@Felton10
I’m with YOU! Especially after the last $50 IRK I bought. Three items, one was the IRK bag and the other 2 items were things I could have bought at the Dollar Store, TEN YEARS AGO! Lol
I was refunded for the IRK only after spending an additional $50 that I NEVER would have done otherwise.
Can you see the huge “S” for sucker stamped on my forehead?!
@Felton10@Lynnerizer yeah, i was so disappointed in my last irk. And i couldnt even tell you what else i got to get it free. More regret than usual, enough to make me just not bother with this one.
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
4x PulseTV Fidget Keychain Toy with LED Lights
2x Aukey CC-S2 Car Chargers
2x FreshPaper Storage Sheets for Produce (8 count)
1x Allstar Paincakes Mini Set (1 blue, 1 purple)
1x LetsFit White Noise Machine with 30 Sounds (White)
1x Love Corn Variety Pack (Sea Salt, BBQ, Habanero, Salt and Vinegar) (20 count 0.7 oz bags)
1x Pitch and Trek Camping Pillow
1x ToiletTree Products Nose Trimmer with LED Light
1x Odec 10000mAh Power Bank Quick Charge 3.0 A + 20W C
1x JLab Talk Go Plug Play USB Microphone (Refurbished)
1x Popular Mechanics Travel Gear Bag with Powerstrip
1x Power-To-Go 11-Piece Pro Lens Kit
WARRANTY
@tasco Yeah, if I do not get buy anything again this month, it may be time to end my VMP. It is now worse here than after the Amazon takeover of Woot. At least Woot had some great clearance sales of Amazon overstock before it went to hell.
@tasco Another example of the ‘shitification’ of one of the good things in life. Shitified by IRK-harvesting bots, not by the .meh staff in my opinion. They are golden. I have been VMP since January 2017 and am teetering on canceling too, but I love the mediocre staff
@blaineg@Euniceandrich
We get charged sales tax for “membership” due to lazy accountants/legalnfull of horseshit at Meh. Even for months when no taxable goods were purchased or free of charge as part of the membership.
@blaineg@stinks@tasco@zachhh I think a phone stand? I really miss the $5 shirts though. Black on black was my favorite. Nearly invisible Meh on the shirt as if you really did not care to share the message. Perfect.
The last IRK I got during the Mehathon was barely worth the price, which was free after purchases of the Mehathon items. The good ole days of Meh selling weird stuff and pleasantly surprising IRKs are gone.
@hchavers Counterpoint: The last time they offered an IRK, I purchased it and was quite surprised that they shipped me a full-size standing vacuum. I use that thing every day (I have 2 dogs and two cats).
Here to echo the lament of the loss of the $5 IRK. Of course they were harder to get, but that was part of the fun! I’m actually surprised they raised the price, considering I thought it was a very easy way for the warehouse to divest itself of excess inventory.
don’t do it. people were actually annoyed when they opened my “pirate christmas” gifts and it was wrapped up garbage i got from my $50 irk. it’s worse than the old $5 boc’s.
No matter we say almost 215+ people already bought this junk. Was a member for over 1 1/2 year & didn’t buy anything worth. Cancelled the membership a while back & no regrets since. A junk is a junk!!
You can buy more than one IRK for $50 each, but you will only get one $49.99 refund (assuming you qualify for it) no matter what you spend or whatever else you do. Buy 2 IRKS, spend $100 on SideDeal, and you’ll still only get that one $49.99 refund.
I went ahead and bought it because I was gonna buy the Sonicare 5100 anyway… making the IRK free. Only to find that the Sonicare sold out in the 2 minutes it took me to buy the IRK.
I miss the days where I could buy some random things I didn’t need during a whole day of random stuff being sold & maybe had a chance at buying a whole box of things I really didn’t need for cheap if I was there paying attention during that one day sale.
Hey meh… maybe bring that concept back cuz this one kinda sucks.
Just sayin.
@RogerWilco Well said! I’ve been thinking about canceling my membership for a while. Now that the main reason I originally signed up for no longer exists, it just makes sense for me to move on I think. It is like trying to leave a long-term abusive relationship tho!
OK, I’m finding this a bit confusing. Is it a cumulative Sidedeal deduction? Or only one purchase? Because I do need a better mic (and cam) but I could add things on if they also reduced my ridiculous reflex IRK buy.
@brainmist You ONLY GET $49.99 REFUNDED so I’d cancel the other 2 if I were you!!
From the front page write up: “You can buy more than one IRK for $50 each, but you will only get one $49.99 refund (assuming you qualify for it) no matter what you spend or whatever else you do. Buy 2 IRKS, spend $100 on SideDeal, and you’ll still only get that one $49.99 refund.”
A big problem is that there’s just nothing good to buy on SideDeal. Over 95% of the items are China-directly-to-landfill no-name junk, and the few items that are decent are some combination of overpriced/specialized/circumstantial. At $19.99, maybe, but unless you’re in the market for a specific appliance, the current scheme isn’t going to work.
@mossygreen@sammydog01
Okay … so I feel a bit sheepish .
I went for it. I was intrigued when it was for sale here for $20 less, but held back.
But the thought of an alternative to my big heavy corded monster from Sears just tempted me into giving it a try. I hope it’s not the biggest part of my regret!
@Kyeh@sammydog01 Eh, screw it. Even though I got a robo vac in my last IRK, I’ve been wanting something I can use in the car. And this will work better than the random car vac I would buy at TJ Maxx on clearance.
As fun as buying shit we don’t need with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t even like goes…I guess there would need to be something impressive worth buying.
This is a full pass. The last IRK was pretty regrettable too, enough that wasn’t worth bothering to post about.
The only thing I regret now was the 15 minutes wasted browsing side-garbage and expired weird-concept food.(and a few minutes for this post)
The $50 side deal IRK during a meh-ra-thon was just a little more compelling because you didn’t know what was coming up next, and could go back.
But @snapster and the other retail experimenters involved win regardless. Without my post, they already know how much time was spent by folks browsing their garbage without a purchase and will be having a discussion which gimmicks they can try next to move junk nobody wants or needs.
@Kyeh@somf69 Unfortunately for me I ordered these yesterday, so they don’t count toward an IRK. I do really like the ones I purchased previously, so not a total loss. I use them at the gym all the time in the treadmill so I can hear the TV.
Why did you stop getting drones? I’d buy a bunch of the side deal crap if I thought there was any good crap coming in the bag. Starting to question my membership status
So… How do I know I did things right? Is it I buy the IRK and then something from side deal… or something from side deal and then the IRK? Or does it not matter the order?
@Kidsandliz They did not sell out last time. I tool a screen shot 3 minutes before midnight and they sold over 1,300 and showed it was still available.
Is this the new normal? No more $5 or even $10 IRKs. Winning an IRK was fun and getting one was like Christmas even if mostly disappointing. But this change isn’t fun.
After nearly 6 months without buying anything, Meh found a way to bring me back in. Got my very first IRK bag and picked up the anti snore strap ($14.99), Celsius tropical pack ($29.99), and the 2 pack Voza earbuds ($6.99) which brought me to $51.97 before taxes. Even if the contents of the IRK disappoint, I’m happy to get the bag which I can place next to my Fukubokuro from 2015. Well played, Meh.
@JT954 And, if you had applied your VMP discount, you could have saved another $5.20.
But then you would not have totaled the > $49.99 for the 1 cent IRK.
So you would still have had to spend another $6 or so (before discount) to get back up to the qualifying amount. But would have had one more piece of regret in your total purchase for about the same cost.
How long do we have to buy stuff? Till tomorrow at midnight? Is all the side deal stuff posted, or will there be more at 8 est?
Bought an Irk because I saw something for 15 I needed anyway and figured I could find 35 more, but man I can’t find anything I’m excited about over there
i think I ended up paying for 3 IRKs for one sorta SideDeal, maybe. It’s pretty Meh that the new system is so confusing, but also disappointing.
Will we ever get a system that’s uplifting? Encouraging?
Will we ever get something worth fighting for? Worth building a nation/ a world on?
I got a fully functional, albeit dented, slow cooker in my last ($50) IRK, plus underwear my husband’s actually going to wear, so I am foolishly optimistic. anyway, those corn snacks look tasty, and I’ve been meaning to do more art lately…
@octa can’t bullshit a bullshitter. Look, on here we are in this together. Three steps this middling mediocre middle man site:
Buy first,
rationalize later,
promise not to do it again last.
Screwed me many times when trying to buy an IRK… Not a chance in hell will I spend $50.00 on what might be total crap… Been a member since the start, even though it shows 2017. Was also a Member of WOOT for years… Before the Mothership got it…
I got in on this same IRK deal the last time they offered it (which was the first time I can recall ever getting an IRK,) since I was getting >$50 of stuff in the Meh-ra-thon anyways. The IRK was barely worth anything, with an iPhone X case and a Macbook Pro shell being the two main, but very specific (and in my case useless) items.
This time, I might give it another shot just because I’m thinking about getting at least another of those SMT sling bags from Sidedeal as a backup, as the first one I got has been great for my needs over the past two months or so, but I could see it getting manhandled and torn apart over the course of a year or two. Plus, the $25 asking price is on par with similar sling bags on Amazon.
Also, if you’re looking for something to add to a cart to get you to $50, those “Anker PowerPort Atom III Slim” power supplies, both the 30 & 45 W versions, are good general-purpose options. They’ll output the 4 standard PD voltages from 5-20 V (so up to 1.5 and 2.25 A, respectively,) meaning they should work with anything that doesn’t require a higher power output to function (like a gaming laptop or something that requires a 60 W PDO or else it refuses to charge.) Either is a good choice as an aftermarket, more portable alternative for the Steam Deck, for example, which takes up to 15 V but will function off the 30 W version of the above without protest.
Last time I bought a $75 IRK by mistake and di not cancel it in time. It was the worst IRK I ever got. And since Meh items became more boring I was unable to use any of those 15*$5 coupons (used 1, I think). I lost $70.
It’s the first IRK that was a disappointment, but it was huge $70-priced disappointment.
While I get all the piling on the new way to get an IRK, I can actually get an IRK. Plus, I can choose a few things (eyes on some headphones or the bottlekeepers right now but I’ll look later in the day) I actually want that might help to delay the regret from the purchase.
Plus, my naive self gets the added bonus that I can join the “change is bad” group the next time this comes up if (when) this one go south!
I’m sorry. I can’t get behind the $50 IRK. This is (and has been) a terrible idea in practice and it doesn’t seem to be making anyone happy except for the people who have never gotten one. I understand the idea of trying to boost up sales for the other sites (and that idea is good in theory), but this is just… wrong. Especially if this is the new standard.
I just… I don’t understand why if this exists, the $5-$10 IRK can now no longer exist. Make this an option, not the new way.
It’d be one thing if the items were a little better than what you’d get in a $5 IRK, but when they’re worse based on what people are reporting here, that feels kinda slimy? I don’t know how else to put it without sounding like a jerk. This isn’t the same “I’m disappointed and have Instant Regret!” kinda post. This is a “This IRK strategy feels wrong and exploitative” post.
Fell for this scam last time, and wound up with not one, but two totally demolished air purifiers. I swear they just take random broken crap that people returned and put it in a box. Instant Regret is guaranteed. Not even the reusable bag lasted longer than two shopping trips.
