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MrCodeDude

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At my university, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, your meal plan gets you a certain number of meals/week along with a certain number of spendable dollars "Plus Dollars" that you can use pretty much all around campus (except the bookstore).

Everyone always ends up with an excess of these "Plus Dollars" at the end of a year and they expire if you don't use them after the Spring Quarter. So I had about 300 Plus Dollars that I had to spend (or else they would go to waste) my last weekend at Poly. So I went to the Campus Market and bought $300 of over-priced items (probably have a retail value of $100 or less). Among the items I bought, were 10 rolls/packs of Mentos.

Today, while having one of the packs (I just finished unpacking, procrastination++), I noticed that the Nutrition Facts were not in English and at the end off the roll it says, "For Sale in Indonesia Only."

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I obviously have never been to Indonesia and bought these in the United States. Since I bought these at a more than average price ($1.25 / roll - I told you, over-priced), I am pissed that these weren't even supposed to be sold in America.

Who should I call? Cal Poly is profiting on the sale of goods not meant to be sold within the United States. I wouldn't really care, except they've shafted me on a lot of things and I want 1. my money back and 2. real, american candy. (Plus, these Indonesian ones taste stale, despite the marking of what appears to be good until December 2007).

I've already emailed Mentos, using their "Contact Us" form, is there anyone else I should contact before contacting Cal Poly? I bought these two weeks ago, so maybe just one box was bad or maybe the entire shipment? I smell international scandal!
 
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Ionizer86

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Wow, that's pretty hilarous. Is it a big deal though? Isn't it better that they have Indonesian Methos than no Menthos at all?

In fact, it's kind of bad that candy isn't marked up at my school. Menthos and a lot of other candies are just 70 cents, which leads me to spending a lot of my excess food currency on these sweets instead of buying things that I know are marked up more heavily.
 
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RichardE

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Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
At my university, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, your meal plan gets you a certain number of meals/week along with a certain number of spendable dollars "Plus Dollars" that you can use pretty much all around campus (except the bookstore).

Everyone always ends up with an excess of these "Plus Dollars" at the end of a year and they expire if you don't use them after the Spring Quarter. So I had about 300 Plus Dollars that I had to spend (or else they would go to waste) my last weekend at Poly. So I went to the Campus Market and bought $300 of over-priced items (probably have a retail value of $100 or less). Among the items I bought, were 10 rolls/packs of Mentos.

Today, while having one of the packs (I just finished unpacking, procrastination++), I noticed that the Nutrition Facts were not in English and at the end off the roll it says, "For Sale in Indonesia Only."

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I obviously have never been to Indonesia and bought these in the United States. Since I bought these at a more than average price ($1.25 / roll - I told you, over-priced), I am pissed that these weren't even supposed to be sold in Indonesia.

Who should I call? Cal Poly is profiting on the sale of goods not meant to be sold within the United States. I wouldn't really care, except they've shafted me on a lot of things and I want 1. my money back and 2. real, american candy. (Plus, these Indonesian ones taste stale, despite the marking of what appears to be good until December 2007).

I've already emailed Mentos, using their "Contact Us" form, is there anyone else I should contact before contacting Cal Poly? I bought these two weeks ago, so maybe just one box was bad or maybe the entire shipment? I smell international scandal!
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So you bought candy 7 months ago, which now taste stale. And you want to file a complaint about something that happened 7 months ago involving a few rolls of candies?


Edit: I am not totally being an ass, I did laugh that they would actually do it :p , just think you are nitpicking.
 
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aka1nas

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How do you know that the makers of Mentos didn't enter into an agreement with the university to sell excess inventory that they can't unload to the university cheaply? Just because it says "for sale in Indonesia" doesn't mean there's any force of law behind it.
 
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Horus

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What you should have done.

10x rolls of Mentos

20x bottles of Diet Coke

Empty Mentos into Diet coke in middle of university commons. Hilarity ensues. Even moreso than when the pro-lifers threw cupcakes at the pro-choicers.
 
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MrCodeDude

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Jun 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: RichardE
Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
At my university, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, your meal plan gets you a certain number of meals/week along with a certain number of spendable dollars "Plus Dollars" that you can use pretty much all around campus (except the bookstore).

Everyone always ends up with an excess of these "Plus Dollars" at the end of a year and they expire if you don't use them after the Spring Quarter. So I had about 300 Plus Dollars that I had to spend (or else they would go to waste) my last weekend at Poly. So I went to the Campus Market and bought $300 of over-priced items (probably have a retail value of $100 or less). Among the items I bought, were 10 rolls/packs of Mentos.

Today, while having one of the packs (I just finished unpacking, procrastination++), I noticed that the Nutrition Facts were not in English and at the end off the roll it says, "For Sale in Indonesia Only."

Picture

I obviously have never been to Indonesia and bought these in the United States. Since I bought these at a more than average price ($1.25 / roll - I told you, over-priced), I am pissed that these weren't even supposed to be sold in Indonesia.

Who should I call? Cal Poly is profiting on the sale of goods not meant to be sold within the United States. I wouldn't really care, except they've shafted me on a lot of things and I want 1. my money back and 2. real, american candy. (Plus, these Indonesian ones taste stale, despite the marking of what appears to be good until December 2007).

I've already emailed Mentos, using their "Contact Us" form, is there anyone else I should contact before contacting Cal Poly? I bought these two weeks ago, so maybe just one box was bad or maybe the entire shipment? I smell international scandal!
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So you bought candy 7 months ago, which now taste stale. And you want to file a complaint about something that happened 7 months ago involving a few rolls of candies?


