@AttyVette Its just the fact that its available for VMP only and no new VMP members can join that’s salty. If this company was based on California they’d have riots outside of their building with people calling them racist and elitist. Those same people would eat baby food and get into a pillow screaming competition afterwards though. So I’m not sure how to feel about this situation.
@lilsrm123 I had one ready to go and then I was like is it one per customer these days (scored one earlier) and let it go to sold out. I wasn’t sure and it didn’t say.
Wow been up since before the 1st fuko missed it by minute, missed 2nd one by minute, had my hand in the button had a feeling this would be the 3rd one… … and it’s vmp only
Missed the first two, but finally got it! I had to hit buy TWICE, too. The first time it said I was a robot, even though I had the green check, so I hit it again…just out of desperation and POOF!
now that I got mine, let me let you in on a little secret… If you refresh the page when the previous item still has 2-3 seconds left, 9 out of 10 times it’ll refresh with the new item before the servers get bogged down with every one hitting F5
@thardesty or you can misjudge and it will send you back to the page you were just on… speaking from experience several times refreshing a exactly 0 seconds left.
@thardesty interesting. But it refreshes automatically, so no one needs to be hitting F5. I thought that was the point, to refresh everyone so it didn’t bog down the servers.
@thardesty Just my experience through out the day testing it on items. I’d hit F5 with 2-3 seconds left and see the new item immediately, then hit F5 again and it’d take 20seconds+ to load.
Hrump. Whenever I try to even load meh.com during a Fuko it hangs there, not loading…then it finally does load and it is sold out. I should pay another $70/mo for better internet I suppose.
Refreshed, saw the meh button was available and clicked on it. Then a few seconds later, I realized it was a fuko and tried to buy it. Somehow, it still worked.
Great-I actually got one, even though I wasn’t there the moment it appeared. I had been trying to be on site at the start of this afternoon’s and had done pretty well. I must have been 30 seconds late and still got it. We’ll see what the post brings!
Like the last two, I was right there to buy it and that damned captcha or the dreaded green bar keeps me from sealing the deal. Even with a VMP it didn’t matter. Not sure what else I can do short of driving down to Meh and wrenching a Fuk’n Fuko out of their HQ.
Tried to get in, but the darn thing sold out as I identified images with cars for Captcha about 9 times in a row. I hope they’re happy with their newfound knowledge.
@rhcurry02 And this is why I call bullshit. I’ve been shut out both with and without having to select photos or re-check the captcha. No possible way orders are being fulfilled chronologically.
@SColburn I didn’t even have to do a captcha this time. Just clicked buy when the page loaded, put the checkmark in the captcha box, and was able to hit the green buy button. By that time, it was already sold out.
@thewynner If you do, you can’t ever be a super duper VMP anymore. On any given evening, you’ll find former VMP’s declaring how much better they are off without VMP…well good for them…but why do they keep repeating it? Who are they trying to convince?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, maybe I was not 30 seconds late. I couldn’t be sure when it began, but I had seen the clock going down on the other and when I remembered to recheck I thought it was about 30 seconds-but it could have been three seconds. This is the trouble with eye-witness accounts! Sorry you missed. Don’t feel too bad though.
The last one I got was two years ago (or was it three) also in December. The main object was a very used, full size, croquet set like I had when I was a kid. We gave this away when we moved. One of the Meh employees may have had trouble throwing it away, so I got it. There were a few other items, but as I recall, probably incorrectly, nothing very exciting.
So I got a crazy one. I scored mine at 4:20 ET. Was it VMP only? Anyway I scored it on mobile with sketchy reception after shutting down a laptop in the lab. I just happened to check my phone and the Fuko was up. One Captcha check-mark declaring my non-robot status and…I got Fuk’d.
A GREEN BAG!?! You winners are so lucky! I was having emergency surgery today. I would have tried. I have a million shopping bags but of course I only use my Meh bags. Happy Meh-rathon everyone. I got 4 Meh.com converts today from people who were visiting me in the hospital. Grow the family!
