@D_a_v_e agreed no way no how are they usually worth $5 much less $50 dollars!!!Crazy prices but then again, we are now paying close to $5 a gallon of gas( some places paying over $5 a gallon).
Honestly I’m glad i was east coat up at midnight. I got it for 5, may try again later but i definitely just missed out cuz i had to stop and question spending 50 on an irk… wtf. I hope they reset price later or cap it…
@placecm I imagine this’ll stop once an IRK gets so expensive that it doesn’t sell out in 30 minutes, so it’s an experiment to see how much people will pay for crap and $5 in credit on a bunch of not-so-crap items for the rest of this year.
@FreePasta That may be the real entertainment… how many people cancel in the half hour before the next launch… last one was down to 47 by this launch. I wonder if more people will retract as the price grows.
Well, it will be interesting to see just how many people think they will buy an average of two (and rising) items a month on Meh and SideDeal to deplete their coupon stash…
@cinoclav@sammydog01 isn’t it $5 coupon per purchase not per item . . . so if you wanted three of something, you’d have to place three separate orders . . . oohhh good self-reminder!
Thankfully I got a $5 IRK at 8 AM EDT. I really don’t get this. Any of this. I don’t understand the point of these insane prices that meh is charging. And I am flabbergasted (I love that word) by the fact that people are paying it. In seconds. Double-ewe-tee-eff?
@hammi99 Ten $5 dollar coupons that can’t be combined and that you have to use by the end of the year? No I didn’t miss it. I just know that most people won’t use them all. Hell. a LOT of people won’t wind up using ANY.
$50 and we’re still not at the point where they take more than 30 seconds to sell out… At least the cancellations are coming in faster and more.
Still concerning that of ~400 meh button clicks, 50 are buying to begin with. That’s ~1/8th, not counting the people who try to buy and still get locked out.
What would be interesting is if everyone ( and I do mean everyone) would all cancel their irks orders that cost more than $5! That would blow up in Meh’s face, so to speak. I think you would never ever witness another experiment like the one they are pulling on us today.
I bought 24 things from meh in 2021, and probably 4 things from SideDeal. Guessing about 70% of those things were IRKs. When buying IRKs, speed is of the essences and entering coupon codes is anathema to a speedy checkout process. I cannot see myself using 10 $5 coupons, even if they lasted a year.
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/giphy $50
I never thought I would see the day of $50 IRKs. Crazy times we are living in.
/8ball Is this IRK worth $50?
My reply is no
@D_a_v_e same
Let’s try again
/8ball Is this IRK worth $50?
Don’t count on it
@D_a_v_e
AND they’re selling out at that price!
@D_a_v_e agreed no way no how are they usually worth $5 much less $50 dollars!!!Crazy prices but then again, we are now paying close to $5 a gallon of gas( some places paying over $5 a gallon).
@D_a_v_e @Lynnerizer But 3 canceled. Again those hitting buy first and then backing out at that price point.
This IRKflation can’t go on forever, can it?
@galewarning Only until 11:30PMEDT - we hope.
/giphy stop it.
I’m not a robot and why… so… slow… sold out…
do i hear a $55 IRK? going once?
That was a quick $2500 for meh, lol.
/giphy square-possessive-rogue
@Yetithebear
OUCH! How much regret do you expect to get for THAT price?
Regret for weeks I’d imagine!
Honestly I’m glad i was east coat up at midnight. I got it for 5, may try again later but i definitely just missed out cuz i had to stop and question spending 50 on an irk… wtf. I hope they reset price later or cap it…
@placecm I imagine this’ll stop once an IRK gets so expensive that it doesn’t sell out in 30 minutes, so it’s an experiment to see how much people will pay for crap and $5 in credit on a bunch of not-so-crap items for the rest of this year.
Whale-watching is fun!
It looks like somebody cancelled, since it went from 50 sold to 49.
@FreePasta I saw the $45 one at 47 orders before it switched, so people be cancelling
@FreePasta That may be the real entertainment… how many people cancel in the half hour before the next launch… last one was down to 47 by this launch. I wonder if more people will retract as the price grows.