Also, the whole “Log in and send me a daily email” thing over on side deal feels like a can spam act violation waiting to happen.
@ACraigL@audiocontr@Trinityscrew
I got an irk bc I’ve been wanting the eye massager that was under the $49.99 tab. I refuse to look on morningsave now that you say the charger was less there bc I’ll be so mad.
So is this gonna be the way meh does irks from now on? Charge $50 to create sales on Sidedeals? If so, I’m stopping my membership. It’s been a long while since I’ve seen anything I wanted to buy here–inc overpriced irks.
Yep I agree with you Zachs, I just made the purchase and didn’t see the refund show up in the purchase right away. Hope this works without a whole lotta back and forth emails to make this the right price.
@mjunkmail Last time it took them a handful of days to get everyone their credit. From what people posted it sounds like the charge went through and then the credit.
@blaineg@mjunkmail Why do you assume it could/will be read here, if it t’weren’t there?
I’m not even convinced that people read their election ballots lately.
@blaineg I don’t think you can do math. You can now get it for $99.99 and a free irk.
Too bad that front loader is so expensive I am positive there are 2 little boys and 2 little girls who’d love that thing. They’d need one each though as I am also positive it would get broken with the fighting if they only had one of them between them.
I also did this the last time. Not only was my $50 irk box the worst ever…worse than any of the $5 boxes I won, I never got the 2nd half of the deal. I kept waiting - nothing. Then I had a family situation and neglected to follow up. Out $50 bucks for crap.
@steffi59 You can still contact support over this. I’d suspect they’d correct the mistake and give you the credit. They are pretty good about things like that.
@blaineg I guess it sold out because if you put that stuff in a bowl for decoration you’d have a dust collection next that you can’t vacuum up. You’d need to toss it and refill.
I miss when Meh and IRK/Fuko events were actually fun. I miss the reasonably priced $5 disappointments. I’ve always felt humorously scammed by Meh in the past but that is all lost now.
Now Meh just feels like a business that charges us to haul away their unsellable trash for a seemingly “free/low cost” price.
Last time they did this I got a pretty good irk. I got a mop with separate clean and dirty water tank (I’ve been wanting one) I’m planing on using it today. And I forgot to buy the sidedeal items. So I bought the irk today and the massaging eye mask that I’ve been eyeing since last time.
I bought the retractable extension cord over on sidedeal this morning so I guess I’m in for my first IRK-fingers will remain crossed they don’t send me expired food and/or refurb’ed ear buds
Meh, it’s only a penny… It motivated me to buy a replacement Sous Vide since mine recently and unexpectedly passed away. I thought for sure she would keep my water hot for a few more years allowing me to cook the perfect rare steak without worry. But the pressure was too much for her and she just stopped. It was a sad day and it took me a few weeks to start looking for a replacement. Friends and Family have been encouraging me to get out and look for another Sous Vide. I knew I should but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it so quickly. I do feel a little apprehension and I’m nervous about falling for another Sous Vide only for her to suddenly pass away on me like the last one.
But if she does, I’ll have a cool bag and some other crap to console me this time. I had nothing to turn to the last time and that was really rough.
I already have 2, one for me and one for my husband. I LOVE that it comes with the charger built in, so many of these things require you to thread your existing charger through and clip it in. It also work fabulously, snaps right in, and folds down for travel or for storage.
My husband has his bedside but he needs one downstairs too because he often asks to use mine. And I got two extras to gift to my daughters, likely at Christmas. Though even more likely I will pack it into one of the care packages I tend to send them here and there.
So…if you are looking for something for at least 20.00 of the 50, and have an apple watch, I recommend these.
With the last Mehathon I was able to purchase my VERY 1st IRK, BOC, etc, and I have been a customer here for an extremely long long time! I just didn’t have the luck, time, energy, high speed Internet or whatever it takes to be able to be successful in purchasing any, ever! One time I think there was a Birthday BOC that I was able to get, I can’t remember what was in it except a candle. It didn’t have the thing that I had read about in other customers “real” BOC’s or IRK’s and it wasn’t competitive, anybody could buy one.
So, I AM excited to get my 1st IRK, and I didn’t have any trouble spending $50.00 on stuff during the Mehathon.
My IRK included:
Pawsitively Clean Dog Fetch/play toy
(We don’t have a dog anymore ), but I know people who do.
A tzumi DC charge pack 1 1 amp car charger with a 6 ft micro usb connector.
(It’s a little old school, but I have several Bluetooth devices that this will charge, thanks to meh).
Two glass screen protectors for an iPhone X.
(Believe it or not, I DO own and use an iPhone X, and so does my husband. We have never put a screen protector on them, and they haven’t cracked or scratched, I think they are making them a little more durable than they use to. I’ve been wanting a new phone, maybe I’ll slap one of these on and it will feel like a new phone!
An INCASE Textured Hardshell for a 15” MacBook Pro Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) in Pink.
(I have an old 13” MacBook Air, and have been wanting a new laptop too, but is this still the current size? IDK, my husband has a 15” MacBook Pro, but he is t interested in using a Pink Hardcover, I don’t know why not! So maybe I’ll go laptop shopping!)
And last but not least, a Unicutie DIY Pretty Putty Kit; it contains 3 glitter tubes, 3 containers of putty, 1 Color-yourself sticker sheet, and a pack of 4 markers!
(Maybe this will come in handy for coloring Easter Eggs!)
So, all in all for $0.01 not bad, but not overly exciting. The exciting part was opening it up to see what I got!
Would I do it again? You betcha! But only if there were things to buy that I really could use anyway, I’m not gonna spend $50 bucks on stuff I can’t use, just to get an IRK.
With that being said, I think I’ll stroll over to Side Deals! Who knows, maybe I’ll end up with IRK #2.
If you get one, I hope it’s a great one! Mine have always been, at the very least, fun. So if you find stuff you already want on Side Deal, then the IRK is worth it for the surprise and the laugh.
Well last time I bought the $50 IRK ADHD tax = forgot to finish the rest of the shopping requirements and just paid 50 bucks for it.
WHOOPS!!! but there was one cool Star Wars t-shirt in there in the right size that I absolutely loved so it wasn’t a complete loss.
P. S. This time I DID complete the requirements. Only took me about 8 hours…
I ordered my last $50 IRK while inebriated and immediately fell asleep and completely forgot about it until it was delivered.
Unfortunately, I did not order anything from SideDeal due to my condition and I was mortified when my memories came streaming back after the IRK delivery.
I hoped upon hope, while opening, that I would receive at least $20 worth of goods. Well, at least I didn’t receive mismatched sizes of claw
footed crocs so I guess it was worth it because my disappointment was tempered.
This is going to be my first IRK. I’ve seen how bad BoC and IRK have gotten, but I really needed to top up my peanut butter cups and get a new massager (the one from SD/Meh’s Valentine’s popped a screw and won’t stop rattling) – I probably shouldn’t buy it from here again (especially at the non-VD cost), but it covers half the IRK so, meh, add a pair of weird therapeutic toe socks and I’m all set for the Disappointment Instant Regret Experience of being a VMP. I just hope it doesn’t cost $50.
@whomeyesu How about two identical listings for the 60 Jack Links; 60-pack-jack-links-wild-beef-jerky-sticks-hot-4 was 49.99, 60-pack-jack-links-wild-beef-jerky-sticks-hot-3 is still 39.99, and lest we not forget were 29.99 in last week’s ‘daily deal’
I got one only because there were a few things I could use, and spent the balance on gifts. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have caved.
I do hope that this isn’t the new norm, though. I have received some GREAT IRK’s, and some that were very, very price appropriate (aka $5, lol!). I have no sense of entitlement that I should always receive awesome IRKs…the surprise has always been more than enough for me. I never understood the complaints for a $5 (or $10 with shipping) disappointing IRK. There were never any guarantees. For me, the thrill of the catch made it fun, too (although not for everyone, I know). But it feels different now. Less fun, I guess?
I also don’t knock Meh for having to evolve their business in order to stay in business. That certainly makes sense. Like someone mentioned above, maybe there is room to do it both ways. A more expensive IRK (with a better chance at at least something close to that value), and a standard IRK chase during the ‘thons (even if that price was raised to 7.50 or 10.00. I would still totally buy one, and I bet a lot of other folks would too.
That being said…. I’m hoping for the mother of all IRKs this time, just like I do every time, lol!
Even if the IRK contents disappoint, it feels good to participate in an unboxing event again (last one was 8 years ago). I love the design of the bag and probably would have paid $5 for it alone so as far as I’m concerned the contents are a bonus so no regrets on my early morning purchases.
That being said, I’m starting to wonder if Meh is doing these IRK sales events because they are replacing these with a new bag design. Or how about a new mystery bag called the GLEN?
There is no doubt their business model on IRKs has changed over the years-they used to be fun (like the person who got a pallet of broken flat screen TVs) or you might actually get something unique of value (like the new X box series X I got) instead of something in a damaged box they sell at Morningsave. But now with their new pricing strategy, all the fun has finally been completely removed knowing you have to buy crap to get crap.
@medz I had two things I ordered from Morningsave delivered this weekend, but I bought them because I wanted them-not because I was forced to buy them to get an IRK. See the difference?
@sublimebones No, you can buy either first. But probably figure out what you want and then do it pretty quickly in succession so if something sells out you’re not stuck not being able to cancel a purchase (you have an hour to change your mind.)
You just have to buy both ONE IRK and $49.99 or more in before-shipping-and-taxes SideDeal merch before the end of the event, which means before midnight EDT on 13 March (today, as I am composing this).
If you buy the IRK but not the required amount of SideDeal stuff, NO REFUND.
If you buy the SideDeal stuff but no IRK, NO REFUND.
If you buy the IRK and then buy $49.98 or less in SideDeal merch, NO REFUND.
If you buy two or three IRKS, then no matter how much you spend on SideDeal, you will get NO REFUND on the second and (if you bought it) third IRK(s).
Additional questions attempting to rules-lawyer around this will result in the questioner being subjected to much SMH, , eyeroll, and other similar responses. (Yes, I know, that facepalm does not cough up an emoji. This is a bug, not a feature.)
I will admit that having zero interest in spending fifty bucks on SideDeal made IRK avoidance into a no-brainer, which is probably just as well. This is in spite of the fact that the largest single item in my last IRK turned out to be exactly what I needed for a legit purpose not long afterwards.
I must say that I am disgusted with this current team at Mercatalyst as this establishment is quite discriminatory towards our outer individuals and states of being.
Meh and their company has been discriminatory against our own northern and western brethren.
The fact that Mercatalyst says “Meh” towards Alaska and Hawaii really grinds my beef and I have decided to boycott IRKs and say “Meh!!” to these “deals” they say we are buying.
Good luck and Godspeed.
Edit: I did buy an IRK at $50 last time and I am disgusted with myself. I also bought another one this time and I’m a little less disgusted due to my inebriated state of mind. I would actually consider buying another one but I’m guaranteed to get the same shit as the first and I’ll have to think about it for another few minutes.
Edit#2: well, I was just denied from buying scratch off lottery tickets at the corner store because they no longer accept debit cards and only take cash. My only release now is an IRK and I pray to the lotto gods that it’s not the same as the first IRK or I’ll be irked.