I have waited over 50 years for someone to send me things that I probably would not be interested in at all. Today, I have reached that pinnacle of my life with my very first Foku.
@therealjrn Metastatic lymphoma. Nothing to be done. She lost a limb to it 18 months ago and we knew it was in the lymph nodes then. She’s still eating and happy at the moment so we’re letting it ride. But she has a huge mass in her abdomen and tons of metastasis throughout her body.
@therealjrn Just saw I forgot to say “terminal” cancer, or that she relapsed. We thought we got it all 18 months ago, hoped it hadn’t spread past the lymph node we too out. She was clear 6 months ago at her yearly recheck.
@atravis6@atravis6 That’s sad. I know it will be hard to finally have to put her down when the time comes. I am glad though, at least for the moment she is doing OK with respect to eating and being happy. A friend lost a cat to the same cancer no so long ago. It was clear when her cat lost his quality of life at the end. Hopefully when the time comes for your cat it will be clear cut so you aren’t agonizing over when to do it.
I lost a cat to the cancer they can get from vaccinations (which is why they now vaccinate in the back leg so that can be amputated rather than the back of the neck). The first time she had surgery it gave her nearly 2 years, the second surgery I shouldn’t have done. And I waited too long. I know just how hard it can be.
@atravis6 I’m so sorry to hear that; my dog’s in a similar situation, so I feel you on how it really sucks to go through that. So glad to hear she’s happy; she’s been blessed to be in a family that cares about her.
@Thumperchick I don’t get what the poem is trying to say… I feel like it’s trying to tell me something but I’m just not sure because it isn’t exactly being explicit. Are the shipments being delayed? Are we to not expect bags in our Fukos? Something else?
As an aside, I love @matthew’s reimagining of the Something Went Terribly Wrong theme for Christmehs.
I scored my first-ever fukobukuro on this one. So very excited. It arrived while at work today. My wife put it on our bed for me to find when I got home.
Thanks for breaking my Fuko, USPS! Busted the box wide open and taped it back to try to cover your tracks. You probably took all the good stuff out of it too!
@therealjrn could have done without the 6 usb hubs. Happy to get the pink pork thermometer, completes the set with the poultry and beef thermometer I’ve received in previous Fuko.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
It is a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Warranty
Warranty? More like Warning, this is ENDLESS TRAAASH!
Estimated Delivery
FedEx SmartPost: Monday, December 25th - Thursday, December 28th
UPDATE.
Only VMP members? Meh
@MeatyYoker right?
@MeatyYoker Sometimes meh is in the eye of the beholder.
@MeatyYoker It says “Only VMP members”, but it still won’t let me get it.
@robisodd How do you even become a VMP member? I don’t see any links to purchase the membership.
@MeatyYoker no longer available to join.
@MeatyYoker Ignorant is correct: https://mediocre.com/forum/topics/last-chance-to-join-vmp-is-closed-to-new-members-after-this-month
@robisodd Oh ok, so its like a “cool kids only club” now. A bunch of nerds created this website and made a cool kids club. Heh. The irony.
High five to all the cool kids.
@Ignorant
/giphy high five
@MeatyYoker not all vmps got one btw— I scored one but not sure how I did so as it’s pure luck — or maybe I’m unlucky as depends how you look at it.
@AttyVette Its just the fact that its available for VMP only and no new VMP members can join that’s salty. If this company was based on California they’d have riots outside of their building with people calling them racist and elitist. Those same people would eat baby food and get into a pillow screaming competition afterwards though. So I’m not sure how to feel about this situation.
@AttyVette I wonder how many VMP members there are?
@Stumpy91 yea I have wondered that too…
GOT ONE!!!
/giphy unassuming-impossible-dingo
/giphy arid-raging-division
/giphy foolish-boiling-gum
YAAASS~~!!!
/giphy olden-dependent-arch
@blndfayth OK, I I give – what is that thing in the picture???
Is it still 1 per customer?
@lilsrm123 Yup.
@lilsrm123 I had one ready to go and then I was like is it one per customer these days (scored one earlier) and let it go to sold out. I wasn’t sure and it didn’t say.
