When it first changed over to today’s product the Cuisinart meh-rathons banner and silver clicky face was STILL up. I thought for sure we were having another MEHRATHON! Lol…
One can always wish!

@Lynnerizer Yeah, how do you cook with these things?

@Lynnerizer @phendrick put them all in your oven and turn it into a giant Easy Bake

@Lynnerizer @phendrick @ybmuG I can just imagine 50 or 100 of these shoved into an easy-bake oven.

@phendrick
Well… I thought it was ANOTHER MEHRATHON, not a Cuisinart mehrathon!
BUT… I do like the idea of making my own easy Bake oven.

@bruhaha shhh… Meh still thinks it’s 1999.

@bruhaha @hchavers Do they still party like it?

@bruhaha only 500 watts for the 2 strings. What a deal.

@bfg9000
Party pooper!

@Lynnerizer not on me. On Meh. I am just commenting on reality.

@seespotbark I remember when @snapster said he would never use that 99 cents marketing trick.

@cengland0 @seespotbark @snapster Oooo, yeah -
I HATE that .99 trick!

@cengland0 @seespotbark @snapster Exactly half of the Amz comparison price. If it had been $59.99 there, I wonder if Meh would have rounded up or down for the half price?
As far as “marketing trick”, my brain always converts the .99 up to the next whole dollar, so these to me are selling for 30 bucks each. And $3.299 a gallon gas is $3.30 each gal.

@cengland0 @Kyeh @seespotbark @snapster @phendrick I demand that meh charge us all 1 cent more for these! Especially since I’m not going to buy them at either price, and wouldn’t even take incandescent lights if they were free.

@cengland0 @phendrick @seespotbark @snapster
@ciabelle Bravo! What really frosts me is stores that offer a discount or free shipping at a certain level, but it’s hard to get to because the .99 puts you just shy of that amount.

@cengland0 @Kyeh @phendrick @seespotbark @snapster Exactly! “Free shipping on orders over $50” = Pretty much everything sells for $24.99.

@seespotbark Get rid of all prices that don’t end in a multiple of 5 cents everywhere IMO.

@seespotbark @Kyeh @phendrick @ciabelle @brennyn
I found the forum thread about not pricing things to end 1 cent shy of a full dollar (a.k.a., ending in 99 cents) and it wasn’t @snapster that said it, it was @dave

https://meh.com/forum/topics/meh-experiment-variables-pricing

@brennyn @cengland0 @ciabelle @dave @Kyeh @phendrick @seespotbark

hey cool, we were looking for that just the other day. We did find this poll, which helped assuage our egos a bit as we brought the experiment to a close. https://meh.com/forum/topics/what-do-you-think-about-prices-that-end-in--99-like-4-99

Perhaps it’s “Q4 Pricing” or perhaps it’s forever pricing. At least there’s not a 9/10ths at the end (yet)

@brennyn @seespotbark I’d prefer prices in increments of 10 cents. (1 cent in 1960 was the equivalent of 10 cents in 2022.)

@seespotbark .99 bad, .69 good

@brennyn @macromeh @seespotbark One 2022 cent is closer to one 1971 cent, actually. In 1960, you could buy a low-end new car for under $2000, and a gallon of gas was as little as 24 cents. (The typical new car sold for around $2600.) I am aware that the Bureau of Labor Statistics disagrees with this assessment, but their numbers have been intentionally buggered to hide the degree to which the working stiff has been getting screwed for decades now.

@brennyn @macromeh @seespotbark To be more specific, as I was pretty sure I had recalled, the 1967 VW Beetle had an MSRP of $1639, with a typical drive-out of $1850 plus TTL where we lived; the cheapest car from that make today is quite a bit more than 10 times this amount, though it is arguably a better vehicle as well. (I wouldn’t buy one myself, but that’s mostly for personal reasons.)

@bfg9000 The plug, 6 inch cord, 50 * (bulb and 1ft cord), 6 inch cord, socket. Repeat three times (buy 1.5 sets?).

@bfg9000 Perhaps each string has a 1’ leader with no lights?

@ciabelle so why wouldn’t 3 strings be 149 feet?

Oops. The plug, 6 inch cord, 49 * (bulb and 1ft cord), bulb, 6 inch cord, AC socket. Repeat three times (buy 1.5 sets?).

@bfg9000 No, no, no - 1 Cord = 128 cubic feet of firewood.

@bfg9000 @ciabelle Three strings would, indeed, measure no more than 149 feet from the first to last bulb if there’s exactly one foot of leader and assuming that the socket to string them together is precisely at the location of the 50th bulb. Somehow, I doubt that all of those factors can be relied upon.

@jandrese These are wired in parallel, not series. I suspect that the sockets are just staked onto the cord.

@jandrese Actually on amazon they are rated amazingly well with over 1000 reviews. Meh must have had a hiccup to get a well rated item.

@jandrese @Kidsandliz I’m guessing that they picked up some part of a load that was in late-arriving containers, and the original buyer had cancelled. That, or the demand for traditional incandescent has fallen off a cliff with the arrival of the simulated-filament LED globe bulbs at a decent price.

@hchavers they need these on sale in the southern hemisphere

@hchavers Summer is precisely when my reaction to the idea of strings of heat-emitting “decorations” goes from “No” to “OH HELL NO!!!”.

@btwonder these are a perfect night time glow. Anything of the LED type would require something like 3 watts or less to keep from being too bright.

@btwonder @Larry1977 Give me the LEDs, then. In fact, for me, it’s LEDs at 5000K+ or GTFO. I loathe 2700K, and anything below that is even worse.

@btwonder @Larry1977 @werehatrack “loathe” seems strong for a string of lights.

@KREE As mere decorations, I am just annoyed by them. As functional lighting, “loathe” is accurate for me. And no, I don’t have SAD, I just have a strong dislike for illumination that isn’t reasonably balanced full-spectrum. YMMV.

@werehatrack okay, now I understand. We just have nuanced definitions for the same word. I save it for really horrific things like the 1998 remake of Psycho or Nancy Pelosi’s tardive dyskinesia

@xobzoo vegetable lighting?

@xobzoo Trapping sentient beings for enslavement is fae trafficking. Fortunately, pixies have long become adept at being invisible to ordinary mortals.

@brennyn Don’t forget to put a vinyl wallpop behind each bulb, for emphasis.

@omegamonkey At the end like it should be or do you think the filament is really shaped like that?

@omegamonkey @yakkoTDI Taking into account the effects of internal reflection inside the bulb, the rendered image of the last one is probably not extensively massaged. The initial ones showing evenly not-jaundiced-white ones are the joke-on-you verion; no way will they look like that when powered up.

@omegamonkey @yakkoTDI
It’s pretty hard to see!

@Kyeh @omegamonkey @yakkoTDI What they needed was a photo in the dark with these as eyes for either Irk for Glen scary halloween style.

@werehatrack Yes we had little brass clips you could put on the ends of branches and use little candles. Only a few of them, and only a few times I think we tried it. We mostly had electric lights but I know we tried a few of the candles. I think all realized it was a REALLY BAD IDEA! But yeah, that was actually a thing.

@CraigDanger Note: power supplied by your domestic energy provider. Chinese power not included.

/giphy on your own dude