i have never seen a product with reviews this awful, well, except for the giant bag of sugar-free haribo gummis.
this wasn’t a kickstarter where the fans had overoptimistic expectations.
this was a kickstarter where, i’m going to guess, a factory promised the makers their design was workable, took alllll the money, and then shipped back a fancy looking band with speakers taken from the rejects bin from the production line that makes free airplane headsets.
@bx2a5z@Kidsandliz Meh’s not going to learn - Meh’s customers have to learn to avoid outright garbage at any discount cost. They get a warehouse full of garbage at pennies on the pound, they’ll profit if people pay more than a few bucks for each one.
I tried the Trekz Wireless Bone Conduction Headphones from Brookstone and had to return them because they hurt my head where they pressed on the bone. The sound wasn’t so great either.
I’ll stick to my Moto buds that I bought here a while back. They’ve outlasted the LG tone headset by a long shot, and the battery lasts a lot longer than the Jabra earpiece I’ve got.
I have a pair of bone conducting mp3 players that are designed for swimming. They clip onto your goggles and sit against your temples and work pretty well. They do work a lot better when wet though.
@alacrity Wow I didn’t know that this tech was tried before. Should have figured, it doesn’t need any tech that was not available at the time. I am sure the military pored tons of money into this back during the cold war. Underwater coms, coms that leave your ears open for listening in general… Obviously they couldn’t get it to work, I have never seen anything like it from my military days.
@craigthom or how about this version, the “NeckFone”.
Just pulled this out of the box of oddball products - hoarded but should have been tossed - stuff. It actually still works as well as it originally did. Which is to say not well.
@craigthom@joelmw Yeah, The Bone Fone! I couldn’t remember the name.
Along the sort of same lines, The Rock-it 3.0 is a cool little gimmick. I remember back in the Fat Wallet days I bought a bunch of them for Christmas presents. You could turn anything into a speaker.
Reading the comments on Kickstarter…this is something you’d buy for that special person…the one you really really despise. Maybe buy one for your favorite politician and hope he uses it?? I can just see everyone at the next “state of the union” address wearing one these.
What I don’t understand is why meh buys things with such horrific reviews and or is not useable because no support, website is gone, no way to download the needed app, etc… That just makes no financial sense to me. And because this has happened enough times recently it makes it harder for me to trust that whatever is being sold is at least usable, even if it is only 2 or 3 stars. Why not at least have your buyers read reviews before they get something? Cheap and non-working is putting a match to our money and your reputation.
I believe the context is “why bother with stuff that’s known to be complete shit?”
Yes @narfcake that is exactly what I meant. Thank you. And @TheMeerkat there has been several products recently that fall into that category. It makes absolutely no sense to me, on many levels, that meh even buys stuff that falls into the total shit and doesn’t even work category. If we can discover these issues within 5 minutes of searching, so can they. It makes no financial sense - even if they got them cheap. It makes no reputational sense as there used to be standards - admittedly generally on the lower side - but standards none the less. Why even sell things known to be DOA, lack support to make them work, are snake oil…? @snapster what the heck is going on?
@Kidsandliz my husband used to work for an ebay consignment store in dallas (back when that was a thing) and people would bring pallets of unsold merchandise from wholesalers to sell online. So if meh buys a pallet of this crap for say, $100 and sells even 10 of them, they’ve made a profit.
@narfcake@TheMeerkat A thing that’s complete shit at $150 may not be complete shit at $25. I didn’t see any reviews listing them as DOA- just lower volume than they expected. And crappy sound.
@ivannabc Yeah but it isn’t all about profit either. Reputation is attached to this as well and reputation, once lost, is harder to get back.
Also selling crap like this, bricked items, etc. reduces impulse sales (which I am reasonably part of their plan is, to some degree, to get - especially with low cost items) due to the work now involved to find out if buying is actually putting a match to your money or not.
