Weekly Quickie Episode 15: The Missing Box of Vibes

Jo (00:13.806)

Welcome to the Girls Get Off weekly quickie. The podcast has had a bit of a glow up this year as you'll know if you've been listening. These are our short episodes every week and then we also have our sex files segment every second Friday. We are going to give you updates on these podcast episodes about what we've been up to business, personal, how everything's been going. How are you, Jo? Great. Just great. And you know, like now holidays kick in. So even better.

I think everybody's kind of been on the ready for holidays for quite some time. Are you excited? Always, always excited. And I think especially for people who work in e-commerce where you've just had the big Black Friday season, there's always a lot of hype around that. Lots of people put a lot of time and energy into that. And I think even just being around other people in e-commerce, having that Black Friday build up is just, it just is relentless. It goes on for months. For those that don't.

there's probably not many people listening who work in e-commerce, man, people start planning that from earlier in the year. So I think by the time Christmas rolls around, everyone is ready for a break. What are your plans? My plans are to have no plans. I just need a break. I just need no plans. need to, know, potter around in the garden and clear my mind, which is quite boring. but... I think when you spend so much time on social media for work,

Don't let me paint a different picture. I'm certainly doom scrolling a lot of the time, but I think in terms of notifications and things like that, it's so nice to just fully have everything off and take a good break. Yeah, absolutely. So no, my holidays are gonna be a lot of just kid stuff, I guess. Just family, family things. How about you? Well, I'm going to Rhythm and Minds.

Because I've been home for a wedding, the reason I'm in New Zealand for a month is because one of my besties is getting married. We had the hen's party, we got the wedding and then I said to friends who we've gone to Rhythm together in the past and I said, guys, we're all gonna be back home. We've got friends coming back from the UK, there's lots of us from Aussie, people back from different places in New Zealand. And I said, there is no way I'm doing three days. I said I could do two at a push but.

Jo (02:37.622)

I'm also not getting, we're getting a VIP ticket. We're over 30 and over. There is absolutely no way I'm waiting in lines. And so we've settled on one night, the 31st, we're gonna go and stay on a friend's lawn. I've got no idea how big his back or front lawn is, but I just, like, I feel like when we were out of uni or working and everyone was still living at home, it was really easy to just know someone who lived there.

this had been actually quite a challenge to find someone who still had a place down there. Cause it's such a small town, everything gets booked out and it's hard to find something for you and eight of your friends. So yeah, I'm very excited about that. should be, it should be a laugh. All right. And what else have we had going on in our little rep list for this podcast? It has said in their sex toys turning up at the, at a randoms house. And I have no idea.

what this means or I've not heard this story. So please enlighten me. Imagine opening the door and at the front door is an Uber driver with an unmarked box and just hands it to you, says, well, this is for unit four and you take it and you walk inside and then you open it. Turns out the box, said box was delivered was my, the loot, the

11 things a lube, 11 packets of condoms, a couple of vibrator prizes, and I was staying in unit, another unit, and the unit number had been written down wrong when I got an Uber delivery to myself. And so the neighbor has gotten this delivery of all these supplies. It's got no name on it or anything, because it's come in an Uber. And I put, I double checked where the person had sent it to. And so I then,

was like when it knocked on their door, no answer, when it wrote a note and said, hey, I accidentally got a package delivered here, thinking this person is gonna open this unmarked box and think who on earth needs 11 bottles of lube and 11 boxes of 12 packs of condoms? Like that is just rogue. And then they thought there was gonna be a swinger's party somewhere and they must've been so confused. They thought a party was going down.

Jo (04:55.702)

And I then wrote saying like, hey, can you give me a call? And I'm like on podcasts, I'm trying to do all these things. I'm like, they're gonna call the worst time. And I said, you know, I'm in this unit, this has been delivered to the wrong one. Can you like give me a call, text me and I'll come and grab them. And also thinking, I'm gonna leave this on the front door. Like, what if they go through the garage and they don't see it? I thought, who cares? I'll just have to get more the next day. It's not worth worrying about. And then sure enough, I get this text message saying,

Hi, it's blah blah blah from this unit. This is so funny, my boyfriend opened the door and then I opened the package thinking it was from him for me. She said, I love your business though, like this is so great. And I'm just about to go out so I've left it at the door for you. And I was like, oh my gosh, lucky I got some extras.

I said to my friend Emma, well, I'm like, no lulu for you anymore. That can come in the mail. I was like, I'm going to have to give it to this girl for being so nice. So drop some, lift some treats for her. out she's, turns out she's got a new nail salon called Dudley's in Auckland and remember if anyone is in the market for getting their nails done. But man, imagine that. And there's no sender information as well. That's the other thing. It was just a plain box. She's going to like have that story for years. That's great. Isn't it wild?

