$9.87 at Amazon for the Cool Gear salad thing (which we are not selling today, but similar) 12.99 at Amazon for two Cool Gear steamer containers (also not what we’re selling, but similar)
These things are great!!! You put food in them, put them in a refrigerator, go out to lunch with your friends, forget about them, and in three months you have a great mass of bacteria!!!
Price went up on Amazon, but still $15 on Walmart. Won't let me paste the link on my phone, but it's in slickdeals about 5 down on the front page right now.
@heartbleed@Rstoker big price difference between $10 on Meh and Amazon when I have to pay shipping and tax. Here's the final Amazon price for the glass Pyrex:
@cengland0 Unlike you're like some of us and hate the outdoors so much that we buy almost everything from Amazon Prime. And the Prime Video and Prime Music are a nice touch too.
@sjk3 I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon but I usually don't pay for shipping and I have never had prime -- not even the 30 day free trial. I'm the @unixrab of Amazon Prime. I can get free shipping if it's over $35 and if it's not, I put it in my wishlist and then add it along with something else later. Unless you have to have it right away, there's no need to have Amazon Prime especially at the outrageous price they charge for it.
Regarding Amazon Video, that sucks. You basically need to watch it on your computer. I haven't confirmed this but my friends tell me that they cannot watch it on any Android device, their smart TVs or smart Bluray players because their app is not available for them. If they offered a free subscription to Netflix, I would say it would be a better deal. I can watch Netflix anywhere and on any device I want.
@cengland0 Amazon TV works perfect on my Vizio Smart TV, Galaxy S5, Note 3, Playstation 3 and Samsung Smart TV. The Amazon apps for all of these devices are excellent. That's confirmed. :) Amazon needs to increase their prices. They haven't made a profit. Ever. (actually I think they MAY have made a few dollars last year -- but not a penny before that!)
@cengland0 um, I stream Amazon video on my iPad, my Sony bluray player, my significant others vizio tv, and any place that has a hdmi port with my firetv stick.
@cengland0 That's some bad info from your friends. I watch amazon videos on my roku, my vizio tv, my panasonic dvd player, my ps3, my xbox360... Anyway, you get the picture. I've saved at least 300 dollars this year on prime music that I would have bought if it weren't free. When you buy stuff and have prime shipping and don't use it amazon will give you a dollar for digital purchases. Last week I ordered something on Thursday, chose ship whenever, it was scheduled to arrive next Thursday, amazon gave me $1, and I got the package yesterday. So I ended up getting prime shipping plus $1. At this point amazon has been paying me to have prime. And if I really, really need something in 2 days I can still get it shipped for free and don't have to hit their spending limit. YMMV.
@cengland0 I agree with those who say Amazon Video is plenty platform-flexible. But the content is not great.
Amazon radio sucks.
And using the handy Amazon custom reports we found the shipping savings have been a push for what we order.
We hated the recent price increase but sucked it up for one reason - if you watch the prices on a lot of stuff like we do, Prime allows you to jump when the price drops - without having to pad the order to $35.
@RFOneWatt@heygabe Remember that I said I didn't confirm it myself because I am not a prime member so I wouldn't consider my comments dumb. Anyway, I met with the friend that told me this earlier and we still cannot find any way to install Amazon Video using the google play store. It turns out you have to install the Amazon app store to get the application which sort of stinks.
About Amazon making a profit, that's fine; however, as a consumer I try to minimize the amount of profit I give companies whereas the company tries to maximize the amount of profit they get from each consumer.
@zuiquan I really don't care about music so that's not a benefit that I am willing to pay for.
I don't want companies bundling services that I don't need or want in order to get a cheaper price. It would be like saying you could get milk for half price but you must take this dozen eggs in order to get that deal. What if you don't want eggs? All I want to do is buy a product from Amazon and do not want their videos and do not want their music. I can get free shipping most of the time and when it doesn't reach a $35 minimum, I either buy it elsewhere, do without it, or wait until I have other items that add up to the minimum price. No problem. It is not worth $100 for me for the rare instances that the product I want is less than $35 and I have nothing else on my wish list.
@cengland0 That's fair, if a company doesn't offer something that you want you shouldn't have to pay for it. For me, the music is a big plus. I wasn't thrilled with it when it first came out but they've really upped their offerings, enough so that I'm well happy with it. But I really do like the $1 they give me every time I delay shipping. I've bought so many kindle books on my list that I'm afraid they're going to ban me from participating.
all: beware @cengland0 's silliness... Prime is AWESOME Anything I need arrives in 2 days, $4 more to get it TOMORROW! The TV/Movies are good - I run them via my Nintendo/PS4 console(s) ...in contrast, @cengland bets $60 per year that meh.com will possibly have 2 or more items he wants each month.... (2 to cover the "benefit" of having "free" shipping BUAHAHA) so... he wagers that his $60 will enable him to buy a minimum of 24 products per year (or have to deal with canceling VMP ) Given the less-than-stellar items for sale here ...his gamble is much more risky than $99 for Amazon Prime that gives me over 5 MILLION items to choose from. If you're VMP and you like it... fine... enjoy... but it's apples to oranges comparing it to Amazon Prime - @cengland is cuckoo. Beware.
@unixrab The difference is that I don't pay for VMP membership. I consider that free because I order a product and instead of paying for the shipping that I would normally have to pay on similar sites like Woot, I opt to put that same money into VMP which gives me the shipping on that product plus shipping on any potential future products that I may or may not buy.
If I don't buy again in the month (hasn't happened yet and confirmed by looking at my history that I have always purchased more than 1 item every month), I can cancel the VMP membership.
You have purchased things from this site such as a FUKU but you refused to take advantage of the free shipping for the following 30 days. That is not logical.
If Amazon offered me 30 days of free prime anytime I bought a product, I would get it too; however, they do not offer it that way and you need to subscribe on an annual basis. They do not offer refunds if you do not use it. Meh's VMP is $5/month which is the same price of shipping one product. Amazon charges $8.25 per month, charged at $99 annually and non refundable after a couple days.
I also find it sneaky how Amazon doesn't offer prime for many products on the site because they are sold by other companies but listed on Amazon. I discovered this when I bought a Canon 1dx and it came with Amazon credits that I could use to purchase other products. It was very difficult to use those credits on things I needed because nearly everything I needed was sold by other companies.At least my Meh VMP membership has given me free shipping on every single item I bought without any exceptions -- even those items like comforters that were drop shipped from the manufacturer.
I have only made 3 purchases in March and my VMP membership expires on March 30. I will not cancel but will let them bill me for the next month. Then, if I don't buy anything by the expiration of next month (doubful that will happen), then I will cancel and get a full refund so I lose nothing. You cannot say the same thing about Amazon.
