[Glass-mit] invitation to 2020 MIT Online Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

[Peter Houk]

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Hello friends of the MIT Glass Lab and the MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch,



We would have loved to celebrate our 20th annual pumpkin fundraiser with
you, outdoors in Kresge Oval on a perfect crisp New England fall day, but,
for reasons we are all familiar with, that cannot happen this year.

             But wait! Instead, a team of Glass Lab instructors has worked
hard to create an *Online MIT Great Glass Pumpkin Patch* for your shopping
enjoyment (and our survival). Between early last October and this March
when MIT students were all sent home and the lab shut down, the staff and
students made about 450 glass pumpkins, or roughly 25% of our usual yearly
inventory. All of these pumpkins will be in an online gallery at
mitglasslab.org and available for purchase, *starting Saturday, October
24th at 12:00 noon, and until Monday, October 26th at 8:00PM. *This link is
not live yet, but will be sometime in the next week so that customers may
familiarize themselves with the site. *However the pumpkins will not appear
until noon on October 24th, at which point all the pumpkins will appear and
the sale will commence.*



*Question: If you have only 450 pumpkins, why don’t you just keep them and
sell them next year?*



*Answer: Because the MIT Glass Lab depends almost entirely upon the revenue
generated by the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch to stay operational. If we stop
selling pumpkins, we’ll have to stop the program.*



            *How this will work: *All pumpkins will have a listed sale
price as they do at the regular sale on Kresge Oval. This is not an
auction.  All of the pumpkins are one-of-a-kind, so there is only one of
each item. The size of each pumpkin can be approximated by comparison with
a ruler that appears in each photograph next to each pumpkin. All of the
pumpkins will be released for sale at the same time, at the start of the
sale. All sales are first-come-first-served; pumpkins will become
unavailable when a payment transaction for that pumpkin has been completed.

            *Shipping: *All pumpkins will be shipped via FedEx Ground from
MIT. The cost of shipping will be added to the sale price of the pumpkin(s)
you buy. Due to the complexity and expense of overseas shipping, we regret
that we must limit shipping to the Continental United States.

            *Return policy: *Consistent with our live sale policy, there
are no returns on pumpkins *except *in the case of a serious structural
defect such as a crack or very sharp surface. Please shop thoughtfully and
carefully. In the unfortunate event that your pumpkin should arrive
defective or broken, we will replace it free of charge with one as similar
in size, color and shape, as possible.



            Please help support this program and this experience that has
meant so much to so many MIT students over almost five decades. We hope you
will join us, virtually, on the weekend of October 24-26!



            Thanks,

                        Peter Houk, Michael Cima, and the staff of MIT
Glass Lab
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