That’s a little bitty blade but I only have a cheap chef’s knife, two steak knives and a pairing knife from IKEA. Sold. Little bitty blades for my little bitty kitchen.
I have a bunch of old santoku knives, I haven’t even opened the 3 pack of colorful ones, but ordering.
/giphy nerdy thrifty toddy
Because there is no such thing as too many knives.
@Jamileigh17
I’m sharply teedering on taking a stab on this stainless deal -
Even after ordering the 3 packages of the colored knives a few weeks back!
A)because it is easier to get the GIF this way
2)cuz I wanted to see if trailing words would break the /buy
c)since this way is harder
iv)i’m an idiot
E)i’m an idot savant
Six)all of the above
gee)none of the above
ate)some of the above
Aye)i’ll tell ya later
@BezalelCondolences! Congrats! A little suggestion, though - consider signing up for VMP at $5/month for free shipping all month. It can be cancelled any time.
i cut myself bad enough to need 3 stitches with a knife you people sold me, and here you are trying to sell me more knives? how insensitive. you should know i shouldnt be left unsupervised with sharp things.
On $18.92 meh omitted to say this price was for two sets, not one ($9.46 for one set). So were basically getting two sets for the price of one… Good deal for knifeaholics.
Hey meh. (If that IS your real name…) I called everyone in the eastern time zone and none of them are interested in the Ginsu knives. You may un-pause the thing now.
IF YOU CONTINUE TO DO THIS 8AM CRAP YOU WILL LOSE THIS CUSTOMER FOR LIFE. WTF??? STUPID, MAKE NO SENCE, IF YOU SELL OUT THEN YOU SELL OUT. IF THEY CARE THAT MUCH THEN CHECK IT OUT AT MIDNIGHT (eastern standard time)
@bugger Usually, if you are a bit more diplomatic, the good folks here might even reply. They have been pretty open about this, even with some pretty direct criticism. But just being rude? Not going to accomplish much.
From what I can tell though, get used to it, 8am is where it’s at. They don’t really care (despite the obligatory denial) about the long time product release junkies, or even the VMP members, since they are keeping around 70-80% of the product for the 8 am drop.
It sucks, but, they have a business to run. And if any of us who don’t like it, we can always open our own business, and run it any way we want. That sucks too, but it’s also the American way (don’t listen to the morons who will try to tell you anything different!)
@bugger It probably has more to do with those of us who are adults (I.E. work for a living, have to get up early) that never get in on the good deals because they are already sold out. So Meh has decided they still want us as customers and is giving us a chance to actually participate.
@beachhead um, number check. Looks like 413 sold as of the email this morning and 623 as of post 8 am sell out. If we assume 700 total, that gives us 60% @ midnight, 30% @ 8AM and 10% for VMP. That seems reasonable.
@bugger Then change the slogan to partial sales deals at midnight then shut it down for the losers at 8am. Heck just sell this place to Amazon already… Lol
@earendil Yes, I had company last night, and didn’t see the numbers til later on. But, that had been exactly what they were doing. It still should be 100% at launch, and let the whiners learn about alarm clocks. How long does it take to wake up, and click a couple buttons if you really want/need the meh item.
@hodr But here’s this on that… If the midnight regulars were already buying enough product to induce a sellout, what difference does it make to the good folks at Meh.com what time the release is?
I only have limited experience in business and no experience in retail. I owned a tech related businesses for a bit over 20 years (small potatoes; only 18-20 employees at its peak). Currently I manage a publishing company. So I freely acknowledge my limited expertise in the area of retail, e-commerce, and brand growth.
Initially I believed they were building a thing here. A weird, quirky, alt.online-retail-experience.hamster.duct-tape sort of community thing. But the 8am thing sort of pushes that in a different direction, innit. Can’t be alt and nurture the mainstream simultaneously (see “woot.com”; video killed the radio star)
Their bidness, their call. A couple of years ago I tripped across something pretty cool here. I stayed. I bought some stuff. I contributed some nonsense. I got some great goodies and made some very cool friends. Made a couple non-friends too. In all, it’s been a great experience I’ve been pleased to participate in. If it becomes not so great, I move on to whatever else is out there.
I don’t spend enough money here to matter. I won’t delude myself for one second that my purchases make any difference to Meh’s bottom line. But the 8am crowd groaned loudly enough they apparently were successful in affecting change. So now the midnight crowd is doing exactly the same thing. Groaning in the hope of affecting change.
@beachhead anyone who got here at midnight had plenty of time to buy a knife. Somewhere there’s some fun debate to be had but not when you start with an argument like “I couldn’t get here at midnight but dammit people who want to be here at 8am should just set an alarm”
Can’t be alt and nurture the mainstream simultaneously (see
“woot.com”; video killed the radio star)
@ruouttaurmind this is a great summary of what our experiment tweak is testing. However, having taken the path you reference, I can assure you that this is not that path. That path is “raise prices and force variety while email marketing your offers to Amazon shoppers based on their shopping history”.
I ran backwards from that path - it started to stink and I think it led to a garbage dump.
@beachhead They (MEH) sell out just as fast if they let it ride at the original time. If they don’t, then there will be some for the east coasters to purchase when they wake up, right?
@erinjennie I do. It’s set for 9pm. Not 12pm, 2am, 4am and of course the famous 8am. it’s much easier just to sleep through them all. Saves money, right? Like I said, just sell this one (MEH SITE) to Amazon as well if your (MEH) is going to screw with it.
@beachhead Agreed… It was working just fine. Why change perfection. There are some babies on this site that just don’t get business. I get that. Not everyone has the capacity for business. That seems to include the founders of MEH lately. My guess is they will figure out that they gain nothing only lose business by jacking with this “PAUSED” deal.
@bugger I’ve openly admitted my ignorance of all things retail and e-commerce. But to suggest the founder of a multi-million dollar company which was purchased by Bozos/Amazon doesn’t have the capacity for business… I can’t say I see that perspective.
Also, to suggest ‘it was working just fine’ is a bit of an assumption. What is/was ‘working just fine’ for us, the community, doesn’t necessarily mean the business goals of founders are being met…
Sellouts are good inasmuch as it’s a clear indication that day’s allocation of product has been completely disposed of. On the backhand, sellouts are bad inasmuch as it’s a clear indication of opportunity for additional sales, innit? Like leaving money on the table so to speak?
IIRC, I read something here several months ago by @snapster regarding sellouts and stock allocations and such other musings. That posting made an excellent point about sellouts. To badly paraphrase, it was something like ‘an ideal sales day is one that sells out shortly before the selling day ends at midnight’. This makes perfect sense. That would be the butter zone. The sales Nirvana. The moment where your entire stock sells in the last seconds.
The challenge for Meh is how to get to that butter zone. Expending valuable resources on overstock? Capital monopolized in static stock, costly warehouse space allocated to storage, greater potential for spoilage, and so on? (think: 8 million JBL speaker docks or a thirty and a half tons of BuiltNY neoprene cases)
TL;DR? We don’t know that “it was working just fine”. What works for us, doesn’t necessarily work for the business owner or turn good profit.
@conandlibrarian More users, more eyes, more ad revenue. They will still sell out of the product and make the same amount their, but their ad revenue also increases.
@bugger More users, more eyes, more ad revenue. They will still sell out of the product and make the same amount their, but their ad revenue also increases.
