Is this going to keep you from wasting $ 5 in the future? Since I already got another one in the last mehathon, there is a chance for redemption before my wife says no more.
Honestly this is not the worst box I have received. At some point I got a box with a bag and a few pair of those orange headsets. Both were broke, sticky and had wax in the ear pieces.
I just figured the bag was worth $5 and threw away the junk in the box. The anticipation is always fun
@tinamarie1974 I had a similar one once - gross, used, labeled as broken (and they were) ear buds and a bag. I have also had some decent ones and some mediocre ones.
@ThunderChicken
It’s one side-piece to the DIY Velcro-together children’s “lovesac” chair, so its not exactly a cushion, but it isn’t as hard as styrofoam either.
@ThunderChicken I believe that is a misspelling of fuko, used when your feelings of being screwed are stronger than regret. Meh started with a fuku, moved on to a fuko and then moved on to an irk. General odds of getting anything not regret worthy decreased with each name change.
Meh started by sometimes surprise-offering these “Fuku” bags.
After a while, TPTB acknowledged they were running short of good stuff to give out in these bags. So the bag name here was changed over to “Fuko”, short for “Fukobukuro”; and this one letter change apparently changes the meaning from “lucky” to “unlucky”. IE, bags full of literal throwaways.
V little “good stuff” to be had.
But it was still fun to score one, even if opening the package can be quite disappointing.
Then TPTB wanted a name change for their random item mystery bags and opened things up for suggestions.
Someone (I forget who) cleverly came up with “Instant Regret Kit” bags, or IRKs. Which matches nicely with the name of the site mascot troll.
So now these are IRK bags.
And the contents are often or usually pretty awful.
And people swamp the site trying to buy them anyway. Me included.
And since we have all be warned they will be shipments full of junk, no one should be complaining about the contents. No one has to buy them in the first place.
And it’s still quite a “thing” to manage to purchase one. And people are still annoyed or PO’d when they miss out.
The whole thing seems to be driven by the same irrationality which governs the most of the rest of our lives.
@ThunderChicken Fukubukoro is a traditional Japanese lucky bag usually sold for New Years. Fukobukaro is unlucky bag that were sold before IRKs (instant regret kit). We often shortened the name creatively
@f00l I’ve always just assumed it was a rather brilliant strategy to shift returns, items of insufficient quantity to warrant selling, and overstock without having to pay the junk man to haul it away.
Then again… some of the shipping costs have to be astronomical…
Hey, long time no see. Hope all is well w you and yours.
I suspect that the BOC/IRK offerings hit more than one goal, from a biz perspective.
Customer fun
Costumer insanity
Customer engagement ”The glory of victory, the agony of defeat”
PR
A “well-known, signature site aspect that customers froth over“.
Invented by @snapster and co as an amusing entertainment. (I’m ignoring the nearly unknown precursors from elsewhere, and the somewhat different Japanese new year offerings)
Viral
Customer red-hot rage (which can be quite entertaining)
Customer rage-quitting, until the next one
And
Every copycat deal-a -day website copycatted this also. These sites look v lame in comparison.
And
Clear out all that junk in the warehouse - instead it trashing it or discounting it further, create an “event” or whatever.
And
I suspect that they love/hate doing these, and if they quit doing them, working for the company wouldn’t be any fun anymore for many employees.
@f00l@jbartus Everything’s okay with me. I’m still using the purple Barney Edition you made for me, although something broke (I don’t remember what or why) and @PlacidPenguin fixed it for me.
@f00l@jbartus I still have a Foscam wireless camera box from a fuko with a post-it on it which says “missing accessories. not working fuko?” I should probably throw it away and definitely not take it when I move, but I will keep the post-it. And maybe the box.
There is junk in these IRKs you don’t want and don’t need but when it morphs into cases for iphones that were released 6 and 8 years ago plus chargers that are just as old, that is a whole different level of junk.
@Felton10 dude, you were promised junk, you got junk. No one said you were gonna like the junk. Matter of fact, they specifically warn you’re not gonna like the junk.
