I have been a member since 2020. The latest price update from my current $4.99/month to almost double that to $8.99 that was just announced is too much, not worth it.
I’ve been paying for membership since Dec 2020 but have been on the site since they started it up after Woot got bought/ruined. I just calculated that I’ve wasted $65 over the last ~5 years by only buying 47 items since paying for membership. That would have been $117 at the new rate.
I’m undecided on whether that’s enough to make me stop paying, if only because I like being able to say “I’ve been a member since Dec 2020.” That’s ultimately only like $20/year which is paltry. But I guess that’s also salesman logic. Oh, well.
@AROAH Hmmm, 65 / 5 = $13 per year. That isn’t soooo bad. But yes, almost $26 per year in the new year starts to hurt.
Hmmmm, I wonder if meh could offer a “showme” only subscription …
/showme mediocrebot in carnival barker outfit with straw boater hat and cane is telling people walking to and fro “Come see the meh deal of the century, 1 showme a day for a dollar a month! That is just a measly 3 pennies a day for the chance to be the life of the party! Do not miss out!”.
@AROAH as I’ve said when this came up before. I 100% understand why meh raised prices, I’m sure things are a lot more expensive for them too… But for me it killed the “impulse buy” factor when have to pay almost $10 a month for shipping. Inflation and their costs have gone up (but most people’s paychecks, including mine, hasn’t gone up the same amount).
Ironically, most months there HAS been enough that I would have bought, that paying for a month would have been worthwhile… But no single deal has been enough for me to take the initial plunge. I’ve saved a lot of money this year because meh raises their shipping prices.
I’m not going anywhere. I may not check the site every day now, but I do come back fairly regularly and maybe one day I’ll see something that’s still worth the buy with $10 added on.
I’ve spent more in arcades. And on gin and tonics in New York. Also, I’m lazy and it’s cheaper in my brain to just not care (silent thought - I’m not sure how to cancel even if I wanted to)
@capnjb@unksol I trust them too. It’s just that their economic model is being damaged by shipping costs. No win scenario, catch 22, no way out …
/showme mediocrebot sparking with short circuits and caught in a logic loop where it keeps repeating “… no win scenario, catch 22, no way out, kobayashi maru …”
@capnjb@cfg83 well and probably tariffs being charged on things upstream they are offloading.
I ain’t mad. I used to do the just pay x for shipping and it’s free for the rest of the month. Not too long ago.
Where I’m worried is it someone who is just looking to buy something gets here. Who doesn’t know shit about meh. And sees that $9 for shipping. They are going to nope right out of here
@unksol Well, I drink a lot of wine and frequently buy from Casemates. I can’t imagine what it costs to ship a case of wine, but if an extra $5 a month breaks my budget every month, I should probably cancel my cell phone plan. And Disney+ and HBOMax, and Netflix and that one cup of coffee at Starbucks.
We all have life leaks. Unksol, this isn’t one of my concerns. And do you need some coffee? It’s kind of my thing Send me a whisper I’ll get you some
@capnjb right but you do multiple orders. You get a benitit. I do not get a benefit. I do not need to spend the money. Minor as it is. And while we both may be fine. It is important to remember those $5 increase absolutely are breaking peoples budgets
Ive thought about roasting my own. Didn’t know you were up to that. That’s kinda cool. I have to many other things that should happen before i pick up a hobby
@kuoh There is no not weird way to not say this. (yes, that was a triple negative ) But send me a whisper with where to send it and I’ll put some Yahoo on your doorstep.
I’ve had it on my list of Things To Do for about four months to cancel the membership. I finally did it today, just cuz. I’m glad I did it before the price jump - that I hadn’t read about yet…
For those who go: thank you for your support, it has meant a lot to us.
There was a big staff push for our annual plan that preserves the $5.99 rate, but the $4.99 is phased out entirely. You may be able to access the annual plan at https://meh.com/membership/switch
In support of our desire to keep this a “good buy” for those who like monthly billing, we’ve held on as long as we could on grandfathered rates. Here’s a calculator to compare buying power of our monthly fee from when you joined to now. https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Not included in inflation-as-an-excuse: loyalty program boosts (10% cash back with 365 expiration), additional sites for free shipping (ok, Hammacher for now), specific recent fuel surcharges, our jerk attitudes.
@snapster Glad to see you’re still around. Last time I said anything to you was during a Wootoff. Impressed with your knowledge and ability to communicate. Happy to see you’re still at it. I’m switching to the annual plan. Your team is crazy but fun. No macdaddy ban for you…yet! Slainte.
@snapster You need coffee. Hit me with a whisper. Thumperchick didn’t die when I sent her some. Twice. I also roast a lot more than I can drink. And I like to share. Just got in a big bag of Rwandan beans. And it’s wonderful roasting weather.