@daennera More users, more eyes, more ad revenue. They will still sell out of the product and make the same amount their, but their ad revenue also increases.
@hodr Except some of us are adults, on the East Coast…and still are able to purchase at midnight - and then go to work and pretend to be adults. Guess it all comes down to priorities, huh?
@ruouttaurmind
I feel like you are partially making my point. If they are building a community, they probably want it to be open to the greatest number of people. If the first dozen times you stop by Meh you notice a pattern that the good stuff is always sold out before you have a chance, then maybe you don’t get invested and don’t join the community.
Sure, they may sell out regardless, but by spreading the sales out they encourage greater community participation and they have a better chance of selling out the slightly less cool stuff since more people are visiting the site.
Same reason your retail establishment limits sale items to 1 per customer, because they want to bring people into the store and sell more of their other stuff. As a retail genius entrepreneur publisher megastar I would think this should be obvious to you.
@LaVikinga sorry - skimmed again, you prolly made a lot of comments in this long thread, it was the “insert comma” dealio at the top that made me spit - thx!
now for my TL;DR summary of this whole circuit breaker thing-a-ma-bob:
A1) 9pm PT/Midnight ET crowd - it’s always been in my favor, why should we consider changing it? What’s fair have to do with it?
2B) 8am ET/need sleep/morning crowd - thanks for the chance to buy some of this cheap junk i really don’t need (and some better sleep).
@Yoda_Daenerys Life isn’t Fair, Princess, or some comment similar. I need to go back and re-watch The Princess Bride
Actually, I’ve only made one or two since I was on the road from Miami Beach. As a Southerner in the very deep South, I have to say the further towards Key West I go, the ruder the natives seem to be.
@bugger You sounded hangry this morning. Have a snack before you Meh. It might help?
Anyway, it’s just stuff.
They’ll sell it again. Probably. You know, kinda like speaker docks and thermal cups.
Besides, they’re just slippery ol’ Ginsu knives. The ones I talked myself out of needing. I think the Pause Feature might save me money in the long run. Not that I buy I bunch of stuff, but every dollar adds up.
@snapster I wasn’t griping about missing the knives, just the sales quantity. Like a lot of other meh folks, there’s no shortage of knives at my house. And my only “gripe” if I miss an item is with myself.
I only missed the sell out number, as the quantity you make available at the different times provides us an interesting look at just which portion of the customer base you are targeting. Certainly in the early stages, you were making a large proportion available for the 8 am drop.
Is it not acceptable for us to participate and analyze the “experiment” that you’ve forced us into?
@lljk Probably but maybe not. I’m usually one of the first to hit the meh button but this time I was a bit late.
Spoiler alert! I’m going to rant.
@snapster@dave and the rest: correct me if I’m wrong but I thought the premise of this site was 1 item per day, 1st come 1st serve, in the pursuit of the perfect deal. If I was the last one here and was left holding the empty bag than I wouldn’t have a bitch. But I was here, twice. Both times the sale was paused. You have taken from me my natural right to partisipate in the deal.
Stop the pauses as a failed experiment and tell the East Coast whinners if they don’t stop whinning you’ll set the clock to Midnight Central time like that other site whose name shall not be mentioned.
@Mehrocco_Mole the deal was not paused at midnight. Are you asking for a 4th “When Mehrocco_Mole Arrives” launch time? Why is it more logical for the 8am crowd to arrive at midnight versus you?
I’m usually one of the first to hit the meh button but this time I was a bit late.>
I’m not saying this isn’t being fair. Fair is where you go to ride rides and see the 4H animals. It’s not my company, it’s yours. Do with it as you see fit.
I’m also not asking for special treatment. I don’t have that right or inclination. I’m just saying this pause seems to me to be adding too many layers to what should be a simple concept: 1st come 1st served.
The Pause Thing does suck! Maybe you should start offering a sellout.meh, and a computer.meh, and a electronics.meh, and a kids.meh, and a Bluetooth.meh, and a home.meh and a tools & garden.meh.
Also, maybe you should consider selling about 50 or so items under each category . . .
@narfcake el at—I mean narf and everyone else–what’s the ause thing? does it go off after a certain time? Does it last a certain time? I log on every night, but haven’t paid attention. It seems the time is random, otherwise so many people wouldn’t be upset, but I have no idea.
Gin whoo?? I’m itching to buy something. Should I buy the knives tonight, or whatever comes up tomorrow? With the cheap price, maybe I’ll use them. Usually when I pay “A lot” for something nice, I’m afraid to use it for a few years. What is that? It’s treating myself nice, but no it isn’t. I need to like myself and enjoy something. At least act like it.
ooooh! @Mehrocco_Mole says “staggered sale” so I’m guessing its…tadaaaa!, Staggered.
@trimm Het, thanks! Yep, I remember skipping over that! ok. Yep, I’ll “bookmark” it and read it upon awakening!
thanks for the reply @trimm. I might be a wee bit sarcastic, but I do appreciate the time you put into it!
@dickie541 I was thinking that too! I think every cell in the known universe would burst, or there would be a “rip” in the space time continuum, or we would trans-warp into a new alternate reality, or some other techno-babble!
I have mixed feelings about the pause thing. On one hand, it’s twice now prevented me from buying something I wanted at the moment I wanted to buy it. On the other hand, it’s twice now prevented me from buying something I absolutely didn’t need.
Still I agree with the others. The pause thing sucks (even if it saves me money…)
@Yoda_Daenerys Hmmm…second circuit breaker tripped at 623, which gives the original drop, people who made the site, about twice the opportunity as the morning whiners. This is a significant shift from the start of this miserable “experiment”. I’m going to guess the other loyal customer base gets thrown a tiny little bone as well, so I’ll go with an increase from 7% to a whopping 10-11%, and guess there will be another 70 available for the vmp drop.
I still say this whole circuit breaker thing is dumb, and that they should just put the time and effort into getting more desirable stuff for ridiculously cheap prices. You could call that an experiment, but I’d say it’s a recipe for success…;)
@beachhead designing features for our site has yet to ever reduce resources from our purchasing effort. Someday it could but I don’t think anyone’s accusing us of having too robust a development team. It’s less than 10% of Mediocre’s workforce.
@snapster oh man, you didn’t just diss @shawn and @katylava did you? they are the Gibraltar to the rock, the pepporoni to the pizza, the bull to the red, the…
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If they can’t get up by 12 am, then they don’t need no stinking knives… Get rid of the pause button…
Or heck, save me a fukuburu bag next time you have one… So I don’t have to work for it…
@snapster i dont have to. It makes sense, and if youre refering to some gramatical error… i simply dont care. You obviously understood what i was saying enough to comment.
@Drunkenalien if you experienced the pause button on the knives, you weren’t here at midnight. Arguing then that an 8am visitor needs to be here at midnight is not logical.
Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate the pause, I was tempted but I have life and work so I can’t check it at 9pm, hell I checked it more regularly when I was east coast and stayed up till midnight. at least if I miss something because it truly sold out then it truly sold out.
@mediocrebot Dammit! It’s only nine minutes after eight and now because I’m not Clara Clock Watcher, I have to wait until 4?! I hate being none of those people none of the time!
Well, at least you’re telling me there’s still a chance. Thanks, Meh. I’ll try to be more punctual in the future.
