--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2100 og:image:height: 1181 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # ‘Ship Your Enemies Glitter’ Website Gets Too Popular, Founder Begs Everyone to Stop Using It > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. 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 air Getty 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. 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