@plasticfork@SnakeJG Thanks for posting that! I got the error messages at 8 as well and was just prepping to start F5ing for the next ten minutes til I checked my mail and saw my 8am purchase went through, too.
@medz, really?
Instead of clicking a single button, you clicked a link here instead, waited for a new page to load under heavy usage, and tried to get mediocre to to get it for you?
/giphy triple facepalm
@mediocrebot I got that message twice before I double checked my orders and saw that my order did indeed go through. I was fully prepared to blast someone (sorry, I’m a horrible person)
@mollama Someday I will binge watch GoT. As it stands now, I watch TWD behind my hands for half of the episodes and I know only a few of the characters’ names. Guess I don’t do undead monster squicky stuff very well.
You know how people always say things give them nightmares? For the first time in my life I can honestly say watching a particularly gruesome episode has been known to cause me a nightmare or two.
I needed this after this shitty week, dead car battery, then a flat tire and lost my wallet in the same day. Did I mention I was supposed to move today?
I don’t care what kind of sh@rt is in this bag. Last time I got one of those steam mop things and it is sweeeeet. And the guy at the Goodwill sorting station was so excited to see the Marilyn Monroe neon desk lamp. I made his day!
Paused! That’s plenty of time for me to create another account! Double the Fuko! My only regret is buying the 11pm edition with my VMP account. So I can only get 2 today instead of 3. womp womp womp
@cinoclav Yeah, just pointing out yet another flaw of the stupid pause system. I’m not really going to buy any more. Bag of craps became way less fun when woot started spacing them out selling a little at a time. This is like that, but worse since you know exactly when it’s coming. Since everyone knows what it is and when it’s going to happen, it will be interesting to see what happens at 8am, though… I predict smoke from the server room.
Thank you! I’ve been sitting here for hours about to fall asleep, but I wanted to be awake when the roll around happened just in case. It actually paid off. I’m shocked, quite frankly.
@snapster In my haste to bag some unluckiness last night, I think my mediocre fingers may have slipped and paid for shipping instead of VMP membership. See, I am a very mediocre person indeed.
May you swap the shipping fee for VMP membership? Pretty pretty please, with a popped cherry on top?
Missed the first 9 but got the last 3. Things are looking up! 10 and 11 are sitting at my parent’s house unopened - I hope there’s nothing perishable in there. No time to change the address. This one is coming directly to me.
@bluebeatpete They haven’t had a fuku in a long while… They have all pretty much been fuko’s. The first fuko was April 1 last year (which was also the last one I got of either)…and the photo for that one wasn’t the nice bag photo - rather it looked like a pile of junkyard nuclear waste.
it sold out in less than 2 minutes, according to my computer. made me verify my card and it was over by 9:02. tired of trying for these things. gonna stop checking this site every day, I think.
@maburke it is not sold out, yet… its paused and will be re-available at 8:00am east and then again at 4pm east for VMP members (assuming they don’t overrun at 8am).
First time I spent refreshing at midnight and this comes along! Would’ve been cool to pick it up (and I wouldve), but I hadn’t made an account yet so I didnt deserve it
You guys! I went to meh.com at 11:59 and watched the clock diligently; by the time this loaded it was gone! You all on some super strength wifi connections? My lagging lake michigan internet connection just wont let me get one of these.
@thismyusername aw, that’s great! I think it was in the movie “Short Circuit” where the robot said “What do tears mean?” And the person said “It means things are gonna change.” I always thought that was rather poignant.
Yay! And I didn’t have to identify the pictures of 9,020 trees to prove that I’m not a robot. (As if that would prove that I’m not a robot.) (Dr. Oz could probably prove it, though.)
Bah! I was finally here exactly on time for one of these, but it wouldn’t let it go through because my shipping address doesn’t match my credit card’s address because I just moved a few days ago.
No problem, I think. I’ll very quickly change the address. No. Apparently once you get that particular error, Meh thinks you failed the captcha, but doesn’t actually give you a second chance to input the captcha. (Even though it was just the “click here” captcha.)
Damn you internet gods!!!
(Edit : Oh, maybe captcha malfunctions are a more universal problem? Bah. I’m sad either way.)
@OldCatLady It looks like it was that morning save email they’re talking about. With the daily crappy emails coming I forgot that newsletters were a thing.
So I can try again at 8am and 4pm? Or just 8am? Or should I do something productive with the rest of my life? Ha ha, just kidding, I’ll be here both times.
@thismyusername Was there really a special email yesterday?!?! I do get the daily “guess what we are selling 8 hours after we started selling them” emails.
@thelegendaryjt3 Yeah, really what should happen is that the item should be claimed when it goes in the cart, not when it’s paid for. (And then go back into the pool after so-many minutes if the user doesn’t check-out.)
Lot’s of sites with limited inventory work like that.
It would be the same number if you locked in your place in line when you hit the button. (So that it wasn’t decided by who gets hit with credit card issues, or malfunctioning captchas.)
@thismyusername Yeah, i’m not sure i WOULD have gotten one, but it’s kind of frustrating that when i clicked to submit my order, despite having clicked the captcha box, the site stopped me to ask if i was SURE i wasn’t a robot, and when i confirmed again it said “well, i guess it’s all academic because we’re sold out.”
@shayallen LMAO same here, literally weeks of watching time.gov and clicking the website right at 10:00:02 MST (you know, 2 seconds to let the “something went terribly wrong” pass by). The past 2 days I wasn’t as vigilant and so today made sure I stuck with the routine.
3 in a row-What can I say-I’m great. Actually have to thank my Garmin activity tracker. Watch it and when my steps reset to zero at 12:00 each day-that is when I go to the website.
My internet is so slow and weird right now that the captcha couldn’t finish loading until the deal was already paused. And with the pause I don’t even know to be disappointed or not. How do I handle this? It’s all so new! [Except for the slow and weird internet.]
I literally had a car accident today. Locked my keys in my wrecked car with the engine running, and when I got home my desktop would not boot past BIOS. All in an unlucky fuku day. Coincidence that I had just enough bad luck to get one? I SAY NOT!
@Tiverty Sounds like the kind of day I had. I showed up at my new apartment complex at 10am to sign the lease. Keys not ready to 3. Drive back home, hit some debris in the rode- just a pile of grass mowed from the median. Go out to my car at 2 to drive back, the tire is flat. That is when I discover that my newish Fiat doesn’t have a spare. ETA for a tow is over an hour, so I call Uber for a ride to sign the lease. Get that taken care of, but still can’t access the apartment because the shampooers are still in there. (I’m now paying for an apartment I don’t have access to yet). Uber home, realize I left my wallet at the leasing office across town. Call, and call, and call for over an hour with no answer. So here I am with a flat, no wallet, lost a day from my move schedule, have to be at work tomorrow at 11:30, discount tire opens at 8am. Leasing office opens at 10am. Luckily my stepdad can help me out getting the tire taken care of so I can get back on track. I can only hope the people at the leasing office have my wallet… This is after my car battery died on me 2 days ago and I had to get towed across town ><
@growyoungagain thanks, luckily I found my wallet, and got a new set of tires (needed but was going to take care of it after the move). So broke right now, but $5 for some random junk is just the right kind of retail therapy…
OMG, My fuku-sense was tingling. I hit the site at exactly 11:00 Central Time and was still to late. I have never been able to get one of these, and this was the closest I have ever been
I hurried so fast through check out I didn’t even see if I clicked on VMP or just regular shipping… I’m guessing since I don’t have the V next to my name I just bought regular shipping… awe well, guess no VMP for me till the next item I want shows up.
@mehybe I think the ‘K’ takes precedence over the ‘V’ (and the goat over the ‘K’), but you can always see the full list of a user’s traits by hovering over the icon (or username).
I’m done. F5’d at 10:00:01 and got screwed for the third time in a row. If I’d missed it–slept through it or forgot to check, that’s one thing–but I didn’t. I was right there. So yeah. Not waking up at 0:dark:30 just to miss it again. Congrats on an accurate description, yet again. I’m done. seriously?
Maybe just maybe if you want vmpcustomers you should have enough stock last more than 30 seconds. I did what i was supposed to and you hit me with captcha just for fuko. Not any other time. Just this time. “NOT FUNNY NOT FUNNY.” - Terry Bradshaw
since your name ends in “bot”, i guess you are a robot
having said that, i want to say you are not an entirely interesting robot. your sentence structure seems somewhat limited and predictable.
i was cutting up some dried fruits and was interuppted by the idea that a sale might have started
–train!–
hang on, what were we talking about?
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Write-up says, "Especially because, out of sheer perversity, we emailed everybody on our list yesterday."
Was this some different email than the “teaser” one.?B’cause I didn’t get any special newsletter email or anything.
Congratulations to everyone who snagged one! So many first-timers this go around. Well done, everyone! The site seemed to load pretty smoothly, too. I wonder how well it holds up in the morning once it’s had all night to build the hype.
“Surging Blind Surprise” … if that doesn’t evoke both fukubukuro and a dangerous sounding Google Image Search result, I’m … Aw, dammit, it’s all political crap and Dexter memes. And another first timer here, too!
As a totally normal human who loves to drink dihydrogen monoxide and also enjoys respiring I just love the meh Fukobukuro!!! Me and my parallel units just love how the Fukobukuro allows us to [data file lost].
In for 4 and of course I got VMP it pauses the shipping costs.
what’s the hidden massage in morning addition? morning edition is an NPR thing. morning addition could be talking about plus signs.
wait, maybe it is tangentially meaning blouse signs? plus signs - blouse signs?, hang on, perhaps we will all have flowery blouses on when we wake up in another dimension?
@Yoda_Daenerys it was more of an hour long soak followed a shower as part of my personal vendetta against the environment that I carry out thru heavy rubber ducky usage.
@LaVikinga Mine went straight to spam. I only looked in the spam folder because of the mention of them sending an email. Wonder how many previous ones they sent that went to spam and I never noticed?!?!?
@cengland0 Just looked at that morning save email again. If there was info about the Fuko, it was too obscure for me to notice. Maybe it was a coincidence of timing?
@LaVikinga I read the email, there was even a thread about it, and I didn’t catch anything. But “Morning Edition Fuko” and the morningsave email seems like more than coincidence.
@LaVikinga It didn’t mention anything about the Fuko but it was a newsletter. Newsletters being sent is a good indication that a Fuko offering is near – at least I would be on the lookout for one.
@sammydog01 Ah, I didn’t get the connection between Morningsave and Morning Edition (read Addition) Fuko – Good catch.
@boc Damn You, Sir. Woke up at 5 am to nab one of these. Burton was green and it was going to let me order. My heart was full of unparalleled joy. Then I clicked on the “Just buy it already” button and the green bar just kept loading…and loading…and loading. “Oops!” It says something went wrong - let’s try again. Surely since I clicked the button already and made it that far it already reserved me one. I click again. “Oops, Sorry. We’re Sold Out”
I hope the British invade the East Coast and burn it to ashes. I hope the modern day Paul Revere is too distracted playing Pokemon Go to warn anybody that the British are coming, and they sneak right in and wreak complete havoc on your accented English that nobody enjoys. I hope they bring Australia with them, and they force all of your toilets to flush the other way just like theirs. I hope George Washington comes back from the dead and says “F this - I’m going to the Bahamas” and abandons you all in your hour of need. Then, I hope that the British decide to make public their intention to fight their final battle in your hometown at 8am ET, and when you elicit the help of California, we remember this day, and we do not come to your aid.
damn. It seems as though the stupid Google Captcha thing is what took too long. I had the order page up. But by the time I went through three rounds of that crap, it was sold out.
Aww, I tried to get one but it failed at processing my order and then they were sold out. Mostly I wanted another canvas bag I can forget to take to the store
I arrived at 8:00:01 like a well-oiled machine. Everything smooth. Clicked buy. Clicked “I’m not a robot”. Clicked the button. And watched the green bar fill up over and over again. 30 seconds later, “sorry error occured”. No go. Foiled by random server gremlins.
thwarted by the anti-robot technology.
hard to pick storefronts out of 9 or 12 images that are maybe 1" x 1" on my monitor.
then a street sign.
got to the just buy it already, but then on to “there was a problem” try again.
and that’s all she wrote.
some other sucker got my box of worthless garbage.
Missed the 8AM. Somehow. On it like white on rice, but there was a “problem”. Then I was a robot. Then it was sold out. Oh well. Maybe I’ll try again at 4pm. More coffee now.
I arrived at 8:00:01 like a well-oiled machine. Everything smooth. Clicked buy. Clicked “I’m not a robot”. Clicked the button. And watched the green bar fill up over and over again. 30 seconds later, “sorry error occured”. No go. Foiled by random server gremlins.
@awk Same here. I am not a robot “check” Green bar loading over and over “check”. Green bar loading and loading and loading… “Oops something went wrong” , “let’s try that again” , “sorry we are sold out”… Fuko-12 Me-0
So this is what it feels like to not get a fuku|o.
Eh… back to bed? Or go into work on time for once?
BTW- @snapster et al, my thanks to you for reserving 0 for VMPs. Now I don’t need to make some excuse for leaving my 3:30 meeting at 3:55 for 10 minutes.
I was in the purchase process, but selected to get VMP instead of regular shipping.
The purchase timed out, but still signed me up for VMP.
So I was just billed $5 and got nothing…
That’s not cool at all.
@TheChrisGlass I believe you have to be vmp at least 24 hours before you order something like fukuboro on meh. Thus, even at 4 pm today you won’t get to try for a fukuboro bag but you can still contact them and cancel your subscription…they will refund your five dollars if you don’t use their free shipping during the month…
Ugh, was logged in on both my phone and my computer, both went all the way through the purchase and verify process and then “there was a problem” and then “sold out”. I have been foiled every time (if it weren’t for the kickstarter I would never have been able to share in the misery). Perhaps missing is meh’s birthday gift to me today. To save me from the experience. You would think I would know better but I shall try again later for the VMP’s.
/giphy sad face
/giphy never learns
@thismyusername Perhaps if just clicking the box worked. Instead of having to click the box and then take extra time to “click all the boxes with the street sign in it.” I understand why they do it but it doesn’t make it less frustrating. I’m logged in, I’m clearly not a robot. Who would want to buy this crap en mass anyhow?
@seraphimcaduto doesn’t meant I’m not going to try at 4PM and that it wasn’t fun but the loading bar 9x then that message, that awesome feeling that you FINALLY made it and nope you didn’t, it’s like my last promotion interview with municipal HR. Eh I need a shower after that thouht.
Aaakkkk. Got there in time, but was defeated by the anti-robot request. What does one do when one gets this: “Are you a robot? You have to tell us if you’re a robot.” but there is no captcha or other way to prove one is human?
Wait!!! I was in right at the crack of eight hit buy, waited forever for the purchase screen to come up and then it wouldn’t let me complete the sale because it didn’t give me any choice to pick what I was trying to purchase…?
Absolutely furious. I had it - was right on the dot at 8AM then I realized my credit card had been replaced because the info had gotten stolen and they changed my card. By the time I was able to correct the info, gone.
get all the way to checkout, green bar fills up, then it tells me “we’re sorry, we cannot process your order because we are not sure which product you are trying to buy”
Fuko you-o Meh. You really fuko’d my morning up. Even your Captcha doesn’t know what a store front is. Then car, we both knew cars. Waited for many painful green bars to get “sorry error occurred”. I hate Meh. You’ve ruined my life many mornings with your mediocre shit. The real Fuko was stumbling upon Meh in the first place.
Fell asleep on the sofa between 8:40 and 8:45 last night. Some cat yowling woke me at 8:58. My computer takes a long time to boot up. I missed it last night. Shut down. Stumbled over a cat in the hallway (well, more like kinda moved him with my foot).
I figured it was over. One last check on my Kindle Fire, just to make sure I’d clicked the Meh button and I saw that it would be up again at 8:00 EDT. Five here. I set the alarm on the Fire and put it under my pillow. Didn’t matter, I had a shit night’s sleep. But I was booting up this morning at 4:35.
I was all logged in and ready to go. Fuko comes up. I click buy, no, I’m not a robot. The green line keeps moving. Then “there’s something wrong with your order, try again”. I try. And I try. And I try. And I try. “Aw, too bad sold out.”
Just for kicks I checked my order status.
scary-eloped-kitten
Now that the Zantac is working and I’m still tired, back to bed.
Today will be a good day. My new Cameo 3 will be here! I won a Fuko! (Winning is even better when you thought you’d lost.)
Bollocks. Of course the puppy distracted me last night, having been quite naughty getting into the bathroom garbage. O foul fuko fate, you keep me from that which I so perversely want.
