buy, ALDI Wheat Biscuits and IGA Wheat Biscuits are all made by Sanitarium.

        • StewBalls on 09/04/2013 - 06:43
          +2

          Thanks Dr Naughty; like many generics, I thought they might be…despite the colours, the packaging feels the same. I was also fairly confident nobody is gonna tool-up a new factory just to make a weet-bix clone! :)

        • strangeloops66 on 10/04/2013 - 01:06

          I don't tool-up for Weet-Bix, that's for sure!

  • ilostnemo on 08/04/2013 - 20:26
    +1

    He made a meal of that.

  • retiredfeline on 08/04/2013 - 20:33
    +2

    And it's not even such a big discount. Aldi's Wheat Biscuits are $2.89 for 1.12kg IIRC. Ok call it $3. When I first bought Aldi's WB, they tasted pretty much the same as Weetbix. I fancy that I saw Sanitarium on one of the packing boxes one day, that may have been used by accident by Sanitarium, so I'm surmising it's made to the same spec for Aldi. So that's a saving of $2 on $100 = 2%. Fooey. Woolies probably make that back on the stuff you buy to reach $100.

  • JR63 on 08/04/2013 - 20:47

    The store I work at (Woolworths) refunds anything as long as you have proof of purchase, or if it's under $15 (even without proof of purchase). Over $15 it goes onto a returns card and ID is entered into the system.
    It varies from store to store however. But I wouldn't think you'd have too much of a problem refunding it.

    • c64 on 11/04/2013 - 20:04
      1. buy item on special
      2. wait till special is over
      3. refund without docket at full price
      4. …
      5. profit ?
  • AssociatedTal_Shiar @ Woolworths on 09/04/2013 - 02:36

    im sure if you explained that it was a impulse purchase based on being confused from the signage, you'd have no problems. I have seen some confusion over a similar offer..

    • MildMax on 10/04/2013 - 09:36
      -1

      You've seen the confusion before because Woolies makes similar offers all the time.

      Woolies treats customers as "marks" in a con game. Sure, there will be ready apologies if complaints are made - but Woolies will keep the extra money from those that were tricked.

  • abc on 09/04/2013 - 11:45
    +1

    The other condition is that they were $1 per box for every $100 spent. So even if you had spent $100 you would have only paid $1 for one of them and full price for the other two ;-)

  • peterlong1952 on 09/04/2013 - 13:40
    +7

    Keep him away from the Uncle Toby's Muesli Bars this week. Similar deal $2 with every $100 spend.

  • lameturd on 09/04/2013 - 20:49

    I think you're all insane

    • StewBalls on 09/04/2013 - 20:56
      +2

      Tell us all something we don't already know…

    • strangeloops66 on 10/04/2013 - 00:59
      +4

      Insane in da membrane (Insane in da brain) Insane in da membrane (Insane in da brain) Insane in da membrane (Crazy insane, got no brain) Insane in da membrane (Insane in da brain)

      Cypress Hill - "Insane in the Brain"

  • daleyboy79 on 10/04/2013 - 08:24
    +2

    While I think the meaning is fairly clear in this case … i still think its dodgy and there is no doubt they will catch people out with it. What would i do in this case? Fill a trolley with weetbix, take it to the counter, when they start scanning it for more than a $1 each make a scene then storm out of the store leaving all the boxes at the checkout hehe ;)

    • cloudy on 10/04/2013 - 21:37

      You should do that as a daily YouTube video for oz bargain. Drive to every safe way and do it.

  • hsk on 10/04/2013 - 10:04
    +3

    thanks guys, weatbix returned for a refund. Will be more careful with their specials in future.

    • cloudy on 10/04/2013 - 21:35

      Just read the size 35 bolded font line next time.

  • Finde on 10/04/2013 - 19:53

    I work at Safeway and the signs are always very clear. It's just a matter of the customers not reading them.
    And they will in most cases refund.
    Most cases, not all. Such as not long ago when someone tried to refund three items without the receipt (which were the same). They were $25 each and he claimed he had bought them the day before. On checking sales and counts, we were missing three from the counts and had not sold any in the last two weeks. Naturally we didn't refund them then.
    In most cases, they will immediately refund though.

