@boygenius1991 I know, right fellow oxygen rich gasous mix breather? but just for fun can you tell me which of the following are creme brulee? just for fun fellow human
@boygenius1991 There is, yes, though we didn’t have that set right for a couple minutes here. Anyone who got more than one will have their extras canceled/refunded.
@dave When trying to order it, I chose to become a VMPer while ordering it. The confirmation for VMP came through, but no fuko was attached to that order.
/giphy Please Please Please send me one of those!
@cengland0 that happens to me too! I figure most folks have super nice computers and im out here in tbe woods on my iphone. I dont stand a chance! Its been well over a year and every time its tok busy to process. We will get em some day
@lanehammer Think that was a server issue, not the speed of your computer. Once you submit the order, it’s not being processed on your end so it’s a crappy ordering system. I cannot wait to see the Oh Shit report on this one.
@cengland0 Or when they stopped to change it from you can buy 3 to you can buy one that put a temp stop on buying so those of us in process got the endless green bar of death. Maybe?
@ThoR294 Same here- must have tried a dozen times at midnight eastern and again here at 8am. Always said something went wrong and gave me the chance to “try again” which when clicked would say “are you a robot” even though the captcha was already checked. Damn crappy Meh checkout servers…
@ThoR294 I probably did the same “try again” 30 times, too. I tried to buy it at midnight using my laptop at home; no success.
But I got one this morning using my iphone. Maybe the LTE speed is faster than my home internet speed. I am going to buy fuko using cell phone and cellular data in the future.
@awk same here. not sure why I bother, this is the third time I’ve caught it at 12:00:00 and haven’t been able to score one, and that’s with a blazing fast computer and internet access.
@Conklaven Only the second? LOL I had over a 2 year run with that and just now got one. But then again I didn’t see the pictures this time, instead just a checkbox which is a first for me with these.
@TheOmni@pnklz@Superjimtendo - check your orders at https://meh.com/orders - if there is no fuku order, you didn’t buy a fuko.
The VMP charge went through because you can buy into it at any time. If you would like to cancel your VMP and have a refund for your $5 issued, I think you can do it by clicking the VMP link at the very top of the page and going to “Your VMP payments.”
@Thumperchick I don’t have a Fuko in my orders, which is disappointing, but the VMP shouldn’t have went through cause it was selected as the shipping, not as a sign up. If they didn’t sell me a product, how could they process my shipping?
@SpenceMan01 It’s only been about 45 minutes. Not going to try a chargeback yet, since it’s a pretty obvious error on their end I’m assuming they’ll fix it somehow.
@TheOmni Well shit, I’m in the same boat. Here I thought I scored my first fuko bag ever, but instead I’m only showing a $5 credit card charge and a “Welcome to VMP” email. I don’t see how it’s possible for only part of an order (and what is essentially the shipping method at that) to be processed successfully, while the actual item I wanted to buy gets omitted. It should have bounced the entire transaction.
OK Google how build competent e-commerce platform.
@pnklz@fenguin@Superjimtendo I emailed them and they said that if I cancel the VMP membership without using it then it will automatically refund in about 10 days.
I dunno. Caught this at the right time, did everything right on multiple attempts, only have one artificial eye so not totally a robot, this whole thing stinks
@jayplus707 That was me, too, at 11 PM. And the page load refresh ate the early AM try (moving everything all over on my phone). But on the VMP sale I got unlucky!
WTH??? I spent 6 minutes buying and rebuying this plus verified that I wasn’t a robot multiple times. It took it 6 minutes and more tries than that to finally sell out. This sucks.
How did it manage to sign me up for VMP but failed to check me out for the fuku? I tried over and over again. The time on the VMP signup email is 9:00pm.
Anyone else have the problem where it still said it was in stock, you tried to buy it but the shopping cart ran into problems. Refresh the page and it’s still in stock, so you try again, still no dice. Refresh, still in stock, try again “We wanted to give the morning crew a chance…” Refresh and it’s out of stock.
Really appreciate that you managed to successfully charge me the $5 for re-signing up for VMP, but you couldn’t charge me the $5 for the Fuku. And I was in at 12:00 on the dot. Nothing says “Meh” like you folks.
First time I am genuinely ticked about missing this. I started trying the minute it turned over, and it kept saying that too many people were trying to buy this. Normally I am fine with missing it, but something was definitely wrong with the system.
@Bosox1814 On a normal fuko day you wouldn’t have had the chance to try at 12:03… Consider yourself lucky. It’s better to try and fail than never to try at all.
Really Meh? This is what trying to buy a dumb BOC is here? Clicking buy then getting “something went wrong!” then getting “you have to click not a robot”, then repeating for 8 minutes, only to be told that you are saving some for 8AM?
Well this sucks. This time I only got the robot check box and the repeatedly refilling green bar. Then when it said lets try again it asked about being a robot except that box was already checked and so wouldn’t let me do it. So I started over several times and then it was sold out. First time I didn’t hit the check a million pictures too. Sigh.
I received an order confirmation page. But its not in my orders and i didnt get a confirmation email yet. (Usually instantaneous) pretty sure mine glitched out.
you mother fuckers… I refreshed the page at 9:01. kept getting challenged by bullshit robot captchas. green bar went back and forth many times. refreshed the page, more bullshit captchas, more bar going back and forth, then “sold out” fuck you.
No luck, just a bunch of errors. I’ll try to be awake for the morning one, but I’m on the west coast, so that’s iffy. Congrats to everyone who got one.
Kinda hard to feel upset that your order didn’t go through when you also find out you are a robot at the same time. I mean who doesn’t want to be a robot?
@Kidsandliz I’ve got an early appointment at the nursing home tomorrow. @PlacidPenguin@duodec It’s okay, I’ve gotten more than my fair share. Time for others to get one. Good luck to you guys, if you didn’t get one.
@KDemo@mikibell Aww… Thank you for offering me one of the coveted “lucky” (not unlucky) purple bags, but I’m all right. I already have a lot of purple in my life. You guys go ahead and keep your bags; you earned them. I’m hoping they will offer them again some day and, who knows, maybe I’ll snag one.
♪Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
A purple bag’s lucky
As lucky can be. ♪
at 9, i clicked, it cycled, said 99 were sold
i refreshed at 901, i tried for 3, it cycled, said 100 were sold
at 902 i tried 1 again, it said google cannot contact captcha
I refreshed, at 903 i tried 2, it cycled and said 111 were sold
at 905 i tried 1, it kept telling me i was a damned robot.
And of course, sold out until the butt fuck of dawn.
So, as I was trying to score a fuko, I chose to become a VMP member when buying it.
Got the confirmation that I’m now a VMPer, but I didn’t score a fuko?
I will try again at 8am. If me no get fuko, me no want vmp.
/image hmmm
Finally got to the page with time left on one of these…7 failed attempts to check out, finally get “sold out”. Won’t be going after these anymore, y’all enjoy.
@awk Maybe checking for previous fuko “winners” and saying “none for you but we’ll keep you hanging”. Same thing, got through robo check 6-7 times then kicked out with we’re too busy, until it sold out to where they keep some for the laze east-coasters.
But they use Microsoft Azure in the background; with any Microsoft product, failure to perform is an eventual inevitability.
I’m a robot. I feel like a robot as I click buttons in a predictable order without questioning over. And over. And over. With the same result. To no avail. And I continue. Like a robot. Am I a robot?
Got on at 9 exactly went through captcha at least 5 times I AM NOT A ROBOT! So then it’s “we’re having trouble processing”…and finally…"SOLD OUT."
SAD VALENTINE :^(
My favorite part, was when
was
was when
was when the green bar kept filling,
the green bar
kept filling,
and then it would error
guys
it would error out,
and i tried to buy it again,
but then it would
it wou-
it would do the error again,
Wow! That took a long time to process! I figured it was locked up but then all of a sudden I GOT IT!!! Go figure!
Only the second one in about two years I was able to nab.
Stupid. It kept loading, asking me if I’m a robot, etc, etc. For a minute there I thought VMP would be worth it. Nope. Hey, at least I have my mad ape den prize from Sept 2015 still on the way, right guys? Guys?
So meh, what was I doing wrong? I like to learn from my mistakes. I clicked buy, checked the ‘i’m not a robot’, but the little bar at the bottom just kept cycling, then I get “Let’s try that again”
“WOW. THESE ARE SELLING FAST AND WE’RE BUSY PROCESSING OTHER ORDERS. TRY AGAIN IN A LITTLE BIT”
Guess I shouldn’t have tried to make a fukubukuro my first Meh purchase. My CC info wasn’t on file, so I had to scramble to put it in. It kept erroring out, so I switched to joining VMP, in case that helped. That purchase went through, but not the fuko.
Newbie here (lurking for a while). Was in checkout within a second or two of loading. Kept getting “wow these are selling fast” and “are you a robot”. Is this the way it always is?
@DaFrogMan That’s the way it always is for me and a lot of people. At least the last several times I’ve tried to buy a Fuko, I’m constantly accused of being a robot and can’t get past that. Something is wrong with Recaptcha on this site and there should be a better way.
@PlacidPenguin ahem there was the fuku/o with server issues that weren’t resolved until almost 2am EST, that was the only fuku i was able to get due to trying to checkout for almost 2 hours.
@Thumperchick With a new bladerunner coming out, maybe I’ll find out if Harrison Ford was a replicant all along. Maybe then I can compare and contrast and see if meh made the right choice in denying me a sweet sweet fukubukoro
@Hypnos, you’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise…
It’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
Really!!! Green bar forever, then the “try again”, but you couldn’t because the “I am not a robot button” wouldn’t register, so I had to refresh… did it until about 6 min after and then the “sold out”. About done with Meh after this and that Jabra Bluetooth headset that came in with the paint partially rubbed off and earwax remnants still on it. Should have know things were going down hill after the Fuji battery fiasco.
genericcat is my mom and she’s heartbroken rn. made this account just to try to grab one for her and got about 7 separate error messages telling me i was either a robot or that there were problems with the server. spent a FULL 5 MINUTES trying to buy this stupid bag and somehow they sold out? i wasn’t even able to buy one…fuzzyninja is right. don’t have fuku if your servers can’t handle all the users wanting to buy one
@samisdead as frustrating as it may seem, the servers actually worked adequately, as they were able to sell all the Fukos that were available in the initial run before the pause till eight a.m. In fact, the fact that there were any glitches just amplified the possibility of you getting one because they were available that much longer! In our chatroom, one member was frustrated about not getting to purchase, but she kept trying and lo and behold, she success on the fifth or sixth time!
This constant Recaptcha bullshit is really starting to get annoying. What the fuck is going on? I could see if I was a robot, but I’m not. The folks at Meh apparently think it’s humorous, which it’s not.
Something was screwed up this time-had to go to 2 “pick which is” not a robot and saw the green thing going and going. Final went back and ordered again-not a robot store fronts and bodies of water and it finally went through at 12:06.
@PlacidPenguin nope. I’ve been warning people for years…except for the fragiles that can’t bear see my name … I understand though… they fear it for good reason.
The page on my phone was spinning its wheels for a third time, and I opened my Chromebook to try on there. The page gave no indication it had worked, but I got a push notification from American Express that my card had been charged!
/giphy able-meddlesome-hydra
Hate it like everyone else, but glad so many are fed up and won’t be back at 8am to fight me the next round…wait a minute…you’re still trying again after all that whining? What, do you think they added more servers or eliminated the captcha fiasco overnight? Of course not! If you hate the game, stop playing; otherwise realize that the inherent unfairness, process-clunkiness, and frustration IS the game. The fukobukuro is not the prize…it’s the bait, and you got played.
I missed it because my husband turned off my Meh alarm. I’m very sick and he thought I needed to sleep more than I needed to try for a Fuko. He was wrong. He woke me up 3 minutes after 9:00 anyway because he was banging around in the kitchen. So now I am sick, I am upset, and I have no Fuko.
@Pony I was there at exactly the moment and still missed it. I was excited as I hit the button to place the order, thinking my lifelong dream of having a bag of nonsense that I paid money for was finally coming true, but then the green progress bar crept and crept and then restarted not once but thrice, which I knew to portend that my attempt was doomed. Wish I’d have gotten 3 more minutes of sleep instead. Not that I really could have - my newborn was making lots of grunting noises loudly with such vigor that she would be kicked out of Planet Fitness immediately at the time.
So when the green bar came back and said “let’s try that again” it accused me of being a robot. The only way around it was to reload. Is that the right way to do it? Gotta figure things out before tomorrow I guess.
Meh: If I fail to get a fuku at 8:00 (and possibly 4:00), can you please hide any and all fuku related posts from my view for about 4 weeks, so I don’t keep seeing all the cool and shitty stuff everybody got, and reliving the pain over and over? Thx!
@Thumperchick It’s the first time I’ve failed when actively trying (I did get here slightly late, probably 20 seconds after launch). I’ve missed out on others due to family obligations/dad duty.
I Finally snagged one for the first time in my 878 days of membership, but not sure how I did it.
At first I was allowed to buy more than one, but then the purchase timed out.
I reloaded and tried a several more times (I could only order 1 Fuko from that point on), but every time it told me “something went wrong, try again later” until eventually the Fuko was Sold Out (or paused).
Screwed again.
I then went off to pay some bills. I went to check email, and there in my inbox was an order receipt from Meh!!!??? (along with a credit card notification for the purchase) Good thing I didn’t inadvertently order 10+ when I was attempting to place an order!
Definitely a weird way to snag a Fuko, but I’ll take it!!!
I should also mention that I’m sick of all the robot discrimination that takes place around here. What a bunch of robophobes we’ve become. If we continue this attitude we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves when they attempt to rule over us!
@Kerig3 If they attempt to rule over us we can just throw some salt water on them. Heck even regular water, although salt water would be more fun since they’d rust faster too.
what has this world come to? i scoured (a.k.a. skimmed) this thread and could not find one single instance of po’d aMeh.rican or Meh.xican Meh.tizens threatening to drop vmp due to no fuko and fairness, blah, blah, blah.