Loaded the page at 8, clicked the buy button, waited for the panel to load - that took a while -. Did the verification, clicked the order button - that took even longer. Then I get a generic error message. Try again, and it complains about me being an inbox. Reload the page and it is sold out. So apparently I escaped receiving my first fuko.
Except that I switch to gmail and there is a new email in my inbox: your meh.com order of…
I got errors on the site but I got an email saying I actually got one of these. Looking forward to being (almost?) disappointed again when I open the box, you freaking bastards!!
Truth is in the description. Will save my entitlement rage for another day. Site thought I was a robot so I will follow Asimov’s laws and not harm anyone, not let anyone come to harm and you know the rest.
@mdrcoast And now I checked my e-mail and have an e-mail confirmation that I did get one. I feel entitled and can now harm as I am not a robot. Suck it Asimov.!
TODAY is the day you want me to re-enter my credit card information? DAMN IT, MEH! I HAD it. I was all ready to get my Fuku bag, and you decided that, even though I bought the item you were selling two days ago successfully, TODAY was the day I needed to re-enter my unchanged credit card info.
-Buy. Wait. Green bar. Green bar. Green bar.
-There was a problem. Crap. Refresh.
-Sorry, we’re sold out. Double crap.
-This can’t be happening. How did I miss it!? I hate you, Captcha! Well, it’s okay… maybe I can use the $5 somewhere else. But I can’t believe I missed it, circuit breaker and all. Life just isn’t worth living anymore. I’m not even mediocre. Goodbye, cruel world. Eh, then again, it’s fine. I’ll get it next time.
-Email confirmation arrives. Order successful.
Got to check out sitting in the back of the box doing my shift change checkoff and was so excited to only find out that it was sold out by the time it processed the transaction. dang ambulance interference with network speed.
Well fuck you meh, despite the server’s early lies, there is apparently a fukin’ fuko in my order history, placed 8:01. It’s too early in the morning for this kind of emotional manipulation…
/giphy wrenching-papery-winter
Had to put in my credit card info again. There was a problem. And then all sold out. Meh. Maybe I’ll be disappointed next time, I think. A few minutes later I get an email. Guess what?
/giphy bossy-uncovered-income
Wait a minute meh! Why would you play with my heart this way?! The order page told me it was sold out, but I just checked my email and it seems the order did go through!
HOORAY!
/giphy "emotional rollercoaster"
Not sure what to say except damnit. I’m 0-12 for this shit and getting more and more entrenched in my efforts. I don’t quit, Meh, I Kobayashi Maru. Of course, that would mean learning to code and probably learning multiple programming languages. Meh. Afterall, it is just a bag.
@Texas_Tascha If you right click on your image, open in a new tab, you can then see the full size image. Your name and address is publicly visible. You may want to fix that.
@MrMark, While there’s still something about it that makes me a bit uneasy (I blame it on my addiction to murder porn), I gotta admit my first thought (aside from DOH!) was, “Well hey, if someone wants to come over & help me pick up all the dog sh*t off my patio that would be AWESOME!”
Cause srsly… my dogs REFUSE to poo in the grass & it’s gross.
@MrMark I agree with you. There was a time when nearly everyone was listed in the phone book along with their address. Today, more people are paranoid about that. Suppose it’s a privacy thing.
I work from home and have my home address published as my business address. Doesn’t bother me at all.
Add me to the ones who thought they didn’t get one only to get an email a few minutes later. Meh, I got one. I can’t wait for the disappointment to arrive.
/giphy gutsy-afraid-pet
I usually leave for work right at 7am cst when this was going down. So at 6:58am I started watching like a hawk, and at 7:00:03 I hit refresh…waited…waited…waited…site loaded, hit buy, waited, went through the always weird and mega lame “click this stuff” captcha, only took 2 screens worth of stuff then progress bar…OOOPS sold out!
Let’s try again:
It’s one thing when my wife calls me“a Robot” during sex…but it is downright humiliating and rude when a mediocre website calls me one…
Woohoo! Got a ‘We had a problem’ error message when trying to order, but just checked my Email and order is placed! ‘small-impatient-minotaur’, come to Papa!! Thanks Meh!!!
Was out at a midnight showing of The Girl With All The Gifts at TIFF, and missed out on the sale. The movie was highly entertaining, though!
Sadly for those who were there at midnight, that deal pause was triggered. So, occasional-fractured-bread at 8:01am.
Checked this morning on my phone at 7:50am before work which I hardly ever do since I’m always busy trying to rush out the door to get my son to daycare. I guess I got lucky and saw a Fuku for sale. Rushed to turn on my computer since it’s easier to edit my payment/shipping info since it’s been a while since I bought something on meh. Pushed F5 several times around 7:59am and finally the buy button was there. Clicked and waited and waited for the green bar to go through. When it did, it said sold out. I was bummed but I didn’t mind. Got into work and checked my Gmail and saw that the order went through. weepy-aggressive-yogurt
Do you even know where MEH started? Last time I got lucky with RBOC was June 20th 2008, apparently its in my account and got an e-mail confirming. Can it be true I got lucky again. Only time will tell I will surely forget about it and then one day maybe some crap will show up at my door!
Yes! I got one! I missed out on it at midnight and returned at 8 am.
The purchase process (at 8 am) was returning errors and kept asking if I was a robot. I exited the purchase screen and refreshed the website and it showed that it was all sold out. I was bummed until I got an email showing my purchase. Yay!
Hit the site at 7am. Hit Buy. Watch a green progress bar fill and empty again and again and again, until finally it says there was a problem. Try again, and it’s old out. Then, a few minutes later, I get email confirmation of my order! Meh all around.
What the Fukobukuro… I tried to get one right at 8AM and got denied and when I tried to hit retry it gave me the “you be a robot” and I couldn’t be like “no I ain’t” as the button was gone. So I was like Fukobukuro it, saved me like $10 (or 5 egg rolls). Just checked my email and what do you know, underwhelmed-novel-sprite, so I did get one. And so the expectation of disappointment begins…
Ok. Im am not doing well. Got captcha’d at midnight. Now at 8 i keep pressing the buy it button and nothing happens. For 2 minutes nothing. Going for 0 for 3 at 4pm i guess. IRKKED
“The model number of this item looses the Google search war to YouTube and Facebook profiles, Tumblr feeds, and even Urban Dictionary.” <-- Spec writer missed this one. FTFY.
I finally got a Fukobksdf… a bag! I am so excited! I wish there was an option for me to pick it up from Mediocre Labs’ office as I am close to Carrollton.
In fact, how awesome would it be if Meh had a Museum for Mediocre Members? You could pick up your order there, a few of whatever is on sale that day could be “in-store only”, you could get autographed pics of the Singing Cowboy, and pose for pics with Irk…
Missed it at midnight because of expired credit card and an argument over whether I was a robot or not. Thought I missed the 0800 relaunch but I just found a jealous-stimulating-middle confirmation email which lets me know disappointment awaits.
@darkdragon I hope you were more sucessful at 4:00. I was on my phone and computer again and this time it had me go through 2 rounds of “select the squares with street signs” after clicking I’m not a robot and it was sold out. I’m really over not being a robot.
@katylava I think they cancel each other out and it spells doom for the whole birthday. Super unlucky. I might change my tune if my kitten hasn’t licked her suture open by the time I get home from work.
@DrunkCat That long processing spin kills me every time too. I always think “should I cancel and retry or just wait? man it’s been too long…maybe I should…nah that’s stupid, don’t want to miss my chance…SOLD OUT…GREAT AWESOME”
I tried to buy one right at 8am sharp, and my purchase screen timed out, and then came back with a sold out message when I tried again. No surprise there… the surprise was when I checked my email a bit ago, and saw I had a purchase confirmation email! Whoo-hoo, it actually went thru! Sweet.
So I’m still in bed sleeping when I woke up to the Mrs. beside me on the laptop. It’s 7AM CDT and she’s yelling, “I’m not a robot you idiots!” She had the box checked but it kept telling her she was a robot. Needless to say she didn’t get her Fuko. She usually takes my stuff anyway so I guess “we” got our Fuko last night.
@rmeden I noticed that also. Usually about the same but tilted toward the 12 pm orders. Maybe trying to make up for the years us east coasters have been wronged.
You think this is bad…how about trying to purchase for $100 dollars one of 21,000 never ending pasta bowl cards at Olive Garden good for 7 weeks unlimited food and all bought up as soon as u hit buy button…bet robots bought them all!
@AttyVette Thank goodness. Can you imagine Meh shoppers with unlimited Olive Garden pasta cards? We’re talking pasta related ER visits here. Carb poisoning, nasty tomato paste burns to the gums, chronic garlic breath, and the exponential weight gain over seven weeks of perpetual pasta consumption. I’m glad I missed it!
@accelerator see, now you made me hungry for Olive Garden. I’m traveling for work and was going to hit a local diner, but now i’ll have to google “olive garden near me” and see if i can get garlic breath.
@mjc94ma The bag is a random mishmash of items they weren’t able to completely sell out of. Basically it’s a way for them to clean house when they don’t have enough of an item to actual put it up for sale. Sometimes you get total crap, other times you’ll get some pretty nice pieces of meh.
@trimm I got “identify the storefronts” or something absurdly hard [is a gas station a storefront…???] and just lost my sanity and insta-failed to get a new one
@aardWolf Same here, I failed the first one, “pick the squares with the street sign”, well I picked them but either it was a trick question or there was a hidden sign cause it made me do another one, and after that I got the sold out message
leh sigh , thought i would try another computer and i almost made it except the captcha checkbox wasn’t reacting fast enough, it was a nice streak while it lasted. congrats to those who got one
I should know not to try to get one of these because it’s just not worth the frustration and annoyance but this is such bullshit. I refreshed, I clicked, I verified, and “Sold Out”.
Honestly, the only reason I try is I want a Meh bag. Sell me a Meh bag, Meh.
Captcha wrecked me, too. There has to be a better way. Or only let X number of people get to that verification page, where X is the amount you have in stock.
Dang. VMP here and missed it even though I was prepped the second it popped up. Took forever to get to the “I’m Not a Robot” purchase screen and even then (even though it was checked) it took several tries before it realized I was not, in fact a robot. Booooo (about missing the Fuko - not about not being a robot.)
DAMN IT! It spent so long processing my payment that it sold out again.
Hey, Meh - I would happily pay a $100 / year VMP membership if it came with automatic Fukubukuro bags. Just every one that comes up, you autocharge my card $5, and be done.
I was not a robot, box checked and…sold out again after trying again. I wish I was a robot, if only real life could match that damn Captcha thing always calling me a robot…Ah well, the game was fun. Though your server STILL sucks a large amount of wang, twice in a row server errors robbed me. how I feel!
Next time server, next time!
I feel better now, that was disappointing and oddly fun!
Not sure why I did not get it since I refreshed the page on the second and it was sold out while I was checking out. So they sold out in 10 seconds? The VIP membership does not do me any good. I canceled it once before and since it did not help now I will be canceling it again.
meh, I tried at 7am and 3pm. So close bit didn’t make the cut. Glad I now have the chance to try at the later times as I’m unavailable for the 11pm start.
@H3xtor666 yes you should, and make sure you don’t opt for VMP if you buy more than one item in a month… that will show 'em.
in all honesty you should buy vmp when you buy anything, and then cancel it if you don’t use it for 28 days after the next charge… UNLESS you really want the perks.
Go into work early to get everything set up and ready to snipe one of these. Get pulled away from my desk to do something real quick for a co worker. Miss it by 2 minutes. /job. going home.
Ridiculous. …
There’s no way that they can sell out in less then a minute. Had it , hit I’m not a robot …
Out of luck …
I was on it right when it came available, couldn’t have been online for more then 15 seconds …
I’ve been buying so much stuff that I will never use but it’s a good deal . Every time one of these deals comes I can never get it . Not fair …
I guess it time to quit this website .
Great deals but has to be done .
@snapster: Will you ever do a meh off where you put up one item for sale until it sells out followed by another and another until you’ve cleared out your warehouse for the month?
Sold out at 8:00:01am?
I refreshed my web page at 7:59:55am so that it renewed the page exactly at 8:00:00 and rapidly clicked BUY and then it took 75 seconds to load the next window to tell me it was sold out… I have fast internet so it was definately your server stalling. Tried again at 4:00…same thing
So you release nearly double this morning (which was 6 AM my time) and then only release 68 for VMPs this afternoon? WTH? You used to have special VMP-only sales and stuff, too, and I haven’t seen one of those in months.
I ordered a total of one item in August and before that my last order was May. So congrats on fooling me out of $10, but I’m cancelling VMP. Not worth it if I’m vying for one of only 68 fukos you kept back “as a nod of thanks.” You’ll refund the $5 for this month, yes?
@magnuspraeda What’s really frustrating is that I was all about meh. I have a meh coffee mug on my desk in front of me. I wore my I Like Irk shirt on Saturday and I’ve got three other meh shirts and a mediocre labs shirt. I even have and wear the mediocre socks. And I’m sure I’m not the only one in this boat–proudly reppin’ meh and still getting no fuko. But am I alone in feeling like I should get something for my $5/month if I haven’t used it for free shipping that month or the month before that?
I mean, that’s the point, right–people like me who only use the free shipping occasionally subsidize the folks who use it all the time? I just don’t feel like a shot at 68 holdover fukos is really much of a “thanks.”
@ELUNO Did I ever say I wanted them to hold thousands of Fukos? I said only holding 68 for VMPs was lame.
They oversold them twice over at 8 AM because their server screwed up yet again and then massively cut the VMP hold to make up for it.
At least you got one (and probably one of the oversold ones, since you complained about not getting it, using the emoji, I might add, before you saw it come through your email).
@magnuspraeda The 4.00p VMP offering is always a very thin slice of the pie. Even on boring items, that circuit breaker tends not to last long, and we get nearly fuku-esque whining in here. Without a circuit breaker, fukus sell out in a minute. With a teeny, tiny (but again, proportionate to other deals) cache of them set aside at 4… what do you expect?
@magnuspraeda You didn’t spell it, but you are clearly demonstrating it with your bitchin’
There is a huge difference about my emoji and how I complained in a much lighter tone, and mostly blaming the gods. Unlike you and your self righteousness demanding meh to give you lots of privileges because you paid 5 bucks…
And thanks for noticing me that much
Strike 3 for me. Well, strike 2 technically since I didn’t take an at-bat at midnight. Maybe if I didn’t have to pick 6 street signs I might have had a chance, but that life.
Congrats to those that got them. I liked the the pause on this though. Extends the fun beyond the first 2 minutes of the day.
you’re so fuckin lucky i got one at 1pm @meh bc i was about to just fuckin RAAAAAAGE AT YOU @MEH ABOUT RELEASING MORE AT 5AM THAN AT 9PM. fuck you @meh. but we cool bc i got one at 1.
i just thought i’d rage tag myself since i didn’t get any rage tags today
/giphy rage because I had the fuku and the bar loaded so many times then stated “Oops sorry try again” then “Sorry we don’t know that you aren’t a robot” I surely got rekt on this day
0 for 3. How does that happen if i refresh page on the hour click buy it go through captcha unnecessarily and click yes just buy it already and failed to obtain the product. The buy it button didnt work at 8am. At 4pm where PAYING VMP MEMBERS are suppose to be able to purchase product if they click buy it right at the stated time. Why should there be only 68 left if for VMP members if it doesnt last 20 seconds? Really not exactly fair to waste vmpmembers time.
@medz Then they should stop saying they are saving product for vmp members then failing to deliver. If immediately order at the stated time i should receive the item. I press buy it then i should have the item reserved for me for a period of time so i can complete purchase. The whole captcha game isnt funny anymore.
As one of the downtrodden east coasters (and even worse-one who lives in Florida), I appreciate the consideration for the multiple buy times. But it hasn’t changed my buying habits at all. Since go to the website at exactly 12 AM (and yes was one of the 300+ lucky ones), I fell comfortable knowing I have a backup if I fall 12:00 fails me for some reason.
I didn’t get one, but my father texted me all excited about him getting one.
“I got a FUKOBUKURO. I am going back to sleep.”
Oh dad… Poor guy doesn’t know what he’s in for.
@snapster, if you’re reading this, make sure to send muhdeblu (not using an @ so he doesn’t see this) something especially large, broken, and unruly so he never makes the terrible mistake of buying an unlucky bag ever again.
Crazy, I happened to be connected to both my work and home computer at 8:00, refreshed meh.com in both places, and ended up getting 2 Fukos! I was doubly happy, then one order got canceled, so now I’m singly happy. Still happy.
/giphy happy
I’m curious what has been in past Fuko bags? I was lucky to get one of these. I figured for $5 it couldn’t be much of a let down. Worst case scenario I paid $5 for a red sachel? Lol
@Sweetness80 IMHO it ranges from great (think approaching $1,000?) to not quite worth $5, set your expectations low so you won’t won’t be horribly disappointed.