Wanted a Ginsu my whole life been using the phrase "Your sharper then a Ginsu " my whole life my trigger finger awaits 8 A.M. east coast baby !!! West coast ty for being patient Peace
It may be time for a 2 item Meh, break one at Midnight west coast and the other at 8am east coast. Idea #2 deep 6 the vmp make a flat ship fee lets say 2 bucks being a frequent buyer on here i can live with that .Idea 3 have a yearly ship fee like Prime and Walmart shipping pass …price it at 39 bucks …ill do it …Idea #4 Make everyday 2 fer and price it accordingly …OK im done with ideas … To the Meh team you rock !!! Peace
I’ll take the free paring knife “with no order.” Thought no one was paying attention, meh? I bought the last set of 3 knives you had up and, oddly enough, LOVE THEM!! I’ve been searching for a good knife to hold in my arthritic hand and those knives are IT!! But, not this time, amigos
I still have Jaimie Oliver and Ginsu knives unopened in their shipping crates. I missed both midnight and 8 by a half hour and couldn’t buy these. You sure know how to make a girl want something bad. I just hope I’m a half hour late at 4 too.
@benji7roeth primary issue here is the undersized batch of knives but, just as my 12am conversations go, you basically have to be here at launch some days. I’m not sure what you mean on making it easier than launching consistently at 8am sharp ET.
edit: wait. so you don’t even know about the 8am relaunch do you. [insert Charlie Brown auuuuugggggghhhh]
@snapster An interesting development, innit. Someone who has been a member for five or six months, but has no clue about the whole circuit breaker dealio.
Of course, in retrospect, it’s obvious. If someone doesn’t participate in the community, and visits only irregularly, and has a bulletproof spam filter to catch the daily email, they’d have no clue what “deal paused until 8AM” even means.
@ruouttaurmind Yep - I assume there are many of the >8am crowd who don’t comprehend yet. The change allows for that just fine. Selling out at 8:05 was the issue at hand here. At least we tried!
@snapster Yep. But while I’m reserving judgement on this pause experiment thing, please don’t go getting any ideas about how to best piss off the most folks!
We need a Meh 2 for the Westies. Or, Oh, better yet! Meh, Jr. Yeah, that will get them riled up!
I’ll kindly offer to manage WCM (West Coast Meh). I shall be fair and just! Lesser Kings would probably sell big ginsus’ on the East and think it funny to sell the little knives on the West. Not me, probably.
I’ll start packing a few things while I wait your reply.
@wew Great idea…how about just having a “meh-off” constantly. They could put one item up, and leave it that way until it sells out. That way, no one would be able to know when the next launch is.
@wew Now your talking. I prefer the (start sales at 9pm till it’s gone) over the (pause sales till 8am program). MEH, your just pissing off the west to satisfy the east. First there was the east coast/west coast rapper wars now this?? MEH, why??? LOL
I think the pause is entertaining, quirky, and contentious which pretty much sums up what I’ve loved about meh over the past couple years. I’m thinking about coming back at 1pm just to experience a pause purchase even though I don’t need any knives.
@mdwy62@bugger if you’re not VMP you simply see “Sold Out you missed it” after the 8am release is sold out. Log out to see. Do you think that means we’re not aware what we’re telling these potential customers?
I guess I’m confused about the pause button hate, and inability to see how it will help Meh.com going forward.
The pause condition isn’t for selling more of today’s product, but for subsequent items. The staggering of time windows for offers allows for a broader audience to be reached. With a broadened audience, additional units can be purchased in hopes of selling those.
I applaud the effort and it has brought me back to checking the site daily again.
@MooNinja TL;DR summary… The midnight crowd supported the site for a couple years. Now the midnight crowd is being allocated a smallish portion of the available stock. This is why the pause button hate.
The little CX-20 drones paused about 10 minutes after midnight. If I wanted to order some, I had to get up at 4AM (which I did). Then the (midnight) community realized the disproportionate stock allocation, and started to feel like redheaded stepchildren. The next night’s sale was similar. This fueled the pause hate. And here we are.
@ruouttaurmind Retail like this is unprecedented, so it’s understandable to have some hiccups. Today’s knives got a wider distribution at midnight – is that the way forward, or will some other product proportion work out better? No one knows yet.
In my numbers days at shirt.woot, I calculated out that only about 1 in 8 returned to purchase a sold out shirt. That’s pretty significant.
By staggering the sales, meh stands a better chance of keeping a larger audience than if this audience kept seeing a “sold out” sign. There’s no difference in total sales, but it’d yield a big difference in audience retention.
@narfcakeToday’s knives got a wider distribution at midnight – is that the way forward, or will some other product proportion work out better? No one knows yet.
Agreed. Hence, @snapster’s constant reference to this as an “experiment” (when I was doing the DJ thing I referred to my show as “dangerous, experimental radio… don’t get any on ya!”; apparently only humorous to me…)
Hi, first time to comment, I want the knives but it is paused, just waiting…oh. by the way, what does meh stand for? I am old and not sure how to use it in my live.
Love you guys, look in every day. Am I suppose to hit the meh button? Help
@carolrocks Hi Carol. There’s a long explanation if you care to dive in for a while but here’s the shorthand attempt:
We are sold out of knives but, because your a VMP member as of yesterday, you get a last shot at some at 4pm eastern time.
The button that says “paused” for you changes back to active until other VMP members buy the last few. Visitors who are not VMP already see “Sold Out” right now.
There’s a separate change where we split inventory between 12am and 8am eastern and if you arrive at one of those two times in the future you have a proper chance to buy that days offer.
expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm.
“Meh. I’m not impressed so far”
adjective
uninspiring; unexceptional.
“a lot of his movies are … meh”
And yes, click that meh button to your heart’s content. Or don’t. It doesn’t matter. Some people click it when they don’t buy something. Some click it when they do so they can see the face on the calendar. Some of us click it every damn day because there’s something wrong with us and we want to see how long we can go without breaking the streak.
726 total meh button clicks
641 in a row
longest streak: 641
The pause worked perfectly for me. I was about ready to throw in the towel on Meh because I was so tired of checking in the morning and good stuff being sold out.
Relationship advice; rule of thumb: Never tell your current lover you’re leaving them for another lover while the current lover is armed with a Ginsu knife!
@Bayamonprieto77 But… “bitching” by folks who didn’t like the midnight-only product release is how the whole circuit breaker “deal paused” situation came along.
THAT bitching is acceptable bitching… but bitching about the circuit breaker is NOT acceptable. Do I understand you correctly?
Do I need these 4 knives? No, I do not. But I do want to see how this VMP Pause button thing actually works. Will I easily buy product or will it be Fuku-hell? It’s worth $9 to find out.
Even though I am on the East Coast-still staying up till 12:00 midnight to see what the next day item is rather than waiting until 8 the next morning for a couple of reasons-first if I’m in bed and watching TV before falling asleep if its around 12-I will always check on my phone next to the bed to see what the item(s) is because the suspense would be killing me. Also not sure if I could get a good nights sleep knowing there was a “meh” out there and not knowing what it is. And I think the pressure to get up before 8 is a lot greater than staying up a few minutes past my usual bedtime. But that is just me.
@Yoda_Daenerys I don’t deny I’m hooked-my wife is trying to figure out how to get me unhooked. But as long as she keeps buying clothes at the rate she does-I’m good to go with my $ 9 knifes.
BTW-watch is still dead-you want the charger and/or watch?
