21 here. Most came from birthday forum games. That summer still remains the most fun I have ever had in a summer that I can remember. I was soooooo close to getting the irk or meh tattoo!
@phendrick Remember when they had that week of contests, the last Fuko/Fuku, then they went to the IRK?
I played just to play, figuring I’d only get one, but I got a bunch of participation bags. I even got one for a real life friend who is a Meh member, just by mentioning her name. I didn’t include that one in my count.
And I didn’t include my kickstarter bag either. That one had a brand new iPad mini in it.
@lichme What’s your secret? (You do have a secret to your technique, don’t you? Like maybe you are not a robot, but are a cyborg? And your brother-in-law works for Google’s reCaptcha project?)
@phendrick It’s a combination of stalking, slacking off at work, and a desire to be the champion. I trained a lot at woot.
Close to half of them came from winning contests and such of the forums.
A few came from cheating the system before the mehrathon was a thing, when they only sold the Fuko. You could reuse the same checkout url from earlier in the morning, and “pre-complete” the captcha. Then you just had to submit the order the second the sale went live again.
Of the purchased ones, most are just from following the normal process. Refreshing every few seconds, making sure your mouse is lined up with the buy button, you are logged in, credit card info current etc. I also rarely get captcha aside from clicking not a robot. Not sure if it’s because I log into gmail before or not.
I’ve also had to buy from my phone before while away from a computer
@lichme Wow, I am impressed by your obvious non-amateur status as a FUKer! I will see if I can adopt/adapt some of those techniques. THANKS a bunch (of useless Meh junk)!
@lichme One time, the sale for that day made you go to MorningSave to get your Fuku. Did you remember to count that one? It doesn’t show up in your orders on Meh.
I got one once a couple years ago, but never got it, I think it might have been stolen off my porch, or just never made it to me? It was right after my head injury and things from then are still very blurry. So I’m excited; it’s like this is my first one!!!
3 total.
1 Fuku before they started using Google’s STOPYA, the one that you had to buy through Morning Save, and somehow an IRK last week.
I will only try for them if they happen to come up while I am browsing. Google’s STOPYA usually makes me click through 4 or 5 picture games before it is convinced I should be shown the SOLD OUT message. Interestingly the one IRK I bought was when I was using Chrome while at work. At home I almost never use Chrome.
One ever with the best thing being the oinking pig, a pork cooking thermometer.
/giphy non-winner
When I started on here, there were still posts about people winning a gigantic cock [rooster statues], bubblegum machine, ?slot machine and some other outrageous fuko’s.
But these seem to have gone by the wayside- kinda like freebies or perks for VMP members.
I got one a few years ago that had a full copper pot and pan set along with some awesome socks and random toys.
Just got my second one today, big backpack, face masks, aftershave and a sonic toothbrush, pretty happy with it!
Meh is my early morning insomnia go to. I’ve never been on the site early enough to score one. Posting this at 5:13 am. And I’m not an early morning person, I’ll go back to sleep until 8.
@PooltoyWolf Thing I didn’t mention is that our daughter keeps all the money for herself and doesn’t give us any of it. Same with new Martian Smart Watch I got in my last IRK-she sold it for $ 85 and I never saw a dime of it.
@PooltoyWolf Well better than her asking us to borrow money which she would never repay anyway . Figure the couple of hundred dollars she kept over the years is us getting away cheap.
If you’re counting on your account page, don’t forget to count the one they sold on morningsave. I think it was an april fools thing… Did they sell any on mediocre.com?
The first one had a few comic books from the ‘90’s (I gave those to my neighbor) and a refurb chromebook. The second just arrived today with a pair of compression socks, a foam roller for working out sore muscles, a black and pink carry-on suitcase, and a set of rowkin wireless earbuds.
If I got 900 fitness bands, I don’t think I’d order another one. Yikes
One of my IRK’s contained a $300 home theatre receiver, that I sold to a co-worker for $50. So, I’m still ahead on that one alone. (Not counting 3 years of VMP @$60/year)
Oh, this doesn’t include all the others we have from wineries and other random ones, probably 25-30 total. Seriously considering tossing them into the fabric recycle our city does.
@raccoon81 Save them. You will need them when grocery stores no longer provide paper or plastic bags. And you would be surprised how quickly you can go through these bags. (They get pretty nasty with gunk, or they break, or whatever.)
@raccoon81 My mother in law takes them off my hands. I make sure I have at least one of each color/design I’ve gotten though. I donated a bunch of flowered woot bags a couple of years ago.