So let me ask you this. If Anazon did not bundle music and video with their prime membership and only offered free shipping on items sold and fulfilled by Amazon, would you still pay $99 for that service? Keep in mind you can get free shipping if the product is over $35 anyway so it would only benefit you if you want a low price item and didn't want to consolidate your purchases into one order.
@RFOneWatt I forgot to comment about your statement that Amazon has never made a profit (until recently). They started in 1994 and you think this is the first time they made a profit?
Some companies use creative accounting to hide profits for tax reasons. Amazon is a very profitable business but they reinvest those profits back into expanding the business into other areas. For example, if they make a couple million this year, they will use it to build a new warehouse somewhere. That does not mean their business model was not profitable but it does mean that after their reinvestment, they didn't have any taxable profits.
Anyway, you never did answer the question. I don't care as much about the speed of shipping as I do about the cost of shipping. If it's something I absolutely need to have right away, I'll just go to BestBuy and they will match the Amazon price anyway. I have been successful in having many companies match Amazon: Bestbuy, Home Depot, Sears, and Walmart. If I cannot get the free shipping and I need it now, I have no problem in getting it locally for the same price.
tl;dr @cengland0 is always wrong and VMP and Prime are an apples to oranges comparison ** but** even if compared Prime wins for all time
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@cengland ...where to begin with this mess of confusion... I guess I'll just dive in: (dreading this)
Anyway, you never did answer the question. I don't care as much about the speed of shipping as I do about the cost of shipping.
...aaaaaand the dumbness begins. Just like you and VMP - I DON'T PAY FOR SHIPPING!! Prime members (among a host of other freebies) get FREE 2 DAY SHIPPING; heck..we get $3.99 OVERNIGHT shipping should we need something within the next 12 hours... what's your alternative?? "*oh..i'll wait until I get $35 worth of crap that I need to qualify for non-prime free shipping...(and THAT shipping takes literally about 7 days to reach you ON TOP OF the time you spent waiting to make your quota to qualify for free shipping. Useless. But then you stupidyly add:
If it's something I absolutely need to have right away, I'll just go to BestBuy
Today - while at work - my wife informs me that a few of our lightbulbs have burned out... moments later... I'm on Amazon and 2 $6 LED bulbs are being packaged and shipped to our house... THE BULBS ARE IN THE BOX AND ON THE WAY while I'm still at work!!! Can you comprehend the time savings and $money savings there?
not only
am I done buying the exact thing I need at the moment and having it shipped to my door
and they will match the Amazon price anyway. I have been successful in having many companies match Amazon: Bestbuy, Home Depot, Sears, and Walmart.
AND ...I don't have to look like a complete tard: making a detour trip on my freetime after work to some local brick and mortar store and haggle like some old-world flea market to get them to bring the price down a few dollars to MATCH THE PRICE of the awesome Amazon that you refuse to shop at! My TIME after work is worth more than the price of shipping! (maybe you don't make as much as I do...but if you divide what you make per hour at work and figure up what your hourly rate is for your time PLUS the extra gas to detour to a store, I'm WAY ahead on money at that point: PLUS! My convenience of getting exactly what I want WHEN I want it without having to drive out of my way, take up my time and haggle like an idiot! )
Now let's consider what YOU have to do: You find out at work that you need 2 new lighbulbs... first off: you have to find a store that sells the ones you want... (BTW: you want 2 5W LEDs that produce 40W of lumens in the daylight/warm spectrum) So you look at Bestbuy's website... I'm just going to give you the benefit of the very doubtful doubt that you actually find the bulbs you're looking for at the first website you go to (which is generous on my part) (Also, Now at this point' I've already started winning on both selection and time spent, because after a quick search at Amazon, I've been given 100's of choices and a nice little clicky-clicky side bar to narrow down what I want by wattage and lumesn and spectrum and I've clicked order and I'm already DONE)
BUT ANYWAY YOU LOCATE THE BULB AT BEST BUY ON YOUR FIRST TRY
... so now after work you drive out of your way (it IS out of your way at least by a few turns to park and leave the lot) and you arrive at best buy...you locate the bulb and you see it's more expensive at Best Buy and you (like a loser) say "i could get this at amazon for $2 less, will you match it?" (again I'll give you the benefit of the doubt so I don't have to describe this stupid scenario) ...and they match it... (remember... I'm sooooo far ahead of you on saved time right now and Time==Money) ....and you take the bulbs up to the register AND YOU PAY TAX on the items (Which I DO NOT at amazon) and then you dawdle to your car/prius/truck/hydrovan/whatever/green/bicycle/mode-of-transportation and you drive home and install your new bulbs..you eat your quinoa and gluten-free-whatever-sauce watch a little al jazira news and go to bed. I wake up the next day walk to my porch and get my lightbulbs, tax free, free shipping and free of wasted time.
If I cannot get the free shipping and I need it now, I have no problem in getting it locally for the same price.
PLUS TAX PLUS GAS PLUS WASTED TIME.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND I get
FREE Two-Day Shipping on eligible items to addresses in the contiguous U.S.
Prime Instant Video: unlimited streaming of movies and TV episodes for paid or free trial members
Prime Music: unlimited, ad-free access to hundreds of Prime Playlists and more than a million songs for members in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Prime Photos: Secure unlimited photo storage in Amazon Cloud Drive.
Prime Pantry: Access to Prime Pantry, where members can purchase and ship to addresses in the contiguous U.S. low priced grocery, household, and pet care items for a flat delivery fee of $5.99 for each Prime Pantry box. Prime Pantry orders cannot be shipped to addresses in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
Amazon Elements: Access to Amazon Elements products, Amazon's own line of everyday essentials.
Prime Early Access: Get 30-minute early access to select Lightning Deals on Amazon.com and new events on MyHabit.com.
Kindle Owners' Lending Library: access to members in the U.S.
Kindle First: Early access for members in the U.S. to download a new book for free every month from the Kindle First picks.
.... you get some random product that you didn't know you needed or wanted (if it doesn't sell out) and "free" shipping on the second order you make each month, plus the HASSLE of having to remember WHEN your membership is up and WHEN you want to cancel it or let it ride for the next month. God help you if you wait for your needed lightbulbs to come up on meh.com... and also STOP USING AMAZON's low prices to screw over your local stores! Have you no dignity!?
Now truly: I understand that Amazon Prime and VMP are apples and oranges - but I needed to SHOW you that fact by all the above. Amazon is a way to get stuff you need at a low price without tax and quick shipping bundled with a HOST of other free cool things for $3.25 more per month than you pay for VMP. Three dollars and a quarter more than you pay for VMP. I have access to MILLIONS of items on an as-needed basis and you have access to 417 items per year(2 items each tuesday) or 418 in leap years.
I think the extra $3.25 is worth having Amazon's Oranges to your VMP rotten apples.