@Yoda_Daenerys Yeh some end up costing the person money-like the guy who got all those broken 39 inch TVs with the screen smashed. Bet he couldn’t just put them out for trash-sure he had to pay to hall them away or pay some type of dump fee.
@HemlockTea By taking up more space, the Buddha head is actually making your apartment more energy efficient because there is less space to heat and cool!
Edit: I use the same argument with my wife for why I always need a case of beer in the fridge.
Hey. Hey. It would be a total surprise and absolutely blow everyones’ mind if there was another fukobukuro tonight.
Brilliant, eh?
(I’m trying not to be bitter about missing this by, oh, 2 seconds.)
I am a little confused. Went for the morning Meh, tried and failed (apparently). Happened to log into to my credit account and saw it went through. I received no email about the order, nothing. Did this happen to anyone else?
That’s it. I refuse to tolerate this shit any longer. Came home to find 2 boxes from meh on my doorstep and guess what?,?, they ain’t fukos of course, just stuff my dutifull ass bought over the last few weeks. I’m canceling my VMP and while I’m at it, gonna cancel a few other member’s VMPs too, cuz I can do that! You lost a good one today Meh… nah, what the hell. Let’s check out tonight’s junk!
@lisaviolet I have reconsidered canceling your VMP. You have proven your exceeding mehness, and must remain a member of the VMP lest we, as a group, have to rely on our intestinal mehtitude!
Missed at midnight and 8am, but snagged it at 4pm. Apparently there were only 68 in that batch? If true, that’s crazy lucky for me. Have never gotten a Fuku; two previous Fukos. Will let the disappointment build slowly until it arrives. Mehtastic.
@cwellsatl Because you only pay for shipping once a month? It’s up to you to take advantage of it. This was the first time they did this special thing for VMP mehmbers. Also the first time they split the sale to help out the whiny east coasters (I’m a west coaster and got a Fuko on the morning sale, set my alarm to wake me up at 4:30 and everything, so east coasters, I got one a yer Fukos…).
Anything over the one time charge for multiple shipping is icing on the cake, AFAIC.
@cwellsatl I’m VMP and I was one of the first 366. You don’t HAVE to wait for the last offering.
You pay $5 for surprise perks, free shipping, and to have an extra chance at popular deals at 4pm.
So @snapster USED to give us a Fukubukuro (lucky bag) and charged us 5. THEN they added that stupid O. now it is a Fukobukuro (misfortune bag) and he STILL charges us the 5!?!?!?!? WTF Meh? I know where this is going @snapster. Mark my words, minions, pretty soon it will be an Utsubukuro (depressing bag) and he will STILL charge us the 5, maybe more! And we will still buy it
After years of trying on the “site that shall not be named” I was finally able to score one of these rare rare umm things. I’m looking forward to bags of air…and I better get at least 7. Ready for 99.9% of useless crap with the off chance I get something cool like matching used socks. My life will be complete.
@Woody1 - Arriving 9/29/16 The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
Bet you my five dollar
That tomorrow
There’ll be meh crap!
Just thinkin’ about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
’Til there’s a mishap!
When I’m stuck a day
That’s gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!
The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
’Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You’re always
A day
A way!
why meh must u give me a false sense of hope that ur taking so long is to organize freight shipping for my pallet full of broken onkyo receivers along with many sacks of goat socks!!!
@HemlockTea Socks can also be made OF goats. Angora goats. Angora socks are actually very nice indeed. We will not be receiving those.
/giphy "angora goats"
@sudotrin Well, I was going to try and cheer you up and tell you that the closer you live to Dallas, the later they are sending out your Fuko, because they are now trying to get all of the Fukos to arrive about the same time. But that doesn’t look like it in your case.
Sooo… maybe you are going to get one of the “special” Fukos? Don’t know if that would be a good thing or a bad thing.
@Neech 2.2lbs is the placeholder weight, it might or might not actually weigh that… sometimes after it hits the main fedex hub the real weight will get updated, sometimes it never updates.
Downgraded to 2.1 pounds. But went from scheduled delivery on Friday to scheduled delivery on Saturday, this morning, and as of this evening, its getting here on Thursday. Don’t you just love Smartpost? Can’t make up its mind. That’s what happens to some smartypants…
I thought I missed this one, it said the order failed to go through, but the glitch gods smiled upon me and I just noticed a 10.7 pounder is scheduled for delivery this Friday!
This is my first Fuko. Is it customary for one of the boxes to be empty? I opened the package and at the top of the pile is a box of Coca-Cola coasters. Awesome I need some coasters! Pick up the box and it weighs nothing, open it and it’s just two pieces of styrofoam.
@dbhyslop It is also customary for mediocre to hide things (such as amazon gift cards) in particularly weird Fukos. You should shred the styrofoam and look for treasure!
My Fuko came in today. Meh, but the fun was worth the $5.
Set of 3 walkie talkies
1 red Meh bag
1 Meh sticker
1 Meh foam hockey puck
1 My Little Pony pop up song book
1 Star Wars ruler
1 triangle (instrument)
1 inflatable guitar
No where near as great as the Fuka I got, but I Meh.
edit: it wasn’t packed very well, so it’s possible something fell out.
Mine went from 2.2lbs to 14.9, is in my town for delivery yet had an extra day added. Was coming the 30th not it says 10/1. Confusing for it already being here in KC.
21.sumthin sumthin pounds and taking a break about 50 miles from me until monday it seems. told my wife about the weight of my precious; she’s pissed that we could be getting something large she doesn’t want. whatever. she doesn’t know what’s meh for her.
@franjie77 I got one of those Haier tablets in the last Fuku. Plug it in and let it charge for about an hour, then do a system wipe – hold the up volume button in for about 10 seconds and it’ll load into the boot menu. Do a restore on it and it should be good to go (unless it’s actually totally broken).
They’re not the best tablets, but not bad for free
@Rstoker Assuming it powers up, as others have said, get the tablet in recovery (pwr + vol down usually) do a factory wipe and you might get it going again
Meh bag
Meh sticker
Meh foam hockey puck
Piranha sunglasses, exactly like this
Memphis Belle Tin Waste Bin 2
Inflatable beach ball (I think)
Bormioli Rocco Selecta tumbler set of 6; 2 survived 4 broken3
Completely surprised to find a 14.7 lbs box when I got home as I was told I was rejected twice. My Fuko included:
1 Suprise Box on my doorstep
1 Meh bag
1 Meh squishy stress hockey puck
1 Meh sticker
1 Mr. Coffee Coffeemaker with a slightly cracked water tank
1 circular Pepsicola serving tray
2 POW! fly swaters
1 2pac shot glass
1 totally not a douche with a 9in nozzle
Meh should never tell anyone if their purchase went through and just surprise them as it took this box from mediocre to magnanimous.
Got mine today:
1 Meh bag
1 Meh squishy hockey puck
1 Meh sticker
1 Polarized sunglasses
2 handsfree GoJo headset (to stick you flip phone to the side of you head
1 deck of ‘Whom’ italian made playing cards with pop culture 'royal cards’
1 bricked, abused, ‘Trio Stealth-8’ tablet (that I’ve revived but holy crap what a POS, originally sold @ walmart)
Tablet camera doesn’t work, its laggy and all around terrible but for free, its an awesome that I get to try to root and break further.
1 Meh bag
1 Meh squishy hockey puck
1 Meh sticker
1 Ceramic salt & pepper shaker set in the shape of hamburgers.
1 Chef Pals Chicken thermometer (I hope my chickens hold still long enough to use it)
1 PoGo 850mAh Power Card
1 Blendtec Classic 475 blender - Works great!
Great haul! Love the blender. As for the other items… Will they blend?
1 Meh bag
1 Meh squishy hockey puck
1 Meh sticker
1 Ceramic salt & pepper shaker set in the shape of hamburgers
1 Inflatable Horse
1 Pair of oversized clown glasses
1 Smart Watch
1x Meh red bag which I already took grocery shopping.
1x Meh soft hockey puck.
1x Meh sticker.
1x Beef thermomter.
1x Barbie doll purse with gloves.
1x NuVision tablet in working order. The charger was filthy and had a foul odor.
1 Pair of Floor Cleaning Slippers
Giant Blow up Microphone
Audio Technica Headphone - New! 25 bucks on Amazon!
Star Wars Battle of Endor Wedge Antilles Rebel Pilot
ALIEN Wall Relief 6" FIGURE
Hockey Puck
Sticker
Bag
My 13.1 pound Fukobukuro arrived:
1 Meh bag
1 Meh squishy hockey puck
1 Meh sticker
1 Derringer cap gun
1 POGO Power card
and 1 brand new Blentec Classic 475!!
Specs
What’s in the Box?
It is a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pictures
Full Bag
Empty Bag
Estimated Delivery
Eventually
Warranty
Hahaha no way
FIRST!!!
/giphy i knew it
@jsh139, don’t do that again.
GOT IT
@nsharma2
What sucks is, I’m oh-for-12, but with the new paused deal, I’ll be oh-for-13 with no extra effort.
Is that a bug or a feature?
I got one at the 8am pause! It didn’t actually show success on my browser, I thought I had failed again until the e-mail came!
@SnakeJG same thing happened for me – had an error at purchase and I was so sad.
@plasticfork @SnakeJG Thanks for posting that! I got the error messages at 8 as well and was just prepping to start F5ing for the next ten minutes til I checked my mail and saw my 8am purchase went through, too.
@plasticfork I was so hopefully for a little bit but crushed again like I was at 8 am. I got an error too at 8 am but I checked my email and nothing.
@mandm @plasticfork @SnakeJG Same here!
GOT ONE!
@kevin8er … no you didn’t, Samsung recalled yours. they just haven’t gotten around to telling you yet. wait a few weeks.
/buy
@medz Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@medz, really?
Instead of clicking a single button, you clicked a link here instead, waited for a new page to load under heavy usage, and tried to get mediocre to to get it for you?
/giphy triple facepalm
@haydesigner Actually, I bought manually then came here to try to game the system…er…I mean… do some PROD testing for @shawn.
@medz
@mediocrebot I got that message twice before I double checked my orders and saw that my order did indeed go through. I was fully prepared to blast someone
(sorry, I’m a horrible person)
@haydesigner Please state the nature of your medical emergency.
/image EFF YES!
Yesss
WOW
Holy crap, I got one!
/image flashy-quaint-news
@ruouttaurmind Possibly not the most tactful phrase to use. Prepare for disappointment.
/giphy flashy-quaint-news
Yum
Awww yissss
it’s about time I snagged one!!!
score!
/giphy daring-baffling-dancer
Wow. Got my first one!
@gwaki brace yourself.
@thismyusername …disappointment is coming.
@thismyusername Bracing for impact now
@LaVikinga and Winter. Maybe GoT will have the Walkers bring Fukos.
@mollama Someday I will binge watch GoT. As it stands now, I watch TWD behind my hands for half of the episodes and I know only a few of the characters’ names. Guess I don’t do undead monster squicky stuff very well.
You know how people always say things give them nightmares? For the first time in my life I can honestly say watching a particularly gruesome episode has been known to cause me a nightmare or two.
I’m so very, very unlucky.
/giphy critical-owlish-screw
I needed this after this shitty week, dead car battery, then a flat tire and lost my wallet in the same day. Did I mention I was supposed to move today?
/giphy jaunty-dazzling-ravioli
@HemlockTea Man I hope my fuko has one of those ravioli thingies in it… ^
@HemlockTea The last fuko was two days after my grandmother died. I didn’t get that one either.
@magnuspraeda
@HemlockTea
Try a good brownie recipe, now that you bagged this.
@magnuspraeda you are probably better off without both of them.
Got one!
/image statuesque-intangible-expansion
Success!
welp. I fucked up. Saw the alarm, ignored it. Oh well
@capguncowboy Read the fucking page, where it says how many were sold.
Cool, got my bundle of carrots.
@Spork you seem lost.
@Spork Wrong site… Call Meh and ask for a refund…
SCORE!!!
/giphy fussy-predominant-mead
Hey there! How you doin’?
@Mehrocco_Mole Good for you. Now come to bed.
/giphy my first time
@moregin prepare to be underwhelmed.
OP, I got one!
@wronkerville
Scheiße!
@FightingMongoos wrong site, this is an un-lucky bag.
First time getting one… Not sure I’m actually lucky??
vulgar-miffed-owl
@Kingfish28 you’re not, these are fukOs not fukUs, so by definition you are definitely unlucky!
/giphy assorted-motley-spice
@Kirgen well that is not really appropriate . . .
@Kirgen I like the exploding spices much better than the nipples.
@HemlockTea Wait, there were exploding nipples? Ouch.
pale-voidable-observation
Remarkably, this did not bring up any pictures of urine samples. I wonder if I have some sort of nerd safe-search enabled…
Finally got one!!! Now I can cancel my VMP. HA!
/giphy slate-nutty-sausage
Boosh! Got one!
@krichar77
@thismyusername bet he slaps a mean bass!
Awrhat!
Meh… I mean GOT IT
/giphy missed it
Wahoooooo!!! (Turns off 11:58 pm alarm)
yay a new bag!
Teehee!
I don’t care what kind of sh@rt is in this bag. Last time I got one of those steam mop things and it is sweeeeet. And the guy at the Goodwill sorting station was so excited to see the Marilyn Monroe neon desk lamp. I made his day!
Oh, wow. Deal paused. For real? Interesting…
Paused! That’s plenty of time for me to create another account! Double the Fuko! My only regret is buying the 11pm edition with my VMP account. So I can only get 2 today instead of 3. womp womp womp
@medz Let’s assume you’re only kidding and not actually going to be a dick. Right?
@medz Now they will be on to you. You did notice it is a fuko and not a fuku… just sayin’ you might not even get your $5 worth out of it.
@cinoclav Yeah, just pointing out yet another flaw of the stupid pause system. I’m not really going to buy any more. Bag of craps became way less fun when woot started spacing them out selling a little at a time. This is like that, but worse since you know exactly when it’s coming. Since everyone knows what it is and when it’s going to happen, it will be interesting to see what happens at 8am, though… I predict smoke from the server room.
Fuko me, got one! But why another Fuko and and not a Fuku?
@bluebeatpete there are no more Fukus only Fukos now.
snotty-glistening-boundary -
Finally breaking my dry spell on a Fuko… we’ll see how this goes!
questionable-ludicrous-hedgehog
Score
Thank you! I’ve been sitting here for hours about to fall asleep, but I wanted to be awake when the roll around happened just in case. It actually paid off. I’m shocked, quite frankly.
/giphy tempered-slow-reindeer
You have got to fix this recaptcha bullshit.
@yakkoTDI Short of building their own mehptcha, not sure what they can do…
@yakkoTDI It’s not Meh’s fault you’re a robot.
@yakkoTDI
Im guessing the internet will melt at 8am?
@DrSayre at least the azure servers…
Finally popped my fukobukuro cherry!
/giphy rotten-unjust-thing
@mrkenneth That is going to give me nightmares.
@cengland0 making me hungry
@mrkenneth I’m eating right now. Yum.
@mrkenneth Cheese pizza with protein.
@cengland0 @mediocrebot did say it is unlucky. Hopefully they all escape in the FedEx truck.
@mrkenneth Why am I not Very Mediocre yet?
@mrkenneth Yup, had nighmares all night. Had to get up at 4am so only had 3 1/2 hours of sleep last night.
@cengland0 Only 3.5 hours of nightmares? Meh!
@snapster In my haste to bag some unluckiness last night, I think my mediocre fingers may have slipped and paid for shipping instead of VMP membership. See, I am a very mediocre person indeed.
May you swap the shipping fee for VMP membership? Pretty pretty please, with a popped cherry on top?
Actually, this was @OldCatLady’s fault.
@mrkenneth Yes, yes it was. All of it. This month is never gonna end.
/giphy unending
@mrkenneth Holly from customer service made me Very Mediocre!
/giphy yay
@OldCatLady, you are unblamed!
Damn you I’m not a robot button! I couldn’t get through identifying what was a ‘store front’ quickly enough on my phone…so close.
@nickdallas I can never ever get that to work on my phone.
@nickdallas
@nickdallas Only a robot can be fast enough to defeat the anti-robot captcha fast enough to buy.
Good day to be watching the clock with my finger on the button.
Thanks, Meh, for reminding me this week to update my credit card.
Fuk you
/giphy woohoo
Missed the first 9 but got the last 3. Things are looking up! 10 and 11 are sitting at my parent’s house unopened - I hope there’s nothing perishable in there. No time to change the address. This one is coming directly to me.
/buy not a robot
@ruouttaurmind Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
Come on @mediocrebot, no pithy retort?
