The Best "Thank You for Your Order" Email I Have Ever Received

Although not a duplicate, this story/email was submitted just over a month ago. I'll repeat here what I said there:

    Personal opinion only, but ...

    I find this sort of thing annoying. It would be
    especially annoying if I bought more than one thing,
    unless they changed it every time. But that, in turn,
    would force me to read through the entire email every
    time just to make sure they really were just saying -
    it's shipped.

    In short, life's short, and I've got better things to
    do than read through an entire, cutesy email to make
    sure that it's saying what I think it's saying, and
    not saying anything unexpected.

    It's also lying. I bet they didn't do any of that.

    "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" expresses clearly the
    difference between "Funny Always", "Funny Once", and
    "Funny Never". For me, this is somewhere between the
    last two. I hope it doesn't catch on.

    

There's a lot more to the discussion from last time - you can read it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2008639

I halfway agree. It would depend on the company, for me.

If I ordered from a stuffy corporate mega-giant like Amazon, I'd be slightly annoyed. If I ordered from somewhere serious, like ordering $2k+ computer parts I'd think they were clowns and wonder if I made a mistake.

However, if I ordered from Woot.com, I'd know it was just their brand of humor and appreciate it.

CDBaby strikes me as the corporate type, so I'd be slightly annoyed, I think.

Thank you for that neat, clear and concise evaluation of my personality. Note that I didn't include "accurate".

Last time this was submitted, and I replied, someone asked:

  > why do you hate fun?

My reply to that basically covers your comment, so I thought I'd include it here (with minor editing):

    It's clear that you think this sort of email is cute
    and fun. Possibly I used to think so too, 30 years
    ago. Now, however, I've seen too many of them, read
    too many of them, felt cheated of time by too many of
    them.

    I don't hate fun. I love having fun. I seek out having
    fun. I make time to have fun. What's not fun, pretty
    much by definition, is someone else's attempt at humor
    that is not, to me, funny.

    If it had been me receiving that email I'd've resented
    the 30 seconds it took to check that its content was
    "CD posted", and that everything else was there purely
    for entertainment. I didn't find it entertaining. My
    tastes have changed over the years.

    So, in short, I love fun, have lots of fun, and think
    lots of things are funny. That wasn't one of them.

No, you got me wrong. I get it - you hate these things. Its your compulsion to ruin everyone else's fun by posting wet-blanket pedantic diatribes against them that makes it a "precious fusspot" moment.

Be honest - the email subject told you everything you wanted to know - you didn't spend any time at all reading the crap - you just have to vent about it.

As a veteran venter I have been in that boat. Been a 'precious fusspot' myself more than once. Man enough to admit it.