About Ea-nāṣir - The Legendary Copper Merchant
Meet Ea-nāṣir, the most infamous copper merchant in human history!
Ea-nāṣir was a copper merchant who lived in ancient Ur (modern-day Iraq) around 1750 BCE. He became internet famous nearly 4,000 years after his death when archaeologists discovered a collection of complaint tablets at his residence.
The most famous complaint came from a customer named Nanni, who was furious about receiving inferior copper ingots and being treated rudely by Ea-nāṣir's messenger. This clay tablet is now housed in the British Museum and represents one of the oldest known customer complaints in human history.
World Record Achievement!
Oldest Written Customer Complaint
Ea-nāṣir's complaint tablet from circa 1750 BCE holds the Guinness World Record
for the oldest known written customer complaint in human history. This 3,750+ year old
complaint about poor quality copper has outlasted empires, survived millennia, and now
lives on as one of the internet's favorite memes!
Today, Ea-nāṣir is celebrated as the patron saint of bad customer service and terrible products. His legacy reminds us that some things never change - people have been complaining about shoddy merchandise for millennia!
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"When you came, you said to me: 'I will give good ingots to Gimil-Sin.' You have not done what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said: 'If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!' What do you take me for, that you treat me with such contempt?"
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