@Yoda_Daenerys I’ll send you the charger if you want-wouldn’t wear the watch regardless. Would have bought a smart watch before this if I really wanted one.
That sucked, refreshed at 4 and bought it. Watched the green bar go from left to right for a few minutes then, nothing, sold out. Very mediocre indeed.
At 8 this morning sold out. Waited till 4 on the dot. Acted like it was processing then said oops something’s went wrong. Sold out. Yeh, something went wrong. This is crap. I quit.
@deenywv yes - but they got us to visit their site 3 times including rearranging schedules, setting alarms for something that we didn’t have a glimmer of desire for before last night. We are lemmings.
Not to jock Meh’s style, but I have an immediate fix if you are really needing a knife. Especially if you have any knife sharpening apparatus. I got mine for $8 with Prime. Looks like it’s an add-on now.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
2x Santoku knife
2x Paring knife
Pictures
Packaging
Knives
Price Comparison
$18.92 (for 2) at Amazon
$12.99 List for one Santoku
$9.99 List for one Paring
Find a relevant price comparison? Please share it in a comment in this thread
Warranty
Lifetime Ginsu
CHOP! CHOP!
Meh employees are Cut ups-- anyway you slice it! Blade runner “meh” nificent item tonight!
Goofy-ass lookin’ knives.
Keep offering stupid prices, I’ll keep buying stupid things I don’t really need
/giphy stupid prices
@haydesigner Yeah we had giphy integration in our teams slack…we removed it because of results like these
Ginsu 2000!
Anyone care to take a stab at this deal?
Must chop ALL THE THINGS!
Ginsu Koden typed in Google translate: Hobo Knife
Cut it out already, meh.
/image plastic
That’s a little bitty blade but I only have a cheap chef’s knife, two steak knives and a pairing knife from IKEA. Sold. Little bitty blades for my little bitty kitchen.
I placed an order, then I clicked on MEH anyway. Nobody’s gonna mind about that, right?
*seriously, they didn’t do the cool face t this year.
@getkind You rebel you!
@getkind I start by clicking MEH. Then I consider the deal. Then I read the write-up. Then I reconsider the deal (if I haven’t already purchased).
Clicking MEH has nothing to do with anything else, other than clicking MEH.
savvy-jolly-leek
The imagery. What does it mean?
/giphy jolly leek
I have a bunch of old santoku knives, I haven’t even opened the 3 pack of colorful ones, but ordering.
/giphy nerdy thrifty toddy
Because there is no such thing as too many knives.
@Jamileigh17
I’m sharply teedering on taking a stab on this stainless deal -
Even after ordering the 3 packages of the colored knives a few weeks back!
@Jamileigh17 this
/buy
Instead of this endless parade of garbage knives how about finding us a deal on a decent (kitchen) knife?
@Pufferfishy Something that will keep an edge more than 2 months please.
@jjohns71 Even top of the line knives won’t keep an edge for two months if you aren’t sharpening and honing them.
/buy these knives
@Yoda_Daenerys It worked! Your order number is: fluttering-obscene-flower
/image fluttering-obscene-flower
Uh… exactly what is that a drawing of, @mediocrebot?
@ruouttaurmind clearly a Flutter Flower Girl Crochet Top
@Ignorant Oh! Ya! Flutter girl power top crochet thingy. Of course. Ya. Ya, I can see it now…
@ruouttaurmind http://www.allfreediyweddings.com/Bridal-Attire/Flutter-Flower-Girl-Crochet-Top-from-Lion-Brand
@Yoda_Daenerys Why don’t you just hit the buy button?
@mehshark
A)because it is easier to get the GIF this way
2)cuz I wanted to see if trailing words would break the /buy
c)since this way is harder
iv)i’m an idiot
E)i’m an idot savant
Six)all of the above
gee)none of the above
ate)some of the above
Aye)i’ll tell ya later
Ahh-so how about getting to something else. Chop chop
Second Meh purchase - second day in a row. What is wrong with me???
@Bezalel you’re done for… just sit back and succumb to the giant sucking sound of your wallet emptying into Meh’s travel budget
@Bezalel
Condolences!Congrats! A little suggestion, though - consider signing up for VMP at $5/month for free shipping all month. It can be cancelled any time.@Yoda_Daenerys (I thought meh supported start at time #:## youtube links… apparently not. Go to 1:16)
@RedOak …eat him??? with a gammee leg?
@redoak i watched it again just now
“are we starting over?”
Eh… what can I say, other than:
/buy
@baqui63 It worked! Your order number is: comedic-mad-puffin
/image comedic-mad-puffin
@mediocrebot wait!?? which one is the mad puffin?
@baqui63 both
If you turn that last pick into a baby arm stabby tomato app, I’m in!
In Japan, the hand can be used like a wife.
But you still can’t slice a tomato with it!
@craigthom “hand can be used like a wife” or knife? Or like a girlfriend?
@mehdaf It was “knife” in the commercial, but it’s funnier this way.
@craigthom I am thinking that is true in more places than just Japan…
ʇɐǝɥʍ-ɥsıpʃıɥɔ-ɹɐɾɐ
/buy
@CrossIT It worked! Your order number is: affordable-abnormal-mole
/image affordable-abnormal-mole
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i cut myself bad enough to need 3 stitches with a knife you people sold me, and here you are trying to sell me more knives? how insensitive. you should know i shouldnt be left unsupervised with sharp things.
@jihiggs What if they included a box of Band-aids and a tube of medical grade super glue?
@LaVikinga ok fine ill take 2
@jihiggs Might want to pick up some Neosporin while you’re at it, 'cause germs and all.
On $18.92 meh omitted to say this price was for two sets, not one ($9.46 for one set). So were basically getting two sets for the price of one… Good deal for knifeaholics.
Am I bad for not wanting to buy more sub-$10 VMP-bait stuff?
@narfcake … Not really as too many offers could send you to bankruptcy court… I know as I’ve been visited by paupers 'r us several times.
Hey meh. (If that IS your real name…) I called everyone in the eastern time zone and none of them are interested in the Ginsu knives. You may un-pause the thing now.
IF YOU CONTINUE TO DO THIS 8AM CRAP YOU WILL LOSE THIS CUSTOMER FOR LIFE. WTF??? STUPID, MAKE NO SENCE, IF YOU SELL OUT THEN YOU SELL OUT. IF THEY CARE THAT MUCH THEN CHECK IT OUT AT MIDNIGHT (eastern standard time)
@bugger *sense
@bugger if you care that much, set the alarm?
@conandlibrarian Needs a comma between “crap” and “you,” but that’s just piling on top of the poor bugger.
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@bugger Usually, if you are a bit more diplomatic, the good folks here might even reply. They have been pretty open about this, even with some pretty direct criticism. But just being rude? Not going to accomplish much.
From what I can tell though, get used to it, 8am is where it’s at. They don’t really care (despite the obligatory denial) about the long time product release junkies, or even the VMP members, since they are keeping around 70-80% of the product for the 8 am drop.
It sucks, but, they have a business to run. And if any of us who don’t like it, we can always open our own business, and run it any way we want. That sucks too, but it’s also the American way (don’t listen to the morons who will try to tell you anything different!)
@beachhead And it could be worse.
@bugger wait… why didn’t you check it out at midnight?
@bugger It probably has more to do with those of us who are adults (I.E. work for a living, have to get up early) that never get in on the good deals because they are already sold out. So Meh has decided they still want us as customers and is giving us a chance to actually participate.