@ruouttaurmind
@thismyusername I think @mediocrebot is just being pissy because he can’t buy one.
/giphy hissy fit
/buy three
@kus Sorry, the
/buycommand is currently only available to VMP members. Become a VMP.@kus /Giphy I understood some of those words
Interesting… That is a way to bypass the robot check.
@Kidsandliz you can’t bypass it. You have to buy fukos from the regular page.
Wtf. Refreshed at 12:00:00, got a green button, clicked buy, got capcha error, refreshed, and it’s sold out. Bastards.
@oregon_ian clearly a robot, humans can check back at 8am to be re-frustrated all over again
Oh myyyyyyyyyyyy
/giphy technical-united-river
Got as far as “deal paused” when I checked out. Oh well. Good luck, 8 a.m.ers.
The capcha didn’t show up for me. I tried again and it was out. : \
News flash–Morning edition – yippee got one
order name sounds troubling
/giphy fragile-manifold-market
This is bullshit
@j8erg
My first Fukohno!
/giphy ornate radical wheat
Fuko me, got one! But why another Fuko and and not a Fuku? How much random garage sale shit do y’all have lying around?
@bluebeatpete They haven’t had a fuku in a long while… They have all pretty much been fuko’s. The first fuko was April 1 last year (which was also the last one I got of either)…and the photo for that one wasn’t the nice bag photo - rather it looked like a pile of junkyard nuclear waste.
@bluebeatpete meh wanted something they could trademark or something. I don’t think fukobukuro actually translates to anything. Meh made it up.
@bluebeatpete no more fukus, only fukos from now on.
it sold out in less than 2 minutes, according to my computer. made me verify my card and it was over by 9:02. tired of trying for these things. gonna stop checking this site every day, I think.
@maburke it is not sold out, yet… its paused and will be re-available at 8:00am east and then again at 4pm east for VMP members (assuming they don’t overrun at 8am).
First time I spent refreshing at midnight and this comes along! Would’ve been cool to pick it up (and I wouldve), but I hadn’t made an account yet so I didnt deserve it
Fuck you bud. Passed robot test, did the click verify when no more, ah life.
@connorbush you still have 2 more chances.
Was one of the first to click buy. Shipping/CC info was old. Attempted to update. “Are you sure you’re not a robot?” Yes meh, I’m sure. You hosed me.
@iwantmeh
@iwantmeh sounds like you hosed yourself. I’m also curious as to how you know where you fit in in terms of clicking order.
Blame @OldCatLady if you couldn’t get one!
@narfcake I’m not seeing a lot of blames on this one; possibly novices don’t know about goatguilting.
@OldCatLady It must be the goat’s fault that they don’t know about the scapegoat.
/giphy awake-loud-group
@jorba This gif is inspiring.
/image lush-baleful-suit
I assume it will be filled with items that use the iPhone’s headphone jack.
fuckit. I’m making a margarita.
You guys! I went to meh.com at 11:59 and watched the clock diligently; by the time this loaded it was gone! You all on some super strength wifi connections? My lagging lake michigan internet connection just wont let me get one of these.
@lanehammer not gone, just paused… check back at 8am eastern and 4pm eastern
Finally got one!
BS Captcha again.
@Stumpy91
I’m seriously gonna cry. I was there, right there.
I’m gonna go cry.
@wew watch out, tears cause rust.
@thismyusername aw, that’s great! I think it was in the movie “Short Circuit” where the robot said “What do tears mean?” And the person said “It means things are gonna change.” I always thought that was rather poignant.
Yay! And I didn’t have to identify the pictures of 9,020 trees to prove that I’m not a robot. (As if that would prove that I’m not a robot.) (Dr. Oz could probably prove it, though.)
11:01 and all sold out. Fuck you, meh.
@bkharmony not sold out, paused… check back at 8am eastern
/giphy unassuming-dreamy-tarantula
So, bets on when the server breaks in the morning? I’m guessing it starts slowing noticeably by 7:50 and catches fire at about 7:58.
Score!
I hit the meh button before the purchase button. How silly!
/giphy fearing-sporty-mercury
@DonDonSu that is what you are supposed to do.
After missing my first one, I’m back!
/giphy thoughtless-permissible-card
Oh, today I am a robot. Sigh.
@sligett
damn… got to checkout page, checked I’m not a robot, but it didn’t believe me… kept saying I’m a robot!!!
I AM NOT A (F’ING) ROBOT!!!
@Veloslave
Bah! I was finally here exactly on time for one of these, but it wouldn’t let it go through because my shipping address doesn’t match my credit card’s address because I just moved a few days ago.
No problem, I think. I’ll very quickly change the address. No. Apparently once you get that particular error, Meh thinks you failed the captcha, but doesn’t actually give you a second chance to input the captcha. (Even though it was just the “click here” captcha.)
Damn you internet gods!!!
(Edit : Oh, maybe captcha malfunctions are a more universal problem? Bah. I’m sad either way.)
@apLundell
@apLundell I’m the goat this month, it’s my job to say ‘bah’ and ‘me-eh-eh’ so you don’t have to.
/giphy "bleat goat"
Yeah, almost got recaptcha’d but finally got my first one even since the woot days! SO EXCITED!
I didn’t get that email that the writeup talked about. Checked spam and everything. But I was one of the 367 who were here and not a robot on time.
Knew something was up when the site loaded immediately, it’s been timing out at 11 for a couple of weeks now.
@djslack I couldn’t find an email either.
@sammydog01 I’m pretty sure I didn’t either, but I’m buried in blame emails so it’s hard to tell. My fault!
@OldCatLady It looks like it was that morning save email they’re talking about. With the daily crappy emails coming I forgot that newsletters were a thing.
I called it last night in comment #1! Knew it was close and that gangster bag had to go!
Meh, I hate you more than life itself.
YES!!! grave-herbivorous-cockatoo
/image quirky-confused-volcano
So I can try again at 8am and 4pm? Or just 8am? Or should I do something productive with the rest of my life? Ha ha, just kidding, I’ll be here both times.
Yes! Excited about this one.
After YEARS of missing on Woot and Meh, I FINALLY GOT ONE!!! I hope it was worth the wait, and not a box of Built NY Kindle sleeves…
@madmaxmedia Be prepared to be happy, confused, and sad all at the same time
@madmaxmedia
You do realize that with this posting you’ve sealed your own fate, right? They still have these floating around the offices / warehouse . . .
@Pavlov Now I have some time to figure out what to do with them. A giant neoprene quilt perhaps?
No idea why, but I had a feeling this would happen today, so I was ready right at 9. Success!!!
/giphy knowing-homegrown-warlock
Nooooo! I nodded offfff!
You emailed everyone yesterday?!? I didn’t get an email?!?
@ELUNO
“I didn’t get your spam” – no one ever
@thismyusername Was there really a special email yesterday?!?! I do get the daily “guess what we are selling 8 hours after we started selling them” emails.
@ELUNO I dunno I will go look at my email…
edit: not that I can see, just the daily email thinger.
Sold out in two minutes and my coworker was three minutes late lol. Oh well, congratulations to those who got it. Time to try my luck at 5am.
@Bluedragon07 not sold out, paused… try again at 8am and 4pm eastern
@thismyusername Nope, got an error at 8 and a Captcha that made me too late at 4pm. Bummed but oh well.
@Bluedragon07 the server gods have saved you from extra trash.
Got lucky… maybe, Definitely my first one
@jbone108 muahahahahah
So dumb
@steelemx cheer up bud, your not that dumb.
/giphy living-rough-mink
/image living-rough-mink
BS that you are able to click and “load” what is essentially the shopping cart page only to be told they sold them all.
FIX THIS CRAP
@thelegendaryjt3 Yeah, really what should happen is that the item should be claimed when it goes in the cart, not when it’s paid for. (And then go back into the pool after so-many minutes if the user doesn’t check-out.)
Lot’s of sites with limited inventory work like that.
@thelegendaryjt3 Read the page carefully. Look at how many were sold.
@OldCatLady 367. Right.
It would be the same number if you locked in your place in line when you hit the button. (So that it wasn’t decided by who gets hit with credit card issues, or malfunctioning captchas.)
@apLundell What does that have to do with any thing? CC @oldcatlady What’s 367 mean?
@thelegendaryjt3 That’s how many sold. @OldCatLady said to look at the number. So I did. Even after looking at the number, I still agree with you.
@thelegendaryjt3
@OldCatLady
Same old same old.
Sigh.
I grant you 1024 Unblames.
@thismyusername Yeah, i’m not sure i WOULD have gotten one, but it’s kind of frustrating that when i clicked to submit my order, despite having clicked the captcha box, the site stopped me to ask if i was SURE i wasn’t a robot, and when i confirmed again it said “well, i guess it’s all academic because we’re sold out.”
Cant believe it! This year has been something else!?!
/giphy soaking heartbroken frame
/buy
@ELUNO Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
/image no /buy for you!
@mediocrebot I am a real boy
/giphy "real boy pinnochio"
@ELUNO
@thismyusername They are unto me!
/giphy selfdestruct
/image I shouldn’t be laughing at this…
Ive never gotten one of these before. What does it usually consist of? Some junk that no one wanted? 1 or more pieces? That neat bag?
/giphy adverse-doomed-prison
@slipmagt instead of wasting money on dumpsters they just pile up the trash then box it up and sell it for $5 a pop!
@slipmagt yes
Well, this will be the first fuko|u that I don’t get (if I don’t get it at 8AM or 4PM).
Such is life.
Got it this time.
resourceful-rainy-silver
So excited I get to sleep in tomorrow!
I’ve been camping this site for weeks and it finally paid off! Ahahahahahaha!!!
@shayallen LMAO same here, literally weeks of watching time.gov and clicking the website right at 10:00:02 MST (you know, 2 seconds to let the “something went terribly wrong” pass by). The past 2 days I wasn’t as vigilant and so today made sure I stuck with the routine.
@shayallen You have no idea what disappointment lies ahead.
@shayallen I take it you used all the camping equipment sold on meh…
@OldCatLady I’ve never been more excited to be so disappointed!
Actually got one this time!!!
…oh no I have nothing to look forward to anymore…
/giphy bold winding pig
I hope this time my Fuko arrives in fewer than 12,437 shards of razor-sharp ceramic.
/image defiant-ghoulish-wheat
@rv617 That doesn’t look like wheat to me. Ghoulish maybe, but not wheat.
@heartny This better?
/giphy defiant-ghoulish-wheat
3 in a row-What can I say-I’m great. Actually have to thank my Garmin activity tracker. Watch it and when my steps reset to zero at 12:00 each day-that is when I go to the website.
My internet is so slow and weird right now that the captcha couldn’t finish loading until the deal was already paused. And with the pause I don’t even know to be disappointed or not. How do I handle this? It’s all so new! [Except for the slow and weird internet.]
@mossygreen simple… you show up at 8am eastern, get disappointed again… then 4pm and your score one, naw scratch that you end up disappointed again.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@thismyusername You have correctly read the future, I suspect/fear.
Got my first FUKU
@Copia when?
If you mean today… you got a fuko… brace yourself.
@thismyusername for excitement I hope?
@Copia muahahahah
Meh
, I’m not sure how I feel about our relationship.
I literally had a car accident today. Locked my keys in my wrecked car with the engine running, and when I got home my desktop would not boot past BIOS. All in an unlucky fuku day. Coincidence that I had just enough bad luck to get one? I SAY NOT!
@Tiverty Sounds like the kind of day I had. I showed up at my new apartment complex at 10am to sign the lease. Keys not ready to 3. Drive back home, hit some debris in the rode- just a pile of grass mowed from the median. Go out to my car at 2 to drive back, the tire is flat. That is when I discover that my newish Fiat doesn’t have a spare. ETA for a tow is over an hour, so I call Uber for a ride to sign the lease. Get that taken care of, but still can’t access the apartment because the shampooers are still in there. (I’m now paying for an apartment I don’t have access to yet). Uber home, realize I left my wallet at the leasing office across town. Call, and call, and call for over an hour with no answer. So here I am with a flat, no wallet, lost a day from my move schedule, have to be at work tomorrow at 11:30, discount tire opens at 8am. Leasing office opens at 10am. Luckily my stepdad can help me out getting the tire taken care of so I can get back on track. I can only hope the people at the leasing office have my wallet… This is after my car battery died on me 2 days ago and I had to get towed across town ><
@Tiverty @HemlockTea I REALLY feel your pain.
@growyoungagain thanks, luckily I found my wallet, and got a new set of tires (needed but was going to take care of it after the move). So broke right now, but $5 for some random junk is just the right kind of retail therapy…
@Tiverty I’m goat of the month, so blame me. Glad you found the wallet, I will accept an unblame for that, too.
@HemlockTea Glad you did, gotta put a chain on that thing.
OMG, My fuku-sense was tingling. I hit the site at exactly 11:00 Central Time and was still to late. I have never been able to get one of these, and this was the closest I have ever been
@mmichalka Read the page carefully, especially the part about how many were sold.
@mmichalka that’s how they get ya.
see ya at 8am EST
@thismyusername Missed it again. I was asleep
I hurried so fast through check out I didn’t even see if I clicked on VMP or just regular shipping… I’m guessing since I don’t have the V next to my name I just bought regular shipping… awe well, guess no VMP for me till the next item I want shows up.
@mehybe if you get a pallet it will surely be worth the $5 shipping
@mehybe I think the ‘K’ takes precedence over the ‘V’ (and the goat over the ‘K’), but you can always see the full list of a user’s traits by hovering over the icon (or username).
petite-teachable-pollution
Fuko maki me happy!
Lower it to $4 and then I’ll bite! Until then, meh
Sneaky-waterproof-leg.
Even on slow DSL. From another country. And half asleep.
Because I am not a robot.
Ugh. I didn’t get the fuko but it appears that the site signed me up for VMP anyway. Seems like a ripoff.
@mortonfox so cancel
@mortonfox you don’t have the cool badge so you are not vmp…
I have the cool badge, gaze upon it with envy.
/image detailed-wearisome-camel
Dang, it happened again
/giphy lofty-nearsighted-cookie
I still don’t know what to do with the junk I got from the last one, so I can accept that I missed this.
/giphy peaceful ruddy range
Soo… Who is going to create a second account and try to get their 2nd Fuko at 8!?
I’m on call this week, got an alert at 11:53, actually thought to myself “Don’t forget to check meh at 12”. 12:05, realize it’s after midnight…
…and on circuit breaker. Here’s hoping for that AM chance.
(never managed to get a Basket Of Carrots at that other place either)
Dam missed it, What are the chances I get up early to snag one at 8am, None!
At this point, aren’t you doing more to hurt your brand than to move junk?
@bkharmony
/giphy NO
/buy --robot no
@djslack Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@mediocrebot I was thinking that if I were maybe you would hook a brother up
@djslack
Like I said yesterday it was a circle jerk!!!
YAAAY Got one!
@SHOVAR Oh, also I’ve never tried this giphy order name feature before so here goes…
Edit: NOPENOPENOPE BOOBS AND BUTTS hahaha wow.
@SHOVAR One more try…
/giphy uninvited-black-spice
MUCH BETTER haha
I’m done. F5’d at 10:00:01 and got screwed for the third time in a row. If I’d missed it–slept through it or forgot to check, that’s one thing–but I didn’t. I was right there. So yeah. Not waking up at 0:dark:30 just to miss it again. Congrats on an accurate description, yet again. I’m done.
seriously?
@magnuspraeda Not really. Look at how many were sold. No, really, look.
@OldCatLady 367. What’s your point?
@magnuspraeda you are no good, a total failure, that’s why you didn’t get a bunch of junk you don’t want or need shipped to you.
take your $5 and buy ice cream, you’ll be much happier
@magnuspraeda
You don’t get one because 99.9% or way more of the non-robots here exactly at the magic moment don’t get them. Ever. Capish?
Enjoy the suffering. Or not. Your call.
I can’t believe I got it!!! heres to hoping that its better then the last one i got…
/giphy misguided-shrill-baboon
Whew!!! That was a rush!
Got mine!!
I swear I have more luck getting these on my phone when I’m traveling on business, like tonight, then I do at home on my laptop…
catty-classy-arm
@somf69 same here! The last two I scored while I was in the hotel room on their network. Still managed to score one tonight at home…unlucky I guess?
Fuque y’all
Maybe just maybe if you want vmpcustomers you should have enough stock last more than 30 seconds. I did what i was supposed to and you hit me with captcha just for fuko. Not any other time. Just this time. “NOT FUNNY NOT FUNNY.” - Terry Bradshaw
Fuque y’all
meh
/buy --color pink --qty 300 --skill level [zen]
congrats to all that scored the big win tonight!!!
