January 14, 2015

Send glitter to people you hate

New service gives enemies a sparkly surprise

By Daniel Craig
PhillyVoice Staff

shipyourenemiesglitter.com/Homepage

"I'll never get all of this off of me!"

There are plenty of juvenile ways to torture people you don't like. Some classics include toilet papering one's house and prank phone calls, but the former requires quite a bit of effort while the latter is tricky with caller ID. So if you're looking for a quick and easy way to ruin someone's day, Ship Your Enemies Glitter has a service for you.

For $9.99 (In Australian Dollars, so $8.13 in U.S. dollars) the website will mail an envelope full of glitter to anyone of your choosing. According to the site, the process is simple. You give them an address, recipient, and reason your sending the glitter, and they do the rest:

We'll vomit up a tonne of glitter & put it in an envelope with your recipient's address on the front of it. We'll also include a note telling them how awful they are which will be folded within.

Naturally, one might have questions regarding the legality of this service before using it. The website doesn't offer much comfort:

Q: My recipient got glitter in both eyeballs, is now blind, and would like to file charges. Help?

A: Heh.

Apparently the service has been successful in irritating people, specifically the owner of the site. According to Business Insider:

Mathew Carpenter, who created the site, desperately posted on Product Hunt last night: "Hi guys, I'm the founder of this website. Please stop buying this horrible glitter product — I'm sick of dealing with it. Sincerely, Mat."

According to Carpenter's twitter, he's looking for someone to take the viral site off his hands:

ShipYourEnemiesGlitter with 1m visits, 270k social shares, $xx,xxx in sales, tonnes of people wanting to order. 24 hours old. For sale.
— Mathew Carpenter (@matcarpenter) January 14, 2015