@beachhead um, number check. Looks like 413 sold as of the email this morning and 623 as of post 8 am sell out. If we assume 700 total, that gives us 60% @ midnight, 30% @ 8AM and 10% for VMP. That seems reasonable.
@bugger Then change the slogan to partial sales deals at midnight then shut it down for the losers at 8am. Heck just sell this place to Amazon already… Lol
@earendil Yes, I had company last night, and didn’t see the numbers til later on. But, that had been exactly what they were doing. It still should be 100% at launch, and let the whiners learn about alarm clocks. How long does it take to wake up, and click a couple buttons if you really want/need the meh item.
@hodr But here’s this on that… If the midnight regulars were already buying enough product to induce a sellout, what difference does it make to the good folks at Meh.com what time the release is?
I only have limited experience in business and no experience in retail. I owned a tech related businesses for a bit over 20 years (small potatoes; only 18-20 employees at its peak). Currently I manage a publishing company. So I freely acknowledge my limited expertise in the area of retail, e-commerce, and brand growth.
Initially I believed they were building a thing here. A weird, quirky, alt.online-retail-experience.hamster.duct-tape sort of community thing. But the 8am thing sort of pushes that in a different direction, innit. Can’t be alt and nurture the mainstream simultaneously (see “woot.com”; video killed the radio star)
Their bidness, their call. A couple of years ago I tripped across something pretty cool here. I stayed. I bought some stuff. I contributed some nonsense. I got some great goodies and made some very cool friends. Made a couple non-friends too. In all, it’s been a great experience I’ve been pleased to participate in. If it becomes not so great, I move on to whatever else is out there.
I don’t spend enough money here to matter. I won’t delude myself for one second that my purchases make any difference to Meh’s bottom line. But the 8am crowd groaned loudly enough they apparently were successful in affecting change. So now the midnight crowd is doing exactly the same thing. Groaning in the hope of affecting change.
@beachhead anyone who got here at midnight had plenty of time to buy a knife. Somewhere there’s some fun debate to be had but not when you start with an argument like “I couldn’t get here at midnight but dammit people who want to be here at 8am should just set an alarm”
@ruouttaurmind this is a great summary of what our experiment tweak is testing. However, having taken the path you reference, I can assure you that this is not that path. That path is “raise prices and force variety while email marketing your offers to Amazon shoppers based on their shopping history”.
I ran backwards from that path - it started to stink and I think it led to a garbage dump.
@beachhead They (MEH) sell out just as fast if they let it ride at the original time. If they don’t, then there will be some for the east coasters to purchase when they wake up, right?
@erinjennie I do. It’s set for 9pm. Not 12pm, 2am, 4am and of course the famous 8am. it’s much easier just to sleep through them all. Saves money, right? Like I said, just sell this one (MEH SITE) to Amazon as well if your (MEH) is going to screw with it.
@beachhead Agreed… It was working just fine. Why change perfection. There are some babies on this site that just don’t get business. I get that. Not everyone has the capacity for business. That seems to include the founders of MEH lately. My guess is they will figure out that they gain nothing only lose business by jacking with this “PAUSED” deal.
@shawn Let me take a wild guess, Democrat? LOL
@hodr Set your alarm? Click purchase or the infamous MEH button and then go back to your (2 for Tuesday) MEH simulated down pillows… LOL
@conandlibrarian I always put that darn “C” instead of the “S”… My bad… Drives my wife crazy too…
@LaVikinga LOL… I, was, tired, &, mad, but, mostly, tired,
@bugger I’ve openly admitted my ignorance of all things retail and e-commerce. But to suggest the founder of a multi-million dollar company which was purchased by Bozos/Amazon doesn’t have the capacity for business… I can’t say I see that perspective.
Also, to suggest ‘it was working just fine’ is a bit of an assumption. What is/was ‘working just fine’ for us, the community, doesn’t necessarily mean the business goals of founders are being met…
Sellouts are good inasmuch as it’s a clear indication that day’s allocation of product has been completely disposed of. On the backhand, sellouts are bad inasmuch as it’s a clear indication of opportunity for additional sales, innit? Like leaving money on the table so to speak?
IIRC, I read something here several months ago by @snapster regarding sellouts and stock allocations and such other musings. That posting made an excellent point about sellouts. To badly paraphrase, it was something like ‘an ideal sales day is one that sells out shortly before the selling day ends at midnight’. This makes perfect sense. That would be the butter zone. The sales Nirvana. The moment where your entire stock sells in the last seconds.
The challenge for Meh is how to get to that butter zone. Expending valuable resources on overstock? Capital monopolized in static stock, costly warehouse space allocated to storage, greater potential for spoilage, and so on? (think: 8 million JBL speaker docks or a thirty and a half tons of BuiltNY neoprene cases)
TL;DR? We don’t know that “it was working just fine”. What works for us, doesn’t necessarily work for the business owner or turn good profit.
@conandlibrarian More users, more eyes, more ad revenue. They will still sell out of the product and make the same amount their, but their ad revenue also increases.
@bugger More users, more eyes, more ad revenue. They will still sell out of the product and make the same amount their, but their ad revenue also increases.
@daennera More users, more eyes, more ad revenue. They will still sell out of the product and make the same amount their, but their ad revenue also increases.
@hodr Except some of us are adults, on the East Coast…and still are able to purchase at midnight - and then go to work and pretend to be adults. Guess it all comes down to priorities, huh?
@daennera
How did I get roped into this conversation?
/giphy confused
@ruouttaurmind
I feel like you are partially making my point. If they are building a community, they probably want it to be open to the greatest number of people. If the first dozen times you stop by Meh you notice a pattern that the good stuff is always sold out before you have a chance, then maybe you don’t get invested and don’t join the community.
Sure, they may sell out regardless, but by spreading the sales out they encourage greater community participation and they have a better chance of selling out the slightly less cool stuff since more people are visiting the site.
Same reason your retail establishment limits sale items to 1 per customer, because they want to bring people into the store and sell more of their other stuff. As a retail genius entrepreneur publisher megastar I would think this should be obvious to you.
@LaVikinga rofl on your comment
@LaVikinga sorry - skimmed again, you prolly made a lot of comments in this long thread, it was the “insert comma” dealio at the top that made me spit - thx!
now for my TL;DR summary of this whole circuit breaker thing-a-ma-bob:
A1) 9pm PT/Midnight ET crowd - it’s always been in my favor, why should we consider changing it? What’s fair have to do with it?
2B) 8am ET/need sleep/morning crowd - thanks for the chance to buy some of this cheap junk i really don’t need (and some better sleep).
@Yoda_Daenerys Life isn’t Fair, Princess, or some comment similar. I need to go back and re-watch The Princess Bride
Actually, I’ve only made one or two since I was on the road from Miami Beach. As a Southerner in the very deep South, I have to say the further towards Key West I go, the ruder the natives seem to be.
@LaVikinga “i don’t think that word means what you think it means”
now maybe i am starting to recall what you are referring to: Humperdink telling that to the wife in Game of Cards, what’s her name? Carrie Underwood?
@bugger You sounded hangry this morning. Have a snack before you Meh. It might help?
Anyway, it’s just stuff.
They’ll sell it again. Probably. You know, kinda like speaker docks and thermal cups.
