How likely are $25+ meh electronics to work?
6I don’t have a great ratio of working:not-working electronics from meh, but since they’ve all been cheap I haven’t considered it a big deal.
I always figured that higher priced items would generally work. However, looking at a few recent threads looks like that isn’t always the case.
How many $25+ electronics have you bought from meh, and how many of them have worked as intended*?
*By work as intended I mean no issues- no loose screws inside, no taking apart and reassembling, no “good enough”.
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Good question. I’ve purchased nine $25+ electronics and all of them are still working.
As for all other, electronic and non-electronic items (I have somewhere around 100), my only real complaint was those damn, sucky bamboo pillows.
The keychains weren’t too good, but I was given a refund without even asking for one. I
Meh.
Correction: I didn’t like the last T-shirt I bought here.
@Barney maybe you’re not very picky.
Over 100 items and only two complaints?
@RiotDemon Well, I have had some pretty awful Fukos, if that counts.
@Barney those pillows were awful.
@regnowsin Yep, awful. That just about says it all.
@Barney I hate those pillows but my family members use them every day. They make good knee supports i guess.
/giphy they’re crazy
@Barney
We await details and pix.
@f00l Ah, so you’d like to see me in a tight, see-through T-shirt? Kinky.
neato botvac still working.
oh yea google home still working
oh yea the ergorapido stick vac is still kicking as well…
@thismyusername Mine is, too, but mine came in a Fuko.
I think once you get past cheap stuff it’s pretty good. My Google home and Chromebook are just fine.
God, but I miss the days of Excalibur! We kinda expected as a matter of course back then that some of our purchases would be a catastrophic bust - but somehow the fun of it all made it all worthwhile … hence the refrain “Sell us cheap shit!” Fun, goofy, mindless cheap shit that we could laugh about when we gifted it on to our unsuspecting friends & relatives, & that they would laugh about when they unwrapped it. Man, what I wouldn’t give to see some Leakfrogs for sale again …
@scfd0766 My Leakfrogs have saved me huge amounts of money and damage.
That’s why we have
Outlook not so good
/8ball How likely are $25+ meh electronics to work?
16 orders that meet your criteria of having electronics and $25 or more. Average price of $65. $32 Median price. All but 3 items were under $50. Of the 16, 15 have worked and 1 hasn’t been opened. Couple items in there were multi-packs (ex: 2-pack of Kindle Fires) that could be skewing the average individual ITEM price.
@medz Statistics? You have too much time on your hands.
@medz When did meh sell kindle fire? Would like a new/different one.
@cahuston 7/29/2014 was the 2pack.
@cahuston It’s right here:
Since I commented on the hoverboard parts/screws-- I’ll chime in here. Overall I’ve had pretty good luck with Meh, much better than the piles of shit I bought from woot many moons ago. Reviewing my last few electronics orders from meh:
-BIONAire 1500W Ceramic heater works fine
-Most of my $10 Cheerson Mini quad copters have since died (but many have been repaired, had batteries replaced, etc and their 3-6 month lifespans extended)
-Foodsaver, CrocPot, Neato Robot vac, Shark handheld vac all working as expected
-Stem IZON Cameras were a waste since they needed proprietary apps (and were more of an Apple product)
-Some of the rope lighting from 2016 didn’t work, but it was many months later before I tried them, so I lose
-I should ask the kids nextdoor if their $3 looney tunes mp3 players still work.
Overall-- Pretty good results. Still a bunch of shit that I didn’t need to buy in the first place, but overall OK. Last year I had a pretty good Christmas gift cache (lots of bubba mugs and $10-15 gifts to give)
In general, I’ve been happy with refurbished stuff, you figure, in most cases, any systematic problems items may have had; have been resolved. It’s been a while since a ‘refurbished’ product was merely a returned-and-repackaged-since-most-of-them-probably-work-anyway debacle (Anyone Remember the Stanley Power Bank/Air Compressors?)
I spoke to soon… Today i received a hoverboard that was cracked on one side, big chunk missing from the fender area. No obvious packaging damage, though the carrier, undoubtedly temporary help in his budget rental truck, likely dropped it since it was heavy. Packaging is sub Par for shipping such a heavy thing.
So far much better than I expected. I guess the monitor thread spooked me needlessly.
Martian Notifier watch worked great. For about 8 months. Then won’t take a charge.
Hamilton Beach programmable slow cooker works fine, except the temp probe has never worked. To be fair, that was $20, not $25.
Those are the only two items I’ve purchased that meet your price criteria. In the under $20 category, I do not have great luck.
I got the dehumidifier, which is probably the most I’ve spent at Meh on a single item. Works fine, but with some thumping sounds that Meh CS swears is normal, that I’ve never heard before in 20 years of owning different dehumidifiers. But it dehumidifies, so I guess that counts as working.
I have only bought under $25 electronics (electronics broadly defined that is, I’m including the light up fidget spinners, power banks, speakers…) and the only problems. I’ve had have been recent (3 orders total). And meh has taken care of them, no problem, even though 2 issues were two orders in a row. Now fuko’s well that is another issue. Never gotten any of the “good” ones and frequently things are broken, sometimes things that don’t even have moving parts. On the other hand that is sort of expected with them. No promise there anything they send is working. Or in one piece.
So actually if you don’t mind the aggravation of buying something that comes broken, meh is pretty easy to deal with it with regards to the fix. Just don’t expect speed. Thus it is low risk actually to buy things here, and for the most part what I have gotten has been in OK shape and worked.
I bought two electronic things above the $25 mark. Electrolux ergorapido stick vac at $40 and a pursonic toothbrush for $30.
The vacuum works pretty well. Happy with that.
The toothbrush, although it works, it holds charge for shit. At first I didn’t have to charge it for almost a month. Now I have to charge it every few days. It’s annoying.
I’d say 95% of mine work.
I’ve only bought a few items that were over $25.
All have been Stellar, Solid Purchases.
I bought my TV from Meh in August of '14 For $250.
40" Philips Refurb smart TV.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/philips-40-led-smart-tv
still works like day one.
My Dual Router setup (opposite ends of the house, with one acting as more or less an extender) is running fantastically on 2 netgear Routers I bought from meh in March 2015($30/ea, Refurbished)
https://meh.com/forum/topics/netgear-n900-dual-band-gigabit-wifi-router-refurbished
apparently these units were known to brick themselves right out of the box, so the VERY FIRST thing i did was flash them to DD-WRT. I then copied the “extender” setup off my old Netgear units, and they’ve worked fantastically ever since.
lastly, My Martian Notifier works fantastically. Been my daily wear for… a year now… now, TECHNICALLY it’s not a meh, electronic, as i bought it from Morningsave. but, I mean…come on…