Neato Botvac 85 Robotic Vacuum
- Botvac with corners
- Maps out each room with lasers
- Now with bigger brush
- Post a haiku in a deal community forum and maybe you could win one: see today’s product story for details
- Model: BV85
National "Post Haiku in Deal Forums" Day
We love deal communities. Anyplace where cheapskates gather to swap intelligence on bargains is speaking our language. There’s Slickdeals. There’s FatWallet. There’s Kinja Deals. There’s Ben’s Bargains. There’s even - still - Deals.Woot, even if it is a ghost town these days. You can see these and many more in the “How’d you get here?” list down in between the map and the poll on this page.
Yes, from its effervescent, raucous youth in the early 2000s, the online deals community has matured into an efficient machine of deal discovery and vetting. And that’s kinda sad. What happened to the humor? The character? The fun? Where’s the community in this community?
Here’s what we’re gonna do: a haiku flash mob. Like this:
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Go to your favorite online deals community before 2 PM Eastern time today. Don’t have a favorite? Need a place to start? Try the Slickdeals forum for this very Neato BV85 deal. But really, any discussion on any deals forum will do.
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Post a haiku in that thread (and make sure your Meh username is in the post). It should be a relevant contribution to the discussion (not spam about Meh) and a haiku (as in three lines of 5-7-5 syllables, not necessarily any of the other rules of traditional haiku). Here’s one by us:
Little online store
Needs to get attention with
Cheap haiku gimmicks.
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Come back here, to this product discussion, and post a link to your haiku post.
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At 2PM Eastern, we’ll give away a few Neato BV85 botvacs to some of those Meh members who posted haiku.
Again, this is not a call to spam deal sites. This is a call to bring some of the fun back to deal sites. Be a good forum citizen. Add something to the conversation. Just do it in haiku form.
Also, if one of those sites moderates your post into oblivion, sorry. We can’t do anything about that. Statistically, you probably wouldn’t have won anyway.
Maybe our haiku bomb will reassure deal-hunters that they’re allowed to enjoy themselves. Maybe your poetry will remind the cheapskates that there’s more to life than a $15 rebate on a USB 3.0 cable. Maybe, together, we can give the deals community back its spirit - five, and then seven, and then five syllables at a time.