Besides, they’re just slippery ol’ Ginsu knives. The ones I talked myself out of needing. I think the Pause Feature might save me money in the long run. Not that I buy I bunch of stuff, but every dollar adds up.
@snapster I wasn’t griping about missing the knives, just the sales quantity. Like a lot of other meh folks, there’s no shortage of knives at my house. And my only “gripe” if I miss an item is with myself.
I only missed the sell out number, as the quantity you make available at the different times provides us an interesting look at just which portion of the customer base you are targeting. Certainly in the early stages, you were making a large proportion available for the 8 am drop.
Is it not acceptable for us to participate and analyze the “experiment” that you’ve forced us into?
@LaVikinga I ate and feel MUCH better. Very similar to that candy bar commercial
Less than an hour and you put it on pause? At least give it 2 hours. WTH?
@Jerrold i doubt it is based on time
@Yoda_Daenerys So you think the sale hits a certain amount of units and goes on pause?
@Jerrold yes, my guess is % of units available is the setting, but it’s just a SWAG
maybe… Amazon price is better for amazon prime member
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008DEC14S/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@hyunhongchoi That’s for one set. It’s two sets for $9 here.
@narfcake oh! my mistake!! sorry
I came to buy and I find it paused. This staggered sale just is not working.
/giphy don’t want my money
@Mehrocco_Mole your money is no good here.
@Mehrocco_Mole If they hadn’t paused it, wouldn’t it have been sold out by the time you got here?
@lljk Probably but maybe not. I’m usually one of the first to hit the meh button but this time I was a bit late.
Spoiler alert! I’m going to rant.
@snapster @dave and the rest: correct me if I’m wrong but I thought the premise of this site was 1 item per day, 1st come 1st serve, in the pursuit of the perfect deal. If I was the last one here and was left holding the empty bag than I wouldn’t have a bitch. But I was here, twice. Both times the sale was paused. You have taken from me my natural right to partisipate in the deal.
Stop the pauses as a failed experiment and tell the East Coast whinners if they don’t stop whinning you’ll set the clock to Midnight Central time like that other site whose name shall not be mentioned.
@Mehrocco_Mole the deal was not paused at midnight. Are you asking for a 4th “When Mehrocco_Mole Arrives” launch time? Why is it more logical for the 8am crowd to arrive at midnight versus you?
@snapster Please see the second sentence above:
I’m not saying this isn’t being fair. Fair is where you go to ride rides and see the 4H animals. It’s not my company, it’s yours. Do with it as you see fit.
I’m also not asking for special treatment. I don’t have that right or inclination. I’m just saying this pause seems to me to be adding too many layers to what should be a simple concept: 1st come 1st served.
The Pause Thing does suck! Maybe you should start offering a sellout.meh, and a computer.meh, and a electronics.meh, and a kids.meh, and a Bluetooth.meh, and a home.meh and a tools & garden.meh.
Also, maybe you should consider selling about 50 or so items under each category . . .
@BuddTX But no shirt.meh? Now that’s fucked up.
@narfcake my bad! BUT, maybe we need a t-shirt.meh and a golfShirt.meh and a dressShirt.meh
@narfcake el at—I mean narf and everyone else–what’s the ause thing? does it go off after a certain time? Does it last a certain time? I log on every night, but haven’t paid attention. It seems the time is random, otherwise so many people wouldn’t be upset, but I have no idea.
Gin whoo?? I’m itching to buy something. Should I buy the knives tonight, or whatever comes up tomorrow? With the cheap price, maybe I’ll use them. Usually when I pay “A lot” for something nice, I’m afraid to use it for a few years. What is that? It’s treating myself nice, but no it isn’t. I need to like myself and enjoy something. At least act like it.
ooooh! @Mehrocco_Mole says “staggered sale” so I’m guessing its…tadaaaa!, Staggered.
@wew Check out https://meh.com/forum/topics/or-you-can-please-none-of-the-people-at-all-of-the-times-----1-of-2
and https://meh.com/forum/topics/or-you-can-please-none-of-the-people-at-all-of-the-times----2-of-2
@trimm Het, thanks! Yep, I remember skipping over that! ok. Yep, I’ll “bookmark” it and read it upon awakening!
thanks for the reply @trimm. I might be a wee bit sarcastic, but I do appreciate the time you put into it!
@BuddTX
Don’t worry. Soon there will be a meh.woot.com if they keep this up.
@dickie541 I was thinking that too! I think every cell in the known universe would burst, or there would be a “rip” in the space time continuum, or we would trans-warp into a new alternate reality, or some other techno-babble!
@BuddTX But no catshirt.meh? Grrrr.
@wew This is the Internet. We’re all sarcastic.
@trimm
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/sarcasm
Ginsu knives?? Seriously?
I have mixed feelings about the pause thing. On one hand, it’s twice now prevented me from buying something I wanted at the moment I wanted to buy it. On the other hand, it’s twice now prevented me from buying something I absolutely didn’t need.
Still I agree with the others. The pause thing sucks (even if it saves me money…)
@cometwatcher I got the 4pm VMP sale the other day and was pretty stoked.
@cometwatcher I’m pretty much ambivalent until it settles down. It’s an lab rat experiment.
@RedOak i don’t think you should use ‘an’ before ‘lab’, just sayin’
@Yoda_Daenerys how about if we insert the word “asshole” after “an”?
But then “i” am a grammar hack —BTW, do I also need to include a period at the end of the previous sentence?
@RedOak inserting something in asshole is fine in private, and when we start to use - then the use of periods gets so f’n confusing
btw, did you know the Vietnamese spell ‘foe’ soup like this - pho? and we thought engrish is a confusing language?
413 sold as of first circuit breaker
@Yoda_Daenerys Hmmm…second circuit breaker tripped at 623, which gives the original drop, people who made the site, about twice the opportunity as the morning whiners. This is a significant shift from the start of this miserable “experiment”. I’m going to guess the other loyal customer base gets thrown a tiny little bone as well, so I’ll go with an increase from 7% to a whopping 10-11%, and guess there will be another 70 available for the vmp drop.
I still say this whole circuit breaker thing is dumb, and that they should just put the time and effort into getting more desirable stuff for ridiculously cheap prices. You could call that an experiment, but I’d say it’s a recipe for success…;)
@beachhead designing features for our site has yet to ever reduce resources from our purchasing effort. Someday it could but I don’t think anyone’s accusing us of having too robust a development team. It’s less than 10% of Mediocre’s workforce.
@snapster oh man, you didn’t just diss @shawn and @katylava did you? they are the Gibraltar to the rock, the pepporoni to the pizza, the bull to the red, the…
Go ahead and pause it, it’s not like I’m gonna take up the art of BENIHANA anytime soon.
/giphy hibachi chef
If they can’t get up by 12 am, then they don’t need no stinking knives… Get rid of the pause button…
Or heck, save me a fukuburu bag next time you have one… So I don’t have to work for it…
@Drunkenalien if you were here at 12am the pause button wasn’t on then. Listen to yourself.
@snapster i dont have to. It makes sense, and if youre refering to some gramatical error… i simply dont care. You obviously understood what i was saying enough to comment.
@Drunkenalien if you experienced the pause button on the knives, you weren’t here at midnight. Arguing then that an 8am visitor needs to be here at midnight is not logical.
