Flotsam Mystery Sack unboxing
11Some of you might remember back in September there was a thread about the Flotsam General Store started by H Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob's Burgers, Home Movies) and Eugene Merman (Bob's Burgers, other stuff I guess). After months of waiting, mine finally got delivered and I promised an unboxing. So here we go!
Here I am looking weird with my flotsam mystery sack.
"Hot Topic Oven Mitts"
"Confusarisms"
"Brooklyn leaves"
"His and Hers Sexy Dice Game"
"Party Apron"
The letter
The whole lot
Value is definitely up for debate on this. It cost $40 for this mystery bag, and took three months to get delivered, and I was kind of hoping for something more unique, but oh well. The oven mitts seem totally normal but the letter says they're for "decorative purposes only" and the confusarisms box have about 30-40 cards and a bunch of cotton at the bottom to fill out the box. Also, leaves.
What do y'all think?
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I'm more intrigued by the slightly post-apocalyptic look of your office. That's a lot of empty space there, or did you shove all the furniture to one side to make a dance floor for the office party?
@Pamtha It's cute that you think we have office parties.
@Pamtha That's my office. The whole room. All of it.
@Moose I hope all those Dr Seuss fish gurgle at you all day long. I'm going back to my "the only corner window cubicle in the entire building that used to be my pride & joy"
@Moose That's a fancy chair with the broken-off arm. Y'all spare no expense on ergonomics, eh?
I really like the bag and apron but I think more than anything this has shown me that we should be charging way more for future Fukus...leaves? We have plenty of those around here!
And it's not even enough of them to do this:
@JonT I used to do that, but.... spiders....
@Pamtha Slugs
@JonT Scorpions
@Pamtha @SIMBM @carwinew cthulus
@JonT @Pamtha @SIMBM ...leaves
@JonT Because cats
@JonT
@The_Baron Great vid. That is a very happy dog.
@The_Baron Dogs are a lot like little kids. Of course, when it comes to a big pile of leaves, even this old lady finds them hard to resist.
Makes me appreciate the Fukus..... really really appreciate them! If there is a forum where people discuss their Sacks, it must be a moderator's nightmare, unless its not those kinda sacks they are discussing.
@Moose Honestly I'd be disappointed. To me that's a $10 mystery bag. Maybe $15. I'd start to feel it wasn't worth it beyond that. Def not worth $40 especially when you add in the wait
I'm so glad I didn't go for that deal. ~whew~
Since the value here seems to be more in disclosing the mystery than the actual contents, I kind of feel like everyone who reads this thread should pitch in a little reimbursement. Kind of.
It could be worse. My son foolishly signed up for a $10 mystery item at some other site. He got a neck tie.
Makes me glad I didn't opt in. I had much higher hopes from looking at their site.
@Moose For 40 bucks you could get some amazing stuff from any one of the members here. And we're sending that cool stuff to each other for FREE!
It really does make the Fukus look good.
@Teripie @Moose For sure- send me $40 and you'll get much more awesome crap than that!
Meh.
Sorry to say, that is pretty lame. Thanks for taking the chance for us though!
Looks like that is what most people are getting with the small sack:
This guy
Another person
Hey, a third
The twitters
I wonder which size @snapster ordered.
What are you, like twelve? You look like a little kid!
@lisaviolet He just looks super young. He's actually 46.
You got robbed......
It appears I need to revisit my definition of sexy. "Whisper in her ass." ??? Wtf?
@Cinoclav
@Cinoclav Alternatively, you could "Call her your daddy", because that's what every woman wants to hear.
I don't know, this looks OK to me. Granted, I placed my order last Friday, when they had less than 25 left, so I won't have to wait that long to get it (Monday), but over the weekend I realized that I was deeply afraid that the sack would contain nothing but crap from Oriental Trading. This is all stuff they had to come up with and then go out and have printed. Is it worth $40? Not literally, no. Was my first reaction to your pictures " ...oh"? Yes. Is it disappointing that there's not more variation? Yeah. But this is all custom stuff. This is basically conceptual art (that sounds ridiculous, I know, and I kind of hate myself for typing it, but it's true).
I especially like the war-mongering pot holders.
$40 for that is a joke. But the dice game made me crack up.
@Thumperchick Exactly, it's a joke. Was never going to be anything else. They're comedians!
$40 ... ouch. It makes Woot's crates look spectacular by comparison.
Dude, you got taken like a Liam Neeson film festival. Has there ever been a mystery box deal other than Woot and Meh (and not counting subscription ones like Loot Crate) that wasn't utter shit?
@Starblind Some of Woot's mystery crates have been pretty shitty, actually.
@Starblind I just got my DailySteals "mystery box" in today's mail. Makes @Moose flotsam mystery sack look good. $20 down the tubes.
@bluedog That's even more disappointing. I ordered one mens and one womans box and now I'm having the buyers regret.
@bluedog What was it?
@Moose 2 shirts (1 too small, 1 too baggy), some really ugly earrings (I don't have pierced ears), a stretch bra (WTF?), earmuffs, 3 packs of sugarless gum (best item in the bunch), an open package of generic earbuds, cheap portable vibration speaker thingy. I'd try returning it, @sushiboy said he was able to return one, but it's not worth the time, effort and return postage. I hope @DaveInSoCal has better luck than I did.
@bluedog Did you win that in a rush? I won a $20 mystery box earlier in a rush earlier this week and it hasn't shipped yet. I haven't really had high hopes and this sounds like a good time to ratchet 'em down even more.
@editorkid No, it wasn't a rush item.
That's completely disappointing. They should have included a tactileneck.
Considering the box came from the minds of two comedians, I'd say the joke is on you. Sorry @Moose and thanks for showing us what not to do with our money.
Well I'm disappointed.
You took the bullet for the rest of us and we owe you a beer, @Moose. I think it's the goat's round, so @lisaviolet will order for you.
P.S.: That chair miles off in the distance has an arm. But it's a long, long walk.
Thanks to everyone who is offering to buy me a drink/pay for my flotsam; I accept all gifts and money orders and offer nothing more in return. To everyone asking me to send them $40... No.
Nice bag. I'd like to see what the deal is with the one fish two fish red fish blue fish on the back wall.
@marklog I'm pretty sure the deal is they were Seligman gifts that we then put up on the wall. Uh...not sure if you need more info than that.
Is there a jetsom bag lurking somewhere?
@jjcas1103 I sincerely hope so. I'll probably buy it when I find it.