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So he's been to the post office, just not with your stuff

how have you deduced that then? And why do you keep saying he's stolen your money? As far as i can tell he's passed your money onto a jeweler, who's made something nice & special, which Jo now has to send out to you. That seems to be taking some time, presumably because he's prioritsing work that pays the bills. Not really stealing is it?

I see there's a lynch mob forming over the lack of issue 62 as well.

This place has really gone downhill....


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 1:59 pm
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I'd be fuming if it was my money he'd stolen.

but he's an artist not a mail order company.
apparently that absolves him from any kind of blame or responsibility to inform his customers as to the whereabouts of their purchases,
maybe he's waiting for the muse to appear from the ether and the creative urge will result in an apology or some kind of admission of guilt?

i wouldn't hold your breath.


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:04 pm
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I still can't believe that a bunch of supposedly sensible adults sent their money off to a bloke they don't know in return for a lump of metal in the shape of a cartoon sheep.

There are three possible outcomes:
1. You will all eventually get your tin sheep and within a couple of months, Jo Burt will once again be considered a hero because he draws pictures of sheep on bicycles and gets it published in a monthly magazine that only kids read (and probably don't bother to read the sheep comic because it seems to like XC and that is for nerds, innit)
2. Jo Burt will appear on here with some scathing post about how he is an artist and you people don't understand him, have insulted him greatly and you can have your money back and he will keep all the tin sheep. Somehow, he will come out of this smelling of roses.
3. He will keep your money, the tin sheep don't actually exist (and never will) and in the next issue of MBUK, the Mint Sauce cartoon will depict him having a trail poo and wiping his backside with your money, followed by that badly drawn cow one saying "MUGS" in bold letters.


 
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๐Ÿ˜€


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:20 pm
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It'd almost be worth it for this post


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:22 pm
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He will keep your money, the tin sheep don't actually exist (and never will) and in the next issue of MBUK, the Mint Sauce cartoon will depict him having a trail poo and wiping his backside with your money, followed by that badly drawn cow one saying "MUGS" in bold letters.

Priceless, absolutely priceless.

My PA is now wondering why I'm s****ing loudly.....


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:30 pm
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What pitch fork for unruly mobs?


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:31 pm
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Ok, I think we've given the guy enough of a chance, what can we now legally do to get our money back? He's had more than enough chances to get them sent out now and obviously doesn't give a flying funk about his reputation.


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:32 pm
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No - I want my sheep! And am prepared to wait ๐Ÿ˜ฏ


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:36 pm
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has anybody phoned crimewatch?


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:37 pm
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has anybody phoned crimewatch?

No but I phoned Countryfile.


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:38 pm
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John - the point is this is also paying work. We are also customers. Maybe the key distinction is that we paid Jo first whereas Future pay him when he's done? Fi sent Jo money in April for cufflinks for me as a "new job" present. I've been here for 8 months now.

If there are hold ups outside Jo's control then that is fine but if (as seems to be the case) he's had our stuff for best part of a month and has time to go riding, drink coffee , take new comissions and tweet about it then that is very different.


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:38 pm
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I really don't think you're going to get it Diane, any decent person would have sent an email appologising and got them out as soon as possible rather than pissing around on Twitter etc.
Do you really want to be reminded of how you've been treated like sh*t by him every time you look in the mirror and see your mint sauce pendant?


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:44 pm
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i don't mean to bleat on but you lot are lot are acting like lambs, maybe you should all flock round there and see what the sheepish goon has to say for himself. ram the point home that you will not be shorn of your money so easily.


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 2:51 pm
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What a grubby little man he is. ๐Ÿ˜ณ


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 3:11 pm
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Ok, I think we've given the guy enough of a chance, what can we now legally do to get our money back? He's had more than enough chances to get them sent out now and obviously doesn't give a flying funk about his reputation. [/i]

Have you asked for it back?


 
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Posted : 13/12/2010 3:23 pm
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Is JoB currently working in the Singletrack subs department? No sign of issue 62 yet here at MFL mansion.


 
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I bet Jo Burt is quaking in his boots, imagining the damage to his reputation as a handful of people who don't read MBUK anyway vow that if they were to, they'd skip over the Mint Sauce page.