That's 13 (thirteen) U.S. quarters to get all that time saving, money saving convenience on millions of products. thirteen quarters more than VMP per month. 13
13!
that may be 14 quarters...but you get the point - you must pay at least $3.25 in gas and taxes for runs to walmart and bestbuy...have to!!
1. I don’t care about the music or videos that they offer. I just want products that I need when I’m shopping and do not want companies to bundle things that I care less about in order to make it appear that I have more value for the money they make you spend. Again, that would be like me buying a bag of carrots and them raising the price but also including a box of bacon with it. I’m a vegetarian and do not want the bacon so it might be a good deal for someone who does want bacon but I do not.
3. The discounted prices you are offered for the pantry items can be easily eaten up by the shipping they charge. If those items qualified for free shipping, that might have been a good deal; however, I spot checked a couple and it’s not really that good. A 12 pack of coke was $3.33 and they frequently go on sale locally for about $2.88.
4. Bestbuy and Office Depot are right next to the gym I go to 5 days a week, Home Depot and Sears are within walking distance of my house. Today, I had to replace a light fixture at a rental property that I have. Think I should have waited to get that from Amazon? I think not. I bought it from Home Depot and took care of it immediately. I keep my tenants happy and that’s why they renew their lease every year.
5. You say it’s a hassle to remember when to cancel VMP membership but I can say the same thing about Amazon Prime. When you sign up for Amazon Prime, your membership is set to automatically renew each year. If I really wanted to, I could let my VMP ride every month for the whole year and only end up paying $60 whereas Amazon would charge $99 for the same period. So it’s optional to consider canceling every month and I have no intention to do that anyway.
6. Amazon is sneaky, they lure you into getting a free 30 day prime membership but they require you to provide a payment method for that “free” service. That’s because they hope that you’ll forget and then get automatically charged for it after your trial period expires.
7. Regarding Prime photos, I wouldn’t upload my stuff to the Amazon cloud even if they paid me to do that. I like to keep my stuff locally where it’s private and no other companies have access to it where it can be hacked and then shared with the world. If you want similar services, there are several free options like Google drive, dropbox, box, mega, ADrive, Bitcasa, OneDrive, and more.
8. Looking at your hyped up Amazon Elements feature, that seems to be limited to baby wipes. Not sure how many of those you use but I don’t have any babies in the house so that’s useless for me.
9. You mentioned about your hourly wage and shopping not being worth your time. Well, I’m a salary employee so I don’t get paid by the hour and I work from home. I work whatever hours I want but do have to be available during certain meetings. You should remember which company I work for and it’s a large corporation with over 200,000 employees. I’m a vice president at that company now and I still prefer to spend time shopping around looking for the best price. It’s more of the principle of the thing than it is about the money. I could easily pay more for a product but I refuse to have someone rip me off. I’m sorry to hear that after all these years we worked together that you’re still stuck in an hourly wage job. Perhaps if you applied yourself more, you would have moved up in the company by now. I also agree that my time is worth more than shipping but I still refuse to pay for shipping if I can get it without paying for it.
10. Here’s a real life example. I want to buy a $25 product off Amazon but that would cost me shipping charges. So I have a couple items that I frequently buy called add-ons that you add to your cart to make the $35 minimum for free shipping. So instead of paying $10 for shipping or $8.25 for prime, I will add $10 of shampoo or another bag of bird food to make up the price difference. They are items that will be consumed so I’m not buying things that I don’t need but I can avoid having to pay for either prime or shipping. Meh offers products but there is no way to avoid shipping or VMP membership. You must have one or the other. So for me, since I have always bought more than one item per month since Meh started, it is logical to subscribe to VMP.
Point 1: straw man fallacy - point invalidated. What if they bundle carrots and broccoli? Or have a vegetarian option? We can make up hypotheticals all day.
Point 2: Cherry Picking fallacy - does not apply to all (including my) state(s).
from your dumb URL:
Sales Tax on Internet Purchase Depends on Where the Buyer is Located"
"if the online retailer is selling an item to a customer outside of its home state, then it is not required to collect sales tax from that customer."
"collecting use taxes on small purchases often costs more than simply letting the consumer not pay the use tax. Instead, state tax agencies try to focus more on collecting use taxes for big ticket items that are purchased online with no sales tax, such as cars and boats."
Point 3: I do not incur shipping charges as a Prime Member - get this through your skull! Do you pay shipping charges for VMP??? No!!! Nor do I. 3 points destroyed!
Point 4: UNLESS you stop at all the stores and also walk to the stores EVERY SINGLE DAY... it is "out of your way" (i.e., a change to your normal drive home) 4 down.
Point 5:FALSE EQUIVALENCE Fallacy! 12 != 1
How in your peanut brain does 1 thing to remember (annual subscription) REMOTELY EQUAL keeping track of a recurring MONTHLY subscription... it's ELEVEN MORE things to remember annually! 12 != 1 This is basic math!
Point 6: (straw man face palm) YOU JUST SAID remembering something each month was not an issue for you! Just about every "free trial period" since the dawn of the history of "free trial periods" have a condition of providing a billing method should you not wish to cancel! This is not any more "sneaky" than you going to the drive thru, and PAYING FIRST for your (vegetarian sweet potato)fries. What if you forgot to drive to the second window and pick up your gross veggie fries? THAT'S ON YOU. Another straw-man fallacy... sheesh...
Point 7: Wow. 2 fallacies in one point: sheeeeeesh!!! 1:) Anecdoctal Fallacy: If we set your personal preferences aside - this point makes no sense. Others find use in having having their pictures securely uploaded to Amazon.
2.) False Equivalence again!!! All the services you listed as "alternatives" to Amazon photos DO NOT GIVE "FREE PLUS UNLIMITED" storage. Nice try. As a refresher: Unlimited means all the pictures I want forever and ever and ever ... In Kindergarten parlance Infinity Photo Storage! Maybe that's more on your level!?
Point 8: Straw-man. It's more than babywipes.
Point 9: Even salaried people have an hourly wage! (I am also salaried) BUT if I want to determine whether or not something is worth my time - I try to figure up what my time is worth. I work approximately 40-45 hours a week on normal weeks... so let me help you: I'll use small words:
STEP 1:) if you work 40 hours a week as a salaried emplyoee please take your annual salary, divide that by 52 (weeks)[REMEMBER THIS NUMBER YOU WILL NEED IT IN 1.2 seconds for step two
STEP 2:) NOW divide the number from step 1 by 40(hours) - Yay! You now know what your company thinks an hour of your time is worth! (feel free to increase or decrease the number of hours in step 2 accordingly)
Point 10: More straw-men that just happen to fit your purposes. You fail to take into account the crap that you've purchased that was VMP Bait (As you recall - some things you would not have purchased because shipping would have killed the deal...but you purchased them because VMP baited you into it.