Of course they have a decent customer service department so in that regards you are safe if you make the effort to complain rather than vote with your wallet and not come back - but continuing to sell stuff like this is going to increase the load on them and increase costs that way. And piss off customers when they have to spend the time to deal with it (or decide not to and just absorb the loss).
And because their write ups often have little to do with reality anyway involve literary license, it is hard to know when they are serious that something is crap or are just joking around because it is funny and it is actually just mediocre and thus value, all things considered, for the money.
@sammydog01 There were some KS comments that their band couldn’t connect, thus non-functional. The claim that only the wearer could hear this was also a straight up lie.
@ivannabc@Kidsandliz They may also have a deal where a company dumps this stuff and they don’t actually pay anything. “Whatever sells, you get this much from it and we get this much.” And the website is literally “Meh,” so for the most part, it’s pretty much what you expect. It has worked enough that people just check what they have to sell everyday. And while their write-ups are often joking and sarcastic, they have some where they straight-up say it doesn’t work, and this was one of them, along with the Crash supplement thing, at least from recent memory.
@ES2X1 The trouble is they joke how bad some stuff is that they sell when they aren’t so bad so you don’t know for sure if what they say is joking or not.
From what I can tell, this thing was born in fraudulence and died in fraudulence. You seem to think it’s cute to sell this $25 bottle of pig turds as long as you’re up-front about it. It’s not. It stinks. Like pig turds.
I looked up the company that makes this and I wish you guys somehow got a stockpile of their ostrich pillow now that is some serious meh for the picking
/giphy ostrich pillow
Oof after reading the kickstarter reviews it sounds like a terrible quality wearable party speaker. But hey, if you want to be where the music is at for the party just make this the music and people will follow! Or leave immediately realizing how lame the party is haha
I hope meh only did this as a consignment deal, is being paid for the web exposure, is compensated for the meh brand hit, is receiving a 50% discount on Omaha steaks, all employees received a 20 minute lap dance with tequila shots and is just honoring their loss playing rock- paper - scissors?
They sat in silence the rest of the flight. Joshua had promised proof that not only was Jessie alive, the others were as well. Carla slept, the first time in weeks without Crash.
The plane landed in Brisbane at 5:30 the next morning. Joshua led the way out of the terminal and into a waiting black G63. The driver took them north, away from town, parking at the beach in the town of Woorim. Joshua led them out onto the sand, finally stopping at the water’s edge. The driver pulled a giant black amplifier from the trunk and brought it along.
Kaito opened his backpack and removed a strange, horseshoe-shaped band. “Put this on,” he said, handing it to Carla. She tried to wear it like a hairband, and he showed her the correct, backwards, behind-the-head orientation.
“Now what?”
“Now we use the app to talk to your friend.”
“You … wrote an app?”
“Of course I did! Everything has an app. Even Members.”
He opened the app on his phone. It showed an oscilloscope and a text pad.
“Text your friend. You’ll see her answer, and you might even hear it.”
Carla nervously tapped out:
“Jessie? Can you hear me? It’s Carla.”
The oscilloscope drew waves, jagged peaks, and lines, and the amplifier hummed to life. The sound was like the song of a humpback whale.
Carla heard a voice she didn’t think she’d ever hear again. It wasn’t in her ears, it was in her skull, directly in her bones.
When this came up last night I actually had hope that, as a hearing aid wearer, this would actually work for me (home use, not public) since all headphones are either impossible to use, extremely uncomfortable, or cause feedback issues. I didn’t bite after reading about them, but I’m even more disappointed in you now for briefly getting my hopes up.
@PurplePawprints there’s a bunch of different brands out there, so don’t give up. I remember seeing some sunglasses with it built into the temples. Someone linked above a pair of $150 ones that they said were decent.
@sammydog01@RiotDemon Thank you! I’ll start checking them out. I honestly didn’t even know this was a thing until this “deal” so I guess I can’t be too mad at Meh about it anymore since I at least now know this is a possibility.