  • voteoften on 11/04/2013 - 00:38

    I bought a novelty item at woolies that was on clearance for $4.38. It came up as around $11. The lady who did the price check came back, said I was correct and said that she had two of the items available. Those two being the one I wanted and the one I left on the shelf. She said she'd give them both to me for the $4.38, as if she was cutting me a deal. I confirmed, is that $4.38 each or $4.38 for both packs. She said each. I said. "no" and that "as a matter of fact, you have to give me that first one free anyway". What cheek. Acting like she was giving me a deal.

    • Finde on 11/04/2013 - 16:20

      EDIT: delete

  • macfanboy on 11/04/2013 - 09:21

    What is the exact policy on scanning errors because several times they have scanned the wrong price (higher) and when I correct them they correct it. Should I get it for free?

  • gimme on 11/04/2013 - 10:52
    +5

    NEVER CORRECT THEM ON THE SPOT. Always PAY first then go over to CS counter.

    I love it when they make a mistake. My eyes light up like a true OSBbargainer.

    I can't remember a name to save my life but I could tell in an instant if a scanning error has been made to the cent.

    The FIRST item is FREE (Not all but sometimes the CS person may refund you for multiple items - rarely)

    My biggest win so far was 2 kilos of salmon. $60 refunded on the spot (price was only out 10 cents LOL)

    It's amazing how often this happens (probably 25% of the time for me) and how many people just don't check.

    As for the Wheatbix thing. Well yeah people can be gullible sometimes. But no harm done. Just take it back next time for a refund. Unless you have eyesight problems, there's little excuse in this day and age to keep your eyes OPEN and always check small print.

    • strangeloops66 on 11/04/2013 - 13:02

      SOBbargainer :p

    • cloudy on 12/04/2013 - 16:17

      why shop at a market/small speciality store when you can have a 25% chance of getting stuff for free huh?

  • striker5950 on 11/04/2013 - 23:36

    contact accc.. lol are people even that bothered for 12 bucks!

  • ubcool on 12/04/2013 - 18:20

    when something seems too good to be true……

  • [Deactivated] on 14/04/2013 - 00:39

    Yes, you can get
    Sanitarium Weet-Bix 1.2kg for $1 with every $100 you spend in a single transaction @ Woolworths.
    http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/98507

    Clearly that was OP's husband did not read the fine print that caused the problem.

    • cdaddy on 14/04/2013 - 07:29
      +5

      You don't say

  • scotty on 17/04/2013 - 09:57

    My wife got caught at this today as well, with this week's special ($6 24pk Quilton). She just came back from Woolies and tried to buy a few packs there, but realised the actual cost at checkout. The checkout person said that many had similar shock last week with the Weebix as well.

    While the "with every $100 you spend in a single transaction" is quite clear on the first page of the catalogue, the fine print of "one $6 Quilton 24pk for every $100" is quite hard to read at the bottom of the 3rd page, as my wife was trying to purchase multiple packs to get over $100. We don't receive paper catalogues in our household and fine print on their online catalogue is basically unreadable.

    • _Bruce_ on 17/04/2013 - 10:00

      This raises a related question - why are online catalogues all so terrible? Significant effort is spend on the design and presentation of the dead tree, then digital forms are either ignored entirely or bad quality, terrible interface and almost never searchable.

      • scotty on 17/04/2013 - 10:37

        Woolworth's online catalogue is powered by smedia — one giant Flash showing low resolution image of the catalogue. I much prefer Lasoo / Salmet's implementation where each product has its own page with readable text.

        In Woolies' case for example, there's an asterisk next to "in a single transaction*" since it's the "web", I am expecting to just click on the asterisk to take me to the fine print. Nope. I just get to see a bigger asterisk as it rooms in. It's difficult to find the related fine print, and by the time you find it it's almost unreadable due to low resolution image.

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