Well ... it's been a pleasure obliterating your fallacious arguments. I hope you've learned something and I hope you begin to avoid VMP bait, Become a member of Amazon Prime and start saving valuable time and money.
@unixrab just as an Fyi, while I was waiting for a prescription to be filled, I walked to Office Max next door and they price matched a 100pk dvd just by showing them this on my phone.
Was not embarrassed at all and only paid $22.99 instead of their regular price of $44.95. No shipping And I didn't go out of my way.
@unixrab If I didn't care about the brand, I could have bought Verbatims extremely cheap. I wanted either Memorex or Maxwell. Yes, I paid tax but I would have paid tax in Florida if I ordered it through Amazon anyway.
Besides, your TDK example is a strawman fallacy. If I told you how much I paid for my Lexus RX, you could have said I paid too much because I could have bought a used Ford Escort instead.
If I wanted TDK disks, I could have acquired them for the exact same price or lower than what Amazon is selling them for. Office Max matches Amazon prices.
@cengland0 whatevs... you wanted a hunnert DVD+R's amazon was cheaper, even with the negation of tax, you still spent more time and calories doing it the old-fashioned way AND! you exposed yourself to several billion bacteria, viruses and risked dying on the roadways.... you really should care more about your life and health and shop from home for cheaper prices with less risk of death from outside hazards and organisms.
Your employer, homeowner's insurance and health insurance providers should be made aware of your proclivity to risk your life on a daily basis just for purchasing objects easily attainable on-line. Thanks for polluting the planet with your carbon footprint, using more calories causing you to consume more of our natural resources just to provide more vegetables to you for your wasteful walking and talking and demand for store electricity and POS systems.... oh and for risking your health just to spite Amazon.... way to kill the planet. sheesh.
@unixrab You missed a very important part of my comment. I said I was waiting to get a prescription filled so I walked to Office Max. No additional carbon expelled, which actually isn't a bad thing anyway. I'm a vegetarian and plants love CO2.
Speaking of carbon footprint, I have a hybrid car, do you? I also have an appointment with a company to discuss putting a 5KW solar system on my roof. Did you? At the end of this new venture, I should be producing more solar power than I use from the grid and will be getting money back at the end of the year.
I didn't buy the DVD's from Office Max to spite Amazon, I bought them because it was cheaper than Amazon and I happened to be right there anyway. I buy a lot from Amazon but I've never paid for shipping -- ever, and I don't have Prime. If you plan your purchases strategically and logically, you too can do the same thing.
Another comment about killing the planet. What do you think causes more CO2: Walking to Office Max or having UPS or Fedex make a special trip to my house to deliver a package from Amazon along with the manufacturing of the box and packing material?
@unixrab One more thing before I go. Have you ever ordered so much from Amazon that you got a personalized letter from their Concierge? It was completely unsolicited too.
@unixrab You should probably give up if you're reduced to pointing out bacteria, viruses, and avoiding the outdoors (isn't it healthier to go outside than to be a shut-in who gets everything from Amazon?)
@RedOak I think so, but the quality went downhill after the copyright expired. I still have Tupperware that my parents bought back in the good ol' days. (Tupperware parties, remember those?)
@sjk3 Uh, you might want to check the BPA content of your good ol' days tupperware. Tupperware officially states that since 2010, they have not sold items containing BPA. However, the link to lists of pre-2010 items that used to be on their website is no longer there. Lots of info available elsewhere.
@OldCatLady I have marble floors. If one of my cats should accidentally nudge a glass container off of the counter clean-up is easy with broom/dustpan or vacuum. Enjoy your plastic and let us know how the chemo treatments go. :)
@eyewerks Can you point me to a scientific study showing the link between using plastic and cancer? Just curious. Never seen one and considering that billions of people use plastic every day if there were a direct link I'd think just going by the odds that most of the human race would have been killed off by now.
Buy these for your worst enemies and sit back while the carcinogens leach out of the plastic and turn their left over rigatoni into a case of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Better living through petroleum products.
dear meh I already bought the cool gear 3 piece set that in turn I have a picnic by myself or with my crock pot buddy, please help me get a cheap asian style bento set to replace the ones I bought from you already, or sell everyone a portable mini crockpot so I have more crock pot buddies around the country
If it weren't for the fact that I already have like a thousand little M&M and grape containers that I never use because they are too small from all the other sets I've bought - I'd be all over this. Sell me some sets with just the big containers and I'll bite.
Does anyone else find these flap kind of containers open in bags more than the flatter lids? I had a set like this in the past, and the flaps constantly opened in my backpack.
Specs
Model: 1710 (the orange one)
Model: 1711 (the blue and clear one)
Model: 1933 (the orange and red set)
Model: 1959 (the blue and white one)
Condition: New
Warranty: 90 Day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery: 3/31 - 4/2
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
1x 5.5-cup container with lid
1x 7.5-cup container with lid
2x 1.85-cup containers with lids
1x 6.25-cup container with vented lid
Pictures
All of them open
Stacked up
All of them closed
The orange one
The blue and clear one
The blue and white one
The red one
The yellow one
Moose cookin’ up… something…
Price Check
$9.87 at Amazon for the Cool Gear salad thing (which we are not selling today, but similar)
12.99 at Amazon for two Cool Gear steamer containers (also not what we’re selling, but similar)
Warranty
90 days
meh
@clonetek Best write up ever!
My wife says no more containers
Nice warranty! Those containers grow man!
At least they aren't knives.
@mehgrl Or speaker docks.
@sjk3 or speaker knives!
This is just depressing.
These things are great!!! You put food in them, put them in a refrigerator, go out to lunch with your friends, forget about them, and in three months you have a great mass of bacteria!!!
@eeterrific no you have a science experiment...
@eeterrific Or penicillin...
There's a Pyrex set on Amazon today for $15 that's much better than this, unless you need plastic.
@Rstoker Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
@Rstoker 5 Pyrex containers with lids for $15 with free shipping? Link please.
@cengland0 Is this it? http://www.amazon.com/PYREX-10-pc-Storage-Plastic-Covers/dp/B005JCZ0ZE
@cengland0
Price went up on Amazon, but still $15 on Walmart. Won't let me paste the link on my phone, but it's in slickdeals about 5 down on the front page right now.
@heartbleed @Rstoker big price difference between $10 on Meh and Amazon when I have to pay shipping and tax. Here's the final Amazon price for the glass Pyrex:
@cengland0
I'd you have Prime it's the same.
http://www.amazon.com/Pyrex-1118988-14-Piece-Simply-Covers/dp/B00M2JVU3S/ref=lh_ni_t?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=a41f159bb2334bcf8669878b958f545b&ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
@heartbleed Are you a Barbie girl? Can I brush your hair? Undress you everywhere?