She would nod and act like she was listening in conversation but I’m pretty sure she was stone deaf. After all these years of bumping around, my old rock-and-roll ears are failing me.
@therealjrn It’s not so bad, to be honest. I’ve been wearing at least one since I was age 7, and started wearing one in each ear when I was in my early twenties. Hearing aids have come such a long way in the last 30 years. Mine even have bluetooth, but the ones I have only work with Apple devices, which I don’t use. My hearing loss is pretty severe, so I have to wear the “behind the ear” style, but even those are much less noticeable than they used to be. Hearing in loud and crowded situations is still a shit show, but I don’t expect miracles anymore.
@PurplePawprints I’ve worn glasses since ~12 YO. I keep my home quiet, actively defended against outside noises. I also wore braces on my teeth. Dr. Corely had a son who went to HS with me, the son drove a nice Porche.
I don’t know what it was, but it might have been an education in the value of a good education.
I suppose hearing assists are along the same lines. Crap.
I’ve been drinking today so it’s not the best time to be making life changing decisions.
@PurplePawprints@sammydog01 They also make bone conducting hearing aids. A cousin’s kid has one. What is a riot is when she puts the box she wears to pick up sounds and puts that next to her ipod to listen to music.
@therealjrn Go to costco, they’re the cheapest by far of any of the places with a licensed audiologist.
6-month “try as many pairs as you need to” period, no questions asked.
However, the hearing aid companies won’t let Costco sell their “top-of-the-line” models. The Kirkland branded set is the bestest deal by far of any of the hearing aids they sell if it suits your needs.
@PurplePawprints@sammydog01 i got to try the trekz air version today; my boss bought a pair last week. I wasn’t impressed. I mean they sound fine, but it seemed like most of the sound actually came out through the air from speaker type holes in the little pads, and she could hear the music standing near me. They were definitely putting out sound into the world.
Of course, she had her phone turned up pretty loud. When I asked my coworker to say something to me from across the room, I couldn’t hear that he was making a sound even though my ears were completely uncovered.
@djslack@sammydog01 Yeah, I ended up buying this version. I was not impressed for the price. They aren’t as comfortable as I’d hoped, and the band isn’t adjustable so it’s too big in the back. I couldn’t hear the sound well enough unless the volume on my device was turned way up, and then I got horrible vibration. However, I ended up keeping them because if I turn on the telecoil setting on my hearing aid it works (almost) perfectly. So, they might work well enough for someone with great hearing (and might be worth it at a much cheaper price point), and they might work well for someone who wears hearing aids with a telecoil, but on average, I don’t think they meet the claims they make.
Thank you Meh, for confirming the wisdom of my recent decision to cancel my VMP membership after realizing I hadn’t bought anything since January. Buy yourself something nice with the $30 I gave you!
@therealjrn True, but if I someday decide I miss the “advantages” of my VMP membership, I can always just send them $5! The icon is nice, I have to admit! I’m guessing the boys at Meh are Trump supporters?
@narfcake@therealjrn Well, yeah. I’m actually old enough to remember when they sold these “bone conduction” speakers or earphones in the ads in the back of comic books, along with the x-ray glasses and rupture belts (ask your grandfather). Crap is crap, whether or not it involves bluetooth or kickstarter.
Kudos to Meh, though, for admitting up front that they don’t work, and more importantly, for knowing that their “community” will buy them anyway!
Note to self… read the reviews before deciding to throw that $20. bill in the toilet. I honestly think the box was worth more than this POS…thanks MEH. You earned your name with this one…
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Batband
1x Micro USB charging cable
Price Comparison
$99 List
$129 at Amazon
Warranty
1 Year Batband
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
Holy Batman - u hear me Meh?
C’mon c’mon
Feel it feel it
@kennethlong Feel the vibrations
I feel like I could finally pretend to be bizarro world Geordi LaForge with this product.
@vinuash that being said, you really sold me on how terrible this is. Are you sure you just don’t want to mail me one instead?
