I'm really glad we have laws against misleading advertising and packaging in Germany. Things like this never happened to me in this extent.

These should be banned by law and it's not just because they are disappointing and robbery. Plastic pollution is serious enough even without tons of packaging to fake the size of some greedy a*****e's product.

Particularly disgraceful when it is products aimed at/for kids - that they may even be spending pocket money on. Adults are used to being disappointed by what is actually inside due to packaging.

The only way to not get fooled by this s**t is to always check the weight/volume of the product that you're buying.

This is just sad. The waster of air, plastic, cardboard, glass, you name it. They just make these rip offs to get more business, more money, and dont even care about how people are wasting their money and getting angered by this injustice. (Do I sound official? 😂)

File all of this under "Caveat Emptor". Let the Buyer Beware. Most countries require truth in packaging for weights and mass of food products. If you do not pay attention, you too can purchase a 3/4 empty bag of crisps or a package of sausages where the package is 1/2 empty. Assume nothing, assume they are trying to trick you into paying for more for less. Stop being lazy and not reading, not using your brain. If these business practices offend you, let th ecomanies involved know. No longer purchase their products. Vote with you rmoney. And teach your kids not to be swindled.

This tells you to ALWAYS check the packaging before buying anything and just how much excessive packaging there is used just to make people believe a lie... sad! There ought to be very strict rules about this type of misleading people!

They get away with it because we let them. Always email, demand they refund and if they want the product back, they pay postage. Don't back down. If you get it on Amazon, first demand a refund, then complain to Amazon and then post it under "reviews". Do the same at other sites. We vote for consumer products with our dollars. If we really work to cost them some money and some future buyers, maybe we can make a difference. And WTH, it feels good to be heard.

Isn't it a shame that we have to guard against so many trying to dupe us? Something is wrong in a world where people get rewarded for the best way to lie to consumers. Money and quick profit have supplanted honesty and fair dealing. What a shame.

I've never understood why people don't read the shelf tags that plainly display the price per ounce. It's very simple. You aren't getting ripped off if you read the label instead of just looking at the picture. Use your brain.

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES. We should rebel and stop buying. Find honest products and put THEM over the top and be vocal about it.

C'mon folks, quit being so naive!!!

Sorry Bob, But this is happening in the UK as well

The simple truth: ... The nations that don't regulate these types of false and misleading packaging are nations that allow corporations to control those regulations. If we're being ripped-off in small ways like these examples, it's a good bet that we're also being ripped-off in much larger ways, by those same corporations.

People remember that over 1/2 of the pictures above are products sold by weight, not # of items in the package. HUGE waste of packaging though. For shame.

Let the law take care of more pressing matters. This one's on us, the consumer. Let your money talk. Watch what you buy, but if they do slip one over on you Take It Back! They'll stop doing it when we stop letting them get away with it.

Is it legal? I live in Czech Republic and I've never seen something like this.

Caveat emptor. And remember, one may get what one pays for...

This old saying is well worth remembering. "Fool Me Once, Shame On You. Fool Me Twice, Shame On.........."

There should ba a special place in Hell for whoever came with the idea of these packages.

Let me be completely honest, all these so-called "professional" companies doing things like this? It's the stupidest thing. Most companies today are all about making more money. And there's nothing wrong with that, like it's pretty normal to want to make a buck. But cheating your customers? These companies are more likely lose customers this way. There are actual laws for misleading packaging in other countries. Companies will LOSE MONEY FOR THIS KIND OF FUCKERY. Let's be real, these companies are going to make more money by being honest and giving customers exactly what they pay for, instead of stunting b******t like this. I rest my case.

Wow, that is amazing. You never see anything like that in Australia, well to that extent anyway.

simple: dont buy those fake packaged products :) consumer's choice & power. as a sidenote, those images on boredpanda make me wonder, what (probably american) citizens like to eat, it seems to be industrial food production with loads of sugar, salt and transfats.

I could make a whole post just from things in my house right now.decwprive packaging is ubiquitous, anymore.

honestly, i wanted to comment on each single picture but the ony thing that came to my mind was "it's disgusting". so I will say it here: IT'S DISGUSTING!

Caveat Emptor - Let The Buyer Beware! Also lot of that empty exterior packaging is for all the idiot-warning labels companies are required to have on packages due to Darwin Award nominees using the product in a manner it was not intended.

There needs to be a hell of a lot of CEO perp walks happening. The heads of all these companies need to be held accountable; yes, even if they're the CEOs/owners of conglomerates that have multiple worldwide divisions and claim "plausible deniability". I'd bet if the C-level staff of Unilever (a conglomerate that owns a number of the brands I see here) were all arrested from their cozy Connecticut homes and frogmarched to waiting police cars on live TV... eh, what am I saying? No one will be held responsible or accountable. Rich CEOs know to befriend lawmakers.

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no one force you to buy them.if you do you are the fool not them.and foolme ones shame on you foolme twise shame on me