The Pandemic really exploded the price on these. I’ve gone through a lot of inflatable pools of approximately this size with my children, and any other year I could easily find one for $50 or less (especially at the end of the season like now).
I guess $70 is good for the pandemic pricing, but if you aren’t planning on using it this year prices will probably go back down by next summer.
@ardycake@haydesigner hmm, lowest price a seller has it for now is $75, roughly the same as here. While the meh photo obviously has had the kids and water pasted in, the amazon one looks flimsy
As far as inflatable pools go, the best kind I ever had was the “Easy Set” style that looks like a big bag with one inflatable ring on top to hold the circular shape. If it’s for anything beyond little kids or dogs, they give way more depth and less hassle inflating. The only real problem I had was the neighbor’s cats poking holes in the ring when they would jump on it to drink out of it. But that will be a problem with any inflatable pool.
This deal reminds me of the Panama Papers overpriced and all the rage for what you get, I think Meh really “blew” it on this one yeah? Indefatigable defense of inflating ingredients but nothing to “swim on”
Oh my. The paint folks are going to be upset you are using their trademark. https://trademarks.justia.com/737/21/galvanox-73721631.html
No filter or active sanitizing agent? A 400 gallon disease incubator. Kiddies are known to introduce organics into pools from sources they produce to put it gently. No, no, Nanette!
How long does it take to get the strong smell of 50% PVC that will permeate your nostrils, out of your life??? Doesn’t say what the other 50%of chemicals are that you’ll will breathe in.
@AZnatural1 PVC doesn’t have much of a smell. Vinyl chloride (gas used to produce PVC) doesn’t reach nasal detection levels until ≈ 3000 PPM. That gas has a sweet smell. Raw PVC is all but unusable. What you’re smelling are plasticizers (predominately phthalates) added to make it flexible.
Meh is a little late in the game. There was a real shortage (and high demand) of inflatable pools early on in the summer, with covid & all… people were waiting at the door at Aldi to open to snatch one up a while back. Meh would’ve made a killing on these if they were able to get a shipment to sell back in June.
Okay listen up you hooligans! So none of you die while trying to blow these up with your lungs or overheat and destroy an air compressor, this is how you fill these super fast and simple.
Take a shop vac, make sure it’s clean, like good and clean, like you’d wash your kids in it, clean.
Take the air hose and attach it to the output side of the vac. Now you have a “blower” not a sucker.
Ask: “Wait a minute. The hose on a shop vac is huge, these valves on the pool are tiny. How does that work?”
Get a funnel. Make sure the out-put part of the funnel fits into the valve of the pool, and the in-put is big enough for the (now) “blower” hose.
To get that funnel to stick on the hose, get tape. I used packing tape. Any tape will do. Has to be strong and mostly air tight when you’re done with this hopefully logical step.
Cram the funnel tiny end of this Mary Shelly’s Pinocchio into the valve of the pool and do what comes naturally.
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$140 at Amazon
Warranty
1 Year After Product Registration
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Sep 3 - Tuesday, Sep 8
How do you ship all that water?
@awk Pitney and Bowes. It may arrive frozen.
@awk @mehcuda67 You mean it may arrive.
@awk
It comes dehydrated…
Pfft… my pool holds like 37.5 times that amount of water.
/giphy pool flex
@medz my pool only holds 145 hundred gallons. 400 hundred is more bigger. Yours must be huge!
@djslack oh shit, you right. Damn, that bitch huge.
@djslack @medz my fish tank is bigger than your pool (155g)
Oh “hundred gallons” never mind.
Wondered how you swam in a puddle.
Are fishes included for swimming?
The Pandemic really exploded the price on these. I’ve gone through a lot of inflatable pools of approximately this size with my children, and any other year I could easily find one for $50 or less (especially at the end of the season like now).
I guess $70 is good for the pandemic pricing, but if you aren’t planning on using it this year prices will probably go back down by next summer.
@SnakeJG COVID-21 will drive prices even higher.
@SnakeJG @warpedrotors forget Covid. Ebola is due a pandemic. Ebola-21 kicks Covid-19’s arse.
Just barely big enough for Fenris!
@PooltoyWolf you could float this pool inside your proper pool.
This pool could be a new pool toy in your pool.
@OnionSoup @PooltoyWolf
@djslack @OnionSoup @PooltoyWolf this is beautiful
@OnionSoup That would only work if I had a pool .-.
About 8 bathtubs, 10’x6’, shallow, 1.5 tons filled, about a stone dry and all yours for a wet, hot American fall.
@Smersh so you’re saying this will be ok for my second floor apartment?
Reviews complain that it arrives with holes in it.
@jayman007 There’s a huge one on the top.