@Euniceandrich Finally, 1895 stupid folks doing double warehouse cleanup duty-- buying the garbage on Sidedeal nobody wants (a bunch of which was marked up) AND 1895 empty bags for meh staff to throw the rest of the expired food and failed ‘health’ products into!
So, if they pay a percentage of total sale to credit card companies, do they pay a second time when they do the chargeback / refund? Did that enter their consideration when deciding this plan?
It looks like they are trying to help SideDeal increase it’s balance sheet while dragging down Meh.
@Euniceandrich It all falls to the same bottom line in the end, so that’s only an important consideration to fools like Eddie Lampert. As for the service charges, much depends upon the merchant contract. The bigger you are, the more favorable your terms become. I suspect that their per-transaction fee is probably under a dime, and might be zero; it’s usual for the percentage-based fees to be reversed when a charge is reversed, so they might end up with a net “no effect”, but at worst a negligible paper loss. The cost of staff time to process the reversal is doubtless higher than the transaction penalty, if there is one.
I don’t have a wiretap on their thought processes, but I suspect that they have concluded that the attraction of the IRK outweighs the novelty of the sequence of short-time sales whose last couple of hours’ worth of items get short shrift when it comes to eyeball time. So it’s actually very logical to convert the IRK into a thing that can be almost automatically acquired “free-ish” once the qualifying hurdle has been cleared, to provide an inducement for the visitors to browse and cherry-pick the entire event item list in one go at any point in the event. In this way, the IRK is converted into a Bribe Of Questionable Value instead of the object of intense competition that it once was. Does the overall result look stronger at the end of the day? I can’t say, and I don’t expect them to tell us. But if this pattern continues, I think we can infer an answer.
I have a couple of questions. I bought the last $50 IRK. Silly me. But so far, I haven’t placed an order on SideDeal. If I purchase, say a mixer, for $149.99, will I get the $49.99 credit plus my VMP discount now? Or was that deal only good on the day of the IRK?
Got my side deal a couple days ago… in a big mostly empty box… IRK still not shipped. I was 1/2 expecting them to ship in the same box together & save shipping expenses.
I’m always excited and looking forward to regret my purchases! But, it’s still processing. So, I have to wait.
I am in the minority, but I like this new method of getting stuff we neither want or need. Both with this IRK and the last the stuff I bought I either needed, or made for good donations. I much prefer buying your way to an IRK over hoping my trigger finger is fast enough when it pops up randomly.
0/10 nothing worth bragging about. Got a women’s sweater fur lined thing, 7x pop sockets, xxl safety vest, some sort of large hardshell case and sticker thing that says born chic. Bought it cause I was barely high enough to wnar to waste the money so ggnore me. Edit: hard case is for a Mac book after I opened the packaging
Got screen protectors for iPhone 6,7,8-x5,
A hand bag that sanitized ur phone,
Calming cozy by sharper image was the big ticket item @$80,
And I don’t recall what else if anything… not a total waste wife immediately stole the calming cozy… so I get a hand bag apparently…
@DJ Sorry for the processing. That I can’t help with, but the refund for you was issued and I’m seeing your bank had access to it on the 16th, so you should see that in your account by now.
My Regret just showed up at my front door. It was in a big Ninja Foodi Grill box… I opened it up and noticed someone yanked out the top protection foam and crammed in a few extras. There was a size small sweat pants, a female XL booty shorts, UVC Santizer Wristlet, vanilla meltable chocolate, an IRK bag, and behind all of that was a Ninja Foodi Grill and what looks to be all the accessories! My wife is going to regret I got this stuff!
I have nothing to complain about, I got a pink electric kids scooter, a Christmas ornament, and screen protector but i did not get a tote… my favorite part of any IRK and its not there, but i got a good one so I musnt complain
Well, if the purpose of this offer was to generate beaucoup regret, it did that in spades squared – mega-regret, and instant at that. Meh.
I got one pair of black/berry blue BCBGMAXARIZA XS Yoga pants, a pack of six 2016 lithium batteries, a laptop cover for a 13" laptop, DC USB to micro USB cable with car accessory adapter, a large paisley elephant wall sticker (rolled up, thank goodness), a bright blue IRK bag, and a new, fairly pristine cardboard box in which it was all packaged. The total weight of this ensemble including the box was 1,440 g (2lbs, 3.75oz for the metrically challenged.)
The yoga pants would fit a anorexic 10-year old; hardly anything of which I am aware uses 2016 batteries; I don’t have a 13" laptop; no wall in our house/garage is suitable for the elephant wall sticker; but I guess I can save back the bright blue IRK bag to go with my yellow one, if I ever go Trick or Treating again (not bloody likely at my age.)
Perhaps the most valuable thing of all was the cardboard box. (No, we don’t have a cat to play in it. It will join the cardboard parade to the recycle center on the next trip.)
The only thing that could have made this whole experience worse was if it had arrived postage due. But since I’m VMP, I prepay monthly to avoid that. What joy!
So on the whole, I feel disappointed; my hopes have been dashed; I am unhappy, mildly annoyed, chagrined, foolish, and $50 poorer.
This experience, has been cathartic and emotionally purging. In the past month, a very close friend died unexpectedly. Our devoted Chocolate Lab granddog had to be put down, The DIL broke her ankle and got Covid at the same time. I lost a crown and broke the root of a molar and now have to have two dental implants. My wife is having surgery tomorrow. And the IRK which I was hoping would bring some bit of joy and respite lived up to its potential of being deeply disappointing and…dare I say it…regretful.
And to make matters worse, I did not – I say, did not – avail myself of the offer to buy some other junk. Junk, most of which was or had rapidly disappeared by the time I arrived on the scene for 1¢.
I thought, foolishly that I could use the IRK credit sometime in the future on Sidedeal. After all the IRK offer didn’t say AFAIK, that the additional Sidedeal purchase had to be made there and then.
I don’t know whether to be thankful or not about losing the Sidedeal companion offer. I don’t need more stuff. I really need to get rid of things, not pack more in.
So all in all, I suppose I have taken the cure pill of ever again falling for an IRK offer.
@Jackinga I don’t mean to kick a guy when he’s down, but, it did say in the write up that you had to make the SideDeal purchases that day.
Best wishes to your wife’s surgery, hope your mouth feels better, and I am sorry about your Doggo. I hope your day improve in spite of your instant regrets!
@pricciar Thank you so much for your concern and well wishes. I truly did not see/read the caveat about buying that day from SideDeal in the descriptive write-up.
Mine arrived today. I received a navy blue irk bag, a floatable palm tree speaker, a pair of 2x yoga pants, a 16 oz mint green drink chiller, a plug that goes in the wall and has a small shelf to hold the phone, and a Victor and Victoria small white teapot with strainer. Very nice mix. I’m ok happy.
Finally after years, I finally get a good bag of crap/fuko/irk. Was expecting the normal medium sized box full of the usual crap, got a Cuisinart 13 PC set. And the irk was the day before my birthday, so yay.
@Star2236 definitely. It’s funny though cause literally everything else that came in the box (other than the strangely-black-when-everyone-else’s-is-blue tote) is trash. A screen protector for iphone 6-8, a pair of women’s waist shaping briefs (useful to some, I’m a guy), and an Incase MacBook shell. I don’t have a MacBook, family doesn’t have the right size. I will say, I do like my Sidedeal item that I bought, and that I have absolutely no right to complain.
Blue bag, best item
Phone charger plug for car lighter
Mac Pro case, won’t fit my iPad
Ugly stick on wall art, hippy flowers
3 12oz packages of Meltables, artificial vanilla favor. Exp: 1-15-23
1 12oz package of Meltables, artificial chocolate flavor. Exp: 2-23-23
I must say that this is a sad IRK,
At least I got the bag this time!
I’m happier with my regrets this time, than I was last time. First of all there were a couple of SideDeal items I actually needed, and the price was good. One thing I didn’t even know I needed!
Second the actual kit.
Will Keep
Blue IRK bag. Yay!
Cusinart Knife Set. - These look nice. I see them at Costco all of the time.
KN95 Masks - I think they expired. But, they’ll do in a pinch. I guess? I don’t know. I wear masks around big crowds, still, and it seems to work. (knock on wood.)
Car USB chargers - I’ll probably give a couple away, since I already have one. But, it’s nice to have one to use in a pinch.
Good gift
Portable iron/steamer. - seems nice. But, I am fine with wrinkly.
Star 2 Star - fun gift for a little kid.
Thrift store bound:
Spray for hair extensions - I don’t have much hair to extend.
To the trash:
Instruction booklet for a wine preserve kit. The actual machine was not in the box, but the instruction book, was. So, if anyone got the kit I have your instructions. Not to Meh Staff: sometimes it is ok to recycle!
All in all a fun time. All my stuff was good, and I am glad I ordered.
Now understand that I don’t complain much, pretty easy going, with that said, what I received in my kit had a value of 15.66 on Amazon, are you shitting me! MEH, you lost me as a longtime customer. I have looked at every link that I get in your emails for years, I will now auto-send all of your emails to my junk folder, never to look at your site again.
@pauly1206 Hey, if you bought the $49.99 worth of items on SideDeal you actually made a profit of $15.65!! If you didn’t partake in meh’s devious marketing scheme, oh well.
3XL sweatpants–might be useful.
2 bottles of plant-based peach body wash, doesn’t smell bad.
Set of those outlet things (plug in, get a couple more outlets!).
10 mostly-useless TrackR pixels, which can be used with my Android with the Swiftfinder app, but no one seems to have found an alternative iPhone app for them, so my most forgetful kid can’t use them. Which wouldn’t be so demoralizing if I didn’t already have a bag of these from Meh from a previous sale, so I now have like 20 useless little Bluetooth trackers…
The blue tote.
And a cracked and kinda heavy shredder, which I haven’t yet plugged in to see if it works. Kid responded, “Hey, I could make confetti!”
Definitely kinda meh.
The first Instant Regret Kit I’ve ordered. It is the last box I will ever order. 13" Snap Jacket, I don’t have apple products, I’ll have to put a C plug on the Charge Pak, never use a phone ring sticky thing, Queen size sheet set will never get used because it won’t fit our king beds, best item was the knife and the blue Tote bag is ok.
@queenie602 maybe you could use the sheets as a picnic table cover, blanket for sitting on at a park or beach, to make pillows, making into curtains, or a pillow fort cover…
Seriously the worst IRK ever! six micro USB cables(I only have Apple products). A two pack of canned 95 face masks, 2 iPhone six -8 cases. I have a 13. A goofy phone grip and stand that I will never use, letter board letters 2 packages 188 characters each mind you(what the hell are they even for?), a hard case for a MacBook ( I don’t have a MacBook) and a “Unicutie” diy pretty putty that definitely seems like a dollar store find that I would be embarrassed to give it to a kid for Christmas. Yikes!!
Hmmmm, still haven’t emptied the box completely, but I am not seeing any irk bag. I did get my very first irk item, which appears to actually be a 13 cup Cuisinart food processor with dicing kit. It’s actually something we’ve needed, so I’m very happy with my first irk YAY!!!
