The Week's contest: Small sale

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.

Click here to see the results of last week's contest: Sexless romance 

RESULTS:

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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 

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