Ever complained and received complimentary freebies?

Tesla · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:26

Has anybody ever complained for something and had a decent or memorable complimentary freebie?

I opened a nice muller fruit corner yogurt today to find it all nice and mouldy.

I was considering sending a letter in hope for some free (hopefully mould-free) yogurt!

Reply away...

platypus · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:28

But some damned fine cheeses are made from yoghurt mould cultures..

Surfer · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:30

i send off a damning letter to sky about their service and they sent a letter back apologising and gave me a £20 credit.

ohh and one time when i bought a cheeseburger from mcdonalds it was raw or smt so i took it back and they gave me another one

(not a raw one though) That was in the days where i wasnt boycotting mcds of course

Mr-White · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:30

found a maggot in a fruit yoghurt years ago and got £30 of tesco vouchers

MW

bobby · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:37

And now I will never again be able to buy fruit yogurt from Tescos

Mat · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:37

My dad once found 6p in a packet of Sainburys peanuts and got £10 voucher after taking the packet back.

iCraig · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:40

When I was younger and brimming full of angst and teenage rebellion I phoned up and ranted at Orange for giving my number out to third party companies.

They gave me £25 credit and withdrawn my number from the database or something.

monkeysmith · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:41

Back at university, they installed these phone systems in our halls, you had to pay £50 for the year, which I did, but it was a rip off, and it would charge you even if the other person never answered. I wrote and complained to the MD, got my £50 back with another £50 on top.

DarkShadow · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:42

I complained to pringles about every crisp being broken and I got a voucher for 2 free tubs!

Mat said:
My dad once found 6p in a packet of Sainburys peanuts and got £10 voucher after taking the packet back.

How do they know that your dad didn't put the 6 pence in himself?

basmic · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:43

I'm with O2, £25/month contract. I whinged a hell of a lot - in the end, I accumulated a total of just more than 3 months free rental in credits to my account.

meghatronic · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:46

basmic said:
I'm with O2, £25/month contract. I whinged a hell of a lot - in the end, I accumulated a total of just more than 3 months free rental in credits to my account.

With O2, they refunded the cost of my phone, gave me the next tarrif up for no extra and some other freebies after they messed around the transfer of my number (took a month).

The best thing I got was an "unlimited" voucher for one transaction at Domino's as they charged me more for being a student.

SunaseIPs · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:48

I complained to Durex when I became an unintentional father.

basmic · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:48

SunaseIPs said:
I complained to Durex when I became an unintentional father.

Serves you right for being too modest, and buying the small size.

The_KiD · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:48

Not exactly a complaint, but after being with Orange for 3 years I got offered a better deal with T-Mobile.

when I went to cancel the Orange contract they kept offering better deals until eventually I got 18 months of £10/month with 250minutes and 500 free txts.

Was well chuffed with that so cancelled the t-mobile thing.

iCraig · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:49

dark_shadow said:
How do they know that your dad didn't put the 6 pence in himself?

They wouldn't, but the risk of poor publicity isn't worth it. A drop in sales hits them much harder than a ten quid voucher.

MajorMaccas · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:50

dark_shadow said:
I complained to pringles about every crisp being broken and I got a voucher for 2 free tubs!

How do they know that your dad didn't put the 6 pence in himself?

How do pringles know you didn't break every crisp yourself? The same can be said for nearly all the stories posted here.

iCraig · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:50

SunaseIPs said:
I complained to Durex when I became an unintentional father.

If that's true, surely you got nothing out of them? I don't think any condom manufacturer claims their product prevents pregnancy, only lowers the risk significantly.

SunaseIPs · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:50

basmic said:
Serves you right for being too modest, and buying the small size.

Thats what caused it to burst

SunaseIPs · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:51

iCraig said:
If that's true, surely you got nothing out of them? I don't think any condom manufacturer claims their product prevents pregnancy, only lowers the risk significantly.

Its only as true as its proven, they won't be getting my DNA off me.

Shmo · 9 Jul 2007 at 12:56

I complain about lots of stuff but only ever had a refund or replacement, no bonus stuff. For example:

Got a replacement for a dominos pizza that tasted like bleach.
Got a refund for a 2L gone off bottle of milk I bought that day (98p woohoo)
Got a replacement chicken burger when I found a bit of metal pan scourer in my mouth.

Think I should have complained more about all of that stuff. Saw in the local newspaper this kid swallowed part of a plastic spoon and got £40 and some free toys. The stuff I ingested could have been just as hazardous and didn't involve me being a spacker.