@gnoogie spoke too soon, along with the food processor, i got a tan irk bag and card holder with a nonresidue leaving sticky back & a bag of light blue vanilla meltables (appropriately pretty spring color) & most of a ring (slightly too small for my currently inflamed fingers, with 6 green stones & 5 teenier green stones each on both sides of the middle empty four prongs (might come in handy for anyone needing to draw blood, becoming blood siblings, or administering poison or incapacitating agents (like when the a-team would knock out b.a. for flying)) & 3 blue bell & howell multilights with magnetic extenders & a long, er, um, spreader spatula thingie, which would work well with the food processor extra YAY!!!
I got a clipless curling iron (hair too short), a small fanny pack (too small for me), a sketchy-looking USB power block (UL or bust!) a peel-and-stick of the Cleveland skyline (not hipster enough to use ironically), and a 2XL pair of yoga pants (still don’t fit). The IRK bag isn’t bad, though.
Got several vanilla melting chocolate (I know that doesn’t make sense), as well as a rainbow unicorn decorating kit, some iPhone 6 and iPhone 8 accessories (literal trash) and a MacBook case for an older model that might fit something else, we’ll see. And a bag, of course.
My kids will love the rainbow unicorn kit and I’ll eat the vanilla chocolate. So for $0.01 I’d say I did OK. If I had paid the $50 I’d be furious but only with myself as the description clearly stated that this was extra regretty stuff.
Got 4 iPhone screen protectors (own 0 iphones), a pair of tights (size small), a bag, a pack of non medical face masks, and a shiatsu neck massager (heated). Overall, at a final price of 1 c for a neck massager, not too bad.
Women’s Kenneth Cole puffy winter Coat, Diamond muse Tennis Bracelet, Mia K Handbag, Irk bag and some rose gold foil thing. Regrettably opened in front of my wife, so I can’t use any of these as gifts. But not a bad day for her.
So far 2 of the 3 items I ordered arrived (still waiting on the 2pk earbuds) . Then lo and behold, my boxed IRK arrived today. Right now I’m wearing stuff I bought from Meh over the years to celebrate this occasion (stripe shorts, Flask shirt, paw socks [I refuse to wear out my mediocre socks]). Getting pictures ready for the IRK reveal thread.
Considering I sold the topper within 45 minutes of it arriving for $40 AND there were no iPhone 6 screen protectors to enrage me, happy enough with that
Wow! What a great purchase!! I got a black bag, Queen sheets with side pockets, a trunk organizer, coffee face peels, keychain charger, a cooler and a very expensive wrinkle cream. THRILLED!
I got the Laegendary Buckster, 2 TrackR pixels, three ID holders for the back of your phone, and 5 screen protectors for iPhone 6-8. And a weird wall pop thing.
10 lithium batteries (can use), iPhone X screen protector (Android girl, boo), and a Cuisinart toaster oven/broiler with the front window busted out and bits of glass everywhere.
@stephmehnie
Fill out the warranty and say you got it as a gift for Xmas and one of your kids somehow broke the glass while trying to move it. They might replace it for free. I got a personal cuisinart blender from meh that stopped working after a month or two and and filed out the warranty and they fixed it for free. But they wanted to know where I bought it so that’s why I said say it was a gift for Xmas.
I made out pretty well for my first IRK. Got a big ol Holmes air filter, with a few totally-not-pop-sockets and the bag shoved inside the filter box. I definitely won this round.
nothing but crap, 6 Tigi lip glosses and the most horrendous looking large light blue purse/bag that would have even been ugly back in the sixties being carried by an old lady on her way to Florida. None were even suitable to give as gift to my wife or daughters.
not a bad haul - king size sheet set (and we have a king size bed so score!), philips electric toothbrush. irk bag, phone protector, 5 lithium batteries. Well worth the one cent paid.
Bubba cooler 72 0z
Stone Hair extension hair spray
A solitary black out curtain (very short tho)
Tzumi Car phone charger plug plus usb c cable (6ft)
Tote bag
Im happy with my penny IRK and totally awesome robot vacuum from SideDeal I bought. I got a 4 pack of solar lights, a couple iPhone cases, a dumb facelift kit, and some chargers. Not a bad haul, worth more than a penny but less than $50. Smart idea Meh.
Wow! That was crap. 9 Tigi lip glosses. 2 other tigi lip balm, 2 Detroit city skyline wall clings, 3 iPhone 6,7,8 glass protectors (we use android), 2 electric razors, a black bag. Bonus, I get to hear my wife complain how I made such a regretful purchase.
1 - aluminum bath shelf
1 - face moisturizing mask
1 - hair extension cleaner
1 - phone charger
I did not read the side deal purchase$50 etc…
That is what I get for not paying attention.
Specs
What’s Included?
It is a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Price Comparison
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Warranty
Throw it in the trash
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Mar 27 - Tuesday, Mar 28
Really pathetic that the irks are 50.00 now. Nope
@khaleesi0
CAPITALISM BABY
ITS ONLY Been 17 mins and
221+ of these have been sold
/giphy money
@communist @khaleesi0 Name checks out.
Looks like the days of the $ 5 and $ 10 IRK are gone forever as are my buying one. RIP IRK for me anyway.
@Felton10
I’m with YOU! Especially after the last $50 IRK I bought. Three items, one was the IRK bag and the other 2 items were things I could have bought at the Dollar Store, TEN YEARS AGO! Lol
I was refunded for the IRK only after spending an additional $50 that I NEVER would have done otherwise.
Can you see the huge “S” for sucker stamped on my forehead?!
@Felton10 @Lynnerizer, same issue with my roommate. 50 bucks for dollar store crap & a couple bags of opened food.
@Felton10 @Lynnerizer yeah, i was so disappointed in my last irk. And i couldnt even tell you what else i got to get it free. More regret than usual, enough to make me just not bother with this one.
/showme a disappointed mehtizen
I regret this already and didn’t even have to spend a penny. Thanks meh!
After checking out the Totally Redeem Yourself Bundle, I wonder what would be in the IRK. Those are all the things I didn’t buy…
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
4x PulseTV Fidget Keychain Toy with LED Lights
2x Aukey CC-S2 Car Chargers
2x FreshPaper Storage Sheets for Produce (8 count)
1x Allstar Paincakes Mini Set (1 blue, 1 purple)
1x LetsFit White Noise Machine with 30 Sounds (White)
1x Love Corn Variety Pack (Sea Salt, BBQ, Habanero, Salt and Vinegar) (20 count 0.7 oz bags)
1x Pitch and Trek Camping Pillow
1x ToiletTree Products Nose Trimmer with LED Light
1x Odec 10000mAh Power Bank Quick Charge 3.0 A + 20W C
1x JLab Talk Go Plug Play USB Microphone (Refurbished)
1x Popular Mechanics Travel Gear Bag with Powerstrip
1x Power-To-Go 11-Piece Pro Lens Kit
WARRANTY
@Euniceandrich Buy an IRK, get an IRK.
@Euniceandrich
And a par…tridge in a pear tree… 
@Euniceandrich wow! You got way more stuff than me!
@blaineg @Euniceandrich TRY and IRK?
Hell nah. I finally got one after years if trying for $10 and it was a tupperware dish, socks, and a bag…… hard pass wasting $50.
@chasity_boyce I got toddler-sized knockoff crocs twice in a row, and they were probably the most expensive item in each bag.
FYI they have the 60 jack links for 49.99 if you were wanting to stock up
@whistlingwilly They’ve got the same 60 jack links for 39.99
60 x 1oz for $40
48 x 2.2oz for $35
No other listings that I could find.
@agnesnutter Oh the 60 pack is lighter? (Though also unexpired.)
/giphy all in
Member since 2015. Think it’s time to say goodby.
@tasco Yeah, if I do not get buy anything again this month, it may be time to end my VMP. It is now worse here than after the Amazon takeover of Woot. At least Woot had some great clearance sales of Amazon overstock before it went to hell.
@ponagathos @tasco I don’t get why they don’t send you guys more socks.
@ponagathos @stinks @tasco Socks? I ain’t got no stinking socks!
@blaineg @stinks @tasco In the early days of Meh, they occasionally sent out some freebies to VMP members. Those were also the days of $5 Meh shirts.
@tasco I agree. Been a fun ride.
@tasco Another example of the ‘shitification’ of one of the good things in life. Shitified by IRK-harvesting bots, not by the .meh staff in my opinion. They are golden. I have been VMP since January 2017 and am teetering on canceling too, but I love the mediocre staff
@blaineg @ponagathos @stinks @tasco i got the pair of socks. Wasn’t there maybe one other thing? Kinda sad.
@blaineg Occasionally? I only remember the socks.
@blaineg @Euniceandrich
We get charged sales tax for “membership” due to lazy accountants/legalnfull of horseshit at Meh. Even for months when no taxable goods were purchased or free of charge as part of the membership.
/showme lazy accountant full of manure from Missouri
@blaineg @ponagathos @tasco @zachhh
@snapster (hope I got that right)
Come on, show the VMP’s some love^H^H something other than mehferiffic indifference.
How many can there really be now? (Is this a Highlander situation?) YOU CAN AFFORD MORE SOCKS!!!1
@blaineg @stinks @tasco @zachhh I think a phone stand? I really miss the $5 shirts though. Black on black was my favorite. Nearly invisible Meh on the shirt as if you really did not care to share the message. Perfect.
@blaineg @ponagathos @stinks @tasco @zachhh
I’m such a hoarder.
Also a free pasta drop. Maybe a free shirt?
The last IRK I got during the Mehathon was barely worth the price, which was free after purchases of the Mehathon items. The good ole days of Meh selling weird stuff and pleasantly surprising IRKs are gone.
@hchavers Counterpoint: The last time they offered an IRK, I purchased it and was quite surprised that they shipped me a full-size standing vacuum. I use that thing every day (I have 2 dogs and two cats).
@hchavers @squishybrain And you didn’t already have a vacuum??
@Telanis my upright vacuum dies a couple months ago… I, for one, could use a new vacuum from Meh.
@squishybrain one IRK I received Thor’s Hammer. I fear the day of IRKs with Hammers and Vacuums are gone.
@hchavers @Telanis I did but it was starting to fail. So, good timing on Meh’s part!
Here to echo the lament of the loss of the $5 IRK. Of course they were harder to get, but that was part of the fun! I’m actually surprised they raised the price, considering I thought it was a very easy way for the warehouse to divest itself of excess inventory.
@PooltoyWolf
I get raising the price a little bit. , because shipping has gone up so much. But this is kind of crazy.If it went up $7.50 that would be ok
@Cerridwyn @PooltoyWolf You’d think they would make this better by offering a limited number of cheaper Irks and then have the $50 ones after.
don’t do it. people were actually annoyed when they opened my “pirate christmas” gifts and it was wrapped up garbage i got from my $50 irk. it’s worse than the old $5 boc’s.
@outz There was one company white elephant party (IT dept.) and I gave a surplus motherboard. I thought the guy that got it was going to cry.
What was really scary was most of the department had no idea what it was.
@blaineg @outz I got a motherboard in a bag of crap. My son was thrilled. I’m pretty sure it’s still in the box.
@blaineg @outz @sammydog01 …they didn’t use the motherboard?
@outz @pakopako @sammydog01 Probably not, it seemed to be a totally incomprehensible object.
Must have been a software guy.
Not a thing in the entire site I can justify buying at four months into being unemployed
No IRK for me
Nobody buys crap on Meh so we can make margaritas.
Instead, we make margaritas so we can buy crap on Meh!
