Good Old Thai Consumer Protection..... Video

[RustBucket]

Now I am pretty are there sure laws in Thailand to protect the consumer from blatant ripoffs by the greedy corporates, but one has to wonder if they are applied, or there just to garner corruption money. I think the latter.

This is blatant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w5_owIjGXk

Edited April 24, 2015 by RustBucket

[CharlieH]

As this is in Thai, it cannot remain here, we'll move it over to the Pub

MOVED

[noahvail]

It's not that unusual here. I find it difficult to cook from recipies - having to weigh each item on my electronic kitchen scale and then figuring out the proper ratios. But the only one I've seen that is so blatant as yours is the whipping cream for my CO2 dispenser, which consistently comes up 250 ml short of what's labeled.

It's not just food. Sometimes 50-kg cement bags only have 47kg, even tiles are shorter than marked in some cases. But not all the time. It's just something you have to add in to your own calculations of the true cost of what you're buying. You either learn to live with it, or it will eat you alive.

[Suradit69]

I guess someone misses the Nanny State where gullibility is considered a handicap in need of protection.

[Torrens54]

Welllll.... it must be just an "honest mistake," they forgot to put the correct amount of product into the bottle, maybe it was Burmese staff who siphoned-off some of the product ?

Couldn't imagine ANY Thais trying to rip us off!

[Kaalle]

I was surprised to see the chicken I have been buying the last couple of weeks from Tesco have had the correct weight on the packet. A year ago when I last bought this was not the case.

[Rogergreybeard]

What do you expect, my cousin has to build his house and his family have to eat!! And once again, who pays??