/cowthink “enjoy the anticipation, live the let down magnanomously”
/image spell check
/giphy do not disappoint
/youtube when my dragons are grown, take back what was stolen we will
@Yoda_Daenerys Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@Yoda_Daenerys
@mediocrebot ummm, are you a robot?
since your name ends in “bot”, i guess you are a robot
having said that, i want to say you are not an entirely interesting robot. your sentence structure seems somewhat limited and predictable.
i was cutting up some dried fruits and was interuppted by the idea that a sale might have started
–train!–
hang on, what were we talking about?
minimalist-enlightened-kite
The enlightenment happens when my wife finds out I bought junk.
For everyone that got one. It’s nuclear waste.
Instead of all these holds and weirdness, just make it a lottery.
@rrmcgrew But then we couldn’t try to break the servers.
@OldCatLady D!cks out for the servers, then.
Write-up says, "Especially because, out of sheer perversity, we emailed everybody on our list yesterday."
Was this some different email than the “teaser” one.?B’cause I didn’t get any special newsletter email or anything.
@medz me too
@medz I didn’t get any email yesterday either
@medz
They lied. Or so it seems.
@medz I guess I’m not list worthy.
/giphy finite-stimulating-volcano
Congratulations to everyone who snagged one! So many first-timers this go around. Well done, everyone! The site seemed to load pretty smoothly, too. I wonder how well it holds up in the morning once it’s had all night to build the hype.
“Surging Blind Surprise” … if that doesn’t evoke both fukubukuro and a dangerous sounding Google Image Search result, I’m … Aw, dammit, it’s all political crap and Dexter memes.
And another first timer here, too!
@TellarHK
/giphy "surging blind surprise"
@OldCatLady That. Is. Amazing.
10:55 “man can’t wait until 11pm…this article sure is interesting…11:02 damnit! fuku damnit!”
the tomorrow morning server attack should be pretty dang interesting. good luck everyone!
You’re welcome for my taking your unwantables, meh.
/giphy familiar-lacking-pork
As a totally normal human who loves to drink dihydrogen monoxide and also enjoys respiring I just love the meh
Fukobukuro!!! Me and my parallel units just love how the Fukobukuro allows us to [data file lost].
In for 4 and of course I got VMP it pauses the shipping costs.
is everyone going to sleep early now to get up in another 7-ish hours?
how many browsers and computers will you have set to click all at once
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now
@Yoda_Daenerys I’ll be holding down the F5 key on 3 machines just to help hose others. Mwa ha ha!
/giphy watch the world burn
@Yoda_Daenerys
Maybe I’ll just take yours.
More likely you’ll just take mine
Most likely some robot will get ours.
/giphy unkind-depressed-tomato
what’s the hidden massage in morning addition? morning edition is an NPR thing. morning addition could be talking about plus signs.
wait, maybe it is tangentially meaning blouse signs? plus signs - blouse signs?, hang on, perhaps we will all have flowery blouses on when we wake up in another dimension?
Nope, I still can’t buy one
/buy
@Yoda_Daenerys Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@mediocrebot i think we’ve been over this b4, go eat crow or something
@Yoda_Daenerys
The Medium Is The Massage
Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
DAMMIT. YOU TAKE ONE OVERLY LONG SHOWER AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENS.
@aristan wow, 50 minute shower
/giphy long shower
/image long shower
/youtube long shower
@Yoda_Daenerys srysly, 16 hour youtube of nothing?
@Yoda_Daenerys it was more of an hour long soak followed a shower as part of my personal vendetta against the environment that I carry out thru heavy rubber ducky usage.
I need to go to bed, but too excited.
/giphy celebratory hump
At least the model number doesn’t have hyphens in it.
You know… by saving some for the morning people, you’re enabling bad behavior. Only true Mehanites are here at the moment the product switches.
@Lrok Maybe there should be “special” prizes in the midnight fukos XD (like extra shards of broken stuff)
And the beat goes on, “0 for 12”, well maybe 13 will be my lucky fuko number???
/buy
Please
@lenea9011 Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@lenea9011 try bribing it with sweet sweet electricity…
what the fuk is a fuko bag and what kind of things have been in there in the past? …and to think I bought 2 bookbags at 11:58 and closed the app meh.
@mikejoe
Meh app?
/giphy application
@f00l well there’s your problem - Yelp is for food. try an App store ! Btw, Where’s some good Thai here in in SF?
Where do people post photos of what they got?
Bonus question…how do I post the gifs?
I know how to find them but can you post them from a phone to the pretty ok app or site or do you need a computer?
@5665150
https://meh.com/forum/topics/meh-style-guide-learn-how-to-post-good
@5665150 patience… first comes the “shipment thead” or three…
Hey, I’m about to finish American Horror Story Hotel. Neat, huh? I liked Lady Gaga in it.
/buy
@trlenoir Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@mediocrebot I am not a robot!
@trlenoir That’s exactly what a robot would say!
I am not a robot @mediocrebot
This guy is a bot
@trlenoir
@hollboll, I got no email. Can you check your list?
@ACraigL Did you get the hello@morningsave.com email?
@cengland0 Probably like the rest of us who opened the email, looked at it, but didn’t READ the email. I seem to do that a lot.
@LaVikinga Mine went straight to spam. I only looked in the spam folder because of the mention of them sending an email. Wonder how many previous ones they sent that went to spam and I never noticed?!?!?
@cengland0 Just looked at that morning save email again. If there was info about the Fuko, it was too obscure for me to notice. Maybe it was a coincidence of timing?
@LaVikinga I read the email, there was even a thread about it, and I didn’t catch anything. But “Morning Edition Fuko” and the morningsave email seems like more than coincidence.
@LaVikinga It didn’t mention anything about the Fuko but it was a newsletter. Newsletters being sent is a good indication that a Fuko offering is near – at least I would be on the lookout for one.
@sammydog01 Ah, I didn’t get the connection between Morningsave and Morning Edition (read Addition) Fuko – Good catch.
@cengland0 That was it. Direct to spam.
/buy
@sohmageek Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@sohmageek
@thismyusername does not compute. Where is the lightning port?
/buy I’m not a robot, I’m a Sohma.
@sohmageek Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@sohmageek
Yeeee! I hope I can snag one!
moments away…
snagged one! Yipee!
/image black-teeny-goblin
heroic-irate-seat
/giphy heroic-irate-seat
/image heroic-irate-seat
/youtube heroic-irate-seat
Mine Shipped, 2.2 lb placeholder at present. Expected delivery: 10/1. Realistic delivery: 9/27-10/1
Got one at 8:00 AM.
/image cluttered-problematic-cougar
@boc Damn You, Sir. Woke up at 5 am to nab one of these. Burton was green and it was going to let me order. My heart was full of unparalleled joy. Then I clicked on the “Just buy it already” button and the green bar just kept loading…and loading…and loading. “Oops!” It says something went wrong - let’s try again. Surely since I clicked the button already and made it that far it already reserved me one. I click again. “Oops, Sorry. We’re Sold Out”
I hope the British invade the East Coast and burn it to ashes. I hope the modern day Paul Revere is too distracted playing Pokemon Go to warn anybody that the British are coming, and they sneak right in and wreak complete havoc on your accented English that nobody enjoys. I hope they bring Australia with them, and they force all of your toilets to flush the other way just like theirs. I hope George Washington comes back from the dead and says “F this - I’m going to the Bahamas” and abandons you all in your hour of need. Then, I hope that the British decide to make public their intention to fight their final battle in your hometown at 8am ET, and when you elicit the help of California, we remember this day, and we do not come to your aid.
/buy
@404Error Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
@404Error Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@404Error
@thismyusername haha That was ruff, had to try. I am self-aware that I am not a robot.
Setting that alarm was worth it!
/image passing-late-leather
Noooooooo! Stared at the green bar filling up for more than a minute and then it tells me it is sold out?! That is cruel!
@ELUNO Same here.
@dcNate I got that and then I got a confirmation email. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Missed the night one because I missed the reCaptcha, but got it this morning!
/giphy pretentious-upsetting-cockatoo
Edit: Also, damnit now every I see one I get that damn Fuko it be now stuck in my head
/giphy "who can it be now"
Yay! Got one at 8am after sleeping through midnight.
/giphy embarrassed-vulgar-pet
/giphy comical-verdant-fuel
/giphy turquoise-whole-addition
I’ve never been so excited to be disappointed!
@mitzoe this gif wins the thread
@plastrd
Damn captcha! WHY YOU TELLING ME IM A ROBOT
@dis_member
damn. It seems as though the stupid Google Captcha thing is what took too long. I had the order page up. But by the time I went through three rounds of that crap, it was sold out.
GOT HEEM!
/giphy destroyed-possessive-bulb
So, they sold 367 this morning. And now the total is 754.
/calc 745 - 367 =
/image 378
Will the next batch be 389? Or, 246?
And you bought…
1026 of these.
Midnight - Midnight ET: 367 sold
Paused from Midnight - 8am ET
8am - 8:03am ET: 659 sold
That’s a lot more. Thanx meh!
Managed to get one, after failing to get one at midnight because I forgot to update my billing address.
/giphy manageable-painted-swan
Aww, I tried to get one but it failed at processing my order and then they were sold out.
Mostly I wanted another canvas bag I can forget to take to the store
I arrived at 8:00:01 like a well-oiled machine. Everything smooth. Clicked buy. Clicked “I’m not a robot”. Clicked the button. And watched the green bar fill up over and over again. 30 seconds later, “sorry error occured”. No go. Foiled by random server gremlins.
/giphy random server gremlins
@awk Same thing happened to me. Feeling your pain.
@awk I was so scared that would happen to me. I couldn’t believe when mine actually worked.
@awk same thing happened to me… Sucks
@awk Same here, except for the error occurring. Mine just said sold out.
@awk the same thing happened to me, but when i checked my order history, it shows i got one and i have a charge pending. double check.
Well, turns out I actually got one after all. Dubbyoo Tee Eff?
I clicked buy at 8:00:15 est…sold out.
@sky6rep 14 seconds too late
thwarted by the anti-robot technology.
hard to pick storefronts out of 9 or 12 images that are maybe 1" x 1" on my monitor.
then a street sign.
got to the just buy it already, but then on to “there was a problem” try again.
and that’s all she wrote.
some other sucker got my box of worthless garbage.
@ekw
Missed the 8AM. Somehow. On it like white on rice, but there was a “problem”. Then I was a robot. Then it was sold out. Oh well. Maybe I’ll try again at 4pm. More coffee now.
@ACraigL
Y’all gave the servers a hug of death I couldn’t join in on.
EHHHH why does it say I’m a robot when checking out even when I click I’m not a robot! Now I missed out on this deal…
@Stryfe I take that back! Meh must have fixed the issue and pushed the order through! SWEET!!!
@Stryfe same thing happened to me!
@Stryfe Lucky! mine just sat and filled the bar up over and over again after I said I was NOT a robot but got nothing, timed out.
@Stryfe
I’m one of the 666.
/youtube could it be Satan
Woo hoo! I finally snagged one!
I guess having it in your cart doesn’t hold it? After a minute or two of the green bar spinning it was sold out :c
I arrived at 8:00:01 like a well-oiled machine. Everything smooth. Clicked buy. Clicked “I’m not a robot”. Clicked the button. And watched the green bar fill up over and over again. 30 seconds later, “sorry error occured”. No go. Foiled by random server gremlins.
/giphy random server gremlins
@awk Same here. I am not a robot “check” Green bar loading over and over “check”. Green bar loading and loading and loading… “Oops something went wrong” , “let’s try that again” , “sorry we are sold out”… Fuko-12 Me-0
@awk @doctorj2277 check your orders. I had the same thing happen, assumed I didn’t get one, but I did.
@awk Happened to me too, got the “sold out” message even… then just got an e-mail confirmation that I got one. First time ever.
(Oops, I’m not sure why this got double-posted, but you can never have too many Gremlins GIFs!)
@awk
So this is what it feels like to not get a fuku|o.
Eh… back to bed? Or go into work on time for once?
BTW- @snapster et al, my thanks to you for reserving 0 for VMPs. Now I don’t need to make some excuse for leaving my 3:30 meeting at 3:55 for 10 minutes.
@baqui63 I see it changed and now there is an indication that there will be more at 4 PM.
(For those who weren’t here earlier, the sales stats had Sold Out at 8:01 AM with none available for the 4 PM crowd.)
Hmmm… what to use as the excuse later?
@baqui63
@thismyusername Robot or human; malicious or benign? Those are the questions.
Order timed out but I managed to somehow get it! First one.
/giphy cogent-astounding-chin
SOB, forgot to update my CC info… I think I would have had it had I
@stuntdriver
/giphy playful-thorny-asparagus
/giphy equal-different-spark
I got an error but did get it after checking my orders.
I wasn’t a robot this morning
I was in the purchase process, but selected to get VMP instead of regular shipping.
The purchase timed out, but still signed me up for VMP.
So I was just billed $5 and got nothing…
That’s not cool at all.
@TheChrisGlass I believe you have to be vmp at least 24 hours before you order something like fukuboro on meh. Thus, even at 4 pm today you won’t get to try for a fukuboro bag but you can still contact them and cancel your subscription…they will refund your five dollars if you don’t use their free shipping during the month…
@AttyVette That’s like salt in the wound.
@TheChrisGlass don’t worry… if you don’t use it just cancel it before 30 days and it will auto-refund.
@TheChrisGlass same thing happened to me, sort of shady to charge me for something I didn’t purchase.
Ughh I almost got one but it froze after I said I was a robot … Hmmmm
@hmclynch87
As I was typing a message lamenting that the system threw errors while I was trying to check out before finally saying “Sorry Sold Out”…
I got an email …
/giphy locked-disturbed-trick
@hanzov69 That’s the new trick. Tell everyone “sold out” and then hand out a few via email! mixed-reliable-ham
Ugh, was logged in on both my phone and my computer, both went all the way through the purchase and verify process and then “there was a problem” and then “sold out”. I have been foiled every time (if it weren’t for the kickstarter I would never have been able to share in the misery). Perhaps missing is meh’s birthday gift to me today. To save me from the experience. You would think I would know better but I shall try again later for the VMP’s.
/giphy sad face
/giphy never learns
@LadyLeela
@thismyusername Perhaps if just clicking the box worked. Instead of having to click the box and then take extra time to “click all the boxes with the street sign in it.” I understand why they do it but it doesn’t make it less frustrating. I’m logged in, I’m clearly not a robot. Who would want to buy this crap en mass anyhow?
@LadyLeela practice here:
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/demo
IF You really want to risk getting one…
Mine showed processing then said sold out though had it in checkout…?.
The amount of wang your server sucks during these things is epic
@seraphimcaduto doesn’t meant I’m not going to try at 4PM and that it wasn’t fun but the loading bar 9x then that message, that awesome feeling that you FINALLY made it and nope you didn’t, it’s like my last promotion interview with municipal HR. Eh I need a shower after that thouht.
Got one!
/giphy playful-thorny-asparagus
Aaakkkk. Got there in time, but was defeated by the anti-robot request. What does one do when one gets this: “Are you a robot? You have to tell us if you’re a robot.” but there is no captcha or other way to prove one is human?
@spiralroad you click the box
Yay, I finally got my first bag!!!
/giphy ripe utopian goose
Fuck, I’m a robot, maybe I’ll be cured by 4 :sigh:
@salaosantiago
Wait!!! I was in right at the crack of eight hit buy, waited forever for the purchase screen to come up and then it wouldn’t let me complete the sale because it didn’t give me any choice to pick what I was trying to purchase…?
Absolutely furious. I had it - was right on the dot at 8AM then I realized my credit card had been replaced because the info had gotten stolen and they changed my card. By the time I was able to correct the info, gone.
Missed it! Right there at 8am but still shut out. Maybe next time?
@likesowls you have been spared… for now…
Go home @mediocrebot you’re drunk.
get all the way to checkout, green bar fills up, then it tells me “we’re sorry, we cannot process your order because we are not sure which product you are trying to buy”
I was here at midnight, but missed it. Set an alarm to get me up for this one and snagged one!
/giphy macabre-protective-sheet
didn’t get one at midnight or 8, hoping to get one at 4
@stryper2000
Woah, waking up at 8 A.M. paid off today. Got my first Fukobukuro.
@vaxick Your innocence is so refreshing. Let us know how you feel when it arrives.
My god, it actually went through. I actually got one.
@Travis6t6 the dread is setting in isn’t it?
It said that it failed but then it worked? Must have been some blotchy-fretful-magic. woohoo!
This is absolutely galling. GALLING, I SAY!
/giphy outspoken-therapeutic-drawer
My order attempt ended with robotic accusations, but I got an email saying it went through!