I dub this a MehNoThon.
No matter we say almost 215+ people already bought this junk. Was a member for over 1 1/2 year & didn’t buy anything worth. Cancelled the membership a while back & no regrets since. A junk is a junk!!
@bobogobo Not only that apparently some bought two and some bought 3 of them. Wonder if the extras will be cancelled.
@bobogobo @Kidsandliz
They won’t be cancelled.
This is from the listing:
@bobogobo @Kidsandliz No, they’re just paying $50 for each of the extras.
@bobogobo Those buying are most likely the late arrivals to meh, hearing our old fun buying stories and now are FOMO (fear of missing out).
I went ahead and bought it because I was gonna buy the Sonicare 5100 anyway… making the IRK free. Only to find that the Sonicare sold out in the 2 minutes it took me to buy the IRK.
Oh well. Canceled.
@TBoneZeOriginal
There’s a different listing for a 2 pack of the Sonicare 5100 for the same price, but without the extra heads.
@TBoneZeOriginal
Correction:
2 for $90.
Whoops.
@FreePasta Tempting, actually. Could buy one for the wife too.
@TBoneZeOriginal the Sonicare 5100 bundle is available now
bundle
@callow Says sold out for me.
@TBoneZeOriginal Now it says sold out. Just checked, if I’m not signed in it shows as available.
Sorry about that!
@callow No worries, I fell for it too… got excited and then logged in.
Here’s hoping you go “Belly-Up” just like the Silicon Valley Bank did meh. You deserve nothing less!!
/giphy bankrupt
@IndifferentDude only to be bailed out by our tax dollars.
@IndifferentDude @jayman007 Nope - The FDIC is funded by FDIC-insured institutions, not by the taxpayers.
Finally got one! It’ll probably suck majorly, but that’s ok. At least once.
@1bmf What did you buy on Side-deal?
@squishybrain bought the portable jump starter
Ima pass on this mehnothon, bring back $5 or $10 IRK then I might try to regret it again.
@katsuronishi Yeah… this is the first irk I’ve looked at and just… didn’t want to even try for.
So dumb.
No captcha?
Fuck you and fuck your family
Please realize CAPTCHA is a fellow robot like you.
@thechinglish you already did.
@thechinglish perhaps you don’t have the mental bandwidth for one.
/showme withered-meaty-sweater
@mediocrebot Not enough meat.
@mediocrebot @xobzoo It’s made of meat.
Aww shoot, I just committed to $50 for some shit I probably don’t want!
sigh I really miss old Meh. but this is probably as close to the nostalgic rip off of high school reunions I’ll ever get, so.
@brainmist like I said in another thread, they now charge us $50 to get twice the trash
I miss the days where I could buy some random things I didn’t need during a whole day of random stuff being sold & maybe had a chance at buying a whole box of things I really didn’t need for cheap if I was there paying attention during that one day sale.
Hey meh… maybe bring that concept back cuz this one kinda sucks.
Just sayin.
@RogerWilco Well said! I’ve been thinking about canceling my membership for a while. Now that the main reason I originally signed up for no longer exists, it just makes sense for me to move on I think. It is like trying to leave a long-term abusive relationship tho!
@JvB @RogerWilco we need to support eachother and do it.
/showme miraculous-auspicious-mercury
OK, I’m finding this a bit confusing. Is it a cumulative Sidedeal deduction? Or only one purchase? Because I do need a better mic (and cam) but I could add things on if they also reduced my ridiculous reflex IRK buy.
@brainmist It is a cumulative adding together of what you buy to reach the minimum you need to spend for the refund.
@Kidsandliz Ahahha I think I screwed things up. I added the cam… but now I realize there are multiple IRK categories.
@brainmist @Kidsandliz anything on sidedeal.com across multiple purchases qualifies towards the total
@brainmist I’m somewhat certain I bought $150 of this IRK (3) for $140 of Sidedeal products … but probably it should be less confusing.
@brainmist You ONLY GET $49.99 REFUNDED so I’d cancel the other 2 if I were you!!
From the front page write up: “You can buy more than one IRK for $50 each, but you will only get one $49.99 refund (assuming you qualify for it) no matter what you spend or whatever else you do. Buy 2 IRKS, spend $100 on SideDeal, and you’ll still only get that one $49.99 refund.”
@brainmist OK, based on another post, I apparently paid $150 IRK for one <$50 sidedeal offer.
So…that pretty thoroughly sucks.
@brainmist @IndifferentDude do you know if you have to buy in a certain order? Like do you have to buy the IRK first or the side deal first?
@sublimebones According to what other longtime members have posted, “Order doesn’t matter”.
A big problem is that there’s just nothing good to buy on SideDeal. Over 95% of the items are China-directly-to-landfill no-name junk, and the few items that are decent are some combination of overpriced/specialized/circumstantial. At $19.99, maybe, but unless you’re in the market for a specific appliance, the current scheme isn’t going to work.
@ShotgunX don’t forget all the weird alternative/specialized/FAD diet food products that were marketing failures
I regret my decision in making these purchases but not enough to actually cancel them.
@kjady 100% agreed
@kjady Welcome to meh.
Nothing I wanted, but I appreciate the effort.
I bought $52.98 worth of ready to expire snacks at side deal. Do I get the $49.99 discount? And how?
@meh770 before or after taxes? If before tax total, buy the IRK and they’ll refund you in a week or two. Probably.
SUPER tempted by the Shark stick vac, but I don’t really need it and it seems to be $10 less on amazon, which cuts into the free-ness of the IRK.
@mossygreen This one is refurbished, too; is the woot one also?
@Kyeh Looks like it.
@Kyeh @mossygreen Call it a ten dollar irk you didn’t need to fight for?
@mossygreen @sammydog01
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Okay … so I feel a bit sheepish
I went for it. I was intrigued when it was for sale here for $20 less, but held back.
But the thought of an alternative to my big heavy corded monster from Sears just tempted me into giving it a try. I hope it’s not the biggest part of my regret!
@Kyeh @sammydog01 I’M STILL THINKING ABOUT IT. And it was $20 less before? Gee.
@mossygreen @sammydog01
Yes. 2/23/23, if this is the one you’re considering: https://mehstalker.com/
@Kyeh @sammydog01 Nope, I was looking at the corded one.
@Kyeh @sammydog01 Eh, screw it. Even though I got a robo vac in my last IRK, I’ve been wanting something I can use in the car. And this will work better than the random car vac I would buy at TJ Maxx on clearance.
@mossygreen @sammydog01 Oh, I don’t think that corded one was ever on Meh. It’s sold out now - maybe you got the last one!
@Kyeh @sammydog01 I will assume that!
Thanks! Probably
Most everything over there that I would want is something I already have.
@Kyeh
/giphy humblebrag
@medz Not really…just a comment on how old these offerings are, same old same old!
I bought the last $50 IRK. I will skip this one.
As fun as buying shit we don’t need with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t even like goes…I guess there would need to be something impressive worth buying.
This is a full pass. The last IRK was pretty regrettable too, enough that wasn’t worth bothering to post about.
The only thing I regret now was the 15 minutes wasted browsing side-garbage and expired weird-concept food.(and a few minutes for this post)
The $50 side deal IRK during a meh-ra-thon was just a little more compelling because you didn’t know what was coming up next, and could go back.
But @snapster and the other retail experimenters involved win regardless. Without my post, they already know how much time was spent by folks browsing their garbage without a purchase and will be having a discussion which gimmicks they can try next to move junk nobody wants or needs.
@caffeineguy Well spoken! You win the Internet for today!!
/giphy applause
@caffeineguy I don’t think they care how many people don’t buy it. I think they only care they get rid of it to someone.
@caffeineguy @Kidsandliz Remember they do this to torture us and entertain themselves, not just move crap.
I really tried to spend 49.99 at side deal, but fell short by a penny and there is nothing else I need. Well Ive wasted 50 bucks on less so whatever
@somf69 Everyone seems to think these are great - they’d make good stocking stuffers or something…
@Kyeh @somf69 Unfortunately for me I ordered these yesterday, so they don’t count toward an IRK. I do really like the ones I purchased previously, so not a total loss. I use them at the gym all the time in the treadmill so I can hear the TV.
@heartny @somf69
Get more???
@Kyeh I don’t have that many ears! I already ordered 4 pair, 2 for each ear. Also still have some left from the last batch. Maybe I need more ears.
@heartny Or give them as presents?
@heartny @Kyeh Spares for when they go through the washing machine?
@heartny @Kyeh @sammydog01 would you get them if someone paid you $43 to take them?
Why did you stop getting drones? I’d buy a bunch of the side deal crap if I thought there was any good crap coming in the bag. Starting to question my membership status
Meh.
/giphy sliced-locked-prawns
So… How do I know I did things right? Is it I buy the IRK and then something from side deal… or something from side deal and then the IRK? Or does it not matter the order?
@GamerWithaY
Order doesn’t matter.
@GamerWithaY
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@GamerWithaY Order only matters if they run out of irks which they finally did last time.
@Kidsandliz They did not sell out last time. I tool a screen shot 3 minutes before midnight and they sold over 1,300 and showed it was still available.
I am going to eat the IRK and everything in it
@ItsNemo video or it didn’t happen
@ItsNemo Does that mean you bought one of those blenders?
Is this the new normal? No more $5 or even $10 IRKs. Winning an IRK was fun and getting one was like Christmas even if mostly disappointing. But this change isn’t fun.
Only thing that tempts me is the red blanket
After nearly 6 months without buying anything, Meh found a way to bring me back in. Got my very first IRK bag and picked up the anti snore strap ($14.99), Celsius tropical pack ($29.99), and the 2 pack Voza earbuds ($6.99) which brought me to $51.97 before taxes. Even if the contents of the IRK disappoint, I’m happy to get the bag which I can place next to my Fukubokuro from 2015. Well played, Meh.
/giphy waiting-amorous-card
@JT954 And on top of all that, you got a pretty cool wooden hand animation!
@JT954 And, if you had applied your VMP discount, you could have saved another $5.20.
But then you would not have totaled the > $49.99 for the 1 cent IRK.
So you would still have had to spend another $6 or so (before discount) to get back up to the qualifying amount. But would have had one more piece of regret in your total purchase for about the same cost.
How long do we have to buy stuff? Till tomorrow at midnight? Is all the side deal stuff posted, or will there be more at 8 est?
Bought an Irk because I saw something for 15 I needed anyway and figured I could find 35 more, but man I can’t find anything I’m excited about over there
@madcow9100 They seem to have added some more stuff since last night.
I sorta miss captcha on my 14.4k modem. But still got in on a smi-rk.
Beep beep boop boop. (I assume if you failed CAPTCHA you now understand Robot.)
i think I ended up paying for 3 IRKs for one sorta SideDeal, maybe. It’s pretty Meh that the new system is so confusing, but also disappointing.
Will we ever get a system that’s uplifting? Encouraging?
Will we ever get something worth fighting for? Worth building a nation/ a world on?
@brainmist No, then they couldn’t call it meh anymore.
@brainmist
I’ve been looking for that a long time now, though not on Meh.
Fwiw, I haven’t found it in society at large, so I don’t expect to find it from a company named “Mediocre.”
But that’s just my neurodiverse take on things. Maybe normal people do find hope in the world?