Whoever always post the gif of Brad Pitt when there’s a mehathon going on and doesn’t know the movie it’s from, it’s from “Burn After Reading” and it’s on starz right now. Definitely worth watching.
Also over 92 BOC (a while back I started cancelling BOC after winning them and I’ve not bothered to count how many I’ve cancelled, maybe a dozen or so).
This was only my second IRK, with high regret levels on both. I’ve gotten 5 BOCs at Woot but they’re no fun anymore and they cost $10 now.
Probably best thing I got was in a BOC - the vinyl Jeremy figure from Yellow Submarine.
THIS IS MY FIRST ONE. IM SO EXCITED TO OPEN IT IF IT EVER GETS HERE
Answering this question could result in hit squads being sent after me.
I plead the 5th
@Ignorant
I plead the “I dunno-th”.
Far fewer than 10 tho
Should be on profile stat page, right?
@medz IKR?
@medz @therealjrn
/giphy 100 percent
@therealjrn
/giphy right
Uh, what’s zero times zero, minus zero? But not for a lack of trying, on at least a dozen or two.
Damned Captcha vileness.
@phendrick
@hems79 I may have been divided by zero at some point.
@phendrick I as well me too have tried and failed always
/giphy zilch
21 here. Most came from birthday forum games. That summer still remains the most fun I have ever had in a summer that I can remember. I was soooooo close to getting the irk or meh tattoo!
0
/giphy zero
@eonfifty I like to think I’m pretty decent at reading lips, but I have no idea what this guy is yelling. I think it ends in “basket”.
@eonfifty Don’t feel bad…I’m at ZERO too.
With or without mayonnaise?
18
That’s a lot of mediocrity.
koff Twenty-three koff
@lisaviolet What’s your secret? (You do have a secret to your technique, don’t you? Like maybe you are not a robot, but are a cyborg?)
@phendrick Remember when they had that week of contests, the last Fuko/Fuku, then they went to the IRK?
I played just to play, figuring I’d only get one, but I got a bunch of participation bags. I even got one for a real life friend who is a Meh member, just by mentioning her name. I didn’t include that one in my count.
And I didn’t include my kickstarter bag either. That one had a brand new iPad mini in it.
Got a whopping 13, got enough worth the money spent.
38 including the kickstarter and morningsave (april fools 2017) bags
@lichme What’s your secret? (You do have a secret to your technique, don’t you? Like maybe you are not a robot, but are a cyborg? And your brother-in-law works for Google’s reCaptcha project?)
Please realize CAPTCHA is a fellow robot like you.
@phendrick It’s a combination of stalking, slacking off at work, and a desire to be the champion. I trained a lot at woot.
Close to half of them came from winning contests and such of the forums.
A few came from cheating the system before the mehrathon was a thing, when they only sold the Fuko. You could reuse the same checkout url from earlier in the morning, and “pre-complete” the captcha. Then you just had to submit the order the second the sale went live again.
Of the purchased ones, most are just from following the normal process. Refreshing every few seconds, making sure your mouse is lined up with the buy button, you are logged in, credit card info current etc. I also rarely get captcha aside from clicking not a robot. Not sure if it’s because I log into gmail before or not.
I’ve also had to buy from my phone before while away from a computer
Please realize CAPTCHA is a fellow robot like you.
@lichme Wow, I am impressed by your obvious non-amateur status as a FUKer! I will see if I can adopt/adapt some of those techniques. THANKS a bunch (of useless Meh junk)!
@lichme liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiich!
@carl669 Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarl!
@lichme One time, the sale for that day made you go to MorningSave to get your Fuku. Did you remember to count that one? It doesn’t show up in your orders on Meh.
That’s the April 1st 2017 edition.
@cengland0 Yep, as indicated in my original post lol
@lichme Dang, I need to learn how to read. It was right there all along. Sheesh. Sometimes I feel so stupid.
@lichme AND THE LEADER IN THE CLUBHOUSE IS
Just got my first one and I’ll be stalking from here on… Fantastic! So much fun opening.
/giphy zero
@tourdawg If you are going to post a gif of a long thing spitting out some white liquid, you can do better than that.
@tourdawg what is that???
@tinamarie1974 @tourdawg Think it is better we don’t ask.
No idea, meh
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Never a one. I have stopped trying.
I got one once a couple years ago, but never got it, I think it might have been stolen off my porch, or just never made it to me? It was right after my head injury and things from then are still very blurry. So I’m excited; it’s like this is my first one!!!
@ChompyGator I’m glad you’re feeling so much better! Say…not to be a nag…but when are you going to pay back that $20 I loaned you at lunch that day?
