Meh should save one of these and conduct “Will it Blend?” tests with one of every subsequent deal until the blender gives out. It’ll be the ultimate endurance test.
-side note: I rep’d these guys a couple decades ago on the commercial side; These were nothing but profit because they just didn’t fail and we didn’t have to cover warranty repairs- there weren’t any.
I’ve done some serious testing of these and Vitamix models, both personally, and professionally with a health food company. Both solid competitors, but for my money, I am very satisfied with my more basic model Blendtec. Powerful motor, great design on the jars, reliable warranty if anything should go awry, and a happy wife whenever she goes on one of those healthy smoothie kicks (which I just turn into “slightly-less-healthy” smoothies)… If I didn’t already have multiple crazy-expensive blenders, I’d bite. Meh-be next time.
@arosiriak From everyone I know of that has used the Blendtec and the Vitamix they all say neither is superior to the other. Just buy the one you can get the best deal on.
So three years ago meh offered the Blendtec 560 with wildside jar for $194. It has 4 speeds. The 575 being offered tonight has 5 speeds for $179. Both have 3hp motors.
The 560 with wildside originally cost $319. The 575 originally cost $379 without the wildside. The 575 also comes with a few more bells and whistles (cycles, self-cleaner, and smoothie button) https://findblender.com/blendtec-classic-blender-series/
@mfladd pretty sure the one I bought from meh 3 years ago had a smoothie button as well. What makes the cleaning button so special? It just spins the blade after you put soapy water in there right?
@jayman007 I didn’t say it was special. Just that it had more bells and whistles. If you bought three years ago and it was a 560 it does not have a smoothie button.
See the differences here:
If you want sheer pulverization, buy this now. My Blendtec (lower-end of the range model) turns whole fruits and/or vegetables into juice, ice cubes into snow, iphones into dust (probably).
If you don’t need to demolish fresh vegetables, a Ninja blender might serve you better. They will go on sale for half the price… I don’t have direct experience, but I’ve heard good things from others as a regular, mid-use blender
@Superllama7 2nd on the snow; it turns a half-dozen ice cubes into powder in about 10 seconds. Did that just over the weekend for some Mango-Ritas. My old blender could never get ice down to anything but chunks. For me, worth the $194 I paid for the model 560 three years ago.
@phendrick I already have one- but I’ve taken to using a wand mixer & 18oz water glass to make margaritas. Single serving, less clean-up, and guaranteed to result in a DUI if I try to drive after just one.
@SinisterSino This is something I’d want to know for certain if I were to purchase. Is a shorter warranty part of the reason for the discount? Or is the 1 year warranty a typo?
I know that blendtec themselves offer only a 2 year warranty on some of their lower priced models.
@SinisterSino Having worked with the company directly, I would expect them to be very flexible about warranties and coverage. They have always treated me extremely well, even before we had their products being pitted against other top-tier gear in the professional kitchens.
I cannot say what exactly the warranty is that is provided here, beyond what meh has listed, but this is one instance where the listed “one year” seems like a placeholder or a typo, given the typical near-decade deal.
@arosiriak@SinisterSino
Maybe, but I’m not going to drop $179 plus tax and shipping (VMP isn’t for me, I’d buy too much stuff I don’t need) on a blender if I don’t have any assurance I’m getting the 8 year warranty.
Companies not honoring warranties for private resellers (think Craigslist and eBay) or discounters is a thing that happens.
Maybe it’s a typo, but I have a funny feeling that the warranty might be the catch here.
@arosiriak@Narwalt
on the Blendtec site: “All US, Canada and Mexico Blendtec warranties remain in effect from the day they were originally sold, regardless of the current owner, as long as they were originally purchased from Blendtec or its authorized dealers.” - I think the full warranty would apply, but I’m going to use their live chat in the morning and get something in writing.
@arosiriak@Narwalt@SinisterSino
I just had to submit a warranty claim the other day for the Wild side jar when Meh sold it 3 years ago. (That deal came with an 8 year warranty.)
Blendtec didn’t know who “Meh” was so I had to tell them the parent company name “Mediocre Corp” then they processed the claim.
@arosiriak@Narwalt@SinisterSino Confirmed from Meh support their merchandiser said 1 year warranty. You can gamble on warranty, to see if Blendtec will honor if anything does happen to go wrong, but from the reviews I’ve scoured seems seals start to fail at the year 2 mark (if they are going to fail) I think I personally will hold off for the one Sino linked to go on sale, seems they drop down to 200 semi frequently. 7 years extra warranty for 20$ seems like a good tradeoff to me.
