wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources shipyourenemiesglitter.com news newspapers books scholar jstor free images october 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message ship your enemies glitter founded january 2015 country of origin australia founder s mathew carpenter 1 ceo peter boychuk website shipyourenemiesglitter.com type of site retail shipyourenemiesglitter.com is an online business set up in early january 2015 . 2 3 it commenced business on monday 12 january 2015 and offers a glitter bombing service by postal mail . 4 the website was started by sydney based australian entrepreneur matthew carpenter . 1 it offers to send an envelope packed with glitter to someone that a customer dislikes . 5 the website received significant media coverage 6 and was described as having received over 1.3 million visits being mentioned on internet social media about 300 000 times on facebook and twitter within its first 24 hours . 7 carpenter described himself as somewhat overwhelmed by the interest and removed ability to order glitter after receiving thousands of requests from people wanting to purchase the product . 8 later that month the shipyourenemiesglitter.com website was put up for sale on the domain auction website flippa carpenter saying please stop buying this horrible glitter product i m sick of dealing with it . 8 writing in response to the sale fairfax media newspaper the age wondered whether the reference to tonnes of people wanting to order meant that no envelopes of glitter had in fact ever been posted carpenter commenting in an email interview that the website is only 48 hours old so we don t have any customers you can speak to . 6 on 22 january 2015 the company was purchased by peter boychuk of buford georgia for us 85 000 and under new ownership the company began mailing letters for the first time . 3 9 references edit a b holiday ryan exclusive how this man got the media to fall for shipyourenemiesglitter stunt new york observer . february 27 2015 kamen matt 13 january 2015 . startup will glitterbomb your least favourite people . wired uk . cond nast . retrieved 19 january 2015 . a b taylor jordyn has shipyourenemiesglitter become a legitimate glitter shipping company new york observer . february 27 2015 izadi elahe 16 january 2015 . yes you can pay someone to ship glitter to your enemies . the washington post . nash holdings llc . retrieved 19 january 2015 . eleftheriou smith loulla mae 18 january 2015 . shipyourenemiesglitter.com founder matthew carpenter pleads with people to stop buying this horrible glitter product and puts site up for sale . the independent . independent print limited . retrieved 19 january 2015 . a b parker scott 16 january 2015 . glitterpreneur hits twitter with for sale sign but where s the sparkle . the age . fairfax media . retrieved 21 january 2015 . ship your enemies glitter blows up in founder s face is for sale . the huffington post . 19 january 2015 . retrieved 19 january 2015 . a b hern alex 16 january 2015 . ship your enemies glitter founder sells company after begging users to stop . the guardian . guardian media group . retrieved 19 january 2015 . taylor jordyn meet the man who paid 85 000 for ship your enemies glitter new york observer . february 27 2015 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title shipyourenemiesglitter.com & oldid 739874913 categories australian websiteshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from october 2015all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 september 2016 at 16 20 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view