@nolrak As a kid in grade we’d walk home from the high school (1.5 miles away) in the winter (snow belt) after swimming class. I had long hair, it froze and I broke off pieces of icicles that had formed around my hair the entire way home. Oops.
@nolrak Yeah terrible snack. Even worse is what your mom says when you show up at home with an icicle haircut. I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade at the time.
The reviews indicate that they can leak after just a few uses and said his cat was licking the stuff off the seam. This person then couldn’t find any information about what was in there and whether or not it was dangerous to humans and pets.
@Kidsandliz theyre non toxic, it was easy to find, they used to use mildly toxic (dont drink a gallon of it) stuff in gel packs but those were recalled and no one sells those anymore.
as far as leaking, i hope they dont leak, but if they do, meh has been okay when i needed to warranty things in the past.
@JT954 according to at least one review, 25-35 minutes for other ice packs. but it likely depends on what they’re in contact with. i have several gel packs that i got for free with grocery deliveries that i use in a cooler bag when i go grocery shopping during warmer weather and can’t go home immediately after. they last hours. but the same ice pack in between my knees while laying on the couch on a hot day won’t last anywhere near that long. and again the same ice pack used on forehead/temples for a migraine in winter lasts somewhere in between.
@mehcuda67 I’d wager (your money) you could: freeze one and then dip half into boiling water. (I would also recommend tongs when doing the dipping, so that your hand doesn’t also freeze and get boiled.)
Alternatively, I suppose you could freeze one (of the three-pack) and heat another and hold them together to duel it out; one side hot, one side cold. But that doesn’t include the thrill of dropping the pack in boiling water and making a mess.
Based off the meh write up: Does anyone suspect that meh purposely posts ridiculous and somewhat negative reviews on Amazon so they get to swoop in and save the day for these companies that are hemorrhaging money on their products that aren’t selling well? Am I acting like a conspiracy theorist or did I just discover the deal-of-the-day site equivalent of Russian collusion?
@nolrak@shiranissosexy Some sort of special prosecutor is in order. We all know there was collusion here. There was interference with those products, and we have many indications Meh colluded with Russians and Ukrainians to bring that about.
@nolrak@PatrickKarcher@shiranissosexy But wait - you mean (gasp) they were imported from Russia or Ukraine yet meh is claiming China? That is so totally fake news
@nikon Amazon changed it sometime in the wee hours… Hmm I wonder if we could bribe meh to fake sell some really expensive product we all want so Amazon then price matches.
My grandmother gave me one of these. It’s not bad. Holds heat for a good while. My biggest issue with it is the beads are a bit too flexible and it didn’t “sit” in the spot I wanted it to on my back easily. Was great on the shoulder though.
I seem to be accident prone. Something tells me I should get these. Especially since they seem to be somewhat flexible where my ice packs that are plasticare clearly not. But, what happens if after I buy these, I never manage to injure myself again?
MEH! I’ll stay with the bag of frozen peas or edamame…use till it gets thin then replace. Bag of edamame lasted 3 months as an ice pack for my knee after arthroscopy. The “steamer” bags hold up better than the other type. As for the heat, I’ve hot a perfectly good heating pad or 2.
Ours never has an odor. Maybe 'cuz we use it in the freezer more often than the microwave or maybe 'cuz we live in FL so our feet aren’t trapped in sweaty shoes?
As soon as these were heated in the microwave, as instructed, they soon had a leak and needed to be thrown away! This has now happened to 2 of these, so I will not be heating up the 3rd and last one!
Specs
What’s in the Box?
3x Gel Packs
3x Straps
Price Comparison
$89.31 (for 3) at Amazon
Warranty
90 day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery
Tuesday, July 14th - Monday, July 20th
Brrrr
Cold deal at hot prices
well that’s a pain
Meh
You’re getting warmer…
Now you’re getting colder…
And then you’re – fuck it.
Wow. Hot or cold. Perfect in southern California!
Are these any better than the 99¢ all gel ones I get when I order my Homebrew supplies?
@MrMikenIkes
Yes. And no.
It depends.
/8ball Are these any better than the 99¢ ones?
It is certain
This looks like the worse way ever to cut your hair
@nolrak As a kid in grade we’d walk home from the high school (1.5 miles away) in the winter (snow belt) after swimming class. I had long hair, it froze and I broke off pieces of icicles that had formed around my hair the entire way home. Oops.