@arosiriak@Jmays253@Narwalt
Tl;dr - Warranty not valid - spend the extra $50 on Amazon.
This is from my live chat with blendtec:
Cassie 11:32 AM
It’s crazy, we’d never heard of that site until just earlier today someone was asking about it. It says it’s a 1 year warranty. We currently have someone asking to check the validity of the sale. One moment please.
Cassie 11:34 AM
I actually just got confirmation. We wouldn’t honor any warranty for this product as they aren’t an authorized dealer for this product. I honestly would check out Amazon. They have great prices. Anything not refurbished typically is an 8 year warranty.
Cassie 11:35 AM
I’m glad you reached out before buying. That was really wise.
@arosiriak@Jmays253@Narwalt Off topic, but I’ve personally purchased a refurb vitamix that failed 2x over 5 years (within warranty (5 years refurb warranty, 7 years new)) and it’s still going strong (my dad has it now - 2 years past warranty)
The key difference is that, unlike blendtec, vitamix pays for return shipping and for a large heavy box it can be $20-40 each time. For that, and the tamper alone, I’d go vitamix for even $100 more.
I bought a Blendtec blender from Meh years ago and it is absolutely exceptional. It is worth every penny. After years of suffering through cheap Target blenders and gimmick blenders like the Bullet, I will never go back.
A price like this on an almost $400 blender could only happen on Meh. Take advantage of the opportunity.
Nothing beats a Vita-Mix. I bought mine in 2006. I’ve had to replace the small carafe, but the big one is still going strong. Vita-Mix is the Timex of blenders, it just keeps on ticking. It is the only appliance that sits on my counter and it gets used almost daily. If not smoothies in the morning, sauces and marinades in the afternoon. It is a workhorse in the fall for processing applesauce and when I don’t want chunky marinara or aubergine sauce, I just take it for a spin in the Vita-Mix before I jar it. I’ve made frozen yogurt in it and way too many frozen margaritas and pina coladas to mention. Oh wait, I just did
Like a bunch of others around here, I picked up a Blendtec when Meh sold them back in 2016. I still use it regularly and haven’t had any issues with it. I even splurged on an extra set of smaller jars from Costco about a year or so ago. Definitely still happy I grabbed one.
I bought the oldest one from meh with the wildside, and I still use it a lot. The smoothie phase came and went, but I will not make a creamy soup or “gravy” out of spent veggies without it. My extended family use Vitamix, and the one thing that they just cannot believe is how the pulse function can turn ice into snow. If you serve raw oysters or want to impress kids with snowcones, it is crazy how good of a job it does. I don’t regret my purchase at all.
@Trillian I’ve had one of these that was bought from meh years ago. It still works like new, and that is pretty friggin’ amazing because it’s the best blender I’ve ever owned. You won’t regret it.
@versabox I love my Ninja and have used it several times in the years I have owned it. You have to be a once a day blending fiend to justify a Blendtec but it would be cool to have.
I’ve been pulverizing produce with my Vita-Mix for over 25 years. I had to replace the carafe a while back because the bearing wore out, but never a whimper from the motor/base. From what I hear, the Blendtec is comparable, but I’ve never owned or tried one.
I guess I fail to see why something is worth this much money. I have a perfectly good inexpensive blender that is still working 7 or 8 years later and does the job it needs to do just fine.
@narfcake Of course I am not a fancy cook either. I learned how to cook more things than I did before I had a kid in a large part because DHS takes a dim view on starving your kid or making them do the cooking
Blendtec blenders are great… until the gasket in the bottom of the jar disintegrates and ruins whatever is in the blender… and leaks all over your counter! Replaced it with a Ninja and haven’t looked back!
@twobitsteak Meh itself is sort of a refurb, what with having been remade from the remains of Old Woot that Amazon left behind. Have you heard the tale of how Meh came to be?
(Also, welcome. Don’t forget to start hitting that meh button on the front page. Seven days in a row and you’ll be in the zone!)
There is an unusually high amount of actual serious product discussing going on today, and another serious product offering. Suddenly meh is all srs bsns.
Meanwhile all I wanted to say was, “issue in” instead of “usher in” is one of the more interesting egg corns I’ve seen recently.
I wish Meh didn’t just slap a shipping label on the printed box and send it out. If I were still at my last apartment, it would have been stolen. Plain packaging for future orders please
Meh should save one of these and conduct “Will it Blend?” tests with one of every subsequent deal until the blender gives out. It’ll be the ultimate endurance test.
@lljk one of the better David Letterman ideas. He just wants too much for them.
