I want to stay, but...

@PlacidPenguin Yes, I see the unsubscribe. BUT, why not just tell us what is for sale since they send a useless email every day.

I know to go to the site. I would just like to save some time and see it in the email they send. Get it?

@MajorHavoc I believe the reason given was that the whole point of Meh, beyond simply the idea of selling one item per day, is to foster a lively and self-sustaining online community of users/customers who turn what would otherwise be a sterile place into this dynamic community with fun and snark and love and heart. In order for that to work, people need to visit the site. (Did I get that mostly right, @snapster ?)
By sending an email with the product listed, it encourages the exact opposite - you might only check in on the website if the product for sale is of interest to you, thus causing you to miss out on the community.
Of course, if you, like me, are a die-hard Meh-fiend with 1313 days of Meh-face-clicking in a row (there are a few people with slightly longer streaks {DAMN YOU DAY FOUR!!!}) there’s no significant difference between having the email and not having the email, EXCEPT… If you scroll down below the marketing stuff, which is useless to me anyway, since it doesn’t tell me what’s for sale, there are almost always little bonus Slack-style conversations among Meh staffers (real and imagined) and they are quite amusing. They are the only reason I remain subscribed to the daily email.
I might suggest you try mentally disassociating the email from the product for sale - enjoy the email for the silliness of the Slack-style lighthearted comedy, and visit the website to see what’s for sale each day, and come chat in the forums about random silly things while you’re at it!

Soooooo, instead of the ‘hassle’ of opening a web browser and hitting a bookmark to see what’s for sale, @MajorHavoc… you’d rather go through the hassle of opening your email app, finding the email from Meh, and then opening up and reading it.

Got it.

@haydesigner Nope, you don’t got it, and I guess you don’t follow the string either. I am reading email, there is a message from MEH. It tells me nothing, so I have to add a step or two to go see what is for sale. I want that just to be in the mail message which I am already reading. So now I have a solution for that, and when I see something I want, I will then click on the link and go to the web site. The whole idea is to go through less hassle, not more. Got it now?

Guess I still don’t get it.
Why don’t you just randomly check Meh once a day then?

@medz Thanks. I will do that. I agree, a site hit marketing trick. Thanks for the tip

@medz these are great! Thanks

/giphy sick burn!

@medz
/giphy broken giphy

@therealjrn Thanks for missing the point

Puh. Giphy breaks my heart on a regular basis.

@therealjrn I wonder if @MajorHavok has seen this brilliant video?

@medz I can’t speak to woot as I have only bought a few things there back when I had money to buy at least a few wants and not needs, but at meh initially we hadn’t run through the relatively small cluster of things they tend to sell repeatedly. So if we have been here a while much of it is rinse and repeat to the point of want/need saturation.

And of course if their data backs up my speculation (and I may be way off base here) then they’d need to focus on constantly finding customers than they might otherwise since their existing long term customers may not be buying as much anymore even if they remain active on the forums.

So if we have been here a while much of it is rinse and repeat to the point of want/need saturation.

I think @Kidsandliz hits the exact aspect with the longer term folks. By the nature of being a “daily deal”, Meh and Woot cater to impulse buying – but there will come a point in time in which “I really don’t need that 5th Bluetooth speaker” or “I have a dozen battery banks already; I don’t need another 4-pack”.

@Kidsandliz @narfcake @sohmageek

But if Meh were to sell speaker docks again…

@PlacidPenguin When was the last time I tagged pestered a certain someone about the lack of catshirts?

@narfcake

This past February 10, 2018 at 1:25 pm EST.

@narfcake this is why I rejoice when there’s new items.

@RiotDemon

In that case, don’t come to Meh on April 1st. The item won’t be new.

@PlacidPenguin I will still come every day.

@narfcake but you aways and forever need another cat shirt. Right?

@Kidsandliz I dunno. I didn’t wear a catshirt today, so.

@Kidsandliz

@narfcake will never beat my collection, but he could try.