@Rstoker Doesn't make economic sense to pay $100 for prime to save $10 in shipping.
@cengland0 Unlike you're like some of us and hate the outdoors so much that we buy almost everything from Amazon Prime. And the Prime Video and Prime Music are a nice touch too.
@sjk3 I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon but I usually don't pay for shipping and I have never had prime -- not even the 30 day free trial. I'm the @unixrab of Amazon Prime. I can get free shipping if it's over $35 and if it's not, I put it in my wishlist and then add it along with something else later. Unless you have to have it right away, there's no need to have Amazon Prime especially at the outrageous price they charge for it.
Regarding Amazon Video, that sucks. You basically need to watch it on your computer. I haven't confirmed this but my friends tell me that they cannot watch it on any Android device, their smart TVs or smart Bluray players because their app is not available for them. If they offered a free subscription to Netflix, I would say it would be a better deal. I can watch Netflix anywhere and on any device I want.
@cengland0 Amazon TV works perfect on my Vizio Smart TV, Galaxy S5, Note 3, Playstation 3 and Samsung Smart TV. The Amazon apps for all of these devices are excellent. That's confirmed. :) Amazon needs to increase their prices. They haven't made a profit. Ever. (actually I think they MAY have made a few dollars last year -- but not a penny before that!)
@cengland0 I mean. I don't think anybody comes to this community looking to defend Amazon but the things you say here are full of dumb.
@cengland0 um, I stream Amazon video on my iPad, my Sony bluray player, my significant others vizio tv, and any place that has a hdmi port with my firetv stick.
@cengland0 That's some bad info from your friends. I watch amazon videos on my roku, my vizio tv, my panasonic dvd player, my ps3, my xbox360... Anyway, you get the picture. I've saved at least 300 dollars this year on prime music that I would have bought if it weren't free. When you buy stuff and have prime shipping and don't use it amazon will give you a dollar for digital purchases. Last week I ordered something on Thursday, chose ship whenever, it was scheduled to arrive next Thursday, amazon gave me $1, and I got the package yesterday. So I ended up getting prime shipping plus $1. At this point amazon has been paying me to have prime. And if I really, really need something in 2 days I can still get it shipped for free and don't have to hit their spending limit. YMMV.
@cengland0 I agree with those who say Amazon Video is plenty platform-flexible. But the content is not great.
Amazon radio sucks.
And using the handy Amazon custom reports we found the shipping savings have been a push for what we order.
We hated the recent price increase but sucked it up for one reason - if you watch the prices on a lot of stuff like we do, Prime allows you to jump when the price drops - without having to pad the order to $35.
. . . (Anyone watching Amazon prices knows they bounce all over the place. )
@RFOneWatt @heygabe Remember that I said I didn't confirm it myself because I am not a prime member so I wouldn't consider my comments dumb. Anyway, I met with the friend that told me this earlier and we still cannot find any way to install Amazon Video using the google play store. It turns out you have to install the Amazon app store to get the application which sort of stinks.
About Amazon making a profit, that's fine; however, as a consumer I try to minimize the amount of profit I give companies whereas the company tries to maximize the amount of profit they get from each consumer.
@zuiquan I really don't care about music so that's not a benefit that I am willing to pay for.
I don't want companies bundling services that I don't need or want in order to get a cheaper price. It would be like saying you could get milk for half price but you must take this dozen eggs in order to get that deal. What if you don't want eggs? All I want to do is buy a product from Amazon and do not want their videos and do not want their music. I can get free shipping most of the time and when it doesn't reach a $35 minimum, I either buy it elsewhere, do without it, or wait until I have other items that add up to the minimum price. No problem. It is not worth $100 for me for the rare instances that the product I want is less than $35 and I have nothing else on my wish list.
@cengland0 That's fair, if a company doesn't offer something that you want you shouldn't have to pay for it. For me, the music is a big plus. I wasn't thrilled with it when it first came out but they've really upped their offerings, enough so that I'm well happy with it. But I really do like the $1 they give me every time I delay shipping. I've bought so many kindle books on my list that I'm afraid they're going to ban me from participating.
@heygabe
all: beware @cengland0 's silliness... Prime is AWESOME Anything I need arrives in 2 days, $4 more to get it TOMORROW! The TV/Movies are good - I run them via my Nintendo/PS4 console(s) ...in contrast, @cengland bets $60 per year that meh.com will possibly have 2 or more items he wants each month.... (2 to cover the "benefit" of having "free" shipping BUAHAHA) so... he wagers that his $60 will enable him to buy a minimum of 24 products per year (or have to deal with canceling VMP ) Given the less-than-stellar items for sale here ...his gamble is much more risky than $99 for Amazon Prime that gives me over 5 MILLION items to choose from. If you're VMP and you like it... fine... enjoy... but it's apples to oranges comparing it to Amazon Prime - @cengland is cuckoo. Beware.
@unixrab The difference is that I don't pay for VMP membership. I consider that free because I order a product and instead of paying for the shipping that I would normally have to pay on similar sites like Woot, I opt to put that same money into VMP which gives me the shipping on that product plus shipping on any potential future products that I may or may not buy.
If I don't buy again in the month (hasn't happened yet and confirmed by looking at my history that I have always purchased more than 1 item every month), I can cancel the VMP membership.
You have purchased things from this site such as a FUKU but you refused to take advantage of the free shipping for the following 30 days. That is not logical.
If Amazon offered me 30 days of free prime anytime I bought a product, I would get it too; however, they do not offer it that way and you need to subscribe on an annual basis. They do not offer refunds if you do not use it. Meh's VMP is $5/month which is the same price of shipping one product. Amazon charges $8.25 per month, charged at $99 annually and non refundable after a couple days.
I also find it sneaky how Amazon doesn't offer prime for many products on the site because they are sold by other companies but listed on Amazon. I discovered this when I bought a Canon 1dx and it came with Amazon credits that I could use to purchase other products. It was very difficult to use those credits on things I needed because nearly everything I needed was sold by other companies.At least my Meh VMP membership has given me free shipping on every single item I bought without any exceptions -- even those items like comforters that were drop shipped from the manufacturer.
I have only made 3 purchases in March and my VMP membership expires on March 30. I will not cancel but will let them bill me for the next month. Then, if I don't buy anything by the expiration of next month (doubful that will happen), then I will cancel and get a full refund so I lose nothing. You cannot say the same thing about Amazon.
So let me ask you this. If Anazon did not bundle music and video with their prime membership and only offered free shipping on items sold and fulfilled by Amazon, would you still pay $99 for that service? Keep in mind you can get free shipping if the product is over $35 anyway so it would only benefit you if you want a low price item and didn't want to consolidate your purchases into one order.
