@ironcheftoni Those were the good old days when mentioning I needed an IRK like I needed another testicle and got an IRK totally consisting of different type of balls. Or when I mentioned about beating a dead horse and got a horse pinada (sp?).
Think those days as well as the $ 5 IRK are gone forever, but thanks for the trip down memory lane and the warning anyway.
@ironcheftoni Forgot to mention my obsession with bubble wrap and got an IRK with each item in the IRK in its own indiv box bubble wrapped (including the the bag).
Wildly variable, mostly meh, never really WOW yet. Sometimes better than merely okay. Overall, today’s price is pretty much at the limit of what I’m willing to risk. Will I make a stab at rhe 8am batch? Probably.
First couple where good, then the contents started getting worse, and then the price increased with even worse content. I guess that is not just Meh these days.
@hchavers This pretty much sums up my overall IRK experience, although i haven’t gotten one in awhile. The anticipation is fun, but the current price is getting to the point where i question whether it’s worth trying for one. I missed it at midnight, maybe I’ll remember to try at 8am. If not, Meh.
It’s kind of expensive if really just receiving undesirable shit. Do they once in a while add in something good to an IRK? Otherwise, what’s the appeal?
/showme guy absolutely thrilled looking at a box of junk for which he overpaid. His family is behind him looking disappointed. The wife is considering divorce. The kids think Mom’s new friend Greg is really cool. In a middle class suburban home.
@ircon96@medz Yeah still some nightmarish weird arms, legs, and other appendages of unknown origin. When you said Pete Holmes, for some reason I thought of John Holmes the porn icon, and then realized, wait, the guy on the sofa on the left, is that like an extra arm, or leg, or maybe third leg?
@ircon96@medz@pmarin I was hoping that’s Mom’s “friend” Greg’s foot behind her on the right side of the sofa. Although if it’s something else, that would explain the look on Mom’s face.
@njfan I think that if they just offered to sell us the bag for $5 (plus shipping for the unmeh), and threw in a $5-off coupon code for use with a future not-IRK-bag purchase, probably half of the whineage about never being able to get an IRK would die down.
Over time, unfortunately, they have been rolling down the cliff into the trash heap at the bottom while the price has gone up. Over the years I’ve had crappy ones and good ones and likely more or less broken even overall, although the odds these days are far less of getting anything good and the prices aren’t worth it for the rather large risk of putting a match to a rather large amount of money. Times and businesses change. Sad that the irks have too.
I’ve gotten three irks while I was a member, so it costed me $15 total and the contents were worth more than that every time, so I have been extremely pleased. One of them had a very comfortable down jacket that I wear every day in the winter so honestly that alone would’ve made it worth it lol.
I’ve been fortunate to grab a bunch of IRKs over the years. The majority of them have been fine. Always one or two useful/ giftable items or good enough to donate to St. Vincent de Paul. I was able to sell alot at a garage sale for a profit.
I haven’t stuck my toe back in the water since the garage sale. My basement is low on clutter and the family would notice an additional box… plus I promised not to spend on mystery boxes anymore. The transition back to past SOP $5 or $10 a bag is tempting.
My favorite Mehrathon and IRK was the Halloween themed one. I didn’t score a creepy doll but enjoyed hanging around for the entire “show.”
@lonocat Oh, yes! My favorite was the one with the elaborate crazy adventure story where the Irks were randomly scattered in with the Sidedeal merchandise; I think it was intended to introduce people to Sidedeal, which was new at the time. That’s how I got my first-ever Irk.
Meh.
IRKsome I guess
Similar to my last colonoscopy but without anesthesia.
@Felton10 careful what you say. You might all colon related stuff in your next irk. Just like the balls incident
@Felton10 Yep… I agree. & I just had one a month ago! Plus you would be Wide awake during the entire thing!
@ironcheftoni Those were the good old days when mentioning I needed an IRK like I needed another testicle and got an IRK totally consisting of different type of balls. Or when I mentioned about beating a dead horse and got a horse pinada (sp?).
Think those days as well as the $ 5 IRK are gone forever, but thanks for the trip down memory lane and the warning anyway.
@ironcheftoni Forgot to mention my obsession with bubble wrap and got an IRK with each item in the IRK in its own indiv box bubble wrapped (including the the bag).
I would rate the recent ones the same as root canal.
@heartny Is that comparing price or enjoyability?
Oh, silly me, it’s both.
Given how low the expectations are set in the descriptions, I’d have to say they have WAY over-delivered.
@ybmuG The one i got was worth the money and had no duds, so I decided to quit while I was ahead.
@lisagd
/giphy you are wise
@ybmuG First time anyone’s said that to me.
@lisagd i find it ironic that giphy isn’t smart enough to know the difference between wise and smart… or is it wise enough…
Not just Meh, but definitively Meh.