/8ball Is @PlacidPenguin bluffing?
As I see it, yes

Also:

@medz - I’m with you. Recovering hoarder here. I don’t buy as much. Seems like the selection has gotten worse. I’ll buy anything if its neat enough.

@medz Well, that may be the real reason. But at least I could see if I wanted to buy something. I was hoping MEH would grow out of the teaser emails. But perhaps I should be thankful I was spending less money!

@meh427 I don’t think the selection is worse necessarily, I think the comments above hit close to the mark suggesting we’ve just seen a lot of it multiple times. That which seemed new and novel a year or two ago has now been offered over and over to the point we’re just accustomed to, or bored with it.

I guess it’s like the first time I saw the Grand Canyon at sunset. Truly awe inspiring. Now, everyone who comes to visit makes me trek to the canyon for sunset and frankly, I’m done with it.

@ruouttaurmind

You wouldn’t take me to the Grand Canyon if I came to visit ?

@PlacidPenguin It’s memory slot 2 on the sat nav in my car. Though by now I’m pretty sure I’m prepared to make the drive with my eyes closed.

@ruouttaurmind

That doesn’t answer the question.

@PlacidPenguin Absolutely. Bring @mfladd along and we can go on a crime spree after. You know, just for kicks.

@ruouttaurmind

Can I bring another person (in addition to @mfladd), or just him?

@mfladd @PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind And then throw the evidence over the edge on days like this - right?

@Kidsandliz @narfcake Me either. I’m wearing my @Acraigl designed Mehvolution tshirt…It’s currently my favorite and my attitude.

@mehbee if you want another, let me know. With my spotlight sale I scored a bunch of coupons I’ll never use.

@ACraigL Heck, I wouldn’t say know…I know people who would love to join the Mehvolution. It’s an awesome shirt…not that is anything unusual

@ACraigL I looked one time and I have several of your shirts but at the time didn’t keep track of who the artist was…

@mehbee Morning smiles. Thanks!
Some of my favorites are actually the less popular ones:
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/a-token-sacrifice
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/dantes-dark-roast
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/blue-pill-propaganda
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/millennium-talcum
https://shirt.woot.com/offers/blink-451

@ruouttaurmind - I realized how much less I buy at the most resent Mehrathons.
And, I have 19 cars and vend or attend around 50 car shows/swap meets a year. Someone gets excited about a car, I’m like meh!!

@PlacidPenguin

Can I bring another person (in addition to @mfladd), or just him?

Bring 'em all. Everyone’s welcome. Lovely day of majestic sightseeing, then a vodka fueled crime spree.

@Kidsandliz, at the end end of it all we can drive into the canyon like Thelma and Louise. And Louise. And Louise. And Louise.

But we’ll need matching Occupy Meh shirts for the gang!

@ruouttaurmind

If you get clearance from @mfladd and get that design printed up, provided that it’s either free or $1, I’d gladly give you my t-shirt size (which I don’t give to just anybody).

@snapster

Well as long as the emails don’t include catshirt references, I have no issue with them.

Besides, I like being assured of an email every day.

@PlacidPenguin What nobody loves you? I am sure if you’d post your email address publicly we could likely overload the server and crash it by making sure your lonely email box remains fully stuffed.

@PlacidPenguin Just send me your address and I will stop by for a visit.

@mfladd

Is that a threat, or a promise?

@PlacidPenguin You know what you have to do, @snapster.

@PlacidPenguin said to @mfladd

Is that a threat, or a promise?

Yes.

@snapster I love the emails because they helped keep my meh button streak going for 223 days. Before that I went about 30 days at the most. It took helping my wife through a crazy horrific work day 21 days ago to break the streak. Now I’m at 20 days. But the emails remind me every morning to check to make sure I clicked the button.