@RFOneWatt I forgot to comment about your statement that Amazon has never made a profit (until recently). They started in 1994 and you think this is the first time they made a profit?
Some companies use creative accounting to hide profits for tax reasons. Amazon is a very profitable business but they reinvest those profits back into expanding the business into other areas. For example, if they make a couple million this year, they will use it to build a new warehouse somewhere. That does not mean their business model was not profitable but it does mean that after their reinvestment, they didn't have any taxable profits.
@cengland0 @unixrab Man, I love you guys!
That was like an atheist and an agnostic arguing about religion.
@2many2no :-) not far off the mark! heh.
.......... ...but seriously... he's a loon.
@unixrab Sort of funny how @2many2no pegged you exactly.
Anyway, you never did answer the question. I don't care as much about the speed of shipping as I do about the cost of shipping. If it's something I absolutely need to have right away, I'll just go to BestBuy and they will match the Amazon price anyway. I have been successful in having many companies match Amazon: Bestbuy, Home Depot, Sears, and Walmart. If I cannot get the free shipping and I need it now, I have no problem in getting it locally for the same price.
tl;dr @cengland0 is always wrong and VMP and Prime are an apples to oranges comparison ** but** even if compared Prime wins for all time
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@cengland ...where to begin with this mess of confusion... I guess I'll just dive in: (dreading this)
...aaaaaand the dumbness begins. Just like you and VMP - I DON'T PAY FOR SHIPPING!! Prime members (among a host of other freebies) get FREE 2 DAY SHIPPING; heck..we get $3.99 OVERNIGHT shipping should we need something within the next 12 hours... what's your alternative?? "*oh..i'll wait until I get $35 worth of crap that I need to qualify for non-prime free shipping...(and THAT shipping takes literally about 7 days to reach you ON TOP OF the time you spent waiting to make your quota to qualify for free shipping. Useless. But then you stupidyly add: Today - while at work - my wife informs me that a few of our lightbulbs have burned out... moments later... I'm on Amazon and 2 $6 LED bulbs are being packaged and shipped to our house... THE BULBS ARE IN THE BOX AND ON THE WAY while I'm still at work!!! Can you comprehend the time savings and $money savings there?not only
am I done buying the exact thing I need at the moment and having it shipped to my door AND ...I don't have to look like a complete tard: making a detour trip on my freetime after work to some local brick and mortar store and haggle like some old-world flea market to get them to bring the price down a few dollars to MATCH THE PRICE of the awesome Amazon that you refuse to shop at! My TIME after work is worth more than the price of shipping! (maybe you don't make as much as I do...but if you divide what you make per hour at work and figure up what your hourly rate is for your time PLUS the extra gas to detour to a store, I'm WAY ahead on money at that point: PLUS! My convenience of getting exactly what I want WHEN I want it without having to drive out of my way, take up my time and haggle like an idiot! )Now let's consider what YOU have to do: You find out at work that you need 2 new lighbulbs... first off: you have to find a store that sells the ones you want... (BTW: you want 2 5W LEDs that produce 40W of lumens in the daylight/warm spectrum) So you look at Bestbuy's website... I'm just going to give you the benefit of the very doubtful doubt that you actually find the bulbs you're looking for at the first website you go to (which is generous on my part) (Also, Now at this point' I've already started winning on both selection and time spent, because after a quick search at Amazon, I've been given 100's of choices and a nice little clicky-clicky side bar to narrow down what I want by wattage and lumesn and spectrum and I've clicked order and I'm already DONE)
BUT ANYWAY YOU LOCATE THE BULB AT BEST BUY ON YOUR FIRST TRY
... so now after work you drive out of your way (it IS out of your way at least by a few turns to park and leave the lot) and you arrive at best buy...you locate the bulb and you see it's more expensive at Best Buy and you (like a loser) say "i could get this at amazon for $2 less, will you match it?" (again I'll give you the benefit of the doubt so I don't have to describe this stupid scenario) ...and they match it... (remember... I'm sooooo far ahead of you on saved time right now and Time==Money) ....and you take the bulbs up to the register AND YOU PAY TAX on the items (Which I DO NOT at amazon) and then you dawdle to your car/prius/truck/hydrovan/whatever/green/bicycle/mode-of-transportation and you drive home and install your new bulbs..you eat your quinoa and gluten-free-whatever-sauce watch a little al jazira news and go to bed. I wake up the next day walk to my porch and get my lightbulbs, tax free, free shipping and free of wasted time. PLUS TAX PLUS GAS PLUS WASTED TIME.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND I get
.... you get some random product that you didn't know you needed or wanted (if it doesn't sell out) and "free" shipping on the second order you make each month, plus the HASSLE of having to remember WHEN your membership is up and WHEN you want to cancel it or let it ride for the next month. God help you if you wait for your needed lightbulbs to come up on meh.com... and also STOP USING AMAZON's low prices to screw over your local stores! Have you no dignity!?
Now truly: I understand that Amazon Prime and VMP are apples and oranges - but I needed to SHOW you that fact by all the above. Amazon is a way to get stuff you need at a low price without tax and quick shipping bundled with a HOST of other free cool things for $3.25 more per month than you pay for VMP. Three dollars and a quarter more than you pay for VMP. I have access to MILLIONS of items on an as-needed basis and you have access to 417 items per year(2 items each tuesday) or 418 in leap years.
I think the extra $3.25 is worth having Amazon's Oranges to your VMP rotten apples.
That's 13 (thirteen) U.S. quarters to get all that time saving, money saving convenience on millions of products. thirteen quarters more than VMP per month. 13
13!
that may be 14 quarters...but you get the point - you must pay at least $3.25 in gas and taxes for runs to walmart and bestbuy...have to!!
@cengland0
@unixrab A couple of comments:
1. I don’t care about the music or videos that they offer. I just want products that I need when I’m shopping and do not want companies to bundle things that I care less about in order to make it appear that I have more value for the money they make you spend. Again, that would be like me buying a bag of carrots and them raising the price but also including a box of bacon with it. I’m a vegetarian and do not want the bacon so it might be a good deal for someone who does want bacon but I do not.
2. I live in Florida and Amazon charges tax in Florida. If you live in a state that Amazon does not charge tax, you’re still supposed to pay the tax but you’re a cheater and are avoiding paying your fair share. You’re supposed to file and pay it to your state just as if you bought it locally. Cheater! http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/business-taxes/do-you-have-to-pay-sales-tax-on-internet-purchases.html
3. The discounted prices you are offered for the pantry items can be easily eaten up by the shipping they charge. If those items qualified for free shipping, that might have been a good deal; however, I spot checked a couple and it’s not really that good. A 12 pack of coke was $3.33 and they frequently go on sale locally for about $2.88.
