@mfladd Believe more proof that Amazon is willing to offload excess inventory however financially viable, including offloading to a deal-a-day site that is not the in-house acquaintance one.
@SnakeJG Yes, with the mem it’s a moderate meh, i.e. meh meh. Note that if you get the HD10 (which I prefer over the it comes with 32GB standard. The HD8 was 16GB standard.
@2many2no@Kerig3 The problem with that is you still have to install apps on the main memory. And all the memory you want, doesn’t mean you can still install a lot of apps.
Moving apps to storage doesn’t move the entire app usually. And even if it does, not every app does that.
hope this makes sense it’s a little early in the morning for me yet.
@radi0j0hn Yes, just mentioning how I feel about they devices. Also, to be fair to the IPad…I bought my mini retina “refurbished” in 2013 and am comparing it to a 2017 Fire HD10. So, the fact that my five year old device still beats the newer one for most tasks is significant.
I am thinking about upgrading my IPad actually. I was hoping they would offer larger memory options on the base model this year but they skipped updating them. I have 128 gb and am always low on memory. Not sure if my needs warrant IPad Pro prices, plus have not been happy with many of Apples changes to the OS and App Store in recent years.
@ponagathos
Highly unlikely that one could purchase an iPad mini 2 refurbished in 2013 since it was only released in November 2013. Since you did mention that you got the HD10 in 2017 for $60 (the 2017 HD10 was only released in October 2017 and only dropped to $99 on Black Friday week.) Are you sure you have a 2017 HD10 and not the 2015? The 2015 HD10 was a seriously underpowered and under resolutioned tablet. I was not impressed by its performance even at its price.
Nonetheless comparing a $499 (for 32GB) 2013 iPad Mini 2 with a $150 2017 HD 10 is a bit unfair. Amazon only targets “good enough”.
I’m pretty satisfied with my 2017 HD10, for the light browsing and prime video consumption I do on it. But for any serious browsing with lots of typing involved or work I use a laptop with a keyboard.
@bbf I had to do a gmail search to check my memory and you are correct. I bought the IPad mini2 128gb direct from Apple Oct 2014 for $399. The HD10 was the new one but was $80 from Target after 15% cyber Monday and 5% red card discounts and the $100 Black Friday price. Paid $60 for the hd8’s I bought my nieces the year before.
@craigthom@sammydog01 about the only differences I can find is this supports a larger sd card (as if 256GB wasn’t enough) and its front facing camera is 2mp versus .3mp. Oh, and for some reason, the battery on the new isn’t rated as high…only 10 hours v 12 hours. Maybe Amazon took flack for saying the battery went for 12 hours.
@eeterrific I just read in a review-thing that the lessened battery life is largely due to the always-on Bezos Monitoring Feature (aka: Alexa). This thing has to be unlocked for Alexa to do your bidding, while the new version can be triggered at any time by the neighborhood kid screaming “Alexa!! Buy huge underpants!!!” through the window.
@kristoffer Click on the top menu bar on this page on “account” and then on “Your Account” – it will tell you about your VMP membership, if still there, and when the next subscription payment will be, under payment settings.
Regarding the copy text, what about us West Coast folks? It’s not even Friday yet here, and that deal has been available for hours. If anything, we’re even more on top of things over here, if you ask me. No one did, but I don’t really care about that because I’m an entitled millennial. Now if you’ll excuse me (but also if you won’t), I’ll be over here enjoying this avocado sandwich at 11:30 on Thursday, having completed my Black Friday shopping.
I must be missing something as this is the same price as amazon today, but the amazon version is brand new.
Maybe 16 vs 32. Maybe with ads vs without. Warranty length? Regardless, not enough of a delta to make it worth my while, especially when everyone uses an sd card on these anyways.
@audiocontr ok, meh has 32 vs amazon 16? I originally thought this was a refurbished unit based on the amazon comparison, but now im not sure. Does the meh version have ads removed?
I have two 8’s and a 10. Easy to add google play. Work well. It can be overwhelmed with too many apps. Special offers costs $15 to remove. Meh mistake not disclosing if it has it, missed a meh selling point if not.
Note to marketing department, It’s Black Friday and this is the best you could come up with. Maybe a Mehrathon would have worked or are you saving that till Monday…
@sjk3 The newer ones have “show mode” which turns the tablet into an echo show. I’m not gonna go figure out which does what but you might want to check into it.
Wow, is Amazon selling anything this morning that doesn’t come with a free echo dot? I’m regretting ordering one for $20 from Kohls as Amazon is flooding the market with them.
What a waste of a black friday. “Double the memory for new for $30 more on Amazon.” I see Meh is getting into the memory racket. I don’t love spending $30 for 50 cents of extra memory. There better be an Irk Plushie for Cyber Monday.