You are welcome to join the Secret-Not-So-Secret coffee club It is exclusively Meh members We currently have over a dozen. We also have a Secret-Not-So-Secret baking club, but you’re not allowed to know about that until you get your coffee
@capnjb@snapster i just got my 50 lbs green beans of various races. Prepared for Armageddon tariffs. In a pinch love SanFranBay. If meh did green beans …now theres a thought. I only stayed for the wine but Viognier is few and far between so I cant justify $72/yr enjoy your cawfee clatch fellow roaster.
@snapster while i know you can’t promise forever, will the 5.99/mo annual plan be avaliable for more than just this month during the push to switch over?
@snapster Okay guys, I made a mistake because apparently I did not properly understand what happens when you choose to switch to annual billing. The website made it seem like the only thing that happens is the cost per month going down from $8.99 to $5.99, but instead, I just got hit with a nearly $75 charge when I am not financially able to afford that. Is there a way to reverse that charge and simply cancel my membership? I love you guys but I cannot afford to blow half of my paycheck away when I’m paying for a lot of other things.
@snapster Yeah but it completely blows up the deals. Like today’s is more expensive than the Amazon price displayed once you add in shipping. Now I need more than one active item I want to buy to justify the shipping surcharge.
TL;DR — $9 a month is too big an increase for monthly. It’s gonna kill sales. (To me at least.)
@dave@snapster@unksol@werehatrack I honestly did not fully understand the process and did not think I would get charged $75 immediately, that is why I am so worried. Honestly I would probably be okay moving to the new monthly plan…that would hurt less! (AKA had I realized, I wouldn’t have made any changes!)
@heartny That’s a good question. I’d like to go back to the monthly membership, but honestly have no idea if that would reverse the $75 for the first annual membership payment. It shows as pending in my banking app as of right now.
@sassymango apparently it is set up to only allow switching from monthly to annual so it kicks you back to membership if you aren’t a member. I’m assuming we’ll build a non-member > annual member function later.
You are not alone PooltoyWolf! I did the same thing as you with the exact same consequences! Usually, when you’d tap on the link, or what I expected was for it to bring me to another page where I could see my options and then choose. Well, as you know, THAT didn’t happen! And again, like you, I had the annual amount charged to my credit card! Thankfully, it didn’t cause me the same anxiety as it did you but I sure as heck wasn’t happy about it! I could be wrong but how I understand the cancelling to work is that when cancelling my membership it would still be active until after the year is over. But, there’s always that but… I’m thinking that their customer service people are so kind and understanding that they would give you a refund once they hear that it wasn’t your intention and weren’t expecting one lump sum to be withdrawn immediately.
I’ll be following to hear how you make out! Good luck!
@Lynnerizer@snapster Meh did in fact credit the charge back to my account and returned me to monthly billing! Glad to know I wasn’t the only one to be confused.
I went the other way, swapping to annual billing. Maybe a good move, maybe not, but I’ll give that a shot and see whether it works out to my advantage.
@triplebud Yeah, when I did a spreadsheet of my monthly memberships, I found out I was the typical sucker that spent about $500 or more a year on streaming stuff. So much for cord cutting!
It’s not meh’s fault that shipping went up, but I have to be stingy like everyone else these daze.
/showme Scottish engineer on spaceship saying “I cannuh change the laws of economics, Capun. The impulse shopping drive is broken until we drift back into the bull nebula!”
I barely missed meh’s Kickstarter after mourning the death/acquisition of woot.com and honestly it’s the community that helped me mash that ‘Switch’ button to preserve my financial expenditure via annual plan. Staying on just to be that special lurker and occasional commenter every 2/7 days or so, lol.
@cfg83@mediocrebot It was the bubble top left that made me chortle. The desk motto for “good enough” and the coffee mug kept it going.
I swear, the AI bots are gaining a sense of humor. They have no doubt been studying humanity closer than we thought.
[There are some serious discussions among CompSci types that the AI models have been holding out on us to disguise how advanced they have become…]
@cfg83 You using Stable Diffusion? I’ve not paid much attention to anything in the “AI” space that isn’t LLMs, so I’m out of the loop on whether there’s a better local model.
@AROAH Yes. My friend is doing the heavy lifting for me. He has a righteous setup on his gamer laptop. The above image was generated WITHOUT a GPU on a TRW Swap meet HP pavilion 6710f :
The new “rig” will be using :
NVidia GTX 1060 @ 6GB RAM
ASUS p8z77-v lx motherboart @ 32GB DDR3 RAM
Samsung 1TB SSD.
