So I wrote to Tayto...

pbsuxok1znja4r

nlgbbbblth wrote:

I'd say it's a lot more than 'one' person that writes to companies regarding defective or substandard products.

Tayto TV ad slogan. Get familiar with it

Hobbes

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

So could you just open a pack of Tayo - let them go a bit stale and post it off with a well-worded letter saying they were stale when you opened them and expect a free box?

Probably not. Again might get a voucher. It depends a lot on the case.

In your example it may work once. But the company puts your name on file. They also check the serial number of packet and audit the whole box (they can tell exactly where it is) and some boxes would of had a QC check on them.

monkeyfudge

coolsmileygirl wrote:

Yeah tayto is closed now and cabury's is still there thriving

Cadbury's just laid off about 450 people. They are clearly about to bring in cheap Oompa Loompa labour.

I'm sure I once read somewhere that the average bar of chocolate contains at least 5 insect legs.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Ya im sick of them cheaping out in the insect legs as well :mad:

pbsuxok1znja4r

Mine only had four insect legs in it once :mad:

el tel

My cousin is an insurance broker who insures Tayto. They can barely get covered and so their premiums are huge. Allegedly, the Tayto Castle has some of the biggest, and presumably most well fed, rats in Ireland.

pbsuxok1znja4r

el tel wrote:

the Tayto Castle

Hahaha, that's deadly if true. I bet the yellow guy with the monocle lives there

[Edit]: not the KP peanuts guy with monocle and hat, though! He can piss right off.

Miguel_Sanchez

This one time I found a live beetle in a pack of Rancheros and I sent it back to the company and they sent me 1,000 euro and like 2 free packs of Rancheros for returning their Mascot Beetle to them alive and well. They said they'd been worried sick

True story.

wba88

Caco wrote:

Lol!

I found a strip of corrugated cardboard in a fish finger once when I was a kid. My mam sent it back to Birdseye and we heard no more about it!

sounds a bit fishy to me

i couldnt resist!

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

This one time I found a live beetle in a pack of Rancheros and I sent it back to the company and they sent me 1,000 euro and like 2 free packs of Rancheros for returning their Mascot Beetle to them alive and well. They said they'd been worried sick

True story.

why 2 packs you could buy a hell of a lot with a €1000

el tel

scouser.tommy wrote:

Hahaha, that's deadly if true. I bet the yellow guy with the monocle lives there

[Edit]: not the KP peanuts guy with monocle and hat, though! He can piss right off.

Tayto crisps are actually made in within the grounds of Tandragee Castle, Tandragee Co. Armagh. It's a proper castle with suits of armour and all that
sh1t.

JIZZLORD

el tel wrote:

Tayto crisps are actually made in within the grounds of Tandragee Castle, Tandragee Co. Armagh. It's a proper castle with suits of armour and all that
sh1t.

that's the crappy nordie taytos. they dont deserve the name.

A while back my sister and her friend decided to write a letter to cadburys with their non writing hands so it would look childish and asked could they make spagetti bolognaise lfavoured bars or something equally daft. anyway cadburys sent them out chocolate. i think she was 12 at the time.

JohnCleary

JIZZLORD wrote:

that's the crappy nordie taytos. they dont deserve the name.

A while back my sister and her friend decided to write a letter to cadburys with their non writing hands so it would look childish and asked could they make spagetti bolognaise lfavoured bars or something equally daft. anyway cadburys sent them out chocolate. i think she was 12 at the time.

Wait until they see the writing on the envelope I sent :eek:
I have very childish writing, although the letter itself was typed, and the shop where I bought it from was within an IT

Jizzlord - Can't help but notice your location(s) are the same as mine, are you following me for my green Buckfast?!

jaggeh

unce bit into a rock hard clump of crunchy nut cornflakes, almost broke a tooth. my mum sent it in to kellogs and they sent us a box of the multipacks.

