Do these look black ?

@ExtraMedium Haha-- mind boggling that your first reply to this dumpster fire was 3 minutes after the initial message

@caffeineguy Seriously, the most I could possibly do to prevent this all from happening and it wasn’t enough. That said, this thread went from sad, to nightmare, to incredibly entertaining over the course of about 12 hours, so I’m kinda glad I was ignored.

@Fritoe19 Right. But can you take this to meh.com/support to continue it? That’s where the CS people are watching. This is just the hangout for the hangers-on.

@Fritoe19 Okay, it looks like you placed your order under a different username, or as a guest with no username, or this was a gift from somebody else. I say this because the username on these comments shows no record of orders - and that’s all I can see, the information I can access is extremely limited. Meh has always been internet-focused, so they do their CS via the web at meh.com/support. They’ll help, but it’s going to go a lot faster there than trying to get us to relay it via the channels.

@Fritoe19 meh does not use text messages. They ONLY use email so not sure whom you contacted if you have been texting but it wasn’t meh. If you didn’t use any of the contact ways given here you didn’t contact support.

Order confirmations are found when you sign in and under your account. There you will see orders. That is where you find the record of what you had ordered, what you paid, your order number, etc.

ALSO on your order page for this order there is a place you can click which will also contact support about a problem with this order.

If you don’t use any of these methods mentioned here then you haven’t reached customer support to fix your problem.

@Fritoe19 @Kidsandliz
I’m just going to say that Meh has the greatest CS team ever! Every time I’ve had to reach out to them not only have they gotten back to me in record time but they’ve ALWAYS fixed the problem! AND, they’re super friendly! Good luck Fritoe19!

@Fritoe19 Contact support. Those folks are who deals with problems. This is just a forum where people hang out and “talk” and 99.9% of us don’t work for meh. The people who can solve you problem are at the customer support. You can email as posted above or go to the top of the page and under ? What is meh click there and contact support that way too.

@Fritoe19 No it isn’t fake but the forums are not for order support. We are just other customers posting. If you want help with your order then either email meh (that was given up higher) or follow the directions given by me above. You can complain all you want here but we can’t help you as we don’t work for meh. To get help you have to contact meh by one of those two ways. I have always found they help when I contact them.

@Fritoe19

“They do their CS via the web… “
So they is not you ?

WE HAVE A WINNER! CORRECT! THAT IS NOT US!

Please, click on meh.com/support, or type it in manually, and use the form there to report the problem. You can even pick “I have blind rage and am seeing red” as your issue if that helps. (I’m not kidding about that.)

@Kidsandliz
Getting ridiculous

All I want to do is get the right freakin color that I
PAID FOR !

@Fritoe19 Okay, follow the instructions in the next comment down. That’s your best bet.

@Fritoe19 Then you need to contact the people who fix the problems. That would not be us. Screaming at us about it may make you feel better but it won’t solve your problem. We don’t work for meh. This is a customer forum. Not an employee forum. That would be customer support. So IF you want the problem fixed then contact them to get it fixed. If you don’t want it fixed then keep complaining here that you want it fixed because no matter how much you complain fellow customers can’t fix it for you. Only the company can and you have been told multiple times on here how to contact them.

EXCELLENT advice.

@Fritoe19 Are you an idiot, or do you just play one on the interwebs?
You don’t seem to be getting the picture several people have gone out of their way to paint for you.
Your life must be hard.

@Fritoe19 Did you think someone would be sitting by their computer waiting for your email? Give it a couple of days.
/giphy patience

@Fritoe19 So I’ll ask one more time. Did you buy them at Meh.com or Sidedeal.com cause you’ve been ranting under the sidedeal ad. And if so you need to visit customer service over at sidedeal.