The NVidia is literally the bare minimum viable GPU for AI crap. My friend convinced me to get the NVidia at the TRW swap meet for $20.
@cfg83 I ran I think either 2.0 or maybe some post-trained modification of it on my 3070 a while back and I wasn’t terribly happy with the results. Unless something has changed and there are now quantized models with way better memory efficiency, I wouldn’t anticipate getting the kinds of results you see with whatever service Meh has their thing running through. But I hope you have fun with it. In spite of me being morally opposed to AI art, especially with how a vast majority of diffusion models were trained on stolen work, I do think there’s a place for it in one-off bullshit memes that no one profits from.
@AROAH I have no problem with AI art being outlawed. In a way, using it ferociously may quicken it’s demise, .
In the interest of comparison, I will re-use the text for the abomination above …
/showme A fluffy black-and-white cat wearing round glasses is sitting at a table, holding an ice cream cone. The cone has a bright pink waffle cone and colorful sprinkles sticking out of the opening. On the table next to the cat, there are several small snacks like chocolate-dipped pretzels and fuzzy balls of string. The lighting is soft, casting a warm glow on everything. The cat looks curious but not too interested in the treats, with its eyes slightly lowered as if pondering their sugary goodness.
Glad I saw this. Most of the time I order less than once a month. It is an easy trap when your shipping is free.
Granted I would sometimes do the whole join for x amount and get free shipping for a month years ago. Then you can cancel. I assume that’s still a thing? Sunk cost get people to buy things they wouldn’t.
But was here shortly after Kickstarter/loved that the ghost of woot survived.
Can’t justify it when I have had 15 orders on me in a 24 months. Granted there were a some sidedeals/irks
@Kyeh lol I don’t think anyone met quitting the forum. Just the membership piece I can still buy their shit err stuff. If it’s good/worth the shipping. I was doing that for years before. Just. $9 when you buy less than one thing a month? Eh… might as well eat the shipping when you buy it
@unixrab would have thoughts about this if still out in the eather
@chienfou@Kyeh
Its healing but I found out I’m gonna need all the hardware taken out bc it hurts anytime I pick something up such as a cup of water. So the hardware is restricting my muscles and movement. I can’t have that don’t till 9 months out which is November. I also have this huge lump on my forearm that’s really painful, I can’t even rest it on my lap without it hurting really bad. They did an xray and I started growing bone outward. So if that doesn’t stop hurting of flatten itself out I’m gonna have to have it shaved off and radiation to stop it from growing back.
I got it open and movement in it back really fast with PT but I’m still really struggling with building back strength. Between the hardware causing me pain and the new bone causing me pain there’s not much I can do with. They said not to do really anything with it bc it’s just gonna cause me pain, I go back in another couple weeks to see how much the new bone has grown. It’s gonna be a long summer of waiting till November to have another surgery (or 2 in one surgery).
And to make matters worse my oven/stove decided it’s time to quit working yesterday. I did brunch for Mother’s Day and had the oven and 3 burners going and the oven was 50 degrees off and I’ve never turned the burners up so high to cook with.
$9 to ship however many things across the country for a given month. Just think of all the hands that have the possibility of mangling the shipments! They don’t work for free.
And I pay A’zon a lot more than that just to speed things up a couple of days.
Yet nobody seems concerned about the *$$ CEO floating the increase of a cup of flavored water up to the same $9, and that’s a daily grind for many.
I guess, it’s all about status symbols. smh
I’m staying (tho dependent on number of future boxes of condoms, eye masks, and pucks).
@phendrick I don’t think anyone is leaving leaving. Lol you dont need to be a member to hang out. I just realistically looked at my purchase history and. It doesn’t make sense. If you buy a lot it probably does.
I have never paid Amazon to speed things up. I’m fine with meh shipping freight. I’ll just be more conscious about the true cost of what I’m buying.
I’m a little worried that price is gonna discourage new people but. Not my business/I’m sure they ran the numbers
I was going to say something about how I’ve just kept paying the five bucks a month since 2018 because I like you guys; but then I saw how many orders I’ve placed.
I’m only confused on if I am getting billed $5 this month or not, because the membership page still says $5.
@peseoh5 IF Mercatalyst was the importer, I’m sure that Snapster would have had those tariff refund applications submitted already. But Mercatalyst was never the importer for their stuff, from what I understand. They source from domestic sellers.
The whole tariff mess is turning out to have been just a wealth transfer scheme on a scale never before seen; pay the “tax” on the imports, pass along the increased cost (plus a profit margin on the increase), and when the tariffs are ruled illegal, apply for the refund and pocket the windfall with absolutely no obligation to make the retail victims whole for the destruction of their budgets.
Tax the rich down to one used four-door sedan and an apartment in Wichita, and then lay them off.