Thank God, that could have gone horribly wrong had it have been sent to like, yeah, the wrong place. How good, oh my gosh. Yeah, imagine if it was some kid who opened the door or, you know, it could have been anything. Well, I didn't think of that, but yeah, no, funny. I know, funny, hey. So yeah, that was a bit of a laugh. And look, serves me right for doing it the day before I needed to do it, but I just thought, who cares? This is just not.

There's some things I get worried about in the world and it's not one of those. The only thing that, the frustrating thing is like, now I'm going to have to either like go and see them, pay for another Uber. Like it's, yeah, it's just like, I've got that many things balls in there at the moment. I don't need a misdelivered package, but that's my fault for not writing down the address and just calling the person. So there you go. Lessons for next time. Imagine her Instagram stories that day would have just been like,

Jo (07:03.554)

I go, that would make a great reel for her. I hope she used it for content. I know. Well, I did tag her on our stories, so hopefully she gets some good. I can see people clicking on her now, Ceylon, so hopefully she gets some good business from it. Perfect. Perfect. The next thing I wanted to mention was something that people don't realize. think coming home or, you know, whenever you meet up with people you haven't seen in a while, they say, how's business going? Whatever. I always, it reminds me how

Yeah, how the little things can be so interesting for people. said, well, we've had our busy season. You know, some people say, you must be getting busy coming into Christmas. I said, well, actually, if you think about it, who are you buying Christmas presents for? Your immediate family, maybe your partner. So unless your partner's gonna buy your kids. So unless you're about to spend money and buy your grandma, your mom, your sister a vibrator, sure, you might buy your partner a vibrator. That's about it. Otherwise, your paycheck is going on everyone else. It's certainly not going on you.

unless you're like me and you go shopping and you just end up buying stuff for yourself and have to try round two. But so December for us is normally our quietest time of the year. Yeah. And so every year we try and come up with something to, you know, make buying sex toys a bit more exciting. Last year we lucked in actually and got some really good PR because we got that was

when we got rejected by the bank and stuff and we ended up getting some really good PR out of it. So that worked into our favour a lot. And this year we have our collab with Con, which is awesome. Yeah, so it's just, it's been like the perfect opportunity while everyone is just getting hammered with random Christmas content and advertising. It's been the perfect thing.

to come and talk about something different, give some people exciting, remind themselves they can still buy for themselves and have sex on holiday, you know? So. 100%. I think that's been like such a good reminder also that don't forget about yourself, you know? Don't forget about yourself with all this Christmas shopping. And I love it. Glad to see lots of people buying themselves treats for Christmas.

Jo (09:26.9)

And I think it's good now that we're in our fourth year of business, it's not a surprise. So when I think when you're starting a business and you're not sure what a normal December looks like, now that we've been around the block a few times, we know it's going to happen so we can prepare for it. We're not surprised when we just don't seem to be making any sales, even though we're doing all the normal things that we normally do. So it just means that we've been planning ahead for quite a few months around what the different thing.

we were going to do was going to look like. Yeah. And, you know, I, my brain seems to work last minute. So now I have the idea for what we're going to do next Christmas. But it was too late to pull anything off this time around. Do we give like loyal people listening to this podcast just before Christmas a little heads up that on the first or second, we are going to have

our massive biggest one of the year, hey, we kind of do it straight up. Our big up to 50 % off or up to? At this time of year, what we do, if we get people who've ordered double stock, if we get broken boxes, we normally save up those products for a certain time of year and we just have to take stock of what stock we have and then we'll get it all up on the site early January. Yeah.

Yeah. So any broken box, any like things for the year that warehouse when they've opened a big box, you know, have breakages or anything in there, it all goes away. So everything's a hundred percent still unused obviously. like, great. It'll just be minor packaging issues. And yeah, we do. It's like an, it's like an outlet sale. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.

Perfect. So, yeah, keep your eye out for that. That's not going to be advertised elsewhere until it goes on sale. So heads up, sit your sitting calendars while you get your hangover. my gosh. Yep. All right. Yeah. So Merry Christmas to everyone for tomorrow. Have good sex.

Jo (11:45.454)

And we'll see you in the new year. If you want to check out more about Girls Get Off, we are at Girls Get Off on Instagram. Girls Get Off Uncensored is our Facebook group. And if you've liked the podcast, share it, like it, leave us a review. Any feedback, we love to hear it. And we will see you next year.