4. Bestbuy and Office Depot are right next to the gym I go to 5 days a week, Home Depot and Sears are within walking distance of my house. Today, I had to replace a light fixture at a rental property that I have. Think I should have waited to get that from Amazon? I think not. I bought it from Home Depot and took care of it immediately. I keep my tenants happy and that’s why they renew their lease every year.
5. You say it’s a hassle to remember when to cancel VMP membership but I can say the same thing about Amazon Prime. When you sign up for Amazon Prime, your membership is set to automatically renew each year. If I really wanted to, I could let my VMP ride every month for the whole year and only end up paying $60 whereas Amazon would charge $99 for the same period. So it’s optional to consider canceling every month and I have no intention to do that anyway.
6. Amazon is sneaky, they lure you into getting a free 30 day prime membership but they require you to provide a payment method for that “free” service. That’s because they hope that you’ll forget and then get automatically charged for it after your trial period expires.
7. Regarding Prime photos, I wouldn’t upload my stuff to the Amazon cloud even if they paid me to do that. I like to keep my stuff locally where it’s private and no other companies have access to it where it can be hacked and then shared with the world. If you want similar services, there are several free options like Google drive, dropbox, box, mega, ADrive, Bitcasa, OneDrive, and more.
8. Looking at your hyped up Amazon Elements feature, that seems to be limited to baby wipes. Not sure how many of those you use but I don’t have any babies in the house so that’s useless for me.
9. You mentioned about your hourly wage and shopping not being worth your time. Well, I’m a salary employee so I don’t get paid by the hour and I work from home. I work whatever hours I want but do have to be available during certain meetings. You should remember which company I work for and it’s a large corporation with over 200,000 employees. I’m a vice president at that company now and I still prefer to spend time shopping around looking for the best price. It’s more of the principle of the thing than it is about the money. I could easily pay more for a product but I refuse to have someone rip me off. I’m sorry to hear that after all these years we worked together that you’re still stuck in an hourly wage job. Perhaps if you applied yourself more, you would have moved up in the company by now. I also agree that my time is worth more than shipping but I still refuse to pay for shipping if I can get it without paying for it.
10. Here’s a real life example. I want to buy a $25 product off Amazon but that would cost me shipping charges. So I have a couple items that I frequently buy called add-ons that you add to your cart to make the $35 minimum for free shipping. So instead of paying $10 for shipping or $8.25 for prime, I will add $10 of shampoo or another bag of bird food to make up the price difference. They are items that will be consumed so I’m not buying things that I don’t need but I can avoid having to pay for either prime or shipping. Meh offers products but there is no way to avoid shipping or VMP membership. You must have one or the other. So for me, since I have always bought more than one item per month since Meh started, it is logical to subscribe to VMP.
@cengland0
- Point 1: straw man fallacy - point invalidated. What if they bundle carrots and broccoli? Or have a vegetarian option? We can make up hypotheticals all day.
- Point 2: Cherry Picking fallacy - does not apply to all (including my) state(s).
- Point 3: I do not incur shipping charges as a Prime Member - get this through your skull! Do you pay shipping charges for VMP??? No!!! Nor do I. 3 points destroyed!
- Point 4: UNLESS you stop at all the stores and also walk to the stores EVERY SINGLE DAY... it is "out of your way" (i.e., a change to your normal drive home) 4 down.
- Point 5:FALSE EQUIVALENCE Fallacy! 12 != 1
- Point 6: (straw man face palm) YOU JUST SAID remembering something each month was not an issue for you! Just about every "free trial period" since the dawn of the history of "free trial periods" have a condition of providing a billing method should you not wish to cancel! This is not any more "sneaky" than you going to the drive thru, and PAYING FIRST for your (vegetarian sweet potato)fries. What if you forgot to drive to the second window and pick up your gross veggie fries? THAT'S ON YOU. Another straw-man fallacy... sheesh...
- Point 7: Wow. 2 fallacies in one point: sheeeeeesh!!! 1:) Anecdoctal Fallacy: If we set your personal preferences aside - this point makes no sense. Others find use in having having their pictures securely uploaded to Amazon.
- Point 8: Straw-man. It's more than babywipes.
- Point 9: Even salaried people have an hourly wage! (I am also salaried) BUT if I want to determine whether or not something is worth my time - I try to figure up what my time is worth. I work approximately 40-45 hours a week on normal weeks... so let me help you: I'll use small words:
- Point 10: More straw-men that just happen to fit your purposes. You fail to take into account the crap that you've purchased that was VMP Bait (As you recall - some things you would not have purchased because shipping would have killed the deal...but you purchased them because VMP baited you into it.
Well ... it's been a pleasure obliterating your fallacious arguments. I hope you've learned something and I hope you begin to avoid VMP bait, Become a member of Amazon Prime and start saving valuable time and money.How in your peanut brain does 1 thing to remember (annual subscription) REMOTELY EQUAL keeping track of a recurring MONTHLY subscription... it's ELEVEN MORE things to remember annually! 12 != 1 This is basic math!
2.) False Equivalence again!!! All the services you listed as "alternatives" to Amazon photos DO NOT GIVE "FREE PLUS UNLIMITED" storage. Nice try. As a refresher: Unlimited means all the pictures I want forever and ever and ever ... In Kindergarten parlance Infinity Photo Storage! Maybe that's more on your level!?
STEP 1:) if you work 40 hours a week as a salaried emplyoee please take your annual salary, divide that by 52 (weeks)[REMEMBER THIS NUMBER YOU WILL NEED IT IN 1.2 seconds for step two
STEP 2:) NOW divide the number from step 1 by 40(hours) - Yay! You now know what your company thinks an hour of your time is worth! (feel free to increase or decrease the number of hours in step 2 accordingly)
@unixrab just as an Fyi, while I was waiting for a prescription to be filled, I walked to Office Max next door and they price matched a 100pk dvd just by showing them this on my phone.
Was not embarrassed at all and only paid $22.99 instead of their regular price of $44.95. No shipping And I didn't go out of my way.
Amazon has them today for $40.50. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001GXANC0. So I think I still win.
@cengland0
you overpaid by $5+ !! AND YOU PAID TAX!!! LOLS! You shoulda bought:
@unixrab If I didn't care about the brand, I could have bought Verbatims extremely cheap. I wanted either Memorex or Maxwell. Yes, I paid tax but I would have paid tax in Florida if I ordered it through Amazon anyway.
Besides, your TDK example is a strawman fallacy. If I told you how much I paid for my Lexus RX, you could have said I paid too much because I could have bought a used Ford Escort instead.
If I wanted TDK disks, I could have acquired them for the exact same price or lower than what Amazon is selling them for. Office Max matches Amazon prices.