/giphy lobot
@zippyus lando be praised
@rileyper Well that was a bit better than today’s product, which isn’t saying much.
@rileyper What the heck?
@rileyper The 1st is like someone watched a video of the stage production of “CATS”, and said “I want my video to be styled after this!”.
Music by osmosis? It never worked when I put a book under my pillow.
@norman8 I thought I was the only one!
@ardycake @norman8 It works for cats.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/osmosis
Osmosis
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
Initial reaction: “That’s not how you wear a headband!”
The big question I have is “Do I want to look like a freak wearing this thing?” I’m already a freak. I don’t need more help with that.
@shortman Wish I had the sense to ask the same question before buying into Google Glass, back when that was actually a thing
Even Geordi wouldn’t wear this.
@cajunbob even geordi would say this looks terrible
I’m missing speaker docks sooooooooo much now!
@Kerig3 i just tossed an old school woot speaker dock … for my sansa
I just know I’m going to get stuck with two of these if I’m lucky enough to get the next lucky bag
Should go well with a Martian watch.
@atlwxman At least the watches are usable (for now), and if broken, would still tell the correct time twice a day.
Reading the Kickstarter comments on this, OTOH …
I backed this on Kickstarter. “It is not great” is a wild understatement.
@AnnaB You are not kidding - I did a search after seeing Meh, and let’s just say user response was skewing just a tad negative:
Kickstarter likes anal warts better than this product
Do tell, @AnnaB?
@jnanas Fun read…really BAD product!
@haydesigner On a 1-5 star scale, the comments on KS put this well in the negative range.
i have never seen a product with reviews this awful, well, except for the giant bag of sugar-free haribo gummis.
this wasn’t a kickstarter where the fans had overoptimistic expectations.
this was a kickstarter where, i’m going to guess, a factory promised the makers their design was workable, took alllll the money, and then shipped back a fancy looking band with speakers taken from the rejects bin from the production line that makes free airplane headsets.
@AnnaB did anyone at all who backed this kickstarter like what they got?
@AnnaB Wow, those reviews are so bad that it makes me think less of Meh for trying to resell it at all, even at a steep discount.
@bx2a5z There have been a couple of items recently that have fallen into that category. Lets hope they learn from this (and those items).
@bx2a5z @Kidsandliz Meh’s not going to learn - Meh’s customers have to learn to avoid outright garbage at any discount cost. They get a warehouse full of garbage at pennies on the pound, they’ll profit if people pay more than a few bucks for each one.
‘Wireless’ aside, I hate every word in the name of this thing.
@brhfl I really like the bat part.
@sammydog01 If it was just ‘bat,’ it’d be fine by me
Oh, cool, now I can be the Smartest Man in the World… although $25 poorer.
@Kerig3 ozymandias has no use for money
@vinuash True, but even Ozymandias knows when a product is crap!
More reviews, I think I’ll pass.
I would be all over this for $10.
/giphy haggle
@ConAndLibrarian I’ll take it in a fukobukaru just for the disappointment.
Completely unrelated, but that’s my all time favorite TV character, @ConAndLibrarian
@ConAndLibrarian I dunno. If they paid me $10, I’d still have to think twice about it.
@ConAndLibrarian @haydesigner one of my favs too. Was my fav from that show till i met nog last year.
#batband
I tried the Trekz Wireless Bone Conduction Headphones from Brookstone and had to return them because they hurt my head where they pressed on the bone. The sound wasn’t so great either.
I’ll stick to my Moto buds that I bought here a while back. They’ve outlasted the LG tone headset by a long shot, and the battery lasts a lot longer than the Jabra earpiece I’ve got.
NO AAC SUPPORT? I’m out…
/s
I have a pair of bone conducting mp3 players that are designed for swimming. They clip onto your goggles and sit against your temples and work pretty well. They do work a lot better when wet though.
@sammydog01 isn’t them being wet the point of their design?