/youtube the plan is working…
eye four one believe those who were charged vmp but orders for fuko didn’ process should get an extra shot at the 4pm et batch - bend those rule, c’mon…
@mediocrebot and I wish that my long history of not being a bot was taken into account. moreover its kind of ironic that YOU are asking me if I’m a bot.
Got to checkout and clicked the button. Sat there for like 5 minutes and then said “You can’t checkout if you’re a robot” even though reCAPTCHA said I wasn’t.
seriously what the fuck. I pushed the buy button and it tells me there were problems with my details WHEN THERE ARENT after loading for like 3 minutes. What a fucking joke.
@BillLehecka I panicked because my phone was still loading from a refresh when the hour came around, and I honestly thought that was going to miss it over the second refresh.
Another disappointing Meh experience - Recaptcha gave the big green check box but Meh apparently thought I was still a robot. You’d think they’d have enough worthless junk to go around.
I wonder why I even waste my time with this crap. Even when I click fast enough to get one, I just get “Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot” as I stare at the green check mark in the recaptcha.
I made it further than normal. Clicked “buy” and even got to the confirmation screen. But the processing bar kept running until it had sold out. Ah, well.
Got mine this morning after the ever-loading green bar last night.
/giphy cozy-obscene-tinker
/youtube cozy-obscene-tinker
I am beginning to wonder what is causing people to have so much CAPTCHA trouble. Are people using VPNs? Incognito browsing? Recaptcha has never given me any issue, it’s a solid product, so the problems people are having baffle me.
@jbartus The first 15 attempts, I only had to click the checkbox but the order didn’t go through. But then something in their algorithm told them they better start asking harder questions and it was prompting me to select all the square that match some criteria.
The worst captcha was when It makes you draw a box around an object. I cannot get that to work so I just refresh and try again.
@cengland0 yeah that I can get, it fits with the goal of captchas to prevent bots flooding and such but people carry on like it happens from the very first time they check it off. God knows I didn’t have time to get 15 order attempts in last night so I don’t get it really.
@cengland0 mine were sitting in everloading green bar mode. I wasn’t sure exactly what Meh might have going on behind the scenes so I just let them keep playing out in the hopes that they’d go through until they terminated. I probably tried 5-6 times.
This makes up for all those years as a little boy trying to get a BoC and never quite making the cut. Now that i got my foreskin snipped the meh gods finally decided I’m a big boy and I deserve the satisfaction of a fuku. Wish me luck in my conquest for adulthood!
Whew. Got one. I passed-out about an hour early after putting the child to sleep. I then woke up about an hour late when the dog wanted out. Somehow I knew…I checked meh and, sure enough, I had missed the fuko. I pledged to wake up early to give it a shot. I had a dream that I woke up early and was ready, but somehow looked at the clock and it was 13 minutes after! The hell?! I checked the site and it had something about “enter your email to obtain a scrambled code that would be used for verification and error reporting when there are server issues…” I thought there might still be a chance, so I entered my stuff and got my code. I figured I could use the same code for the VMP sale if nothing else. Then I think I actually woke up to the alarm clock and I was really sad because I missed the fuko. I looked at the clock and I HADN’T missed it after all! I had 30 minutes to spare. I made preparations and scored one. Yay! These are the only days I like the circuit breaker and that’s because I know I shouldn’t deserve one for falling asleep early.
@medz Since I missed it at midnight, I had nightmares all night worrying about the possibility of missing the 8am event. I had to get up at 4am to begin working but, because of my restless sleep, I fell asleep in my office. Luckily I set an agenda for 8am with a 15 minute reminder.
Knowing in advance of the Fuko and how hard it is to get one, my blood pressure goes up and my heart races. I’m still shaking and it’s been 20 minutes ago.
I tried at 8, got the everloading green bar, that then told me my payment was wrong, then hit it again and it kept asking if I was robot. Guess I’m trying at 4.
Congrats to those who got one
Sold out again while waiting for recaptcha to stop claiming im a robot. Of course my wife is asking for my help at 7:59:30AM…waiting until then watching me reload the meh site to ask for help. Says we don’t need anymore junk from meh, so she needs help now filling up a sandwich bag, wanted to get the “junk” just for spite. Ah well, 4PM i’ll try again.
Hey, I need a favor meh…I’m working at a job fair all day, Interviewing and recruiting till 8pm tonight and now I won’t be able to try at 4 pm. Do you think you could charge my credit card and just send one to me? If you could, that would be great…ok, thanks…
I signed in at 7:59 a.m., started trying to buy at 8 a.m. EXACTLY – and the payment wouldn’t take. Just a reloading green bar. Today – Meh sucks howlingly.
A note to those saying they clicked the “I’m not a robot” box and still said they got the “are you a robot” thing when the order tried to process:
Make very sure the animation after you check the box is finished before submitting your order, as it seems to be an indicator of the captcha being run all the way through the verification process. I think that might be what trips people up. I’ve missed out before for that reason, I think, so it’s worth keeping in mind for next time.
@peaceetc Agreed but… When there is a problem with the order such as what we got last night saying that too many people are ordering and to try again later (not sold out yet), that captcha box is still checked and the green button to order is available to click again. When you click to try again, it says you have to do the captcha. But the captcha is already clicked and you cannot click it again. The only remedy is to reload the page wasting precious time.
@cengland0 Once, I right-clicked on the captcha and chose “reload frame” and retried, and the error message wasn’t the “are you a robot” error… that makes me think it would work (if that particular node didn’t hate me for other reasons).
Hey why don’t we, the meh fukoboro unluckier unlucky persons/ robots/whatever we are, grab a bunch of junk from our homes and ship it to other meh’ers that didn’t get a meh fukoboro bag either? That way we can be delightfully underwhelmed when we receive our mystery wanna be unlucy bags of random stuff hanging around our homes ( hey maybe include stuff we have received in our Meh fukoburos before) ?
“Meh” two cents, that isn’t worth what it cost to mint the two pennies in the first place.
@AttyVette But it would cost me more in shipping than it actually costs to buy one from meh. That’s what makes this so amazing if you can score one.
I have so much crap around the house that I don’t need and don’t want but I don’t want to pay to ship it out either. I don’t even want to spend the time packing it up and going to the post office.
@PlacidPenguin@cengland0 eh, i’m a little salty after the last exchange. Spent over 30 bucks to send a pretty big box with tons of random stuff. My recipient didn’t even acknowledge that they got it. I would of liked to know if they actually hated it or if it was a decent box.
@RiotDemon See, that’s what I’m talking about. I find it amazing for $10 ($5 for VMP members), they can actually send you a box of crap. Some people get very large items like TV’s that would cost me a fortune to send. I understand it’s the cheapest smartpost shipping method available but that’s still pretty cheap. Obviously losing money in this deal but keeps people coming to the site.
@RiotDemon didn’t know about mehxchanges --guess I am a robot …anyways you did a good thing and you must have sent your package to a really meh- person --sorry
It’s been quite a while since I was (un)lucky enough to grab one. This is the first time I’ve gotten something at the 8am breaker. So thank you for that! Seriously - I do appreciate the even slight chance to get something at 8am.
just-ritzy-move
For the first time ever, this was completely smooth sailing for me at the 8am drop. Everyone is right that being 100% sure to check the captcha BEFORE clicking the order button is crucial and making sure you wait until the check mark is present and still. The green bar of almost certain doom crept 80% across the screen, sat there for a couple second slowly creeping further…few second of nothing…almost there…her hand started moving further and further down my…
You mean when I would drown my sorrows upon getting a confirmation email, getting a notification that it shipped, getting update notifications as it inches towards me, being notified I’d be getting it that day, waiting for the box, getting the box, licking and hugging the box, opening the box, and being disappointed with the box, I was doing it all wrong?
@sammydog01 SBUX has a $5. Bacon, Gouda & Egg sandwich plus a grande coffee deal, but that means I’d have to go get it. Thanks for the Shamwreck warning.
@OldCatLady I may have to go out for lunch then. I brought my hot chocolate home, tossed in a couple of tiny Cadbury dark chocolate with mint cream bars, and put it in the microwave. Perfection.
After 11 years of trying for a Bag of Crap and 2-1/2 years of trying for a Fuku, I FINALLY GOT ONE!
But it’s supposedly bad luck, so I’m still a little ambivalent…
Shot down last night while getting billed for VMP. Got in (almost too easily) this morning. Also love that, as one who does math for a living, two of my three order words are math related. Well played, Meh.
Failed at the checkout page a few times last night, but I set an early alarm and snagged one of the east coast allotment this morning, even though I live in Washington State. Sorry not sorry.
@eVil That got me by surprise too but I discovered you can hit the refresh next to the captcha and it will give you a new puzzle instead. Only a minor delay compared to trying to figure out how to draw that box.
I tried at both times, and got the same f’n:
repeating green bar eventually leading to:
“WOW. THESE ARE SELLING FAST AND WE’RE BUSY PROCESSING OTHER ORDERS. TRY AGAIN IN A LITTLE BIT”
I can accept missing out due to being slow or not ready, or not checking, but doing everything (apparently) right multiple times, before they have sold out, and failing sucks.
Should I even bother trying again ever? I always try to stay up and check at midnight, but if it won’t accept orders why bother?
@D_a_v_e The green bar is what everyone sees whilst trying to get in. It’s like all the sperm wiggling their little tails, but only 1 gets to cross the finish line. You’re trying just as hard as everyone else, but only a fraction can win.
“choose images with trees” … those are the big green fluffy q-tips that grow outside, right? Why can’t it be “choose images with javascript code” or something easy.
But at least this time it came back quickly with a bold confident “Sold Out” instead of wasting my time with repeated derpy derp error messages.
Argh, stupid stupid stupid f-ing Captcha.
{takes a deep breath}
Seriously though: as a VMP benefit, can’t we have the captcha turned off? You already (theoretically) know I’m not a robot.
Whew! Got one. I went to sleep last night with a very good feeling it would come up today. I didn’t feel like waiting up and figured I could just get the 8am one if it was indeed Fuko day. No such luck. Had to wait all day but got the 4pm one in the nick of time!
So how about relaxing the nocaptcha for vmps. Stupid thing keeps going to second page asking me to pick out photos from an array which takes time and then it’s sold out.
@hanzov69 More like you’re picking up a call tag for the item and rushing towards the register but there aren’t as many items as call tags and only the first ### call tags are honored.
I got a bloody are you a robot captcha screen where I had to click on images and it sold out while I was doing that. All three times that I tried to buy today, including the VMP window.
what’s with the recurring “please re-enter your card number” thing? back in the good old days before the 12AM/8AM/4PM schism, but now every order (even non-fuku orders) makes me re-enter my info. makes it absolutely impossible to get a fuku.
@sammydog01 I must say you wrote eloquently my thoughts exactly. Furthermore, I agree with this statement even though I’m not on the east coast. I think the reasoning for three times to TRY to purchase the fukobukuro is to mess with us more so that when we strike out repeatedly , well that’s the "Meh"ning of it in the first place.
Yep. Reload, reload, reload, go! Just had the check box so no catpcha problem, my account was spiffy and ready to go, I just checked the box and raced to the bottom to confirm. I don’t think five seconds passed between when I got a live buy it button and I got the sorry, sold out. Oh, well, why break a perfect losing streak.
All three times refreshed exactly at the hour with the fastest phone and internet/router out there. Hit but/not a robot/pay with barely a pause. Sold out. I actually am starting to think this is just a funny joke that Meh plays with our fragile psychics and aching hearts-and on the day after Valentines. MEH
Still no bag at VMP offering and two devices going with high speed internet…green line loading and then message opps sold out unlucky still …even tried in tech Mecca Austin phooey
@AttyVette It has to be largely luck. I am only 10mpbs which generally operates at about 6 or 7. I finally got one at the 4pm sale. Of course I have missed for 2 years running in a large part due to the I am not a robot proof and getting the check the pictures mess. This time I only got the check box.
Man FUCK CAPTCHA. First of all, last night captcha got to decide which images were store fronts, which is bullshit. Tried again just now and captcha made me verify I was human TWICE. WTF is that all about? I answered it correctly the first time and they gave me a 2nd quiz?? Bullshit.
Thanks Meh for helping me out… Im a VMP but apparently you guys had locked me out. I had just about as much of a chance to buy this as a person with no computer.
@mythereal I was at the hospital with my daughter, of course I didn’t get the Fuku because I was on mobile. What’s interesting is they did take my VMP signup from the Fuku! (I canceled it a bit ago)
@mythereal@KDemo Yup, she’s improving quickly, thanks. (we were in the ER when the Fuku hit). Heck, I was still there for the 8am round, but still on mobile… finally sleeping when 4pm hit.
@seraphimcaduto id be upset, but my wife asking “why are you STILL on meh” from the time she left at 8AM until 4PM when she got back made it a little worthwhile.
@jzmacdaddy@seraphimcaduto I have a 4 year old computer on 10mbps that typically operates on about 5 or 6 down and about 3 up and finally finally finally manage to get one at 4pm. So I think it may be partly luck rather than what you use. I also, for the first time in a long time, did not get the choose a billion photos mess that slows everything way down.
@Kidsandliz I was using a 2014 core i7 MacBook Pro 16gb of ram and SSD with a 50MBit connection with only one window, connected via Ethernet directly to my router. It was both poor luck and the meh server timing out my request and the green bar fail that led to me not getting it. Do I have hard feelings? Not at all. With my wife sick yesterday, it was the best excitement I got all week. Is that sad? Yes but I’ll take what I can get. Another thrilling fuko meh, well played!
Had the page loaded and captcha checked, hit the button at 4 on the nose. Got the green bar of death for several trips…then the all mighty
" IT WORKED!" appeared. Here’s looking forward to a box full shit I’ll store in the attic.