@Kidsandliz hairsicles sound like a terrible after school snack
/image uphill both ways
@Kidsandliz @nolrak How is this not a woot shirt?
Or is it…?
@nolrak Yeah terrible snack. Even worse is what your mom says when you show up at home with an icicle haircut. I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade at the time.
The reviews indicate that they can leak after just a few uses and said his cat was licking the stuff off the seam. This person then couldn’t find any information about what was in there and whether or not it was dangerous to humans and pets.
Apparently when they work they work well though.
@Kidsandliz Wait a bit and take another look at the cat…
@Kidsandliz @shahnm The cat is maintaining his temperature much better now.
@Kidsandliz Might not be so bad if you put it one of those vacuum seal bags that they occasionally sell on here…
@woo545 That’s an idea for people who own one. Or a ziplock freezer bag. Other than the leaking it seems like they get decent reviews.
@Kidsandliz theyre non toxic, it was easy to find, they used to use mildly toxic (dont drink a gallon of it) stuff in gel packs but those were recalled and no one sells those anymore.
as far as leaking, i hope they dont leak, but if they do, meh has been okay when i needed to warranty things in the past.
One more day before I again seriously question the value of VMP.
I refuse to believe these exist for any reason other than someone working at Wahl lost a bet.
The last picture confirms for me something I’ve long suspected. It must be quite painful to have Glen come out of your ass…
@shahnm Glennnnnn!!!
“Stays colder for up to 20 minutes longer than traditional gel packs”
And how long do traditional gel packs stay cold?
@JT954
20 minutes shorter than these of course.
@JT954 according to at least one review, 25-35 minutes for other ice packs. but it likely depends on what they’re in contact with. i have several gel packs that i got for free with grocery deliveries that i use in a cooler bag when i go grocery shopping during warmer weather and can’t go home immediately after. they last hours. but the same ice pack in between my knees while laying on the couch on a hot day won’t last anywhere near that long. and again the same ice pack used on forehead/temples for a migraine in winter lasts somewhere in between.
I think I’ll wait to see how this deal gels.
@mehcuda67 don’t chill too long, it’s a hot deal
I can’t deal with this package quantity — how am I supposed to attain symmetry? One hot, two cold or two cold, one hot won’t cut it
@nolrak order 2 of the 3 packs and you can have 2 hot, 2 cold, 2 room temp!
@nolrak @Thumperchick Wouldn’t one three-pack have the same rotational symmetry of cold/medium/hot?
@Thumperchick but wait, there’s more! Simply pay two times the amount and receive a second set absolutely free!!
@Thumperchick @yeppers dang both of you and your logic
fine, I’m in for one but no more!
If you can make them hot and cold at the same time, I’ll buy them.
@mehcuda67 Isn’t that the way a heat pump works?
@mehcuda67 I’d wager (your money) you could: freeze one and then dip half into boiling water. (I would also recommend tongs when doing the dipping, so that your hand doesn’t also freeze and get boiled.)
Alternatively, I suppose you could freeze one (of the three-pack) and heat another and hold them together to duel it out; one side hot, one side cold. But that doesn’t include the thrill of dropping the pack in boiling water and making a mess.
@reremehcuda67 @yeppers Wasn’t there a Star Trek episode like that?
@mehcuda67 Hot and cold at the same time? I call it “menopause”.
I will get a set for my wife. She deals with a lot of pain as a sufferer of an autoimmune desease and says heat and cold helps, and massages too.
Based off the meh write up: Does anyone suspect that meh purposely posts ridiculous and somewhat negative reviews on Amazon so they get to swoop in and save the day for these companies that are hemorrhaging money on their products that aren’t selling well? Am I acting like a conspiracy theorist or did I just discover the deal-of-the-day site equivalent of Russian collusion?
@shiranissosexy I dunno, I think most of the products that Meh sells are more than capable of generating their own negative reviews
@nolrak @shiranissosexy Some sort of special prosecutor is in order. We all know there was collusion here. There was interference with those products, and we have many indications Meh colluded with Russians and Ukrainians to bring that about.