@sammydog01 @vinuash
There’s a joke in there, but I’ll let you decide how conflicted you want to feel thinking about it.
@vinuash Yep. But when you put them on at the side of the pool you can’t hear very well, and the sound is totally different when you get in the water.
At least it has Bluetooth. What profile does it support, Nerdo?
I had one back in the 80’s. They sucked then, too.
http://southofheaven.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451960269e2017c35694c44970b-800wi
@alacrity Wow I didn’t know that this tech was tried before. Should have figured, it doesn’t need any tech that was not available at the time. I am sure the military pored tons of money into this back during the cold war. Underwater coms, coms that leave your ears open for listening in general… Obviously they couldn’t get it to work, I have never seen anything like it from my military days.
@alacrity I forgot how ridiculous those looked — or how freaking awful a name like “Bone Fone” is.
Even if they don’t work, these Batbands are already a cut above … barely.
@alacrity @TheFLP Bone Fone is a great name… For a premium phone number business.
@alacrity @ravenblack @TheFLP or a questionable 900 number where gruff men talk dirty to you…
Hey, Mediocre, $25 is my $250. Would I pay $250 for shitty headphones? Hell fucking no.
I bid $2.50. We’re bidding now, right? That’s a thing?
@joelmw You need a negative sign in front of your offer.
@joelmw I was going to search for an ad for the Bone Phone if no one had already posted one. I still may.
I think they were sold by that company that ran half page ads in magazines I read for stuff that sounded a lot better than it was.
@joelmw OK, full page ads. Full of text.
@craigthom or how about this version, the “NeckFone”.
Just pulled this out of the box of oddball products - hoarded but should have been tossed - stuff. It actually still works as well as it originally did. Which is to say not well.
Got me curious enough to do 40 seconds of research… I kind of one want a Bone Fone now…
@joelmw I challenge you to a bidding war…My bid is $0.25. Touche! I dare you to go lower…No, I double dare you. mehhahahaha.
@craigthom @joelmw Yeah, The Bone Fone! I couldn’t remember the name.
Along the sort of same lines, The Rock-it 3.0 is a cool little gimmick. I remember back in the Fat Wallet days I bought a bunch of them for Christmas presents. You could turn anything into a speaker.
Reading the comments on Kickstarter…this is something you’d buy for that special person…the one you really really despise. Maybe buy one for your favorite politician and hope he uses it?? I can just see everyone at the next “state of the union” address wearing one these.
What I don’t understand is why meh buys things with such horrific reviews and or is not useable because no support, website is gone, no way to download the needed app, etc… That just makes no financial sense to me. And because this has happened enough times recently it makes it harder for me to trust that whatever is being sold is at least usable, even if it is only 2 or 3 stars. Why not at least have your buyers read reviews before they get something? Cheap and non-working is putting a match to our money and your reputation.
@Kidsandliz “it makes it harder for me to trust that whatever is being sold is at least usable”
Why would it make it harder to trust Meh when they literally tell you when things don’t work?
@TheMeerkat I believe the context is “why bother with stuff that’s known to be complete shit?”
Yes @narfcake that is exactly what I meant. Thank you. And @TheMeerkat there has been several products recently that fall into that category. It makes absolutely no sense to me, on many levels, that meh even buys stuff that falls into the total shit and doesn’t even work category. If we can discover these issues within 5 minutes of searching, so can they. It makes no financial sense - even if they got them cheap. It makes no reputational sense as there used to be standards - admittedly generally on the lower side - but standards none the less. Why even sell things known to be DOA, lack support to make them work, are snake oil…? @snapster what the heck is going on?
@Kidsandliz my husband used to work for an ebay consignment store in dallas (back when that was a thing) and people would bring pallets of unsold merchandise from wholesalers to sell online. So if meh buys a pallet of this crap for say, $100 and sells even 10 of them, they’ve made a profit.