It’s like you stuck a nickel in the punch-in-the-face machine (everyone remembers those from the before-times, right?) and are now complaining that it didn’t tickle you. The ten people before you that said it tickled them might just be saying that so they could see some other poor sucker get punched in the face. You can now be a member of the club.
@Dave you have my permission to remind people about the nickel-for-a-punch-in-the-face machines that dotted both the carnival midways and young mens’ eyes of yore if you feel it will help you in your dissuasion efforts.
@dave@djslack I have been lucky (or unlucky) enough to have snagged over 10 IRKs. My first couple had returned broken items in them. Then a few had passable junk (ie stuff that my daughter could sell on ebay and keep the money). But the last two have been complete worthless crap. Didn’t pass go-went straight into the trash (except for the bags of course) I guess I was lulled into a false sense of security by the ones that were only slightly crappy.
@Felton10 I understand. but understand, the real treasure of the IRK is the friends it made along the way from Dallas to Indiana to Dallas to Indiana to Dallas to Indiana to you. Thanks Newgistics!
IRK just landed on porch and can’t weigh much more than the bag itself… will post to reveal thread after disappointing my family with dinner time unboxing
I’m slightly confused. Were the contents of the box so good that you didn’t regret buying it instantly, as the name states, and therefore you feel cheated out of bad stuff… or was your stuff exactly as described, but you thought they were just kidding, and now are mad about it?
Meh will have won when they can put up a batch of 100 IRKs and enough people heed their warnings not to buy it that it does not sell out.
They’re working very hard with this batch to flatten the curve so that eventually they can win. It is a good deed when one does their part to spread the warning tale of IRKs received.
@djslack Maybe meh thought they could get away with scrapping the bottom of the barrel with this one since we were all so numb and bored with staying at home we would buy anything as a diversion.
My most recent IRK contained two items: “Superstar Monster Blaster”!!! and a ‘Pop Sonic’ toothbrush. The box was delivered pretty much open. The Blaster is impressively heavy and allegedly a bluetooth speaker. Unfortunately, the bluetooth is broken and when it’s plugged in with the Aux cable, it suffers from a well-documented ‘hummmmmm’ issue. The box had a ‘tested’ sticker on it, but in fairness it didn’t reveal the results of the aforementioned ‘testing’. The kicker was when I had to pay the transfer station (dump) $20 to take it off my hands as e-waste. The toothbrush is solidly meh and I do use it now, but it’s no Sonicare.
I think that’s my favorite part of the experience. One very crushed box with the top barely taped shut. Is everything they put in there still in there? Did the good stuff fall out? Is my mailman an aMEHrican and he didn’t get the last IRK, so he got angry and stomped on the box a few times before he threw it on my doorstep? Who knows!
@ticklescratch@Willijs3 I got one once with no tape on the top except USPS tape. It was completely empty and had a USPS sticker on it that they received it in that condition.
@Kidsandliz@Willijs3 at least it sound like you guys had one piece of functional tape. On mine the tape was literally sliced open and it was only that little tongue flap of cardboard sort of in the slot keeping it ‘shut’ ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@ticklescratch@Willijs3 My one that was empty didn’t. There was nothing there at all except what the USPS put on once smart post dropped off the empty box to them.
THE HOLY CRAP COMMANDMENTS v3.0
I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond ONE bag of some kind and THREE crappy items.
II. Thou shalt not whine and complain when some people’s crap turns out to be nicer than yours.
III. Thou shalt take a moment to consider whether you might be better off just not buying this crap.
IV. Thou shalt not expect better crap just because things are different this time. Crap is crap.
V. To paraphrase Stephen Stills, shalt thou not get the crap you want, want the crap you get.
@OnionSoup At the dawn of time a Bag of Crap had (at least) one item. And you could buy up to three of them. Maybe.
As life crawled out of the ocean, they decided to simplify it a bit, and make it a single bag with three craps.
