My dear friend Nellie, my erstwhile Frost management cohort and all round proper proper good egg, whom most of you know I’m sure, sent this email to a US cookie cutter manufacturer for an asterisk design so that she may continue her fine tradition of making delicious progressive biscuits to be consumed at Frost/Esoteric gigs albeit in a slightly more bespoke way.
The following email exchange is 100% real I assure you –
From: Nellie
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010
To: rcpoulson@…
Subject: Custom cutter
Good Morning,
I was wondering if you could give me a quote for producing a cookie cutter about 2.5 inches from the attached design.
I’m in the UK so please include shipping costs.
Thank you in advance for your time
Nellie
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Hello,
We can custom make your design in a 2 ∏” cutter with back and handle. There will be a design fee of $20.00 and the cutter will be $24.95. International orders are shipped via USPS Priority Mail International. Their web site quotes shipping to the UK for one cutter at $43.45 for a total of $88.40. If you are interested in purchasing three of the cutters I can waive the design fee. That cost would be $74.85 for the cutters and $55.95 for shipping or a total of $130.80. All prices are in USD.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Regards…
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“We look forward to hearing from you”…
I love it that a company can sincerely quote $130 for a cookie cutter. It makes me glad that there may still indeed be, albeit in a slightly strange way, some hope in the world.
Mmmmm. Cookies. Not tasted Nellies, but just polished off 4 of Millies!!
these are my frost cookies from a few years back
a $130 cookie cutter is a good cookie cutter…apparently…
yum!
I’m disturbed by the cost of shipping…
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