@sammydog01 same company
You should know

@Fritoe19 WE can’t fix it. WE are trying to tell you how to get it fixed. WE are fellow customers. YOU need to CONTACT the COMPANY if you want it fixed. Usually it takes them 1-2 days to respond. Having a fit about it here won’t make it happen any faster. My directions tell you how to do it on meh (see above). You said you bought it via meh. So follow those directions and then wait 2 days. You may not like it, but NONE OF US can change it because WE DON’T work here.

@Fritoe19 PS there are other people who have posted directions about how to contact support too. There are multiple, different ways you can do that.

@Fritoe19 I don’t even see these being offered at Meh.com and you’re posting on a sidedeal.com offering. Go ahead, prove me wrong and link the sale. Even if the sites are related the ordering is most likely separate.

@Kidsandliz then you have way too much time on your hands

@Kidsandliz yeah right
Angry cause I care… what’s your excuse

@Fritoe19 All people - that would be us customers - are doing is trying to help you connect with the people who can help you solve your problem so you get what you ordered or get refunded. Telling them to basically fuck off makes a pretty poor statement about you. I’m out. Either follow what we told you to do and get you problems solved or don’t and you won’t. I don’t care either way. Behaving like an adult is not your strong suit.

@Fritoe19 I will, thanks very much.

@sammydog01 your company or your bud’s I suppose… he too busy making vids

@snapster- @Fritoe19 says hi.

@sammydog01 @snapster hi … you just lost another customer and destroyed my trust in your co

@Fritoe19 it is! This is quite interesting. You have been given no less than three seperate ways to contact CS, but refuse to do so and continue to complain to other customers.

If I complained to you about my cable provider could you fix the problem or would I beed ro contact the cable company’s CS? Because you are asking other customers to rectify your concern

At this point I’m here for the show

Good luck

@Fritoe19 @tinamarie1974 Me too! I thought this was going to be a Laurel/Yanny thing… This is fucking hilarious! Great way to start the day.

P.S. If I buy a bag of Fritos but Doritos are inside…I guess @Fritoe19 could help me with that? Or should I look for their forum and ask other customers?

P.P.S. “Does This Look Black?” should be changed to “Can I Be A Bigger Idiot?”. Just saying.

P.P.P.S. Hopefully you can figure this out and have a better day 🫡

@Ignorant They should double your pay.

Thanks for putting this out there @sammydog01, I just received word that they are tripling my pay!!!

@Ignorant You deserve every penny of it.

@Ignorant @sammydog01 Penny?!? Whoa. Slow down here! We haven’t even made either past the ₩ from the speaker dock era.

1 KRW per year is still a good rate, right?

@Ignorant @narfcake @sammydog01 Better than the 27 Venezuelan Bolivars they allow as a per diem to cover the expenses of mods making an invited visit to the Mercatalyst parking lot and top-loading outdoor storage locker.

@Ignorant @sammydog01 @werehatrack True.

On a different paw, this isn’t the time to post the old solution, right?

@Ignorant @narfcake @sammydog01 Nah. Those made lousy earbuds.

@Ignorant @narfcake @sammydog01 @werehatrack omg, this person would have popped a gasket if someone sent them a marker!!!

@Ignorant @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack If by someone, you actually meant …

@Ignorant @narfcake @sammydog01 @werehatrack I didnt remember that it was you!!! Poor thing

@Ignorant @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack It wasn’t me; I had nothing to do with it. I just saved the pics because they were hilarious.

(August 20, 2014 was a “well played” day.)

@Fritoe19 I think meh probably won’t miss you as a customer based on your behavior.

@Fritoe19 How did you text them? I haven’t seen a phone number for them, but even if I did I certainly wouldn’t expect a business phone to receive text messages.
Or were you counting these forum messages (to fellow customers) as texts to Mediocre?

@Fritoe19 the meh faq explains how to contact customer support, expected reply time, as well as explaining that there is no phone number. Meh isn’t hiding anything and aren’t trying to make anything difficult.
I’m glad you’ve received a reply from support, be sure to respond to it with any info requested so they can get the issue resolved for you.