@patti it didn’t say in the description indeed it seems. And it seems the system let you order twice.
@datruandi
This is officially bullshit. You can’t possibly be processing these in order.
Third one offered
Annnnnd it sells out before the page loads
/giphy numerous-miraculous-mind
Oh, baby.
Is it hot in here or…
Phew, in at the buzzer:
/giphy lamentable-fouled-oxygen
@lichme Gotta love the soccer giphys
@lichme Elizabeth Lambert. The Tonya Harding of New Mexico soccer.
@lichme Now didn’t I tell you that you would score one?!
@cinoclav Indeed you did!
/giphy sloppy-unfriendly-centaur
Yea! Got one after the refilling bar several times.
/giphy pumped-radical-hand
Nice going giphy. I wonder what that actually says. LOL
@Kidsandliz woo hoo kidsandliz! Glad to see you got one!!!
@Kidsandliz glad you got one friend
@Kidsandliz
This may help.
http://www.words-chinese.com/symbols/_above-all.htm
@mflassy Cool. Looks like it means “first, in the first place, first of all, above all”
@Kidsandliz
It’s not one long phrase. It’s a choice.
@mflassy Well yes… I was just listing the “dictionary” listing. I will choose “first” since I got one. (grin)
/giphy microscopic-tilted-sweater
/image jammed-protective-sorcerer
Something poetic about offering this at 4:20?
would have gotten it (finally!) but only available to VMP members
JFC 250 gone in < 3 seconds
VMP really paying off today in spades!
Not sure which item I want to buy? Really? There was only one of them.
/giphy shifty eyes
Dang, missed it. Had to actually do work stuff.
2nd of the day!
/giphy flowery-ulterior-key
@tonylegrone Have fun having it cancelled. 1 per mehmber
@tonylegrone pretty sure 1 will get cancelled
@MrMark It’s unfortunate @tonylegrone greediness has reduced the number available to others.
@ruouttaurmind It happens. probably was unaware. Meh doesn’t really make it easily known.
@ruouttaurmind wasn’t trying to be greedy. If meh cancels one, then that’s ok. It was my understanding that it’s one per sale, not one per day.
@tonylegrone Pardon my assumption. It’s one per day.
@ruouttaurmind Perhaps they’ll just put the inventory back in the pool for the next one. Either that, or i’m getting a box of coal in the mail later.
@tonylegrone They don’t usually catch dups until the orders are processed. Obvs too late for another sucker to bite.
If someone orders more than one, Meh should cancel ALL the fukos ordered… That would solve the problem…
lol 4:20 fuko
really wish VMP was actually still offered…
@wmbarr
/giphy too bad so sad
I DID IT! MY FIRST FUKU!
/giphy furious-incidental-grasshopper
@mabv4 Congrats!
/giphy conniving-appealing-turkey
FINALLY got one!
What have I done?
I’m not sure if I’m excited or fearful about the prospect of getting a pallet of fidget spinners or candy corn.
@gt0163c What you actually get will be far more disappointing than either of those.
@SSteve Probably. But at least for today, I’m excited. Which is something.
/image godlike-spongy-lice
/giphy godlike-spongy-lice
I can’t remember, do they usually offer a 4th non-VMP bag later on? Asking for a friend (for real).
@jsh139 They did last time, between 11PM and midnight.
@hems79 I thought so, thanks!
Nooooo!! Screw my whoreishly slow mobile internet!
So close, yet so far away. No fuks given.
Now I have a bag for my 200 fidget spinners! /giphy unhelpful-amiable-slug
Huzzah! Walked back in the office, turned on the machine and caught the switchover!
/giphy monstrous-towering-highball
verifying that i’m not a robot…one reason i hate the world we live in.
WOO HOO!!! I got a fricken fubku bag!!! Woo fricken hoo!!! My holiday season is complete!!!
I got a bag earlier in the day and just for shits tried to nab another one, too.
I got it.
It’s okay, Mehnizens, I cancelled the order. I’m not a monster… but it hurt.
@truthisbrief That’s great.
You realize you take it out of the queue for other people when you do that, right?
