this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2024
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Isn’t there supposed to be a chocolate bunny in the bottom half of the box where the cut out is?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not only that, but the egg on the box is actual size too. It just looks smaller in that picture because most of it is covered in cardboard. Here's the same box in good lighting.

Seems the asshole here is OP.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or the person who gifted this to OP after eating the bunny

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Unlikely. The simplest explanation is generally most plausible, either:

  1. OP got an already opened box from someone, failed to notice the box was already open, failed to read the text in the box, failed to notice the prominent chocolate bunny on the box, failed to understand the purpose of the cardboard in the box, accidentally obscured text on the box with poor lighting, unintentionally took a misleading picture, and posted it into the internet as a genuine complaint.

  2. Or, OP saw protective cardboard around a fragile hollow chocolate egg and decided to lie on the internet.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago

The box was clearly designed for a larger egg. The fact they made the image the same size doesn't neglect the fact that shrinkflation has occurred.

The only reason the box size hasn't changed is to fool buyers on the potential size of the egg. If it was box was correctly sized, most people would have selected a different egg.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The bottom right of the packaging seems to imply so

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Lindt does. Duh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

(Checks notes...) looks like Lindt. And if they get away with it, expect to see it happen a lot more often, from them & others who follow their lead. :-(

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

OP took out the bunny before taking the pic. There is both an egg and a bunny in that box and they are both similarly sized as advertized on the packaging.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thank you :-).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Not defending anytime that this crops up in other products, but it's a gift packaging for an Easter egg.... hardly the kind of NFSF that's going to impact your life every day

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Speaking as a designer, someone who is not getting paid enough to feel their soul chip away one project at a time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Lindt I imagine. Could be wrong tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Isn't most of that recyclable? Or at the very least, I imagine the cardstock that the holder is made from is relatively biodegradable. At least it's not a ton of plastic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The look on that bunny’s face doesn’t exactly scream “honest business”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Someone who wanted to smuggle a sega genesis cartridge, an N64 expansion card, and one 9V battery.