Feb 6 2010How To: Disappoint A Friend On Their Birthday
Send a ball, that's how. Or nothing. Honestly, I'd prefer nothing. At least you won't piss my mailman off (he already f***s up all my packages).
Send a Ball, the online store that lets you create personalized inflatable balls for any occasion, made its ABC Shark Tank debut tonight. Here's how the business started: "One day I [co-founder Michele) was in Osco, saw a BIN of bouncy balls, grabbed one and thought "I can mail this". Took a sharpie, addressed it to my BFF Sharon, wrote "Have BALL with your new baby", went to the post office and mailed it."
Balls start at $20 and include shipment to anywhere in the US. Which, for a $1 ball and $1 worth of postage, is a 1,000% markup. Which I think we can all agree, is the American way. Also: fat with a false sense of entitlement.
News video with two annoying chicks after the jump.
Send a Ball Makes Shark Tank Debut [techeblog]
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Reader Comments
1. panipori - February 6, 2010 7:00 PM
1rst
2. h - February 6, 2010 7:06 PM
SECAND
3. Cakeflour - February 6, 2010 7:17 PM
Third? Maybe?
4. adam - February 6, 2010 7:20 PM
4thish
also some joke about my balls
5. bman - February 6, 2010 7:24 PM
perfect gift: buy two and on both of them write "how do you like my balls"
6. WhateverHelpsYouSleepAtNightBtch - February 6, 2010 7:33 PM
What!? Prefer nothing? This is awesome. It's way better than sending a potato or a banana in the mail! This is ground breaking stuff!
7. Johnnycakes - February 6, 2010 7:53 PM
they should sell these
8. Pat the Monkey - February 6, 2010 7:58 PM
Hauling big inflatable balls from one end of the country to the other for a dollar will be the certain death of our country's postal service. Fantastic use of our nation's resources, ladies.
9. Truk - February 6, 2010 8:13 PM
Slow internet weirdness day? Hoping tomorrow for plenty of vids featuring people hurting themselves from shoveling their walkways. Of course I want these vids to be CG, I can't stand the thought of people getting hurt.... heellllo heaven, did you see what I said?
10. mtk - February 6, 2010 9:33 PM
But what's up with the fat pale androgynous postal carrier with the ill-fitting uniform and the painted stubby fingernails? I am seriously creeped out by this headless apparition.
11. WhateverHelpsYouSleepAtNightBtch - February 6, 2010 9:48 PM
@7 SendABall.com
They got super creative with the name =]
12. ShamWOW! - February 6, 2010 10:02 PM
lol, ball
cuz if you make ball plural its balls
and balls are funny
13. lem - February 6, 2010 11:28 PM
Or i can go to a bin of balls, get a sharpie, write whatever myself and give personally to my BFF Sharon for a fraction of the cost.
14. needcaffeine - February 7, 2010 12:23 AM
interestingly this was featured on "Shark Tank" on TV (a show were entrepreneurs try to sell investors on an equity stake for X dollars)
the Sharks said no
15. r k - February 7, 2010 12:28 AM
perfect gift for a wussy guy who has no balls.
16. rdrazzle - February 7, 2010 12:44 AM
The best part about this episode was how the ladies making the balls used their kids to blowup balls. They got accused of child labour, and the investors wanted NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
Plus it's a retarded idea.
17. FreeXbox360Games - February 7, 2010 12:52 AM
I get free xbox 360 games from Points2shop..you can tell or ps3 games or wii games or anything else you like on amazon.com...
just check out http://www.points2shop.com/?ref=uin1250925802
and your on your way to free items from amazon to!
18. anonymousryan - February 7, 2010 12:59 AM
If you filled these things with helium you could really save on shipping.
19. JJtoob - February 7, 2010 1:22 AM
Do it the oldschool way: teabagging. Well, that's two balls in many cases, but just tell your friend to not be greedy and have only one ball.
20. melissa - February 7, 2010 6:41 AM
@10 mtk
I was wondering the same thing!! WTF??? I think the pants are on backwards. Creepy mailman or mailwoman or whatever that is.
21. John Cocktosesen - February 7, 2010 7:10 AM
Fat with a false sense of entitlement. You can always change citizenship....please? Maybe downtown XYZ-zakstan will take you..they have it much better, you're right. America is crap...you guys are geniuses.
22. Marcus - February 7, 2010 10:50 AM
Should be named.
mtfriendsareassholes.com
23. naas - February 7, 2010 10:57 AM
i should've guessed you were canadian
24. Jayson - February 7, 2010 11:24 AM
I saw that on SHARK TANK!!!!!!!!!!!
25. atheistgirl - February 7, 2010 1:38 PM
Shark Tank?
Is that like Dragons Den?
26. atd - February 7, 2010 2:07 PM
I would get this for someone.
27. Michelle - February 7, 2010 3:02 PM
This was totally on Shark Tank.
28. leak - February 7, 2010 3:48 PM
2:23
"The lady with the balls, we love her".