Bought a refurbished version of this from Woot last year. Love it, love it, love it. Contrary to what the description says, this has TWO speakers which makes this tablet sound pretty damn good. Meh picked an excellent tablet to sell today.
I see nothing wrong with the screen resolution. In fact, I brought this with me on a trip to a friend’s wedding and watched videos on the flights the entire time. Unlike past tablets I’ve owned, I was able to download some Netflix shows so I can watch it in airplane mode (i.e. offline). One passenger next to me was going through the in flight movie guide on her phone trying to figure out how to use the interface; I was comfortably watching Stranger Things. Plus I barely had to charge it (partial credit goes to the magnetic case that puts the tablet in standby when closed).
The extra .5 RAM compared to my other 1 GB Ram devices makes loading apps so much faster. I bought a 10 inch Kindle this week so I’m excited to try it out and put Google Play on there (mostly so I can play Plants vs. Zombies 2 on it).
If you really want a crappy Kindle Fire tablet, get the 7. Not only is it slow, but it sounds like crap. Oh sure it’s easy to blame the one speaker, but consider this: If you turn the volume up to it’s maximum it still doesn’t sound loud enough.
@sammydog01 I see no estimated time of delivery on the top of the page. I did check my account info and it says it shipped, so I suppose within a week…
Bought 3 of these to upgrade Grandkids 3 year old Kindle Fire tablets. The grandkids love em. They are bigger than the old Fire’s and have 4 times the memory.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Fire HD 8 tablet
1x USB 2.0 cable
1x 5W power adapter
1x Quick Start Guide
Price Comparison
$79.99 (for refurbished) at Amazon
Warranty
90 Day Amazon
Estimated Delivery
Wednesday, July 22nd - Monday, July 27th
nope
Fire it up Meh
Aw no Black Friday fukubukuro or whatever it’s called now? Meh.
@yankeesrule are you IRKed?
@yankeesrule Instant Regret Kit
aka Irk
More proof that Amazon will be moving in?
@mfladd Not sure Matt and team would sell to them again.
@mfladd Believe more proof that Amazon is willing to offload excess inventory however financially viable, including offloading to a deal-a-day site that is not the in-house acquaintance one.
@mfladd Hope they don’t buy the wine site and shut it down again…
Happy brick and mortar commerce day.
Womp-womp.
I stayed up for this?
Strong Meh on this one. You can buy a new fire hd8 for the same price.
@SnakeJG half the storage new?
@SnakeJG Yep, only difference is 16gb of on-board memory!
@jml326 @SnakeJG $50 for 16GB or $80 for 32GB, current generation.
https://smile.amazon.com/All-New-Fire-Tablet-Display-Black/dp/B0794RHPZD/
Ahh, fair enough, I missed that the meh was the extra storage and still new. I retract my strong Meh and replace with a standard meh.
@2many2no Or you can just buy an extra 128Gb for $20.
@SnakeJG Yes, with the mem it’s a moderate meh, i.e. meh meh. Note that if you get the HD10 (which I prefer over the
it comes with 32GB standard. The HD8 was 16GB standard.
@pmarin took me a sec to translate
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@2many2no @Kerig3 my older fire tablets didn’t have so slots. Glad to see they changed that.
@2many2no @Kerig3 The problem with that is you still have to install apps on the main memory. And all the memory you want, doesn’t mean you can still install a lot of apps.
Moving apps to storage doesn’t move the entire app usually. And even if it does, not every app does that.
hope this makes sense it’s a little early in the morning for me yet.
@sflesch sure, but can I should be able to download prime access movies and tv shows to a card (along with my digital copies)
/giphy butts for days
Why would I buy this over the new one?
@wishlish $30 less monies?
@ruouttaurmind @wishlish new one at same price has half the storage?
90 day Amz warranty?? I didn’t even know Amz did any 90 day warranties.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder if these have “special offers” lock screen.
@ruouttaurmind That’s their go to warranty for certified refurbished items but these are supposed to be new.
Black Friday Let Down
I picked up the hd10 last year for $60, so not a great deal. Also, if you have an IPad, the fire tablets feel like junk in comparison.
@ponagathos Great for kids though since they are cheap and Include a bunch of unlocked games.
@ponagathos You are comparing a $60 item to an iPad??? Actually, I sold my iPad2 after I bought my first Fire.
@radi0j0hn Yes, just mentioning how I feel about they devices. Also, to be fair to the IPad…I bought my mini retina “refurbished” in 2013 and am comparing it to a 2017 Fire HD10. So, the fact that my five year old device still beats the newer one for most tasks is significant.
I am thinking about upgrading my IPad actually. I was hoping they would offer larger memory options on the base model this year but they skipped updating them. I have 128 gb and am always low on memory. Not sure if my needs warrant IPad Pro prices, plus have not been happy with many of Apples changes to the OS and App Store in recent years.