@snapster Thanks

@MajorHavoc @snapster You could always set up a rule to move it automatically to a folder. That way if you want a giggle during the day(do Major Havocs giggle?), you could go in and read one…or the unsubscribe button, doesn’t mean that you’re gone from here, just the email. Come’on, sit and stay a while, we’re pretty cool, if I do say so myself.

@heartny Thank you. I was not aware of that. That is exactly what I want to see.

@heartny mehstalker app works well also. My Martian notifier watch (bought at meh…) goes off at 2255 nightly to remind me a new item is coming, then at 2300 I get a reminder the new item is up. Pull up the app and bingo… link to item, description, order, comments etc.
(this also saves me getting the email as I didn’t opt in)

@Pavlov EXACTLY! I needed to gripe, but im trying to get less email, and the ones now do not help. And I might actually buy something. SIGH!

@shahnm As it is, I am not doing Meh at all!

@MajorHavoc
Ok then.

@MajorHavoc @shahnm HOW ABOUT NOW? ARE YOU DOING MEH NOW???

@MajorHavoc @shahnm @therealjrn

@shahnm @therealjrn Well, almost. I am using mehstalker.com, so yea, sort of!

@UncleVinny

/youtube "Train In Vain"

@f00l quality entertainment!

@UncleVinny

I was lucky enough to see them live a bunch during those years. Used to drag friends along, who would all become huge fans.

I was at the NYC concert where that photo was taken.

/youtube "London Calling"

@f00l GET OUT OF TOWN! You are the coolest.

@UncleVinny
Fun times. Used to chase after area concerts for the Talking Heads, B-52’s, Cars, Clash, and many other bands (esp jazz and blues) during those years. Saw the Ramones and Blondie at CBGB’s. NYC was mecca for that.

The motto of Manhattan during those years might as well have well have been the famous Don Henley quote from the MTV Music Video Awards sometime around then:

"May it snow in your face".

(He won, I think, for “Boys of Summer”)

And the theme song for Manhattan during those years might as well have been “Shattered”, given the common preferred or envied lifestyles.
(Both Mick and Keith lived there a lot during that era).

/youtube Shattered live Stones

@f00l And you held on to sufficient brain cells to hold forth so eloquently in these forums all these years later!

I was a little surprised to learn that Talking Heads wasn’t a big drug-using band. Somewhere in their liner notes they said they tried a little once or twice, and couldn’t get into it. Makes that nervous-energy brainiac weirdness even more endearing. It’s said to be true of Zappa, too. He threw people out of the band if they – maybe even if they drank? He was a straight edge fella, apparently. But… I still adore Talking Heads (“We are born without eyesight / we are born without sin…”) and I’ve never had a single moment of patience for Zappa. I respect his drive and musical creativity, but nothing about his music appeals to me in the slightest. Maybe he should have dabbled in the wacky 'backy, might’ve given his work a little through-line, you know?

In any case, I’m jealous of your concert attendance record. I’ve seen a few great shows here and there (Tom Waits, Radiohead, Sleater Kinney and Stereolab come to mind), but mostly I want to stay in and listen to music in comfort and quiet with a cat nearby. (Also… a word to the wise… if Lou Reed comes back from the grave and goes on tour, I’d have to recommend that you not go. Worst (at least most disappointing) show I ever saw… but this was in the early 2000s, obv., not any kind of genuinely hip 70’s affair or late 60’s happening. Besides, for almost all of the 60’s I was at best an embryo, and not open-minded about staying up late to hear the birth of a new Art.)

@f00l @UncleVinny -
Do you recognize International Clash Day?

Olympia does. It was just last week, on 2/7.

http://internationalclashday.com/

@f00l @kdemo aieeeeee, I didn’t know about it! Well, I’ll be ready for next year at least. If there IS a next year.

@f00l @UncleVinny -
WHEREAS, Olympia’s proclamation is actually very cool:

@f00l @kdemo proclaimed! Recognized! Heretofore thenceforth dubbed! Gestaltistically renooberated!

@kdemo @UncleVinny

I did not know they had an official day.

Cool!