I found the perfect type of item for Meh to sell!
2If you're a regular reader of The Consumerist, you probably are familiar with the "Raiders of the Lost Walmart" series, where stores (most notably Walmart) leave items on the shelves well past their sell date, sometimes to the point where the item has no actual value anymore.
I think this is exactly the kind of item Meh should be selling- ancient relics that time has forgotten, but are still in someone's inventory for some reason.
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You mean like ... speaker docks?
Or like moi?
The hard part would be finding an item like that in any sort of bulk. The only reason many of those items hang around in stores for so long is that there is only one and it doesn't take up much space. Old tech stuff like that might work for a retro Fukubukaru, but not so well for a deal. And, honestly, I don't really want a Fukubukaru filled with old wireless cards and McAfee Antivirus 2008.
frowns and puts down old wireless cards Ah man...
@JTrilogy Or 10,000 free hours of AOL CD-ROM's!
@DaveInSoCal In the superhero comic I made, the hero thows those as, like, Ninja stars. It's bad-ass.
@JTrilogy No reason they can't buy them out in small batches to put in Fuku's. That McAfee has to still have some uses.
Bacon bowls. Yes, I wanted one, even though it was the most simple idea ever, and the name lacked creativity. However, the most annoying commercial of all time really drove me away from buying it. I saw them at the store recently on clearance, but I figured it would end up in the garbage before I ever used it more than once anyway, so I walked past. I went back later and they were gone.
Careful what you wish for.
I'm sure your wish will come true wventually, it seems to in some ways already with some of the crap that gets mixed into the smorgasbord deals. I'm still wondering who I can pawn the pancake makers on from that crazy deal where I only really wanted the survival knife. Oh yeah and the promising but crappy paper wallets too.
@Stallion I'd pay ya 5 bucks to send me a couple wallets. that was actually what I wanted out of the deal.
@Stallion The pancake maker works great! People who eat are the target market there.
I used a paper wallet of the kind in that deal for several years. Liked it a lot, & I have no regrets that I now have two of them to give away. One nice plus: It works well with DC's Metrofare card reader; you just sort of slap the card sensor with your wallet & that's that.
@gertiestn I thought those wallets sold here were rfid blocking, which is why I wanted them.
@chellemonkey they were
@Thumperchick good thing too… nothing like "touch and go" identity theft.
@chellemonkey The paper wallet I used was something I got years ago. I haven't used the ones from Meh; they may behave better than my golden oldie. (I also don't know my ass from my elbow about RFID blocking technology, but I smell pretty good anyway.)
@dashcloud I never knew about that Raiders series of articles. Those are pretty amusing.