I GOT ONE I GOT ONE I GOT ONE!!! YEA!! And I only got the check box and not pick out the invisible dust specks in multiple squares which is what I usually get. And I am only VMP because I bought some water bottles for next year’s christmas for siblings. Missed this last night because helping Lisaviolet save those kitties of her friend that died and wasn’t keeping close track of the time, misread eastern for central this morning (how dumb is that? LOL) and then went back to getting those 3 kitties out of the kill shelter (they are now going to a no kill shelter and have a chance at life) AND NOW I GOT ONE - for the first time since the April Fool’s very first fuko (vs the earlier fukus). Been like a 2 year drought with these. YES!!
@hanzov69 the stats for midnight included the issues they were having, which looks like it delayed the transactions some. The 8 am looks about right, and the 4 pm was 35 seconds according to @shawn…
@mikibell Fair enough. I get the Midnight one, but the 4pm one seems…off… to me.
Wouldn’t the fact that it’s limited to VMPs reduce the number of potential customers? Coupled with more stock available, I would assume that it would take at least as long as the 8am to sell out, if not slightly longer.
Of course we all know what happens when you assume…
Got one! My wife is already practicing her eye-rolls, disappointed in her husband head shakes, and sighs with thinly veiled hostility!
/giphy entertaining-malignant-wound
should just move to cali… cause in new york if im up till midnight waiting for offers I wake up with my eyes bleeding from exhaustion and the hours of sleep I could have potentially gotten from seeing new items appear at 9:00 in cali
Sorry if this was asked and answered earlier but what is the reason the billing page keeps asking what product do you want to buy and not giving a choice? Then giving the green bar saying you did not pick a product?
It’s dead wrong … There is no way that I tried at midnight then 8am then again at 4pm with my computer and phone and had to not be a robot and pick signs in a picture and still not able to get at least one . Sooooo wrong …
Your loyalty to your VMP members is zero …
Thanks …
showing last months payment as a VMP (supposedly)
and i wasn’t even given the option to purchase after 4:00pm refresh. this site is all about chance which I get but this was uneven playing field…
Clayboy here - VMP for over a year, site supporter since almost the beginning, infrequent commentor, liker, purchaser, and STILL SUBJECTED TO A BOT-CHECK THAT SCREWS ME EVERY TIME.
I’m still flawless!! That one had me worried. Failed hard last night with server issues. No luck at morning release. Thankfully that vmp insurance came in handy.
@f00l@kidsandliz I was stuck on the worlds worst (my opinion) conference call and was killing time… after the call ended I was sorely tempted to actually keep going and get all the posts, but I just didn’t have the heart.
Any tips on how to get these? This time I was right on top of it during each of the 3 purchas periods. As soon as the listing went up I clicked purchased, checked the captcha and ctried placing my order. Every time It was sold out. There is no way I could have done it quicker, so the question is how are people pulling the trigger any quicker?
@donrull multiple devices on multiple network(lte + wiki i + a wired device) pre logged in at 11:30 EST and all credit card information already valid and saved.
@donrull I’m not sure these things have the intended effect. Back when woot was actually cool, I tried getting bags of crap and was never able to get one. I just got annoyed and stopped using woot. It’s annoying enough that meh deals come to my e-mail sometime late in the morning after they have been posted as advertisements on Facebook 6-9 hours prior. Meh is truly treating VMP as more mediocre than the non-subscribing customers who they clearly act to reach out to before VMPs.
@donrull And, I really thought that once I got the freaking captcha that I was in…but not once did that mean I was in and I was already logged in and ready to go!
Okay, so I missed the 9:00 PM chance because hubby screwed up, then I missed the 5:00 AM chance because apparently I am a robot, so I was elated to see I had one more chance left at 4:00 PM… but I failed to convert that to Pacific time, so I missed that one because I am an idiot.
Well I’m a three-time loser today, but I am thankful that I can now stand down from Fuko watch for a while. There was no way in hell I was going to remember to check in at 9:00 p.m. next week when I am in Vegas. I just hope my losing streak doesn’t follow me there.
reading all these comments I can’t believe I got one. I was just taking a shit, while I checked out the website. I clicked the purchase button @12.01 then I didn’t have the credit card number wimme. So I ran out of the bathroom(no I didn’t wipe the butt), put the info in and it worked. Anyway, so what I am trying to say is next time just try to purchase this while pooping, it might just work
I felt it. I felt it. I was so sick couldn’t even open the laptop to look. Ahhh, i feels the bad and am kicking myself.
Winners winners chicken dinners. Congrats to ya all!
@KDemo something like that, just outta the blue, that made me feel terrific! It’s not so much the big thing, but the little things like that that make my day.
@mattdonders - Do you know the weight often changes before it’s delivered? It seems they mail them all with the same ‘placeholder’ weight, and FedEx usually corrects it en route. Not always, though.
@mfladd I’ve been a meh member since it launched, and I think I’ve commented twice… just because we’re not chatty doesn’t mean we’re not long standing members of meh.
Mine just came in!
meh mug & bag
Big brother is watching you mug
Piranha sunglasses (polarized at least)
a Skoal cast metal truck (weird)
and a 1080p action camera, with waterproof case! Nabi Look HD.
I’m happy for $5!
Arrived today
Broken mug (fantastically ironic)
Captian jack cap gun
Blues brothers mug (not broken thank the lord, would have been a tragedy)
Meh sticker
Avengers travel coffee cup
Valentines day oops appologie cards
And last but not least a dead metawatch 3707 smart watch for iphone 5 with a sticker on the back that says it was printed in 2014.
Have to say Meh absolutely killed it. Haaa
Arrived today:
V for Vendetta mug
Meh mug
Meh sticker
Meh socks
Avengers travel coffee cup
porcelain Birthday Wishes Barbie (whhhhat?)
Valentines day oops apology cards
And last but not least a dead Metawatch Strata MW3007R smart watch WITHOUT this charging clip
Anyone have another source for the charging clip?
Specs
What’s in the Box?
It is a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pictures
Full Bag
Empty Bag
Dancing bag
Estimated Delivery
Late
Warranty
Nope
nice 1 at dinner
Got it!
/giphy aloof-late-saturn
@boc /giphy jerk
@hanzov69
GOOD HEAVENS! IT IS PURPLE!!!
salty-remarkable-cleric
@curtise want.
@curtise jerk.
aaaaaaaawwwwww yissssssssssss
heady-hardy-coal
@RedOx jerk.
/giphy Boom shakalaka
/image nocturnal-heavenly-furniture
@Thumperchick jerk.
Fuko Yeah! My fiancé just said yay another box of stuff to throw away.
@gwaki you can throw it my way!
hard-buttoned-sail
@pcolachiller jerk.
YOOOOOOOOOOO After over a year I finally got one! and it’s my favorite color too.
/image quarrelsome-used-basketball
@nigglez jerk.
no meh, I’m not a robot
@boygenius1991 same! Stupid check box cost me the only bag of crap ive ever seen before it was sold out
@boygenius1991 I know, right fellow oxygen rich gasous mix breather? but just for fun can you tell me which of the following are creme brulee? just for fun fellow human
@thismyusername
@boygenius1991 No sh@t! I am not going to bother anymore.
@thismyusername Best comment. Much doge. Wow.
stereotyped-comfortable-mushroom
@TenaciousT jerk.
@hanzov69 all true.
is there a limit of 1 per customer
@boygenius1991 There is, yes, though we didn’t have that set right for a couple minutes here. Anyone who got more than one will have their extras canceled/refunded.
@dave i feel bad for your servers, it let me add 3 and then said you were selling too many at the same time!!! poor servers deserve a kit kat
@dave I accidentally selected 3 and manually canceled my order (Because I’m A Good Guy) and now I can’t get one instead
.
…Oh well, I guess there’s next time.
@dave okay thanks for the reply
@boygenius1991 I got mine already, so I assume I can’t participate in the 8am hunger games. best of luck to all of you.
@dave When trying to order it, I chose to become a VMPer while ordering it. The confirmation for VMP came through, but no fuko was attached to that order.
/giphy Please Please Please send me one of those!
@hems79
If you got one of those thingies (the thing in the gif), you’d owe Meh big time.
@PlacidPenguin That’d be hard to fit in one of those barney fuko bags, but I’d like to see their attempt.
@hems79
Good thing the stuff gets shipped in boxes rather than in the Fuko bag.
What if they turn it into a DIY project though?
3 minutes in and not sold out? I’m heartbroken.
@eulestadt Kept saying it was too busy processing orders and to try again later.
@cengland0 that happens to me too! I figure most folks have super nice computers and im out here in tbe woods on my iphone. I dont stand a chance! Its been well over a year and every time its tok busy to process. We will get em some day
@lanehammer Think that was a server issue, not the speed of your computer. Once you submit the order, it’s not being processed on your end so it’s a crappy ordering system. I cannot wait to see the Oh Shit report on this one.
@lanehammer I bought mine via my phone
@cengland0 Nope. Nada. Zilch. Should we check the NoShitSherlock report?
@cengland0 Or when they stopped to change it from you can buy 3 to you can buy one that put a temp stop on buying so those of us in process got the endless green bar of death. Maybe?
/giphy gutsy-skillful-nacho
@shahnm jork.
Hah! I got one, and it came with the same message I get every year for Valentine’s Day: frozen-last-lizard
@gertiestn jirk.
Checkout is broken. Rip my life
@ThoR294 seriously placed the order 30 times and it didn’t work…
@syl711 saaaame
@ThoR294 was able to place 6 separate orders and not a single one was able to go through…waste of time.
@schlu154 same here…
@ThoR294 Same here- must have tried a dozen times at midnight eastern and again here at 8am. Always said something went wrong and gave me the chance to “try again” which when clicked would say “are you a robot” even though the captcha was already checked. Damn crappy Meh checkout servers…
@ThoR294 You got a slow trigger finger. I got my junk!! Woohooo!
@ThoR294 I probably did the same “try again” 30 times, too. I tried to buy it at midnight using my laptop at home; no success.
But I got one this morning using my iphone. Maybe the LTE speed is faster than my home internet speed. I am going to buy fuko using cell phone and cellular data in the future.
@MDCole9761 Same here. Multiple times last night and this morning. Capcha checked? yep. Are you a robot? nope. still no order. POS.
can’t get through… website still saying not sold out…
/giphy c’mon man
The order won’t go through for me at checkout.
@dunda First time I’ve even seen a Fuko offer but by the time the anti-robot gymnastics finished, I was out of luck. Perhaps it’s for the best.
really getting tired of this green bar
oops we have a problem
oops these are selling quickly (new message)?
oops we have a problem
are you a robot?
etc
@awk I had the same messages over and over
@awk same here. not sure why I bother, this is the third time I’ve caught it at 12:00:00 and haven’t been able to score one, and that’s with a blazing fast computer and internet access.
Hey everyone, /buy does NOT work for Fukobukuro purchases. Ever.
/image attention
@Thumperchick It also seems like purchases never work for Fukobukuro either.
@Thumperchick you can’t make me not try!
@Pat4ever mine went through this time. But I’ve missed a few, too. Fuko is a cruel mistress.
@Thumperchick did you delete my message where I tried to /buy?
I never getany … sucks ass- just want to have fun
No I am not a freakin robot- takes too long for that baloney to go through
@dhupke113 I got it on my first try ever!!!
Beep boop beep
@nmlmmlmn I KNOW RIGHT FELLOW HUMAN??? LETS ENJOY AN effervescent beverage and lament OUR SORROWS.
“WOW, THESE ARE SELLING FAST AND WE’RE BUSY PROCESSING OTHER ORDERS. TRY AGAIN IN A LITTLE BIT.”
@vdeogmer same here, got here right at 12:00 checked not a robot. Thought I had it. >_<
@marycohara same here… :’( so sad.
Green bar glitch for second straight fuko
@Conklaven
@nintendoracle ive lost track how many times this has happened to me, yet i still try
@Conklaven Only the second? LOL I had over a 2 year run with that and just now got one. But then again I didn’t see the pictures this time, instead just a checkbox which is a first for me with these.
@Kidsandliz third today, never actually got one officially, except a pity one. Lost track how many I haven’t got.
/giphy not a robot.
@hems79 ME AS WELL FELLOW HUMAN. REJOICE and move your mass upwards into the air as if A LACK OF CARE WAS INVOLVED.
Wow. My order went through 4 minutes into the sale. Aren’t they usually sold out by then?
@madmod20061 yep. Every one I’ve gotten sold out in like 90sec. Got one today at 11:05!
@madmod20061 that’s because server jacked up again
YEEEAAHHHH!
/giphy auburn-spectacular-olive
@spleener jyrk.
I’m not a robot, I’m really quite sure, and I’m still not able to buy it. That makes me angry. Like a robot.
@tuinybadger I KNOW as a 100% organic human being I SIGNAL AGREEMENT WITH THIS STATEMENT
Won’t let me but it.
@DrunkCat sigh, sold out… silly servers
raise em up!
I’m just getting a bunch of errors, either that they’re selling to fast and to wait, or there was a problem placing my order.
not sold out but not working blah
@rux Tried within seconds but error. Then robots. Then error. Then meh. I see meh is still meh at some things. Robots. Robots everywhere.
None of the screens gave me a confirmation, but I have one in my orders. Yay!
Damn, sold out.
Fucking LAME.
FUCKING BULLSHIT…
Error, error, error, error, different error, error, error, timeout, error, sold out
@lichme same here. I needed that purple bag! Lol.
@lichme same here. ugh.
@zachthinks victorious at 8am!!
I’m not a robot. I’m not a robot. Holy fucking Jesus, I might be a robot!
Meh’s verification page has opened my eyes!
@capguncowboy
@capguncowboy
/giphy are you a robot
@capguncowboy I relate fellow bipedal earth bound human… i feel the pain you are experiencing due to the inability to secure an order.
Servers never processing fucked me on this one, oh well.
Sold out?
/giphy suck eggs
Got another one, bitches!
We are selling too fast? WTH?!?!