@ponagathos
Highly unlikely that one could purchase an iPad mini 2 refurbished in 2013 since it was only released in November 2013. Since you did mention that you got the HD10 in 2017 for $60 (the 2017 HD10 was only released in October 2017 and only dropped to $99 on Black Friday week.) Are you sure you have a 2017 HD10 and not the 2015? The 2015 HD10 was a seriously underpowered and under resolutioned tablet. I was not impressed by its performance even at its price.
Nonetheless comparing a $499 (for 32GB) 2013 iPad Mini 2 with a $150 2017 HD 10 is a bit unfair. Amazon only targets “good enough”.
I’m pretty satisfied with my 2017 HD10, for the light browsing and prime video consumption I do on it. But for any serious browsing with lots of typing involved or work I use a laptop with a keyboard.
@bbf I had to do a gmail search to check my memory and you are correct. I bought the IPad mini2 128gb direct from Apple Oct 2014 for $399. The HD10 was the new one but was $80 from Target after 15% cyber Monday and 5% red card discounts and the $100 Black Friday price. Paid $60 for the hd8’s I bought my nieces the year before.
Ah crap.
Good timing. I just bought a 16GB one for the same price.
But it’s new and arrives tomorrow.
@craigthom Is there really a difference with the new model?
@sammydog01 It’s the same model: I thought this was a refurb.
There’s not much difference from the previous version. Same processor and RAM. I just bought it and a stand to use as a cheap Show in the kitchen.
@craigthom @sammydog01 about the only differences I can find is this supports a larger sd card (as if 256GB wasn’t enough) and its front facing camera is 2mp versus .3mp. Oh, and for some reason, the battery on the new isn’t rated as high…only 10 hours v 12 hours. Maybe Amazon took flack for saying the battery went for 12 hours.
@eeterrific I just read in a review-thing that the lessened battery life is largely due to the always-on Bezos Monitoring Feature (aka: Alexa). This thing has to be unlocked for Alexa to do your bidding, while the new version can be triggered at any time by the neighborhood kid screaming “Alexa!! Buy huge underpants!!!” through the window.
@pauLuap Gee…I always wanted huge underpants…
I like the meh button. Nice work whoever!
Why would anyone want a deticated Amazon device when Android and Apple have the Amazon apps?
@hchavers Which $50 8" Apple and Android devices are you referring to?
@hchavers Because these tablets work rather well.
@hchavers You can easily add the Google Play store to these and even make them mimic a stock Android device without rooting. Both pretty easy to do.
I’ve had the 16gb version for a while. Very happy with it. Battery lasts much longer than I was expecting.
@MHBoston I got a used one on Prime day and I really like it too.
@MHBoston I picked one up 2 years ago on cyber-monday for $50 as a backup tablet. It does the job!
@MHBoston You’re not lying. Three weeks after my last charge and being left in standby, my tablet had tons of juice left.
This says “VGA” front facing camera, Amazons 8HD says 2mp front camera.
@bstrange One and the same, I suspect.
I use ours for reading comics/graphic novels.
Is VMP no more? I don’t see it in my account and never missed a subscription in the years I’ve had it.
@kristoffer Did you have to pay shipping?
@kristoffer Click on the top menu bar on this page on “account” and then on “Your Account” – it will tell you about your VMP membership, if still there, and when the next subscription payment will be, under payment settings.
@kristoffer Mine disappeared too.
@rtjhnstn yes, I had to pay shipping.
@phendrick It disappeared without warning. It no longer shows on my account.
@kristoffer My VMP still appears to be active.
At first I misread the fake model number as “butt 5 for day 5” and was like “I missed 4 days of butts… I’m not sure if I’m sad about that or not”.
It has been a while, and it might have been the first gen fire, but even for $30 it was quite meh. /shrug
I can finally get a ‘fire’ going and not worry about putting it out!
Regarding the copy text, what about us West Coast folks? It’s not even Friday yet here, and that deal has been available for hours. If anything, we’re even more on top of things over here, if you ask me. No one did, but I don’t really care about that because I’m an entitled millennial. Now if you’ll excuse me (but also if you won’t), I’ll be over here enjoying this avocado sandwich at 11:30 on Thursday, having completed my Black Friday shopping.
Hail Cascadia.
Was just at Best Buy and they had dozens of these in a bin for the same price, maybe cheaper.
Either way, if you’re already braving this weekend, it’s just as easy to pick one up now and save on the cost of shipping
I must be missing something as this is the same price as amazon today, but the amazon version is brand new.
Maybe 16 vs 32. Maybe with ads vs without. Warranty length? Regardless, not enough of a delta to make it worth my while, especially when everyone uses an sd card on these anyways.
@audiocontr ok, meh has 32 vs amazon 16? I originally thought this was a refurbished unit based on the amazon comparison, but now im not sure. Does the meh version have ads removed?
