I am really on the fence about this. The TV in my office died today (RIP dear inexpensive TV that's been a great investment) after the thunderstorms last night. If I didn't need a new TV, I'd get this tablet instead. Oh well!
Totally bought one. Our little girl has been asking for one for her upcoming birthday and at this price I couldn't resist. She just had several neurosurgeries so I feel like spoiling her. :)
I'm super impressed that mediocre labs have opted to use a smile.amazon link (which donates a small amount of every sale to a charity of the buyer's choice) in your product write-up rather than use an affiliate tag (the way so many other blogs/sites annoyingly do). You mediochrites are certainly slightly better than mediocre in my eyes. -=C=-
Does this come with the Amazon pre-load -- where they annoyingly name your Kindle, etc? Or is this shipped direct without someone opening it and trying to personalize it?
Ooh! My mom's looking to get my Grandma a Kindle Fire for her birthday. Please don't sell out! I have to wait until she wakes up to make sure she wants this.
I've been looking for an affordable tablet for a while so once I saw this deal, I was quick to make my first purchase on meh! I have one question though: How long will shipping take?
Total Crap, the wife's kindle fire just broke a week ago, now rather than parting ways with Amazon control over everything were sucked back in, oh well no more nagging about not having a tablet and I have a Tab so Meh...
$140 isn't the screaming deal needed to make me bite. It's $200 new. I figure I could get a refurb from Amazon when they offer it for $170. Knowing that there's a new one on the way means that soon Amazon will be selling them for about this price. I could just wait until then at no great risk.
I can't stand the Amazon OS and the app selection is only okay. After trying a few others over the past few years I'm sticking with iPad for the foreseeable future.
If Cyanogenmod would run on it, I'd snatch one up, but it looks like there's little to no progress on that front. There's a root and Play store install. I don't know if that's enough to make this a good machine or not.
At 11:59:59 I will purchase 1 of these to spoil the winning guess so that there is no winner if and only if @snapster sends me half the purchase price - $70.
Bought one about 6 months ago. Battery life is nowhere as good as it was on my 2nd generation that ceased to be. Great price here, but then again, what would we expect. Is the write up killing them with kindness or baffling them with bullsh't?
Well, I would love a Kindle Fire, however my current budget says I'm not allowed to buy one. Oh well...I guess I can just keep hoping one will magically appear one day! waves magic wandpoofcat appears Damn, not what I wanted! :(
Product Specs
Kindle Fire HDX 7" 16GB (with offers)
Full Product Details and Specs
Condition - New
Warranty - 1 Year Amazon
Ships Via - FedEx SmartPost
What’s in the box!?
Estimated Delivery
Monday, January 28th - Friday, February 1st
Worth it for the special offers. I stupidly bought the original Fire refurb about a year ago assuming it came with special offers.
Is this with or without sponsored offers? I assume it is with, correct?
With offers.
I'd also assume it is with or without sponsored offers. Perhaps best to ask if it comes with sponsored offers (ahh answered while I typed)
Thanks cettel. Ninja edit!
That is an incredible price, but alas I've already got a HDX.
Obligatory Woot/Amazon comment.
That's the most amount of links I've seen in a product write up in a long time
Even WITH offers, this is a ridiculous price! Nicely done Meh... still not buying one.
I am really on the fence about this. The TV in my office died today (RIP dear inexpensive TV that's been a great investment) after the thunderstorms last night. If I didn't need a new TV, I'd get this tablet instead. Oh well!
You could get this tablet and set up plex... then use the tablet to watch tv... in your office, or the bathroom, or the garage, or ...
I don't get why you and others recommend that as a solution. Obtaining the media is much more difficult than turning on a TV & just watching
Totally bought one. Our little girl has been asking for one for her upcoming birthday and at this price I couldn't resist. She just had several neurosurgeries so I feel like spoiling her. :)
Awww, I hope she's feeling better and loves it. <3
Thanks! It was a rough month but she's a total rockstar. <3 you guys for helping us afford to make her birthday wish come true
May she have an absolutely wonderful birthday!
Best wishes from all of us @Ruffinette, hope she has an awesome birthday!
Thanks for all the well wishes everyone! If you don't mind, check out her GoFundMe page @ http://www.gofundme.com/bi0lb0.
MediocreLabs, my family thanks you from the bottom of our hearts. You guys are amazing. Much, much love and gratitude from us to you.
I just found a box from meh.com on my porch with a kindle, a case, headphones, an amazon gift card and the cutest card for Emmy. <3 <3 <3 <3
@snapster damn you, now my eyes are getting all juicy.
@Ruffinette you're so very welcome. Best wishes from all of us and I hope she has a wonderful birthday!
Our community is an extension of our family. Thanks for sharing Emmy's story with us @Ruffinette! We hope she has a smile on her face today!
She's visiting her biological dad right now so it's still a surprise to her. Her birthday is in August, so expect some thank you cards soon!