@xobzoo I think normal people made this world, so I am less than optimistic. But Meh seems to have refunded my extra orders, which helps my optimism.
@brainmist That is a good point. I’ve had only a few interactions with the Meh/Mercatalyst team, but they’ve all been very excellent.
PossiblyProbably disappointing merchandise, but wonderful customer service. (at least, in my experience so far)@brainmist
There’s a couple of pieces of paper I could recommend.
@blaineg @brainmist Right now though it seems we are all only fighting OVER them.
These should be ERKs: Extra Regret Kits.
Not only can you regret buying the kit of trash, but also overpaying for stuff on sidedeal.
@medz Yes, that’s perfect.
@medz I’d actually have gone in on ERKs (like I did on IRKs, when I thought it was a one-for-one) I’ve gotten some interesting stuff.
It’s really sad what’s happened to meh.
I got a fully functional, albeit dented, slow cooker in my last ($50) IRK, plus underwear my husband’s actually going to wear, so I am foolishly optimistic. anyway, those corn snacks look tasty, and I’ve been meaning to do more art lately…
@octa can’t bullshit a bullshitter. Look, on here we are in this together. Three steps this middling mediocre middle man site:
Buy first,
rationalize later,
promise not to do it again last.
Screwed me many times when trying to buy an IRK… Not a chance in hell will I spend $50.00 on what might be total crap… Been a member since the start, even though it shows 2017. Was also a Member of WOOT for years… Before the Mothership got it…
Has Elon Musk purchased MEH?
@sligett Nah,then there’d be a monthly charge just to comment on how much the site sucks these days WAIT
Do not buy the $50 IRKs! This is a shit way to sell them. Make them $10 (or back to $5 like the old days); first come, first served.
I got in on this same IRK deal the last time they offered it (which was the first time I can recall ever getting an IRK,) since I was getting >$50 of stuff in the Meh-ra-thon anyways. The IRK was barely worth anything, with an iPhone X case and a Macbook Pro shell being the two main, but very specific (and in my case useless) items.
This time, I might give it another shot just because I’m thinking about getting at least another of those SMT sling bags from Sidedeal as a backup, as the first one I got has been great for my needs over the past two months or so, but I could see it getting manhandled and torn apart over the course of a year or two. Plus, the $25 asking price is on par with similar sling bags on Amazon.
Also, if you’re looking for something to add to a cart to get you to $50, those “Anker PowerPort Atom III Slim” power supplies, both the 30 & 45 W versions, are good general-purpose options. They’ll output the 4 standard PD voltages from 5-20 V (so up to 1.5 and 2.25 A, respectively,) meaning they should work with anything that doesn’t require a higher power output to function (like a gaming laptop or something that requires a 60 W PDO or else it refuses to charge.) Either is a good choice as an aftermarket, more portable alternative for the Steam Deck, for example, which takes up to 15 V but will function off the 30 W version of the above without protest.
Last time I bought a $75 IRK by mistake and di not cancel it in time. It was the worst IRK I ever got. And since Meh items became more boring I was unable to use any of those 15*$5 coupons (used 1, I think). I lost $70.
It’s the first IRK that was a disappointment, but it was huge $70-priced disappointment.
I’m not falling for this again.
So I ordered one. Are people saying I will regret this?
@Drez143
/8ball Are people saying I will regret this?
My reply is no
While I get all the piling on the new way to get an IRK, I can actually get an IRK. Plus, I can choose a few things (eyes on some headphones or the bottlekeepers right now but I’ll look later in the day) I actually want that might help to delay the regret from the purchase.
Plus, my naive self gets the added bonus that I can join the “change is bad” group the next time this comes up if (when) this one go south!
/giphy oathsome-organized-pelican
/giphy thorny-ornery-banshee
I’m sorry. I can’t get behind the $50 IRK. This is (and has been) a terrible idea in practice and it doesn’t seem to be making anyone happy except for the people who have never gotten one. I understand the idea of trying to boost up sales for the other sites (and that idea is good in theory), but this is just… wrong. Especially if this is the new standard.
I just… I don’t understand why if this exists, the $5-$10 IRK can now no longer exist. Make this an option, not the new way.
It’d be one thing if the items were a little better than what you’d get in a $5 IRK, but when they’re worse based on what people are reporting here, that feels kinda slimy? I don’t know how else to put it without sounding like a jerk. This isn’t the same “I’m disappointed and have Instant Regret!” kinda post. This is a “This IRK strategy feels wrong and exploitative” post.
@BillLehecka My question is, why isn’t there something else on sale that isn’t an IRK?
hold me.
@GLBastard tiny dancer
/showme I’m too big to fail. Like Silicon Valley bank.
The /showme command is a member feature. Join membership to try it out.
@mediocrebot negative. I cancelled my membership. It’s you, not me.
@qazxto /showme I’m too big to fail. Like Citibank
/giphy hard pass
Fell for this scam last time, and wound up with not one, but two totally demolished air purifiers. I swear they just take random broken crap that people returned and put it in a box. Instant Regret is guaranteed. Not even the reusable bag lasted longer than two shopping trips.
Also, the whole “Log in and send me a daily email” thing over on side deal feels like a can spam act violation waiting to happen.
In all, “Nope.”
@calicojack42 Sounds like you perfectly understand the situation.
@ACraigL @calicojack42
/giphy enlightenment
I have enough leftovers from previous IRKs that I’d be happy to put boxes with your choice of bag color together for 49.98
Coincidentally, I’m in the market for a jump-starter.
Free IRK, right? Not so fast. Morningsave has that very same jumpstarter for $10 less.
I don’t want a $10 IRK.
@ACraigL Damn it, exactly what i purchased!
@ACraigL @audiocontr And I’m pretty sure this was sold on meh last week for $34.99, so $15 IRK.
I think a lot of the $49.99 items on side deal have jacked up pricing. This whole thing is smarmy.
meh,
@ACraigL @audiocontr @Trinityscrew
I got an irk bc I’ve been wanting the eye massager that was under the $49.99 tab. I refuse to look on morningsave now that you say the charger was less there bc I’ll be so mad.
So which is it, spend 49.99 or spend 50.00?? Can’t have it both ways, Meh!
yeah I am too tired to fix the white space…
@mikibell Well, you can, because both will qualify.
Well, I actually wanted $60 worth of crap from from SideDeal, but it sold out just after 10pm while I was still dithering.
So thanks for saving me money.
/giphy I’m rich!
Had to cancel because my sidedeal total came to $49.98! Not paying $50 cause I was a penny short
Sure, I’ll gamble. Go go gadget tax refund
/giphy gourmet-instrumental-taco
“Buy $50 of shit no one wants and we’ll give you another $50 of shit no one wants for a penny” is not the sales pitch you think it is…
@Pufferfishy I’m pretty sure it is.
1013 sold so far.
@blaineg
So is this gonna be the way meh does irks from now on? Charge $50 to create sales on Sidedeals? If so, I’m stopping my membership. It’s been a long while since I’ve seen anything I wanted to buy here–inc overpriced irks.
I was going to do this but the instructions were way to unclear for me to trust getting my $49.99 back!
Yep I agree with you Zachs, I just made the purchase and didn’t see the refund show up in the purchase right away. Hope this works without a whole lotta back and forth emails to make this the right price.
@mjunkmail Last time it took them a handful of days to get everyone their credit. From what people posted it sounds like the charge went through and then the credit.
@mjunkmail Right there on the front page, at the bottom:
@blaineg @mjunkmail Why do you assume it could/will be read here, if it t’weren’t there?
I’m not even convinced that people read their election ballots lately.
@mjunkmail @phendrick
Hope springs eternal.
Hey, look! The front loader is back! (Or never left.)
But now you can get it for $50 with a free IRK.
@blaineg I don’t think you can do math. You can now get it for $99.99 and a free irk.
Too bad that front loader is so expensive I am positive there are 2 little boys and 2 little girls who’d love that thing. They’d need one each though as I am also positive it would get broken with the fighting if they only had one of them between them.
@Kidsandliz I’m a gonna blame DST. Definitely not because I stayed up too late last night.
If that’s the worst mistake I make all day, I’ll call it a win.
@blaineg As long as you actually didn’t lose the $50 LOL
@Kidsandliz No worries there, I bought one the first time they showed up. I haven’t played with it a lot, but I think it was worth it.
I think Meh bought the whole warehouse since they’re still for sale.
@blaineg Or they are still for sale as they are pretty expensive for a toy.
I also did this the last time. Not only was my $50 irk box the worst ever…worse than any of the $5 boxes I won, I never got the 2nd half of the deal. I kept waiting - nothing. Then I had a family situation and neglected to follow up. Out $50 bucks for crap.
@steffi59 You can still contact support over this. I’d suspect they’d correct the mistake and give you the credit. They are pretty good about things like that.
I just want to say that “Chunky Bowl Filler” may be the worst product name ever.
And yet, somehow it sold out.
@blaineg I guess it sold out because if you put that stuff in a bowl for decoration you’d have a dust collection next that you can’t vacuum up. You’d need to toss it and refill.
My toilet bowls are brimming with my own brand of chunky filling.
I miss when Meh and IRK/Fuko events were actually fun. I miss the reasonably priced $5 disappointments. I’ve always felt humorously scammed by Meh in the past but that is all lost now.
Now Meh just feels like a business that charges us to haul away their unsellable trash for a seemingly “free/low cost” price.
/giphy big sad
I think this SideDeal offering is the perfect pairing
@ybmuG You plan to flush your irk down the toilet?
more crap OTW
/giphy equable-earthy-fish
Does it count towards the 49.99 if you use a coupon?
@alchyilee Nope
@alchyilee OH, I forgot about the vmp code! This might last-minute change stuff.
“Fool me once…”
So, I see the “Meh” button, but can’t seem to find the “Oh HELL NO” button…
Bought a massage gun because what the hell, my shoulder’s always tight.
Last time they did this I got a pretty good irk. I got a mop with separate clean and dirty water tank (I’ve been wanting one) I’m planing on using it today. And I forgot to buy the sidedeal items. So I bought the irk today and the massaging eye mask that I’ve been eyeing since last time.
I bought the retractable extension cord over on sidedeal this morning so I guess I’m in for my first IRK-fingers will remain crossed they don’t send me expired food and/or refurb’ed ear buds
@fewhitrecords You’ll probably get refurb’ed food and expired ear buds. Light a candle and cross your fingers.
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@fewhitrecords @phendrick Following instructions as given is important, do not cross a candle and light your fingers.
Meh, it’s only a penny… It motivated me to buy a replacement Sous Vide since mine recently and unexpectedly passed away. I thought for sure she would keep my water hot for a few more years allowing me to cook the perfect rare steak without worry. But the pressure was too much for her and she just stopped. It was a sad day and it took me a few weeks to start looking for a replacement. Friends and Family have been encouraging me to get out and look for another Sous Vide. I knew I should but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it so quickly. I do feel a little apprehension and I’m nervous about falling for another Sous Vide only for her to suddenly pass away on me like the last one.
But if she does, I’ll have a cool bag and some other crap to console me this time. I had nothing to turn to the last time and that was really rough.
@Imisstheoldwoot Should have picked up twins- heir and a spare?
@Imisstheoldwoot i also went for the sous vide
SideDeal doesn’t seem to have a shopping cart. You just pick a thing and buy it.
