In recent days, the Turin court accepted Codacons’ appeal regarding the Balocco pandoros advertised by Chiara Ferragni. Now consumer associations are ready to ask for compensation. In addition to Carlo Rienzi’s association, there are Adusbef and the Association of Radio and Television Services Users in line. However, collective action will be necessary for the 290 thousand consumers. They will thus be able to receive a refund of 5.69 euros, equal to the difference between the cost of the traditional product and the designer one. A press conference of the three associations is scheduled for today.
The associations
Consumers have already turned to Balocco. Asking to recover “the humanity necessary to make a gesture of fairness and generosity, spontaneously donating to children suffering from cancer a sum equal to that collected with pandoro” in a deceptive way, equal to approximately 1.6 million euros. The same request is recalled today by the Turin edition of Republichad been advanced in civil court. The request was to «order the company to pay to the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin a sum of money equal to the difference between the cost of the designer pandoro (costing 9.37 euros) and the classic pandoro (3.68 euros) multiplied by the quantity of pieces sold (approximately 250 thousand), for an amount equal to one and a half million”. However, the court did not accept it.
The sentence
Although «he still considered that «the methods of advertising and diffusion of the commercial practice gave consumers the impression, contrary to the truth, that by purchasing the “Pandoro PinkChristmas”, they would contribute to the purchase of a new machine».
