So this is the infamous half-blender of Webcomic Rampage. For those readers of mine who still haven’t heard this story, let me retell it here. I shipped two boxes of books to the Austin Dragon’s Lair comic shop ahead of myself so that I could sell them to my fans. One box arrived easy-as-you-please! The other box had been opened, books removed, placed in a new box, with the books exchanged with half a blender. HALF A BLENDER. So, yeah. Post Office lost/stole/ate my books, and gave me an incomplete blender in exchange. That was fun! But a good story, I guess?
But the sad, sobering reality is that losing those books cost me a potential few hundred dollars in sales. That blows! So to share this story and to help recoup my losses, since there’s no real legal recourse for me to retrieve these books or my lost potential sales, I’ve doodled a bunch of my characters on the surface of this blender with a Sharpie. And you can own it. Keep in mind, it is an INCOMPLETE blender. You will only get what you see here. Just the bottom, with a plug. There’s no top half. The blender also has some scuff marks at some of the edges where its silvery finish was removed in transit. But on the plus side, there’s now all these Shortpacked! and Dumbing of Age characters on it. Sweet, huh?
I’ve left a spot up next to Ultra Car where the winner of the blender can request anyone they feel is important that I’ve forgotten. (Which, as it turns out, will probably be Mike. Man, how’d I forget him? Oh well, you can request him should you win. Or somebody else! There’s also no Dorothy, no Reagan, no Sal…) So, uh, yeah! You can own this piece of dubious webcomics history.
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I think you could squeeze Mike between Roz and Jacob if you wanted to.
Could this be the begining of a new line of recycled appliances?!
You could draw on a bunch of old toasters and stuff and open an Art Gallery exhibition XD you’d be daring and edgy :p
I’m extremely impressed how well all those sketches came out on that surface.
Are you sure you have no legal recourse? Tampering with the mail is a felony. Did you at least file a report with the post office?
Maybe the blender can come with a note of authenticity written by Mike.
Since, y’know, he did it.
Of all the things to end up in a shipment of books…Well, at least it wasn’t anything explosive. 0___0
Worst part is, that’s actually a pretty decent blender! How much did you lose exactly, because that thing’s around 100$ up here north. Parts are relatively cheap too.
The winner should obviously request a doodle of Willis and Jeph giving in to their perverse sexual lust.
(I only ship Willis/Jeph because that clears the way for the one true pairing of Corsetto/Milholland >.> ))
*win*
oh my god i suddenly cant stop laughing
Doodle the winner on there…
i put this in one of the old threads but
http://gizmodo.com/5713709/how-a-man-caught-ups-tampering-with-his-package
hehe
Well, that sucks, losing that revenue. I hope you get some of that back. Anyway, I think this is the actual product with spare parts: http://www.cuisinart.com/products/blenders/spb-600.html#parts
Wow, 4 days left and already over 100 bucks. Alas, I’m too pinched to nudge it up myself. But still! We rock!
The price seems to have stabilized for the moment. This is typical, but then, the last hour or two becomes fun when the snipers come out to play. Good luck, David!
So I told my husband about this as he works for fedex, and besides being mad that this could happen, as messing with mail is a crime, says you can in fact sue them.
I think the problem is he doesn’t know who did it. I suppose he could complain to the post office.
The thing about the blender, to me, is I understand if you’re going to steal something from the mail like that, you need something to fill up the weight and send it on its way… But why a half a blender? He had that just lying around?
So basically some poor schmo mailed their blender in for repair, the posties opened that package and kep the blender. Then they used it to swap for the books?
Got to love the posties. Right now they are probably kicking the x-mas parcels around
Maybe they had 2 damaged boxes(Your books and someones blender) with the content spilled out and since the didn’t which belonged to which they put half and half into each so that half the package would be right. Somewhere out there is someone esle yelling “Were the hell is the bottom of my blender! And look at these wonderful books.””
So did the winner of this blender have their package opened en route and replaced with a bunch of Shortpacked! books?