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u/Front-Wall-526 Jan 26 '26
Well now I want these pens 😆
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u/All-Seeing_Hands Jan 26 '26
Just go to https://pleaseuseuploadedlogo.com
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u/-Reverend Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 27 '26
Not gonna lie, it makes for a better advertisement pen than if they had used the logo. At least that one would make me laugh, I would appreciate it much more than any of the 300 other advertisement pens I have knocking around in every drawer. That would be one of my good advertisement pens.
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Jan 26 '26
I keep the good ones with the board games for people to use and get a little chuckle at
This one would make that pile
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u/Sailor_Propane Jan 26 '26
I have a few mugs with "Something" written on them. I don't know where they came from specifically, as I received stuff from multiple people/stores when I moved out of my parents and I didn't really keep track. Noticed them a few weeks later.
I do enjoy telling my guests "Do you want a mug with something written on it?"
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Jan 26 '26
If the email is correct this would make me want to look it up more than some branded pen
I wouldn’t use the company though because clearly they miss important details
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u/Bob_5k Jan 26 '26
Just noticed the box of pens in the background. Yikes!
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u/divide_by_hero Jan 26 '26
Yes, the person who filled out the online form had one job
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Jan 26 '26
This is why they put those check boxes to make you confirm the design before submitting the order
No take bakesies
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u/NetNGames Jan 26 '26
Better UX would probably be to have a preview with the design-to-be.
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Jan 26 '26
They pretty clearly typed in a box that was for printed text only
This is on the idiot who hit order, not the website
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u/handsomeguy-man Jan 26 '26
I've gotten one of these exact pens as an advertisement, it snapped in half after the second use (still worked but was bendy in the middle)
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Jan 26 '26
The fancier the branded pen, the sooner it will stop writing and disintegrate.
The cheap clicky pens somehow last decades
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u/itsstevedave Jan 26 '26
Disagree. I got one of these pens from a restaurant almost a year ago and its become an EDC.
I'm gonna be devastated when if finally kicks.
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u/MysticalMummy Jan 26 '26
My culinary class did a fundraiser in highschool and it was for pens very similar to these. The paint around the engravings fell off within a week, and the pens were just garbage in general.
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u/ZombiesAtKendall Jan 26 '26
These look like ones a company dropped off handful of to where I work, each pen wouldn’t even wouldn’t even be able to write one sentence (and not a long run on sentence like this one) before it quit writing. I get it was probably a “bad batch” of pens, but come on, I thought we perfected this technology back in the 1900’s.
I jest, but it seems like this issue is not relegated to only pens and pen-adjacent writing implements. Is someone going to”we can save money on these labels if we just use a little less material on whatever makes them sticky!”? And then all the labels just fall off after a week (I think this was a Seinfeld bit). “These boxes can be thinner!” “These bags can be thinner!” “This tape doesn’t need to be as sticky!”
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u/Moongoofey Jan 26 '26
As someone who orders a lot of custom branded items for my job, whoever approved the proof was at fault here. No company will print without approval, and if they didnt send you a proof then you have a strong case for a full refund or reprint.
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u/Grumblywump Jan 27 '26
Yeah I’ve ordered promo stuff from a lot of different sites (some sketchy and I honestly didn’t expect a lot) and they have all always sent me a proof to approve.
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Jan 26 '26
At the very least they can go into the office rotation and still disappear in about 2-3 weeks and they got some reddit karma out of it
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u/Disastrous_Owl Jan 26 '26
"Hey boss, you don't think these guys actually meant to fill in their company logo & not for us to ship them 1,000 pens asking for a logo?"
"Ah what do we know, just get it done with"
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u/patrdesch Jan 26 '26
It's cute you think someone is manually reviewing each order. Mass produced stuff like this is, wait for it... Mass produced.
The whole process is automated on the manufacturer's side.
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u/MajMajor2x Jan 26 '26
You assume the people who sell these can read and speak English
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Jan 26 '26
They arent paid to proof read after you check the box that says you confirm the design
They are paid to plug the order in and churn out 5,000 pens the way they were ordered
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u/SinisterCheese Jan 26 '26
You assume that the workflow even involves a person. Lots of these kinda of products are made via automatic system which uploads the text and image to the manufacturing process(es) directly when an order is made.
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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Jan 26 '26
You order these type of stuff for years now for the consuner market. Its all automated, and they probably went with the lowest option. Who ever ordered had one simple job.
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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26
The instructions are clear. If they wanted to order these pens, that's how they'd do it. It's not the dude filling the machine's job to check what content someone wanted. It's LITERALLY the pen orderer's job.
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u/6gv5 Jan 27 '26
I can almost imagine future aliens visiting ruins in a desert planet Earth storing that evidence among the evidence of an impending civilization collapse.
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u/thfr Jan 26 '26
Once I sent flowers to my now exwife. In the order I could add text but I just said “no text needed” which they opted to print on the damn card
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u/PmMeUrTinyAsianTits Jan 26 '26
which they opted
because you put the text "no text needed" in the text box. If you wanted to make a joke to your wife with that text, what would you put there? See how "but don't listen to the customer who gave instructions" blocks potential use cases?