Holy crap, I finally got one!
/image experienced-snarky-argon
@forestoney Ha, wootshirt!
finally! after being bitten by captcha and an incorrectly placed finger on my phone last night and this morning.
/giphy lowly-particular-swordfish
major suckage. Major. I used to get in all the time, and then you geniuses decided Mehrathons would be a nify idea. Poop.
/image thankful-unvarying-cod
/giphy thankful-unvarying-cod
Wow been up since before the 1st fuko missed it by minute, missed 2nd one by minute, had my hand in the button had a feeling this would be the 3rd one… … and it’s vmp only
@daniel85 aye ;_; same here
I have VMP and it still sold out. 250??? Only 250!!!
@HELLOALICE Man there must be a lot of us hanging on to VMP
Missed the first two, but finally got it! I had to hit buy TWICE, too. The first time it said I was a robot, even though I had the green check, so I hit it again…just out of desperation and POOF!
Let the disappointment begin!
/image dysfunctional-fanatical-boot
/giphy dysfunctional-fanatical-boot
now that I got mine, let me let you in on a little secret… If you refresh the page when the previous item still has 2-3 seconds left, 9 out of 10 times it’ll refresh with the new item before the servers get bogged down with every one hitting F5
@thardesty or you can misjudge and it will send you back to the page you were just on… speaking from experience several times refreshing a exactly 0 seconds left.
@thardesty interesting. But it refreshes automatically, so no one needs to be hitting F5. I thought that was the point, to refresh everyone so it didn’t bog down the servers.
@thardesty Just my experience through out the day testing it on items. I’d hit F5 with 2-3 seconds left and see the new item immediately, then hit F5 again and it’d take 20seconds+ to load.
Hrump. Whenever I try to even load meh.com during a Fuko it hangs there, not loading…then it finally does load and it is sold out. I should pay another $70/mo for better internet I suppose.
250 in 3 seconds. Didn’t even know there was that many vmp left, at least that were waiting around this time of day…
Why is there so much time left on the clock? It’s not like they didn’t know it would sell out in three seconds.
I’d like to discuss my rad purchase
BOOYA!
/giphy dashing-dangerous-list
Mine said I couldn’t buy one if I was a robot, but I had cleared captcha-- had a nice green check box
certain-destroyed-iodine very ironic…
Ugh, got the captcha in quickly, but meh decided to forget my cc info.
pointless-particular-degree
I have a couple of those.
/buy
/fudge
@fuzzmanmatt Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
/giphy tactless-informative-edge
Now I know there are at least 249 VMP members, maybe more
/giphy Lapping-anxious–eel
Refreshed, saw the meh button was available and clicked on it. Then a few seconds later, I realized it was a fuko and tried to buy it. Somehow, it still worked.
/giphy answer-private-veil
Dang, looked away for 30s
@SkyyPunk You were 31s too late.
@hems79 Isn’t that just how life goes?
We sold out at 4:20pm.
also I’m a vmp and you didn’t reserve any for me
Great-I actually got one, even though I wasn’t there the moment it appeared. I had been trying to be on site at the start of this afternoon’s and had done pretty well. I must have been 30 seconds late and still got it. We’ll see what the post brings!
@andyw interesting. I was in along with a score of others in less than 30 seconds and it told me sold out.
@andyw Meanwhile, I probably hit buy before the first 20 seconds were up, and it was already gone.
enjoy your 12 pounds of candy corn and camping gear
@AiraCobra Dude, I just told my coworker “I bet I just ordered a bunch of candy corn”. HILARIOUS.
Almost instinctively hit buy, then remembered I got one last night
/giphy auburn-packed-trapper
/image damned-revered-lamp
/giphy damned-revered-lamp
Did anyone get one that had to do the captcha challenge?
@bdb I had to tap the not-a-bot checkmark, but that was it.
Like the last two, I was right there to buy it and that damned captcha or the dreaded green bar keeps me from sealing the deal. Even with a VMP it didn’t matter. Not sure what else I can do short of driving down to Meh and wrenching a Fuk’n Fuko out of their HQ.