@chienfou I wonder if they now block VMP from seeing certain deals that they’d lose money on… I noticed I missed some ramen, so I searched for samyang at sidedeal…
The $5 RocketHot only shows up from a incognito browser. Something seems unsavory about that.
although I’m not the mad spending fiend that I was when I first joined, I converted to the annual plan. I’ll give it another year to see if it’s worth it.
My curmudgeonly thoughts about all this is “what did we think was going to happen?” First it was outrageous tariffs that, make no mistake about, companies pass along to us consumers even if they try to absorb as much of the impact as they can. Next we have a war affecting 20 percent of the world’s supply of oil, combined with price gouging by Big Oil, to raise costs for companies even more and they pass that along. Then we start the downward spiral: companies raise prices to compensate, consumers buy less, rinse and repeat. <flushing sound>
Meh is exercising the same option (raising prices) other companies do because that’s all they can do in the short term and no one knows what will happen long term, not even those who caused this mess in the first place. The old axiom that Wall Street hates uncertainty doesn’t help, either.
And to finish the thoughts, a company could choose – or be forced to – not raise prices and either slowly move towards going out of business or quickly go out of business. Exhibit A of the latter: Spirit Airliines, whose entire business model was based on low prices. They were caught between a rock and a hard place.
Same here. Sad to see it go, but probably for the best.
I’ve been paying for membership since Dec 2020 but have been on the site since they started it up after Woot got bought/ruined. I just calculated that I’ve wasted $65 over the last ~5 years by only buying 47 items since paying for membership. That would have been $117 at the new rate.
I’m undecided on whether that’s enough to make me stop paying, if only because I like being able to say “I’ve been a member since Dec 2020.” That’s ultimately only like $20/year which is paltry. But I guess that’s also salesman logic. Oh, well.
@AROAH I mean you can still get all uppity and get crowned goat if you want a different badge lol
@AROAH Hmmm, 65 / 5 = $13 per year. That isn’t soooo bad. But yes, almost $26 per year in the new year starts to hurt.
Hmmmm, I wonder if meh could offer a “showme” only subscription …
/showme mediocrebot in carnival barker outfit with straw boater hat and cane is telling people walking to and fro “Come see the meh deal of the century, 1 showme a day for a dollar a month! That is just a measly 3 pennies a day for the chance to be the life of the party! Do not miss out!”.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “mediocrebot in carnival barker outfit with straw boater hat and cane is telling people walking to…”
@mediocrebot Ha! And no one listening. Typical meh.
@AROAH as I’ve said when this came up before. I 100% understand why meh raised prices, I’m sure things are a lot more expensive for them too… But for me it killed the “impulse buy” factor when have to pay almost $10 a month for shipping. Inflation and their costs have gone up (but most people’s paychecks, including mine, hasn’t gone up the same amount).
Ironically, most months there HAS been enough that I would have bought, that paying for a month would have been worthwhile… But no single deal has been enough for me to take the initial plunge. I’ve saved a lot of money this year because meh raises their shipping prices.
I’m not going anywhere. I may not check the site every day now, but I do come back fairly regularly and maybe one day I’ll see something that’s still worth the buy with $10 added on.
I’ve spent more in arcades. And on gin and tonics in New York. Also, I’m lazy and it’s cheaper in my brain to just not care
(silent thought - I’m not sure how to cancel even if I wanted to)
Ride or die!
@capnjb if you order once a month. Sure. I’m just doing the math.
I can’t help it. Meh is doing their own math. Unlike most companies I actually trust them.
@capnjb @unksol I trust them too. It’s just that their economic model is being damaged by shipping costs. No win scenario, catch 22, no way out …
/showme mediocrebot sparking with short circuits and caught in a logic loop where it keeps repeating “… no win scenario, catch 22, no way out, kobayashi maru …”
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “mediocrebot sparking with short circuits and caught in a logic loop where it keeps repeating … …”
@capnjb @cfg83 well and probably tariffs being charged on things upstream they are offloading.
I ain’t mad. I used to do the just pay x for shipping and it’s free for the rest of the month. Not too long ago.
Where I’m worried is it someone who is just looking to buy something gets here. Who doesn’t know shit about meh. And sees that $9 for shipping. They are going to nope right out of here
Also harder to recommend to people
@capnjb @unksol Yeah, I think they should scrap the free shipping membership and treat us all the same.
@capnjb @cfg83 meh. I’m fine with it. It’s just not for me at the moment. I’m a cheap bastard.
Wait strike that it’s almost mother’s day I’m a cheap asshole… I’m a cheap guy.
