It’s not unheard of for packages to get lost in transit – however, it’s an entirely different story when your order arrives without the most important thing you ordered. That’s exactly what happened to a disgruntled Redditor whose Sweetwater flight case arrived without a guitar inside. Little did he know, his guitar was safely in the hands of Slipknot’s Jim Root.
Before discovering who had accidentally received his guitar, the Redditor took to the net to air his grievances. In a now-deleted pair of posts, the Qatar-based user revealed he had ordered a Jackson guitar back in January from Sweetwater for his birthday. When three weeks passed and an empty case arrived, he wasn’t pleased.
“I contacted my sales rep and I got a semi-canned response,” he wrote [via MusicRadar]. “‘Sorry for the confusion and inconvenience,’ with the added checking with the warehouse and shipping departments to try and figure out where the guitar is. Now I am impatiently awaiting a tracking number or word of where the guitar is.”
Of course, the missing guitar wasn’t a magic trick; the axe didn’t simply vanish from inside of the case. The user soon found out that his guitar had never been shipped to him. Instead, Sweetwater admitted that it had accidentally shipped the guitar to Jim Root.
In a follow-up post titled “Jim Root stole my guitar,” the Redditor explained what had happened. “Okay, not really, but Sweetwater did send it to him for some reason,” he wrote. “I ordered this guitar back in January for my birthday. It never showed up and the USPS tracking number was dead.”
“All hope was lost in recovering it. I was waiting for another one to get in stock when my sales engineer emailed me this…”
What followed was an email from Sweetwater – and the company seemed to see the funny side in the whole ordeal. “Hey (name redacted), you might laugh a little,” Sweetwater wrote. “For some reason, the post office shipped your guitar to Jim Root of Slipknot. We are working on the solution now.”
Upon hearing the news, the guitarist made a rather reasonable request to smooth things over: he asked Sweetwater to have Root sign the guitar before shipping it to him. You know what they say – if you don’t ask, you don’t get.
While there’s no further updates, we hope that the guitar does eventually end up in the right hands. And, even if we never find out how things wrap up, the reddit thread is definitely worth a read – if you can handle an onslaught of Slipknot puns, that is. “If your guitar has 5, 5, 5 strings, then mine has 6, 6, 6,” one user jokes.
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