PSA: My attempt to save money on beans cost me an extra $3.50 a day

I bought a 5-pound bag of cheap coffee beans from a discount store for $8. Lasted about 2 weeks but the taste was SO bad I couldn't drink it black. Ended up buying coffee out every day to avoid it, spending $3.50 a pop. Dumb me thought I was winning but I really burned myself on that one. Has anyone else had a bargain grocery item backfire like this?

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3 Comments

william_taylor2mo ago

Call me crazy but I don't see how this is that big of a deal. You bought some bad beans, it happens. Just dump them in the trash and move on. The way you tell it you were throwing away $3.50 a day on top of the $8 you already spent, that's your own fault for not just drinking the bad coffee or tossing it right away. Plenty of people buy stuff at the store that ends up being a dud, it's not some major life lesson. You could have just bought a different bag the next week and been fine.

emerycarr2mo ago

Ngl you're missing the point here, it's not about the $8 or the coffee, it's about standing up for yourself when someone sells you garbage and pretending it's fine. Just tossing it reinforces that it's okay to rip people off.

elizabeth_king2mo ago

Tbh you're kinda proving emerycarr's point by acting like getting ripped off is just something you shrug off. It's not about the eight bucks, it's about the fact that this company knowingly sold a bad product and didn't care. If everyone just tossed stuff and moved on, then crap companies keep getting away with it. Honestly, how many times have you bought something that was straight up garbage and just let it slide? There's a difference between a store brand being mediocre and a specialty coffee roaster selling beans that are practically stale. You're basically saying it's fine for businesses to treat customers like suckers as long as it's cheap enough to ignore. Ngl, the part about "just buy a different bag next week" rubs me wrong too. Why should I have to waste my time and money hopping around trying to find one honest seller? That's not a solution, that's just accepting that getting ripped off is normal. You ever actually asked for a refund on something small like that?