@nolrak @PatrickKarcher @shiranissosexy But wait - you mean (gasp) they were imported from Russia or Ukraine yet meh is claiming China? That is so totally fake news
Heading ## messed up my streak, fuck it
@Yoda_Daenerys THAT’s the spirit!
try s ziplock bag full of dirt.
@Fen_Star well, depending on your soil.
/buy
@therealjrn It worked! Your order number is: resolute-exemplary-gopher
/image resolute exemplary gopher
@mediocrebot What a perfectly cromulent order number.
@therealjrn I got fluffy-exciting-tank.
I like it! Not pretentious at all.
@hot72chev When I think of fluffy exciting tanks I think hot72chev!
Awesome; it’s like a bag of artificial frozen peas.
@PocketBrain like my dad always used to say: a good pea is a dead pea.
So, maybe I should get him these.
@PocketBrain are the peas artificial or how can something be artificially frozen?
@PocketBrain @pyroguy7 A good pee is a complete pee.
Sometimes Flomax helps.
@2many2no @PocketBrain @pyroguy7 Nice, after reading all of that, I now have to pee.
@2many2no @nolrak @pyroguy7
$30 for 3 on Amazon, not $90.
@nikon Amazon changed it sometime in the wee hours… Hmm I wonder if we could bribe meh to fake sell some really expensive product we all want so Amazon then price matches.
@Kidsandliz @nikon
I would buy from meh and they would have to honor that price…
@nikon it’s $29.77 for one at amazon, which is how they got their $89.31 cost comparison for the three you’d be getting here.
/buy
@mehmoth It worked! Your order number is: blighted-glossy-genie
/image blighted glossy genie
/giphy blighted glossy genie
My grandmother gave me one of these. It’s not bad. Holds heat for a good while. My biggest issue with it is the beads are a bit too flexible and it didn’t “sit” in the spot I wanted it to on my back easily. Was great on the shoulder though.
I seem to be accident prone. Something tells me I should get these. Especially since they seem to be somewhat flexible where my ice packs that are plasticare clearly not. But, what happens if after I buy these, I never manage to injure myself again?
@savvysapphire Gee I guess that would be a terrible loss, for you.
@savvysapphire Well you could always go play “accident in the street” then.
@savvysapphire Plasticare is like Medicare, but when you have to pay for everything with your credit card
@savvysapphire It would be like insurance.
You pay the premium, but hope you never have to make a claim.
If I want hot and cold, all I have to do is piss off my wife.
@Kenbo
At first I read “on” and not “off”…
@jst1ofknd That would probably work, too.
@jst1ofknd @Kenbo me too
/image superficial-buttoned-invention
@hockeybum hmm with that user name I hope you bought 3 sets.
MEH! I’ll stay with the bag of frozen peas or edamame…use till it gets thin then replace. Bag of edamame lasted 3 months as an ice pack for my knee after arthroscopy. The “steamer” bags hold up better than the other type. As for the heat, I’ve hot a perfectly good heating pad or 2.
I use rice in a sock.
@Milyvan1 That smells bad though.
@medz Are you using clean socks?
@Milyvan1 Yeah. It’s just like a warm, sweaty rice smell.
“Warm, sweaty rice.” That should be Glade’s next scent.
Ours never has an odor. Maybe 'cuz we use it in the freezer more often than the microwave or maybe 'cuz we live in FL so our feet aren’t trapped in sweaty shoes?
Welcome to BedBathandMeh.com
@fastharry Eh. I prefer knivesandspeakerdocks.com myself.
@lljk that too…
@fastharry you meant BedBathandMehyond, right?
For my husband’s future knee replacement! It better work,he’s an awful patient
Ours arrived. The “protective case” and strap have mildew growing on them. That kinda stinks.
@browncj7 that’s gross. Please send info and pics to https://meh.com/support so we can help.
@browncj7 Hmmm, that might explain why the ones I got smell so bad. Kind of musty. I’ll have to investigate further.
@browncj7 @Thumperchick Mine is moldy too. Will send pics to support.
So far, two of the 3 purchased have leaked within a week. dropping blue goo everywhere
@mmevoli If you haven’t done so yet, contact support.
https://meh.com/support
As soon as these were heated in the microwave, as instructed, they soon had a leak and needed to be thrown away! This has now happened to 2 of these, so I will not be heating up the 3rd and last one!