It’s not exceptional for packages to get misplaced in transit – nevertheless, it’s a wholly completely different story when your order arrives with out crucial factor you ordered. That’s precisely what occurred to a disgruntled Redditor whose Sweetwater flight case arrived and not using a guitar inside. Little did he know, his guitar was safely within the arms of Slipknot’s Jim Root.

Earlier than discovering who had by accident obtained his guitar, the Redditor took to the web to air his grievances. In a now-deleted pair of posts, the Qatar-based consumer revealed he had ordered a Jackson guitar again in January from Sweetwater for his birthday. When three weeks handed and an empty case arrived, he wasn’t happy.

“I contacted my gross sales rep and I obtained a semi-canned response,” he wrote [via MusicRadar]. “‘Sorry for the confusion and inconvenience,’ with the added checking with the warehouse and transport departments to try to work out the place the guitar is. Now I’m impatiently awaiting a monitoring quantity or phrase of the place the guitar is.”

In fact, the lacking guitar wasn’t a magic trick; the axe didn’t merely vanish from within the case. The consumer quickly came upon that his guitar had by no means been shipped to him. As an alternative, Sweetwater admitted that it had by accident shipped the guitar to Jim Root.

In a follow-up submit titled “Jim Root stole my guitar,” the Redditor defined what had occurred. “Okay, probably not, however Sweetwater did ship it to him for some cause,” he wrote. “I ordered this guitar again in January for my birthday. It by no means confirmed up and the USPS monitoring quantity was useless.”

“All hope was misplaced in recovering it. I used to be ready for an additional one to get in inventory when my gross sales engineer emailed me this…”

What adopted was an electronic mail from Sweetwater – and the corporate appeared to see the humorous aspect in the entire ordeal. “Hey (identify redacted), you may chortle somewhat,” Sweetwater wrote. “For some cause, the submit workplace shipped your guitar to Jim Root of Slipknot. We’re engaged on the answer now.”

Upon listening to the information, the guitarist made a quite affordable request to easy issues over: he requested Sweetwater to have Root signal the guitar earlier than transport it to him. You recognize what they are saying – for those who don’t ask, you don’t get.

Whereas there’s no additional updates, we hope that the guitar does finally find yourself in the suitable arms. And, even when we by no means learn the way issues wrap up, the reddit thread is unquestionably value a learn – for those who can deal with an onslaught of Slipknot puns, that’s. “In case your guitar has 5, 5, 5 strings, then mine has 6, 6, 6,” one consumer jokes.