Geeks.com experiment
1Got an email saying geeks.com is back. Seems they are running a “limited number of daily deals” format as a trial. Didn’t usually find too many great deals there in the past, but occasionally some tempting oddball items. Had a couple of occasions to interact with CS there, and seemed like decent folk, as far as I remember. Anyone know if these are really the same people? Is a week before Christmas really the best time to try for a comeback in the deals biz?
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Their old logo was really crappy
Was getting them mixed up with ThinkGeek. Was Geek.com more like Newegg?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@compunaut they mostly did refurbs and liquidation. Way smaller than Newegg.
@compunautThey had better prices more than not.
Fuck Geeks.com
@Cranky1950 geeks.com went away about five years ago, i think. I doubt they are the same people as the Geek app. But i really don’t know. I kind of imagined they fished from some of the same ponds as the old Woot, so i thought maybe someone here would know something about them.
Deal sites come and go, but i was also wondering if meh was leading a kind of resurgence.
@Cranky1950 You’re cranky.
@walarney They stopped mail order a couple of years ago and were just functioning as a bricks and mortar store.
My favorite is https://www.geek.jewelry
@heartny pretty cool (or pretty and cool), but I’m not rich or geeky enough.
@heartny holy shit, that’s expensive stuff. Pretty, but expensive. Meanwhile, I bought my partner The One Ring that cost me 99c with shipping, and he’s been wearing it on a chain for around 6 months and it looks brand new.
@RiotDemon
Has he started speaking in first person plural yet?
Or perhaps he already spoke that way?
@f00l what he doesn’t realize is that I have the actual One Ring sitting inconspicuously in my bathroom. His is merely a copy.
@RiotDemon
I’m not gonna enquire about the Cracks of Doom.
@RiotDemon @fool
New movie idea for the LOTR Cinematic Universe:
Pitch
Rogue Halfling- Council of Elrond wants to steal instructions for destroying The One Ring from Sauron. The hobbit JynJo discovers her father already has the ring. Gandalf discovers that Galadriel already knows how to ruin it. Trip to Crack of Doom is abandoned after attempts to catapult into Mordor fail. JynJo buries The One Ring in a dragon’s lair full of $.99 fakes. The End.
@compunaut @RiotDemon
1.@f00l might like the pitch.
2.Not bad. Although it needs more penguins.
@compunaut
@PlacidPenguin
Someone call Peter Jackson then.
@PlacidPenguin @f00l Maybe if we agree to film in Madagascar, these penguins might actually show up. Of course, they’re usually typecast in spy/adventure films. Hmmm…
How about:
Quantum of Herring - Something about evil dolphin Dr. Blowhole, his plan to eliminate all the oceans’ herring by turning them into biofuel. Everyone’s favorite marine fowl agents will have to infiltrate the island lair (with the help of the elite North Wind task force). We’ll need to invent some cool penguin gadgets, and (of course) recruit a few prime examples of hawt Malagasy fauna.
@compunaut @f00l
I would watch that.
Nothing to do with the pictures though. After making this post, I saw the new post.
@PlacidPenguin Can’t have a Bond film without… eye candy