Can we have things we actually want?
6I get it, different people want different things. Some folks want pots and pans, others want knives or glasses or whatever. That’s fine. But then you have things like 4 battery banks on one month, or two sets of card games in a week. We had fridge mats for two days in a row. Covid supply bundles. Seriously? Sure some people will buy this but then you look at the numbers when there are actually items people find interesting and those two numbers can’t compare. If you’re not going to give us something useful, meh, atleast give us stuff we find interesting! Those Ray ban glasses a few months back: cool. Card games two nights in week? NOT COOL! Sports, outdoors equipment, build your own stuff, perfumes, weird deodorant, weird food! For God’s sake, there are billions of hobbies, cultures, and countries for you to pull things from and you have the audacity to give us crapshoot card games nobody wants?? Now you’re just purposely clowning us. And clowns make for terrible buyers. Get your inventory together.
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@spitfire6006006
I remember referencing that song in a college final essay question and got an A+ on it.
You might say their selection is… Meh.
If they sold people what they wanted, they’d sell more than one thing a day…
@Oldelvis
@Snapster had a site like that and then he sold that too, one day.
Meh was designed to do neither of those things.
@Oldelvis Check out morningsave and sidedeals. On both they have a bunch of things and they are there for a while. Morningsave appears to have a “sale” item a day if you get on their mailing list.
I think what you actually want isn’t what you think you want, but rather what you don’t yet know you want.
Which is to say, the real magic of the deal-a-day website happens when the site manages to find small quantities of oddball but super cool stuff that triggers your need to impulse buy.
That’s where the og Woot 1.0 really shone. The site was initially targeted towards the more tech-savvy internet and as such they had a heavy leaning towards some really interesting tech gadgets. Like actual tech gadgets, not commodity or skymall-reject “tech” gadgets. And the stock limitation was very real. You frequently had to buy fast on the daily items or miss out on getting the new impulse coolness.
The current Meh is just that because they’re selling stuff that was probably cheap to acquire and is a reasonable deal for us to buy, but otherwise too boring and mundane. I only need so many sheet sets in my house, but there is always room for another new toy (assuming the bank account and wife will allow)
The beautiful thing is I’m not required to buy anything, but when I do see something, I snag it up. Sometimes I don’t know what I want until I see it.
the way I see it is that Meh finds vendors and manufacturers looking to dump their albatrosses that the bean counters in accounting are telling them to sell and get the liability off the books. Like the Pasta Drop. This pasta maker supplied a ton of restaurants and then poof! Restaurants closed, no one to buy the crap-ton of pasta. So Meh says, We’ll buy all you got if the price is right.
The powerbank craze has sort of hit their peak so the suppliers of those are looking to drop them fast before they all blow up and burn down their warehouse. Which reminds me… I still have not plugged the one I got from the last IRK. The warnings of them getting smoking hot and not in a good way have gotten me scared.
So basically, we gets what Meh gets.
Speaking of powerbanks, one of the not so tech savvy and I mean really not savvy friends in my virtual Mah Jongg group got a power bank from her grandkids for Hanukkah. I had to talk her through how to use it.
@ironcheftoni “bean counters in accounting”-I’ll have you know that in all my years in accounting I have never counted even one bean nor have I been asked to. Bean counters indeed!!!
@Felton10 @ironcheftoni
/giphy bean counter
@ironcheftoni @tinamarie1974 Thanks for your support. As the March goat I expected to be called names, but never a “bean counter”.
@Felton10 @ironcheftoni agree! That was just bbaaaaadddddd form!
@ironcheftoni @tinamarie1974 I don’t think it was anything personal, but it is possible she was trying to “get my goat”.
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974 not trying to get your goat, I fear you might send your hench-parrot Walter after me!
My bestie is a CPA. I tease her so much that she is horrible at math. I have to figure out the tip when we go out to eat.
@ironcheftoni @tinamarie1974 Apology accepted. Accountants have been getting a bad rap for years and I have been trying to change people’s perception. For those of you who remember the great movie “Death Wish”, in the book the main character was originally an accountant but for the movie he was changed to an architect because they thought no one would believe an accountant could be a vigilante.
@Felton10 @ironcheftoni What??? You ATE those beans instead of counting them???
@ironcheftoni @Kidsandliz Are you kidding? I would offended many more people (if you get what I mean) by eating them than counting them. That is where a good supply of bubble wrap comes in handy so you can pop them as a distraction.
I am not that type of goat who will eat anything.
I am still holding out hope for some of those expired edible arrangement Christmas goodies this year!
me want pasta
@Jackinga #pastadrop
Knives and speaker docks.
Not tiny magnetic balls and kids slime.
(OK, no speaker docks anymore, either.)
I agree, Meh should sell more card games!
@Ignorant That would be great…if they were good card games. Board games too…but, again, good board games.
@gt0163c @Ignorant
how about this one?
@chienfou @Ignorant I haven’t played that one but I have friends with kids who love it. It looks like it could be fun with certain groups. I enjoy playing Bears vs Babies just for the sheer silliness of it. That one doesn’t hold up against, say, Pandemic or Carcassonne, but sometimes I just want some light, kinda random silliness from a game. And at least this game isn’t trying to be something it’s not.
It is still better than new Woot. Thousands of items a day, no way to search.
@lonnyzone Use @lichme’s wootstalker.com’s search feature.
@lonnyzone Also very few good deals. At least that was the case the last time I checked. It’s been a while. Maybe they got better?
@gt0163c @lonnyzone Not buying much these days except occasional Craigslist or auction bargains on tools.
However, I’ve been happy with these shoes I got last spring. Back again this week - can’t really beat the price.