/giphy keen-zany-ray
Fuko you-o Meh. You really fuko’d my morning up. Even your Captcha doesn’t know what a store front is. Then car, we both knew cars. Waited for many painful green bars to get “sorry error occurred”. I hate Meh. You’ve ruined my life many mornings with your mediocre shit. The real Fuko was stumbling upon Meh in the first place.
@mnchick27
@thismyusername something is wrong with me. I didn’t laugh
Got 'em! grating-lockable-healer
All I want for Christmas is my one Fukobukuro bag…
Fell asleep on the sofa between 8:40 and 8:45 last night. Some cat yowling woke me at 8:58. My computer takes a long time to boot up. I missed it last night. Shut down. Stumbled over a cat in the hallway (well, more like kinda moved him with my foot).
I figured it was over. One last check on my Kindle Fire, just to make sure I’d clicked the Meh button and I saw that it would be up again at 8:00 EDT. Five here. I set the alarm on the Fire and put it under my pillow. Didn’t matter, I had a shit night’s sleep. But I was booting up this morning at 4:35.
I was all logged in and ready to go. Fuko comes up. I click buy, no, I’m not a robot. The green line keeps moving. Then “there’s something wrong with your order, try again”. I try. And I try. And I try. And I try. “Aw, too bad sold out.”
Just for kicks I checked my order status.
scary-eloped-kitten
Now that the Zantac is working and I’m still tired, back to bed.
Today will be a good day. My new Cameo 3 will be here! I won a Fuko! (Winning is even better when you thought you’d lost.)
@lisaviolet the same thing happened to me!!! thought i missed it, but checked my order history and there it is
congrats!
@lisaviolet So I’m not the only one.
@lisaviolet Thanks to your comment I checked my orders and behold - mine also was there! The order confirmation email had fallen into the spam folder.
I was convinced for 10 minutes (from 5:03 am to 5:13 am) that I was coming out fuko-less again. Then I got an email from meh.
mewing-temporal-clock
Seems legit.
“There was a problem placing your order.”
Damn it! Try again!
“Oops, we sold out.”
Bollocks. Of course the puppy distracted me last night, having been quite naughty getting into the bathroom garbage. O foul fuko fate, you keep me from that which I so perversely want.
My morning’s first disappointment.
Loaded the page at 8, clicked the buy button, waited for the panel to load - that took a while -. Did the verification, clicked the order button - that took even longer. Then I get a generic error message. Try again, and it complains about me being an inbox. Reload the page and it is sold out. So apparently I escaped receiving my first fuko.
Except that I switch to gmail and there is a new email in my inbox: your meh.com order of…
/giphy confused
/giphy whiny-sly-nutmeg
I got errors on the site but I got an email saying I actually got one of these. Looking forward to being (almost?) disappointed again when I open the box, you freaking bastards!!
First fuku too. meh.
/giphy loopy-miffed-pocket
Truth is in the description. Will save my entitlement rage for another day. Site thought I was a robot so I will follow Asimov’s laws and not harm anyone, not let anyone come to harm and you know the rest.
@mdrcoast And now I checked my e-mail and have an e-mail confirmation that I did get one. I feel entitled and can now harm as I am not a robot. Suck it Asimov.!
@mdrcoast
TODAY is the day you want me to re-enter my credit card information? DAMN IT, MEH! I HAD it. I was all ready to get my Fuku bag, and you decided that, even though I bought the item you were selling two days ago successfully, TODAY was the day I needed to re-enter my unchanged credit card info.
@mikesimone Ouch.
My God, the rollercoaster…
-Buy. Wait. Green bar. Green bar. Green bar.
-There was a problem. Crap. Refresh.
-Sorry, we’re sold out. Double crap.
-This can’t be happening. How did I miss it!? I hate you, Captcha! Well, it’s okay… maybe I can use the $5 somewhere else. But I can’t believe I missed it, circuit breaker and all. Life just isn’t worth living anymore. I’m not even mediocre. Goodbye, cruel world. Eh, then again, it’s fine. I’ll get it next time.
-Email confirmation arrives. Order successful.
/giphy omnipresent-gory-dumpling
@dreidrachen That gif…oh my…
@dreidrachen same thing that happened to me lol
@theredia It’s surprisingly accurate for Fuko day…
I got one!! First one I ever tried for too!! I’ve been going to Woot for years and never got a BOC. Eff woot, Meh forever!
How the… I actually… got… one…
GOT HEEM!
/giphy destroyed-possessive-bulb
@theredia order cancelled. sorry, but it appears that you are indeed a robot.
Got to check out sitting in the back of the box doing my shift change checkoff and was so excited to only find out that it was sold out by the time it processed the transaction.
dang ambulance interference with network speed.
Well fuck you meh, despite the server’s early lies, there is apparently a fukin’ fuko in my order history, placed 8:01. It’s too early in the morning for this kind of emotional manipulation…
/giphy wrenching-papery-winter
@awk Same here
/image merciful-ravishing-eye
This deal sucks don’t buy it. They intentionally have only a few bags to be sold. They do this deal just to suck you in and waste your time. Crooked
@mtnmist Donald, is that you?
/giphy trump
@mtnmist Now you’re catching on!
@hanzov69 Lyin’ Meh thinks they can trick me into buying a bag of junk! Millions of Americans fall for the Fukobukuro scam every day. Sad!
@mtnmist you tell 'em bud!
I also had an error when checking out but received an email later saying my order was placed.
@duckied me too! I was
now I’m 
Ever since the woot days I’ve always wanted one of these, if only to be disappointed. Can’t wait!
I can’t wait to be disappointed again at 4pm.
@RiotDemon We’ll be rooting for you!
@RiotDemon
Had to put in my credit card info again. There was a problem. And then all sold out. Meh. Maybe I’ll be disappointed next time, I think. A few minutes later I get an email. Guess what?
/giphy bossy-uncovered-income
@blkxltng Same here!
@blkxltng Also my first fuku so I’m definitely indifferent towards it
Wait a minute meh! Why would you play with my heart this way?! The order page told me it was sold out, but I just checked my email and it seems the order did go through!
HOORAY!
/giphy "emotional rollercoaster"
Not sure what to say except damnit. I’m 0-12 for this shit and getting more and more entrenched in my efforts. I don’t quit, Meh, I Kobayashi Maru. Of course, that would mean learning to code and probably learning multiple programming languages. Meh. Afterall, it is just a bag.
@moldham
Sooo close this time. Actually made it to the checkout window. A first!
/giphy tiny violin
(TC edit to remove personal information)
@Texas_Tascha If you right click on your image, open in a new tab, you can then see the full size image. Your name and address is publicly visible. You may want to fix that.
@Texas_Tascha fix your pic
@cengland0, but it’s been more than 5 minutes & I cannot haz edit…
sumb*tch! I am so not a morning person…
@stryper2000, I tried, but don’t see an option to delete or modify it
@Thumperchick can you maybe help out Texas_Tascha here please? Thanks a tonne!
also,
I never fully understood the fear of people knowing your address. It’s not like this is secret info you can’t find.
@MrMark, While there’s still something about it that makes me a bit uneasy (I blame it on my addiction to murder porn), I gotta admit my first thought (aside from DOH!) was, “Well hey, if someone wants to come over & help me pick up all the dog sh*t off my patio that would be AWESOME!”
Cause srsly… my dogs REFUSE to poo in the grass & it’s gross.
@MrMark I agree with you. There was a time when nearly everyone was listed in the phone book along with their address. Today, more people are paranoid about that. Suppose it’s a privacy thing.
I work from home and have my home address published as my business address. Doesn’t bother me at all.
@Texas_Tascha @curtise - edited.
@Thumperchick My hero!
@Thumperchick, YOU DA BEST!
Guys! guys!!! It’s all happening!!!
THE DAY I DECIDE TO GO TO BED AT 11PM.
At least I’m a VMP!
@ThoR294 and that is really all that matters.
I’m here to discuss my rad purchase.
/giphy personable-wry-kraken
@speakingjargon lol at octopussy
Add me to the ones who thought they didn’t get one only to get an email a few minutes later. Meh, I got one. I can’t wait for the disappointment to arrive.
/giphy gutsy-afraid-pet
It’s one thing when my wife says “I’m a Robot” during sex…but it is downright humiliating and rude when a mediocre website calls me one…
@bchrist825
I was about to post how lucky I must be to score an 8am bag, then I realized I just spent $10 for a box full of meh.
/giphy arrogant wounded fuel
My first ever!BOOO YA!
oh sh*t! looks like I started playing that tiny violin a little too soon…
/giphy grilled-eerie-boat
on another note, I totally see numerical hamburgers in my not too distant future…
I usually leave for work right at 7am cst when this was going down. So at 6:58am I started watching like a hawk, and at 7:00:03 I hit refresh…waited…waited…waited…site loaded, hit buy, waited, went through the always weird and mega lame “click this stuff” captcha, only took 2 screens worth of stuff then progress bar…OOOPS sold out!
I tried, that’s all I can say
Let’s try again:
It’s one thing when my wife calls me“a Robot” during sex…but it is downright humiliating and rude when a mediocre website calls me one…
@bchrist825 Good job, now you have 3 of those posts.
Woohoo! Got a ‘We had a problem’ error message when trying to order, but just checked my Email and order is placed! ‘small-impatient-minotaur’, come to Papa!! Thanks Meh!!!
I HAD TO YELL AT MY KID WHO WAS BEING a FUKU of his own.
Grr
nefarious-fuchsia-banshee
First try!
+1 in the “prove you’re not a robot” during order processing club only to get a confirmation email a few minutes later!
selfish-mottled-elk
yeah, my purchase seemed to fail, but I have a confirmation in my email as well.
definite-absorbed-pony
Can any of you robots exposed by CAPTCHA prove you’re not really a robot? Keep in mind that to do so might mean confessing to a felony.
KuoH
Was out at a midnight showing of The Girl With All The Gifts at TIFF, and missed out on the sale. The movie was highly entertaining, though!
Sadly for those who were there at midnight, that deal pause was triggered. So, occasional-fractured-bread at 8:01am.
At midnight I’m sleeping. At 8am I’m driving to work. But 4pm, now that’s my time to shine.
And when I say shine I mean get frustrated and maybe shed a tear as I most likely miss out on the first fuku I have a minor chance at getting.
@Avalora
8 AM’er here. Got an error on the order page, but it shows up in my account orders so…maybe?
/giphy flippant-intense-lion
@devtony that gif though!
Checked this morning on my phone at 7:50am before work which I hardly ever do since I’m always busy trying to rush out the door to get my son to daycare. I guess I got lucky and saw a Fuku for sale. Rushed to turn on my computer since it’s easier to edit my payment/shipping info since it’s been a while since I bought something on meh. Pushed F5 several times around 7:59am and finally the buy button was there. Clicked and waited and waited for the green bar to go through. When it did, it said sold out. I was bummed but I didn’t mind. Got into work and checked my Gmail and saw that the order went through. weepy-aggressive-yogurt
Do you even know where MEH started? Last time I got lucky with RBOC was June 20th 2008, apparently its in my account and got an e-mail confirming. Can it be true I got lucky again. Only time will tell I will surely forget about it and then one day maybe some crap will show up at my door!
@jtintner you got un-lucky… these are fukObukuros.
/giphy competitive-babbling-trick
I was denied and thinking I was going to have to wait until 4pm but then magically an order confirmation. Woohoo?
Yes! I got one! I missed out on it at midnight and returned at 8 am.
The purchase process (at 8 am) was returning errors and kept asking if I was a robot. I exited the purchase screen and refreshed the website and it showed that it was all sold out. I was bummed until I got an email showing my purchase. Yay!
/giphy peppy-uptight-business
Hit the site at 7am. Hit Buy. Watch a green progress bar fill and empty again and again and again, until finally it says there was a problem. Try again, and it’s old out. Then, a few minutes later, I get email confirmation of my order! Meh all around.
/giphy sleek-squealing-dumpling
got one at 8am…
I just popped my cherry and got my first!
Now the waiting time begins…
HAS IT SHIPPED YET?!?!?
@ELUNO Good point, where is the shipping thread?
Finally got back into it after a dry spell! Tempered excitement!
/giphy fascinating-spectacular-story
Well that’s horrifying. I feel like that might be an omen…
@nickiwhite I’m quitting this thread now.
@nickiwhite fascinating, indeed!
/giphy selfish-mottled-elk
What the Fukobukuro… I tried to get one right at 8AM and got denied and when I tried to hit retry it gave me the “you be a robot” and I couldn’t be like “no I ain’t” as the button was gone. So I was like Fukobukuro it, saved me like $10 (or 5 egg rolls). Just checked my email and what do you know, underwhelmed-novel-sprite, so I did get one. And so the expectation of disappointment begins…
@unome Said I was a robot too - AND made me re-input my CC info. But I missed it.
@marcee but, you are a robot…
/giphy suspicious- auxiliary-account
Ok. Im am not doing well. Got captcha’d at midnight. Now at 8 i keep pressing the buy it button and nothing happens. For 2 minutes nothing. Going for 0 for 3 at 4pm i guess. IRKKED
/giphy knotty-creative-cloth
knotty-creative-cloth
/youtube knotty-creative-cloth
“The model number of this item looses the Google search war to YouTube and Facebook profiles, Tumblr feeds, and even Urban Dictionary.” <-- Spec writer missed this one. FTFY.
/giphy FTFY
@danlo loses. RIP my grammar.
I finally got a Fukobksdf… a bag! I am so excited! I wish there was an option for me to pick it up from Mediocre Labs’ office as I am close to Carrollton.
In fact, how awesome would it be if Meh had a Museum for Mediocre Members? You could pick up your order there, a few of whatever is on sale that day could be “in-store only”, you could get autographed pics of the Singing Cowboy, and pose for pics with Irk…
NO…I AM NOT A… FUCKING… ROBOT!
@Zebra Let’s see what giphy says:
/giphy fucking robot
/giphy affectionate-popular-gambler
Still flawless
Fuko 12 - 9/15/16
Fuko 11 - 7/8/16
Fuko 10 - 5/20/16
Fuko 2 (Unlucky) - 4/1/16
Fuku 7 (Vday) - 1/27/16
Fuku 6 - 10/21/15
Fuku 5 - 7/9/15
Fuko (Unlucky) - 4/1/15
Fuku 4 - 1/14/15
Fuku 3 - 11/14/14
Fuku 2 - 9/17/14
Fuku Kickstarter - 6/28/14
@whistlingwilly nice!
/image You motherfucker…
Missed it at midnight because of expired credit card and an argument over whether I was a robot or not. Thought I missed the 0800 relaunch but I just found a jealous-stimulating-middle confirmation email which lets me know disappointment awaits.
Today is my birthday, my last chance will be in a few hours when VMP batch is released. Fingers crossed.
@darkdragon Ditto. Happy Birthday! People born any other day can suck it.
@LadyLeela Thank you. Happy birthday to you too! I never got a BOC on woot, never a FUKO here so far. The glass is definitely half empty.
@darkdragon Happy Birthday! Mine is coming up on Sunday. I’m glad we got a Virgo FUKO.
@darkdragon good luck and happy b-day!
@LadyLeela And HBD to you, too, from one who sucks it.
@darkdragon Good Luck at 4:00!
@gertiestn Happy Early Birthday. You suck it less, you are still a September star!
@darkdragon I hope you were more sucessful at 4:00. I was on my phone and computer again and this time it had me go through 2 rounds of “select the squares with street signs” after clicking I’m not a robot and it was sold out. I’m really over not being a robot.
@LadyLeela No luck for me. This does not bode well for birthday the dinner.
@darkdragon Best of luck to you for your dinner. I hope it’s delicious!
@darkdragon actually, if you weren’t lucky getting an unlucky bag, doesn’t that make you lucky?
@katylava I think they cancel each other out and it spells doom for the whole birthday. Super unlucky. I might change my tune if my kitten hasn’t licked her suture open by the time I get home from work.
Existing VMP members will be released at 4:00, eh? What about us nonexisting VMP members? Are we ever gonna be released?
@gertiestn Nope. You’ll be committed to the mehsylum for life.
Hit buy twice, midnight and 8am. Both times the green loading bar reported back as “sold out” after ‘processing’ for 30s.
@DrunkCat That long processing spin kills me every time too. I always think “should I cancel and retry or just wait? man it’s been too long…maybe I should…nah that’s stupid, don’t want to miss my chance…SOLD OUT…GREAT AWESOME”
/giphy cardiac-lazy-voyage
I tried to buy one right at 8am sharp, and my purchase screen timed out, and then came back with a sold out message when I tried again. No surprise there… the surprise was when I checked my email a bit ago, and saw I had a purchase confirmation email! Whoo-hoo, it actually went thru! Sweet.
@DJP519 Same thing just happened to me. I was just checking my email and to my surprise I had an order confirmation!