@Kidsandliz the website and app are both up and available
@narfcake @TheMeerkat A thing that’s complete shit at $150 may not be complete shit at $25. I didn’t see any reviews listing them as DOA- just lower volume than they expected. And crappy sound.
@ivannabc Yeah but it isn’t all about profit either. Reputation is attached to this as well and reputation, once lost, is harder to get back.
Also selling crap like this, bricked items, etc. reduces impulse sales (which I am reasonably part of their plan is, to some degree, to get - especially with low cost items) due to the work now involved to find out if buying is actually putting a match to your money or not.
Of course they have a decent customer service department so in that regards you are safe if you make the effort to complain rather than vote with your wallet and not come back - but continuing to sell stuff like this is going to increase the load on them and increase costs that way. And piss off customers when they have to spend the time to deal with it (or decide not to and just absorb the loss).
And because their write ups often
have little to do with reality anywayinvolve literary license, it is hard to know when they are serious that something is crap or are just joking around because it is funny and it is actually just mediocre and thus value, all things considered, for the money.@sammydog01 There were some KS comments that their band couldn’t connect, thus non-functional. The claim that only the wearer could hear this was also a straight up lie.
@ivannabc @Kidsandliz They may also have a deal where a company dumps this stuff and they don’t actually pay anything. “Whatever sells, you get this much from it and we get this much.” And the website is literally “Meh,” so for the most part, it’s pretty much what you expect. It has worked enough that people just check what they have to sell everyday. And while their write-ups are often joking and sarcastic, they have some where they straight-up say it doesn’t work, and this was one of them, along with the Crash supplement thing, at least from recent memory.
@ES2X1 The trouble is they joke how bad some stuff is that they sell when they aren’t so bad so you don’t know for sure if what they say is joking or not.
@Kidsandliz I suppose it is for our entertainment? Is that so bad?
You’ve been in a dark place lately so I apologize for intruding upon that.
Near as I can tell, you’re upset that there is a shit product for sale?
So it’s a shit product? What the fuck is your problem sweets? Ease up. At this price point, who cares? You want us to care about Mr. @snapster soul?
@therealjrn That’s not the reason.
@Kidsandliz
Very simple - because we are gullible suckers.
@Kidsandliz So what is the reason?
I’d buy it just to see how bad they were at a much lower price.
We had these in the 80’s. They sucked then, too.
After a hard sell like this, is it any wonder that 30 have been sold in the first 55 minutes? I think alcohol may be involved.
@gertiestn Thats probably why they’re up on Saturday night.
I have serious concerns about the mehperson who bought three of these.
@gertiestn Planning ahead for Halloween or making a sci-fi video are the only logical explainations.
@gertiestn same thing i was thinking. $75-80 on straight up crap…maybe they have some spare twenties they can send my way for essentials.
From what I can tell, this thing was born in fraudulence and died in fraudulence. You seem to think it’s cute to sell this $25 bottle of pig turds as long as you’re up-front about it. It’s not. It stinks. Like pig turds.
I looked up the company that makes this and I wish you guys somehow got a stockpile of their ostrich pillow now that is some serious meh for the picking
/giphy ostrich pillow
@sp3ar is that person wearing pants?!?
@moonhat she’s wearing shorts.
no
@unixrab to this product or the new VMP: “Members”?
@RedOak there’s a new VMP? deets?
@RedOak @unixrab Yes. But they are calling them “members” $4.99 a month.
/why for did you not call them mehmbers @snapster
Just send me one for free.
Oof after reading the kickstarter reviews it sounds like a terrible quality wearable party speaker. But hey, if you want to be where the music is at for the party just make this the music and people will follow! Or leave immediately realizing how lame the party is haha
You should read the Google play APP reviews for this POSband…Makes the Martian watch app look like genius…
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studiobanana.batband
The models all have a “I can’t believe my career has sunk so low I’m modelling this” look on their faces.
I hope meh only did this as a consignment deal, is being paid for the web exposure, is compensated for the meh brand hit, is receiving a 50% discount on Omaha steaks, all employees received a 20 minute lap dance with tequila shots and is just honoring their loss playing rock- paper - scissors?