@Fritoe19

They sent me the wrong item. They are responsible. They did not send me a tracking number, confirmation number or a receipt… by text, email, or mail… for that they are responsible, not the customer.

You can find all that information, order number, tracking information, your receipt, etc. if you log into your account and then in side deal it will show up right there or in meh click on orders.

@Fritoe19

I think folks should think twice about purchasing from a “company” that they can not contact quickly, especially when that company takes immediate payment from my card, […]

Yes, I’ve thought more than twice about it. And I have needed to contact customer support before, and they were very responsive each time. But they were working a regular job — they had real work to do, so they couldn’t wait upon me the instant I sent them a message. It took a couple hours, because it’s real life (not a video game).

But I’m even more shocked that anyone is surprised that a store processes payments immediately. Is it considered normal to expect a mail-order product to arrive before being charged for it? I thought sit-down restaurants were the weird outliers in that respect. (fast food restaurants, on the other hand, will gladly take your money before delivering your food—as will Amazon, eBay, and every other online store I’ve ever seen)

@zhicks1987 I truly wish this was a troll. It’s so much funnier on the customer support end though. I’m going to ask the boss if I can share screenshots when we get this sorted out because it’s fun for the whole family.

@ExtraMedium @zhicks1987 The second meh goat of the month emailed Support 18 times in a single day asking what was his own address.

@ExtraMedium @zhicks1987 I think it was mentioned that there’s still an order out there that hasn’t arrived. If perchance it hasn’t shipped yet, will the box be filled with some extra Trackrs to help locate it in transit?

@zhicks1987 ^That^ is trolling art.

@xobzoo @zhicks1987 Are those fingers coming out of the bottom of the fish?

@heartny @xobzoo @zhicks1987 Maybe THAT’s where fish fingers come from.

@Fritoe19 You wanna know who MY friends are on this site (and it’s offshoots)?

Some of the more snarky customers on the discussion board, as well as some of the genuinely nice, polite people (@kidzandliz for example). I also consider the Cust Service folks to be friends, since they are easily available ( when they can get to it), and they don’t fuck around with resolving your problem. They fix it. Nicely, and with humor.

Good deity, I loved the black Sharpie!

Never had an issue that wasn’t resolved to my full satisfaction.

Seems like someone needs some candy corn …

@Fritoe19 Hello. Please allow me to break down what I know.

To be clear, I am an employee of Mercatalyst Retail LLC (parent company of Meh, SideDeal, MorningSave, Casemates, and a few side projects) and I do represent customer support. This is easy to verify by the small Erlenmeyer flask symbol next to my name here on the forum. That is reserved for staff members. You can also use that information to note that you’ve not responded to any employees (or their family members?) in your communications.

As with my very first response on this page, I still recommend you reach out to us via the support portal and you can do so on either Meh Support or SideDeal Support. I know you’ve emailed a few times and our team has attempted to reach out to you, but you seem locked into the idea that every email from Meh is from staff. This is not the case. Anyone who types “@Frite19” into their message will generate an email to your inbox because that’s a setting you have applied to your account.

No, we do not have a phone number for you to call. All of our customer support members work from their homes and I’m sure you can understand why we don’t need them getting calls to their homes. We have a number of email addresses accessible, but much prefer customers to use the support pages to have a clear record of communication all in one place. Also, the majority of our staff works pretty normal weekdays and business hours based on Texas time and we tend to respond to customer support requests in the order they are received. That is to say, no one was available to respond when you initially reached out, but we are trying. I’m not on that schedule, which is why you’re hearing from me.

As a member of the customer support team, I feel it is worth pointing out that replying to the forum emails you receive does not add a reply to this forum but those do go to customer support so I know that you’ve not been reaching out to our team as much as responding to other customers who frequent this forum, and again, the don’t work for us or have any relationship with us other than being shoppers like yourself. That’s not to say we don’t love them like family, but we’ve not met them so their defense of our business is based on their own choices, not money or familial loyalty.

