Ever gone to the grocery store and bought food only because the box promised deliciousness inside? Or maybe you purchased the larger container of your favorite skincare item? Well, you might want to think twice next time you want a product based on its packaging. As these photos of (evil) package designs prove, some companies aren’t afraid to deceive us. So keep scrolling to look at the infuriating yet hilarious ways real people have been fooled.

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Purchasing a longer cord for your charging port can be done for various reasons. It is usually expected that the size you ordered for your charging cable will be the size you received. While packaging can sometimes be misleading, this package’s design is nothing more than a lie. The cord’s length is perhaps a fifth of the advertised one. Hopefully, the principle that good things come in small packages applies here.

In reality, whether or not good things come in small packages, this cord isn’t acceptable on any level. The cord isn’t even going to reach a foot in length.

If You Just Spread It Out, You’ll Get a Whopping One Pepperoni per Slice

Do you know that one friend who always comes to everything with a group of friends, and they all stand in the corner the entire time? Well, that is the same situation here. You purchased this pepperoni pizza to throw in the oven, but once it is out of the packaging, you realize that the pepperoni only covers half the pizza. The pepperoni is just way too clique to spread out.

While this is a perfect metaphor for the situation you have experienced with your friend, it was not something you needed to pay money for, and you probably feel deceived.

Seems Like This One’s the Oldest Trick in the Book

Size expectations often are a setup for disappointment, especially regarding portion sizes and food products. This Herbes of Provence promised us so much and just could not deliver on the expectation we had set for ourselves based on Herbes’ lies. You could fit an entire fist in the massive hole at the bottom of this glass jar. This is a lesson to us all not to trust anyone on these matters.

Truly, it looks so high-class and is probably a delicious food thing. To be honest, we have no idea what this is, but we do know that we were lied to.

Another Case of Same Contents, Different Packaging, Higher Price

It’s no secret that the consumer and provider relationship is built on capitalism, and with that comes the fake wokeness seen throughout the corporate world. Many companies will paint their logos with Pride colors during Pride month, but this is merely a money-grabbing scheme. For example, look at the Pride-themed packaging below with its additional 1.50 price tag. How does it compare to the regular (and cheaper) package?

Were there more Oreos in the package for that extra 1.50? Were there rainbow-colored cookies? No. Pride sells, so the corporation charges more for a rainbow package, even if nothing else is different.

Their Gift Card’s so Heavy, It Needed Half a Box

Sometimes companies want to get a fresh face for their product, or they are coming out with their product’s seasonal or holiday line. In either case, you would expect there to be some differences in the pricing and the size of the new product lines. What you do not expect is for it to be the exact same product but displayed in a larger box so they can charge a higher price.

This company has potentially broken the trust of all chocolate lovers with this nasty trick. It is the exact same product, but in a box nearly double the size.

Imagine Going for a Midnight Snack and Finding This Deceit

This larger cookie container would seem perfect and probably holds nearly a dozen cookies. Perhaps, that was the exact number you needed. However, once opening the packaging, it is revealed that you paid extra for all the extra plastic holding merely five cookies. Disappointed is an understatement. While this packaging design might fool someone once, it isn’t going to work twice. It turns out you pay extra, just not for cookies, sadly.

The designs of these packages might be working initially, but once people catch on, no one will trust the false promises you have ingrained into your brand.

We Feel Teased

The package design and the product inside are two different entities that should be considered completely separate. For example, this cake bar promises a yummy bar filled with some refreshing mixed berry jelly. However, you are the fool because you believed they would include this filling within their cake bar. The joke is on you because these cake bars are only going to be teasing the possibility.

Nothing is sadder than going for a jelly donut and discovering that it contains absolutely no jelly. The exact same lie is being told here, and we aren’t even surprised.

Chocolate Croissants, Chocolate Sold Separately

Do you remember buying those toys and devices that have in a tiny little script the label “batteries sold separately?” We also do, but we falsely believed that this was only related to products that required batteries to be operated. Little did we know that this was something that extended to food products as well. Here they are selling soft croissant dough filled with chocolate, as clearly displayed on the packaging.

Unfortunately, you assumed that the chocolate would be included. Silly goose, why ever would they include something they promised on their product’s packaging design? You should’ve known better.

Three Different Packing, All Different Sizes, Same Amount of Product

This is another one where the corporations of the world are attempting to pose a lesson to their consumers. Here are three different packages with nearly the exact same product in all of them. However, even with their size differences, they contain the same amount of product in each of them. The moral? Even though things may look different, they never really change. Now that seems to be a really expensive lesson.

Honestly, we’ve had enough of these companies attempting to teach us moral lessons with their overpriced and sneaky design choices. Can we just purchase our products and leave, please?

This Pricey Spice Gets a Pricey Presentation

Sometimes presentation is all that something has. Think about your local pretty boy with their perfect haircut and washboard abs, but there is nothing going on upstairs. This is the product design equivalent. Saffron is an extremely expensive spice that sells for around 5,000 dollars per pound. There is no need for this fancy presentation that, once unwrapped, reveals nearly no saffron at all in the entire package. Once again, we were fooled by good looks.

Good looks are not everything. This applies to the hot boys and girls from your local town and to product design choices. Just because it is pretty doesn’t mean people are buying.