{"id":550,"date":"2011-03-30T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/03\/30\/110330-fireanttshirts\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T23:11:38","slug":"110330-fireanttshirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/03\/30\/110330-fireanttshirts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vanishing Fire Ant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update (4\/6\/11) I submitted a request for a refund via CafePress’s website and within 15 minutes was notified by email that they were granting it. They also said I could keep the shirts. Apparently they don’t want Fire Ant-less shirts either. Anyway, the interesting thing was this statement by the customer service rep: “I have checked into the image and see the “Fire Ant” design is kind of faint and may be hard to print on the dark t-shirts.” The implication is that the design is flawed, but I’ve previously ordered black and brown t-shirts with this exact graphic and they printed fine. But they have me worried now, so I guess I’ll embolden the Fire Ant graphic and update the shirts so that no one else has deal with the issue.<\/i><\/p>\n

CafePress sent a notice about their limited-time “storekeeper’s sale” wherein those of us with virtual storefronts could order our own merchandise at a discount. Since no one else will order Fire Ant t-shirts (*sob*) I decided to refresh my own wardrobe (much to my wife’s chagrin) and ordered three new black t-shirts in various colors.<\/p>\n

(Yes, you read that correctly; CafePress now calls them “dark t-shirts” but\u00a0my store has the original description of “Black T-shirt<\/a>…now comes in assorted colors!”, just another thing about life that confuses and bemuses me.)<\/p>\n

The UPS guy sneaked in sometime last night and left a package on the porch, which should give you a clue about the reputation of the Fire Ant Store; I’m surprised it wasn’t discretely wrapped in brown paper. I was like a kid on the 16th morning after Christmas Day, excitedly tearing into the package. The shirts looked great, but there was something, I don’t know, not quite right<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Now, here’s what the t-shirt looks like on the website when you order it.<\/p>\n

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And here’s what the actual product looks like:<\/p>\n

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Notice any difference?<\/p>\n

Now, I know that many (most) people think of fire ants as nuisances to be avoided, if not fatally killed. But, seriously, CafePress…must you go to such lengths?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update (4\/6\/11) I submitted a request for a refund via CafePress’s website and within 15 minutes was notified by email that they were granting it. They also said I could keep the shirts. Apparently they don’t want Fire Ant-less shirts either. Anyway, the interesting thing was this statement by the customer service rep: “I have… Continue reading The Vanishing Fire Ant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","category-navel-gazing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14138,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/14138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}