I imagine that after a career of what, 20 years drawing a cartoon sheep, he hates the stupid thing and everything that goes with it. I wonder how many times he has drawn Mint Sauce getting stuck in a cattle grid and having it's eyes pecked out by ravens, laughed, crumpled it up, thrown it in the bin and then drawn the usual nonsense to send off to MBUK?


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 5:03 pm
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8 month so fyour money and no goods and all you can do is moan on an internet forum - I would have used the plods some time ago.
Does not seem to care much for his fan base or for customer relations.


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 5:09 pm
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It all seems a bit sad really and he seems to have enough money in his life not to care about customers. It seems that he has enough of a following to develop a range of merchandise should he so wish, such as t shirts etc, but in the end it seems he doesn't give a hoot. Oh well. So much for the credit crunch affecting everyone in equal proportion - his business must be doing really well to treat his customers and people this badly.


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 5:13 pm
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I wonder how many times he has drawn Mint Sauce getting stuck in a cattle grid and having it's eyes pecked out by ravens, laughed, crumpled it up, thrown it in the bin and then drawn the usual nonsense to send off to MBUK?

i guess about 12 times a year?


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 5:39 pm
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Solicitors letter?


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 5:43 pm
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I just wanted a replacement key ring is all...

As key rings weren't an option I didn't order anything. I'm all sorted for cufflinks and I don't wear jewellery.

Anyway does someone have a mint sauce key ring they can lend me for a few days?


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 5:47 pm
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how have you deduced that then? And why do you keep saying he's stolen your money?

Hard to see a wooden meerkat that's in the post office without actually going there. I'd assume. I'm no aficionado of wooden animal selling post offices though so I could be wrong.

In terms of saying he's stolen my money, I've done no such thing as I never sent him any in the first place. He's stolen other people's money though as it's clear he can't be bothered to send the items they paid for despite having time to tweet about timber mammals and procrastination.


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 5:47 pm
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Anyway does someone have a mint sauce key ring they can lend me for a few days?

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I do as it happens. Found it the other day! Brought it to Swinley last Sunday, but I don't think you could make it that day or something.

(Wonders just how precious a MS keyring is these days...)


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 5:50 pm
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Anyway does someone have a mint sauce key ring they can lend me for a few days?

someone asked exactly that a while ago, try doing a search ๐Ÿ˜€


 
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Posted : 13/12/2010 5:51 pm
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(sorry)

300 !


 
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Posted : 13/12/2010 5:54 pm
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Very precious indeed. I'd pay up to 5 pounds for one I might even go to 6 at a push.


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 5:59 pm
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Small Claims Court? You can download the forms iirc.


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 6:17 pm
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Ok, I think we've given the guy enough of a chance, what can we now legally do to get our money back?

Er, I wrote something up there ^^^ (mainly in jest).

Go to court. Obtain injunction. Serve injunction. Receive goods.

But you'd like to think it wouldn't have to come to that, surely?


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 6:54 pm
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You can raise a class action I think.

No idea how, I only do proper law ๐Ÿ˜Ž


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 7:00 pm
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Is it too late to order one of these trinkets?


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 7:01 pm
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The thread that keeps on giving...


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 7:08 pm
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No idea how, I only do proper law

Do you really?

Blimey, and there's me thinking you spent most of your time on here... ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 7:19 pm
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See i'm thinking that i'd quite like one - is it too late to order? what's the delivery times like??


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 7:41 pm
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maybe Mr Joseph Burt has been sectioned?
found this on the mint sauce twitter

"this light at the end of the day when even the highways seem still the map in my hands folded shut"

rambling words of a cretin or somebody needing the assistance of a mental health professional?

this is the last entry

"you gullible sheep paid for a chris king headset and a new set of felt tips"


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 8:07 pm
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LOL @ Mr. Smith


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 8:13 pm
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Hard to see a wooden meerkat that's in the post office without actually going there. I'd assume. I'm no aficionado of wooden animal selling post offices though so I could be wrong.

Yup, I got that bit. Wonder what he could've been doing there?


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 8:22 pm
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We may have lost the x factor, but we still have this thread!!


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 8:30 pm
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Yup, I got that bit. Wonder what he could've been doing there?

You're not the only one...


 
Posted : 13/12/2010 9:26 pm
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buying scratchcards with the tin sheep money?


 
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