Ever bought something that didn't have the right amount of content?

[Comic_Mobsta]

Weird question i know, But i recently bought this box of breakfast croissants that was suppose to have 6 sandwiches. Instead it only had 5...I mean WTF?? :confused: Has anyone else had this problem?

[rick]

That's just damm irritating.

Not as bad as figuring out that someone opened the box and took one out and then put it back on the shelf.

But pretty close.

[Spike-X]

Reilly's LEGO® Batcave™, which I've been raving about for weeks now, is missing a part. Which is quite a surprise, because I don't think I've ever had that problem with a LEGO® set before. If anything, usually there's a couple of (really small) spare parts left over.

Luckily, the LEGO® website has a simple, user-friendly replacement part ordering form. They said it'll take about three weeks for the part to get here.

Of course, there is the possibility that we've lost the part ourselves, but we've torn the place apart looking and haven't found it.

[blackdragon6]

Weird question i know, But i recently bought this box of breakfast croissants that was suppose to have 6 sandwiches. Instead it only had 5...I mean WTF?? :confused: Has anyone else had this problem?ha i'm eating one of these as we speak, (i haven't actually counted mines though). sounds like a assembly line glitch.

[Sir Tim Drake]

ha i'm eating one of these as we speak, (i haven't actually counted mines though). sounds like a assembly line glitch.

So it was you who took the sixth one!

[blackdragon6]

Reilly's LEGO Batcave, which I've been raving about for weeks now, is missing a part. Which is quite a surprise, because I don't think I've ever had that problem with a LEGO set before. If anything, usually there's a couple of (really small) spare parts left over.

Luckily, the LEGO website has a simple, user-friendly replacement part ordering form. They said it'll take about three weeks for the part to get here. funny thing is i remember having a kids meal lego toy that had a VITAL missing piece...man i was pissed.

[blackdragon6]

So it was you who took the sixth one!ssshhhh...............shut the hell up

[Ben Morgan]

I hate when I buy a bag of chips and it's only half full

[Spike-X]

They're sold by weight, not volume.

[Jack Zodiac]

I hate when I buy a bag of chips and it's only half full

Dude, that's every bag of chips. That's a lot of hate.

[Paradox]

Spike-X notes the big empty space:

They're sold by weight, not volume.

Some settling may occur during shipping.

We didn't make the bag too big and fill it full of air on purpose, honest.

[Drew Van T.]

We didn't make the bag too big and fill it full of air on purpose, honest.

Even if it's not put in on purpose, surely the air in the bags helps to prevent the chips from being crushed too much and is therefore a good thing.

[Donald M.]

I remember one time in High School this guy in my class had a candy bar and when he opened it, half was missing. I made a crack that someone in the factory must have gotten hungry and he got all up in my face.

Dude had problems.

[a. non]

I hate when I buy a bag of chips and it's only half full

I think what he means is that the bag is literally under-filled. At least three times where i work i had to put a bag of chips on the register scale because it felt too light. the bag said 12 oz, and it weighed 7 oz.

Also, at least twice, i found 2 bottles of pop that were empty. The lids were sealed and there were no holes in the bottles; they just weren't filled.

[Mac Danny]

I once bought a book (alternate history Sci Fi) where the 12 or so pages in the middle were another book. A romance novel If I recall correctly.

I thought I was missing something but yeah, the pages were numbered wrong and the title had changed on the pages.

Because it was an alternate history book, it took me a while to realize the mistake

[Lord of Denial]

My sister and I went to Burger King once and when she got her original chicken sandwich all it was was the bun.

They freaking forgot the chicken lettuce and mayo.

[DonC]

I can remember two instances. One, it was a Star Wars Micro Collection Bespin playset that only had the figures and not the actual city piece. I remember driving home with the set telling my parents it felt really light and that I thought it might be incomplete. So my mom opened it up just to get me to stop telling them it was missing stuff and it turned out that I was right.

And I got a copy of Anne Rice's The Witching Hour that was missing pages for Christmas. Turns out someone was trying to do me a favor 'cause that book was 600 pages too long.

[Lee Kaye]

I once bought a book (alternate history Sci Fi) where the 12 or so pages in the middle were another book. A romance novel If I recall correctly.

