Cards Against Humanity sells 30,000 boxes of actual poop to mock holiday consumerism

(cbc.ca) - Word to the wise, online power shoppers: If a company offers to sell you a $6 box of "bullsh*t" and explicitly states that you'll be receiving “literal feces, from an actual bull," you're probably going to end up with some cow poop in your mail box.

The purveyors of every "horrible" person's favourite party game Cards Against Humanity announced this exact sales promotion at the end of last month as part of a cheeky affront to the increasingly frenzied culture of Black Friday (and Christmas consumerism in general.)

"To help you experience the ultimate savings on Cards Against Humanity this Black Friday, we’ve removed the game from our store, making it impossible to purchase," read the company's website on Nov. 28th.

The homepage linked to an online store with only one item for sale: $6 worth of "bullsh*t" packaged in a Cards Against Humanity box with some cartoon poop emblazoned on the side.

Hopeful that the company (which has been known to prank customersin the past) would perhaps include something better than animal poopinside the box, many of the game's fans shelled out $6 for some Cards Against Humanity bullsh*t on Black Friday.

The sale got so much hype, in fact, that all 30,000 of the available poop packages were sold within just 30 minutes of the sale going live.

Yet, despite several prominent assertions on the company's website that customers were definitely buying actual poop in a box, a good chunk of those early buyers did not want to receive poop this Christmas.