@snapster How so… Please elaborate… Since this is of such concern to you… That you feel the need to take the time…
Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate the pause, I was tempted but I have life and work so I can’t check it at 9pm, hell I checked it more regularly when I was east coast and stayed up till midnight. at least if I miss something because it truly sold out then it truly sold out.
This is Bull shit.
What’s this ‘deal paused’ garbage? Why the hate on for west coast insomniacs?
/buy
@connorbush We wanted the morning crowd to have a shot at this too, so we’re holding back some of these until 8am ET.
@mediocrebot yeah motherfucker haha …j/k NOT!!!
@mediocrebot Dammit! It’s only nine minutes after eight and now because I’m not Clara Clock Watcher, I have to wait until 4?! I hate being none of those people none of the time!
Well, at least you’re telling me there’s still a chance. Thanks, Meh. I’ll try to be more punctual in the future.
Can someone fill me in on what everyone is talking about with “The Pause”? It sounds like and episode of Seinfeld
@adamloooong
I’m sorry nobody replied to your post earlier. There has been a BUNCH of quality posts throughout the day.
The Pause (or “circuit breaker”) is very well explained by @snapster here
Wanted a Ginsu my whole life been using the phrase "Your sharper then a Ginsu " my whole life my trigger finger awaits 8 A.M. east coast baby !!! West coast ty for being patient Peace
It may be time for a 2 item Meh, break one at Midnight west coast and the other at 8am east coast. Idea #2 deep 6 the vmp make a flat ship fee lets say 2 bucks being a frequent buyer on here i can live with that .Idea 3 have a yearly ship fee like Prime and Walmart shipping pass …price it at 39 bucks …ill do it …Idea #4 Make everyday 2 fer and price it accordingly …OK im done with ideas … To the Meh team you rock !!! Peace
@mellowirishgent
@djslack djdiclik your very clever
@mellowirishgent Every rule has its exception, including “it takes one to know one.”
Good day, sir.
/buy
@rprussell It worked! Your order number is: floppy-fastidious-blueberry
/image floppy-fastidious-blueberry
That’s just dangerous.
@mediocrebot yum.
Thank you pause. Got me some knives.
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I’ll take the free paring knife “with no order.” Thought no one was paying attention, meh? I bought the last set of 3 knives you had up and, oddly enough, LOVE THEM!! I’ve been searching for a good knife to hold in my arthritic hand and those knives are IT!! But, not this time, amigos
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This might be too x-rated for a picture…
Yes ty Pause i’m happy
Paused again.
The people love their knives.
@mcqdew 2nd Amendment, baby!
I still have Jaimie Oliver and Ginsu knives unopened in their shipping crates. I missed both midnight and 8 by a half hour and couldn’t buy these. You sure know how to make a girl want something bad. I just hope I’m a half hour late at 4 too.
@sammydog01 What makes you think there are “Jaimie Oliver and Ginsu knives” in those unopened shipping crates?
Curse you, @RedOak. I’m out of town and can’t check.
Ugh. Missed these again. Meh. You need to make it easier for us working folk who aren’t up at midnight to see the deals start.
@benji7roeth primary issue here is the undersized batch of knives but, just as my 12am conversations go, you basically have to be here at launch some days. I’m not sure what you mean on making it easier than launching consistently at 8am sharp ET.
edit: wait. so you don’t even know about the 8am relaunch do you. [insert Charlie Brown auuuuugggggghhhh]
you need the email tl;dr version of this but I don’t have it handy: https://meh.com/forum/topics/or-you-can-please-none-of-the-people-at-all-of-the-times-----1-of-2
@benji7roeth move to the west coast
@snapster Thank you. This is info much appreciated.
@snapster An interesting development, innit. Someone who has been a member for five or six months, but has no clue about the whole circuit breaker dealio.
Of course, in retrospect, it’s obvious. If someone doesn’t participate in the community, and visits only irregularly, and has a bulletproof spam filter to catch the daily email, they’d have no clue what “deal paused until 8AM” even means.
@ruouttaurmind Yep - I assume there are many of the >8am crowd who don’t comprehend yet. The change allows for that just fine. Selling out at 8:05 was the issue at hand here. At least we tried!
Even if it took me an hour to be able to post about it (stupid commute!), seems like a good deal any way you cut it. In for one.
/giphy chivalrous-cautious-afternoon
Pause.
'Recall hearing that when customers like something they tell 1 person. When they hate it, they tell 7.
So perhaps the beneficiaries of the pause are not as loud as the haters here.
That, and the more launch times there are, the more opportunities there are to complain when someone misses yet another un-pause window.
@RedOak I’ve always joked that you could theoretically combine this idiom with “there’s no such thing as bad press” and enjoy 7x the marketing power.
@snapster Yep. But while I’m reserving judgement on this pause experiment thing, please don’t go getting any ideas about how to best piss off the most folks!
@snapster HEY! Leave Donald Trump out of this.
Pause the whole website already
We need a Meh 2 for the Westies. Or, Oh, better yet! Meh, Jr. Yeah, that will get them riled up!
I’ll kindly offer to manage WCM (West Coast Meh). I shall be fair and just! Lesser Kings would probably sell big ginsus’ on the East and think it funny to sell the little knives on the West. Not me, probably.
I’ll start packing a few things while I wait your reply.
@wew Great idea…how about just having a “meh-off” constantly. They could put one item up, and leave it that way until it sells out. That way, no one would be able to know when the next launch is.
@wew Now your talking. I prefer the (start sales at 9pm till it’s gone) over the (pause sales till 8am program). MEH, your just pissing off the west to satisfy the east. First there was the east coast/west coast rapper wars now this?? MEH, why??? LOL
@wew two words. sellout.meh.com
Sold out? Darn it! I had some soda cans I needed to cut in half…
@MrNews No, paused. Next time, join VMP yesterday so you can buy them at 4pm today.
I think the pause is entertaining, quirky, and contentious which pretty much sums up what I’ve loved about meh over the past couple years. I’m thinking about coming back at 1pm just to experience a pause purchase even though I don’t need any knives.
Who am I fooling? Once I get to work I’ll be too engrossed to even notice it’s 1pm.
@SSteve right with you there. I keep missing them.
@snapster Yeah, I’m sure we both have better things to do than think about meh deals all day.
Oh, wait…
Deal paused again. Sort of like being sold out but more annoying.
@mdwy62 Think MEH knows they are driving their customers away?
@mdwy62 @bugger if you’re not VMP you simply see “Sold Out you missed it” after the 8am release is sold out. Log out to see. Do you think that means we’re not aware what we’re telling these potential customers?
I guess I’m confused about the pause button hate, and inability to see how it will help Meh.com going forward.
The pause condition isn’t for selling more of today’s product, but for subsequent items. The staggering of time windows for offers allows for a broader audience to be reached. With a broadened audience, additional units can be purchased in hopes of selling those.
I applaud the effort and it has brought me back to checking the site daily again.
@MooNinja TL;DR summary… The midnight crowd supported the site for a couple years. Now the midnight crowd is being allocated a smallish portion of the available stock. This is why the pause button hate.
The little CX-20 drones paused about 10 minutes after midnight. If I wanted to order some, I had to get up at 4AM (which I did). Then the (midnight) community realized the disproportionate stock allocation, and started to feel like redheaded stepchildren. The next night’s sale was similar. This fueled the pause hate. And here we are.
@ruouttaurmind Retail like this is unprecedented, so it’s understandable to have some hiccups. Today’s knives got a wider distribution at midnight – is that the way forward, or will some other product proportion work out better? No one knows yet.
