We just recently ordered & received the new LeMillion Reserve done by Blair Lazar (of extremefood.com fame) for the LeGourmet Chef company. It’s obvious that they were clueless about the fanaticism of Blair’s fans (us Chileheads) who like low numbered bottles for collecting purposes. Below is an email exhange about what happened:

Dear LeGourmet Chef,

I recently ordered a LeMillion reserve from you and had a question. When ordering from Blair himself, the low numbers in the series go out to those who order sooner than later. Is this the case with you?

Joseph,

I’m sorry but I haven’t checked the numbers. They come to me with packing peanuts in the acrylic case and I haven’t opened that case. I’ve just repack them to ship straight out. I only received 24 initially and those have sold out. I’m in the process of getting more shipped to me.

Thank you - Sandey Bond
Le Gourmet Chef #34 - Esales

Sandey,

You are doing a great disservice to those loyal fans of Blair (you know, the Chileheads) who order early & often to get low numbered bottles as part of collecting. I consider myself one of those, and was disappointed to get bottle #854 after ordering 3 hours after ordering went online. I guess I can’t truly be upset because my bottle arrived safe & sound…but I would gladly pay the shipping back to get a low #. Call me crazy if you will…but there are more out there like me who feel the same way.

Joe,

I’m really sorry about that but we are a retail store and not just a distributor for Blair’s. If that was all I had to take care of, I would have opened every container to check the numbers. Unfortunately, I get my cases from our warehouse who in turn received them from Blairs. Some of these also went out to the stores and I don’t know what they received as far as numbers go. Blair did not mark the cases or the individual containers on the outside so I could check to see what was available. I do apologize for that but since we receive only a limited supply (I only initially received 24 bottles) I sent it out as soon as received. I still have about 80 outstanding orders to fill so you can see the time it would take to go through each and every container to check on the numbers. Maybe you can contact others to see about a trade????? I’m not sure how many Chileheads there are out there but judging by my orders there are plenty.

Once again, I do apologize and wich there was a way to check the numbers without taking each container apart to see them.

I will send an email to my buying department to see if we do this again for Blair to somehow mark the outside of each case of hot sauce with the numbers contained within. Maybe that would help some.

Suffice to say, LGC should have seriously had a debriefing about what to expect from us Chileheads and our collectibles. Anyone else who had a problem with this is welcome to leave a comment and tell your story as well.

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