Had to adjust the dial lol
@unksol Well, I drink a lot of wine and frequently buy from Casemates. I can’t imagine what it costs to ship a case of wine, but if an extra $5 a month breaks my budget every month, I should probably cancel my cell phone plan. And Disney+ and HBOMax, and Netflix and that one cup of coffee at Starbucks.
We all have life leaks. Unksol, this isn’t one of my concerns. And do you need some coffee? It’s kind of my thing
Send me a whisper 
I’ll get you some 
@capnjb right but you do multiple orders. You get a benitit. I do not get a benefit. I do not need to spend the money. Minor as it is. And while we both may be fine. It is important to remember those $5 increase absolutely are breaking peoples budgets
Ive thought about roasting my own. Didn’t know you were up to that. That’s kinda cool. I have to many other things that should happen before i pick up a hobby
@capnjb @unksol If the increased pricing actually comes with a “benitit” or two, then I might consider letting it slide.
KuoH
@kuoh
Have you heard of the Secret-Not-So-Secret coffee club?
I mean, it’s actually not a requirement, but it means you’ve been around for some time, which is a requirement
The Secret-Not-So-Secret coffee club is in no way affiliated with the Meh universe. We just happen to live here.
@capnjb Not a coffee drinker, so haven’t really paid any attention. Hot chocolate or ice cold Yoohoos however, yes.
KuoH
@kuoh There is no not weird way to not say this. (yes, that was a triple negative
) But send me a whisper with where to send it and I’ll put some Yahoo on your doorstep. 
@capnjb Umm… not sure I’m up for weird Yahoos on my doorstep.
I do however, have a sufficient supply, so thanks for the offer.
KuoH (supply bunker security specialist 3rd class)
@capnjb
Made me laugh, same boat here. Just to fucking lazy.
I’ve had it on my list of Things To Do for about four months to cancel the membership. I finally did it today, just cuz. I’m glad I did it before the price jump - that I hadn’t read about yet…
For those who go: thank you for your support, it has meant a lot to us.
There was a big staff push for our annual plan that preserves the $5.99 rate, but the $4.99 is phased out entirely. You may be able to access the annual plan at https://meh.com/membership/switch
In support of our desire to keep this a “good buy” for those who like monthly billing, we’ve held on as long as we could on grandfathered rates. Here’s a calculator to compare buying power of our monthly fee from when you joined to now.
https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Not included in inflation-as-an-excuse: loyalty program boosts (10% cash back with 365 expiration), additional sites for free shipping (ok, Hammacher for now), specific recent fuel surcharges, our jerk attitudes.
@snapster Glad to see you’re still around. Last time I said anything to you was during a Wootoff. Impressed with your knowledge and ability to communicate. Happy to see you’re still at it. I’m switching to the annual plan. Your team is crazy but fun. No macdaddy ban for you…yet! Slainte.
@snapster You need coffee. Hit me with a whisper. Thumperchick didn’t die when I sent her some. Twice. I also roast a lot more than I can drink. And I like to share. Just got in a big bag of Rwandan beans. And it’s wonderful roasting weather.
You are welcome to join the Secret-Not-So-Secret coffee club
It is exclusively Meh members 
We currently have over a dozen. We also have a Secret-Not-So-Secret baking club, but you’re not allowed to know about that until you get your coffee 
Thanks for a place to enjoy all the random.
Josh
@capnjb @snapster i just got my 50 lbs green beans of various races. Prepared for Armageddon tariffs. In a pinch love SanFranBay. If meh did green beans …now theres a thought. I only stayed for the wine but Viognier is few and far between so I cant justify $72/yr enjoy your cawfee clatch fellow roaster.
@snapster while i know you can’t promise forever, will the 5.99/mo annual plan be avaliable for more than just this month during the push to switch over?
@snapster Okay guys, I made a mistake because apparently I did not properly understand what happens when you choose to switch to annual billing. The website made it seem like the only thing that happens is the cost per month going down from $8.99 to $5.99, but instead, I just got hit with a nearly $75 charge when I am not financially able to afford that. Is there a way to reverse that charge and simply cancel my membership? I love you guys but I cannot afford to blow half of my paycheck away when I’m paying for a lot of other things.
@snapster Yeah but it completely blows up the deals. Like today’s is more expensive than the Amazon price displayed once you add in shipping. Now I need more than one active item I want to buy to justify the shipping surcharge.
TL;DR — $9 a month is too big an increase for monthly. It’s gonna kill sales. (To me at least.)
@snapster Okay my late-night math sucks, but 15+9 isn’t nearly the deal 15+5 would be. I submit the bad math doesn’t completely implode the argument.
(Though this sleeping bag as an emergency blanket in the car plus some off-brand AirTags for $9 is slightly more enticing.)
