A Meh Tweak
35It’s been a couple years since we started up the Meh daily teaser email and circuit breaker launch times, and we’re ready to make a couple little tweaks later this week:
- If the midnight batch sells out, the re-launch will now be at 11am Eastern (instead of 8am Eastern).
- The email will also shift to 11am Eastern (from 8am Eastern)
We’ve always thought of Meh as an event-based site, and specifically the launches as a social event, so it makes sense to have them when most of America is up. It’s more fun when everyone can be up and about for the release, and we think this new time should work better across the time zones.
If you’re time zone challenged, this means the second launch and email will be at:
11am Eastern
10am Central
9am Mountain
8am Pacific
7am Alaska
6am Hawaii-Aleutian
Oh. Did we mention that we now sell and ship (most things) to Alaska and Hawaii now? Anyway, as before, if we’re not selling out of the product, then we just continue selling through the day, so in those cases, this shift won’t change anything but the email send time. And there’s no shift to the midnight eastern or any other mysterious launch times we won’t be talking about.
I think that’s it. If nothing else, I think I’ve accomplished my primary goal of making this announcement a lot shorter than @snapster’s original..
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Brevity
@snapster That’s the first thing you’ve said that I understand.
@snapster
/define brevity
NOUN
TL;DR
@therealjrn @snapster Too short; did read.
(What’s the opposite of a teal deer anyway?)
@narfcake A Vermillion Wolf.
@narfcake @PocketBrain a rude lout.
@narfcake @PocketBrain @snapster
ReD LobsTer?
@dave @PocketBrain @snapster
/giphy RuDe LouT
/giphy ReD LobsTer
@dave @narfcake @PocketBrain too much consonant bs (and r) ?
@narfcake @PocketBrain @snapster I agree. I think the ideal would be [color] [animal] but I couldn’t think of any common l*t animals. (I don’t think a lorikeet counts.)
@dave @PocketBrain @snapster
/image ReD LappeT
/image ReD LimpeT
/image ReD LinneT
@narfcake @PocketBrain I want one!
I am ok with this change.
Please ship me to Hawaii.
If I only knew how to tell time…
@Barney
@Barney There’s an app for that.
@sligett Too bad I don’t know how to work my cellphone.
@Barney I lost track of that thread about your new cell phone. How is it going? I bet there are youtube videos to teach you how to do many things with your phone.
p.s. Purple 4ever.
@sligett Well, I haven’t thrown it out the window or in the trash yet.
@Barney You can tell time all you want, but Time = Honey Badger - it don’t care.
@Ignorant So if you can’t find your order, now you know where to look.
Is this a prequel to an I.R.K.?
@rtjhnstn I doubt it because I still haven’t gotten the first “test I.R.K,” that i haven’t been trying very hard for.
I’m going to miss waking up to the meh slack chat at the bottom of the emails, but I guess I can live with this change.
/
Most of the US has gone to work and depending on where you work has zero access to meh during those hours
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@Cerridwyn I know a neighbor that deserves one of those. Then again, don’t we all.
@Cerridwyn This is why you need a VPN on your phone.
(Well, also for the free internet at Starbuck’s.)
@Cerridwyn Love that umbrella LOL pinging @carl669
@Cerridwyn @Kidsandliz want!
@carl669
https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/middle-finger-umbrella/
@carl669 @narfcake IT’S EVEN CHEAP!
@narfcake
It’s your fault I spent so long on that site this morning!
No. Wait. Still my month. I have only my self to blame.
@jst1ofknd @narfcake So many insane things. Go check it out everyone!
I noticed Alaska and Hawaii on the map recently and wondered how long ago that started. Now I just need to move to take advantage of the new status.
Feels like an attack on the Eastern Time Zone
@MrMark Wait, the left coasters get to be awake for both offerings and we don’t?
/giphy unfair
@MrMark Good! Move to a better one(time zone, eg: Pacific). The left coast is amehzing, you should try it.
@MrMark @sammydog01 Good grief! Not this again!
@sicc574 Been there, done that. I like weather that changes once in a while.
@MrMark @ruouttaurmind (In all honesty I’m dropping a kid off at school at 8 am so this is an improvement, but rage is fun.)
If you’re going to roll up morning slot, then you should roll back the night slot to 9pm Eastern. Fair is fair.
@Gumby
@sicc574 So you’re all for unfair practices?
@Gumby @sicc574 Only if they’re unfairly applied. Unfair is fair. Or unfair.
Is the VMP reserve still a thing? And at the same time?
@Bretterson
/giphy shh
Whisper me about those ‘other mysterious launch times we won’t be talking about’. That’s completely different from talking. Go on, you know you want to.
In all seriousness, if it makes sense to launch an event when most of America is awake, then start it at 9pm Eastern, not Midnight. My old ass was relying on the 8am re-launch to have a chance at some highly prized junk. You’ve now all but eliminated my chances. Even the playing field, instead of skewing it totally in favor if the left coast.
@Gumby 9PM?! You go to bed early Grandpa.
@Gumby 9 pm I’m trying to fall asleep by then! I have a young kiddo.
@Gumby @sohmageek Some kids need to be on the school bus at 6:50am or earlier… so getting up prior to the crack of dawn is a given if you don’t want a 5 year old to miss the bus.
I still feel like it should be a 23 hour sale. That would move the starting time up by an hour each time.
What?
@DrunkCat
old system
item is available midnight and 8am
new system
item is available midnight and 11am
@communist What?
@DrunkCat
2ND RELEASE TIME CHANGED FROM 8AM TO 11AM. DAILY EMAIL TIME ALSO AT 11AM.
@medz WHAT?
come on…come on…say it again…LOL
@DrunkCat
2ND RELEASE TIME CHANGED FROM 8AM TO 11AM. DAILY EMAIL TIME ALSO AT 11AM.
@Ignorant
In this thread,
If you don’t start finding some better deals/items all of these times will be irrelevant.
@dhelmick56 Yah. The circuit breaker times haven’t really been a concern as of late.
@dhelmick56 AMEN!!!