The Gift That Keeps Not Giving
Wow, that is some inviting package, don’t you think? A gold foil box you’d get at Rite Aid, topped off with some recycled ribbon from a Hickory Farms gift tower. We can only hope there’s something equally magical inside, like a free desk calendar from Herb’s Volvo.
October 2, 2009 at 6:11 pm
that looks like a Nordstrom’s box, even. So you can buy this box for 50 cents, put your stupid crap in it, and fool your recipient into thinking you got them something theoretically classy.
October 4, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I wonder if they’ve figured out yet that it is costing them more than 50 cents to list that item.
Etsy listing fee of 20 cents plus 3.5% = 22; PayPal fee 30 cents plus 2.9% = 31 cents; Total = 53 cents (perhaps 52 cents if the rounding is generous). So unless they are screwing the buyer on shipping fees, this seller is a complete dolt.
December 8, 2011 at 7:48 am
Volume, Volume, Volume
November 24, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Ya know, I work at Rite Aid and frankly that seems a bit tacky even for us.
December 2, 2011 at 3:09 pm
I didn’t think that Rite Aid had standards (yes, I shop there frequently, so I don’t, either.
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June 25, 2010 at 6:24 pm
*blink*
That’s the best they could come up with for wrapping, really? I’m thinking either extremely poor tastes or they just don’t care. Or, maybe they’re easily distracted by shiny things.
August 19, 2010 at 6:54 pm
I think the Unibomber put more thought, time and energy into his parcels then this schmo…
December 2, 2011 at 2:46 pm
That’s so very wrong, and so very, very funny!
October 4, 2010 at 9:53 am
I think they might be selling themselves short at only .50. Why not get out your marker set and infringe on someone’s copyright? Then you could charge at least $125 for it.
October 21, 2010 at 1:48 am
So I’m gonna box my gift…first, find a box or buy one, then add popcorn and stuff, and then take the time to address it and tape it all up, so I can send it to someone to giftwrap for me? Isn’t what I did the same thing almost? I mean it required tape and a box all that stuff, just like giftwrapping would. How stupid!
December 2, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Stupid…or evil genius?
December 2, 2011 at 6:04 pm
I’m feeling all nostalgic, what with these two year old posts still attached to their subject. With April being in Finlandia, it’s understandable that things might work a little differently from normal. I actually like it this way. Gives perspective…and more dorkwads to laugh it who may have flounced since then.
December 2, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Ahh, well FUCK, at least I’m not the ONLY person who clicked the “next” link on a repost and got something old and totally unintended by management. Yeah, I’m lookin’ at YOU, Mugsy Doodle. [smiles and waves HI]
December 2, 2011 at 7:26 pm
Hi, Postmenopaws!!!! Yeah, I wondered why there were so many “next” posts that had so few comments. What, I’m supposed to look at the dates? Pfftttt!. Besides, Twilight-painted sneakers wouldn’t exactly be outdated now. Craziness has no season!