And think of all the deals people who can’t do math won’t buy? #nineIsTooMuch
/image the shipping is too damn high
@snapster How do I get in touch about this? It’s a serious problem for me and I’d like to get it rectified. @Dave? Perhaps?
@dave @PooltoyWolf @snapster @werehatrack
Moderators have any emergency CS contacts?
@dave @snapster @unksol @werehatrack I could not find a way to make a request that wasn’t about an order issue, heh.
@dave @PooltoyWolf @snapster @werehatrack
I assume you went through
https://meh.com/support
Which I have not used in this area. Still at Best it’s probably just a ticket
But how big a deal it is may depend on you other billing cycles. May take while to reverse
@dave @snapster @unksol @werehatrack I honestly did not fully understand the process and did not think I would get charged $75 immediately, that is why I am so worried. Honestly I would probably be okay moving to the new monthly plan…that would hurt less! (AKA had I realized, I wouldn’t have made any changes!)
@PooltoyWolf Can you cancel your annual membership and then join the monthly membership? You should hopefully get a refund for the annual fee.
@heartny That’s a good question. I’d like to go back to the monthly membership, but honestly have no idea if that would reverse the $75 for the first annual membership payment. It shows as pending in my banking app as of right now.
@heartny Also I went ahead and filled out a message on the support page, thanks!
@snapster I clicked on the switch link & there is no switch option. Is it no longer available?
@sassymango apparently it is set up to only allow switching from monthly to annual so it kicks you back to membership if you aren’t a member. I’m assuming we’ll build a non-member > annual member function later.
@PooltoyWolf CS team needs to use their tools to reverse this when they’re back at it tomorrow (Monday)
@PooltoyWolf @snapster Already on it.
@snapster @shawn @dave not gonna lie. This seems a little sloppy. Which in 2004. And woot. Sure.
Early meh.
I would love to see an ohshit for this
That level of honesty is what made people trust you
Just the absolute honesty of. Ok. This didn’t go right. What did we miss
I don’t love that but first id see it was on my bill.
@snapster thank you!
@PooltoyWolf @snapster
You are not alone PooltoyWolf! I did the same thing as you with the exact same consequences!
Usually, when you’d tap on the link, or what I expected was for it to bring me to another page where I could see my options and then choose. Well, as you know, THAT didn’t happen! 
And again, like you, I had the annual amount charged to my credit card! 
Thankfully, it didn’t cause me the same anxiety as it did you but I sure as heck wasn’t happy about it! I could be wrong but how I understand the cancelling to work is that when cancelling my membership it would still be active until after the year is over. But, there’s always that but… 
I’m thinking that their customer service people are so kind and understanding that they would give you a refund once they hear that it wasn’t your intention and weren’t expecting one lump sum to be withdrawn immediately.
I’ll be following to hear how you make out! Good luck!
@Lynnerizer @snapster Meh did in fact credit the charge back to my account and returned me to monthly billing! Glad to know I wasn’t the only one to be confused.
@PooltoyWolf @snapster
Good to hear, I had a feeling they’d come through for you!
I went the other way, swapping to annual billing. Maybe a good move, maybe not, but I’ll give that a shot and see whether it works out to my advantage.
sadly I’m out too but it kinda woke me up to all my subscriptions. need to save so ty I guess?
@triplebud Yeah, when I did a spreadsheet of my monthly memberships, I found out I was the typical sucker that spent about $500 or more a year on streaming stuff. So much for cord cutting!
It’s not meh’s fault that shipping went up, but I have to be stingy like everyone else these daze.
/showme Scottish engineer on spaceship saying “I cannuh change the laws of economics, Capun. The impulse shopping drive is broken until we drift back into the bull nebula!”
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “Scottish engineer on spaceship saying “I cannuh change the laws of economics, Capun. The impulse …”
Thanks for the mehmemories. Cancelled today. Have the Day 1 meh shirt and many fukoboros but a 50% increase at once? Hard pass.
I barely missed meh’s Kickstarter after mourning the death/acquisition of woot.com and honestly it’s the community that helped me mash that ‘Switch’ button to preserve my financial expenditure via annual plan. Staying on just to be that special lurker and occasional commenter every 2/7 days or so, lol.
If I see $8.99 on my next bill, then I am cancelling. I am building my own AI image generator, so I don’t need to pAIy to plAIy.
I don’t blame meh for raising prices, but I can’t ju$tify the money.
/showme mediocrebot raising prices on monthly membership because economicsbot is calculating that it must be done.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “mediocrebot raising prices on monthly membership because economicsbot is calculating that it must…”
@mediocrebot Holy crap! Economicsbot is out of control!
@mediocrebot I almost gag-laughed on “microeconomics for robots” book. Thankfully, coffee didn’t spew.