Of course this change caused weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth because people couldn’t buy three anymore, and their reading comprehension was poor.
I don’t think a Fuk*bukuro or IRK has ever specified quantity. Or indeed, quality.
@ypwulby or a pallet of BP&J spreaders, those UBS people (that amazingly they still haven’t gotten rid of all of them), or broken TV’s… and someone got a bag of goat food.
As Kanye West once brilliantly said, “There’ll always be haters, that’s the way it is
Hater niggas marry hater bitches and have hater kids.”
So I say let the haters keep hating. I, personally, have only gotten 2 fuko’s, 1 IRK and 0(that’s right zero) BOC’s, and tried to get dozens more of each. I love getting whatever it is in the mail even if it’s completely useless to me. Because I knew that was a possibility going into it. Just as much as the end result(the package) attempting to get one is just as good(aka: the thrill of the hunt). I guess all I’m trying to say is that don’t let the negative people ruin it for people who love it which happens many times over daily in our lives. Let them keep sipping their Haterade and do your best to ignore them and keep having fun! Because that’s what pisses them off even more! http://giphy.com/gifs/haterade-SRlMuq5KFLrtreuBzH
I’ve had three good irks and one “oh my God that was horrendously bad” one that literally gave me a migraine for hours because of leaking poo pouri, I couldn’t even use the irk bag from that one. But… 1 bad outta four isn’t bad… And it wouldn’t be as much fun getting the good ones if you didn’t know the stinkers were out there.
Just like noone plays the lottery thinking they will win; you shouldn’t play the Irk lottery expecting to win (although ironically most are worth more than $5).
The anticipation and not knowing what you’re getting that makes it fun. If you get an irk you actually regret it sucks, but that’s the game in it.
@OnionSoup “Worth” is in the eye of the recipient, not the sender.
Meh puts these IRKs down as “worth” $100, charge us $5 and take tax write-off of $95 for crap they wouldn’t get $1 for and would cost them to haul it to the dump.
@f00l@mike808 there is definitely an entertainment factor to the Irk. That’s part of why I feel if you get a bad Irk it’s not a total loss of money.
Plus I think mediocre definitely try to always give us our moneys worth with stuff (that’s why I went ahead with their pastadrop launch)… $20 is a lot of money for an unknown qty of pasta but this is a company that usually give you your money’s worth, I’m willing to bet I won’t be disappointed with the amount I get.
@f00l@OnionSoup
You won’t be disappointed, the recipient you sent it to will.
You, on the other hand, could have spent $20 at a movie theatre (if they weren’t closed), and not been nearly as entertained (for several days, too) as the shenanigans of PastaDerp.
Many years ago, when I tried to make money at photography, I used to buy supplies from a company called Porter’s Camera Store. For $20, they sold a “grab bag”. Most of the time it was little crap they had on clearance that they couldn’t get rid of, but once in a while you might get a semi-broken camera or enlarger or something. Yet it was fun nonetheless. Pig-in-a-poke then, pig-in-a-poke now.
We reserve the right to use this in hopes of dissuading future purchasers.
Honestly this is not the worst box I have received. At some point I got a box with a bag and a few pair of those orange headsets. Both were broke, sticky and had wax in the ear pieces.
I just figured the bag was worth $5 and threw away the junk in the box. The anticipation is always fun
/giphy Lemons out of lemonade
@tinamarie1974 Yeah I got one that was mostly usb hubs in the shape of a pink stylized dude. It was laaaaame.
But I’ve had two since that were pretty impressive.
Let us know how the new one plays out.
@stinks my mid April box was ok, nothing exciting. My April 1st box had one of those robot vacuum cleaner/mop combos that works wonderfully.
The way I look at it, I am due for a few crappy boxes after getting a $600 vacuum. It all balances out.
@tinamarie1974 I had a similar one once - gross, used, labeled as broken (and they were) ear buds and a bag. I have also had some decent ones and some mediocre ones.
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974
I got a sofa cushion made of styrofoam. Just one.