Wow oh wow oh wow! Hey I have junk I can sell for $50 bucks—- man the madness
@AttyVette
ME TOO! I’ll throw in some extra good stuff and price it at $100.00!! Free shipping, bubble wrap included!
/giphy courteous-darling-donkey
I instantly regret this impulsive purchase…oh well.
@Dad You can cancel for the, I think it is, next hour. Go to your purchase and hit cancel.
Now it’s a race to see who can hit the Meh button first.
Where do sign-up to guess the highest the IRKs will go for today?
@eq52515 And the winner(s) should get a free irk.
@eq52515 Well the write up said they were 1/2 way to $100 irks…
FINALLY I managed to grab one of these mythical IRKs. And now I’ll have 10 $5 coupons to use for the rest of the year? I… think I can manage that.
Yeesh.
Well, it will be interesting to see just how many people think they will buy an average of two (and rising) items a month on Meh and SideDeal to deplete their coupon stash…
/giphy rocket
I. I. I…just couldn’t do it. I could have, but I stopped.
@studerc Same…
No Hell NO. $45, $50 BWAH! But obviously folks are still falling for it. I didn’t even get as far as being able to hit “buy.”
@evgrosen me either.
/giphy inflation-coup-on
VMPs will have the honor of spending $150-$200.
@Stumpy91 lol
@Stumpy91 what a time to be alive!
@Stumpy91 we already have the honor of spending $60 a year for vmp membership for nothing ( when we don’t buy anything)
@Stumpy91 I’m sure someone will…but not this one.
/giphy undulating-creamy-gambler
My very first BOC/IRK ever! Only had to spend $50 to get one. And true to the name, I’m regretting it already
@corgincognito Congrats?
@corgincognito Well you still have time to cancel.
@corgincognito I’m so proud of you.
@corgincognito @sammydog01
I think we’re at the point where the coupons should be increasing faster than the price. At $50 per Irk, I’d expect at least $60 worth of coupons.
@cinoclav They expire in 6 months. That’s a lot of separate purchases in 6 months, especially with the standard limit of 3.
@cinoclav @sammydog01 isn’t it $5 coupon per purchase not per item . . . so if you wanted three of something, you’d have to place three separate orders . . . oohhh good self-reminder!
@sammydog01 Reality is they should be stackable.
Who do I contact at Meh to selectively buy Meh’s account user list?
@RedOak THOSE PEOPLE WILL BUY ANYTHING.
@RedOak For potential buyers of your Brooklyn Bridge? Right?
@Kidsandliz @RedOak maybe for that ocean front property in Arizona—-
There’s one born every minute…in this case 47…
Thankfully I got a $5 IRK at 8 AM EDT. I really don’t get this. Any of this. I don’t understand the point of these insane prices that meh is charging. And I am flabbergasted (I love that word) by the fact that people are paying it. In seconds. Double-ewe-tee-eff?
@Trinityscrew did you completely ignore/miss the coupon part?
@hammi99 Ten $5 dollar coupons that can’t be combined and that you have to use by the end of the year? No I didn’t miss it. I just know that most people won’t use them all. Hell. a LOT of people won’t wind up using ANY.
Funny seeing more and more cancelations each time
Down to 47, so 3 people regretted enough to cancel
$50 and we’re still not at the point where they take more than 30 seconds to sell out… At least the cancellations are coming in faster and more.
Still concerning that of ~400 meh button clicks, 50 are buying to begin with. That’s ~1/8th, not counting the people who try to buy and still get locked out.
So what’s next?
They have been increasing by $5, so $55?
It stays at $50?
It starts back down, so $45?
It starts over at $5?
Or something else?
What would be interesting is if everyone ( and I do mean everyone) would all cancel their irks orders that cost more than $5! That would blow up in Meh’s face, so to speak. I think you would never ever witness another experiment like the one they are pulling on us today.
I bought 24 things from meh in 2021, and probably 4 things from SideDeal. Guessing about 70% of those things were IRKs. When buying IRKs, speed is of the essences and entering coupon codes is anathema to a speedy checkout process. I cannot see myself using 10 $5 coupons, even if they lasted a year.
@btwonder 24 buys? Wow. And you didn’t buy this IRK?
At least it’s saying these ones were formerly fukubukuro and not fukobukuro.
Where are the coupon codes?