If You Think You Hate It Now…Wait Till You Wear It-
Clark Griswold
/giphy Clark Griswold
Is anyone buying this in hopes it works?
The perfect addition if you want to look like a douchebag for Halloween…
I don’t see an option to buy the replicant. That IS a replicant wearing the Batband, isn’t it?
@blaineg Niska is scary!
They sat in silence the rest of the flight. Joshua had promised proof that not only was Jessie alive, the others were as well. Carla slept, the first time in weeks without Crash.
The plane landed in Brisbane at 5:30 the next morning. Joshua led the way out of the terminal and into a waiting black G63. The driver took them north, away from town, parking at the beach in the town of Woorim. Joshua led them out onto the sand, finally stopping at the water’s edge. The driver pulled a giant black amplifier from the trunk and brought it along.
Kaito opened his backpack and removed a strange, horseshoe-shaped band. “Put this on,” he said, handing it to Carla. She tried to wear it like a hairband, and he showed her the correct, backwards, behind-the-head orientation.
“Now what?”
“Now we use the app to talk to your friend.”
“You … wrote an app?”
“Of course I did! Everything has an app. Even Members.”
He opened the app on his phone. It showed an oscilloscope and a text pad.
“Text your friend. You’ll see her answer, and you might even hear it.”
Carla nervously tapped out:
“Jessie? Can you hear me? It’s Carla.”
The oscilloscope drew waves, jagged peaks, and lines, and the amplifier hummed to life. The sound was like the song of a humpback whale.
Carla heard a voice she didn’t think she’d ever hear again. It wasn’t in her ears, it was in her skull, directly in her bones.
“Carla?”
When this came up last night I actually had hope that, as a hearing aid wearer, this would actually work for me (home use, not public) since all headphones are either impossible to use, extremely uncomfortable, or cause feedback issues. I didn’t bite after reading about them, but I’m even more disappointed in you now for briefly getting my hopes up.
@PurplePawprints there’s a bunch of different brands out there, so don’t give up. I remember seeing some sunglasses with it built into the temples. Someone linked above a pair of $150 ones that they said were decent.
@PurplePawprints If you watch the review they had in the product description they have a link to one that the youtuber likes a lot better. You may want to check it out.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014G6ZFT4/ref=dp_cerb_2
@PurplePawprints Ooh, I found an article!
https://www.everydayhearing.com/hearing-technology/articles/bone-conduction-headphones/
@sammydog01 @RiotDemon Thank you! I’ll start checking them out. I honestly didn’t even know this was a thing until this “deal” so I guess I can’t be too mad at Meh about it anymore since I at least now know this is a possibility.
@PurplePawprints @RiotDemon @sammydog01 My sainted mom used the publicly available headsets available at our local Performing Arts Center.
I always wanted to get her own pair.
She would nod and act like she was listening in conversation but I’m pretty sure she was stone deaf. After all these years of bumping around, my old rock-and-roll ears are failing me.
Fuck. I don’t want to wear hearing aids.
@therealjrn It’s not so bad, to be honest. I’ve been wearing at least one since I was age 7, and started wearing one in each ear when I was in my early twenties. Hearing aids have come such a long way in the last 30 years. Mine even have bluetooth, but the ones I have only work with Apple devices, which I don’t use. My hearing loss is pretty severe, so I have to wear the “behind the ear” style, but even those are much less noticeable than they used to be. Hearing in loud and crowded situations is still a shit show, but I don’t expect miracles anymore.
@PurplePawprints I’ve worn glasses since ~12 YO. I keep my home quiet, actively defended against outside noises. I also wore braces on my teeth. Dr. Corely had a son who went to HS with me, the son drove a nice Porche.
I don’t know what it was, but it might have been an education in the value of a good education.
I suppose hearing assists are along the same lines. Crap.