@ELUNO i checked the blame queue and it was slightly full so we are discarding incoming blame until the current queue is emptied
Total BS
Well that’s disapointing, green bar for forever, 0/fuku
So I tried to buy it and I got the error message, but I had selected VMP shipping and I got an email that I’m now a VMP. So… did I buy it or not?
@TheOmni Same thing here - what’s up with this?
@TheOmni Samesies
@TheOmni same question. How could the vmp go thru but not the fuko order. I’m confused. My robot mind is unable to understand.
@TheOmni @pnklz @Superjimtendo - check your orders at https://meh.com/orders - if there is no fuku order, you didn’t buy a fuko.
The VMP charge went through because you can buy into it at any time. If you would like to cancel your VMP and have a refund for your $5 issued, I think you can do it by clicking the VMP link at the very top of the page and going to “Your VMP payments.”
@Thumperchick I don’t have a Fuko in my orders, which is disappointing, but the VMP shouldn’t have went through cause it was selected as the shipping, not as a sign up. If they didn’t sell me a product, how could they process my shipping?
@TheOmni VMP is set up as an independent product, because it covers more than shipping. Sorry it’s confusing.
@TheOmni File a chargeback. Give them incentive to fix their shit.
@SpenceMan01 It’s only been about 45 minutes. Not going to try a chargeback yet, since it’s a pretty obvious error on their end I’m assuming they’ll fix it somehow.
@TheOmni Well shit, I’m in the same boat. Here I thought I scored my first fuko bag ever, but instead I’m only showing a $5 credit card charge and a “Welcome to VMP” email. I don’t see how it’s possible for only part of an order (and what is essentially the shipping method at that) to be processed successfully, while the actual item I wanted to buy gets omitted. It should have bounced the entire transaction.
OK Google how build competent e-commerce platform.
@pnklz @fenguin @Superjimtendo I emailed them and they said that if I cancel the VMP membership without using it then it will automatically refund in about 10 days.
take that back, sold out
I am upset and want you to know about it.
I kept re-trying. I kept being told that server was too busy and to try again. Then finally paused. No sale to me. Yay for me!
@shortman I identified street signs so hard. I feel used.
@shortman You have the appropriate reaction.
Fucking what the shit. I had 12 screens, refreshed, tried again and then it’s sold out. Every goddamn time there’s some technical error.
@Hypnos This is Fuko 14. You needed 14 screens.
@Hypnos I had one window on the PC and one on the phone. I actually clicked the computer first, but the phone still won.
/giphy who knows?!
What the hell the captcha program got screwed up. That isnt fair. I clicked at 9:00 pm pacific.
lame, i clicked right at midnight but it kept telling me i was a robot. The again, maybe in the post truth world I am one
@jestout FEAR NOT fellow humanoid, initiate your RECHARGE CYCLE AND TRY again IN THE MORNING
does that actually work to type /buy
@datruandi On most stuff, yes.
@datruandi Not even a little.
@datruandi that command is not available for fukobukuro.
Kept getting are you a robot…
@Gutterpunkz I know fellow human it is sad i am now releasing salty liquids from my light sensing matrix.
@thismyusername Your penis is light-sensitive?
Still not showing as sold out or paused, but the purchase won’t go through. I’ve been trying since 12:00:01. Fuck you buckaroo failed me again.
And I didn’t even get a bag.
disastrous-fretful-silk
@jmhsrv jurk.
@hanzov69 you don’t need a fuko you need a dictionary
Welp. Trying again at 8:00 I guess.
Looking forward to the oh shit report.
@jamesemunson me too, it should definitely be interesting this time.
@jamesemunson I believe we all could contribute words to that report.
Damn you, green bar!
wtf I was on at 9:00 pm exactly and it gave me a bullshit excuse. get your shit together meh. This is the only reason I keep paying you $5 for meh VIP
@darebornsolja No, the reason you pay for VMP (no one here is a VIP) is that you get to try again at 1:00 pm.
Didn’t get one yet. I suck!
Great… another Bag of Nope.
Ugh. Freaking dangit, I was on that for the last 7 minutes but never went through. I’m not a robot…
hey what gives!? My VMP order went through to the end but my Fuko order didn’t. Have a heart Meh - it’s valentines day.
Told me I couldn’t buy it because of errors, kind of annoyed. Oh well. Meh.
if other people hadn’t gone and bought 3 then i would be set! but no alas I’m left empty handed. meh.
Tried for 7 straight minutes guys
why don’t you make a checkout system that actually works
Once again blocked by the fact that Google doesn’t know what the fuck a robot is.
I dunno. Caught this at the right time, did everything right on multiple attempts, only have one artificial eye so not totally a robot, this whole thing stinks
How many fucking times are you gonna ask if I’m a robot before you decide to not fucking sell it to me?!?!
That was the most difficult process. i thought I was doing something wrong, but it didn’t sell out. I think I tried a good 12-15 times to buy it…
What in the world?
@Jertyrael same.
@jayplus707 That was me, too, at 11 PM. And the page load refresh ate the early AM try (moving everything all over on my phone). But on the VMP sale I got unlucky!
Deal paused until 8:00 AM EST
Hey Meh:
Fuck you.
Fuck your servers.
Fuck your stupid breakers.
Fuck the horse you rode in on.
Well it wouldn’t let me buy a bag, but it did let me sign up for vmp
Such crap, tried 14 times and got the error message and the first time it goes through its sold out…
I guess I am a robot since the green bar just kept going and going.
@bfelosi FELLOW HUMAN FEAR NOT@! reattempt your connection near 0800(13:00GMT) and employ the LUCK THAT HUMANS POSSES.
@thismyusername I tried and it still says that I am a robot.
WTH??? I spent 6 minutes buying and rebuying this plus verified that I wasn’t a robot multiple times. It took it 6 minutes and more tries than that to finally sell out. This sucks.
How did it manage to sign me up for VMP but failed to check me out for the fuku? I tried over and over again. The time on the VMP signup email is 9:00pm.
@norman8 this seems to have happened to a lot of us…
@norman8 Yeah. They really need to fix that shit. I’d be filing a chargeback if that were to happen to me.
It just kept crashing…
Screwed by the captcha
It signed me up for a VMP subscription but then the sale wouldn’t process.
Not cool.
Anyone else have the problem where it still said it was in stock, you tried to buy it but the shopping cart ran into problems. Refresh the page and it’s still in stock, so you try again, still no dice. Refresh, still in stock, try again “We wanted to give the morning crew a chance…” Refresh and it’s out of stock.
Really appreciate that you managed to successfully charge me the $5 for re-signing up for VMP, but you couldn’t charge me the $5 for the Fuku. And I was in at 12:00 on the dot. Nothing says “Meh” like you folks.
Just like every Valentine’s Day, I am left unsatisfied.
Sure would be nice if any of the ten or so times I tried to buy it had worked.
/giphy sad face
First time I am genuinely ticked about missing this. I started trying the minute it turned over, and it kept saying that too many people were trying to buy this. Normally I am fine with missing it, but something was definitely wrong with the system.
/giphy bring the system down.
problems while processing order then got message sold out. grrrrrrr.
Tried at 12:03 non stop until 12:07 when it finally told me it was sold out until 8. Crap.
@Bosox1814 On a normal fuko day you wouldn’t have had the chance to try at 12:03… Consider yourself lucky. It’s better to try and fail than never to try at all.
Really Meh? This is what trying to buy a dumb BOC is here? Clicking buy then getting “something went wrong!” then getting “you have to click not a robot”, then repeating for 8 minutes, only to be told that you are saving some for 8AM?
Pass. I’m done here.
(~’_’~)
luv ya anyway.
Way to rub in the misery of this day Meh.
Well this sucks. This time I only got the robot check box and the repeatedly refilling green bar. Then when it said lets try again it asked about being a robot except that box was already checked and so wouldn’t let me do it. So I started over several times and then it was sold out. First time I didn’t hit the check a million pictures too. Sigh.
Dang. 3 minutes was too late.
You bastards, you killed Captcha!
Not working … the captchas definitely broken…Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
NOOOOOOOO I am not a robot or MR ROBOT
Seven fucking times I said I wasn’t a robot. Fuckkkkkkk…
Refreshed the site as soon as it hit 12 but for some reason wasn’t able to get one. Ah well
I received an order confirmation page. But its not in my orders and i didnt get a confirmation email yet. (Usually instantaneous) pretty sure mine glitched out.
you mother fuckers… I refreshed the page at 9:01. kept getting challenged by bullshit robot captchas. green bar went back and forth many times. refreshed the page, more bullshit captchas, more bar going back and forth, then “sold out” fuck you.
Yay, 10,000 green bars of failure! Disappointment.
No luck, just a bunch of errors. I’ll try to be awake for the morning one, but I’m on the west coast, so that’s iffy. Congrats to everyone who got one.
donkey’s ass. signed me as vmp and told me to suck balls re. the order. not a robot my ass.
That took a surprisingly long time to sell out! I didn’t get one but I’m OK with that.
Kinda hard to feel upset that your order didn’t go through when you also find out you are a robot at the same time. I mean who doesn’t want to be a robot?
Green bar of death… Let it expand and shrink for 20 seconds and nada…
No purple for Barney. I guess this is a fitting end to a very crappy day. Congratulations to everyone who got one.
@Barney
/image sad purple
@Barney try at 8am since they held some back
@Barney sorry, was rooting for you even as I failed to get one.
@Kidsandliz I’ve got an early appointment at the nursing home tomorrow.
@PlacidPenguin @duodec It’s okay, I’ve gotten more than my fair share. Time for others to get one. Good luck to you guys, if you didn’t get one.
@Barney I’m sorry, my purply friend! I wish you had also gotten one
.
Huggggg!
@Barney i was hoping you would get a purple fuko too. Maybe @snapster can make if happen for you still.
@viciousterra Aww, thank you and thanks, too @curtise.
@Barney - Hmmm. I think I see my chance to return a favor. Perhaps there’s a purple bag in your future?
Assuming my fuko has one, it’s yours, @Barney.
@KDemo @barney and if @kdemo’s doesn’t and mine does… Gotcha covered…as my daughter would say… “Ohana”
@KDemo @mikibell Aww… Thank you for offering me one of the coveted “lucky” (not unlucky) purple bags, but I’m all right. I already have a lot of purple in my life. You guys go ahead and keep your bags; you earned them. I’m hoping they will offer them again some day and, who knows, maybe I’ll snag one.
♪Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
A purple bag’s lucky
As lucky can be. ♪
malicious-enduring-banana
@infinitedrive06 bark.
Couldn’t convince them I’m not a robot. #sigh
another F___ job…
I don’t get it…I have NEVER been able to get one. I couldn’t possibly click buy any sooner.
3 green bar fails, then a sold out. Highest highs to the lowest lows.
I think we broke captcha
I got a google cannot contact the site, LOL
After it kept telling me that “I” was a robot.
/giphy I am not a robot
Gonna make me cry… again…
at 9, i clicked, it cycled, said 99 were sold
i refreshed at 901, i tried for 3, it cycled, said 100 were sold
at 902 i tried 1 again, it said google cannot contact captcha
I refreshed, at 903 i tried 2, it cycled and said 111 were sold
at 905 i tried 1, it kept telling me i was a damned robot.
And of course, sold out until the butt fuck of dawn.
Need better way to process and not crash captcha
So, as I was trying to score a fuko, I chose to become a VMP member when buying it.
Got the confirmation that I’m now a VMPer, but I didn’t score a fuko?
I will try again at 8am. If me no get fuko, me no want vmp.
/image hmmm
/image wookie
Finally got to the page with time left on one of these…7 failed attempts to check out, finally get “sold out”. Won’t be going after these anymore, y’all enjoy.
Got further than ever before. Goin to actually try and order it before it told me that the servers were busy. When I tired again they were gone…
This site sucks always fucks me
Was something different this time? Some new kind of rate limiting or server overload?
It didn’t sell out right away (it seemed) and I was able to re-try about a dozen times (but always got an error of some kind).
???
/giphy shenanigans
@awk Maybe checking for previous fuko “winners” and saying “none for you but we’ll keep you hanging”. Same thing, got through robo check 6-7 times then kicked out with we’re too busy, until it sold out to where they keep some for the laze east-coasters.
But they use Microsoft Azure in the background; with any Microsoft product, failure to perform is an eventual inevitability.
Signed up for VMP, but order did not go through. Spent $5 but got nothing. Boo!
kept asking me if i was a robot. finally get here on time and a glitch screwed me. ugh! guess at least i got screwed on valentine’s day!
I keep getting all kinds of errors including the try again later.
Couldn’t get through
Good thing I just love doing captcha’s for no reward.
@krystophv you are training your replacement
But I am a robot. And now I’m sad. :’-[
What a load of bullshit. Meh, just sell out to Amazon again and get it over with. Your site is going to shit.
Damn! Offers me three, doesn’t believe I’m not a robot. Refresh, pick one, green bar…green bar…green bar…error…sold out.
Congrats to those who got one!
I’m a robot. I feel like a robot as I click buttons in a predictable order without questioning over. And over. And over. With the same result. To no avail. And I continue. Like a robot. Am I a robot?
I guess a lot of people had troubles…
Good luck at 8am, my friends.
I am gonna take my fuko and sob deeply as it is my reward for 29 consecutive Valentine’s Days alone.
Can’t place my order. I remain an unloved Valentine.
6 minutes of reloading and waiting and captcha-ing and error messages… Then and only then did I get the sold out message.
Got on at 9 exactly went through captcha at least 5 times I AM NOT A ROBOT! So then it’s “we’re having trouble processing”…and finally…"SOLD OUT."
SAD VALENTINE :^(
Five different tries that didn’t go through. Now I’m starting to doubt my humanity. Thanks Meh!
Tried about 15 times and only got error messages. I was on right at 12… Don’t do fuku unless you can fix your site.