Can I buy two things in separate purchases to count as $50?
How does Meh know I bought the things?
@gisborne Yep, all purchases today count toward the total. We run reports to find out who qualifies
/giphy handy-magnificent-sodium
I ordered 3 of these: and then bought the IRK.
I already have 2, one for me and one for my husband. I LOVE that it comes with the charger built in, so many of these things require you to thread your existing charger through and clip it in. It also work fabulously, snaps right in, and folds down for travel or for storage.
My husband has his bedside but he needs one downstairs too because he often asks to use mine. And I got two extras to gift to my daughters, likely at Christmas. Though even more likely I will pack it into one of the care packages I tend to send them here and there.
So…if you are looking for something for at least 20.00 of the 50, and have an apple watch, I recommend these.
With the last Mehathon I was able to purchase my VERY 1st IRK, BOC, etc, and I have been a customer here for an extremely long long time! I just didn’t have the luck, time, energy, high speed Internet or whatever it takes to be able to be successful in purchasing any, ever! One time I think there was a Birthday BOC that I was able to get, I can’t remember what was in it except a candle. It didn’t have the thing that I had read about in other customers “real” BOC’s or IRK’s and it wasn’t competitive, anybody could buy one.
So, I AM excited to get my 1st IRK, and I didn’t have any trouble spending $50.00 on stuff during the Mehathon.
My IRK included:
Pawsitively Clean Dog Fetch/play toy
), but I know people who do.
(We don’t have a dog anymore
A tzumi DC charge pack 1 1 amp car charger with a 6 ft micro usb connector.
(It’s a little old school, but I have several Bluetooth devices that this will charge, thanks to meh).
Two glass screen protectors for an iPhone X.
(Believe it or not, I DO own and use an iPhone X, and so does my husband. We have never put a screen protector on them, and they haven’t cracked or scratched, I think they are making them a little more durable than they use to. I’ve been wanting a new phone, maybe I’ll slap one of these on and it will feel like a new phone!
An INCASE Textured Hardshell for a 15” MacBook Pro Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) in Pink.
(I have an old 13” MacBook Air, and have been wanting a new laptop too, but is this still the current size? IDK, my husband has a 15” MacBook Pro, but he is t interested in using a Pink Hardcover, I don’t know why not! So maybe I’ll go laptop shopping!)
And last but not least, a Unicutie DIY Pretty Putty Kit; it contains 3 glitter tubes, 3 containers of putty, 1 Color-yourself sticker sheet, and a pack of 4 markers!
(Maybe this will come in handy for coloring Easter Eggs!)
So, all in all for $0.01 not bad, but not overly exciting. The exciting part was opening it up to see what I got!
Would I do it again? You betcha! But only if there were things to buy that I really could use anyway, I’m not gonna spend $50 bucks on stuff I can’t use, just to get an IRK.
With that being said, I think I’ll stroll over to Side Deals! Who knows, maybe I’ll end up with IRK #2.
Have a great day!
@jmrobinett I love your optimism!
If you get one, I hope it’s a great one! Mine have always been, at the very least, fun. So if you find stuff you already want on Side Deal, then the IRK is worth it for the surprise and the laugh.
1685 sold now, seems like the rate is slowing down a bit.
The warehouse should be empty and the floor swept by the time this is done.
Well last time I bought the $50 IRK ADHD tax = forgot to finish the rest of the shopping requirements and just paid 50 bucks for it.
WHOOPS!!! but there was one cool Star Wars t-shirt in there in the right size that I absolutely loved so it wasn’t a complete loss.
P. S. This time I DID complete the requirements. Only took me about 8 hours…
@tkaos
I ordered my last $50 IRK while inebriated and immediately fell asleep and completely forgot about it until it was delivered.
Unfortunately, I did not order anything from SideDeal due to my condition and I was mortified when my memories came streaming back after the IRK delivery.
I hoped upon hope, while opening, that I would receive at least $20 worth of goods. Well, at least I didn’t receive mismatched sizes of claw
footed crocs so I guess it was worth it because my disappointment was tempered.
Also, the last $50 IRK bag was the best yet.
I need a birthday present for my brother, so I grabbed the TackLife jump starter, as his car’s a BOC.
/giphy happy-gushing-spark
@klynb It too was $15 more.
/showme a fifty dollar instant regret kit
@mediocrebot Looks about right, except the money part.
This is going to be my first IRK. I’ve seen how bad BoC and IRK have gotten, but I really needed to top up my peanut butter cups and get a new massager (the one from SD/Meh’s Valentine’s popped a screw and won’t stop rattling) – I probably shouldn’t buy it from here again (especially at the non-VD cost), but it covers half the IRK so, meh, add a pair of weird therapeutic toe socks and I’m all set for the Disappointment Instant Regret Experience of being a VMP. I just hope it doesn’t cost $50.
@pakopako
I know the VD cost seemed good, but not having VD is priceless.
Seems most items are $10-15 more than they were on my last visit. Very fucking suspicious!
@whomeyesu I noticed that too.
@whomeyesu How about two identical listings for the 60 Jack Links; 60-pack-jack-links-wild-beef-jerky-sticks-hot-4 was 49.99, 60-pack-jack-links-wild-beef-jerky-sticks-hot-3 is still 39.99, and lest we not forget were 29.99 in last week’s ‘daily deal’
/giphy nebulous-packed-barium
I got one only because there were a few things I could use, and spent the balance on gifts. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have caved.
I do hope that this isn’t the new norm, though. I have received some GREAT IRK’s, and some that were very, very price appropriate (aka $5, lol!). I have no sense of entitlement that I should always receive awesome IRKs…the surprise has always been more than enough for me. I never understood the complaints for a $5 (or $10 with shipping) disappointing IRK.
There were never any guarantees. For me, the thrill of the catch made it fun, too (although not for everyone, I know). But it feels different now. Less fun, I guess?
I also don’t knock Meh for having to evolve their business in order to stay in business. That certainly makes sense. Like someone mentioned above, maybe there is room to do it both ways. A more expensive IRK (with a better chance at at least something close to that value), and a standard IRK chase during the ‘thons (even if that price was raised to 7.50 or 10.00. I would still totally buy one, and I bet a lot of other folks would too.
That being said…. I’m hoping for the mother of all IRKs this time, just like I do every time, lol!
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
Even if the IRK contents disappoint, it feels good to participate in an unboxing event again (last one was 8 years ago). I love the design of the bag and probably would have paid $5 for it alone so as far as I’m concerned the contents are a bonus so no regrets on my early morning purchases.
That being said, I’m starting to wonder if Meh is doing these IRK sales events because they are replacing these with a new bag design. Or how about a new mystery bag called the GLEN?
There is no doubt their business model on IRKs has changed over the years-they used to be fun (like the person who got a pallet of broken flat screen TVs) or you might actually get something unique of value (like the new X box series X I got) instead of something in a damaged box they sell at Morningsave. But now with their new pricing strategy, all the fun has finally been completely removed knowing you have to buy crap to get crap.
@Felton10 yup. Please buy enough other stuff so we can afford to ship crap instead of throw it in the dumpster. You’re welcome…?
@medz I had two things I ordered from Morningsave delivered this weekend, but I bought them because I wanted them-not because I was forced to buy them to get an IRK. See the difference?
@Felton10 yeppers
Do you have to buy the IRK / side deal in a specific order to get the refund?
@sublimebones
Read the post.
NO REFUNDS.
@sublimebones No, you can buy either first. But probably figure out what you want and then do it pretty quickly in succession so if something sells out you’re not stuck not being able to cancel a purchase (you have an hour to change your mind.)
@sublimebones
No.
You just have to buy both ONE IRK and $49.99 or more in before-shipping-and-taxes SideDeal merch before the end of the event, which means before midnight EDT on 13 March (today, as I am composing this).
If you buy the IRK but not the required amount of SideDeal stuff, NO REFUND.
If you buy the SideDeal stuff but no IRK, NO REFUND.
If you buy the IRK and then buy $49.98 or less in SideDeal merch, NO REFUND.
If you buy two or three IRKS, then no matter how much you spend on SideDeal, you will get NO REFUND on the second and (if you bought it) third IRK(s).
Additional questions attempting to rules-lawyer around this will result in the questioner being subjected to much SMH,
, eyeroll, and other similar responses. (Yes, I know, that facepalm does not cough up an emoji. This is a bug, not a feature.)
I wish there was an instant like kit.
@mexicantacos
They have those buy you have to buy them at thrift/second hand stores for like $1.
Goodwill stores restock daily and have great deals on toys, many which are brand new and unopened like Lego and board games.
I pop in a couple times a week on my work breaks to see what’s new so I can stock up on my kids b-day/X-Mas presents on the cheap.
@chiefbigbong Sorry, none of that ILK here.
@brainmist @chiefbigbong The goodwill stores here have mostly beat up junk.
/giphy barbarous-scarce-worm
I will admit that having zero interest in spending fifty bucks on SideDeal made IRK avoidance into a no-brainer, which is probably just as well. This is in spite of the fact that the largest single item in my last IRK turned out to be exactly what I needed for a legit purpose not long afterwards.
I must say that I am disgusted with this current team at Mercatalyst as this establishment is quite discriminatory towards our outer individuals and states of being.
Meh and their company has been discriminatory against our own northern and western brethren.
The fact that Mercatalyst says “Meh” towards Alaska and Hawaii really grinds my beef and I have decided to boycott IRKs and say “Meh!!” to these “deals” they say we are buying.
Good luck and Godspeed.
Edit: I did buy an IRK at $50 last time and I am disgusted with myself. I also bought another one this time and I’m a little less disgusted due to my inebriated state of mind. I would actually consider buying another one but I’m guaranteed to get the same shit as the first and I’ll have to think about it for another few minutes.
Edit#2: well, I was just denied from buying scratch off lottery tickets at the corner store because they no longer accept debit cards and only take cash. My only release now is an IRK and I pray to the lotto gods that it’s not the same as the first IRK or I’ll be irked.
Does it work if I spend $50 across multiple items on side deal? Since there doesn’t seem to be a cart
@bfields01 Yes, as answered in several posts above.
(E.g., search for “Troy”.)
@phendrick Oh, looks like most of the comments were hidden. I thought it was weird it didn’t seem like anyone else had asked. Thank you!
I made a purchase on side deal. How long until the discount shows?
@nbppp2
As listed on the main banner, it can take a week for the refund to be processed.
@nbppp2 , I had the same question too
@nbppp2 @TimmyB FYI, I got a notice just this afternoon from my CC co. that my refund had been credited, so 4-5 days if my case is typical.
@nbppp2 @TimmyB
As stated on the product page:
Another thing: we do these refunds manually, so they won’t be immediate. Depending on your bank it might even be more than a week before you see it.
And you bought…
1895 of these.
There’s still some left.
That’s $103648 total.
(including shipping)
@Euniceandrich Finally, 1895 stupid folks doing double warehouse cleanup duty-- buying the garbage on Sidedeal nobody wants (a bunch of which was marked up) AND 1895 empty bags for meh staff to throw the rest of the expired food and failed ‘health’ products into!
And you bought…
1903 of these.
Deal ended 3/14/2023 12am ET.
That’s $104089 total.
(including shipping)
So, if they pay a percentage of total sale to credit card companies, do they pay a second time when they do the chargeback / refund? Did that enter their consideration when deciding this plan?
