Mother left red-faced after ordering a personalised T-shirt online... only for it to come with a very awkward mistake
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A mother was been left red-faced after a ordering a personalised T-shirt – only for it to come with a huge blunder. 

Courtney Couper, from New Zealand, paid £3.96 for the item but when she opened the package, all was not as it seemed. 

Initially the doting mother had hoped to surprise her little boy with a T-shirt featuring his name on the front and a blank design on the back.

When Courtney placed her order, she dutifully filled in the required boxes which would be printed on the T-shirt.

Despite Courtney providing clear instructions, the printer apparently misunderstood and ended up printing the instructions themselves.

When the mother opened her package and unfolded the new T-shirt she was shocked to find her message printed on the back.

The New Zealander said she couldn’t help but laugh at the situation and had a premonition something like this might happen.

She commented: ‘When I wrote that message to the seller, I chuckled to myself, thinking how funny it would be if they actually printed the message on the back.’

Courtney Couper bought a personalised T-shirt off Temu for £3.96 with clear instructions but was left in stitches over a blunder

‘I never thought they actually would, I thought my instructions were really obvious.

‘I was a little disappointed at first, but I couldn’t help but be amused. I still have it, more as a joke. My son can wear it around the home’.

Courtney had specifically asked: ‘Dear seller, please keep the back of the T-shirt blank. I do not want anything printed there. Thank you.’

She explained she was forced to write something in the box or her order would not be processed.

She said: ‘Before adding to the card, you are required to write what you want on the front and the back. 

‘There was no choice to leave the back unprinted because you couldn’t proceed to checkout without specifying something, which is why I included that note to the seller.’

After this mix-up, Temu reimbursed her for the T-shirt’s price. Although the incident didn’t deter her from using the site, she mentioned she might steer clear of personalized items going forward.

She remarked: ‘I enjoy shopping on Temu. I’ve bought many customized items before, and they’ve turned out well. However, I might think twice before ordering items where I want no print on the front or back.’

‘I don’t think a real person is reading your orders, it must be a machine’.

The Daily Mail has contacted Temu for comment. 

Despite asking the printer not to write anything on the back, Courtney was shocked to find her detailed instructions instead

Despite asking the printer not to write anything on the back, Courtney was shocked to find her detailed instructions instead

It comes after a mother was left shocked when she opened a cake box to reveal her 14-year-old daughter’s birthday cake, only to find it read the birthday message wasn’t quite what she had had in mind.

‘The cake we ordered for my daughter’s 14th birthday party…’ the mother wrote in a post shared to Reddit, along with a snap of the cake, which was round with pink and red piped roses around the outside. 

The cake was meant to read: ‘Happy birthday Ana!’, but instead, the point at the bottom of the exclamation point ran into the rest of the punctuation mark, making it look like an L.

That meant the message looked as though it said: ‘Happy birthday Anal’ – much to people’s amusement.  

‘Her name is Ana,’ the exasperated mother wrote, alongside a picture of the baked dessert. 

A mom was shocked when she opened the cake box to reveal her 14-year-old daughter's birthday cake, only to find it read a little differently to what she had wanted

A mom was shocked when she opened the cake box to reveal her 14-year-old daughter’s birthday cake, only to find it read a little differently to what she had wanted

In the comment section, the mother assured users she wasn’t upset over the accidental blunder, adding that it was an easy fix, as many users laughed over the mistake.

‘It look me so long to understand what was wrong,’ one user assured the mom.

‘You can see the dot at the bottom of the ‘!’ Bbut it looks over-piped and connected to the line above it, just take a sharp knife point and cut it, pushing the dot down a bit, so there is a visible between the line and the dot. Not that big of a deal.

‘And maybe next year for her birthday have ‘Happy Birthday Ana’ with a heart next to it instead of an !’ someone else suggested. 

‘I don’t know why you are being so anal about it, the cake looks delicious!’ joked another. 

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