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  Sept. 16, 2011 5:53 p.m. Woody SuperDork

  ...and today, they sent me this email:

  Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow. A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure it was in the best possible condition before mailing. Our world-renowned packing specialist lit a local artisan candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy. We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, September 16, 2011. We hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. In commemoration, we have placed your picture on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

  Thank you, thank you, thank you! Sigh... We miss you already.

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  Sept. 16, 2011 6:21 p.m. Grtechguy SuperDork

  lmao...that's awesome.

  won't buy nothin' that he can't fix, with wd40 and a craftsman wrench

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  Sept. 16, 2011 6:58 p.m. SyntheticBlinkerFluid HalfDork

  Did they really send you that?

  That's hilarious.

  '95 Jeep Cherokee / '80 Mazda Rx-7 / '68 Corvair Monza Coupe

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  Sept. 16, 2011 7:14 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

  it got your attention and you will remember it. Sounds like smart (and cheap) marketing to me

  Be careful of your words, for someone will agree with them. Be careful of your conduct, for someone will imitate it. -Leih Tsu

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  Sept. 16, 2011 7:19 p.m. fasted58 Dork

  wow, that was pretty clever of them

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  Sept. 16, 2011 7:26 p.m. madpanda New Reader

  I hope the box it arrives in actually has some gold colored paper on the inside to corroborate the story.

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  Sept. 17, 2011 7:49 a.m. Datsun1500 SuperDork

  I bought something on eBay about 10 years ago and got the same message, it was funny then, it's funny now.

  I just noticed I was a Super Dork. What do I win?

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  Sept. 17, 2011 12:27 p.m. 1988RedT2 Dork

  I just opened on online savings account. They're paying an interest rate way over the national average!

  Oooops! Wrong kind of CD.

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  Sept. 17, 2011 1:20 p.m. Joshua HalfDork

  In reply to 1988RedT2:

  Where is it from?

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  Sept. 17, 2011 3:15 p.m. Teh E36 M3 HalfDork

  I love CD baby. Eff Amazon. If they've got it, you should buy it from them or the original artist. I got the same email.

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  Sept. 17, 2011 3:55 p.m. DoctorBlade Dork

  While I love their listing of sub-genres of Metal (Oi?), I haven't heard of a single band. I'm just not that Indy.

  "Meh."

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  Sept. 18, 2011 8:56 a.m. procker Reader

  Haha, maybe they made such a big deal about it because not that many people seem to be buying actual CDs anymore? Either way, that's pretty sweet...how cool does the gold-lined box look in person?

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  Sept. 18, 2011 11:05 a.m. Stealthtercel HalfDork

  Not sure I'd trust a place that permits artisan candles in the packing department!

  No, seriously, that was some of the best and cheapest marketing I have ever seen. Well done.

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  Sept. 18, 2011 11:31 a.m. Woody SuperDork

  procker wrote: Haha, maybe they made such a big deal about it because not that many people seem to be buying actual CDs anymore? Either way, that's pretty sweet...how cool does the gold-lined box look in person?

  I'm old, so no iPod.

  The gold lined box looks cool, but not as cool as the photo of me that they have on their wall.

  Porsche. Everyday.

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