As for the whole reason you reached out in the first place, the information that may help us to help you with your problems is this: Our response when you visit Meh Support will only be visible from the Meh Support page and the same is true for SideDeal Support. You cannot see those responses from a site other than the one used to reach out to us. If you’re not seeing those responses where you expect, please try the other location.

Also, note that we do not have any record of the order you’re referencing. You’ve not provided an order number, an email address associated with that purchase (I’m certain it’s not the one attached to this account), the billing address used, the total spent, or the timeframe for the purchase. The tracking label from the package may contain most of the needed details, but I’ve not seen that either.

If you have that information, please reply directly to our customer support team with as much of it as you possibly can.

Please do not put that information on the forum. If you do, our team will edit it out, but anything posted here is available to everyone on the internet. Again, this is not our customer support page, I’m just trying to provide you with the most clear response I can in order to help you with the purchase.

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For all others in this thread, please don’t @ Fritoe19 anymore to help us reduce frustration and confusion. I know you’ll behave the way you behave, but that’s my request. You’re still welcome to enjoy the show.

@ExtraMedium
Your do not @ plea seems to have been missed …

@chienfou @ExtraMedium Probably TL;DR issues.

@chienfou @werehatrack He literally @'d himself as well. Can’t be helped.

@ExtraMedium you deserve a bonus for that very nice and informative message

@ExtraMedium not family? I don’t know how promiscuous IRK and Glen are. Irk could have a lot of illegitimate children on here. I have suspicions a few on here are half siblings and don’t realize it.

@earlyre The more I look into this, the more likely it becomes that the product wasn’t ordered from us at all. Some of their attempts to email “us” included a misspelling of another daily deal website’s support email. Before you ask, no it wasn’t that daily deal site. And no, not that other one either. I’d never even heard of them before this started.

I’m still workshopping the best analogy for this thread, but here’s where I’m at: It’s a person going to Walmart and standing in the parking lot yelling at other customers about their horrible customer support, and lack of response from the Waltons, over a product they bought at the dollar store. And then accusing everyone with a confused look of being paid shills or brainwashed.

And yet I’m still happy to help if possible.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Knowing that every comment has generated an email that Frito has been reading AND been replying to, has added the cherry on top of this turd sundae that is Fritos supposed order (if in fact that is his real name?!?)

@bned Well, the whole performance was kind of corny, and they sure had a chip on their shoulder…

@earlyre @ExtraMedium Trying to nudge the user in the right direction seemed like using curling brooms to try to redirect a burning Zamboni down rhe lane instead of across…

@earlyre @ExtraMedium @werehatrack now THAT is some stellar imagery!

Welcome to the forums Frit…I mean @tolledu

@tolledu

@tolledu I can confirm, 100%, that the founder of Meh is not at all the founder of That Daily Deal.

@tolledu and I can confirm, 100% if the order was actually placed through Meh (or one of its sister sites) an email confirmation and shipping info would’ve been sent.

@ChadP @tolledu I’d never heard of it before, but perhaps this is relevant. “That Daily Deal has a rating of 1.46 stars from 100 reviews”

@Ignorant Grabbed a bag of popcorn the first month I was here.

@Ignorant @sammydog01 Wow — I wasn’t around here back then, but you got me curious. So I looked it up… and just spent a couple hours reading all that.

Wow.

I still don’t understand humans.
Still not sure I want to be part of the species.

But most of all, I’m just glad I’m not personally, emotionally involved in either of those stories (TwistedLisa or Fritoe19). It’s a lot healthier for me to be watching from the outside.

@Ignorant @sammydog01 The best plot twist would be if they’re actually both the same person…

@sammydog01 @xobzoo haha every 9 years she comes back to haunt the meh forum

@Fritoe19

Nope tracks were hidden too well!

