Gift boxes are becoming more and more popular, but beware, the experience could turn into water sausage...
Smartbox, BeautyBox, blablabox... For 4 or 5 years, gift boxes have been popping up on store shelves.
At the same time, we understand why:a stay in a thalasso for €150, a parachute jump for €50, a helicopter ride...
The offer is varied, tempting and above all... very inexpensive.
More and more users of gift boxes are complaining on the forums or via 60 Million Consumers. Here are their main criticisms:
A criticism reported a billion and a half times:whether in restaurants or hotels, the service offered by establishments to customers who have passed through a Smartbox is far from being the same as for regular customers.
At the same time, we understand why:the owner gets 30% less profit, 30% which goes into the pocket of Gentlemen Smartbox.
The result is appalling:the owner often pulls a mug 3 kilometers long, the room is isolated and often unsanitary, the service is slower than usual.
In short, we are treated like the fifth wheel of the carriage...
On the forum of the Aufeminin.com site, an Internet user even reveals to us that in the thalassos, it is the trainees who give the massages to the customers of Smartbox...
Piloting a Porsche Carrera on the circuit, handling a microlight, a helicopter... The gift boxes promise mountains and wonders to their customers, but the reality is quite different.
It is the magazine 60 Millions de Consommateurs who warns us:lessons of three quarters of an hour tend to turn into lessons of a little half an hour, and above all... you never touch the steering wheel!
Clearly, we have fun for a quarter of an hour on the passenger seat and we never drive. A shame for a flight lesson, right?
Normally, in gift boxes, everything is included, and that's the main quality of the formula:we go there and let ourselves be guided from start to finish without paying a penny more.
But here again it would seem that behind the scenes reveals some surprises. Whether in a thalasso or in a hotel, many customers have complained that the owners ask them for a small bonus to have access to the golf course, the restaurant, the swimming pool...
So be careful, because there are two scenarios in this kind of abuse:either it's the boss who decides not to respect the terms of the contract, or it's the gift box that adds additional conditions , written very small at the bottom of the contract.
Before rushing, make sure everything is included in the transaction.
Have you ever tried the gift box experience? Satisfied or disgusted? Give us your impressions in comments.