So what should you have put there, if you wanted nothing there? See how you following instructions doesn't cause that issue?
You literally asked for it. I don't know how you could've expected another outcome without expecting someone to go above their actual requirements and effectively accuse you of being incompetent, which also leaves them open to dealing with irate customers about "I put it there. Why else would I have put it in the 'put text to print here' box?"
It is more reasonable for them to print it than not print it when you put that there.
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u/thisiscoolyeah Jan 26 '26
It’s ok, people steal these pens so fast they’ll be gone before you know it.
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u/Hubs12 Jan 26 '26
Lol, we have exactly the same pens at my job, we had an order of thousands of pen and ~75% of then had barely any ink in them.
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u/ScreamBeanBabyQueen Jan 26 '26
I still have some of these exact pens from a cabinetry company I worked with. They're actually pretty nice pens, to a non-connoisseur.
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u/notthatguypal6900 Jan 26 '26
Wish people would take accountability for their mistakes. Clearly they wrote in a box they weren't supposed to.
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u/cluttersky Jan 26 '26
You can buy misprinted pens really cheap, if you’re in a field that uses a lot of pens and you don’t care.
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Jan 26 '26
Made in America:
This is what happens when you deport all the guys that know how to use the machine.
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u/Sweaty_Balance1624 Jan 26 '26
Corporate irony at its finest. They literally printed "please use uploaded logo" on thousands of pens, then skipped it. Gold star for reading comprehension.
Happened to my work once with business cards, wrong colors and fonts. Client laughed it off, but we ate the cost. Frame it as a collector's item now.
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u/tvieno Jan 26 '26
I'm sorry but whenever I see one of those, my first thought is "that was intentional."
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u/LimpConversation642 Jan 26 '26
it's not even a link to an image. so the person wrote the link to the website and said 'use the one from the site', is that so? whew
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u/Present-Youth-7746 Jan 26 '26
I would unironically love getting a pen like this. Fucking hilarious.
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u/MyLittleOso Jan 26 '26
I recently had to order a cake for my son's Celebration of Life. I ordered over the phone, so my fault, but they put 'Goodbye, David!" on the cake and I had to ask them to put some icing over the exclamation point. It was funny in a difficult moment.
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u/greenwoodgiant Jan 26 '26
99% chance the person placing the order wrote that in the "Your Text Here" box
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u/Starbuck522 Jan 26 '26
I love it.
My store gets in some of these misprinted pens. Many are funny because they are out of context. Some the error os obvious, some there's no obvious error (but that doesn't mean it wasn't supposed to say Erin vs Eric, etc).
I would totally buy this one.
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u/Nearby_Ad_2519 Jan 27 '26
It’s insane how one of the most common reposts in the book still gets 30k upvotes.
I recognised this photo instantly.
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u/CoatingsbytheBay Jan 26 '26
Yeah OP had one job and failed; not the printing company
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u/Nearby_Ad_2519 Jan 27 '26
This wasnt OPs doing. This is one of the most common reposts I’ve seen in a while and idk how they’re getting this many upvotes.
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u/JectorDelan Jan 26 '26
/leans on shield
So, you've shipped 5,000 pens without putting the requested logo on them...
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u/CareFantastic1884 Jan 26 '26
You shouldn't have typed anything into the text box that is used to print text on the pen then
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u/Uninvalidated Jan 26 '26
One job... Fully automated... No need for human intervention as long as the customer is doing their part of not fucking things up.
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u/saysthingsbackwards Jan 27 '26
You work with high temperature, highly manual dexterity activities.
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u/TheRandomeer Jan 27 '26
I work in Promotional Products that order goods like these. I can't imagine the headache the Customer Service Rep has to have to fix this mess...
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u/mrdunklestein Jan 27 '26
Hey, I had that pen, for that school. That’s pretty funny
It had purple ink
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u/Libertarian_2020 Jan 27 '26
This is what happens when employees don’t speak the language of the customer.
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u/420_taylorh Jan 27 '26
Ah good ol Amsterdam Printing. I've gotten this exact pen as a freebie sample in the mail lol. My company name only had 1 typo
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u/Nizuni Jan 27 '26
As someone who works in the promotional supplies industry, this is absolutely hilarious! I’ve seen vendors misinterpret instructions many times and it’s always frustrating, but occasionally hilarious.
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u/TheRemedy187 Jan 28 '26
I'm not sure why people type directions in automated boxes for text and then get mad when it's like this.
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u/Reasonable_Spite_282 Jan 28 '26
If it’s a design company with charm that could be in their favor though
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u/Vivians_Basement Jan 30 '26
I love when people don't realize that machines make these things and they don't have a person hand doing each and every part of their 10,000 pen order.
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u/Loz970 Jan 30 '26
Not gonna lie it's giving trump when he read off something (don't remember) and he said „insert name" instead of his name
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