Bought one from meh 3 years back and it’s still works great. Digital counter is in the 2000’s. Works just as good as the first blend.
@jayman007 I bought that one too. We paid $194, It was the 560, and we got a wildside.
@jayman007 @mfladd I got the $560 for $184 three years ago. Don’t use it as much as I thought I would but still glad I have it.
@jayman007 @yakkoTDI I remember that not long after they offered Blentecs again for $10 less at the $184 price. Did you get the wildside jar too?
@mfladd @yakkoTDI yes mine had the wild side container
We use it daily. Been working great.
meh smoke, don’t breathe this!
-side note: I rep’d these guys a couple decades ago on the commercial side; These were nothing but profit because they just didn’t fail and we didn’t have to cover warranty repairs- there weren’t any.
Ummm … being 5 years old does not mean you have to start selling serious stuff. Yeah, I know you sold it before, just don’t make it a habit.
Will a Blendtec blender blend? Maybe I have to buy two to find out.
@joedel263
@thismyusername Thank you for bringing this into the conversation. Classic internet advertising at it’s best.
I’ve done some serious testing of these and Vitamix models, both personally, and professionally with a health food company. Both solid competitors, but for my money, I am very satisfied with my more basic model Blendtec. Powerful motor, great design on the jars, reliable warranty if anything should go awry, and a happy wife whenever she goes on one of those healthy smoothie kicks (which I just turn into “slightly-less-healthy” smoothies)… If I didn’t already have multiple crazy-expensive blenders, I’d bite. Meh-be next time.
@arosiriak just remember rum makes smoothies & juice cleanses bearable. Unless she finds out.
@arosiriak From everyone I know of that has used the Blendtec and the Vitamix they all say neither is superior to the other. Just buy the one you can get the best deal on.
I have an older model.
I suspect it could blend dark matter.
@icehole Check out the end-result of the Iphone X… very dark matter.
@PocketBrain iPhone X
Wow…that was pretty impressive!
So three years ago meh offered the Blendtec 560 with wildside jar for $194. It has 4 speeds. The 575 being offered tonight has 5 speeds for $179. Both have 3hp motors.
The 560 with wildside originally cost $319. The 575 originally cost $379 without the wildside. The 575 also comes with a few more bells and whistles (cycles, self-cleaner, and smoothie button)
https://findblender.com/blendtec-classic-blender-series/
This is a pretty good deal tonight.
@mfladd pretty sure the one I bought from meh 3 years ago had a smoothie button as well. What makes the cleaning button so special? It just spins the blade after you put soapy water in there right?
@jayman007 I didn’t say it was special. Just that it had more bells and whistles. If you bought three years ago and it was a 560 it does not have a smoothie button.
See the differences here:
@jayman007 @mfladd faq it. I’m special as hell. Just picked up myself a blendtec and gonna blend some shit. Where do I insert my dreams and hopes?
@mfladd looks like what I have is the 570 with the wildside. Night it from meh. Thought we’d had it for 3 years but maybe less.
@jayman007 @mdc367 Sweet! I hope you love it and that all your hopes and dreams are not pulverized.
If you want sheer pulverization, buy this now. My Blendtec (lower-end of the range model) turns whole fruits and/or vegetables into juice, ice cubes into snow, iphones into dust (probably).
If you don’t need to demolish fresh vegetables, a Ninja blender might serve you better. They will go on sale for half the price… I don’t have direct experience, but I’ve heard good things from others as a regular, mid-use blender
@Superllama7
(and there are a lot of other iPhone Will It Blend videos…)
@Superllama7 2nd on the snow; it turns a half-dozen ice cubes into powder in about 10 seconds. Did that just over the weekend for some Mango-Ritas. My old blender could never get ice down to anything but chunks. For me, worth the $194 I paid for the model 560 three years ago.
Guess what?
@alacrity Lol. Thought of you as soon as I saw the product offering!
(How many you buying?)
@alacrity Why?
@alacrity chickenbutt?
@alacrity
@phendrick I already have one- but I’ve taken to using a wand mixer & 18oz water glass to make margaritas. Single serving, less clean-up, and guaranteed to result in a DUI if I try to drive after just one.
@thismyusername 1 18oz water glass, filled 2/3 with ice, 1 tsp frozen lemonade, 1 tsp frozen grape juice (concentrates) 4 oz Santo Mezquila.
Use your wand mixer in glass 'til blended to satisfaction.
Usually, one is enough. Two just makes you smile too much.
These are supposed to have an 8 year warranty (see last bullet point on the amazon link).
Will that warranty not be valid if purchased on Meh?