I thought I was missing something but yeah, the pages were numbered wrong and the title had changed on the pages.

Because it was an alternate history book, it took me a while to realize the mistake

Similar to that, I had a copy of The Long Walk by Stephen King\Richard Bachman, and towards the end about 4 pages were missing completely. Really spoiled the finale as I missed some pretty vital stuff, which I could just about infer, but still.... :-/

BTW If anyone gets the chance to read The Long Walk, I recommend it, it's one of the best things he has written IMO. A very simple premise for a book but superbly executed. Link (http://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-Stephen-King/dp/0451196716/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200765524&sr=8-2)

[Athena Bast]

I bought this monstrous pull up bar and every piece was there minus the one to attach it to the door frame.

[Guapo Méndez]

Sure. Everytime I open a Warren Ellis comic.

and one time I bought Burger King via the drive-thru: my burger was missing the top bun.

[Gilda Dent]

Some settling may occur during shipping.

We didn't make the bag too big and fill it full of air on purpose, honest.

Actually the bag is filled with air on purpose, but not to make it take up more room, and it's not actually air.

Cereal, chip, and candy bags are filled with nitrogen (the plants keep a large supply of liquid nitrogen on hand for this purpose) to preserve the texture, keep the crisp stuff crisp and the soft stuff soft. Nitrogen is inert, so it doesn't interact with the contents of the bag. Air has oxygen, which is highly reactive, and will cause the contents of the bag to slowly oxidize, making the crisp stuff softer over time.

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In response to the OP, I've sometimes bought books that were missing a signature* or had the same signature included twice with a second one missing. I had to return my X-Men Masterworks Vol. 5 twice because of this, once for a duplicated signature, and once for a signature bound upside down. I was tempted to keep the second one just for the novelty of it.

*Books are assembled from "signatures", which are groups of pages printed all at the same time. A single large sheet of paper (the size of a single sheet of newspaper unfolded and spread out; folding this paper once, as in a newspaper, creates a four page signature called a folio) has multiple pages printed on each side, then is folded down to book side and cut on three sides. This forms a "signature", or a booklet of pages that are then sewn together on the bound side with other signatures and glued to a cover to form the whole book. In a cheaper softcover, the signature is cut on all four sides and glued without being sewn. The smaller the book, the more pages in a signature. If a signature is missing in a standard sized hardcover or trade paperback, you lose 16 pages or have 16 pages duplicated.

[Sabrina_Fried]

I bought a bookshelf from Ikea once, and all the dowels that hold the shelves up were missing.

Fortunetly Ikea has entire bins next to their customer service desk where they store dowels of that kind and you could take as many as you need at no charge, all they did was ask me to bring in the barcode from the bookshelf box so they could check the rest of the batch it came from.

Unfortunetly, getting the dowels meant making a return trip to Ikea, which was a 45 min drive away at the time.

Sabrina

[Tish-the-Scorpion]

a bike set was missing some bolts,luckily my uncle has the missing parts.

i had my orders screwed up on numerous occasions at several different restaurants.

oh and there was a snail in one of my chicken dinners from popeyes..well on the box rather.

[Athena Bast]

I got a Space Marine missing a backpack.

[Ben Morgan]

Similar to that, I had a copy of The Long Walk by Stephen King\Richard Bachman, and towards the end about 4 pages were missing completely. Really spoiled the finale as I missed some pretty vital stuff, which I could just about infer, but still.... :-/

BTW If anyone gets the chance to read The Long Walk, I recommend it, it's one of the best things he has written IMO. A very simple premise for a book but superbly executed. Link (http://www.amazon.com/Long-Walk-Stephen-King/dp/0451196716/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200765524&sr=8-2)

I just finished reading The Long Walk last week, excellent book

[gary bolt]

Any of a number of Marvel cross-over events.

[Ronald Bryan]

My weight bench was missing a pad for the foot bar. Fortunately, I don't use the foot pad anyway, so I didn't care.

[blackdragon6]

My sister and I went to Burger King once and when she got her original chicken sandwich all it was was the bun.

They freaking forgot the chicken lettuce and mayo.man burger king always screw up my orders! :mad: