I'm on my last straw ;(
1I've bought multitudes of products both in quantity and variety. From gloves to vacuums.. what happened?? In the last three months i've had every major appliance I have bought, break within a week to two weeks. My soundbar started smoking! Come to find out they run really hot and were discontinued for similar reasons.. On top of it, I can't send it back without paying near the same price for shipping. A deep fryer that fried out after five uses. Never stops running power either, so we kept it unplugged and STILL, it broke. Precision touch gloves for phones.. I figured 2 for 4 bucks, what gloves arnt worth that? The cloth ones you get at the dollar tree and still feel jipped about because they are 50 cents at Wal-Mart. Those gloves. Literally turned a glove inside out and called the "THREADING" thats on the inside of any cloth glove, a precision point. My touchscreen lenovo, all in one is alot better than most phones and I wouldn't destroy my screen with this let alone a tablet like it advertises.. change the color of three finger tips and you'll fool just about anyone with afew cheap words.. I've socks that literally see more use and keep your hands much warmer. And to top it all off.. coffee pot arrived broken.. Probably not directly your fault, but after my journey thus far.. I almost feel as if it were intentional and i've no others to look at with the history I am seeing. Down to each time I can't send it back to you, though you at least promised a month of use. If I can't trust your products for a "month" without catching fire or get a product as advertised and you tell me I have to pay more than half the price of the product just to cover shipping, to send it to the original company you advertised for?? Thats not sales, thats conning, a very poor job at that.
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The deep fryer just won't turn on even, stopped while mid-heating. Magnetic power lock, not easy to mess up... aside from a hammer..
If you spent 300 bucks or more at one store and three items were broke, the sound bar caught fire, the customer has shown distress and customer service goes ," Well uh, yea if ya would call so and so in europe, then pay again, they might be able to manage to really burn your house down this time! Have a nice day - All in one month. Do you really feel personaly, deep down inside, you'd wish to keep going? I had to really ask if I cared or would just not come back. Well I have been a customer for awhile now for a reason, and I noticed these incidents occur around one set of months, I want to believe its just been a bad couple calls which is why im on the forum. Not sure i'l;l stick around but others most assuredly won't if they are endangered or their kids are>>(I have a CHILD, many do!.. A fire is serious, your company is involved wether you like the laws or not. If you keep pushing these types of harmful products without expecting any of the responsibility,
then someone will leave.. and come back with a lawyer.. ive all of the products mentioned, no modifications to back it.) Toasted by-products included.. For shame.
tl;dr Dear Meh, please sell straws.
@DaveInSoCal Nice. I was gonna go "witty" myself, but I figured informative was also important.
@studerc yeah, but i tend not to take these too seriously unless there's some reference to having contacting customer service already and receiving an unsatisfactory response. This appears to be a rant just for the sake of ranting. There's no request for refund or replacement, either. In fact.... hang on a sec...
@studerc
@DaveInSoCal Legit.
Too long; Still Read.
Customer is upset and frustrated over bad product experiences.
Asked for refunds and exchanges. If you have something helpful or "Witty" to say, please be my guest. Seems wit fell short along with reading for you. Too bad then, at least my time wasn't wasted reading it ^_^ To those who didn't come here to troll, theres enough fair warnings and me asking for something to be done in all of that
@bauxite Sorry, I just skimmed it. You can always make your email requests and their responses public on this thread.
@bauxite your complaints are valid. It's one of the downsides to daily deals. some of this stuff is cheap because somthing might be wrong with it. Who ever Meh bought the stuff from probably would of sold it to someone else if they could have.
My suggestion is to be a bit more selective, and wonder how they are able to sell it so cheap.
Lmao.. you actually.. read all of that.. just to complain... I'll credit you for effort and the sad understanding some people have nothing more to live for other than to scrounge what little conflict their nerves can handle by gawking at middle aged women over their appliances. Quality luls you are.
I am having a little trouble parsing the rant. @bauxite let me know what I got wrong. I think what set it off was that several items died at about the same time.
Instead of dying on the first use, the fryer lasted 5 uses. Those 5 uses made @bauxite think that they had got a good deal, and the company name "Meh" was just sarcasm, and not honest labeling. So they bought other stuff. After spending more than $300, everything started failing at once.
This made the customer think about the other things they bought. That stuff had issues too. It is like it is Meh's business model or something.
The customer obsessed a bit about the failure mode of the soundbar. It got too hot, and the magic smoke came out. Where there is smoke, it seems like there might be fire. If it seems like there might be fire, then it seems really bad.
UL testing and the European equivalents actually include testing power supplies to destruction. This is to answer the question "if this part of the device bursts into flame, will the device fuel the fire enough so the flames can set simulated curtains on fire?". Basically the assumption for all recently designed electronics, is that components will sometimes get too hot, if this happens, the rest of the device has to contain the heat. Note that smoke damage may be expensive.
The obsession led to a full rant, on a Saturday evening, when it would be unlikely that any employees would be around to calm the customer down. So it is left to random customers to comment. These random comments are not particularly calming.
Righto, so trololololl. You didn't spend the money, please let me direct you to icgaf what you think =D How about that. - Best Regards
@bauxite
Redirection with useless information will always end a conversation fast, it's called a switchshot. It simply means you'd like to throw what sounds intelligent together in order to get your means, deflection, redirection, and bam your ego protrudes from your backside. Worst off, you're offended about the realising how much of your time i've wasted =D
@bauxite
@bauxite This is getting good!
Since Meh is considered an experiment in e-commerce, does anyone else consider the customers who have voiced concerns over certain things "guinea pigs?"
@bauxite, When you wrote "You didn't spend the money, ...", was that directed at me? If so, I've spent more here than you, well not much more, a total of $412 plus VMP. The stuff I've bought has generally met or exceeded my (low) expectations. That's why I keep buying more stuff. Meh is my kind of shopping site.
However, shopping at Meh is not for everyone. In particular, shopping at Meh is not for you. Feel free to stay around to participate in the forums.
@hamjudo dont feed the troll. @bauxite why dont you make like a tree...and get outta here.
Oops forgot the disclaimer, and now it is too late to edit. I am not a spokesperson for Meh. I was writing as a fellow customer when I suggested that @bauxite not shop here.
@bauxite Biff knows best...
@studerc My bad. Sorry.
My personal anecdotal experience: nothing I have bought from meh has caught fire. I'm keeping my eye on the cutting boards though.
@SSteve I'm thinking it will be the wallet ninjas. They're ninjas!
@SSteve Did you buy the "As seen on TV Bundle"? The Survival Knife includes a "fire starter". It says so on the package. It also has 3 matches in the handle. I did get a spark out of the fire starter. I didn't try a match. So I too have not had anything bought from Meh catch fire.
If I ran into the product failure rate that OP did, I'd be unhappy, too. I'd probably bounce back and forth with support several times, giving them the opportunity to see the bigger picture of several item failures, before hitting the forums with a bit of a rant and ready to battle the gifs of the mehtizens.
While I can understand the frustration of running into 3 issues in the same time-frame, you have definitely contributed to your own disappointment in at least 2 cases.
The soundbar - What did the manufacturer say about it? If you've exhausted all communication with the warranty holder, then I would pursue it with meh's CS.
The fryer - You said you noticed it continuously cycled electricity, why didn't you return it as soon as you saw this major flaw? Yeah it sucks that you got a defective unit, but it's part of your responsibility to report that defect asap.
The gloves - This one is completely on you. Those extra threads are the conductors, it's how touch screen gloves work. Yes, the gloves themselves are cheap, that's why they were 2/$4.
The coffee pot - Destroyed in shipping, eh? That sucks. I'm sure they'll refund your order.
I understand if you choose not to shop here anymore. Sometimes a bad experience can leave a sour taste, even if we unintentionally contributed to our own bad experience.
@Thumperchick well said, however you never really addressed his (her?) primary complaint: he's out of straws!
@DaveInSoCal Aww swizzle sticks! I knew I forgot something.
I bought a shirt from meh months ago and it still works.
My precision gloves are still a state away - how did you get yours so fast? That's good service.
Here's some straw.
@bauxite I think any major retailer is going to direct you to the manufacturer after 30 days for them to honor their warranty. I can only think of one retailer (REI) who directly warranties what they sell without an expensive third-party insurance/warranty program. With that said, for the products that failed right-away, especially the coffee-pot that arrived broken, how did Meh CS respond?
Everytime I see a thread like this I always think to myself, "wait...maybe this is an experiment." You know, like the staff are secretly fucking with us to see how we react. Perhaps they are analyzing our ability to remain helpful in the face of adversity or maybe they just want to see how quickly we turn on each other. What say you @JonT?
Nevertheless, I for one, blame @lisaviolet for my constant state of paranoia. :)
@studerc