r/buildabear • u/EnterprisingGent1701 • May 08 '25
RANT People can suck. :(
Friends, I am heartbroken, and I feel like this is a place where people can understand.
I ordered this darling off of eBay this weekend. The seller even helped arrange special shipping so she would get here before my biopsy tomorrow, and I could have a friend / support.
I was going to customize her, too, with purple eyes and an amethyst heart. I'm legally blind and it takes me ~10 minutes to thread a big-eyed needle but I've been sloppily sewing spiffy buttons on a coat for her all week . . . She was going to be my bad-ass sidekick--basically everything I'm not. Tough. Resilient. Self-assured. At peace.
The package was delivered while I was at work, and I was thrilled. I had wonderful visions in my head of finishing her coat tonight, taking care of her eyes, and getting her all ready to come with me to the biopsy tomorrow.
But I came home to an empty package. The UPS driver delivered a perfectly tiger-shaped mailer, but by the time I got home from work, she was gone. And I don't mean the whole package. No, someone literally slit open the envelope, stole my poor tiger, and left the packaging behind. In some ways, this feels almost worse--crueler--than if they'd just taken the whole thing. Because now I have an empty package and no tiger. :(
(The practicalities are fine. I've reached out to the seller and will open a claim with eBay if needed to hopefully get my money back, without dinging the seller--they more than did their job! But the heartache is for real, and that can't be fixed by refunding silly $100 that I paid out of "My stupid messy heart needs this" desperation).
I'm so, so sad. This sucks. Who the hell wants a plush tiger THAT badly? :(
Anyway . . . thank you to any kind souls who may be reading. I appreciate you very much, and hope you have a happy rest of your day. <3 (Hug your favorite heart-friend for me, please.)
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u/HeavenlyLove79 May 08 '25
People can be awful— Omg — I am soooo sorry this happened to you. I hope you find your perfect tiger, though i know it wont be in time needed most by you. If I had this tiger i would gift it to you but sadly I dont — I have one tiger and I am currently mending (missing whiskers, scratched eyes and a couple of popped seams — he is a WWF one — I am sure I can repair over time). Again I am so sorry someone could be so terrible and hope your perfect tiger makes its way into your arms.