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Guy Orders Custom Size 14.5 Slipper, Company Sends Size 1,450 Instead

by James Plafke | 9:45 am, October 20th, 2011

27-year-old Tom Boddingham’s feet are different sizes; his right foot is a size 13, and his left foot is a size 14.5. He ordered a pair of custom-made slippers to fit his differently-sized feet, but the manufacturers in China misread the decimal point in the larger, size 14.5 slipper, and produced a size 1,450 slipper instead and shipped it out to Boddingham. The slipper measures 7 feet long, and is large enough to comfortably fit a person inside for use as a very odd sleeping bag.

Boddingham notes the size and mentions his a plan for the accidental slipper:

“It was sent directly from Hong Kong and measures 210 x 130 x 65cms — the same length as a grizzly bear or a family car. I reckon I must be the owner of the biggest slipper in the world.

I’m going to sell it online and if I can make a few quid out of it then all the better.”

A spokesman for the company who made the slipper, Monster Slippers — aptly named after taking one look at the slipper design — said the slipper was produced due to a “translation error,” and they have apologized to Boddingham and are sending out a slipper with the proper size. Interestingly, the factory workers didn’t give much though to the odd-sized slipper, as they simply thought it was a prop for a window display.

(Mirror via The Daily What)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1016288766 Criona Gavin

    Ohmy god. You could sleep in it. o_O

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1016288766 Criona Gavin

    o_O

  • Lars Martin

    How much did he have to pay for this monster?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_E5QVRPSMFSW2JAHR2HGBYR7MEU Kellogs

    Did he not look at what he had been charged? How could this be unexpected?

  • Karlo_victorio

    You know the thing they say about large feet? How does that work for him?

  • AstroTurf Boy

    Ever heard of creative marketing? I wonder how many hits the site of said company producing the slippers is getting right now.

  • http://www.knosysnetworks.com/ Wireless Network Installations

    Hahah wow, that’s a funny mistake!

  • Rexel99

    Monster shipping charge too.

  • Guest

    chances are that he wasn’t charged anything extra.  He probably just paid the normal price, since he submitted an order for a size 14.5, and was charged by the sales system for his order, with total posted and receipt sent per actual correct order.  Since the mistake was in the manufacturing line, they don’t care about the prices or the sales stuff – they just get the specs of what to make, and send it out.

  • AmazedByAstroTurfBoy

    That is effing brilliant.

  • SeeChao

    I need to find this manufacturer and have a bed made for the price of a large slipper…

  • Noname

    Size 14.5 is approximately 30cm. Hence, size 145 is ~3m and size 1450 is ~30m. The slipper on the picture is definitely not 30 meters long, neither it is 3 meters long. (as the author states it is 210cm, and CAN NOT be a size 1450)

    Conclusion:
    1. This is a viral ad for the “Monster Slippers”
    or
    2. Size 1450 is a lie produced either by Tom, or by the journalist
    or/and
    3. Tom purchased the “mega slipper” on purpose and came up with the “stupid Chinese workers” story.

  • Setauket

    highly doubt they simply shipped him that without charging him 400 dollars more beforehand but OK, funny for the morons I guess.  

  • http://twitter.com/FlyingLeech Andrew Teece

    Based on which system of show measuring? I know there’s several systems

  • sam

    i bet ya Tom Boddingham works in advertising. probably for a company with a Monster Slippers account. 

  • sam

    viral advertising has become so derivative.

    snore. 

  • Alex

    :) Very nice!


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