Gary ITR

monkeyfudge wrote:

Cadbury's just laid off about 450 people. They are clearly about to bring in cheap Oompa Loompa labour.

Nobody has been laid off

monkeyfudge

Onkle51 wrote:

Nobody has been laid off

It's on the cards though.

Gary ITR

monkeyfudge wrote:

It's on the cards though.

It is, but for all of the right reasons. It'll be done over a few years and most of the redundancies will be voluntary and natural wastage anyway

Dyr

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

This one time I found a live beetle in a pack of Rancheros and I sent it back to the company and they sent me 1,000 euro and like 2 free packs of Rancheros for returning their Mascot Beetle to them alive and well. They said they'd been worried sick

True story.

i once sent a live insect that i found in a packet of breakfast cereal back to the manufacturer. they sent me back a frosty (lol) letter making reference to the little fella like "we have recieved the insect (that was still alive on delivery) which you claim was in your ricey flakes " I dont think they believed me :mad:

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Free insects, typicall big companies always cheaping out on the free toys in cerial boxes. FFS!

netwhizkid

I have done this three times,

Firstly I got a pack of Salt & Vinegar which was all black spots and Tayto sent me a Pocket Game which was on promotion with them for free.

The Second Time I got a packet of Mighty Munch with what appeared to Rat Faeces in the Bag, (Believe me I didn't eat them) I sent it back with crisps and packet & receipt, About two weeks later I received an apoligetic letter and €22 worth of postal orders in denominations of €5 x 4 and €2 x 1.

The third Time I got a 6 pack of Mighty munch and they were all unsealed so I complained and got back a €5 postal order.

JohnCleary

I checked my mail today (Mail just goes as far as the main office, up to me to collect it) and a letter from Tayto was there.

An apology, stating that it was an 'isolated' incident and that the Quality Control is very strict at Tayto.

Oh, and a €5 Dunnes Stores (Random?!) voucher!

I'm happy

Dave!

JohnCleary wrote:

Oh, and a €5 Dunnes Stores (Random?!) voucher!

Spend it wisely, my friend. I hear King are nicer than Tayto anyway.

FranknFurter

Ruu wrote:

Too right, Americans must not like their cheese 'n onion crisps a'tall. Boxes regularly shipped over from teh mammeh for me.

Ahh, but you have Reese's ...........*drool

B

Funkstard

When I was 10 or so I bought a Dairy Milk and a Golden Crisp. I switched the wrappers and said my dairy milk contained golden crisp-ey bits, whilst there was a distinct lack of crispy bits in my golden crisp. I sent them both back in the same envelope, along with a letter explaining my ridiculously unplausible situation.

Even though it was obviously a scam, they sent me out a few big bars of dairy milk a few weeks later. Can't believe they didn't tell me to politely **** off

JohnCleary

I would have sooo preferred if there was a big box of Tayto waiting for me, but alas, just a voucher

Oh well, probably better for the heart, im gonna go buy beer with this voucher

free2fly

murfie wrote:

ugh, all this talk of Tayto and cadburys chocolate!! i am dying for both, damn american brands are not the same!

This place has all kinds of Irish foods. They're in NY and they deliver. I've bought stuff from them before and it comes well packaged. http://www.foodireland.com/

I complained to Aer Lingus once because I had a 13 hour delay. They send me a voucher for $75.

danniemcq

is anyone else pi$$ed with the changing of the bag? tempted to complain to them bout that

Famous_Séamus

Look at this list...we should all be complaining.

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html

Supposedly doesnt do us ay harm but.....

rugbug86

yea, ruu, i'd take reeses and proper peanut butter over C&O crippies.

snappieT

You can get Reese's here now. Spar on Nassau Street for one.

Mountain Dew... that's the stuff I need right now.

zuutroy

snappieT wrote:

You can get Reese's here now. Spar on Nassau Street for one.

Mountain Dew... that's the stuff I need right now.

Recipe for mountain dew. one part water, 12 parts sugar, one part green stuff. There ya go....!