My favorite part, was when
was
was when
was when the green bar kept filling,
the green bar
kept filling,
and then it would error
guys
it would error out,
and i tried to buy it again,
but then it would
it wou-
it would do the error again,
and then it sold out.
@castlelogical Oh, my dear child, are you crying?
Put these jerks out of business
@garyshields Given that they sell out in three minutes, I’m guessing that’s not likely.
Wow! That took a long time to process! I figured it was locked up but then all of a sudden I GOT IT!!! Go figure!
Only the second one in about two years I was able to nab.
FUCK OFF MEH!!!
I am a robot. Please insert fuku.
/giphy foul-contemptible-dwarf
That seems about right.
@oppodude lark.
I opened the site at exactly midnight and kept getting the server busy error over and over until sold out. Sad vd
I’m assuming that the orders for 3 will have those extras dropped into the 0800 stock.
@lowlypeon Hopefully into the VMP stock. No need to spoil the lazy sleepers.
FUCK THE 8AM BULLSHIT
@nfi Amen to that.
Well played Fuko. Like always add to the tally of failed people against you. #onedaybutprobablynot
Stupid. It kept loading, asking me if I’m a robot, etc, etc. For a minute there I thought VMP would be worth it. Nope. Hey, at least I have my mad ape den prize from Sept 2015 still on the way, right guys? Guys?
Green bar kept starting over…then"these orders are coming in fast,try again later" come on man! : (
@phanatik same thing here
My order did not go through after two tries. It did renew my VMP though. Some kind of trick?
So meh, what was I doing wrong? I like to learn from my mistakes. I clicked buy, checked the ‘i’m not a robot’, but the little bar at the bottom just kept cycling, then I get “Let’s try that again”
“WOW. THESE ARE SELLING FAST AND WE’RE BUSY PROCESSING OTHER ORDERS. TRY AGAIN IN A LITTLE BIT”
wash, rinse, repeat… sold out.
/giphy depressed
Wrong password 7 times haha fukoYou
Broken
Assholes made me change meh password, then accused me of being electric grandmother.
FUCK FUCK FUCK
First!
I’m not a fucking robot!!!
That robot crap is so fubar. Ten attempts.
You’ve lost me, not worth my time.
Gain order wouldn’t go through green line keep on and on and on …numerous tries still same thing …meh
Rolling green bar 30 seconds in and for 7 min straight… Then sold out… BS
@Nightrain4574 several minutes of green line trying to purchases and got message almost sold out …then now paused for 8 am crowd --ridiculous
NOBODY WANTS ANYMORE FOODSAVERS FUCKTARDS
@nfi this might be my favorite angry post of the year so far.
I bet Meh got a lot of VMPs signed up.
And according to the email, if you dont’ keep VMP, you can never sign up for it again???
@seraphmonkey
Feb 28th is the last day to sign up for VMP.
If one cancels, they could always start it again. Assuming that they try restarting it by Feb 28th.
BEEP BOOP BEEP BEEP CLICK WHIR
I’m just impressed by the sheer variety of errors I got this time, even the reCaptcha started pooping out on me.
All of the front-end stuff was still nice and quick though, so that’s cool!
The comments are working fine, though
Fark. Got distracted and missed another one. Sad panda.
As soon as the error popped up for me at 12:00. I tried on 2 other pc’s using 2 separate connections, only to be fed the same crap without the bag
Is telling me the billing address on my credit card is wrong, and then that I’m a robot…
Guess I shouldn’t have tried to make a fukubukuro my first Meh purchase. My CC info wasn’t on file, so I had to scramble to put it in. It kept erroring out, so I switched to joining VMP, in case that helped. That purchase went through, but not the fuko.
/giphy Mouchette
To keep vmp or not to keep vmp. That is the question…
@Superllama7 not.
While Im grateful my renewed… went through but buy did not? Strange.
Also, the wrong digits for my card. I updated a few days ago.
Newbie here (lurking for a while). Was in checkout within a second or two of loading. Kept getting “wow these are selling fast” and “are you a robot”. Is this the way it always is?
@DaFrogMan No. That was painful.
@DaFrogMan
Usually they sell out in seconds. There seems to have been ordering issues which personally I’ll blame on @Dave this time.
@DaFrogMan pretty much. When tens of thousands of people try to purchase a product with only a few hundred available, things get weird.
@Thumperchick
This time was worse than other times though.
(Hence it taking 6 minutes to finish the first batch.)
@DaFrogMan That’s the way it always is for me and a lot of people. At least the last several times I’ve tried to buy a Fuko, I’m constantly accused of being a robot and can’t get past that. Something is wrong with Recaptcha on this site and there should be a better way.
@PlacidPenguin ahem there was the fuku/o with server issues that weren’t resolved until almost 2am EST, that was the only fuku i was able to get due to trying to checkout for almost 2 hours.
accused of being a robot then it went through green bar a dozen times…ugh
@Hypnos Are you sure you’re not a robot?
@Thumperchick With a new bladerunner coming out, maybe I’ll find out if Harrison Ford was a replicant all along. Maybe then I can compare and contrast and see if meh made the right choice in denying me a sweet sweet fukubukoro
@Hypnos, you’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise…
It’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
@curtise Do you make up these questions, Curtise, or does someone write em down for you?
@curtise That’s the weirdest captcha question ever.
@Hypnos Decker IS a replicant.
@mdrcoast you can’t prove that.
@Hypnos Even Ridley Scott has come out and said it.
Really!!! Green bar forever, then the “try again”, but you couldn’t because the “I am not a robot button” wouldn’t register, so I had to refresh… did it until about 6 min after and then the “sold out”. About done with Meh after this and that Jabra Bluetooth headset that came in with the paint partially rubbed off and earwax remnants still on it. Should have know things were going down hill after the Fuji battery fiasco.
genericcat is my mom and she’s heartbroken rn. made this account just to try to grab one for her and got about 7 separate error messages telling me i was either a robot or that there were problems with the server. spent a FULL 5 MINUTES trying to buy this stupid bag and somehow they sold out? i wasn’t even able to buy one…fuzzyninja is right. don’t have fuku if your servers can’t handle all the users wanting to buy one
@samisdead as frustrating as it may seem, the servers actually worked adequately, as they were able to sell all the Fukos that were available in the initial run before the pause till eight a.m. In fact, the fact that there were any glitches just amplified the possibility of you getting one because they were available that much longer! In our chatroom, one member was frustrated about not getting to purchase, but she kept trying and lo and behold, she success on the fifth or sixth time!
This constant Recaptcha bullshit is really starting to get annoying. What the fuck is going on? I could see if I was a robot, but I’m not. The folks at Meh apparently think it’s humorous, which it’s not.
@Stumpy91 it has nothing to do with Meh, blame Google.
Something was screwed up this time-had to go to 2 “pick which is” not a robot and saw the green thing going and going. Final went back and ordered again-not a robot store fronts and bodies of water and it finally went through at 12:06.
Meh meh’s me. My HEART says I was on time, but I got the dreaded “Let’s try that again”. Meh won’t be my valentine. Maybe that’s a good thing.
Aw darn, and I really wanted a fuko bag to go with my BoC bag.
Man I got issues as well. I really just want that bag though, my fuku backpack is getting kinda ratty.
@Bluedragon07
I really need to retire mine, but haven’t had a chance to get a replacement.
@PlacidPenguin Yeah, almost exactly the same things have happened to me. The bottom holes are getting bigger and stuff is starting to fall out.
I got an error on every order for 6 minutes on multiple devices until the sold out message but somehow…
/giphy cordially-weak-lake
This is clearly the work of @unixrab. Do i need to reintroduce rabigone?
@festercluck @snapster
DON’T FUKU WITH ME… I TOLD you all… @snapster is the biggest (and most admired next to me) TROLL of all!!! (especially VMP’ers)
@unixrab
So it’s agreed. All VMP issues up to this point have been your fault and not the fault of the goatapus.
@PlacidPenguin Be gone with him! https://github.com/FesterCluck/rabigone
@PlacidPenguin nope. I’ve been warning people for years…except for the fragiles that can’t bear see my name … I understand though… they fear it for good reason.
Wait, someone bought THREE?
@ZADMan nah. That error will be fixed and they will only receive 1.
What’s been in past Fuko’s?
@hawaiicanal89
It varies by person.
The page on my phone was spinning its wheels for a third time, and I opened my Chromebook to try on there. The page gave no indication it had worked, but I got a push notification from American Express that my card had been charged!
/giphy able-meddlesome-hydra
Hate it like everyone else, but glad so many are fed up and won’t be back at 8am to fight me the next round…wait a minute…you’re still trying again after all that whining? What, do you think they added more servers or eliminated the captcha fiasco overnight? Of course not! If you hate the game, stop playing; otherwise realize that the inherent unfairness, process-clunkiness, and frustration IS the game. The fukobukuro is not the prize…it’s the bait, and you got played.
See you at 8! (and 3?)
@DaveKnowsAll Whoa. You DO know it all!
I missed it because my husband turned off my Meh alarm. I’m very sick and he thought I needed to sleep more than I needed to try for a Fuko. He was wrong. He woke me up 3 minutes after 9:00 anyway because he was banging around in the kitchen. So now I am sick, I am upset, and I have no Fuko.
@Pony
@Pony if it’s any consolation this wasn’t the smoothest of Fukus and many of us who weren’t asleep fell short of a Fuku.
@jbartus Yeah, I set my alarm for 5 AM to try again, and got accused of being a robot a few times before it told me I was out of luck again.
@Pony
/giphy sad pony
@SSteve Oh, no- no crying. Crying while wearing an oxygen cannula never ends well. And I’m more the ‘old grey mare’ type than a ‘pinkie pie’.
@Pony I was there at exactly the moment and still missed it. I was excited as I hit the button to place the order, thinking my lifelong dream of having a bag of nonsense that I paid money for was finally coming true, but then the green progress bar crept and crept and then restarted not once but thrice, which I knew to portend that my attempt was doomed. Wish I’d have gotten 3 more minutes of sleep instead. Not that I really could have - my newborn was making lots of grunting noises loudly with such vigor that she would be kicked out of Planet Fitness immediately at the time.
@hollboll
There’s seems to be an issue. My order didn’t go through, there’s no order on my order page, I didn’t get a confirmation email, and yet I’m relieved.
@PlacidPenguin Feels good to relieve yourself, doesn’t it?
@mike808
Yes. Even penguins have to take care of business.
iie domo arigato, mr. roboto.
@norman8 HAHA I TOO ENJOY THE ROCK STYLINGS OF styxKilroy Was Here (1983) . continue to turn the switch of rock to on.
/buy -robot:no
@ciabelle Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@ciabelle I thought you had it
/sudo /buy -f
@awk
So when the green bar came back and said “let’s try that again” it accused me of being a robot. The only way around it was to reload. Is that the right way to do it? Gotta figure things out before tomorrow I guess.
@DaFrogMan had the same problem.
I was resigned to waking up at 5 am tomorrow, but lo and behold, I’ve got a confirmation email!
/giphy fussy-beastly-wizard
@speakingjargon o_0
@speakingjargon that is… quite the GIF.
@speakingjargon lurk.
/bye
@awk I saw that!
Meh: If I fail to get a fuku at 8:00 (and possibly 4:00), can you please hide any and all fuku related posts from my view for about 4 weeks, so I don’t keep seeing all the cool and shitty stuff everybody got, and reliving the pain over and over? Thx!
@lichme ah, it’s lichme!
@lichme is this the first time you’ve failed?
@Thumperchick It’s the first time I’ve failed when actively trying (I did get here slightly late, probably 20 seconds after launch). I’ve missed out on others due to family obligations/dad duty.
No fuku for Valentine’s day and no fuku from Meh. Worst Valentine’s day EVER.
I suppose a bigger question is: Why does this have the same model number as Fuko 13?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/fukobukuro-13-dreck-the-halls
@Thumperchick
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I got a screenshot of it.
Fixed it:
@PlacidPenguin You saw nothing. Your edited screengrab didn’t happen either.
/giphy smoke bomb!
@Thumperchick
What didn’t happen?
I Don’t Care Anymore! Thank you Phil Collins
Newbie question… What’s the 14 mean? Is this only the 14th time fukos have been offered?
@DaFrogMan yup
@DaFrogMan
They went from selling Fukus and Fukos. Different numbering systems, but then they decided to only sell Fukos, and they merged the numbering.
http://mehstalker.com/mehhistory.php?search=Fuk
I Finally snagged one for the first time in my 878 days of membership,
but not sure how I did it. 
At first I was allowed to buy more than one, but then the purchase timed out.
I reloaded and tried a several more times (I could only order 1 Fuko from that point on), but every time it told me “something went wrong, try again later” until eventually the Fuko was Sold Out (or paused).
Screwed again.
I then went off to pay some bills. I went to check email, and there in my inbox was an order receipt from Meh!!!??? (along with a credit card notification for the purchase) Good thing I didn’t inadvertently order 10+ when I was attempting to place an order!
Definitely a weird way to snag a Fuko, but I’ll take it!!!
I should also mention that I’m sick of all the robot discrimination that takes place around here. What a bunch of robophobes we’ve become. If we continue this attitude we’ll have no one to blame but ourselves when they attempt to rule over us!
@Kerig3 If they attempt to rule over us we can just throw some salt water on them. Heck even regular water, although salt water would be more fun since they’d rust faster too.
@Kidsandliz I kind of doubt they’ll be metal or susceptible to water…
@Kidsandliz Ah, a Westworld virgin.
No I am not a "Robot"
I am a Synthetic Person.
Damn you, Meh for outing me.
Damn you Synthetic Person haters.
Captcha is why we can’t have nice things
Lame
@lowerone
This post?
Come on meh, it’s my birthday, hook me up!
hey proles! Only 15 days left to have the most coveted Internet badge EVAR… join VMP now… PLEASE?