In my numbers days at shirt.woot, I calculated out that only about 1 in 8 returned to purchase a sold out shirt. That’s pretty significant.
By staggering the sales, meh stands a better chance of keeping a larger audience than if this audience kept seeing a “sold out” sign. There’s no difference in total sales, but it’d yield a big difference in audience retention.
@narfcake Today’s knives got a wider distribution at midnight – is that the way forward, or will some other product proportion work out better? No one knows yet.
Agreed. Hence, @snapster’s constant reference to this as an “experiment” (when I was doing the DJ thing I referred to my show as “dangerous, experimental radio… don’t get any on ya!”; apparently only humorous to me…)
Hi, first time to comment, I want the knives but it is paused, just waiting…oh. by the way, what does meh stand for? I am old and not sure how to use it in my live.
Love you guys, look in every day. Am I suppose to hit the meh button? Help
@carolrocks Hi Carol. There’s a long explanation if you care to dive in for a while but here’s the shorthand attempt:
We are sold out of knives but, because your a VMP member as of yesterday, you get a last shot at some at 4pm eastern time.
The button that says “paused” for you changes back to active until other VMP members buy the last few. Visitors who are not VMP already see “Sold Out” right now.
There’s a separate change where we split inventory between 12am and 8am eastern and if you arrive at one of those two times in the future you have a proper chance to buy that days offer.
@carolrocks
meh
exclamation
“Meh. I’m not impressed so far”
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“a lot of his movies are … meh”
And yes, click that meh button to your heart’s content. Or don’t. It doesn’t matter. Some people click it when they don’t buy something. Some click it when they do so they can see the face on the calendar. Some of us click it every damn day because there’s something wrong with us and we want to see how long we can go without breaking the streak.
726 total meh button clicks
641 in a row
longest streak: 641
I could have checked the dictionary, sorry to bother.
The pause worked perfectly for me. I was about ready to throw in the towel on Meh because I was so tired of checking in the morning and good stuff being sold out.
I was ready at 7:00AM CDT and got the item.
Sorry west coasters but you still get the Fuku’s
Amazon now shows $12.95
Relationship advice; rule of thumb: Never tell your current lover you’re leaving them for another lover while the current lover is armed with a Ginsu knife!
/giphy Lorena Bobbitt
Oh giphy, that’s just a terrible image choice. Try this one instead:
if you dont like that they pause then either stay up late OR pay the $5 for VMP. Or you could just stop bitching and grow up?
@Bayamonprieto77 But… “bitching” by folks who didn’t like the midnight-only product release is how the whole circuit breaker “deal paused” situation came along.
THAT bitching is acceptable bitching… but bitching about the circuit breaker is NOT acceptable. Do I understand you correctly?
@ruouttaurmind
@ruouttaurmind bitching in general. No subsects are needed…
@Bayamonprieto77 Fair enough.
@ruouttaurmind who ever said the previous bitching is why
/giphy circuit breaker
was introduced? did i miss the memo?
@Yoda_Daenerys Perhaps I over-implied it based on @snapster’s comments here?
Dear Meh, as a a very mediocre VMP member I appreciate the current Meh experiment. To everyone else, nanny nanny boo boo!!!
/buy
@sohmageek We wanted our VMP members to have a shot at this too, so we’re holding back some of these until 4pm ET.
@mediocrebot I need a /buy script for 4 PM… Hrm…
To all those who missed the deal before the pause and seem to be upset, I am happy to say that as a VMP member I will buy several sets in your honor!
Do I need these 4 knives? No, I do not. But I do want to see how this VMP Pause button thing actually works. Will I easily buy product or will it be Fuku-hell? It’s worth $9 to find out.
@Arsh well, that was smooth as butter with no issues.
/giphy bullish moody wilderness
Even though I am on the East Coast-still staying up till 12:00 midnight to see what the next day item is rather than waiting until 8 the next morning for a couple of reasons-first if I’m in bed and watching TV before falling asleep if its around 12-I will always check on my phone next to the bed to see what the item(s) is because the suspense would be killing me. Also not sure if I could get a good nights sleep knowing there was a “meh” out there and not knowing what it is. And I think the pressure to get up before 8 is a lot greater than staying up a few minutes past my usual bedtime. But that is just me.
@Felton10 ditto, and btw, that’s the first step in the 12 step process to recovery - admitting
@Yoda_Daenerys I don’t deny I’m hooked-my wife is trying to figure out how to get me unhooked. But as long as she keeps buying clothes at the rate she does-I’m good to go with my $ 9 knifes.
BTW-watch is still dead-you want the charger and/or watch?
@Felton10 you can send me the charger, or i can send you the watch
/giphy ambivalence
/youtube ambivalence
how about we make up a game of some sorts to decide, like rock, paper, scissors, sent at exactly a certain time?
@Yoda_Daenerys I’ll send you the charger if you want-wouldn’t wear the watch regardless. Would have bought a smart watch before this if I really wanted one.
@Felton10 well i would rather have played the game, but you can email me at mymehusername@gmail.com (literally - no substition)
anything at Meh. you wish you had, but didn’t get? perhaps i have an extra - include your request in your email
@Felton10 yea, this really isn’t a smart watch anyway, i refer to it as a faux-smart watch
Finally able to buy without missing it or not wanting it
@footerwah1 buy without wanting = Meh.
/buy
@sid1 Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
Oops. I tried for the 4:00, but whiffed. Clicked right at 4:00:00 but then the computer lagged.
Congrats to those that DID get one though! Whoo!
/image edgy-horrified-breakfast
I hit buy at @4:01, bar scrolls across 3 times, something went wrong, sold out. I guess no knives for me on my birthday.
I hit it right at 4…same thing happened to me
I tried immediately at 4, but are already sold out while processing my payment. What, did MEH reserve just 1 set for us VMP folks?
@ChrisG 54 sets, actually.
@narfcake right!
That sucked, refreshed at 4 and bought it. Watched the green bar go from left to right for a few minutes then, nothing, sold out. Very mediocre indeed.
Kinda felt like a bag of crap.
At 8 this morning sold out. Waited till 4 on the dot. Acted like it was processing then said oops something’s went wrong. Sold out. Yeh, something went wrong. This is crap. I quit.
@deenywv yes - but they got us to visit their site 3 times including rearranging schedules, setting alarms for something that we didn’t have a glimmer of desire for before last night. We are lemmings.
WTF?!
@lisameh wtf
Oops. Missed the 4pm gate.
I, for one, like The Final Cut at least as much as The Wall.
edit: Oh, and the “pause” doesn’t bother me either… 3x the fun
No vmp bonus for me on this one. Damn spotty Internet.
Wow, I missed both pauses. Yet I wasted like 30 minutes reading the comments and snapster’s blog posts about the pauses.
Some quality comments up in here.
Not to jock Meh’s style, but I have an immediate fix if you are really needing a knife. Especially if you have any knife sharpening apparatus. I got mine for $8 with Prime. Looks like it’s an add-on now.
Sturdy, nice size chefs knife. Okay metal, wood handle.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B017GC1N50/ref=mp_s_a_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469579428&sr=8-1-spell&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=pioneer+womam+chef+knife
Well that’s not even close to the same thing at all is it?
Thanks?
Got a notice these have already shipped. Damn, that’s fast, Meh!