At least it was purple.
@Kidsandliz @mike808 @tinamarie1974 I am in need of a single sofa cushion. Color doesn’t matter since the sofa is covered. But styrofoam gives me pause.
@ThunderChicken
It’s one side-piece to the DIY Velcro-together children’s “lovesac” chair, so its not exactly a cushion, but it isn’t as hard as styrofoam either.
You should have asked Meh for dibs on them.
@Felton10 said:
/giphy congratulations and commendations
You did good this time!
I know about BOC and IRK but what is/was Fucko? Educate me, oh masters.
@ThunderChicken I believe that is a misspelling of fuko, used when your feelings of being screwed are stronger than regret.
Meh started with a fuku, moved on to a fuko and then moved on to an irk. General odds of getting anything not regret worthy decreased with each name change.
@ThunderChicken
“Fuku” bags were the original random mystery items $5 surprise offer bags here.
Roughly analogous to BOC’s at woot.
Fuku was short for “Fukubukuro”. These are a Japanese holiday tradition. It’s a “lucky bag” offer at many Japanese retailers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukubukuro
Meh started by sometimes surprise-offering these “Fuku” bags.
After a while, TPTB acknowledged they were running short of good stuff to give out in these bags. So the bag name here was changed over to “Fuko”, short for “Fukobukuro”; and this one letter change apparently changes the meaning from “lucky” to “unlucky”. IE, bags full of literal throwaways.
V little “good stuff” to be had.
But it was still fun to score one, even if opening the package can be quite disappointing.
Then TPTB wanted a name change for their random item mystery bags and opened things up for suggestions.
Someone (I forget who) cleverly came up with “Instant Regret Kit” bags, or IRKs. Which matches nicely with the name of the site mascot troll.
So now these are IRK bags.
And the contents are often or usually pretty awful.
And people swamp the site trying to buy them anyway. Me included.
And since we have all be warned they will be shipments full of junk, no one should be complaining about the contents. No one has to buy them in the first place.
And it’s still quite a “thing” to manage to purchase one. And people are still annoyed or PO’d when they miss out.
The whole thing seems to be driven by the same irrationality which governs the most of the rest of our lives.
/giphy excellent junk
@f00l @ThunderChicken
I heard the next round of IRKs might include a bundle of toilet paper. Or maybe it was pasta.
/image shut up and take my money
@ThunderChicken Fukubukoro is a traditional Japanese lucky bag usually sold for New Years. Fukobukaro is unlucky bag that were sold before IRKs (instant regret kit). We often shortened the name creatively
Edited to say f00l said it better
@ThunderChicken As creator of this thread, I added the “c” given my poetic license.
@speediedelivery @ThunderChicken
Except that I blew the spelling of the Japanese term for “unlucky”?
Two letter changes, not one?
That’s cool. I’m nowhere with the Japanese language, to my regret; but there it is, and my brain is mostly somewhere else. : )
@f00l I’ve always just assumed it was a rather brilliant strategy to shift returns, items of insufficient quantity to warrant selling, and overstock without having to pay the junk man to haul it away.
Then again… some of the shipping costs have to be astronomical…
@jbartus
Hey, long time no see. Hope all is well w you and yours.
I suspect that the BOC/IRK offerings hit more than one goal, from a biz perspective.
Customer fun
Costumer insanity
Customer engagement
”The glory of victory, the agony of defeat”
PR
A “well-known, signature site aspect that customers froth over“.
Invented by @snapster and co as an amusing entertainment. (I’m ignoring the nearly unknown precursors from elsewhere, and the somewhat different Japanese new year offerings)
Viral
Customer red-hot rage (which can be quite entertaining)
Customer rage-quitting, until the next one
And
Every copycat deal-a -day website copycatted this also. These sites look v lame in comparison.
And
Clear out all that junk in the warehouse - instead it trashing it or discounting it further, create an “event” or whatever.
