For mostly men
7Meh, you do a great job on most products that are likely to appeal across genders! Your products for the ladies have been lower quality and the frequency with which you are offer them has gotten frustrating. Is this something you know? Is it a pattern you follow because it’s more profitable? Any chance of change? Thanks for any help you can offer that isn’t a lecture on gender itself.
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Check out meh’s sister-site morningsave.com! They tend to offer a lot of products that cater to the stereo-typical female. Quality may be hit and miss, however.
@medz
whether or not morningsave caters to women is something I might have said 50 years ago, or well, maybe I just hang around with a better class of bitches
Thanks, medz. I have. You’re right about stereotypical and about miss on quality. Why not just offer socks in men’s and women’s sizes?
@nallacm It’s great to get feedback. I’m very open to suggestions. What specific products, and what product categories would you like to see more often?
We’ve done women’s socks a few times before - but you’re right that we’ve done men’s socks more often.
@dave
Don’t forget about the “travel massagers” which were sold during the July and September Meh-rathons…
@dave And women’s only TeeTurtle randoms.
@PlacidPenguin those aren’t exclusively for women.
@RiotDemon
Ultimately it comes down to who would actually personally use a product…
@PlacidPenguin Ah…now all the men’s socks make sense… #notjustforyourfeet
@PlacidPenguin yes, and I know men that would use them. So I’m not sure what you’re saying.
@RiotDemon
I was going off the title of this thread being “mostly men”, in that the logic being presented was the targeted audience for some products was mostly men (even though some women would use them).
By extension, I’m sure there are people who would be wearing the women’s socks or t-shirts.
It’s cold outside and I’m hungry, so I’m not necessarily thinking clearly.
@medz
What a person does with their socks is their business.
@dave
you’ve done girls socks
they may fit women but… shiver.
on most socks sites i’ve gone to for purchasing for my adult daughter, the patterns of the mens socks were much more like anyone i know would wear, only they are sized for giants, LOL j/k
@RiotDemon @PlacidPenguin Regardless of who might be using them, I think we can all agree a Doxy deal would be far superior to previous offerings…
@brhfl
Next Mehrathon?
I believe that the batteries offered for sale have been unisex. Unless they’re intended for use in portable “personal massagers”. In that case, you can tally the batteries up in the women’s category as well. Time to stock up and fill that refrigerator!
@shahnm You should mention that it’s best to remove the batteries from your “personal massagers” before refrigerating them. Otherwise, the wrong thing may cool down…
I dunno… I don’t think anyone who saw me wearing these would think I am anything other than mostly female:
@mikibell
Manliest panda socks I ever did see.
@ThomasF
/image Trogdor
Um, my wife and I share all of the men’s socks I buy on meh. I buy socks every. single. time. they’re offered.
I don’t get this. Because the socks happen to be scaled in men’s sizes women can’t wear them? Are most women under a men’s size 7? And we have to have a thread about meh being biased toward men despite them selling just “stuff” and plenty of “women” stuff. Really?
@unksol Yes. I have pretty average sized feet for a woman, size 8, and I wear boys size 6 shoes. I buy boys walking shoes and sandals as they are generally wider and more durable than comparable women’s footwear.
@unksol I’m in the minority of having “giant” feet. I wear a men’s 10.5 which is a women’s 12-13 depending on the shoe. I wear men’s ankle socks, but tall socks don’t fit my muscular calves.
On sock days I just click meh and move on.
@unksol The internet says that the most popular size in the US for women is 9, about a men’s 7, so I would think these socks would be OK for at least half the female population. Heel placement could be a problem though- you don’t really want them way up your ankle. That would be uncomfortable.
@sammydog01 I buy men’s socks on occasion and my foot is size 10 womans. Usually the men’s socks are a bit too long in the foot. Which can be irritating since then that fabric bunches up in your shoe or you have to pull them so the heel is above your heel (and then the sock wears out faster there), not to mention it then slowly slips back down.
Actually at least twice I have seen the meh writers rail against some other company for marketing something specifically for men or for women, so for them to acknowledge any disparity and offer different products to make up for that would be to go against their own spoken principles, thus making them hypocrites. Sorry.
@Al_Coholic except they do specify in the product write up that they are men’s…and it is relevant for the sizing.
@Kidsandliz so they are already hypocrites then. Hmm…
Meh seems to aim at offering mostly “special buy” types of merchandise.
What comes up as offered for a special buy is not entirely predictable, or available to order. There items tend to be the overstocks, remainders, and pricing/purchasing errors of previous retail seasons.
@f00l or something only a f00l might buy?
@Cerridwyn
Well, since you mention it.
That too.
Just sayin’
@capguncowboy
(See discussion from Friday where @RiotDemon stated that those weren’t exclusively for women.)
@PlacidPenguin By that logic, none of the items sold by Meh are exclusively for men either. I see a lot of jewelry being sold. I suppose that men would wear those, but I would surmise that there are less men wearing the jewelry or using the vibrator than there are women wearing the socks.
@capguncowboy
That’s been used for both viewpoints.
@capguncowboy can we at least agree that the jewelry is pretty stale at this point? Too many pearls.
@RiotDemon Has there been any pearl-free jewelry? I can’t think of any.
@brhfl I tried searching mehstalker. Kept crashing my phone. I found ONE when I put in necklace.
Given the business model of meh.com (buy crap that didn’t sell at retail and market it to people that might buy it only at a steep discount) I would say that seems to indicate that designers of “women’s” items have a better handle on their (initial) market…