@SinisterSino that’s only applicable to certain toothbrushes.
@SinisterSino This is something I’d want to know for certain if I were to purchase. Is a shorter warranty part of the reason for the discount? Or is the 1 year warranty a typo?
I know that blendtec themselves offer only a 2 year warranty on some of their lower priced models.
@SinisterSino Having worked with the company directly, I would expect them to be very flexible about warranties and coverage. They have always treated me extremely well, even before we had their products being pitted against other top-tier gear in the professional kitchens.
I cannot say what exactly the warranty is that is provided here, beyond what meh has listed, but this is one instance where the listed “one year” seems like a placeholder or a typo, given the typical near-decade deal.
@arosiriak @SinisterSino
Maybe, but I’m not going to drop $179 plus tax and shipping (VMP isn’t for me, I’d buy too much stuff I don’t need) on a blender if I don’t have any assurance I’m getting the 8 year warranty.
Companies not honoring warranties for private resellers (think Craigslist and eBay) or discounters is a thing that happens.
Maybe it’s a typo, but I have a funny feeling that the warranty might be the catch here.
@arosiriak @Narwalt
on the Blendtec site: “All US, Canada and Mexico Blendtec warranties remain in effect from the day they were originally sold, regardless of the current owner, as long as they were originally purchased from Blendtec or its authorized dealers.” - I think the full warranty would apply, but I’m going to use their live chat in the morning and get something in writing.
Otherwise I’ll spend the extra 50: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000GIGZXM/
@arosiriak @SinisterSino
But is Meh one of their “Authorized Retailers”?
@arosiriak @Narwalt @SinisterSino
I just had to submit a warranty claim the other day for the Wild side jar when Meh sold it 3 years ago. (That deal came with an 8 year warranty.)
Blendtec didn’t know who “Meh” was so I had to tell them the parent company name “Mediocre Corp” then they processed the claim.
@arosiriak @Narwalt @SinisterSino Confirmed from Meh support their merchandiser said 1 year warranty. You can gamble on warranty, to see if Blendtec will honor if anything does happen to go wrong, but from the reviews I’ve scoured seems seals start to fail at the year 2 mark (if they are going to fail) I think I personally will hold off for the one Sino linked to go on sale, seems they drop down to 200 semi frequently. 7 years extra warranty for 20$ seems like a good tradeoff to me.
@arosiriak @Jmays253 @Narwalt
Tl;dr - Warranty not valid - spend the extra $50 on Amazon.
This is from my live chat with blendtec:
Cassie 11:32 AM
It’s crazy, we’d never heard of that site until just earlier today someone was asking about it. It says it’s a 1 year warranty. We currently have someone asking to check the validity of the sale. One moment please.
Cassie 11:34 AM
I actually just got confirmation. We wouldn’t honor any warranty for this product as they aren’t an authorized dealer for this product. I honestly would check out Amazon. They have great prices. Anything not refurbished typically is an 8 year warranty.
Cassie 11:35 AM
I’m glad you reached out before buying. That was really wise.
@arosiriak @Jmays253 @Narwalt Off topic, but I’ve personally purchased a refurb vitamix that failed 2x over 5 years (within warranty (5 years refurb warranty, 7 years new)) and it’s still going strong (my dad has it now - 2 years past warranty)
The key difference is that, unlike blendtec, vitamix pays for return shipping and for a large heavy box it can be $20-40 each time. For that, and the tamper alone, I’d go vitamix for even $100 more.
@arosiriak @Jmays253 @Narwalt @SinisterSino Who is not an authorized dealer? Did you check for Mediocre Corp?
I had no issues in the past.
I bought a Blendtec blender from Meh years ago and it is absolutely exceptional. It is worth every penny. After years of suffering through cheap Target blenders and gimmick blenders like the Bullet, I will never go back.
A price like this on an almost $400 blender could only happen on Meh. Take advantage of the opportunity.
Guess you gotta be old to remember…
@eeterrific I may not be old enough to have seen the Hindenburg disaster, but I sure enough saw this live one Saturday night!
Nothing beats a Vita-Mix. I bought mine in 2006. I’ve had to replace the small carafe, but the big one is still going strong. Vita-Mix is the Timex of blenders, it just keeps on ticking. It is the only appliance that sits on my counter and it gets used almost daily. If not smoothies in the morning, sauces and marinades in the afternoon. It is a workhorse in the fall for processing applesauce and when I don’t want chunky marinara or aubergine sauce, I just take it for a spin in the Vita-Mix before I jar it. I’ve made frozen yogurt in it and way too many frozen margaritas and pina coladas to mention. Oh wait, I just did
Bought a Blendtec years ago. I blend an iPhone smoothie every morning and it still works as well as the day I bought it.