And
I suspect that they love/hate doing these, and if they quit doing them, working for the company wouldn’t be any fun anymore for many employees.
/giphy love hate.
/giphy agony of defeat
@f00l @ThunderChicken
The irrationality also extends to people thinking that Meh wants you to get an IRK. Or that there should be a fair way of distributing IRKs.
@jbartus Hi! I’ve missed you.
@f00l Things are indeed well on this front. I hope the same is true for you as well!
@Barney Hiya Barney! I’ve missed you guys too. Life is just so busy.
@f00l @jbartus Everything’s okay with me. I’m still using the purple Barney Edition you made for me, although something broke (I don’t remember what or why) and @PlacidPenguin fixed it for me.
@f00l @jbartus I still have a Foscam wireless camera box from a fuko with a post-it on it which says “missing accessories. not working fuko?” I should probably throw it away and definitely not take it when I move, but I will keep the post-it. And maybe the box.
@Barney @f00l @jbartus @PlacidPenguin have i made a wrong turn?
/image wrong turn
/giphy wrong turnip
/youtube wrong turn
@Barney Glad to hear it’s still serving you well, thanks for keeping Barney in the purple, @PlacidPenguin!
@Barney @PlacidPenguin Could I trouble one of you for the new code? I want to see what was different so I can implement the changes on my own versions.
It’s a portmanteau of “fuko” and “boyo”.
There is junk in these IRKs you don’t want and don’t need but when it morphs into cases for iphones that were released 6 and 8 years ago plus chargers that are just as old, that is a whole different level of junk.
@Felton10 dude, you were promised junk, you got junk. No one said you were gonna like the junk. Matter of fact, they specifically warn you’re not gonna like the junk.
It’s like you stuck a nickel in the punch-in-the-face machine (everyone remembers those from the before-times, right?) and are now complaining that it didn’t tickle you. The ten people before you that said it tickled them might just be saying that so they could see some other poor sucker get punched in the face. You can now be a member of the club.
@Dave you have my permission to remind people about the nickel-for-a-punch-in-the-face machines that dotted both the carnival midways and young mens’ eyes of yore if you feel it will help you in your dissuasion efforts.
@dave @djslack I have been lucky (or unlucky) enough to have snagged over 10 IRKs. My first couple had returned broken items in them. Then a few had passable junk (ie stuff that my daughter could sell on ebay and keep the money). But the last two have been complete worthless crap. Didn’t pass go-went straight into the trash (except for the bags of course) I guess I was lulled into a false sense of security by the ones that were only slightly crappy.
@Felton10 I understand. but understand, the real treasure of the IRK is the friends it made along the way from Dallas to Indiana to Dallas to Indiana to Dallas to Indiana to you. Thanks Newgistics!
@dave @djslack @Felton10
Yes, people used to get great stuff. That was then. Way back then.
They were transparent about the change.
Now sometimes people still get great stuff but it’s rare.
Yes. That’s what you are buying.
They tell you that, straight up.
I don’t understand the prob.
@dave @djslack @f00l @Felton10
Just to rub salt in any wounds, I got a great Cuisinart pot & pan set in the previous IRK.
Of course I also got a nice, sharp broken piece of a shot glass in one. Can YOU say that they tried to maim you with an IRK?
IRK just landed on porch and can’t weigh much more than the bag itself… will post to reveal thread after disappointing my family with dinner time unboxing
@lehigh Posted at https://meh.com/forum/topics/mid-april-irk-reveal-thread#5ec70b37595c66047830f17d. I’m ready for a “most creative use of Palm cooler sticky mat” contest.
I’m slightly confused. Were the contents of the box so good that you didn’t regret buying it instantly, as the name states, and therefore you feel cheated out of bad stuff… or was your stuff exactly as described, but you thought they were just kidding, and now are mad about it?
Meh will have won when they can put up a batch of 100 IRKs and enough people heed their warnings not to buy it that it does not sell out.
They’re working very hard with this batch to flatten the curve so that eventually they can win. It is a good deed when one does their part to spread the warning tale of IRKs received.