@ChompyGator @therealjrn I remember that day, it was a couple years ago right? She needed some lunch money, yep I remember. You’re a good dude jrn.
@therealjrn What’s your cash app again??? Lol
3 total.
1 Fuku before they started using Google’s STOPYA, the one that you had to buy through Morning Save, and somehow an IRK last week.
I will only try for them if they happen to come up while I am browsing. Google’s STOPYA usually makes me click through 4 or 5 picture games before it is convinced I should be shown the SOLD OUT message. Interestingly the one IRK I bought was when I was using Chrome while at work. At home I almost never use Chrome.
One ever with the best thing being the oinking pig, a pork cooking thermometer.
/giphy non-winner
When I started on here, there were still posts about people winning a gigantic cock [rooster statues], bubblegum machine, ?slot machine and some other outrageous fuko’s.
But these seem to have gone by the wayside- kinda like freebies or perks for VMP members.
@PhysAssist Glad you clarified the gigantic cock comment.
@Felton10
/giphy gigantic cock comment
de nada
Can’t remember but got a working full Ninja set once, that took care of anything I ever dreamed I didn’t need.
@Cerridwyn
/giphy full Ninja set
I dunno. A few I guess. Not anything like 10.
I got one a few years ago that had a full copper pot and pan set along with some awesome socks and random toys.
Just got my second one today, big backpack, face masks, aftershave and a sonic toothbrush, pretty happy with it!
I’ve snagged 12. It’s been a good run.
1, but it had 900 fitness bands.
I wouldn’t mind another one. A normal one, not another 900 fitness bands please.
10 here as well
Meh is my early morning insomnia go to. I’ve never been on the site early enough to score one. Posting this at 5:13 am. And I’m not an early morning person, I’ll go back to sleep until 8.
Looks like I have 11. First one included a Roomba that worked!
9, but none since I cancelled my VMP.
6, I think?
22 of them for me.
6
6 including the toothbrush club
4
Exactly one. It was fun. I’d love another
EDIT: The number of folks responding with double-digit numbers fills me with despair and jealousy.
@PooltoyWolf Don’t feel bad-I am one crummy IRK away from my wife wanting a divorce for me spending even $ 5 on this crap.
@Felton10 Oh no! Yours must have contained items with low WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor).
@PooltoyWolf Actually the last two IRKs I got staved off my divorce, but just barely. Am always living on the edge.
@PooltoyWolf Actually on this IRK-got 2 new sharper image TV headphones. Daughter just sold one on ebay for $ 30. So I live to buy again.
@Felton10 Best sellable product I got in my one IRK was probably a hair dryer…not even worth listing. It’s still in the box.
@PooltoyWolf Thing I didn’t mention is that our daughter keeps all the money for herself and doesn’t give us any of it. Same with new Martian Smart Watch I got in my last IRK-she sold it for $ 85 and I never saw a dime of it.
@Felton10 Wait WTF? I’d be pissed…
@PooltoyWolf Well better than her asking us to borrow money which she would never repay anyway . Figure the couple of hundred dollars she kept over the years is us getting away cheap.
If you’re counting on your account page, don’t forget to count the one they sold on morningsave. I think it was an april fools thing… Did they sell any on mediocre.com?
If I got 900 fitness bands, I don’t think I’d order another one. Yikes
5 IRK’s and 3 Fuko’s
One of my IRK’s contained a $300 home theatre receiver, that I sold to a co-worker for $50. So, I’m still ahead on that one alone. (Not counting 3 years of VMP @$60/year)
Some are awesome, some are Meh
Ok, seriously, what do you do with the mountain of bags from this addiction? Yes some are from the crap bags, but seriously too many!!!
Oh, this doesn’t include all the others we have from wineries and other random ones, probably 25-30 total. Seriously considering tossing them into the fabric recycle our city does.
@raccoon81 Save them. You will need them when grocery stores no longer provide paper or plastic bags. And you would be surprised how quickly you can go through these bags. (They get pretty nasty with gunk, or they break, or whatever.)
@raccoon81 My mother in law takes them off my hands. I make sure I have at least one of each color/design I’ve gotten though. I donated a bunch of flowered woot bags a couple of years ago.
Whoever always post the gif of Brad Pitt when there’s a mehathon going on and doesn’t know the movie it’s from, it’s from “Burn After Reading” and it’s on starz right now. Definitely worth watching.
13 Fuko|u and 1 IRK.
Also over 92 BOC (a while back I started cancelling BOC after winning them and I’ve not bothered to count how many I’ve cancelled, maybe a dozen or so).
10: 1 Fuku, 5 Fukos, 4 IRKs.