I’ve been drinking today so it’s not the best time to be making life changing decisions.
@PurplePawprints @sammydog01 They also make bone conducting hearing aids. A cousin’s kid has one. What is a riot is when she puts the box she wears to pick up sounds and puts that next to her ipod to listen to music.
@therealjrn Go to costco, they’re the cheapest by far of any of the places with a licensed audiologist.
6-month “try as many pairs as you need to” period, no questions asked.
However, the hearing aid companies won’t let Costco sell their “top-of-the-line” models. The Kirkland branded set is the bestest deal by far of any of the hearing aids they sell if it suits your needs.
@PurplePawprints @sammydog01 i got to try the trekz air version today; my boss bought a pair last week. I wasn’t impressed. I mean they sound fine, but it seemed like most of the sound actually came out through the air from speaker type holes in the little pads, and she could hear the music standing near me. They were definitely putting out sound into the world.
Of course, she had her phone turned up pretty loud. When I asked my coworker to say something to me from across the room, I couldn’t hear that he was making a sound even though my ears were completely uncovered.
@djslack @sammydog01 Yeah, I ended up buying this version. I was not impressed for the price. They aren’t as comfortable as I’d hoped, and the band isn’t adjustable so it’s too big in the back. I couldn’t hear the sound well enough unless the volume on my device was turned way up, and then I got horrible vibration. However, I ended up keeping them because if I turn on the telecoil setting on my hearing aid it works (almost) perfectly. So, they might work well enough for someone with great hearing (and might be worth it at a much cheaper price point), and they might work well for someone who wears hearing aids with a telecoil, but on average, I don’t think they meet the claims they make.
@djslack @PurplePawprints Sorry.
Thank you Meh, for confirming the wisdom of my recent decision to cancel my VMP membership after realizing I hadn’t bought anything since January. Buy yourself something nice with the $30 I gave you!
@phineasgage But if you quit, you can’t start back! Nice icon though!
@phineasgage @therealjrn In other words, NOT THIS!
@therealjrn True, but if I someday decide I miss the “advantages” of my VMP membership, I can always just send them $5! The icon is nice, I have to admit! I’m guessing the boys at Meh are Trump supporters?
@narfcake @phineasgage @therealjrn
/giphy matrix “not like this”
@narfcake @therealjrn Well, yeah. I’m actually old enough to remember when they sold these “bone conduction” speakers or earphones in the ads in the back of comic books, along with the x-ray glasses and rupture belts (ask your grandfather). Crap is crap, whether or not it involves bluetooth or kickstarter.
Kudos to Meh, though, for admitting up front that they don’t work, and more importantly, for knowing that their “community” will buy them anyway!
@phineasgage The other way around, I believe.
@narfcake You mean Trump supporters are the boys at Meh?
@phineasgage
/image still no.
@narfcake The Meh supporters are Trump boys?
@phineasgage What is wrong with you? Why do you hate America so much?
@therealjrn The other way around, I believe.
@phineasgage What do you believe then?
@therealjrn The other way around. As I believe I have already stated I believe.
Why do you ask?
@phineasgage The other way around? Why I just don’t how to wrap mind around this…
Can you explain it to me using little words?
@phineasgage @therealjrn Trump is a fan of Meh. Duh.
@narfcake @phineasgage boys2meh
@therealjrn Yes
@phineasgage Ok
@phineasgage well done
You should pay us to take them off your hands
from the writeup: “There’s a classic trope in comedy that I’m sure you’ve seen: the secretly crummy therapist.”
/giphy newhart stop it
I was just trying to decipher how come my best buddies Phineas and Josephus came into being exploring my butt last night.
These aliens are very crafty.
Note to self… read the reviews before deciding to throw that $20. bill in the toilet. I honestly think the box was worth more than this POS…thanks MEH. You earned your name with this one…
@jusjonzin I concur. The packaging was A1 ! This is a piece of art and nothing more. I hear it works with dolphins tho…