@djslack Maybe meh thought they could get away with scrapping the bottom of the barrel with this one since we were all so numb and bored with staying at home we would buy anything as a diversion.
@djslack @Felton10
And this is just like prev offerings. As far as I can tell.
My most recent IRK contained two items: “Superstar Monster Blaster”!!! and a ‘Pop Sonic’ toothbrush. The box was delivered pretty much open. The Blaster is impressively heavy and allegedly a bluetooth speaker. Unfortunately, the bluetooth is broken and when it’s plugged in with the Aux cable, it suffers from a well-documented ‘hummmmmm’ issue. The box had a ‘tested’ sticker on it, but in fairness it didn’t reveal the results of the aforementioned ‘testing’. The kicker was when I had to pay the transfer station (dump) $20 to take it off my hands as e-waste. The toothbrush is solidly meh and I do use it now, but it’s no Sonicare.
TL;DR I paid 25 bucks for an electric toothbrush.
@ticklescratch
I think that’s my favorite part of the experience. One very crushed box with the top barely taped shut. Is everything they put in there still in there? Did the good stuff fall out? Is my mailman an aMEHrican and he didn’t get the last IRK, so he got angry and stomped on the box a few times before he threw it on my doorstep? Who knows!
@ticklescratch @Willijs3 I got one once with no tape on the top except USPS tape. It was completely empty and had a USPS sticker on it that they received it in that condition.
@Kidsandliz @Willijs3 at least it sound like you guys had one piece of functional tape. On mine the tape was literally sliced open and it was only that little tongue flap of cardboard sort of in the slot keeping it ‘shut’ ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@ticklescratch @Willijs3 My one that was empty didn’t. There was nothing there at all except what the USPS put on once smart post dropped off the empty box to them.
Wait, so what did you get?
One “light stick” flashlight
One pair of ear buds
Cuisinart knife
Clip on camera lens
Microfiber Scarf
Black IRK bag
Not a bad deal!
From some other place.
THE HOLY CRAP COMMANDMENTS v3.0
I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond ONE bag of some kind and THREE crappy items.
II. Thou shalt not whine and complain when some people’s crap turns out to be nicer than yours.
III. Thou shalt take a moment to consider whether you might be better off just not buying this crap.
IV. Thou shalt not expect better crap just because things are different this time. Crap is crap.
V. To paraphrase Stephen Stills, shalt thou not get the crap you want, want the crap you get.
@blaineg Three items? I think you are over estimating the minimum. LOL. I had one with only the bag and one dollar tree style item.
@blaineg there crappy items? I got a bag and two crappy items. I feel jipped. I want one more crappy item. Perhaps a pre chewed stick of gum?
Just so I can reach item number three
@OnionSoup At the dawn of time a Bag of Crap had (at least) one item. And you could buy up to three of them. Maybe.
As life crawled out of the ocean, they decided to simplify it a bit, and make it a single bag with three craps.
Of course this change caused weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth because people couldn’t buy three anymore, and their reading comprehension was poor.
I don’t think a Fuk*bukuro or IRK has ever specified quantity. Or indeed, quality.
@blaineg yeah… I thought “three items” was a woot thing not a Meh thing. Thats why I hadn’t previously gnashed my own teeth.
@Felton10 said:
Did I miss something? Is there a picture of what you got that your are expecting to appear on my screen?
@bdb https://meh.com/forum/topics/mid-april-irk-reveal-thread#5ec56879a998b2102cbf7fc8
@bdb @Ignorant Thanks-was going to repost that again but you beat me to it.
@Ignorant thank you!
@Felton10 If you like purple, and need a case for an iPhone 6, then it wasn’t too bad.
@bdb The chances of both those things be applicable are very remote. Our daughter loves purple and she didn’t even want it either to use or sell.
@Felton10
That was the point I was trying to make, in a very dry humour sort of manner.
@bdb Hey you never know what interests some people.
