Assume you buy a brand new, 4-door sedan, but when you take delivery of the car, you find that one of the doors doesn’t have hinges or handles, so it is useless. What will you do?
Return it to the dealer and demand your money back?
Complain to the government?
File a class-action lawsuit when you discover that all the 4-door sedans of this brand have the same problem?
Assume you buy a dozen packages of microwavable popcorn, and when you nuke the bags you find that all of them leave about 20% of the kernels unpopped?
Same solutions?
Or you buy a 1 ounce antiperspirant, later to realize that the last quarter ounce is unusable because it is buried in a plastic dish dispenser.
That’s what I discovered, as you can see in the photo.
That cup-like object in the lower right is a substitute for a flat plate to support the cake of deodorant, but it has another function.
It forces you to buy another package, when there is still plenty of cake left.
So technically, I guess I probably did receive a 1 ounce cake, as described, but less than one ounce was usable.
Now, it is possible that there is some way to use that last quarter ounce.
Or the folks from Thriving Brands LLC, the manufacturer of Right Guard, might have put more than enough extra deodorant bar into the package, so you can use what you paid for.
But I’m guessing not.
The point is, we as consumers repeatedly get cheated, not necessarily because manufacturers don’t provide what we pay for, but because we can’t use it all, so we are forced to buy more, or more often, than we should.
It’s a subtle form of cheating. The manufacturer can claim he supplied what the contents say, even though you aren’t able to use it all.
The spray can that doesn’t quite empty, the instant glue that hardens before you can use it all, the squeeze bottle that doesn’t release all the catsup — the list is endless.
All these things require us to purchase more because we don’t get all we paid for.
If you decide to file a class-action suit, I’ll give you the name and address of my favorite charity you can include as a claimant.
You’d be doing good by doing good.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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