@DMO Samesies.
got em
/giphy frothy-independent-brake
Finally!
/giphy buff-temperate-cheetah
I’m VMP but yet it would not sell one to me. Sux.
@ckcarlton me too
Got mine last night -
Correction: there are at least 248 VMPers left.
/giphy 248
@stinks
/giphy 247 now
I got one! First one ever (and not from lack of trying). I’ve never been so excited about garbage before!
/buy
@ticklescratch Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
@mediocrebot well fuck.
Finally got one
/giphy sulky-acceptable-jackal
Tried to get in, but the darn thing sold out as I identified images with cars for Captcha about 9 times in a row. I hope they’re happy with their newfound knowledge.
YESSSS…Airborne-Makeshift-Guitar
First Fuko evar!
Now I can’t complain about the Meh-athon anymore.
Are you only allowed 1 per day or can you try for each one offered!
Said I was a robot. Tried again. Got it. I can’t believe it! First one in a long time.
@rhcurry02 And this is why I call bullshit. I’ve been shut out both with and without having to select photos or re-check the captcha. No possible way orders are being fulfilled chronologically.
@SColburn I didn’t even have to do a captcha this time. Just clicked buy when the page loaded, put the checkmark in the captcha box, and was able to hit the green buy button. By that time, it was already sold out.
YEEEESSSSS AT LAST! /giphy pungent-fouled-merlin
So close.
First one!!! Makes me glad I kept my VMP…just for this tiny fraction of a chance…totally worth the crap that’s gonna come in the he bag.
/giphy guiltless-ornery-passenger
gleaming-entertained-wood
Finally got one after trying for over a year… what do I get???is it always different and always nonsense items… happy anyway in my first snag
@alexisbaerman Always different. Sometimes valuable stuff, other times complete nonsense. Enjoy!
DAMMIT!!! WHATS THE SECRET TO GET A FUKO???
Pure luck and patience…
@alexisbaerman I’m fresh out of both, I suppose.
got one even though I was a few seconds late to the site when it changed over
appreciative-incidental-taste
Pretty well sums it up.
@KDemo Awwww!
They should offer 250 annual VMP memberships for $50/ea during the mehrathon
@caffeineguy This is not too bad of an idea.
@caffeineguy Actually, that is a great idea.
Fuck missed it despite VMPness. Meh as well cancel at this point?
@thewynner If you do, you can’t ever be a super duper VMP anymore. On any given evening, you’ll find former VMP’s declaring how much better they are off without VMP…well good for them…but why do they keep repeating it? Who are they trying to convince?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well, maybe I was not 30 seconds late. I couldn’t be sure when it began, but I had seen the clock going down on the other and when I remembered to recheck I thought it was about 30 seconds-but it could have been three seconds. This is the trouble with eye-witness accounts! Sorry you missed. Don’t feel too bad though.
The last one I got was two years ago (or was it three) also in December. The main object was a very used, full size, croquet set like I had when I was a kid. We gave this away when we moved. One of the Meh employees may have had trouble throwing it away, so I got it. There were a few other items, but as I recall, probably incorrectly, nothing very exciting.
So I got a crazy one. I scored mine at 4:20 ET. Was it VMP only? Anyway I scored it on mobile with sketchy reception after shutting down a laptop in the lab. I just happened to check my phone and the Fuko was up. One Captcha check-mark declaring my non-robot status and…I got Fuk’d.
/giphy dry-painstaking-skin
A GREEN BAG!?! You winners are so lucky! I was having emergency surgery today. I would have tried. I have a million shopping bags but of course I only use my Meh bags. Happy Meh-rathon everyone. I got 4 Meh.com converts today from people who were visiting me in the hospital. Grow the family!
@5665150 praying you are ok…so sorry you had to have emergency surgery but hoping you will recover quickly from your surgery asap
@5665150 Sorry you had emergency surgery. Hope it fixed your emergency, and that you get the GOOD pain drugs.
I have waited over 50 years for someone to send me things that I probably would not be interested in at all. Today, I have reached that pinnacle of my life with my very first Foku.