@audiocontr it doesn’t mention special offers so maybe not? also you’re saving on shipping going with amazon
@audiocontr @yarp - Ours is New condition with Special Offers.
I have two 8’s and a 10. Easy to add google play. Work well. It can be overwhelmed with too many apps. Special offers costs $15 to remove. Meh mistake not disclosing if it has it, missed a meh selling point if not.
@davido I feel like having the special offers included, if anything, makes this more of a meh deal.
Looking at the model number, is Tina Belcher working for Meh?
@sjk3
Note to marketing department, It’s Black Friday and this is the best you could come up with. Maybe a Mehrathon would have worked or are you saving that till Monday…
I just looked at my HD8 and it is the 6th Gen model. Is there a significant difference to make upgrading worth the money?
@sjk3 The newer ones have “show mode” which turns the tablet into an echo show. I’m not gonna go figure out which does what but you might want to check into it.
@sjk3 I asked Google. The main differences are no gyroscope (so how does it know whether to do portrait or landscape?) and an upgraded GPU.
@sjk3 Looked it up. Show mode is 7th gen and up. It’s pretty cool. And Google is biased.
@sjk3 You can use a cheaper part than a gyroscope to do device orientation.
Is this a joke? On Black Friday the deal is an Amazon product that Amazon itself is selling at firesale prices?!
Picked up the 16GB for $25 new from Amazon last year with that AmEx deal they had going on and off all year.
Wow, is Amazon selling anything this morning that doesn’t come with a free echo dot? I’m regretting ordering one for $20 from Kohls as Amazon is flooding the market with them.
What a waste of a black friday. “Double the memory for new for $30 more on Amazon.” I see Meh is getting into the memory racket. I don’t love spending $30 for 50 cents of extra memory. There better be an Irk Plushie for Cyber Monday.
What is"Special Offers"?
@smixer Amazon’s euphemistic way of saying that the tablet will include Bezo’s propaganda, ads.
@smixer There are ads, but only on the lock screen.
I thought I bought it – gave all information, but it doesn’t show up in offers. How can I cancel in case it’s just hanging out there?
So which is it … 10 hrs or 12 hours of battery life?
@tngrannyd Yes
No one has mentioned the crappy resolution. 1280×800, REALLY!! My LG that I’m using right now starts at 1800 and my samsung is 2560×1600.
@growyoungagain Where did you get them for $50?
@craigthom you raise a good point sir. $50.00 I wish.
I’m pretty sure I just bought one of these last night at the same price from Amazon. . . but, good job anyways I guess?
@Asviloka Probably 16GB instead of 32GB.
Bought a refurbished version of this from Woot last year. Love it, love it, love it. Contrary to what the description says, this has TWO speakers which makes this tablet sound pretty damn good. Meh picked an excellent tablet to sell today.
I see nothing wrong with the screen resolution. In fact, I brought this with me on a trip to a friend’s wedding and watched videos on the flights the entire time. Unlike past tablets I’ve owned, I was able to download some Netflix shows so I can watch it in airplane mode (i.e. offline). One passenger next to me was going through the in flight movie guide on her phone trying to figure out how to use the interface; I was comfortably watching Stranger Things. Plus I barely had to charge it (partial credit goes to the magnetic case that puts the tablet in standby when closed).
The extra .5 RAM compared to my other 1 GB Ram devices makes loading apps so much faster. I bought a 10 inch Kindle this week so I’m excited to try it out and put Google Play on there (mostly so I can play Plants vs. Zombies 2 on it).
If you really want a crappy Kindle Fire tablet, get the 7. Not only is it slow, but it sounds like crap. Oh sure it’s easy to blame the one speaker, but consider this: If you turn the volume up to it’s maximum it still doesn’t sound loud enough.
How long should it take for the Kindle Fire to arrive? It’s now two weeks and I still haven’t seen it. When did it ship?
@folgore Check the estimated delivery at the top of this page.
@sammydog01 I see no estimated time of delivery on the top of the page. I did check my account info and it says it shipped, so I suppose within a week…
@folgore @sammydog01 It’s not at the tippy-top, but all the meh sales have one under “Specs” This one is:
@folgore from the specifications post at the top of this thread:
Estimated Delivery: Wednesday, December 19th - Monday, December 24th
You may need to click the button to view all comments to see that post.
Hope it helps. If you need more assistance, write into https://meh.com/support and we can look into this for you.
@sammydog01 @therealjrn Many thanks! I definitely was looking at the wrong place!
@folgore @sammydog01 You’re very welcome! I hope you stick around for more deals and hilarity in the forums here.
@therealjrn Unless you’re under 14 years old because we’re at our quota of those.
Bought 3 of these to upgrade Grandkids 3 year old Kindle Fire tablets. The grandkids love em. They are bigger than the old Fire’s and have 4 times the memory.