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This week’s question: Scammers on online marketplaces are shipping dollhouse-size versions of products — from tiny rice cookers to miniature camping chairs — to unsuspecting shoppers who thought they’d ordered a human-size item. In seven or fewer words, come up with a photo caption for a dissatisfied customer holding their unexpectedly tiny purchase.
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THE WINNER: I no longer support small businesses
Peter Gordon, Great Neck, New York
SECOND PLACE: Honey, they shrunk the Keds
Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts
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THIRD PLACE: Teeny, weeny, tiny, faux
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Less is more annoying
Rob Huffman, Fredericksburg, Virginia
How could they stoop so low?
Mark Thermansen, South Burlington, Vermont
Petite larceny
Phyllis Klein, Forest Hills, New York
How it feels to be Victor Wembanyama
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia
Are mice on our Amazon account again?
T. McAfee, Yonkers, New York
Slight of hand
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Perfected my shrink ray! FEAR ME! MWHAHA!!!”
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
Someone’s headed for small claims court
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
Size really does matter, in this case
Rebecca Burgan, Grass Valley, California
No added growth hormone
Larry Rifkin, Glastonbury, Connecticut
Objects online are smaller than they appear
Carol Joseph, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
My faith in humanity has been downsized
Skip Flanagan, Roseville, California
Beware the itsy bitsy Etsy!
Jason Hall, Newfields, New Hampshire
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