It's a good deal. If i was planning to get one, I'd get it right now
Nope. It's just an inferior version of an Android tablet, just like their "Fire Phone" is gonna be.
Main problem with the Fire Phone is the carrier it comes with... You'd think Amazon would be smarter than Apple but apparently not.
Oh shit, we're being eaten by a bald man at breakfast!!!!!
I mean, we are, right?
BTW, the second product image is grand!
And it can never be unseen. :)
I'm super impressed that mediocre labs have opted to use a smile.amazon link (which donates a small amount of every sale to a charity of the buyer's choice) in your product write-up rather than use an affiliate tag (the way so many other blogs/sites annoyingly do). You mediochrites are certainly slightly better than mediocre in my eyes.
-=C=-
I'm super impressed that you noticed.
Amazing catch!
Never say I'm not observant... Silly, absolutely. Not observant, no way! (Power of Eagle Eye, ACTIVATE ;) )
Really? They used those by default? I have Smile Always installed so I thought that was my computer.
Does this come with the Amazon pre-load -- where they annoyingly name your Kindle, etc? Or is this shipped direct without someone opening it and trying to personalize it?
They ship sealed, unopened. I'm not totally familiar with the pre-load concept. Will check that out.
Basically, when you buy a Kindle from Amazon, they load your Amazon account onto it before they ship it to you. I'm not crazy about it
Amazon ships you a new, unopened device every time. When Wi-Fi is turned on, that is when your account is associated with the device.
When we tested it it required registration but ships sealed. When you register it it'll probably auto load all your info.
If only I had money. I need to stop coming here until my business is up-and-running...
(And making a profit, but shh)
Profit is for losers... and people that aspire to greater things
The only thing I can think of is Matt got a crate of these thrown in when he sold his last company
Most people don't know this, but he was actually paid solely in Kindles, Amazon Fire TVs and one other thing that slips my mind..
Prototype delivery drones. Early models, which is why our shipments are slow.
Meh and again meh...I use a Nexus 7 and a Sony Reader, and am not in the market for any Bezosian devices at this juncture.
Ooh! My mom's looking to get my Grandma a Kindle Fire for her birthday. Please don't sell out! I have to wait until she wakes up to make sure she wants this.
@thumperchick call her now! She's probably up anyway
@baqui63 - Good idea! She's in my time zone right now.
well don't leave us hanging we gotta know what happened
@CoyboyDann - scroll and you will know.
Does shipping to Canada exist yet?
Nope, but you can pay nearly twice as much for one, eh? http://www.amazon.ca/Kindle-Fire-HDX-Display-Wi-Fi/dp/B00D2JR1G2
Beyond my budget, but incredibly tempting.
Okay. Grandma is getting this for her birthday. :) I've been watching the Nooks and Kindles for a month, waiting for a worthy buy. Thanks meh.
Also, this is my first non-kickstarter related meh purchase.
What, no AMZN arrow smile for the meh face today?
"When you're rollin' with the zon, you're rollin' legit."
I'd have preferred the larger model versus the 7. Just a tad too small for me.
Meh.
That's what SHE said. Meh.
I approve of this message.
I've been looking for an affordable tablet for a while so once I saw this deal, I was quick to make my first purchase on meh! I have one question though: How long will shipping take?
Per the FAQ - "It’ll probably be 2 weeks before you get it. And no you can’t get it any faster."
https://meh.com/forum/topics/faq
God dammit, I literally just bought one of these two weeks ago. Oh well. I like mine, for what it's worth.
You like it for what it's worth aka $70 less than 2 weeks ago :D :D :D
Just pretend you paid $70 for a super fast shipping option that delivers 2 weeks in the past.
That's a future amazon prime feature, temporal shipping.
Total Crap, the wife's kindle fire just broke a week ago, now rather than parting ways with Amazon control over everything were sucked back in, oh well no more nagging about not having a tablet and I have a Tab so Meh...
$140 isn't the screaming deal needed to make me bite. It's $200 new. I figure I could get a refurb from Amazon when they offer it for $170. Knowing that there's a new one on the way means that soon Amazon will be selling them for about this price. I could just wait until then at no great risk.
tl;dr - I fingered my dog.
This one is new :-/
wait what?
oh, right. RIF.
Being from Jersey, you surprise no one with the dog bit
I just shot laugh-snot across my monitor.
I'm really lonely, will the person on the Mayday button keep me company?
Can someone who doesn't really need the mayday feature abuse it repeatedly and film it? I'd like to see how long they'll put up with your abuse.
I can't stand the Amazon OS and the app selection is only okay. After trying a few others over the past few years I'm sticking with iPad for the foreseeable future.
I couldn't pass this up. My kids fight between the ipad all the time. This will help.
If Cyanogenmod would run on it, I'd snatch one up, but it looks like there's little to no progress on that front. There's a root and Play store install. I don't know if that's enough to make this a good machine or not.
When will i get a shipping confirmation? 2 day shipping?
Confirmed shipped when it shows up on your doorstep.
