I do listen to feedback to improve the next Mystery Sale - this was the third ever such sale, and there has been hiccups and a steep learning curve along the way.

To everyone who participated, I'd like to give you my thanks - you've helped support the blog (and I hope have a little fun along the way).

There's a thread on the Mystery Sale on the Forum (which I check quite regularly) that may explain some of the reasonings behind the sale and shipping process.

I know its a mystery sale and you get what you get, but for next time i'd hope a little more thought would go into the prizes.

I see a t-shirt "I went to Neatorama and all I got were these lousy Strawz"

People are complaining that people are complaining.

Thank God that this is America and we can all complain as much as we want!

Straws are lame!
It's lame that you think straws are lame!

Amen!

I feel like straws are my biggest inside joke right now, too bad the only people I share it with are in cyber space.

This is hilarious people! 90% of neat-o-rama readers own STRAWZ (and most of them hate it)!

Some people should stop complaining.
As the kindergartners say
"You get what you get. And you dont throw a fit."

I was just commenting on a trend I noticed. Almost everyone was talking about straws, but there was no pic of them.

As for what 'Alex was trying to do', unless he told you that, you don't know his intention. Personally, I don't believe he was being deceptive. Again, I was just curious why there was no straws pic when that's all people were talking about.

and as for being "gyped" ... I've gotten so many free things (something like 5 books) in the past from Neatorama, I couldn't complain even if they had sent me a box of tissues. I'm still WAY above the curve in cost of items they have sent me and money I have sent them.

Anyway, somebody out there got a frigging PS3. I don't know of a lot of websites who would just toss one of those to somebody without strings attached.

Where's your loyalty? If receiving a mystery item from a fantastic website, an item that you well know could be incredibly lame, completely turns you off from it, you need to just get the heck over it. How often to you people blow at least ten dollars on brilliantly worthless stuff every day?

Ugggghhh. Spoiled!

Must not have been very popular in the online store...

Did anyone get a T-shirt, because they made a pretty big deal about choosing your size, even though you couldn't differentiate your gender...

I bought one mystery for myself and one for a friend. I told him about the strawz, and asked him to text me when he got home to tell me what he got... I got a photo text of a watch! I asked if he was serious, he said no, he got strawz. Waka waka!

her loss

I am having a dilema though. Open them and use them at the bar or give them to my nephew.
I really wanna keep them for myself. But at the same time, I know how much fun they would be for my nephew.

I love the mystery sale. I knew what I might or might not be getting. And that was why I was willing to give up the ten smackaroos for funsies.
It's a gamble. And certainly a better gamble than the "Mystery Bag" offered at the dollar store.

I can't wait for the next mystery sale.