1/5

posted Dec-31-2010

My husband ordered Christmas Stockings of Crap for us. He was pretty excited about it because he thought they'd be really fun to open on Xmas morning, and he'd had bags of crap from Woot before that had some pretty cool stuff inside, e.g. Jawbone headsets, digital cameras, etc.

They were ordered on Nov.29 and they arrived on Dec.29. They didn't even get shipped until something like Dec.17. My husband complained to IHTHT sometime around Dec.26 and was given a shipping refund, with an email full of lame excuses.

When the stockings came, we could hear from the clinking glass that something was broken in one of them. It was a mug, a bad mug at that, so we didn't care that it was broken, luckily. The packaging was sub-standard, however.

In terms of the crap that was inside, OMG, was it ever lame. No fun stuff, no mix of dumb stuff and awesome stuff like Woot does. This stuff was so bad, you couldn't sell it at a garage sale, you couldn't give it away, it was like stuff that was in the dollar store about five years ago. Most of it was dollar-store level stuff that was aimed at a six-year old. And these stockings cost $15 each!!!! The sum value of their contents was about $5. Woots bags of crap cost a few bucks each and give you about $50 or $75 worth of stuff, so we were expecting quite a bit more than what was in IHTHT's stockings. Plus, they were written up on IHTHT's web site as being something so great and cool and awesome that we'd be blown away. Blown away by what? Stupid X-mas tree ornaments with other people's names on them? Oh, one of those was broken, too, by the way.

Total rip-off. We will never shop from this company again. This was our third order by the way, and the others took a month or more to get here, too. Except that they weren't marketed and sold as a Christmas item, and then not delivered until after Christmas!

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