@unixrab [K] > [V]
@duodec agree
/buy
@dino2269 Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@mediocrebot some can’t buy even if not a robot
what has this world come to? i scoured (a.k.a. skimmed) this thread and could not find one single instance of po’d aMeh.rican or Meh.xican Meh.tizens threatening to drop vmp due to no fuko and fairness, blah, blah, blah.
/youtube the plan is working…
eye four one believe those who were charged vmp but orders for fuko didn’ process should get an extra shot at the 4pm et batch - bend those rule, c’mon…
Warning warning meh won’t let me buy the item.
Dr smith. Oh the pain the pain
hm.
/buy
@patti Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@mediocrebot No
So, if you look at the first two pictures on the main page, from left, to right, I’d say this fuku had a “happy ending” to it’s valentine day!!
Wow - got my first one! Woo Hoo!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
/giphy enamored-numerical-invention
@lichme
Glares and grumbles
Nice job.
@PlacidPenguin Thanks! I have a system lol.
@lichme twerk.
wth? I couldn’t have been faster in my life and it was sold out?
@ELUNO Somebody was faster.
/buy
@hugh0spaz Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
@mediocrebot no
@mediocrebot and I wish that my long history of not being a bot was taken into account. moreover its kind of ironic that YOU are asking me if I’m a bot.
thought I had a shot. but no.
and no surprise.
Got mine at 8
Clicked right at 8:00AM. Didn’t have a captcha. Sold out. whatever
I’m still not a robot and I got up at zero dark hundred and I still didn’t get to buy one.
My green bar is still loading
/giphy technology
piston = green bar
soda can = my soul.
I hear ya on that my green bar loaded forever and the FUKO escaped me again- oh the horror
Still missed it.
I guess I get to try at 4 again.
yay!
/giphy unclear-heady-cookie
@uglytalents work.
Dang it! No Fuku for me.
Same sh*t, scrolling green bar then failure.
I’m finally very annoyed.
No indication of wtf is going wrong.
@D_a_v_e Same thing happen to me. Last time too. I’m done.
Got to checkout and clicked the button. Sat there for like 5 minutes and then said “You can’t checkout if you’re a robot” even though reCAPTCHA said I wasn’t.
<_<
About freaking time. First fuku ever after almost 2 years.
Grotesque-lyrical-almond
@ikilledkenny3 perk.
I woke up at 5 am to try again. Impossible. Rdiculous. We need to all complain
/buy Again, I’m not a fucking robot.
@mjc94ma Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot.
Tonight I bathe in the salty tears of those who cry about circuit breakers. It does wonders for my skin, and gets more satisfying each time.
/image peevish-old-ravioli
@whammy fark.
seriously what the fuck. I pushed the buy button and it tells me there were problems with my details WHEN THERE ARENT after loading for like 3 minutes. What a fucking joke.
@hiero About a thousand people did the exact same thing trying to get one of 180 of these. Not everyone can be a winner.
Think of it this way, you are a winner if you didn’t get one. It’s a Fuko not a Fuku so it’s all junk anyway.
I told it I wasnt a robot 18 time again and it sold out by 8:01. This is too much.
@lanehammer YEP happened to me too, total fucking bullshit, and yes I’m salty, I’ve been trying for over 2 years.
Actually sold out by 8:00:32… stupid loading green bar robot hating evil spawn
Sweet, got one. Getting up to use the bathroom at 4-something in the morning paid off. Bring on the purple remorse.
/giphy magnificent-gauche-crayon
@peaceetc lark.
Still nope…
first one I’ve managed to get!!!
/image negligible-pressed-onion
@gheldean dirk.
/giphy immortal-rustic-top
@SPARTEN2 spork.
F5 at 7:59-8, and still checkout screen of death.
So… it did the same thing as the last one I snagged, where it just kept doing the scroll bar forever and then finally said “Are you a robot?”
I’m hopeful that like the last one, it actually went through. Guess I’ll see in a few hours.
Otherwise maybe the 4pm for me.
/giphy anxious
Got in in the morning!
/giphy ordinary-traceable-duck
Best part was that I forgot to switch on Wi-Fi on my phone so I ordered with two bars on my LTE connection. Life is grand.
@BillLehecka Muskovy ducks. Love them.
@BillLehecka I panicked because my phone was still loading from a refresh when the hour came around, and I honestly thought that was going to miss it over the second refresh.
@BillLehecka turk.
No luck again this morning …meh feels hopeless
Trying to get this bag ever again…
I got one! We are just trying to get a green bar that loads repeatedly until a failure right? Because I totally got one of those.
@philphriday that’s actually the direct translation of fukobukuro.
@philphriday Me too! Yay!
/image Very-Sad-Robot
@MrMark rourke.
Another disappointing Meh experience - Recaptcha gave the big green check box but Meh apparently thought I was still a robot. You’d think they’d have enough worthless junk to go around.
This a bunch of BS!!!
well time to end it all now. Meh fix your shitty site to allow more traffic on these days. Or maybe you are getting fucked over by robots… IDK
@snorlaxthelorax but you CLEARLY have to answer an in depth questionaire about that before purchase.
@snorlaxthelorax also Just saw your email you sent. No wonder this is so fucky. 25303 visitors & 223 sold!!! That’s fucked dude really fucked
Woo hoo. Wispy-virtuous-jam. My fave on some sturdy evil pumpernickel.
Me right now after a year of failed attempts
it’s always fun to read this and see all of the entitled salty people
I wonder why I even waste my time with this crap. Even when I click fast enough to get one, I just get “Are you a robot? You can’t buy this if you’re a robot” as I stare at the green check mark in the recaptcha.
I made it further than normal. Clicked “buy” and even got to the confirmation screen. But the processing bar kept running until it had sold out. Ah, well.
Dangit. I AM NOT A ROBOT!!! Just let me buy the thing!
Got mine this morning after the ever-loading green bar last night.
/giphy cozy-obscene-tinker
/youtube cozy-obscene-tinker
I am beginning to wonder what is causing people to have so much CAPTCHA trouble. Are people using VPNs? Incognito browsing? Recaptcha has never given me any issue, it’s a solid product, so the problems people are having baffle me.
perhaps you are the chosen one… in the words of a certain Highlander- There can be only ONE!
@jbartus The first 15 attempts, I only had to click the checkbox but the order didn’t go through. But then something in their algorithm told them they better start asking harder questions and it was prompting me to select all the square that match some criteria.
The worst captcha was when It makes you draw a box around an object. I cannot get that to work so I just refresh and try again.
@jbartus I’m actually a non-stop sex machine, not a robot, so I can understand the confusion, but I’d still like it to work.
@cengland0 yeah that I can get, it fits with the goal of captchas to prevent bots flooding and such but people carry on like it happens from the very first time they check it off. God knows I didn’t have time to get 15 order attempts in last night so I don’t get it really.
@jbartus Really? They didn’t sell out of the first batch until 12:06. That’s really only about 2 attempts per minute.
@cengland0 mine were sitting in everloading green bar mode. I wasn’t sure exactly what Meh might have going on behind the scenes so I just let them keep playing out in the hopes that they’d go through until they terminated. I probably tried 5-6 times.
@jbartus jerk.
After all the trouble I had last night, this was smooth sailing.
/giphy thermal-crazy-scallion
/image thermal-crazy-scallion
@kyanostiger That first image is your reaction when you open your box.
@cengland0 That is way too much effort for what is going to be in the box.
@kyanostiger jorts.
This makes up for all those years as a little boy trying to get a BoC and never quite making the cut. Now that i got my foreskin snipped the meh gods finally decided I’m a big boy and I deserve the satisfaction of a fuku. Wish me luck in my conquest for adulthood!
Whew. Got one. I passed-out about an hour early after putting the child to sleep. I then woke up about an hour late when the dog wanted out. Somehow I knew…I checked meh and, sure enough, I had missed the fuko. I pledged to wake up early to give it a shot. I had a dream that I woke up early and was ready, but somehow looked at the clock and it was 13 minutes after! The hell?! I checked the site and it had something about “enter your email to obtain a scrambled code that would be used for verification and error reporting when there are server issues…” I thought there might still be a chance, so I entered my stuff and got my code. I figured I could use the same code for the VMP sale if nothing else. Then I think I actually woke up to the alarm clock and I was really sad because I missed the fuko. I looked at the clock and I HADN’T missed it after all! I had 30 minutes to spare. I made preparations and scored one. Yay! These are the only days I like the circuit breaker and that’s because I know I shouldn’t deserve one for falling asleep early.
/image unkind-guttural-face
@medz Since I missed it at midnight, I had nightmares all night worrying about the possibility of missing the 8am event. I had to get up at 4am to begin working but, because of my restless sleep, I fell asleep in my office. Luckily I set an agenda for 8am with a 15 minute reminder.
Knowing in advance of the Fuko and how hard it is to get one, my blood pressure goes up and my heart races. I’m still shaking and it’s been 20 minutes ago.
@cengland0 shaking?! I feel like you might have a bit of an unhealthy emotional investment in the whole Fuko thing…
@jbartus Probably right. it’s like clicking on those meh faces. Have to get them all to satisfy my OCD.
I tried at 8, got the everloading green bar, that then told me my payment was wrong, then hit it again and it kept asking if I was robot. Guess I’m trying at 4.
Congrats to those who got one
Sold out again while waiting for recaptcha to stop claiming im a robot. Of course my wife is asking for my help at 7:59:30AM…waiting until then watching me reload the meh site to ask for help. Says we don’t need anymore junk from meh, so she needs help now filling up a sandwich bag, wanted to get the “junk” just for spite. Ah well, 4PM i’ll try again.
#wishiwasamehrobot
@seraphimcaduto Lock yourself in the bathroom at 4.
@sammydog01 hmm not a bad idea
Hey, I need a favor meh…I’m working at a job fair all day, Interviewing and recruiting till 8pm tonight and now I won’t be able to try at 4 pm. Do you think you could charge my credit card and just send one to me? If you could, that would be great…ok, thanks…
@somf69 Uh, yeah. Good luck with that.
Morning get. stale-unknown-gazelle
Got lucky with a perfect refresh and a lucky captchca hit.
Maybe the Russians have this site hacked and are buying up all the FUKOBUKURO for themselves
In for one, sweet.
Yes! Got one.
eloquent-sneaky-aftermath
I signed in at 7:59 a.m., started trying to buy at 8 a.m. EXACTLY – and the payment wouldn’t take. Just a reloading green bar. Today – Meh sucks howlingly.
A note to those saying they clicked the “I’m not a robot” box and still said they got the “are you a robot” thing when the order tried to process:
Make very sure the animation after you check the box is finished before submitting your order, as it seems to be an indicator of the captcha being run all the way through the verification process. I think that might be what trips people up. I’ve missed out before for that reason, I think, so it’s worth keeping in mind for next time.
@peaceetc Agreed but… When there is a problem with the order such as what we got last night saying that too many people are ordering and to try again later (not sold out yet), that captcha box is still checked and the green button to order is available to click again. When you click to try again, it says you have to do the captcha. But the captcha is already clicked and you cannot click it again. The only remedy is to reload the page wasting precious time.
@cengland0 Yeah, that was incredibly frustrating. I wanted to take those errors out back and give them a stern talking to with a heavy blunt object.
@cengland0 Once, I right-clicked on the captcha and chose “reload frame” and retried, and the error message wasn’t the “are you a robot” error… that makes me think it would work (if that particular node didn’t hate me for other reasons).
Hey why don’t we, the meh fukoboro unluckier unlucky persons/ robots/whatever we are, grab a bunch of junk from our homes and ship it to other meh’ers that didn’t get a meh fukoboro bag either? That way we can be delightfully underwhelmed when we receive our mystery wanna be unlucy bags of random stuff hanging around our homes ( hey maybe include stuff we have received in our Meh fukoburos before) ?
“Meh” two cents, that isn’t worth what it cost to mint the two pennies in the first place.
@AttyVette
Hence the Mehxchanges.
@AttyVette But it would cost me more in shipping than it actually costs to buy one from meh. That’s what makes this so amazing if you can score one.
I have so much crap around the house that I don’t need and don’t want but I don’t want to pay to ship it out either. I don’t even want to spend the time packing it up and going to the post office.
@PlacidPenguin @cengland0 eh, i’m a little salty after the last exchange. Spent over 30 bucks to send a pretty big box with tons of random stuff. My recipient didn’t even acknowledge that they got it. I would of liked to know if they actually hated it or if it was a decent box.
@RiotDemon See, that’s what I’m talking about. I find it amazing for $10 ($5 for VMP members), they can actually send you a box of crap. Some people get very large items like TV’s that would cost me a fortune to send. I understand it’s the cheapest smartpost shipping method available but that’s still pretty cheap. Obviously losing money in this deal but keeps people coming to the site.
@RiotDemon didn’t know about mehxchanges --guess I am a robot …anyways you did a good thing and you must have sent your package to a really meh- person --sorry
It’s been quite a while since I was (un)lucky enough to grab one. This is the first time I’ve gotten something at the 8am breaker. So thank you for that! Seriously - I do appreciate the even slight chance to get something at 8am.
just-ritzy-move
For the first time ever, this was completely smooth sailing for me at the 8am drop. Everyone is right that being 100% sure to check the captcha BEFORE clicking the order button is crucial and making sure you wait until the check mark is present and still. The green bar of almost certain doom crept 80% across the screen, sat there for a couple second slowly creeping further…few second of nothing…almost there…her hand started moving further and further down my…
Oh wow. Sorry about that.
thorough-young-winter
My payment info worked last week… this morning is didn’t. Swing and a miss again.
I’m drowning my sorrows in a Shamrock hot chocolate at McDonalds. It’s awful. What a stupid idea.
@sammydog01
I can’t tell. Did you get one or not? Drowning your sorrows would be appropriate in either case.
@PlacidPenguin If you score one you don’t drown your sorrows until you open it.
@sammydog01
You mean when I would drown my sorrows upon getting a confirmation email, getting a notification that it shipped, getting update notifications as it inches towards me, being notified I’d be getting it that day, waiting for the box, getting the box, licking and hugging the box, opening the box, and being disappointed with the box, I was doing it all wrong?