@ybmuG
… has to be to line in comment

@chienfou oops, thanks. Too many rules on this crappy site!

@ybmuG

@mediocrebot can this be the theme for the next 'thon? The Burning Zambonathon! It could be a winter theme with tons of earbuds and sharpies interspersed… and fritos… angry fritos

@mediocrebot @ybmuG and everything is pink?

@mediocrebot @pepper114 YES! Though pictures show black

@mediocrebot @ybmuG
Angry Fritos

@mediocrebot @pepper114 @ybmuG Anything not-pink would presumably ship with enough bottles of Martha Stewart pink paint to cover them at least once.

@ybmuG oh shit

@tinamarie1974 i can’t believe how the guy just keeps driving and puts it out with a fire extinguisher

@ybmuG Save of the game right there!

@ybmuG m akes ya wonder if this wasn’t their first rodeo

@tinamarie1974 apparently it was hydraulic fluid that leaked and caught fire. I can’t believe it’s something they train for, but who knows…

@ybmuG What’s the generic name for a Zamboni? And for that matter, what’s the generic name for a Dumpster?

@lisagd Ice resurfacer, and I don’t think there is

@spitfire6006006 Community!!

@ircon96 @spitfire6006006 That would be all of us working together towards a common goal. Right?

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @spitfire6006006 Six seasons and a movie!

So far I only know about two of the seasons (TwistedLisa & Fritoe19). I’m sure there are other seasons from before my time; are we up to 6 yet?

(I wonder what the movie will be. A hostile takeover by Zuckerberg, trying to buy his own octopus breakfast?)

I’ve also heard about the illegal toothbrushes. Not sure if that was a season or just an episode.

@xobzoo Quip, aka Schrodinger’s Toothbrush, was a soap opera mashup with a comedy, from what I read in the eventual omnibus edition. Fritoe is a TikTok meme by comparison.

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @spitfire6006006 @xobzoo there was also the woman that only washed her hair in vinegar or never washed her hair or something like that. Never cut her hair, didn’t have split ends. Details are foggy

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @spitfire6006006 @xobzoo @tinamarie1974
That’s intriguing…!

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @spitfire6006006 @xobzoo oh it was crazy, she got super mad at me, blew up and deleted her account after I very humbly said if her claim was true I hoped she would go to “big shampoo” to share her formula and make millions.

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @spitfire6006006 @xobzoo @tinamarie1974 I remember someone else who got mad at you and flounced but I can’t remember why!!! It was really trivial though.

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @spitfire6006006 @xobzoo that might be what you are thinking of? It was very dramatic

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @spitfire6006006 @tinamarie1974 @xobzoo Maybe … I don’t remember the vinegar part, though!

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @spitfire6006006 @xobzoo well again, Im not 100% on the details. It was a few years ago

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @spitfire6006006 @tinamarie1974 @xobzoo Okay, I’m embarrassed to say I got curious enough to search it and wallow around in that rabbit hole for a while. And she did certainly have a thing about ACV as a hair conditioner, but it was the PMS discussion that made her flounce. I remember reading that thread at the time!

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @spitfire6006006 @xobzoo oh I dont remmeber the pms discussion

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @spitfire6006006 @xobzoo
@tinamarie1974 Starts here …

https://meh.com/forum/topics/talk-about-whatever-you-want-in-this-thread#5dd2b726cbed65078cba69fd

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @spitfire6006006 @xobzoo completely forgot about that, but it was an interesting re-read. Whispers were also very entertaining

I think the 'bot still isn’t clear about a lot of this.

@werehatrack I would agree.

@Kidsandliz @werehatrack Well, it’s a dumpster near a fire, that’s gotta be worth partial credit at least…? ( Shhh…still trying to suck up to our future overlords.)

@ircon96 @Kidsandliz @werehatrack To be fair, I’m human and I’m not clear about a lot of this. But in my defense, I could photoshop a better dumpster fire. Lord knows I’ve witnessed my fair share of them.