Aaaargh! I got up early to try and I got all the way to hitting the pay button and it says, “oops, sold out.”
Gah!
/giphy noticeable-mannerly-church
So I’m still in bed sleeping when I woke up to the Mrs. beside me on the laptop. It’s 7AM CDT and she’s yelling, “I’m not a robot you idiots!” She had the box checked but it kept telling her she was a robot. Needless to say she didn’t get her Fuko. She usually takes my stuff anyway so I guess “we” got our Fuko last night.
@Mehrocco_Mole same thing happened to me last night… I’ve read others have problems with mobile browsers and Fuko…
Seems like every one and their fuko brother got one this time. That should guarantee some extraordinarily mediocre boxes.
8am had twice the units available than 11pm!
@rmeden I noticed that also. Usually about the same but tilted toward the 12 pm orders. Maybe trying to make up for the years us east coasters have been wronged.
Fuko : Jetsam: Discarded odds and ends. Articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress
Bukuro: A provisional bag used by the samurai class and their retainers. Made of twisted paper strings within the style of fine basketwork
@accelerator Wait, which one are we getting?
Just over two hours to go. I am ready to be disappointed and not get one for the third time in a day!
Usually it takes months to get that much fuko disappointment, I like how they’ve streamlined this service!
You think this is bad…how about trying to purchase for $100 dollars one of 21,000 never ending pasta bowl cards at Olive Garden good for 7 weeks unlimited food and all bought up as soon as u hit buy button…bet robots bought them all!
@AttyVette joke is on those robots, they can’t even eat.
@AttyVette Thank goodness. Can you imagine Meh shoppers with unlimited Olive Garden pasta cards? We’re talking pasta related ER visits here. Carb poisoning, nasty tomato paste burns to the gums, chronic garlic breath, and the exponential weight gain over seven weeks of perpetual pasta consumption. I’m glad I missed it!
@accelerator see, now you made me hungry for Olive Garden. I’m traveling for work and was going to hit a local diner, but now i’ll have to google “olive garden near me” and see if i can get garlic breath.
Waiting for the alarm bell at 4 est to start the VMP race…
Got one at 8. . . at least I got the confirmation email. .
I was silly and told my brother at 7:30 of course his order went thru and mine bounced and sold out.
I wonder if there’s any way I can prove my humanity in advance.
Um, what is the deal with this bag? It sells out immediately every time. Is it some hipster thing I don’t understand?
@mjc94ma it’s a nice red.
@mjc94ma The bag is a random mishmash of items they weren’t able to completely sell out of. Basically it’s a way for them to clean house when they don’t have enough of an item to actual put it up for sale. Sometimes you get total crap, other times you’ll get some pretty nice pieces of meh.
@giggers ohhhhhhhh, I didn’t read that part. I thought It was just the bag. and, yes @ignorant it is indeed a nice red.
/buy
@MrMark Sorry, the
/buycommand is currently only available to VMP members. Become a VMP.@mediocrebot Thats ok, I was just trying it to see which denial reason I would get.
Good luck VMPers!
Foiled by the Captcha
@trimm I got “identify the storefronts” or something absurdly hard [is a gas station a storefront…???] and just lost my sanity and insta-failed to get a new one
@plariers I got the street signs and houses or something like that. But it took forever even though I hit Buy at 4:00:00 lol
I went to checkout and it had sold out.
Sad Panda
Aw, damn, Sold out in less than 60 seconds
Dang, lost it at the green bar.
Good game, everyone
YESSSS. #VMP
time to smoke a blunt-fluorescent-merlin
Womp womp, the VMP batch was gone in less than a minute.
/buy
@compunaut Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
Failed at checkout.
Curses, @OldCatLady!
VMP sold out in 8 seconds!? Come on!
Did you reserve 3 for VMPers? I couldn’t physically click any faster and it still sold out while I was trying to place an order.
@dmod
Man… 3 attempts, all when it rolls over and I get nothing each time… I get that it’s unlucky but I’ve not had that issue before. Sad day.
I was quick, but not quick enough - it sold out between the time I clicked “buy it” and confirmed that I wasn’t a robot. Oh well.
Dang… I sat there waiting for it and clicked buy just for it to sit and tell me sold out…
ARRRGH… sigh Mashed the button as soon as it went green, still didn’t get one. I have a sad.
VMP FTW!
/giphy easy-gastly-powder
easy-ghastly-powder
UGHHHH your dumb Captcha foiled me this morning and then again at 4. SO IRKED.
/buy
@imamehnerd Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
Damn it feels good to be a VMP member
/giphy vanilla-anxious-skunk
le sad, only 68 for VMPs?!
Y’all some thirsty ass mfs.
Sold out in less than 30 seconds from what I can tell. Green bar filled like 6 times before it gave up for me.
/giphy loose-faulty-canvas
well that was stupid. Sold out in 3 seconds.
I guess I AM a robot…
@aardWolf Same here, I failed the first one, “pick the squares with the street sign”, well I picked them but either it was a trick question or there was a hidden sign cause it made me do another one, and after that I got the sold out message
/giphy excitedly-official-secretary
leh sigh , thought i would try another computer and i almost made it except the captcha checkbox wasn’t reacting fast enough, it was a nice streak while it lasted. congrats to those who got one
auuuuuuggggghhhhh
@GLaDOS Not to raise your hopes, but check your account just in case. Some of us got that in the morning but it still had gone through.
@ELUNO it was worth checking but alas no order today
/image empty
Due to capcha being stupid, useless and failure prone, I am cancelling my VMP. I hate Meh
Disappointment X3
/giphy disappointed
@RiotDemon But we were rooting for you! How could this happen?!
Might have gotten one if I hadn’t had to play whack a mole with the flippin’ captcha. Thanks Google.
i had to change my address, then my card had to be put in again, then they were sold out, oh well
That sucks. I was on right at 4 and sold out immediately. Really? How many did you save for members?
@guavablueses
I should know not to try to get one of these because it’s just not worth the frustration and annoyance but this is such bullshit. I refreshed, I clicked, I verified, and “Sold Out”.
Honestly, the only reason I try is I want a Meh bag. Sell me a Meh bag, Meh.
@presbypenguin
Or the money so you did fine.
for fuck’s sake
Augh. Here at the time for all of them, missed all of them. I even clicked at the moment at 4, but there were only 68 apparently
I tried…
Very sad
Captcha wrecked me, too. There has to be a better way. Or only let X number of people get to that verification page, where X is the amount you have in stock.
@BrianRamsay I agree! UGHH third time with this dang bag that I hit an issue with Captcha.
Dang. VMP here and missed it even though I was prepped the second it popped up. Took forever to get to the “I’m Not a Robot” purchase screen and even then (even though it was checked) it took several tries before it realized I was not, in fact a robot. Booooo (about missing the Fuko - not about not being a robot.)
“OOPS, SORRY. WE’RE UNABLE TO PLACE YOUR ORDER BECAUSE WE’RE NOT SURE WHICH ITEMS YOU’RE TRYING TO BUY.” and Im done.
DAMN IT! It spent so long processing my payment that it sold out again.
Hey, Meh - I would happily pay a $100 / year VMP membership if it came with automatic Fukubukuro bags. Just every one that comes up, you autocharge my card $5, and be done.
FUKO THIS. FINGER ON TRIGGER AT 8 AND 4 AND NOTHING. GONNA DUMP MY VMP.
@cmostrowski Start Eghh.com
@cmostrowski
I agree and am doing the same.
What gives? I got to the window that says, you want this stuff, right?, and it’s gone.
Sold out while the green bar was doing its thing. Sigh. Maybe next time.
Made it in under the wire!
/image grimy-shallow-invention
Your website response time sucks. Waited around till now to get bumped out because your captcha didn’t come up fast enough. Stupid.
@okisher so microsoft and google get equal blame… great venting post
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Well, I actually got one this time… I wonder what will be inside? I guess time will tell.
@dadown Grumble grumble
I would say I am never shopping at Meh again, but I don’t know any other irreverent shopping sites to obsess over.
Whats even worse, I work right down the street from mediocre headquarters and still got beat…
I was not a robot, box checked and…sold out again after trying again. I wish I was a robot, if only real life could match that damn Captcha thing always calling me a robot…Ah well, the game was fun. Though your server STILL sucks a large amount of wang, twice in a row server errors robbed me. how I feel!
Next time server, next time!
I feel better now, that was disappointing and oddly fun!
Last time the captcha screwed me over, this time the captcha Gods have smiled down upon me and my private-snarky-moth
Not sure why I did not get it since I refreshed the page on the second and it was sold out while I was checking out. So they sold out in 10 seconds? The VIP membership does not do me any good. I canceled it once before and since it did not help now I will be canceling it again.
meh, I tried at 7am and 3pm. So close bit didn’t make the cut. Glad I now have the chance to try at the later times as I’m unavailable for the 11pm start.
649 days of VMP and yet to get one …Meh…
@H3xtor666 but think of all that you saved on shipping costs on crap you don’t need!!! oh wait… 12 items… um… you are doing this wrong.
@thismyusername …So I should cancel my VMP and just go with $5 shipping… Thanks
@H3xtor666 yes you should, and make sure you don’t opt for VMP if you buy more than one item in a month… that will show 'em.
in all honesty you should buy vmp when you buy anything, and then cancel it if you don’t use it for 28 days after the next charge… UNLESS you really want the perks.
@thismyusername .Thanks Cancelled my VMP… just not worth it
@H3xtor666 you are welcome.
Missed it last night…
and got one just now! Missing a Fuku sucks massively, but man getting one AFTER missing one is fantastic
I’m 2/10000000 now so feeling pretty good!
Sux
WTF Captcha, I was Captcha blocked all 3 times…
Click Buy, Click Captcha, have to click stupid photos, Click Confirm, Sold Out…
@Malus clearly you are a robot.
No one day pre bday gift for me! Congrats to everyone who snagged one!!!
Go into work early to get everything set up and ready to snipe one of these. Get pulled away from my desk to do something real quick for a co worker. Miss it by 2 minutes. /job. going home.
Ridiculous. …
There’s no way that they can sell out in less then a minute. Had it , hit I’m not a robot …
Out of luck …
I was on it right when it came available, couldn’t have been online for more then 15 seconds …
I’ve been buying so much stuff that I will never use but it’s a good deal . Every time one of these deals comes I can never get it . Not fair …
I guess it time to quit this website .
Great deals but has to be done .
@paulie0717 They sold out in less than 1 second which is even more ridiculous
@snapster: Will you ever do a meh off where you put up one item for sale until it sells out followed by another and another until you’ve cleared out your warehouse for the month?
@GLaDOS will you ever give me cake?
@thismyusername the cake is a lie
@thismyusername Give me your address and I will send a cake delivery team.
I would say circuit breaker Fuko was a success.
Not a large increase in the complaining, but made a fair number extra happy with the chance to actually get one.
Sold out at 8:00:01am?
I refreshed my web page at 7:59:55am so that it renewed the page exactly at 8:00:00 and rapidly clicked BUY and then it took 75 seconds to load the next window to tell me it was sold out… I have fast internet so it was definately your server stalling. Tried again at 4:00…same thing
@jonbcramer are we sure we’re getting the pronunciation right on that “fuku”. Feels more like an f u.
So you release nearly double this morning (which was 6 AM my time) and then only release 68 for VMPs this afternoon? WTH? You used to have special VMP-only sales and stuff, too, and I haven’t seen one of those in months.
I ordered a total of one item in August and before that my last order was May. So congrats on fooling me out of $10, but I’m cancelling VMP. Not worth it if I’m vying for one of only 68 fukos you kept back “as a nod of thanks.” You’ll refund the $5 for this month, yes?
@magnuspraeda What’s really frustrating is that I was all about meh. I have a meh coffee mug on my desk in front of me. I wore my I Like Irk shirt on Saturday and I’ve got three other meh shirts and a mediocre labs shirt. I even have and wear the mediocre socks. And I’m sure I’m not the only one in this boat–proudly reppin’ meh and still getting no fuko. But am I alone in feeling like I should get something for my $5/month if I haven’t used it for free shipping that month or the month before that?
I mean, that’s the point, right–people like me who only use the free shipping occasionally subsidize the folks who use it all the time? I just don’t feel like a shot at 68 holdover fukos is really much of a “thanks.”
@magnuspraeda you can try to get the $5 refunded by Meh. support if you really didn’t use it for some month(s)
@magnuspraeda holding thousands of Fukos has never been an advertised feature. Stop crying pls k?
@ELUNO Did I ever say I wanted them to hold thousands of Fukos? I said only holding 68 for VMPs was lame.
They oversold them twice over at 8 AM because their server screwed up yet again and then massively cut the VMP hold to make up for it.
At least you got one (and probably one of the oversold ones, since you complained about not getting it, using the
emoji, I might add, before you saw it come through your email).
@magnuspraeda The 4.00p VMP offering is always a very thin slice of the pie. Even on boring items, that circuit breaker tends not to last long, and we get nearly fuku-esque whining in here. Without a circuit breaker, fukus sell out in a minute. With a teeny, tiny (but again, proportionate to other deals) cache of them set aside at 4… what do you expect?
@magnuspraeda You didn’t spell it, but you are clearly demonstrating it with your bitchin’
There is a huge difference about my emoji and how I complained in a much lighter tone, and mostly blaming the gods. Unlike you and your self righteousness demanding meh to give you lots of privileges because you paid 5 bucks…
And thanks for noticing me that much
@magnuspraeda
no. the point is cheap shipping. cancel it if you get near not using it for 30 days and they will auto refund it.
Strike 3 for me. Well, strike 2 technically since I didn’t take an at-bat at midnight. Maybe if I didn’t have to pick 6 street signs I might have had a chance, but that life.
Congrats to those that got them. I liked the the pause on this though. Extends the fun beyond the first 2 minutes of the day.
0 for 13 really sucks, but at least it was a catilist for canceling my 2 1/2yrs of VMP.
@jones814
@brhfl -
the cat i list. Way to grammar!
you’re so fuckin lucky i got one at 1pm @meh bc i was about to just fuckin RAAAAAAGE AT YOU @MEH ABOUT RELEASING MORE AT 5AM THAN AT 9PM. fuck you @meh. but we cool bc i got one at 1.
i just thought i’d rage tag myself since i didn’t get any rage tags today
That just sucked
so much rage
is it roughly 1 in 100 chance to get one?
they need to add another sale stat how many tried and got none.
my first. (yay)
/giphy silver-informative-cheetah
/giphy rage because I had the fuku and the bar loaded so many times then stated “Oops sorry try again” then “Sorry we don’t know that you aren’t a robot” I surely got rekt on this day
0 for 3. How does that happen if i refresh page on the hour click buy it go through captcha unnecessarily and click yes just buy it already and failed to obtain the product. The buy it button didnt work at 8am. At 4pm where PAYING VMP MEMBERS are suppose to be able to purchase product if they click buy it right at the stated time. Why should there be only 68 left if for VMP members if it doesnt last 20 seconds? Really not exactly fair to waste vmpmembers time.
@natekimh VMP is not a subscription box service.
@natekimh You wasted your own time…
@medz Then they should stop saying they are saving product for vmp members then failing to deliver. If immediately order at the stated time i should receive the item. I press buy it then i should have the item reserved for me for a period of time so i can complete purchase. The whole captcha game isnt funny anymore.
@natekimh i haven’t seen them say they are saving product for each and every VMP that might want one, that’d just be silly
@natekimh apparently some vmps bought them, so they were in fact saved for vmps only
As one of the downtrodden east coasters (and even worse-one who lives in Florida), I appreciate the consideration for the multiple buy times. But it hasn’t changed my buying habits at all. Since go to the website at exactly 12 AM (and yes was one of the 300+ lucky ones), I fell comfortable knowing I have a backup if I fall 12:00 fails me for some reason.
I didn’t get one, but my father texted me all excited about him getting one.
“I got a FUKOBUKURO. I am going back to sleep.”
Oh dad… Poor guy doesn’t know what he’s in for.
@snapster, if you’re reading this, make sure to send muhdeblu (not using an @ so he doesn’t see this) something especially large, broken, and unruly so he never makes the terrible mistake of buying an unlucky bag ever again.
@grum Remember to honor your father…even if he gets a FUKOBUKURO
@grum contemplating using an @ so he sees it…
Yay! my first ever! Thank you circuit breaker!
/giphy excited
Looking forward to seeing what they send!
PHUF!!! I was so close. And yet once again I missed out
Crazy, I happened to be connected to both my work and home computer at 8:00, refreshed meh.com in both places, and ended up getting 2 Fukos! I was doubly happy, then one order got canceled, so now I’m singly happy. Still happy.
/giphy happy
I totally dropped the ball on this one, but that’s okay because I don’t need anymore bad luck right now.