According to this article from over a year ago, Amazon collects tax from 21 states (and mine is included) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-01/amazon-begins-collecting-florida-taxes-for-internet-sales
@cengland0 whatevs... you wanted a hunnert DVD+R's amazon was cheaper, even with the negation of tax, you still spent more time and calories doing it the old-fashioned way AND! you exposed yourself to several billion bacteria, viruses and risked dying on the roadways.... you really should care more about your life and health and shop from home for cheaper prices with less risk of death from outside hazards and organisms.
Your employer, homeowner's insurance and health insurance providers should be made aware of your proclivity to risk your life on a daily basis just for purchasing objects easily attainable on-line. Thanks for polluting the planet with your carbon footprint, using more calories causing you to consume more of our natural resources just to provide more vegetables to you for your wasteful walking and talking and demand for store electricity and POS systems.... oh and for risking your health just to spite Amazon.... way to kill the planet. sheesh.
@unixrab You missed a very important part of my comment. I said I was waiting to get a prescription filled so I walked to Office Max. No additional carbon expelled, which actually isn't a bad thing anyway. I'm a vegetarian and plants love CO2.
Speaking of carbon footprint, I have a hybrid car, do you? I also have an appointment with a company to discuss putting a 5KW solar system on my roof. Did you? At the end of this new venture, I should be producing more solar power than I use from the grid and will be getting money back at the end of the year.
I didn't buy the DVD's from Office Max to spite Amazon, I bought them because it was cheaper than Amazon and I happened to be right there anyway. I buy a lot from Amazon but I've never paid for shipping -- ever, and I don't have Prime. If you plan your purchases strategically and logically, you too can do the same thing.
Another comment about killing the planet. What do you think causes more CO2: Walking to Office Max or having UPS or Fedex make a special trip to my house to deliver a package from Amazon along with the manufacturing of the box and packing material?
@unixrab One more thing before I go. Have you ever ordered so much from Amazon that you got a personalized letter from their Concierge? It was completely unsolicited too.
@unixrab You should probably give up if you're reduced to pointing out bacteria, viruses, and avoiding the outdoors (isn't it healthier to go outside than to be a shut-in who gets everything from Amazon?)
That's a lot of effort to sell some faux Tupperware
@somf69 they still make Tupperware?
@RedOak I think so, but the quality went downhill after the copyright expired. I still have Tupperware that my parents bought back in the good ol' days. (Tupperware parties, remember those?)
@sjk3 Uh, you might want to check the BPA content of your good ol' days tupperware. Tupperware officially states that since 2010, they have not sold items containing BPA. However, the link to lists of pre-2010 items that used to be on their website is no longer there. Lots of info available elsewhere.
bring on the GLASS ones and I would buy ton of them meh. not Joking, prefer glass over any plastic!
@bluetide Me too. I don't use plastic for food products. I can taste and smell the plastic. Glass all the way!
@bluetidehttp://www.amazon.com/Pyrex-1118988-14-Piece-Simply-Covers/dp/B00M2JVU3S/ref=lh_ni_t?tag=slicinc-20&ascsubtag=a41f159bb2334bcf8669878b958f545b&ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
@Rstoker http://www.amazon.com/Glasslock-18-Piece-Assorted-Oven-Container/dp/B00LN810PM/ref=pd_sim_k_7?ie=UTF8&refRID=1GJ2WVJSQH551NKXZGQS I PREFER THE AIRTIGHT GLASSLOCK ONES, EASIER TO HANDLE WHEN THEY ARE HOT !
@bluetide
Never tried them. Looks nice. Thanks.
@bluetide Yes and glass does not melt/pucker/dimple in the microwave either. Nor does it pick up food smells and stains.
I have tile floors. I need plastic containers. However, accidental-paranoid-olive is just depressing.
@OldCatLady I have tile floors and use glass exclusively. I just don't drop my containers and then don't have any problems.
@OldCatLady I have marble floors. If one of my cats should accidentally nudge a glass container off of the counter clean-up is easy with broom/dustpan or vacuum. Enjoy your plastic and let us know how the chemo treatments go. :)
@eyewerks Can you point me to a scientific study showing the link between using plastic and cancer? Just curious. Never seen one and considering that billions of people use plastic every day if there were a direct link I'd think just going by the odds that most of the human race would have been killed off by now.
@Bingo I think what he is talking about is the bph (or whatever that is) link
@Bingo Here is the EPA's action plan. It has some long words but it's pretty easy to understand. http://www.epa.gov/oppt/existingchemicals/pubs/actionplans/bpa.html
Hmmm... Meh actually hinted that these were coming. If only they dropped a Fuku hint...
@mehdaf they do, whenever they get they might be giants to write another song.
I actually thought those grapes were gooseberries, and it just seemed like the kind of thing the folks at meh would put in a plastic container.
@Charcoalwolfman Ok what is a gooseberry?
@dino2269 http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/gooseberry.html
I love these expandable containers. Hopefully these are microwave safe like the last ones I got.
pristine-ludicrous-sidewinder:
ok, this is wrong on sooooooo many levels...
That "Cherry Soda" is clearly a Dr. Pepper. The size at the bottom gives it away. Is it sad that I was instantly able to recognize it? :/
Not enough storage to contain my disappointment.
Fantastic write-up
Buy these for your worst enemies and sit back while the carcinogens leach out of the plastic and turn their left over rigatoni into a case of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Better living through petroleum products.
John D. Rockefeller purportedly attributed his longevity (97yrs) in part to eating petroleum jelly every day. ugh!
Da Fuq is with this write up?
@givemeyoursoul It is a joke sorry your humorless soul doesn't understand it.
@dino2269 Harsh. Maybe you should go eat a carrot and calm down.
dear meh I already bought the cool gear 3 piece set that in turn I have a picnic by myself or with my crock pot buddy, please help me get a cheap asian style bento set to replace the ones I bought from you already, or sell everyone a portable mini crockpot so I have more crock pot buddies around the country
My wife ruined it. Made me click "Buy" instead of "Meh".
@einrad You can still click Meh.
@einrad ALWAYS CLICK MEH! well unless its a fuku then you gotta think about it....
@einrad I always click Meh so I can keep my streak going and then I click buy.
@dino2269 Oh good, keep doing that in this order so I can maybe beat you out for a fuku (grin)
meh - u - suk
If it weren't for the fact that I already have like a thousand little M&M and grape containers that I never use because they are too small from all the other sets I've bought - I'd be all over this. Sell me some sets with just the big containers and I'll bite.
Does anyone else find these flap kind of containers open in bags more than the flatter lids? I had a set like this in the past, and the flaps constantly opened in my backpack.
I have a flap lid set with glass, the flaps snap very securely. A little hard to do/undo, in fact.
This is tempting because the glass ones are heavy and non lunchbag shaped, and the cheapo ziplock container lids always disappear.