Circus freak.
29. DH - February 7, 2010 4:49 PM
i guess EVERYONE is watching the superbowl :( cept me
30. GHEY MAN - February 7, 2010 7:51 PM
POST SOMETHING NEW FUCKER!!!
31. J-man the Cobra - February 7, 2010 8:40 PM
Woh there, number 30. It's Superbowl Sunday, GW doesn't have to post nothing if he don't want to. Nigga GANGSTA!
32. phil - February 7, 2010 9:06 PM
HOW TO: Disappoint your fans by staying mia for faaar to long.
33. GHEY MAN - February 7, 2010 9:08 PM
nerds don't watch team sports. NOW GIVE ME A NEW DAMN POST GW! I'M GOING THROUGH WITHDRAWAL!
34. GHEY MAN - February 7, 2010 9:10 PM
plus coming to geekologie is like winning the superbowl, but better
35. Christian Dior Shoes - February 7, 2010 9:29 PM
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36. Johnnycakes - February 7, 2010 11:26 PM
he's probably fucking bitches and getting money, no big deal.
37. jeeves - February 8, 2010 12:27 AM
the only balls i want are gw's balls =D
38. Boodle - February 8, 2010 8:25 AM
@25:
Yup, it's exactly like Dragons Den
39. Roba Fett - February 8, 2010 8:28 AM
GW what the hell i need geeky shit to look at dammit
40. Closet Nerd - February 8, 2010 9:28 AM
If someone mails me a ball like that, it better be filled with the sticky icky.... just sayin
41. STOMPY - February 8, 2010 9:28 AM
i once tried to send my balls through the mail but it took about 2.5 million in postage.... so instead i just sent a novelty eagle head and all was good.
42. STOMPY - February 8, 2010 10:00 AM
@40
how about a condom i swallowed than crapped out filled with sitcky icky?
43. Ryan - February 8, 2010 10:12 AM
EVERYONE IS GETTING BALLS FOR THEIR [HOLIDAY] PRESENT
44. duke nukem - February 8, 2010 10:28 AM
I'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL
45. KBOTZ - February 8, 2010 10:57 AM
i'd send it deflated to save on freight. They can blow up they're own damn ball. Whatya think i'm made a money?
46. naas - February 8, 2010 10:57 AM
@32 you should be thanking GW for all that's been put into what you have seen on geekologie, not what you don't on the weekend. Get off your fucking computer & find something else to do instead of waiting all day sunday for another article
@33 you're right, cept there's mostly geeks here, not nerds
@36 he was, everyone needs a break once in awhile
@40 absolutely
@41 I doubt there's too many people here who know about the novelty eagle head deal, wtf happened to Pew³ anyways? Good times...
47. duke nukem - February 8, 2010 10:59 AM
@naas
just cause they don't know about novelty eagle heads doesn't mean novelty eagle heads don't know about them....
48. naas - February 8, 2010 11:04 AM
@47 true that nukem, I do believe the eagle head is all knowing
49. GiNa - February 8, 2010 11:58 AM
20 dolla for a dam ball, heeelll no. Id rather just pick up the phone and say whatever I needed to say for free, or atleast for much less.
50. kris - February 8, 2010 3:41 PM
this is bullsh*t.
imagine the post office arriving to ur door on ur birthday and its a damn ball. i would not be that persons friend anymore.
51. klub-o-matk - February 9, 2010 6:39 AM
creepy Crap - american Way yeah ABC-rewarded yawn - wonder where medias were invented anyway .....
52. tommy - February 10, 2010 10:36 AM
Did the one lady say "We love the lady with the balls"? Someone has a secret.
53. Michele at Sendaball - February 10, 2010 1:00 PM
Listen folks - this is Michele. I was on SHARK TANK with my sister. The sharks LOVED us. We spent 1 hour and 40 minutes talking to them before they said to us, "you ladies don't need us, you are going to be successful". They did us a favor. We no longer need an investor. As for the FAT POSTAL WORKER PICTURE....that was ME, Michele. Thanks for calling me FAT, I really appreciate that. Too bad someone never loved you so much to send you a ball - our customers are AWESOME and most people who get a ball in the mail, order a ball for someone else within 48 hours. Amazing. 17% of my customers are postal workers. We were on the front cover of the Postal Annual Report, talking about creative ways they are raising REVENUE. Hmmm. You must have an NBA. Laughter is fun. So are balls.
54. Ed - February 10, 2010 1:07 PM
I'll do this shit myself for much less.
55. black jesus - February 10, 2010 6:29 PM
people are so fucking stupid they will buy anything
so, i guess you have to be proud of finding a new way for idiots to get scammed... or something
Balls start at $20 and include shipment to anywhere in the US. Which, for a $1 ball and $1 worth of postage, is a 1,000% markup. Which I think we can all agree, is the American way. Also: fat with a false sense of entitlement.
hahahahaha - so sad yet so true
enjoy all that extra donut money, you fat bitches