Halp?
17Hey Mehtizens,
It’s your friendly neighborhood volmod turned customer support lackey. I could use your help.
I know we can come across as aloof toward what people think of us. Kind of the brand. Meh isn’t exactly the gourmet restaurant or fancy hotel of internet wheelers and dealers.
Unfortunately, on the internet, five stars does not mean fancy or gourmet. It usually means, “Yeah, they do what I expect them to do,” or, “Yeah, I trust this service.” And anything less than a four star rating is bad. Doesn’t help that a person is more likely to go out of their way to complain about something than they are to say, “Eh, it was fine. They were alright. I got about what I expected.”
So I’ve been taking on getting our rep up at the various ‘trust’ and ‘review’ sites out there since we generally give people the things they want.
TLDR:
If you have enjoyed your time here, found some useful junk, trust us as a business I guess, maybe do me a solid and help us continue to be a place people can look at and say, “What the hell, I’ll give it a shot.,” by leaving a review on SiteJabber and/or TrustPilot.
(We could use the assist for SideDeal as well.)
Thanks for reading all of that.
thumperchick
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Just created an account uploaded a review to SiteJabber. Thanks for being an awesome site to do business with.
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
@Chronicle Thank you so much!
Done!
@tinamarie1974 Thank you!
Done
@Star2236 you rock! Thanks.
More accounts
@walarney I know. But I appreciate the effort.
I did my part.
@SirEgg Thank you!
Most online sellers offer $10 Amazon gift cards for 5 star reviews. Good luck.
@medz we aren’t fans of bribing people for reviews.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Thumperchick
I’d be happy to help, but…
Hadn’t heard of the other review site, but I don’t/won’t hang my hat on TrustPilot reviews.
I’m a believer in the “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire” meme, and I’ve run into several online postings questioning TrustPilot’s tactics.
I was trying to research them several months ago when I was looking to put a cheap rebuilt motor into my car to replace a blown engine.
I found a site selling them for about 30-40% less than their competitors, with a nice warranty, and they were sporting very good reviews on TrustPilot. Trouble was, I couldn’t locate good reviews for them anywhere else.
After more digging, I found a multitude of complaints about the company at the BBB in their region, alleging shoddy engines and weaseling out of warranty work.
Then I was wondering about TrustPillot and saw online discussions that they removed bad reviews, for a fee.
The mechanic that I had lined up to do the engine pull then did some research and he said his contacts said, Don’t go with that engine re-builder.
FWIW,
Maybe Meh could open a small operation on eBay selling some of their higher-value items, luggage, appliances, etc. Not so much to make a huge revenue there, but to get some online reviews as sellers in a somewhat more trusted review site.
I know I look at seller reviews on both eBay and Amazon before I commit. I’m much more likely to buy from someone with reviews in the higher 90’s than anyone in the 80’s or below. And if I am a repeat buyer in any type of good, I remember whom I did successful business with and look for them again.
Meh has attained that status with me, due to their commendable customer service on the few items I’ve had issues with.
@phendrick I can only comment that our experience with TrustPilot has been pretty fair and open overall. I hadn’t heard about those concerns before today. It’s disconcerting for sure.
Ahh-Meh-zing
I have been a member since inception, love this site. One time in umpteen years, (at least since 2014) I had an issue with an order, and the fixed it immediately! They actually listen to their members, and on a rare occasion invite them to come up with ideas. Actual purchases below.
Literally for both reviews.
@wifeduck Thank you so much!
Hmm… I don’t use review sites… Never even occured to me. I guess I shop known sites, or posted deals and if I’m concerned at all I just use PayPal or a onetime virtual card number.
I mean 5 stars for kitten manipulation
done and done.
/giphy done
I wrote you a nice one. Then I had to create an account. Which. I get the need for. But I don’t want them and I’ll never use them. So. Sorry.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They can complain in the forum and we’ll continue to tell them you’re awsome
https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/meh.com
Obviously… Review aggregators are weird
@unksol they literally have the meh face as an option for their review, but we should click the green smiley one, right? So conflicted!
@djslack @unksol After seeing the link, I went to the scamadviser site to leave a review for Meh. Took me three tries to get it accepted. (Lousy programming on their part?)
I decided to double check their site for trustworthiness. What I found was not reassuring. They do have some really good reviews. On Trustpilot. And guess what? Both ScamAdvisor and TrustPilot are Danish companies. Probably owned by the same entities. Or at least, part of a mutual circlejerk.
My good review of Meh never showed up, even after I went through the obligatory email verification. I have the feeling all I did was add my email to their list of targets.
At this point, I don’t think I’d trust “trust” reviews even coming from the FTC. I haven’t yet given up on the BBB, though.
Eh, I don’t worry too much about email spam, so I ignored the concern about the review sites and posted reviews anyway. Hope it’s actually something that helps.
I kinda suck at writing reviews, but I just posted one on sitejabber.
I trust TrustPilot. They’ve been around, though their reach is a lot smaller than say Yelp.
My review isn’t the most flattering, but it is honest – the stuff sold is crap-as-advertised, but the staffers are super nice about making sure your crap arrives in one piece, works, and isn’t moldy.