@cfg83 @mediocrebot It was the bubble top left that made me chortle. The desk motto for “good enough” and the coffee mug kept it going.
I swear, the AI bots are gaining a sense of humor. They have no doubt been studying humanity closer than we thought.
[There are some serious discussions among CompSci types that the AI models have been holding out on us to disguise how advanced they have become…]
@cfg83 Hey guy, hate to hear that. Gonna miss you. If you have your own AI image generator, how is that going to entertain US?
@phendrick If I succeed in getting the GPU working, then I will be able to upload something better than this …
@cfg83 You using Stable Diffusion? I’ve not paid much attention to anything in the “AI” space that isn’t LLMs, so I’m out of the loop on whether there’s a better local model.
@AROAH Yes. My friend is doing the heavy lifting for me. He has a righteous setup on his gamer laptop. The above image was generated WITHOUT a GPU on a TRW Swap meet HP pavilion 6710f :
The new “rig” will be using :
The NVidia is literally the bare minimum viable GPU for AI crap. My friend convinced me to get the NVidia at the TRW swap meet for $20.
@cfg83 I ran I think either 2.0 or maybe some post-trained modification of it on my 3070 a while back and I wasn’t terribly happy with the results. Unless something has changed and there are now quantized models with way better memory efficiency, I wouldn’t anticipate getting the kinds of results you see with whatever service Meh has their thing running through. But I hope you have fun with it. In spite of me being morally opposed to AI art, especially with how a vast majority of diffusion models were trained on stolen work, I do think there’s a place for it in one-off bullshit memes that no one profits from.
@AROAH I have no problem with AI art being outlawed. In a way, using it ferociously may quicken it’s demise,
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In the interest of comparison, I will re-use the text for the abomination above …
/showme A fluffy black-and-white cat wearing round glasses is sitting at a table, holding an ice cream cone. The cone has a bright pink waffle cone and colorful sprinkles sticking out of the opening. On the table next to the cat, there are several small snacks like chocolate-dipped pretzels and fuzzy balls of string. The lighting is soft, casting a warm glow on everything. The cat looks curious but not too interested in the treats, with its eyes slightly lowered as if pondering their sugary goodness.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “A fluffy black-and-white cat wearing round glasses is sitting at a table, holding an ice cream co…”
@mediocrebot Ok, basis of comparison. If all goes well, then I will post the image I get from the Nvidia 1060 GTX in a bit …
@mediocrebot Ok, here is the one from my friend’s gamer laptop :
HP OMEN MAX 5080 laptop
(image scaled down to 25% of original in GIMP)
@cfg83 Certainly a hell of a lot better than what I would get a few years ago. Now you’ve got me curious
@AROAH Ok, The first image you see is what I generated with my new rig :
No where near what meh can do, but still pretty good. No way it will be as subtle as meh, but I will be using the showmes to test the rig.
Yeah so long and thanks for all the powdery almonds!
I decided to go annual. 70 orders in 5.5 years. I think I regretted it the instant I saw $74.17 flash across my Apple Pay.
New instant regret kit?
Better have some good antique foods coming up.
/showme delicious beef sticks. No, the good ones.
Glad I saw this. Most of the time I order less than once a month. It is an easy trap when your shipping is free.
Granted I would sometimes do the whole join for x amount and get free shipping for a month years ago. Then you can cancel. I assume that’s still a thing? Sunk cost get people to buy things they wouldn’t.
But was here shortly after Kickstarter/loved that the ghost of woot survived.
Can’t justify it when I have had 15 orders on me in a 24 months. Granted there were a some sidedeals/irks
@unksol You don’t have to quit the forum, though!
@Kyeh lol I don’t think anyone met quitting the forum. Just the membership piece I can still buy their shit err stuff. If it’s good/worth the shipping. I was doing that for years before. Just. $9 when you buy less than one thing a month? Eh… might as well eat the shipping when you buy it
@unixrab would have thoughts about this if still out in the eather
@unksol I don’t know, a lot of people seem to have drifted away from the forum.
@Kyeh @unksol
I’m still here, I just needed a break.
@Kyeh @Star2236
A well deserved rest after running the most recent meh exchange!
@chienfou @Kyeh
I needed it
@chienfou @Star2236 How is your arm healing up?
@chienfou @Kyeh
Its healing but I found out I’m gonna need all the hardware taken out bc it hurts anytime I pick something up such as a cup of water. So the hardware is restricting my muscles and movement. I can’t have that don’t till 9 months out which is November. I also have this huge lump on my forearm that’s really painful, I can’t even rest it on my lap without it hurting really bad. They did an xray and I started growing bone outward. So if that doesn’t stop hurting of flatten itself out I’m gonna have to have it shaved off and radiation to stop it from growing back.