@jayman007 You wouldn’t be able to inflate it without holes.
So, 40,000 gallons? Must take a while to inflate that thing.
@OutbackJon
With the new Binford Blower, all of your inflation needs will be met, now with more power!
@dragoncmndr @OutbackJon I need one of those!!
/giphy offbeat-low-tomato
22 inches deep huh? That officially makes this the largest ‘kiddie’ pool I have ever seen.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000058TJ3/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_BX0pFbX7YWW9F
This one is roughly the same size and idk if the whole family would fit.
@ardycake… roughly?? It IS the same size, and has the 3 air chambers, AND IS CHEAPER THAN MEH, WITH FREE SHIPPING.
Not a deal at all tonight, Meh.
/giphy not a deal
@ardycake @haydesigner hmm, lowest price a seller has it for now is $75, roughly the same as here. While the meh photo obviously has had the kids and water pasted in, the amazon one looks flimsy
@ardycake same dimensions, but only 264 gallons? Where’d the other 136 gallons go?!
@ardycake @jetkins the one from Meh is bigger on the inside.
Are the lane markers sold separately?
As far as inflatable pools go, the best kind I ever had was the “Easy Set” style that looks like a big bag with one inflatable ring on top to hold the circular shape. If it’s for anything beyond little kids or dogs, they give way more depth and less hassle inflating. The only real problem I had was the neighbor’s cats poking holes in the ring when they would jump on it to drink out of it. But that will be a problem with any inflatable pool.
@djslack brother bought one and his family loves it! He’s the guy who researches before he buys and this type of pool is the best for the price.
Can a pool be any more Meh? Asking for a friend.
OH MY GOD THEY DRENCHED GLEN!!!
I don’t see a filter/pump in the list, so I guess you have to run 400 gallons and then immediately empty it? Very meh
Just in time for summer!!! (in Australia)
If your in Cali, you can use it to put out those wild fires that are about to consume your home! Only the district won’t allow you to fill it.
This deal reminds me of the Panama Papers overpriced and all the rage for what you get, I think Meh really “blew” it on this one yeah? Indefatigable defense of inflating ingredients but nothing to “swim on”
Just in time for winter…
/giphy portly-retro-potato
I might as well just fill up the bath tub.
Oh my. The paint folks are going to be upset you are using their trademark. https://trademarks.justia.com/737/21/galvanox-73721631.html
No filter or active sanitizing agent? A 400 gallon disease incubator. Kiddies are known to introduce organics into pools from sources they produce to put it gently. No, no, Nanette!
@Dog19026 I guess a paint stick in the photo would have been a sure giveaway.
@Dog19026 I guess that’s why they’re dumping this soggy product; they saw the painting on the wall.
/giphy oh-you-in-truble
How long does it take to get the strong smell of 50% PVC that will permeate your nostrils, out of your life??? Doesn’t say what the other 50%of chemicals are that you’ll will breathe in.
@AZnatural1 PVC doesn’t have much of a smell. Vinyl chloride (gas used to produce PVC) doesn’t reach nasal detection levels until ≈ 3000 PPM. That gas has a sweet smell. Raw PVC is all but unusable. What you’re smelling are plasticizers (predominately phthalates) added to make it flexible.
@AZnatural1 @brispi Enjoy that “new pool smell”. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
@AZnatural1 Some of us love that smell!
Could you fill this pool with Gin? Or would the ĝin dissolve the plastic?
Asking for a friend.
@OnionSoup stick with bathtubs, they’ve been proven safe and effective.
@OnionSoup Ethanol won’t bother the pool. The only problem is the subsequent drunks present a serious hazard.
Meh is a little late in the game. There was a real shortage (and high demand) of inflatable pools early on in the summer, with covid & all… people were waiting at the door at Aldi to open to snatch one up a while back. Meh would’ve made a killing on these if they were able to get a shipment to sell back in June.
@sklitfin I think you don’t understand the meh business model.
@dam091 @sklitfin LOL
Okay listen up you hooligans! So none of you die while trying to blow these up with your lungs or overheat and destroy an air compressor, this is how you fill these super fast and simple.
Hope you all have fun.
@Chronicle “Cram the funnel tiny end of this Mary Shelly’s Pinocchio into the valve of the pool and do what comes naturally.”
And…I’m 12.
@Chronicle Mary Shelly’s Pinocchio? Jeez that’s a bit harsh.
How long would this take to fill up with my urine?
My friend asked me to buy this for him. He then proceeded to purchase 350 boxes of jello mix and a chicken. Should I be worried?
/giphy cautious-countless-eye
@Kenbo possibly, depending on how the word “friend” is defined in this case!
Im doing it! The plunge
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