Edit: I am not totally being an ass, I did laugh that they would actually do it :p , just think you are nitpicking.
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I don't know where you got the 7 months from, I bought these two weeks ago.

And I hate the Cal Poly Food Services with a passion, they've over-charged, double-charged and not-refunded me on multiple occasions when they were in the wrong (the vending machines have card readers and multiple times the card readers would take your money and not give you credit).
 
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MrCodeDude

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Originally posted by: aka1nas
How do you know that the makers of Mentos didn't enter into an agreement with the university to sell excess inventory that they can't unload to the university cheaply? Just because it says "for sale in Indonesia" doesn't mean there's any force of law behind it.
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It says, "For Sale in Indonesia Only."
 
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timswim78

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You should document the sales of the illegal/counterfet goods and then pay a visit to the school newspaper. I am sure that some student reporter would love to break this story and put the uni/food services on the spot.
 
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TechnoPro

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Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
At my university, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, your meal plan gets you a certain number of meals/week along with a certain number of spendable dollars "Plus Dollars" that you can use pretty much all around campus (except the bookstore).

Everyone always ends up with an excess of these "Plus Dollars" at the end of a year and they expire if you don't use them after the Spring Quarter. So I had about 300 Plus Dollars that I had to spend (or else they would go to waste) my last weekend at Poly. So I went to the Campus Market and bought $300 of over-priced items (probably have a retail value of $100 or less). Among the items I bought, were 10 rolls/packs of Mentos.

Today, while having one of the packs (I just finished unpacking, procrastination++), I noticed that the Nutrition Facts were not in English and at the end off the roll it says, "For Sale in Indonesia Only."

Picture

I obviously have never been to Indonesia and bought these in the United States. Since I bought these at a more than average price ($1.25 / roll - I told you, over-priced), I am pissed that these weren't even supposed to be sold in Indonesia.

Who should I call? Cal Poly is profiting on the sale of goods not meant to be sold within the United States. I wouldn't really care, except they've shafted me on a lot of things and I want 1. my money back and 2. real, american candy. (Plus, these Indonesian ones taste stale, despite the marking of what appears to be good until December 2007).

I've already emailed Mentos, using their "Contact Us" form, is there anyone else I should contact before contacting Cal Poly? I bought these two weeks ago, so maybe just one box was bad or maybe the entire shipment? I smell international scandal!
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Sometimes, a product will be marked for export but will never make it to the final destination. Rather than destroy the items, the manufacturer will sell to a wholesale liquadator, since they typically will not be purchased by normal retail channels (i.e. full price gorcery stores, pharmacies, etc.). The wholesale liquadator will then sell to dollar stores, Christmas Tree shops, mom and pop stores, and similar.

As for how they landed in your university, that would surprise me since they are being sold at full retail prices. Someone is making a tidy profit somewhere on the food chain.
 
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WolverineGator

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I think if use the "plug the bunghole" trick with the Mentos the writing will turn to English. Go back to your Campus Market and try it out on one of the salespersons!!! ;)
 
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chambersc

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people whine and bitch when Loke pointed out that someone was blatenely doing something that wasn't right and now some come to the defense of the OP when he does the same thing, more or less, than loke did? gotta love the human race.
 
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tweakmm

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Originally posted by: chambersc
people whine and bitch when Loke pointed out that someone was blatenely doing something that wasn't right and now some come to the defense of the OP when he does the same thing, more or less, than loke did? gotta love the human race.
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More or less the same thing? WTF are you smoking man?
Ratting on someone and nit-picking for things to bitch about to throw some flack to a university food department are quite different in my book.

Plus, as someone said, there is probably nothing wrong being done.
 
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MrCodeDude

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Originally posted by: chambersc
people whine and bitch when Loke pointed out that someone was blatenely doing something that wasn't right and now some come to the defense of the OP when he does the same thing, more or less, than loke did? gotta love the human race.
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Your post makes no sense. WTF are you talking about? What did Loke do? What does this have to do with my Indonesian Mentos?
 
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MrCodeDude

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Jun 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: tweakmm
Plus, as someone said, there is probably nothing wrong being done.
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If nothing is wrong and that liquidation post is correct, why even bother having these "For Sale in Indonesia Only."

And actually, I do not see Nutrition Facts, because I can not read whatever language it is in.
 
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kyzen

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Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Originally posted by: chambersc
people whine and bitch when Loke pointed out that someone was blatenely doing something that wasn't right and now some come to the defense of the OP when he does the same thing, more or less, than loke did? gotta love the human race.
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Your post makes no sense. WTF are you talking about? What did Loke do? What does this have to do with my Indonesian Mentos?
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Some kid posted on the forums offering to pay somebody to do his homework for him, ATOT'ers found out he was an honor stupid and on a scholarship to some college, LoKe sent an e-mail to the college informing them that this kid was paying for his homework to be done. Basically stirring up trouble for no reason.

You aren't doing quite the same thing, but I think you're making a lot more fuss over a fvcking roll of mints than most rational people would.
 
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MrCodeDude

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Jun 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: kyzen
You aren't doing quite the same thing, but I think you're making a lot more fuss over a fvcking roll of mints than most rational people would.
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You say that while you're consuming American candy's and I am stuck here with these horrid quality third-world candy's. :(
 
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MrCodeDude

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Jun 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: kyzen
Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Originally posted by: FrancesBeansRevenge
WTF?

You sure sound like a fun guy to hang around with...
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You live in Australia, you have no place in this thread.
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Much of what you've said in this thread leads me to believe you're extremely xenophobic.
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Xenophobia denotes a phobic attitude toward strangers or of the unknown.

I know Australia is filled with pirates and criminals... and fuzzy animals.
 
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