--- title: Ship Your Enemies Glitter Founder Begs People to Stop Buying Product description: Guess we'll have to mail glitter to our enemies on our own now canonical: https://time.com/3669922/ship-your-enemies-glitter-founder-suspends-website/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-15T20:23:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:00.070Z og:title: 'Ship Your Enemies Glitter' Website Gets Too Popular, Founder Begs Everyone to Stop Using It og:description: Guess we'll have to mail glitter to our enemies on our own now og:url: https://time.com/3669922/ship-your-enemies-glitter-founder-suspends-website/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt544dc47f9b6f8261/698779a75f570f5233b14aab/glitter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: glitter og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Ship Your Enemies Glitter' Website Gets Too Popular, Founder Begs Everyone to Stop Using It twitter:description: Guess we'll have to mail glitter to our enemies on our own now twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt544dc47f9b6f8261/698779a75f570f5233b14aab/glitter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # ‘Ship Your Enemies Glitter’ Website Gets Too Popular, Founder Begs Everyone to Stop Using It by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 15, 2015 8:23 PM UTC  Young woman blows glitter into the air Young woman blows glitter into the airGetty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 15, 2015 8:23 PM UTC Earlier this week, we learned that a new service would let you [ship glitter to your enemies](http://time.com/3665913/glitter-enemies-website/), because glitter is totally impossible to get rid of — especially after you’ve unwittingly opened a large box of it. The site became so popular so quickly that its founder, Mathew Carpenter, has suspended the service and basically asked everyone to chill out. “Hi guys, I’m the founder of this website,” Carpenter wrote [on Product Hunt](http://www.producthunt.com/posts/ship-your-enemies-glitter). “Please stop buying this horrible glitter product — I’m sick of dealing with it. Sincerely, Mat.” In fact, after amassing a million page views in just 24 hours, Carpenter decided he was so overwhelmed that he’s planning to sell the site: > [](https://twitter.com/matcarpenter/status/555346429149839360) So for now, it’s unclear what the future of Ship Your Enemies Glitter will hold. We do know that currently, when you visit the site and click “Buy Now,” this is the message you see: --- > “” --- The Internet is a weird place. _Read next:_ [_You Can Now Follow Prince William and Kate on Instagram_](http://time.com/3667608/william-kate-middleton-instagram/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3669922/ship-your-enemies-glitter-founder-suspends-website/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3669922/ship-your-enemies-glitter-founder-suspends-website/"},"headline":"‘Ship Your Enemies Glitter’ Website Gets Too Popular, Founder Begs Everyone to Stop Using It","datePublished":"2015-01-15T20:23:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:00.070Z","description":"Guess we'll have to mail glitter to our enemies on our own now","url":"https://time.com/3669922/ship-your-enemies-glitter-founder-suspends-website/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt544dc47f9b6f8261/698779a75f570f5233b14aab/glitter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt544dc47f9b6f8261/698779a75f570f5233b14aab/glitter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"glitter","caption":"glitter","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3669922/ship-your-enemies-glitter-founder-suspends-website/","name":"‘Ship Your Enemies Glitter’ Website Gets Too Popular, Founder Begs Everyone to Stop Using It"}}]}] ```