I am somewhat whelmed with emotion.
/giphy inexpensive-nearsighted-soap
My cat was diagnosed with cancer today. So thanks, Meh, for making today just a tiny bit less full of suck.
@atravis6 Oh, that’s very bad news. I’m sorry to hear about your cat being sick. Do you have a treatment plan?
@therealjrn Metastatic lymphoma. Nothing to be done. She lost a limb to it 18 months ago and we knew it was in the lymph nodes then. She’s still eating and happy at the moment so we’re letting it ride. But she has a huge mass in her abdomen and tons of metastasis throughout her body.
@therealjrn Just saw I forgot to say “terminal” cancer, or that she relapsed. We thought we got it all 18 months ago, hoped it hadn’t spread past the lymph node we too out. She was clear 6 months ago at her yearly recheck.
@atravis6 oh, that is not good news. My 15 yo kitty has been battling some stuff too. We do love our animals don’t we?
@atravis6 @atravis6 That’s sad. I know it will be hard to finally have to put her down when the time comes. I am glad though, at least for the moment she is doing OK with respect to eating and being happy. A friend lost a cat to the same cancer no so long ago. It was clear when her cat lost his quality of life at the end. Hopefully when the time comes for your cat it will be clear cut so you aren’t agonizing over when to do it.
I lost a cat to the cancer they can get from vaccinations (which is why they now vaccinate in the back leg so that can be amputated rather than the back of the neck). The first time she had surgery it gave her nearly 2 years, the second surgery I shouldn’t have done. And I waited too long. I know just how hard it can be.
@atravis6 I’m so sorry to hear that; my dog’s in a similar situation, so I feel you on how it really sucks to go through that. So glad to hear she’s happy; she’s been blessed to be in a family that cares about her.
Soooo… anyone get a tracking number yet?
@TBoneZeOriginal Sadly, no. Still processing…
On Hyram! On Harlan!
On Possum Skull Victim!
On Scapegoat and @dave!
Mehtizens in elation!
We wrote you an update, go read this narration!
‘Twas the Night Before Irksmas, In Our Dear Warehouse (A Jaunty Tale of Fuko Woe)
@Thumperchick Needs iambic pentameter.
@OldCatLady
/giphy everybody’s a critic
@Thumperchick I don’t get what the poem is trying to say… I feel like it’s trying to tell me something but I’m just not sure because it isn’t exactly being explicit. Are the shipments being delayed? Are we to not expect bags in our Fukos? Something else?
As an aside, I love @matthew’s reimagining of the Something Went Terribly Wrong theme for Christmehs.
@curtise If you read through the poem’s thread, there’s a little more insight.
Be sure to credit @ThomasF, though, for your musical highlight.
Mine is marked shipped… expected delivery the day after Christmas. Perfectly meh!
My torn-grody-recess shipped yesterday. Estimated delivery Saturday 12/23
/giphy torn-grody-recess
Mine got to FedEx today and is expected to arrive Friday, 12/22. Good luck to all!
Still processing. Extra time to make it extra meh?
@forestoney They’re going to meh it to hell.
Delivered this morning! Waiting to get home tonight!
@raccoon81 We’re waiting for your report!
my
/giphy slimy-ballistic-squirrel
is schedule for 12/27, but to work. I don’t think I’ll see it until next year.
This is interesting -
Don’t think I’ve seen FedEx report future travel before.
@KDemo
@KDemo
@Barney -Ha! I knew you were up to something when it spent all that time in Kansas.
I scored my first-ever fukobukuro on this one. So very excited. It arrived while at work today. My wife put it on our bed for me to find when I got home.
Thanks for breaking my Fuko, USPS! Busted the box wide open and taped it back to try to cover your tracks. You probably took all the good stuff out of it too!
@ESQuireTech
At least they care.
@ESQuireTech Don’t worry, there was no good stuff.
Got by order today!
@airmo Niiiiiice!
@therealjrn could have done without the 6 usb hubs. Happy to get the pink pork thermometer, completes the set with the poultry and beef thermometer I’ve received in previous Fuko.