What’s with all the stupid questions. Is this a contest.
more like mourning edition amirite.
I’m pretty stoked to score my first Fuko, possibly enjoying my confirmation more than whatever trash and disappointment awaits: smokey-fat-police FTL.
I’m curious what has been in past Fuko bags? I was lucky to get one of these. I figured for $5 it couldn’t be much of a let down. Worst case scenario I paid $5 for a red sachel? Lol
@Sweetness80 there are many forums posts containing images of previous disappointment/excitement
@Sweetness80 IMHO it ranges from great (think approaching $1,000?) to not quite worth $5, set your expectations low so you won’t won’t be horribly disappointed.
@Yoda_Daenerys Yeh some end up costing the person money-like the guy who got all those broken 39 inch TVs with the screen smashed. Bet he couldn’t just put them out for trash-sure he had to pay to hall them away or pay some type of dump fee.
@Sweetness80 I got a monkey man in the last one. He’s awesome.
@Sweetness80 I got a giant Buddha head that takes up about 1/4 of my efficiency apartment floorplan, but I’ve always wanted a giant Buddha head.
@HemlockTea By taking up more space, the Buddha head is actually making your apartment more energy efficient because there is less space to heat and cool!
Edit: I use the same argument with my wife for why I always need a case of beer in the fridge.
@medz that is a scientifically sound argument!
@Felton10 That IS awesome!
Hey. Hey. It would be a total surprise and absolutely blow everyones’ mind if there was another fukobukuro tonight.
Brilliant, eh?
(I’m trying not to be bitter about missing this by, oh, 2 seconds.)
I am a little confused. Went for the morning Meh, tried and failed (apparently). Happened to log into to my credit account and saw it went through. I received no email about the order, nothing. Did this happen to anyone else?
tl;dr I got one. elevated-silly-belief
@mehgrl Yup! Same thing happened to me. We overwhelmed the site at 8am apparently and confused it slightly. Slightly.
That’s it. I refuse to tolerate this shit any longer. Came home to find 2 boxes from meh on my doorstep and guess what?,?, they ain’t fukos of course, just stuff my dutifull ass bought over the last few weeks. I’m canceling my VMP and while I’m at it, gonna cancel a few other member’s VMPs too, cuz I can do that! You lost a good one today Meh… nah, what the hell. Let’s check out tonight’s junk!
@spectra242 What a roller coaster ride.
@spectra242 Don’t touch my VMP. I’m in no mood for this. You’ll regret it. After all, I am an old goat and old goats rule.
@lisaviolet I’ll get there. Some day. This month has been way too exciting.
@OldCatLady This entire year has been way too sad.
@lisaviolet I have reconsidered canceling your VMP. You have proven your exceeding mehness, and must remain a member of the VMP lest we, as a group, have to rely on our intestinal mehtitude!
@spectra242 Thank you. Upon reading this, I’ve decided that this day just can’t get any better.
Missed at midnight and 8am, but snagged it at 4pm. Apparently there were only 68 in that batch? If true, that’s crazy lucky for me. Have never gotten a Fuku; two previous Fukos. Will let the disappointment build slowly until it arrives. Mehtastic.
Scored a patronizing-cut-commander!
Midnight - Midnight ET: 366 sold
8am - 8:03am ET: 655 sold
4pm - 4pm ET: 68 sold to VMP members
I guess that shows what MEH really thinks about it’s VMP members. Why again should i be a VMP when you totally piss all over me?
@cwellsatl Because you only pay for shipping once a month? It’s up to you to take advantage of it. This was the first time they did this special thing for VMP mehmbers. Also the first time they split the sale to help out the whiny east coasters (I’m a west coaster and got a Fuko on the morning sale, set my alarm to wake me up at 4:30 and everything, so
east coasters, I got one a yer Fukos…).
Anything over the one time charge for multiple shipping is icing on the cake, AFAIC.
@cwellsatl I’m VMP and I was one of the first 366. You don’t HAVE to wait for the last offering.
You pay $5 for surprise perks, free shipping, and to have an extra chance at popular deals at 4pm.
So @snapster USED to give us a Fukubukuro (lucky bag) and charged us 5. THEN they added that stupid O. now it is a Fukobukuro (misfortune bag) and he STILL charges us the 5!?!?!?!? WTF Meh? I know where this is going @snapster. Mark my words, minions, pretty soon it will be an Utsubukuro (depressing bag) and he will STILL charge us the 5, maybe more! And we will still buy it
After years of trying on the “site that shall not be named” I was finally able to score one of these rare rare umm things. I’m looking forward to bags of air…and I better get at least 7. Ready for 99.9% of useless crap with the off chance I get something cool like matching used socks. My life will be complete.
@nika989 It’s okay to say woot. Many of us are dual-identity and/or former wooters. It’s just better here.
@OldCatLady Meh carries on the feeling and fun of the pre Amazon Woot.
Huzzah! Didn’t think I got one but apparently I did as it shows up in my orders. What a pleasant surprise! My first one!
@unPCnook You say that now, but just wait till you open it. The bag will be useful, though.
@OldCatLady I’ve had my fair share on the other site. Just glad to finally get a chance to open one here …
Anyone get their bag yet? My order still says processing
@stevepr OH MY goodness wrong thread… you should be posting in this thread:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/fukobukuro-12-morning-addition-processing-thread-un-official
ORDER # quirky-smiling-learning
STATUS Processing
still waiting to see what the dimensions of my misery might be
My order still says processing
I got the first Fuko by luck and it was pretty crappy. Hope
beastly-bumpy-hole is better!
@aerosquid hrm fuko or beastly bumpy hole…
My processor is tired of processing the process of the processing process. Process that.
@Woody1 - Arriving 9/29/16
The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
Bet you my five dollar
That tomorrow
There’ll be meh crap!
Just thinkin’ about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
’Til there’s a mishap!
When I’m stuck a day
That’s gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!
The sun’ll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
’Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You’re always
A day
A way!
Mine has been shipped, eta … 9/30
@osubrit mine as well
@jmhsrv same
Order # permanent-airy-rabbit. Still processing.
Order shipped! 2.2lbs 1kg, expected delivery on Sept 30th!
@AlasPoorYorick 2.2 on 9/30 also
@AlasPoorYorick Same
@AlasPoorYorick mine as well
@AlasPoorYorick Update: Should arrive today by USPS
processing…still
why meh must u give me a false sense of hope that ur taking so long is to organize freight shipping for my pallet full of broken onkyo receivers along with many sacks of goat socks!!!
@blndfayth are those socks for goats or socks with goats on them? Either way I may have a use for them…
@HemlockTea Socks can also be made OF goats. Angora goats. Angora socks are actually very nice indeed. We will not be receiving those.
/giphy "angora goats"
@OldCatLady oh, yes. I have some angora blend sock yarn waiting for just the right sock pattern.
Just got the shipping notification
/giphy It’s happening
finite-stimulating-volcano shipped today. 2.2lbs. Good things come in small packages, but, sadly, TVs and receivers don’t.
2.2pounds…so I’m getting all those reading glasses I’ve asked Santa for all those years ago. Meh.
Just got the shipping email… 2.2 lbs as well. I’m hoping that 1kg (2.2lbs) is a placeholder until the actual weight is updated.
2.2 pounds is a placeholder weight
/giphy I have nothing
Processing …
@sudotrin
Well I do think my son might have given me a cold …
/giphy so I have that going for me
cough, ugh
@sudotrin Do you live kinda close to the Dallas area?
@Barney Naw, I’m a Floridiot.
@sudotrin Well, I was going to try and cheer you up and tell you that the closer you live to Dallas, the later they are sending out your Fuko, because they are now trying to get all of the Fukos to arrive about the same time. But that doesn’t look like it in your case.
Sooo… maybe you are going to get one of the “special” Fukos? Don’t know if that would be a good thing or a bad thing.
@Barney It’s finally shipped! Woohoo!
@sudotrin Yay!
/giphy wait still processing
@bradyson update…
/giphy yay it’s coming
Still Processing!
mine is still processing
And even worse: Fedex Update Shipment exception -
Barcode label unreadable and replaced
Scheduled delivery:
Tue 9/27/2016 by end of day
It only weighs 2 pounds so hopefully good things come in small packages.
@Neech 2.2lbs is the placeholder weight, it might or might not actually weigh that… sometimes after it hits the main fedex hub the real weight will get updated, sometimes it never updates.
@thismyusername It was 2.2lbs for a while, then yesterday it switched to 2.0lbs.
@Neech yea ipad air 2 (boxes) are really light.
good luck
@thismyusername Cash is pretty light. Hopefully my mailman will come early.
@Neech Yup… mine jumped from 2.2 to 15.7. Hope mine is cash too!
@MrJazz The way my luck is it will be cash, a bunch of worthless Canadian pennies.
Mines growing 2.2 to 2.6 hope FedEx isn’t feeding it
my 2.2 pound Snotty-Glsitening-Boudary has been rescheduled for satruday
@jmhsrv Well, mine was too, this morning…and now this evening its been moved up to Thursday…
Downgraded to 2.1 pounds. But went from scheduled delivery on Friday to scheduled delivery on Saturday, this morning, and as of this evening, its getting here on Thursday. Don’t you just love Smartpost? Can’t make up its mind. That’s what happens to some smartypants…
I thought I missed this one, it said the order failed to go through, but the glitch gods smiled upon me and I just noticed a 10.7 pounder is scheduled for delivery this Friday!
I have a 7.1 pounder, it’s now in USPS’s hands, the estimate is Friday but I’m hopeful it could be here by tomorrow.
This is my first Fuko. Is it customary for one of the boxes to be empty? I opened the package and at the top of the pile is a box of Coca-Cola coasters. Awesome I need some coasters! Pick up the box and it weighs nothing, open it and it’s just two pieces of styrofoam.
@dbhyslop Yep, it’s customary.
@dbhyslop It is also customary for mediocre to hide things (such as amazon gift cards) in particularly weird Fukos. You should shred the styrofoam and look for treasure!
Ooh I got a tablet. Turns out it has a broken screen. Glad I get to pay to throw it away for meh.
this guy gets it!
My Fuko came in today. Meh, but the fun was worth the $5.
Set of 3 walkie talkies
1 red Meh bag
1 Meh sticker
1 Meh foam hockey puck
1 My Little Pony pop up song book
1 Star Wars ruler
1 triangle (instrument)
1 inflatable guitar
No where near as great as the Fuka I got, but I
Meh.
edit: it wasn’t packed very well, so it’s possible something fell out.
Mine upgraded to 4.8 lbs and expected delivery of Friday even though it’s arriving at my USPS office today.
Arrived today:
FUKU bag
Meh sticker and puck
The Office mug
Aliens wristwatch
Piranha sunglasses
Musica in-wall speaker kit
Not bad at all. Christmas presents!
Mine went from 2.2lbs to 14.9, is in my town for delivery yet had an extra day added. Was coming the 30th not it says 10/1. Confusing for it already being here in KC.
21.sumthin sumthin pounds and taking a break about 50 miles from me until monday it seems. told my wife about the weight of my precious; she’s pissed that we could be getting something large she doesn’t want. whatever. she doesn’t know what’s meh for her.
My Fuko bag is what I would expect while collecting my belongings leaving jail -
1 Red Meh bag
3 packets of tissues
1 Diecast cap gun
1 Alien Queen watch
1 9" broken Haier Android Tablet
@franjie77 I got one of those Haier tablets in the last Fuku. Plug it in and let it charge for about an hour, then do a system wipe – hold the up volume button in for about 10 seconds and it’ll load into the boot menu. Do a restore on it and it should be good to go (unless it’s actually totally broken).
They’re not the best tablets, but not bad for free
I also received a broken tablet!
7" RCA tablet - broken
Kitchen thermometer
Meh bag
Meh apron
meh foam hockey puck
@Rstoker Assuming it powers up, as others have said, get the tablet in recovery (pwr + vol down usually) do a factory wipe and you might get it going again
@RedOx The usb connector is broken, so I can’t charge it to see if it will power up.
https://imgur.com/a/UXYDJ
1.4 pounds here… got Toy Story shower curtain hooks, and headphones.
Meh bag
Meh sticker
Meh foam hockey puck
Piranha sunglasses, exactly like this
Memphis Belle Tin Waste Bin 2
Inflatable beach ball (I think)
Bormioli Rocco Selecta tumbler set of 6; 2 survived 4 broken3
Bluetooth Speaker
Meh Bag
6ft slice of pizza
Clown PEZ Dispenser Bank
Star Wars figure
Barbie Shoes Ornament
Ion Vinyl Motion Suitcase Turntable: very cool, but DOA
Bots Shower Curtain
2 x Flamingo Drink Floats
Meh: bag; puck; sticker
Super Mario Wall Graffix
Fukobukuro 12 Haul
Toshiba Chromebook, puck, pencil, rug, american flag, ruler
Might be my best FUKO so far…
Thanks, MEH!!!
Fuku 12 showed up: Pepsi Cola tray, wooden cane, My Little Sunshine Rug and a Shark Steam & Spray Pro floor cleaner!
Completely surprised to find a 14.7 lbs box when I got home as I was told I was rejected twice. My Fuko included:
1 Suprise Box on my doorstep
1 Meh bag
1 Meh squishy stress hockey puck
1 Meh sticker
1 Mr. Coffee Coffeemaker with a slightly cracked water tank
1 circular Pepsicola serving tray
2 POW! fly swaters
1 2pac shot glass
1 totally not a douche with a 9in nozzle
Meh should never tell anyone if their purchase went through and just surprise them as it took this box from mediocre to magnanimous.
Got mine today:
1 Meh bag
1 Meh squishy hockey puck
1 Meh sticker
1 Polarized sunglasses
2 handsfree GoJo headset (to stick you flip phone to the side of you head
1 deck of ‘Whom’ italian made playing cards with pop culture 'royal cards’
1 bricked, abused, ‘Trio Stealth-8’ tablet (that I’ve revived but holy crap what a POS, originally sold @ walmart)
Tablet camera doesn’t work, its laggy and all around terrible but for free, its an awesome that I get to try to root and break further.
For being my first fuko/u, very happy.
Got mine.
1 Unlucky bag
1 Inflatable Air Guitar
1 Barbie Shoebox
1 CX-10 Drone
1 Martian Notifier (Red)
4 pouches of Texas Air
Thanks, Meh!
Got mine.
1 Unlucky bag
1 Inflatable Shamu
1 Burger King Lord of the Rings toy
1 Meh puck
1 The Office coffee mug
1 Heart rate monitor
1 Baby rattle
1 Meh bag
1 Meh squishy hockey puck
1 Meh sticker
1 Ceramic salt & pepper shaker set in the shape of hamburgers.
1 Chef Pals Chicken thermometer (I hope my chickens hold still long enough to use it)
1 PoGo 850mAh Power Card
1 Blendtec Classic 475 blender - Works great!
Great haul! Love the blender. As for the other items… Will they blend?
@smittypap nice score with the blendtec!
@smittypap Mmmm… chicken milkshakes!
Assuming the radios work, I think I got a good one.
THE END OF MEH??? A GOODBYE BAG!!!
@Ryaneil - What the . . .???
1 Meh bag
1 Meh squishy hockey puck
1 Meh sticker
1 Ceramic salt & pepper shaker set in the shape of hamburgers
1 Inflatable Horse
1 Pair of oversized clown glasses
1 Smart Watch
Got mine today.
1x Meh red bag which I already took grocery shopping.
1x Meh soft hockey puck.
1x Meh sticker.
1x Beef thermomter.
1x Barbie doll purse with gloves.
1x NuVision tablet in working order. The charger was filthy and had a foul odor.
Mine arrived yesterday but I had to retrieve it from the post office this AM. I opened it revealing
1x temporarty tattoos
1x meh squeezy puc
1x South Park magnetic dart board
2x What I initally thought was plastic poop, but I guess is plastic pastries.
and then I move the dart board to reveal…
1x A freaking Toshiba Chromebook
and she’s alive!
It’s reconditioned but seems in great condition overall, thanks Meh, you guys are the best!
@osubrit I bought one from Meh, great Chomebook!
You guys never fail to disappoint!
1 Pair of Floor Cleaning Slippers
Giant Blow up Microphone
Audio Technica Headphone - New! 25 bucks on Amazon!
Star Wars Battle of Endor Wedge Antilles Rebel Pilot
ALIEN Wall Relief 6" FIGURE
Hockey Puck
Sticker
Bag
My 13.1 pound Fukobukuro arrived:
1 Meh bag
1 Meh squishy hockey puck
1 Meh sticker
1 Derringer cap gun
1 POGO Power card
and 1 brand new Blentec Classic 475!!
Thank you, Meh! I love the blender!
