Everything has its price
The price of having Zappos.com cut off your Significant Other’s shopping access: fifty thousand buckolas.
On the upside, you get a T-shirt:
When you purchase this limited edition t-shirt, we will permanently disable your significant other’s Zappos.com account for the rest of his/her life.
Within 30 days of purchase, a Customer Loyalty Team (“CLT”) representative from Zappos.com will arrive to the location of your choosing in the United States to break the news in person to your significant other. The CLT rep will also be a shoulder to cry on for up to 1 hour (60 minutes) for your significant other. As time permits, the CLT rep will also be available to share tears of joy with you.
Certain restrictions and disclaimers apply, of course.
(Seen here.)
fillyjonk »
12 January 2009 · 4:54 pm
That would have to be one helluva shoe habit to make it worth $50K to be cut off….
CGHill »
12 January 2009 · 5:03 pm
I’m hoping this is all a gag, but I’m waiting to hear from FWP to make it official.
Tatyana »
13 January 2009 · 6:44 am
Who’s FWP?
CGHill »
13 January 2009 · 7:00 am
Francis W. Porretto. He has grumbled before about “the C.S.O.’s shoe addiction.”
Tatyana »
13 January 2009 · 7:19 am
I’ll not ask who CSO is. Didn’t have my coffee yet; takes too much energy to go deeper into these murky abbreviation waters
fillyjonk »
13 January 2009 · 7:22 am
I just hope that Amazon doesn’t get wind of this kind of thing. Then again, maybe I just found one reason to be happy I don’t have a Significant Other….
McGehee »
13 January 2009 · 7:45 am
In Porretto’s case, Tatyana, the “C” in “CSO” is (I believe) “Curmudgeon’s.” The “SO” is as given in Fillyjonk’s comment directly above.
Tatyana »
13 January 2009 · 7:50 am
See what I meant? Now plot thickens: who is Curmudgeon? I mean, he’s not Francis, is he?
Thank god my sense of self-preservation told me to stop inquiring.
Dan B »
13 January 2009 · 7:48 pm
It obviously failed, as you’re still asking questions. ;P
Do you get your $50K back if they find a way to bypass the access block? What keeps the SO from getting on/addicted to another shoe website?
… and wouldn’t it be cheaper and easier just to cut off the SO’s credit cards?
CGHill »
13 January 2009 · 8:29 pm
So the Mrs. is opening the bills, and she’s perplexed: “Honey? Isn’t this the Visa card I lost to that purse-snatcher last year?”
“What’s the number?” She rattles off a few digits. “Yeah, that’s it.”
“I thought you said you’d reported it stolen.”
“Well, it turns out that the thief spends a hell of a lot less than you did.”
McGehee »
14 January 2009 · 10:38 am
FWP goes by many names on his blog and, yes, Curmudgeon is one of them. Sorry not to have mentioned that before.