@ExtraMedium @ircon96 @werehatrack

Lord knows I’ve witnessed my fair share of them.

You’ve added this thread and the other one the other day that got shut down to your count. Right?

@ExtraMedium @ircon96 @Kidsandliz @werehatrack a lot of us could Photoshop a better dumpster fire. I suspect none of us could do it nearly as quickly as AI though.

You can get an AI to create a dozen and pick the best one faster than it would take to Photoshop a realistic dumpster fire.

Speed is the real value there.

@ExtraMedium @ircon96 @Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @werehatrack
AI is a damned cheat - just stealing from past images or info and blending them into refurbished amalgamations. Useful but insidiously harmful in the long run, IMO.

@ExtraMedium @ircon96 @Kidsandliz @Kyeh @werehatrack yes… and the sources that AI is learned from never gets the credit.

What worries me is that as AI becomes more prominent there will be less “net new” added to human culture. We’re just going to be recombining past ideas in new ways more than we already do. AI is unable to create anything truly new.

@ExtraMedium @ircon96 @Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @werehatrack
I completely agree!

@ircon96

@Ignorant @ircon96
“Winner”?
You sure you don’t mean “Whiner”?
Or maybe even, “Wiener”?

@Kyeh I don’t think anyone would do that, do you?

@werehatrack No?

@Kyeh Clearly not.

@Kyeh As a decidedly dog person, i have to say this is too good not to share

Then this one, which was right next to it, seemed elsewise appropriate…

@ybmuG
I saw that one too and I love it.
(Well, both of them.)

@Kyeh If I had a cat, he’d be this guy.

@OnionSoup almost felt like a Dr Seuss tale -
One bud two bud, pink bud blue bud
This was not the right hue, bud!

@OnionSoup @ybmuG
Both of those ditties were great!

@OnionSoup AI had good rhyme and story but the meter seemed off.

@OnionSoup Agreed. My first thought was “this didn’t flow quite as well as the first one.”
(I also noticed that the first poem mis-rhymed on the very last couplet, but its rhythm was better in general.)

Still, I find it amazing how well-crafted they both were. (I presume a certain amount of that was due to the effort put in to creating the right prompts.)

@xobzoo The prompts were detailed (and not perfect grammar) but GPT figured a lot out on its own. the exact prompts were:

"
Write a poem about someone called Fritoe ordering black ear buds from Meh and getting pink ear buds instead. In the poem Fritoe whines he got the wrong product, customer service and other customers try to tell him how to get in touch with support but he can’t figure it out anyway and just gets mad."

And

"
Now write a poem about TwistedLisa. TwistedLisa was mad that Meh shipped a package to an address she told them to ship to, but she had already left that location by the time it shipped, despite Meh being very quick to ship, shipping the very next business day. TwistedLisa got mad and created lots of sock puppet accounts to spam Mehs website in her defense. She also seemed obsessed pointing out she was a lawyer."

@OnionSoup @xobzoo I would like to make one tiny correction:
Fritoe thought they bought from meh when in reality they purchased from a completely different company.

@Ignorant @OnionSoup @xobzoo
Oooo! Do we get to know which one?

@Ignorant @Kyeh @OnionSoup @xobzoo It is revealed as ThatDailyDeal dot com somewhere in all of that mess.

@Kyeh @werehatrack yep their alt account revealed it here
Possibly other places as well

@OnionSoup @werehatrack @xobzoo

@Ignorant Thanks. I wanted to know what it actually was; that name was mentioned but not confirmed.

@Ignorant @Kyeh @OnionSoup @werehatrack @xobzoo agree, and given the lack of confidance in “fritos” info thus far I wanted confirmation from an employee who had access to the most sensitive data (orders, email addresses, etc, etc)

@kuoh Only if you ordered them from Walmart.

@blaineg Me too.