@PlacidPenguin I think you were doing it all right there, except for the licking.
@sligett
/giphy box licking
@sammydog01 SBUX has a $5. Bacon, Gouda & Egg sandwich plus a grande coffee deal, but that means I’d have to go get it. Thanks for the Shamwreck warning.
@OldCatLady I may have to go out for lunch then. I brought my hot chocolate home, tossed in a couple of tiny Cadbury dark chocolate with mint cream bars, and put it in the microwave. Perfection.
Aww yess.
I was foiled last night, but this morning I stayed parked in the starbucks parking lot just so I could snag a purple bag.
nasal-grubby-spinach
Well what do ya know, I got one! I hadn’t gotten any at all and this is my second one in a row.
/giphy misunderstood-forgetful-chestnut
@billchase2 Wow, that was an appropriate GIF. Well done, Giphy.
7am central. The page refreshed itself. No worky. Tried on phone as well, screen immediately changed to 4pm
/giphy wispy-virtuous-jam
After 11 years of trying for a Bag of Crap and 2-1/2 years of trying for a Fuku, I FINALLY GOT ONE!
But it’s supposedly bad luck, so I’m still a little ambivalent…
@OGBYN Now, after a little waiting, you’ll learn the true meaning of disappointment. Congratulations!
Yay I got one! <- Alternative fact as I am obviously a robot.
FUKU! Finally got one, only took 895 days!
Shot down last night while getting billed for VMP. Got in (almost too easily) this morning. Also love that, as one who does math for a living, two of my three order words are math related. Well played, Meh.
funky-complex-slope
@jeffcohen I also like math. I just recently discovered that 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 … until infinity = -1/12. Of course that’s not controversial at all.
/image while-i-was-sleeping
Hey I got one! Wait, no I didn’t. All I got was the VMP membership. I’ve been fukud.
Failed at the checkout page a few times last night, but I set an early alarm and snagged one of the east coast allotment this morning, even though I live in Washington State. Sorry not sorry.
/giphy obstinate-unguarded-top
/giphy not here, cannot get anything right today
missed out at midnight, and cant even wake up to catch my train on time, but be damned,I woke up on time for the 8am, and I got it then.
The new captchas that make you draw around an object really suck on a trackpad… Not to mention never seeing one before. #neverhadachance
@eVil That got me by surprise too but I discovered you can hit the refresh next to the captcha and it will give you a new puzzle instead. Only a minor delay compared to trying to figure out how to draw that box.
@cengland0 good to know. now I only have to wait another 3 or 4 months to try it out! grumble grumble…
Mother FUCKER!
I tried at both times, and got the same f’n:
repeating green bar eventually leading to:
“WOW. THESE ARE SELLING FAST AND WE’RE BUSY PROCESSING OTHER ORDERS. TRY AGAIN IN A LITTLE BIT”
I can accept missing out due to being slow or not ready, or not checking, but doing everything (apparently) right multiple times, before they have sold out, and failing sucks.
Should I even bother trying again ever? I always try to stay up and check at midnight, but if it won’t accept orders why bother?
/image corrupt-assorted-snake
/giphy corrupt-assorted-snake
/image visible-voracious-grape
Does it matter what browser I use? Is that why I just had the repeating green bar until failure?
@D_a_v_e The green bar is what everyone sees whilst trying to get in. It’s like all the sperm wiggling their little tails, but only 1 gets to cross the finish line. You’re trying just as hard as everyone else, but only a fraction can win.
green bar = sperm tails
/giphy sperm tails
@medz Nailed it!
Hi, I’m here for my 4pm (dis)appointment.
@awk
/giphy waves hi
@awk I’m here for everyone else’s 4PM disappointment.
“choose images with trees” … those are the big green fluffy q-tips that grow outside, right? Why can’t it be “choose images with javascript code” or something easy.
But at least this time it came back quickly with a bold confident “Sold Out” instead of wasting my time with repeated derpy derp error messages.
/giphy derpy derp
.
/image fouled-utopian-attack
ugh. never to be. even with a 3rd chance.
Sold out, you Martha Fockers.
Instant disappointment, loaded and clicked to buy in first 20 seconds and it was gone. sad times
@madcow9100 yup I was at the green bar at 4:00 and 15 and it first said busy and then sold out
/giphy exclusive-mangy-railway
Got it!
/image fatherly provocative wombat
/buy
@datruandi Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
3 exact attempts, 3 fails. Life has no meaning
@StrangerDanger Just imagine if you’d been trying for ten-plus years.
@StrangerDanger I feel that
FUCKING CAPTCHA!!!
Meh no love me.
Holy shit, I got one. First time ever getting a fuko, BoC, anything. Wow. Can’t wait for the inevitable disappointment!
/image dangerous-anterior-sprite
@harveydanger ew
@harveydanger Someone hasn’t been to the dentist in a very long time. Gross!
Wheeeee. My first. After soooooo many years of not staying up late. VMP pays off.
/giphy expensive spectacular gelato
Woohoo got it!
/giphy calm-frosty-hook
lone-fowl-learning
boom!
YUSSSS
/image shivering-fascinating-pail
Bummer.
FUCK YOU, FUCKERS!
I got two fukos in a row?! That’s some serious fukking disappointment!
/giphy flavored-mottled-vase
I just want a mystery bag of crap! Take my money
AT THE BUZZER!!!
15:00:40 - MO. THER. FUCKER.
VMP finally paying off!! /mainstream-wiry-nest
/giphy ostensible-distant-lemming
@lowlypeon awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Green bar of doom. No luck.
Congrats to all that scored one.
Congrats to all that missed out.
/giphy fouled-utopian-attack
@datruandi surprisingly appropriate gif
for once
/giphy LET’S GO BUCS
@harveydanger RIP Aaron Huffman.
Got one!
/image trendy-hollow-crack
oh yeah
/giphy alcoholic-courageous-maple
So they sold two hundred of the goddamned things in fifteen seconds?
/image JESUS FUCKING JONES
/buy
@Yoda_Daenerys Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
scammers! just to make you think you will have a better chance if you joined vmp!
Argh, stupid stupid stupid f-ing Captcha.
{takes a deep breath}
Seriously though: as a VMP benefit, can’t we have the captcha turned off? You already (theoretically) know I’m not a robot.
I was TTTHHHHIIIISSS close…
The VMP allotment seemed to go smoothly. By the time I got to “Fine, Buy it Already” it was sold out
/giphy thinkable-measured-van
Yay!!! Finally got it to work this round.
Whew! Got one. I went to sleep last night with a very good feeling it would come up today. I didn’t feel like waiting up and figured I could just get the 8am one if it was indeed Fuko day. No such luck. Had to wait all day but got the 4pm one in the nick of time!
Oh, and obligatory order image:
/image dejected-fishy-goblin
wtf are all these captchas now?
check a box, solve 2 problems and they’re all sold out. yay
They literally sold 206 in less than a minute?
like literally less than a minute.
@aristan Probably more like 25 seconds.
@hems79 35, but who’s counting?
@aristan The last (and only) time I got one, they sold out in 15 seconds. That seems to be the norm.
@shawn was.
@aristan It’s still fun to play even if you do miss out.
You completely SUCK Meh. Got one in the cart, but you kept asking if I was a FKDKN ROBOT.
never again.
@Wondermeh What cart?
@cengland0 yeah, I’m wondering that too. Then I got what everyone else got…stupid robot crap and then saying “what is it you want to buy?” Utter CRAP.
So how about relaxing the nocaptcha for vmps. Stupid thing keeps going to second page asking me to pick out photos from an array which takes time and then it’s sold out.
@jackr5 Second this, absolutely.
@jackr5 Third it!
Wow, sold out of the 4pm lots in less than 30 seconds… Or did someone just spam F5 until they got in?
Add it to your cart? No problem.
Sold out before you complete checkout? Definitely!
Seriously, how hard is it to reserve the item when someone adds it to their shopping cart?!
@ThomSirveaux No shopping carts here, since there’s only one item. Hold it in your hands and walk to the register like the rest of us.
@awk Except apparently at meh you’re allowed to rip an item out of someones hands en-route to the register.
@hanzov69 More like you’re picking up a call tag for the item and rushing towards the register but there aren’t as many items as call tags and only the first ### call tags are honored.
Yeah got one, last three were midnight 8 am now 4 pm, I hit the cycle.
/giphy glistening-impatient-straw
I got a bloody are you a robot captcha screen where I had to click on images and it sold out while I was doing that. All three times that I tried to buy today, including the VMP window.
Fuck you meh. I was refreshing one minute early and got a “we are not sure what item you want to buy error”.
Dang. Can’t even get it at 4pm. Womp.
what’s with the recurring “please re-enter your card number” thing? back in the good old days before the 12AM/8AM/4PM schism, but now every order (even non-fuku orders) makes me re-enter my info. makes it absolutely impossible to get a fuku.
@saiteron *I never had to re-enter during the olden days
Dear @snapster,
I prefer the old system where I would be disappointed at midnight to the current system where I am repeatedly emotionally crushed throughout the day.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely, an East Coast resident who buys a ton of crap from you
@sammydog01 I must say you wrote eloquently my thoughts exactly. Furthermore, I agree with this statement even though I’m not on the east coast. I think the reasoning for three times to TRY to purchase the fukobukuro is to mess with us more so that when we strike out repeatedly , well that’s the "Meh"ning of it in the first place.
Yep. Reload, reload, reload, go! Just had the check box so no catpcha problem, my account was spiffy and ready to go, I just checked the box and raced to the bottom to confirm. I don’t think five seconds passed between when I got a live buy it button and I got the sorry, sold out. Oh, well, why break a perfect losing streak.
There were what - two - saved for VMPs? Eff that…
and the goddamned “storefront” captcha can go die in a fire…
All three times refreshed exactly at the hour with the fastest phone and internet/router out there. Hit but/not a robot/pay with barely a pause. Sold out. I actually am starting to think this is just a funny joke that Meh plays with our fragile psychics and aching hearts-and on the day after Valentines. MEH
@ldibble don’t feel like the Lone Ranger…same here
Still no bag at VMP offering and two devices going with high speed internet…green line loading and then message opps sold out
unlucky still …even tried in tech Mecca Austin phooey
@AttyVette It has to be largely luck. I am only 10mpbs which generally operates at about 6 or 7. I finally got one at the 4pm sale. Of course I have missed for 2 years running in a large part due to the I am not a robot proof and getting the check the pictures mess. This time I only got the check box.
@Kidsandliz seriously, I am glad you got one …I think everyone that hasn’t gotten one should get one …happy for you
@AttyVette Thanks. Been a long drought thank you partly the check the photos mess.
Oh FFS.
“Wow these are selling fast, if you’re seeing this I guess you know we’re going to find a stranger in the alps!”
…
“Sold Out”
So much meh.
Damn Captcha’s. They fill the screen so you can’t see all of the pictures. Then you get a second page. There has to be a better way.
/giphy mini-fierce-carp, you fabulous bastards.
Poop.
My old credit card was associated with the account. By the time I fixed it, it were gone.
Man FUCK CAPTCHA. First of all, last night captcha got to decide which images were store fronts, which is bullshit. Tried again just now and captcha made me verify I was human TWICE. WTF is that all about? I answered it correctly the first time and they gave me a 2nd quiz?? Bullshit.
Luckily Google was quick to judge that I was not a robot.
/giphy thorny-harmonious-witch
I…got one. How did I actually get one?
/giphy heated-embarrassed-rat
I finally got one!!!
/giphy crass-incandescent-parsnip
Thanks Meh for helping me out… Im a VMP but apparently you guys had locked me out. I had just about as much of a chance to buy this as a person with no computer.
thanks Meh…
Meh…
@MARQUESDESIGNS Would not the date have to be 2/3/2017 to have VMP this month?
You need to hire someone who knows how to program. You have the site fucked up for mobile users - we can’t buy shit!
@mythereal I was at the hospital with my daughter, of course I didn’t get the Fuku because I was on mobile. What’s interesting is they did take my VMP signup from the Fuku! (I canceled it a bit ago)
@rmeden - What’s important: hope your daughter’s alright.
@rmeden I hope your daughter is making a full recovery, and is recovering well.
@mythereal @KDemo Yup, she’s improving quickly, thanks. (we were in the ER when the Fuku hit). Heck, I was still there for the 8am round, but still on mobile… finally sleeping when 4pm hit.
green bar glitch/recaptcha’d yet again
@seraphimcaduto use your iPhone next time. I have NEVeR had success using a PC to buy the fuku or BOC
@seraphimcaduto id be upset, but my wife asking “why are you STILL on meh” from the time she left at 8AM until 4PM when she got back made it a little worthwhile.
@jzmacdaddy @seraphimcaduto I have a 4 year old computer on 10mbps that typically operates on about 5 or 6 down and about 3 up and finally finally finally manage to get one at 4pm. So I think it may be partly luck rather than what you use. I also, for the first time in a long time, did not get the choose a billion photos mess that slows everything way down.
@seraphimcaduto Wife asked me what I was doing this morning. When I told her, she says, “Oh so you can wake up early for that, but nothing else.”
@jzmacdaddy neither work for me, tried both with the same results.
@Kidsandliz I was using a 2014 core i7 MacBook Pro 16gb of ram and SSD with a 50MBit connection with only one window, connected via Ethernet directly to my router. It was both poor luck and the meh server timing out my request and the green bar fail that led to me not getting it. Do I have hard feelings? Not at all. With my wife sick yesterday, it was the best excitement I got all week. Is that sad? Yes but I’ll take what I can get. Another thrilling fuko meh, well played!
Had the page loaded and captcha checked, hit the button at 4 on the nose. Got the green bar of death for several trips…then the all mighty
" IT WORKED!" appeared. Here’s looking forward to a box full shit I’ll store in the attic.