Wildly variable, mostly meh, never really WOW yet. Sometimes better than merely okay. Overall, today’s price is pretty much at the limit of what I’m willing to risk. Will I make a stab at rhe 8am batch? Probably.
@werehatrack Und I did.
@werehatrack
Dr. Scott?
@yakkoTDI Jawohl!
Expectations are at an all time low, but you already knew that
Never gotten an IRK… got a bunch of fukus and fukos and I’d say about 1/3 of the items were not crap.
Mediocre
First couple where good, then the contents started getting worse, and then the price increased with even worse content. I guess that is not just Meh these days.
@hchavers This pretty much sums up my overall IRK experience, although i haven’t gotten one in awhile. The anticipation is fun, but the current price is getting to the point where i question whether it’s worth trying for one. I missed it at midnight, maybe I’ll remember to try at 8am. If not, Meh.
It’s kind of expensive if really just receiving undesirable shit. Do they once in a while add in something good to an IRK? Otherwise, what’s the appeal?
@mehtenizer A minority of the IRKs contain expensive things that need to go away for various reasons. Someday, maybe I will get one.
@mehtenizer Everything in the one I got was useful. None of it was spectacular, but none of it got trashed or given to Goodwill, either.
@lisagd You got lucky. That is not a typical experience.
@Kidsandliz Yeah, that’s why I quit while I was ahead.
As someone that went to an AMZ returns store and bought a $75 blind box of PPE overstock/returns, the IRK is usually way more fun than that.
/showme guy absolutely thrilled looking at a box of junk for which he overpaid. His family is behind him looking disappointed. The wife is considering divorce. The kids think Mom’s new friend Greg is really cool. In a middle class suburban home.
@medz Wow, apparently ALL the kids look like mom!
@ircon96 yup. And none of them know how to sit on a couch properly.
Dad is like a combination of Kevin Nealon and Tucker Carlson.
@medz Yes! And, I thought i maybe saw a little Pete Holmes in there, too…? It’s like a bot-generated Rorschach test!
@ircon96 @medz Yeah still some nightmarish weird arms, legs, and other appendages of unknown origin. When you said Pete Holmes, for some reason I thought of John Holmes the porn icon, and then realized, wait, the guy on the sofa on the left, is that like an extra arm, or leg, or maybe third leg?
@ircon96 That is a terrifyingly accurate description of him!
@ircon96 @medz @pmarin I was hoping that’s Mom’s “friend” Greg’s foot behind her on the right side of the sofa. Although if it’s something else, that would explain the look on Mom’s face.
I once was fortunate enough to get an IRK. I really liked the bag. No tongue in cheek humor, I really did like the reusable tote.
@njfan Yeah the bags are nice.
@njfan I think that if they just offered to sell us the bag for $5 (plus shipping for the unmeh), and threw in a $5-off coupon code for use with a future not-IRK-bag purchase, probably half of the whineage about never being able to get an IRK would die down.
But that would be too easy.
I’ve gotten some pretty nifty stuff over the years, with plenty of useless crap in the mix. Overall, I think they’re fun.
@Pony
Same
If you exclude the April fool’s captcha event pretty fun.
I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.
It’s sold out so…
Over time, unfortunately, they have been rolling down the cliff into the trash heap at the bottom while the price has gone up. Over the years I’ve had crappy ones and good ones and likely more or less broken even overall, although the odds these days are far less of getting anything good and the prices aren’t worth it for the rather large risk of putting a match to a rather large amount of money. Times and businesses change. Sad that the irks have too.
I’ve gotten three irks while I was a member, so it costed me $15 total and the contents were worth more than that every time, so I have been extremely pleased. One of them had a very comfortable down jacket that I wear every day in the winter so honestly that alone would’ve made it worth it lol.
I’ve been fortunate to grab a bunch of IRKs over the years. The majority of them have been fine. Always one or two useful/ giftable items or good enough to donate to St. Vincent de Paul. I was able to sell alot at a garage sale for a profit.
I haven’t stuck my toe back in the water since the garage sale. My basement is low on clutter and the family would notice an additional box… plus I promised not to spend on mystery boxes anymore. The transition back to past SOP $5 or $10 a bag is tempting.
My favorite Mehrathon and IRK was the Halloween themed one. I didn’t score a creepy doll but enjoyed hanging around for the entire “show.”
No one has mentioned the fun of trying to find the IRKs when they were hidden in with items on the other sites and you had to search for them
@lonocat Oh, yes! My favorite was the one with the elaborate crazy adventure story where the Irks were randomly scattered in with the Sidedeal merchandise; I think it was intended to introduce people to Sidedeal, which was new at the time. That’s how I got my first-ever Irk.