@ellett Garnish with a sliver of Apple Watch.
What’s with the metal detector background?
Don’t blend metal kiddos!
Like a bunch of others around here, I picked up a Blendtec when Meh sold them back in 2016. I still use it regularly and haven’t had any issues with it. I even splurged on an extra set of smaller jars from Costco about a year or so ago. Definitely still happy I grabbed one.
I bought the oldest one from meh with the wildside, and I still use it a lot. The smoothie phase came and went, but I will not make a creamy soup or “gravy” out of spent veggies without it. My extended family use Vitamix, and the one thing that they just cannot believe is how the pulse function can turn ice into snow. If you serve raw oysters or want to impress kids with snowcones, it is crazy how good of a job it does. I don’t regret my purchase at all.
I was just cursing my cheap blender a few hours ago. I hate it, but I guess I don’t hate it enough to spend this much to replace it.
@Trillian I’ve had one of these that was bought from meh years ago. It still works like new, and that is pretty friggin’ amazing because it’s the best blender I’ve ever owned. You won’t regret it.
This is the sort of thing that I’d like to own, but I have a Ninja and haven’t used it in years.
@versabox I love my Ninja and have used it several times in the years I have owned it. You have to be a once a day blending fiend to justify a Blendtec but it would be cool to have.
I’ve been pulverizing produce with my Vita-Mix for over 25 years. I had to replace the carafe a while back because the bearing wore out, but never a whimper from the motor/base. From what I hear, the Blendtec is comparable, but I’ve never owned or tried one.
In good grammatical conscience, I cannot answer tonight’s poll: here*
“I’m just hear to get feisty and mad in the comments.”
@ElieC Grammar matters at real websites.
I guess I fail to see why something is worth this much money. I have a perfectly good inexpensive blender that is still working 7 or 8 years later and does the job it needs to do just fine.
@Kidsandliz This is much more powerful. My $6 Blendtec pulverizes everything I put into it. My $6 KitchenAid … Lumps. Ice chunks. Lumps.
That said, if your existing one is working fine, then this is unnecessary.
@Kidsandliz @narfcake You scored a $6 Blendtec? NICE!
No way that could be a GW find, unless they didn’t realize what they had. Other thrift store?
@narfcake Of course I am not a fancy cook either. I learned how to cook more things than I did before I had a kid in a large part because DHS takes a dim view on starving your kid or making them do the cooking
@Kidsandliz @mfladd
@Kidsandliz @mfladd @narfcake Sweet!
Blendtec blenders are great… until the gasket in the bottom of the jar disintegrates and ruins whatever is in the blender… and leaks all over your counter! Replaced it with a Ninja and haven’t looked back!
anyone receive theirs yet?
seems mine is stuck in shipping
@teh_chris It’s well past teh time for teh delivery. If it were me, I’d go to teh order page and click on teh “I need help with this” button.
@therealjrn I actually did and now they’ve sorted it out and taken care of me thanks for the great customer service meh.
@teh_chris meh’s teh behst.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
Price Comparison
$272.99 at Amazon
Warranty
1 Year Blendtec
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
Looks like a more expensive Ninja. Is the blendability that much superior?
@ecanada Ninja is trash. This is good and worth the money.
Happy with our Ninjas.
A good blender is a beautiful thing.
Bought one from here a few years ago, about the same price, and it does no better than the <$50 ones I have bought all my life.
Very disappointing.
I’m new to Meh. Is this new/refurb?
Just noticed specs say new.
@twobitsteak Meh itself is sort of a refurb, what with having been remade from the remains of Old Woot that Amazon left behind. Have you heard the tale of how Meh came to be?
(Also, welcome. Don’t forget to start hitting that meh button on the front page. Seven days in a row and you’ll be in the zone!)
@lljk @twobitsteak I’m boycotting the meh button since the meh button calendar has left the front page.
@bigevilgrape Well it’s NEVER going to come back that way!
Woohoo
There is an unusually high amount of actual serious product discussing going on today, and another serious product offering. Suddenly meh is all srs bsns.
Meanwhile all I wanted to say was, “issue in” instead of “usher in” is one of the more interesting egg corns I’ve seen recently.
I wish Meh didn’t just slap a shipping label on the printed box and send it out. If I were still at my last apartment, it would have been stolen. Plain packaging for future orders please
@trickynick I don’t think that’s gonna happen given the way meh operates. You can have the post office hold your packages if you’re worried about.