Chocolates from the reject shop
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (325759)
Rockingham, Australia
July 25, 2016 7:36pm CST
I wrote recently about receiving a Christmas tin of chocolates as a prize. This was at a Christmas in July dinner. Everyone at our table was given a tin which was a lovely surprise so we had two to bring home. When I opened them later, there were 6 chocolates in each tin, and the six were sealed in a cellophane packet. I have put all the chocolates into one tin and could fit another six without any trouble.
I am not complaining about only getting six chocolates but I think it is a rip-off and very wrong of the manufacturer to put so few items in a tin which would hold a lot more. It If I were to buy a tin of anything, I would expect it to be somewhere near full. I would be embarrassed to give this as a gift, have the recipient open it in front of me and find that it wasn't even half full.
I went looking on the tin to see where it came from. They are Greek chocolates, packed in China in a 'made in China' tin. There is an address in the Eastern states (of Australia) and a website, the name of which explains all. It's dubdubetc therejectshop. It will make me wary when buying tinned gifts in future.
Edited later: The chocolates aren't very nice! 
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
26 Jul 16
'Made in China' has now be synonymous to sub-par products.
Sad but true.
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@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
26 Jul 16
@JudyEv never really had any good experience with anything made in China. Everything is a knock-off
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Jul 16
@allen0187 Australia does quite a bit of trade with China now. When it first started in a big way the tools were really good - and cheap - but now it is a gamble whether they'll be good or shoddy. And one new hospital here has now found asbestos in some ceiling panels from China.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
7 Sep 16
This reminds me of my experience in Melbourne. There were heavily discounted chocolates and I picked some - giant sized Toblerone. I went to the cash counter and casually looked at the expiry date and I got a shock as they were way passed that date. I places the chocolates back and no wonder they were being sold at such low rates.
But I thought time barred chocolates are never kept for sale.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
7 Sep 16
@JudyEv When I mentioned this to a niece of mine who is settled in Australia she said I should have bought them as chocolates do not turn bad with their expiry date 
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Sep 16
@allknowing Eventually they go a bit rancid. The ones I had were definitely not nice. I'd be careful in future about buying out-of-date chocolate. It depends how far out of date too.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
26 Jul 16
when cocoa is that far down the ingredient lists, and it lists the things IN that chocolate I have no doubt they were nasty
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
27 Jul 16
@JudyEv lol, that's the first thing I checked when you said they werent good
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Jul 16
@Jessicalynnt We're having guests on Saturday but I don't even want to offer them around then.
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
26 Jul 16
At first, I thought you meant that there was a reject store where you could go get good deals on candy!
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@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
26 Jul 16
I would not buy anything to eat packed in China. Sadly, kitchen appliances and gadgets are all made in China now. Less expensive probably, but poorly made.
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@marguicha (215405)
• Chile
26 Jul 16
@JudyEv I think that the material is bad (iron?).
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Jul 16
@marguicha Probably. Now they have goods coming in here regularly they have stopped being so careful about the quality.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
8 Sep 16
Before tins of chocolates used to be quite full as well and now they only put that amount in some of them would be a bit of a let down for me too.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Sep 16
I thought it was very bad but of course it's too late once you've bought them and found out.
@silvermist (19702)
• India
26 Jul 16
@JudyEv I have never heard of Greek chocolates.I am thinking about what you said about giving such half filled tins of chocolates as gifts.We would never know.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Jul 16
This didn't actually taste very nice unfortunately.
@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
26 Jul 16
I get you.. That's how little the manufacturers think of their customers .. It's a joke ..that's why I don't buy those tinned chocolates or butter cookies ..
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
26 Jul 16
sadly that seems to be the case with schtuff from china :( poor quality, many that'd be illegal to e'en sell here if'n the government took the time to analyze the ingredients....which they don't seem to do.
yepperz, i'd be horrified to give someone such's a gift.
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in Afrikaans we have a saying - 'goedkoop is duurkoop' meaning is you settle to buy something cheap you will land up paying more in the long run!
@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
26 Jul 16
When buying in groceries, I also read the labels where it was made. We know what places to avoid.
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@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Jul 16
I haven't tried Greek chocolates so might go and do that now.
@JudyEv (325759)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Jul 16
You need to be very careful if you buy things made in China. Some stuff is okay but a lot of it is very shoddy.