In a while, https://meh.com/forum/topics/faq#q-how-much-is-shipping-how-will-it-be-shipped-can-i-pay-to-expedite-it-53a35376a524791409298487
see that last line of the product story. More specifically, it'll ship in 1-3 days & then 2-10 days more to arrive (Fedex SmartPost)
did this earlier on twitter, will also take guesses here for an hour:
oh and "eat" = "est" autocorrected.
190
75
thanks!
You can guess on top of another user and tie for the win, or guess above/below them to do the price-is-right strategy. Here's some twitter guessers:
127
@snapster 142
281
234
Woa, feeling kinda good about this guess right 'bout now.
I'll guess 137.
148
205
210 . . . thank you
201
149
196
@jerseyfrank, you nerded out for the integer game, now you must compile this list.
there's a dozen or so more on twitter I'll need to grab or get help with as well. :)
anything posted here i have captured in excel, with gaps between numbers calculated. adding names now.
OK NO MORE GUESSES. thanks for making my afternoon less boring. (page data saved, you crafty hackers)
Hackers:
And I saw the end time... after I guessed 42 minutes late. Oops?
We'll find something broken to give you if you win @Thumperchick (in addition to the real winner)
Aww thanks.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72746031/meh%20hdx.xlsx should get you started. I did not pull anything out of twitter that wasn't posted on the forum. @snapster @jont
I had guessed 121 on twitter. guessing i'm gonna be a bit short.
At 11:59:59 I will purchase 1 of these to spoil the winning guess so that there is no winner if and only if @snapster sends me half the purchase price - $70.
Kidding, @thumperchick
If you could manage to get @snapster to send YOU money, I'd call that fair.
haha nice. I agree. But I stipulate that I might also agree to the next guy who just wants $35. :)
Sleep trumped messing around
@thumperchick You must not have heard of Seligman! https://mediocre.com/forum/topics/the-end-of-seligman-pics-stats-and-a-wrap-up
@uscpsycho Ooh, you're right. Fine, get him to do it TWICE!
@snapster how many HDXs do you have for sale today?
like we'd tell you
worth a shot
Fun fact: Mayday Amy is super hot.
Also, she's in the upcoming Purge movie:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2625932/
And also in a movie called Evil Bong 3-D, the Wrath of Bong.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791500/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_28
I need a couple of you to cancel your orders please. Thanks
Let's keep this at 154
Bought one about 6 months ago. Battery life is nowhere as good as it was on my 2nd generation that ceased to be. Great price here, but then again, what would we expect. Is the write up killing them with kindness or baffling them with bullsh't?
You have my vote!
Well, I would love a Kindle Fire, however my current budget says I'm not allowed to buy one. Oh well...I guess I can just keep hoping one will magically appear one day! waves magic wand poof cat appears Damn, not what I wanted! :(
And the winner is....
I figured maybe someone who thought they won would claim it here and I could just see if they were correct.
ok well I'll check shortly.
I think the final number was 226. I guessed 234. The other two people who were closest were @uscpsycho at 211 and @Social_MattM at 239
I won.
No seriously, I did.
I believe it was Price is Right rules. Closest without going over!
@uscpsycho guessed 211. I guessed 234. 234 is closer to 226. I win, no?
I don't think it was closest without going over. Our leader said: "I’ll award win to whomever is closest now." Meh.
Hm you might be right. I read that somewhere but it may have been retracted. We will have to wait for the Breakfast Octopus.
Oh, I found where he said this, "guess above/below them to do the price-is-right strategy"... Note the "above/below" wording. YOLO.
automatic DQ for 'yolo'
Yes, I believe @marklog is correct, it is Price is Right rules. Price is Right rules always apply. So that makes me the weiner! WOO HOO!!
Correction: Price is Right rules always applied during Bob Barker era. Drew Carey? Meh. Not so much.
Price is right rules do not apply - it was closest absolute. Price-is-right strategy is knocking out some other guesser with a +$1 bid.
so @Social_MattM is 4 away? Time to research but that's person to beat if I'm reading right here.
edit oops sorry @Social_MattM is not closest - I misread the quantity sold.
ok so @phatmass you are 8 away (234) and the one to beat? (I'm sticking with 226 sold #)
@phatmass sorry looks like Twitter: CMathew33 here beats you:
Meh.
thanks!!
Damn. I wanted a broken prize for being late, but accurate. I was too far off. :/
Congrats @charlesmathew1
Whoa, checked my account to see if it shipped yet...it's already sitting on my front door!
should have bought this. Are there any chance to buy this again?
Hopefully it does, I enjoyed Netflix late into the night. I was upgrading from an original Kindle, picture upgrade was better than expected.
@Dintury777 You might get the chance to snag two in about an hour, but you'll have to be fast.
Slow Shipping is not one of your problems. My Kindle arrived today 7/23/14, Ordered July 17th Great going
Dear anyone who bought a kindle fire. I got a very cute Kindle fire case in my Fuku:
As I don't have a Kindle fire, first come first served for cost of shipping if you want it.
xo