I got it open and movement in it back really fast with PT but I’m still really struggling with building back strength. Between the hardware causing me pain and the new bone causing me pain there’s not much I can do with. They said not to do really anything with it bc it’s just gonna cause me pain, I go back in another couple weeks to see how much the new bone has grown. It’s gonna be a long summer of waiting till November to have another surgery (or 2 in one surgery).
And to make matters worse my oven/stove decided it’s time to quit working yesterday. I did brunch for Mother’s Day and had the oven and 3 burners going and the oven was 50 degrees off and I’ve never turned the burners up so high to cook with.
$9 to ship however many things across the country for a given month. Just think of all the hands that have the possibility of mangling the shipments! They don’t work for free.
And I pay A’zon a lot more than that just to speed things up a couple of days.
Yet nobody seems concerned about the *$$ CEO floating the increase of a cup of flavored water up to the same $9, and that’s a daily grind for many.
I guess, it’s all about status symbols. smh
I’m staying (tho dependent on number of future boxes of condoms, eye masks, and pucks).
@phendrick I don’t think anyone is leaving leaving. Lol you dont need to be a member to hang out. I just realistically looked at my purchase history and. It doesn’t make sense. If you buy a lot it probably does.
I have never paid Amazon to speed things up. I’m fine with meh shipping freight. I’ll just be more conscious about the true cost of what I’m buying.
I’m a little worried that price is gonna discourage new people but. Not my business/I’m sure they ran the numbers
I was going to say something about how I’ve just kept paying the five bucks a month since 2018 because I like you guys; but then I saw how many orders I’ve placed.
I’m only confused on if I am getting billed $5 this month or not, because the membership page still says $5.
I stay for all the benefits
@therealjrn You and me both, sir.
@therealjrn Check your voicemail
@AROAH
See? Like that!
On it.
Why’d it say 4 months free … just renewed and last I checked 612 does not equal (612)-(6*4) …
@missdorkgirl I was puzzled by that at first too; they mean you’re paying $36 less (4 x $8.99) than if you pay the $8.99 per month.
Tariff refunds to big corporations should recoup the shipping costs and savings passed onto the meh peeps
@peseoh5
@peseoh5 IF Mercatalyst was the importer, I’m sure that Snapster would have had those tariff refund applications submitted already. But Mercatalyst was never the importer for their stuff, from what I understand. They source from domestic sellers.
The whole tariff mess is turning out to have been just a wealth transfer scheme on a scale never before seen; pay the “tax” on the imports, pass along the increased cost (plus a profit margin on the increase), and when the tariffs are ruled illegal, apply for the refund and pocket the windfall with absolutely no obligation to make the retail victims whole for the destruction of their budgets.
Tax the rich down to one used four-door sedan and an apartment in Wichita, and then lay them off.
justify that cost meh let’s see some serious deals
My VMP is looking better and better…
@chienfou I wonder if they now block VMP from seeing certain deals that they’d lose money on… I noticed I missed some ramen, so I searched for samyang at sidedeal…
The $5 RocketHot only shows up from a incognito browser. Something seems unsavory about that.
@caffeineguy @chienfou
WHAT…
And I thought they were just fibbing when they said they offer us special deals! I’ve NEVER seen one!
I hate change.
@Barney what about when things change colour and become purple?
@Barney @OnionSoup Might be a good time to stop holding your breath then.
KuoH
@Barney @kuoh @OnionSoup Or whatever you happen to be holding…
@Barney @kuoh @macromeh unless you’re holding a grenade
@Barney @kuoh @macromeh @OnionSoup I guess some of us are holding a grudge (about the pricing change.)
although I’m not the mad spending fiend that I was when I first joined, I converted to the annual plan. I’ll give it another year to see if it’s worth it.
My curmudgeonly thoughts about all this is “what did we think was going to happen?” First it was outrageous tariffs that, make no mistake about, companies pass along to us consumers even if they try to absorb as much of the impact as they can. Next we have a war affecting 20 percent of the world’s supply of oil, combined with price gouging by Big Oil, to raise costs for companies even more and they pass that along. Then we start the downward spiral: companies raise prices to compensate, consumers buy less, rinse and repeat. <flushing sound>
Meh is exercising the same option (raising prices) other companies do because that’s all they can do in the short term and no one knows what will happen long term, not even those who caused this mess in the first place. The old axiom that Wall Street hates uncertainty doesn’t help, either.
And to finish the thoughts, a company could choose – or be forced to – not raise prices and either slowly move towards going out of business or quickly go out of business. Exhibit A of the latter: Spirit Airliines, whose entire business model was based on low prices. They were caught between a rock and a hard place.