Anyone remember when someone got an entire pallet of Turtle Wax?
@ypwulby or a pallet of BP&J spreaders, those UBS people (that amazingly they still haven’t gotten rid of all of them), or broken TV’s… and someone got a bag of goat food.
@DrWorm doesn’t celebrate Mother’s Day because they think it’s a Hallmark Holiday.
@Kidsandliz @ypwulby I remember the broken TV’s-those were the good old days
As Kanye West once brilliantly said, “There’ll always be haters, that’s the way it is
Hater niggas marry hater bitches and have hater kids.”
So I say let the haters keep hating. I, personally, have only gotten 2 fuko’s, 1 IRK and 0(that’s right zero) BOC’s, and tried to get dozens more of each. I love getting whatever it is in the mail even if it’s completely useless to me. Because I knew that was a possibility going into it. Just as much as the end result(the package) attempting to get one is just as good(aka: the thrill of the hunt). I guess all I’m trying to say is that don’t let the negative people ruin it for people who love it which happens many times over daily in our lives. Let them keep sipping their Haterade and do your best to ignore them and keep having fun! Because that’s what pisses them off even more!
http://giphy.com/gifs/haterade-SRlMuq5KFLrtreuBzH
@sicc574
I think, as regards mystery bags from the site, all the misery is just part of the fun for the bystanders
I’ve had three good irks and one “oh my God that was horrendously bad” one that literally gave me a migraine for hours because of leaking poo pouri, I couldn’t even use the irk bag from that one. But… 1 bad outta four isn’t bad… And it wouldn’t be as much fun getting the good ones if you didn’t know the stinkers were out there.
Just like noone plays the lottery thinking they will win; you shouldn’t play the Irk lottery expecting to win (although ironically most are worth more than $5).
The anticipation and not knowing what you’re getting that makes it fun. If you get an irk you actually regret it sucks, but that’s the game in it.
@OnionSoup “Worth” is in the eye of the recipient, not the sender.
Meh puts these IRKs down as “worth” $100, charge us $5 and take tax write-off of $95 for crap they wouldn’t get $1 for and would cost them to haul it to the dump.
@mike808 @OnionSoup
And they create an “event” and quite a lot of ongoing entertainment.
Good for them.
@f00l @mike808 there is definitely an entertainment factor to the Irk. That’s part of why I feel if you get a bad Irk it’s not a total loss of money.
Plus I think mediocre definitely try to always give us our moneys worth with stuff (that’s why I went ahead with their pastadrop launch)… $20 is a lot of money for an unknown qty of pasta but this is a company that usually give you your money’s worth, I’m willing to bet I won’t be disappointed with the amount I get.
@f00l @OnionSoup
You won’t be disappointed, the recipient you sent it to will.
You, on the other hand, could have spent $20 at a movie theatre (if they weren’t closed), and not been nearly as entertained (for several days, too) as the shenanigans of PastaDerp.
@f00l @mike808 mine went to my wife… So if she is disappointed by it, I will be.
She doesn’t know it’s coming yet. Nor does she know there is follow up penne coming to her.
If it doesn’t turn out to be a bargain, she will never know how much a box cost.
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
@f00l @OnionSoup
That’s OK. When Father’s Day rolls around, you won’t know how much she spent over on DadTieDrop.com or DisposableRazorDrop.com.
@mike808 @OnionSoup @dave
You two are making me nostalgic for nefarious plots hatched by a would-be evil overlord.
Could Meh … ?
No way, right?
Many years ago, when I tried to make money at photography, I used to buy supplies from a company called Porter’s Camera Store. For $20, they sold a “grab bag”. Most of the time it was little crap they had on clearance that they couldn’t get rid of, but once in a while you might get a semi-broken camera or enlarger or something. Yet it was fun nonetheless. Pig-in-a-poke then, pig-in-a-poke now.
I get a lot of IRKs/Fukos. Most of them end up just being foodsavers.
@ACraigL Your last food saver made us a few very nice sous vide steaks last weekend.