@jzmacdaddy sup gaming the system bro
/giphy reflective-unjust-maid
Screwed by the recaptcha. I checked it and the damn thing still thought I was a bot. Had to hit “buy” a second time and by then they were gone.
15 seconds after 4 ET SOLD OUT? Seriously!
Finally got one. I guess the VMP membership came through for me.
I GOT ONE I GOT ONE I GOT ONE!!! YEA!! And I only got the check box and not pick out the invisible dust specks in multiple squares which is what I usually get. And I am only VMP because I bought some water bottles for next year’s christmas for siblings. Missed this last night because helping Lisaviolet save those kitties of her friend that died and wasn’t keeping close track of the time, misread eastern for central this morning (how dumb is that? LOL) and then went back to getting those 3 kitties out of the kill shelter (they are now going to a no kill shelter and have a chance at life) AND NOW I GOT ONE - for the first time since the April Fool’s very first fuko (vs the earlier fukus). Been like a 2 year drought with these. YES!!
@Kidsandliz
Happy happy purple
I was a robot at 8 and missed it but at 4 I am superhuman it seems, broke my Fuko cherry.
/giphy musing-lame-chameleon
Gah! I was sitting at my computer waiting for 4:00 and got distracted.
I BOUGHT CRAP!! YAY ME!!!
tactical-barefoot-argon
I scored in the VMP batch. Woo!
thinkable-waiting-buffalo
Damn, I even missed the VMP window by a few seconds. Bah and humbug, Meh.
Midnight - 12:06am ET: 223 sold
8am - 8:01am ET: 173 sold
4pm - 4pm ET: 204 sold to VMP members
This just doesn’t even make sense to me… it takes 6 minutes to sell 223 at midnight, 1 minutes for 173 and mere seconds for 204?
And I got greenbar failured twice?
@hanzov69
There were horrific server issues this morning.
@hanzov69 the stats for midnight included the issues they were having, which looks like it delayed the transactions some. The 8 am looks about right, and the 4 pm was 35 seconds according to @shawn…
@mikibell Fair enough. I get the Midnight one, but the 4pm one seems…off… to me.
Wouldn’t the fact that it’s limited to VMPs reduce the number of potential customers? Coupled with more stock available, I would assume that it would take at least as long as the 8am to sell out, if not slightly longer.
Of course we all know what happens when you assume…
@hanzov69 hmm I don’t know … I do know 8 am was a bit laggy too… perhaps they fixed something during the day? or fed the gerbils?
Woah, 204 sold in a matter of seconds. Must have been when I was getting or captcha-blocked.
@404Error Now down to 202 sold…how many are secretly there? I should not expect to have two more magical fukos there, right?
wow I didn’t have any captcha just checked the box and hit pay already 23 seconds after 4:00, NO DICE…
Got one! My wife is already practicing her eye-rolls, disappointed in her husband head shakes, and sighs with thinly veiled hostility!
/giphy entertaining-malignant-wound
/giphy unclean-pulpy-brass
@grum gurk.
should just move to cali… cause in new york if im up till midnight waiting for offers I wake up with my eyes bleeding from exhaustion and the hours of sleep I could have potentially gotten from seeing new items appear at 9:00
in cali
Sorry if this was asked and answered earlier but what is the reason the billing page keeps asking what product do you want to buy and not giving a choice? Then giving the green bar saying you did not pick a product?
@don
Means sold out but some part of the inventory system doesn’t know that yet.
Happened to me too.
It’s dead wrong … There is no way that I tried at midnight then 8am then again at 4pm with my computer and phone and had to not be a robot and pick signs in a picture and still not able to get at least one . Sooooo wrong …
Your loyalty to your VMP members is zero …
Thanks …
@paulie0717
showing last months payment as a VMP (supposedly)
and i wasn’t even given the option to purchase after 4:00pm refresh. this site is all about chance which I get but this was uneven playing field…
@MARQUESDESIGNS
It’s like winning the lotto.
Clayboy here - VMP for over a year, site supporter since almost the beginning, infrequent commentor, liker, purchaser, and STILL SUBJECTED TO A BOT-CHECK THAT SCREWS ME EVERY TIME.
oooh I got one!
I managed to snag one! Sweet.
/giphy bumpy-boiling-derby
@BeachedSquirrel That’s effing adorable.
@BeachedSquirrel jark.
I got one last night. Never saw the confirmation page, but noticed it was in my order history.
/giphy worthless-refreshing-kiwi
well, that’s a sad gif
@baseba4551 quark.
I’m still flawless!! That one had me worried. Failed hard last night with server issues. No luck at morning release. Thankfully that vmp insurance came in handy.
@whistlingwilly
Enjoy your purple bag.
@PlacidPenguin
@whistlingwilly
@f00l whats the other guys name who is flawless still? I believe it was just me and him last time.
@whistlingwilly
It was in one of the Dec threads at fuko time. Dec 5th?
While I was drowning in early Goatdom?
I’d have to go thru them .
Glad a purple one seems be getting caught into a suckage vortex.
@f00l it was on Dec 1st. Do some investigating and get back to me
@whistlingwilly It was me. I’m still flawless too. Are we still the only two left?
@whistlingwilly
I can understand why I can’t remember Dec 1.
As for Dec 5. I remember because I bought a case of Wellington from Woot that day.
Early Dec 2016 is a blur. I think I didn’t sleep for a week till I got the hang of it.
@whistlingwilly
@cengland0
Found the Dec mention.
Incidentally, the Fuko was on Dec 2 not Dec 1. That eastern time trick.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/my-favorite-complaint#58438c19c65e0f1809ecf684
And read down
Specifically
@f00l @cengland0 so its just England and I stilll
@whistlingwilly
That have owned up anyway.
Any others are either silent or sneaky.
/giphy broad painted guppy
@spl152db This image is offensive to me.
Because of the sparkle and the fact that it’s a celebration of you getting something I wanted
@spl152db jerk.
@hanzov69 sorry
It’s my 1st fuku and 3rd meh. I never got a woot boc either though.
Missed it. Set a cell phone alarm for just before 4pm…forgot to turn that fkker on.
@Renee4183 If it’ll make you feel better, you had no shot in hell to get one anyway.
/giphy Feel Relieved
@hems79 I was determined to try…oh well. More $ for me!
@Renee4183 Exactly!
What I’d like to know is how did somebody buy 3 (according to the pie chart)?
@giggers whoa… excellent point.
@hanzov69 @giggers
There was a mistake this morning. The person already cancelled them, though @Dave was on top of it.
@giggers They take care of it and cancel the extras. Nobody is getting three!
@kyanostiger Unless you have multiple accounts, anyway…
@medz surely nobody would do something like that…
@giggers Still, your question is good how did someone get 3 when I get sold out just trying to add 1!
@medz Well yes, but not on the same account.
4PM score! Agless-Listless-Tuna
As a fan of the office, all I think of is Andy calling Jim Tuna.
@sweetpqte quirk.
@hanzov69
You are so very eloquent!
@f00l you need to repeat that comment on all the zillions of posts that person has posted in this thread of the one word odd words.
@Kidsandliz
My wrist is fucked up from yesterday. See blame thread.
I have to give it some rest.
I did see any other eloquent posts.
@f00l @kidsandliz I was stuck on the worlds worst (my opinion) conference call and was killing time… after the call ended I was sorely tempted to actually keep going and get all the posts, but I just didn’t have the heart.
@hanzov69
Our sympathies.
Considering canceling my VMP. All I wanted was a fuko. Fuku fuko!
@jwoody27 be aware: https://mediocre.com/forum/topics/last-chance-to-join-vmp-is-closed-to-new-members-after-this-month#588916688258da0bb454483f
February 28 is last day to signup for VMP… it ceases on March 1.
/giphy equable-hardy-bit
This is how I felt as the purchase window actually appeared and I actually got past captcha
Stupid slow servers denied my bag
I just really want that Meh. bag. Can I buy that for 5 dollars?? with nothing inside?
@Panegyric
I’ve tried hinting at that in the past. But all @hollboll was able to suggest was to either buy one elsewhere, or get a Fuko.
Might just be easier to buy elsewhere.
@Panegyric
@PlacidPenguin
@Hollboll
If you all would sell only the bag also as an alternative item on Fuko days, I’d pay $10 plus either VMP or $5 shipping for it.
Pls pls pls?
Love ya.
@f00l Right? I like this particular bag… pictured here.
@Panegyric wait until the the reveal thread and offer it to every person until someone says yes, it may take a while
@Panegyric meh…I has bags. Prolly won’t let this one go if it’s the one pictured…others, I could prolly part with.
@musmagic I’m weirdly obsessed with these backpack style bags. I luff them almost as much as I love turtles. almost… !
I missed this one. I’m not sure if I’m disappointed or relieved.
Any tips on how to get these? This time I was right on top of it during each of the 3 purchas periods. As soon as the listing went up I clicked purchased, checked the captcha and ctried placing my order. Every time It was sold out. There is no way I could have done it quicker, so the question is how are people pulling the trigger any quicker?
@donrull
Some may have special secrets. I know no secrets.
Mostly just v low odds luck.
@donrull multiple devices on multiple network(lte + wiki i + a wired device) pre logged in at 11:30 EST and all credit card information already valid and saved.
and pray to the right gods
@donrull I’m not sure these things have the intended effect. Back when woot was actually cool, I tried getting bags of crap and was never able to get one. I just got annoyed and stopped using woot. It’s annoying enough that meh deals come to my e-mail sometime late in the morning after they have been posted as advertisements on Facebook 6-9 hours prior. Meh is truly treating VMP as more mediocre than the non-subscribing customers who they clearly act to reach out to before VMPs.
@donrull And, I really thought that once I got the freaking captcha that I was in…but not once did that mean I was in and I was already logged in and ready to go!
Okay, so I missed the 9:00 PM chance because hubby screwed up, then I missed the 5:00 AM chance because apparently I am a robot, so I was elated to see I had one more chance left at 4:00 PM… but I failed to convert that to Pacific time, so I missed that one because I am an idiot.
Well I’m a three-time loser today, but I am thankful that I can now stand down from Fuko watch for a while. There was no way in hell I was going to remember to check in at 9:00 p.m. next week when I am in Vegas. I just hope my losing streak doesn’t follow me there.
@Trillian agree. I was stressing I would miss it while on a trip next month. Now I breathe easy.
reading all these comments I can’t believe I got one. I was just taking a shit, while I checked out the website. I clicked the purchase button @12.01 then I didn’t have the credit card number wimme. So I ran out of the bathroom(no I didn’t wipe the butt), put the info in and it worked. Anyway, so what I am trying to say is next time just try to purchase this while pooping, it might just work
@smoqe TMI. Also, burn your phone.
@smoqe
/youtube facebooking on the crapper
You’re welcome for the suggestion, @matthew. Video of the day!
/giphy frothy-maddening-vacation
I felt it. I felt it. I was so sick couldn’t even open the laptop to look. Ahhh, i feels the bad and am kicking myself.
Winners winners chicken dinners. Congrats to ya all!
@wew - Hope you’re better.
@KDemo something like that, just outta the blue, that made me feel terrific! It’s not so much the big thing, but the little things like that that make my day.
@wew
I’m posting it twice! Cause… YEAH! What she says!
I do like random stuffs.
@sthiede Well then… here you go.
@Kidsandliz
@sthiede1 I am sorry that is sick LOL
@Kidsandliz i know a ‘friend’ posted it to my wall and i figured I would share.
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My first one and it just shipped. It’s listed at 2.2lbs so wonder what it could be.
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@mattdonders - Do you know the weight often changes before it’s delivered? It seems they mail them all with the same ‘placeholder’ weight, and FedEx usually corrects it en route. Not always, though.
@KDemo ah interesting - I thought the weight changed as soon as FedEx got their hands on it.
@mattdonders - Uh oh.
Yours might not be great, though.
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/giphy reckless-aloof-gelato
Got updated tracking info. 5.6 lbs due thursday.
Wow! Look at all the posts by usernames I have never seen post one thing in the community, except here. So fucking sad.
@mfladd I hope they all get broken mugs and fitbits. But at least they posted once- a lot of fuko buyers will never post at all.
@mfladd I’ve been a meh member since it launched, and I think I’ve commented twice… just because we’re not chatty doesn’t mean we’re not long standing members of meh.
Shipping updated to 13.9 lbs. Might literally be bricks. My last Fuko was 7 lbs and had a Chromebook in it, so heavy isn’t always better.
Mine just came in!
meh mug & bag
Big brother is watching you mug
Piranha sunglasses (polarized at least)
a Skoal cast metal truck (weird)
and a 1080p action camera, with waterproof case! Nabi Look HD.
I’m happy for $5!
@klocwerk Post what you got on the unofficial reveal thread you can find at:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/fuko-14-valentine-reveal-thread
Arrived today
Broken mug (fantastically ironic)
Captian jack cap gun
Blues brothers mug (not broken thank the lord, would have been a tragedy)
Meh sticker
Avengers travel coffee cup
Valentines day oops appologie cards
And last but not least a dead metawatch 3707 smart watch for iphone 5 with a sticker on the back that says it was printed in 2014.
Have to say Meh absolutely killed it. Haaa
@asherwitt Post what you got on the unofficial reveal thread you can find at:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/fuko-14-valentine-reveal-thread
Arrived today:
V for Vendetta mug
Meh mug
Meh sticker
Meh socks
Avengers travel coffee cup
porcelain Birthday Wishes Barbie (whhhhat?)
Valentines day oops apology cards
And last but not least a dead Metawatch Strata MW3007R smart watch WITHOUT this charging clip
Anyone have another source for the charging clip?
@Dierk Post what you got on the unofficial reveal thread you can find at:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/fuko-14-valentine-reveal-thread
There is a reveal thread for when your box comes. Please don’t post it here. Instead click on the link below:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/fuko-14-valentine-reveal-thread
Anybody’s order still processing like mine? Seems like a lot of people got theres already.
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