It looks like they are trying to help SideDeal increase it’s balance sheet while dragging down Meh.
@Euniceandrich It all falls to the same bottom line in the end, so that’s only an important consideration to fools like Eddie Lampert. As for the service charges, much depends upon the merchant contract. The bigger you are, the more favorable your terms become. I suspect that their per-transaction fee is probably under a dime, and might be zero; it’s usual for the percentage-based fees to be reversed when a charge is reversed, so they might end up with a net “no effect”, but at worst a negligible paper loss. The cost of staff time to process the reversal is doubtless higher than the transaction penalty, if there is one.
I don’t have a wiretap on their thought processes, but I suspect that they have concluded that the attraction of the IRK outweighs the novelty of the sequence of short-time sales whose last couple of hours’ worth of items get short shrift when it comes to eyeball time. So it’s actually very logical to convert the IRK into a thing that can be almost automatically acquired “free-ish” once the qualifying hurdle has been cleared, to provide an inducement for the visitors to browse and cherry-pick the entire event item list in one go at any point in the event. In this way, the IRK is converted into a Bribe Of Questionable Value instead of the object of intense competition that it once was. Does the overall result look stronger at the end of the day? I can’t say, and I don’t expect them to tell us. But if this pattern continues, I think we can infer an answer.
@Euniceandrich @werehatrack well put.
@Euniceandrich side deal is often left over meh items
/showme mobile-jaded-shandy
Like Woot!, meh may have grown too powerful, time to turn meh into a marketplace and start bleh.com as the new big daily deal site.
/showme soft-titled-guitar
I have a couple of questions. I bought the last $50 IRK. Silly me. But so far, I haven’t placed an order on SideDeal. If I purchase, say a mixer, for $149.99, will I get the $49.99 credit plus my VMP discount now? Or was that deal only good on the day of the IRK?
@Jackinga Only on the day the IRK was sold. Offer ended at Midnight that day (DST). [Eastern Region - FYI]
No REVEAL THREAD yet?? Either no one has received their’s yet, or everyone who has is too embarrassed to post!!
/giphy embarrassed
@IndifferentDude Still processing - estimated delivery 3/27 - 3/28
@SnowDog Boy, they used to start Reveal Threads within 3 - 5 days! Guess higher prices doesn’t increase shipping speeds. Another fail for meh!
@IndifferentDude @SnowDog
Mine came today!
And???
@FreePasta @IndifferentDude @SnowDog
@caroljeansubtle @IndifferentDude @SnowDog
https://meh.com/forum/topics/sidedeal-o-rama-irk-reveal-thread
@caroljeansubtle @FreePasta @IndifferentDude I posted mine over on: https://meh.com/forum/topics/sidedeal-o-rama-irk-reveal-thread
Surprised how long it takes to process this… will wait and see.
Got my side deal a couple days ago… in a big mostly empty box… IRK still not shipped. I was 1/2 expecting them to ship in the same box together & save shipping expenses.
@dgerous That never happens.
I’m always excited and looking forward to regret my purchases! But, it’s still processing. So, I have to wait.
I am in the minority, but I like this new method of getting stuff we neither want or need. Both with this IRK and the last the stuff I bought I either needed, or made for good donations. I much prefer buying your way to an IRK over hoping my trigger finger is fast enough when it pops up randomly.
0/10 nothing worth bragging about. Got a women’s sweater fur lined thing, 7x pop sockets, xxl safety vest, some sort of large hardshell case and sticker thing that says born chic. Bought it cause I was barely high enough to wnar to waste the money so ggnore me. Edit: hard case is for a Mac book after I opened the packaging
@jcarb94 so uh def never ever again
Got screen protectors for iPhone 6,7,8-x5,
A hand bag that sanitized ur phone,
Calming cozy by sharper image was the big ticket item @$80,
And I don’t recall what else if anything… not a total waste wife immediately stole the calming cozy… so I get a hand bag apparently…
@sadistic1dreams i forgot to add the deep tissue percussion massager. And female kneehigh socks.
Has anyone not been processed and still waiting on refund or am I just lucky?
@DJ Sorry for the processing. That I can’t help with, but the refund for you was issued and I’m seeing your bank had access to it on the 16th, so you should see that in your account by now.
Instant Regret? No kidding! I definitely regret mine and will buy another one lmao
My Regret just showed up at my front door. It was in a big Ninja Foodi Grill box… I opened it up and noticed someone yanked out the top protection foam and crammed in a few extras. There was a size small sweat pants, a female XL booty shorts, UVC Santizer Wristlet, vanilla meltable chocolate, an IRK bag, and behind all of that was a Ninja Foodi Grill and what looks to be all the accessories! My wife is going to regret I got this stuff!
My Bag of Cr …err …Instant Regret Kit just showed up. Definitely lives up to the name.
@mirrorz I think they’re for hand sanitizer.
I got:
I got a coffee maker and some yoga pants
I have nothing to complain about, I got a pink electric kids scooter, a Christmas ornament, and screen protector but i did not get a tote… my favorite part of any IRK and its not there, but i got a good one so I musnt complain
@d3rsty contact support and they will send you your irk bag
Well, if the purpose of this offer was to generate beaucoup regret, it did that in spades squared – mega-regret, and instant at that. Meh.
I got one pair of black/berry blue BCBGMAXARIZA XS Yoga pants, a pack of six 2016 lithium batteries, a laptop cover for a 13" laptop, DC USB to micro USB cable with car accessory adapter, a large paisley elephant wall sticker (rolled up, thank goodness), a bright blue IRK bag, and a new, fairly pristine cardboard box in which it was all packaged. The total weight of this ensemble including the box was 1,440 g (2lbs, 3.75oz for the metrically challenged.)
The yoga pants would fit a anorexic 10-year old; hardly anything of which I am aware uses 2016 batteries; I don’t have a 13" laptop; no wall in our house/garage is suitable for the elephant wall sticker; but I guess I can save back the bright blue IRK bag to go with my yellow one, if I ever go Trick or Treating again (not bloody likely at my age.)
Perhaps the most valuable thing of all was the cardboard box. (No, we don’t have a cat to play in it. It will join the cardboard parade to the recycle center on the next trip.)
The only thing that could have made this whole experience worse was if it had arrived postage due. But since I’m VMP, I prepay monthly to avoid that. What joy!
So on the whole, I feel disappointed; my hopes have been dashed; I am unhappy, mildly annoyed, chagrined, foolish, and $50 poorer.
This experience, has been cathartic and emotionally purging. In the past month, a very close friend died unexpectedly. Our devoted Chocolate Lab granddog had to be put down, The DIL broke her ankle and got Covid at the same time. I lost a crown and broke the root of a molar and now have to have two dental implants. My wife is having surgery tomorrow. And the IRK which I was hoping would bring some bit of joy and respite lived up to its potential of being deeply disappointing and…dare I say it…regretful.
And to make matters worse, I did not – I say, did not – avail myself of the offer to buy some other junk. Junk, most of which was or had rapidly disappeared by the time I arrived on the scene for 1¢.
I thought, foolishly that I could use the IRK credit sometime in the future on Sidedeal. After all the IRK offer didn’t say AFAIK, that the additional Sidedeal purchase had to be made there and then.
I don’t know whether to be thankful or not about losing the Sidedeal companion offer. I don’t need more stuff. I really need to get rid of things, not pack more in.
So all in all, I suppose I have taken the cure pill of ever again falling for an IRK offer.
Meh.
@Jackinga I don’t mean to kick a guy when he’s down, but, it did say in the write up that you had to make the SideDeal purchases that day.
Best wishes to your wife’s surgery, hope your mouth feels better, and I am sorry about your Doggo. I hope your day improve in spite of your instant regrets!
@pricciar Thank you so much for your concern and well wishes. I truly did not see/read the caveat about buying that day from SideDeal in the descriptive write-up.
Mine arrived today. I received a navy blue irk bag, a floatable palm tree speaker, a pair of 2x yoga pants, a 16 oz mint green drink chiller, a plug that goes in the wall and has a small shelf to hold the phone, and a Victor and Victoria small white teapot with strainer. Very nice mix. I’m ok happy.
Finally after years, I finally get a good bag of crap/fuko/irk. Was expecting the normal medium sized box full of the usual crap, got a Cuisinart 13 PC set. And the irk was the day before my birthday, so yay.
@apsire
Looks like you got the winning box
@Star2236 definitely. It’s funny though cause literally everything else that came in the box (other than the strangely-black-when-everyone-else’s-is-blue tote) is trash. A screen protector for iphone 6-8, a pair of women’s waist shaping briefs (useful to some, I’m a guy), and an Incase MacBook shell. I don’t have a MacBook, family doesn’t have the right size. I will say, I do like my Sidedeal item that I bought, and that I have absolutely no right to complain.
So my penny worth of regret arrived!
Blue bag, best item
Phone charger plug for car lighter
Mac Pro case, won’t fit my iPad
Ugly stick on wall art, hippy flowers
3 12oz packages of Meltables, artificial vanilla favor. Exp: 1-15-23
1 12oz package of Meltables, artificial chocolate flavor. Exp: 2-23-23
I must say that this is a sad IRK,
At least I got the bag this time!
I got a cheap projector, socks, iphone cases, tote, and a handbag
I’m happier with my regrets this time, than I was last time. First of all there were a couple of SideDeal items I actually needed, and the price was good. One thing I didn’t even know I needed!
Second the actual kit.
Will Keep
Blue IRK bag. Yay!
Cusinart Knife Set. - These look nice. I see them at Costco all of the time.
KN95 Masks - I think they expired. But, they’ll do in a pinch. I guess? I don’t know. I wear masks around big crowds, still, and it seems to work. (knock on wood.)
Car USB chargers - I’ll probably give a couple away, since I already have one. But, it’s nice to have one to use in a pinch.
Good gift
Portable iron/steamer. - seems nice. But, I am fine with wrinkly.
Star 2 Star - fun gift for a little kid.
Thrift store bound:
Spray for hair extensions - I don’t have much hair to extend.
To the trash:
Instruction booklet for a wine preserve kit. The actual machine was not in the box, but the instruction book, was. So, if anyone got the kit I have your instructions. Not to Meh Staff: sometimes it is ok to recycle!
All in all a fun time. All my stuff was good, and I am glad I ordered.
@pricciar I think the masks don’t really expire - the elastic just gets less stretchy.
@pricciar
We have those knives, my boyfriend loves them.
Blue canvas tote
Cheap shaver (Hazel + Havi brand?)
Cheap blue fleece pants
and somehow something nice, unless it’s DOA: a Cuisinart Elemental 8-cup food processor.
Now understand that I don’t complain much, pretty easy going, with that said, what I received in my kit had a value of 15.66 on Amazon, are you shitting me! MEH, you lost me as a longtime customer. I have looked at every link that I get in your emails for years, I will now auto-send all of your emails to my junk folder, never to look at your site again.
@pauly1206 Hey, if you bought the $49.99 worth of items on SideDeal you actually made a profit of $15.65!! If you didn’t partake in meh’s devious marketing scheme, oh well.
3XL sweatpants–might be useful.
2 bottles of plant-based peach body wash, doesn’t smell bad.
Set of those outlet things (plug in, get a couple more outlets!).
10 mostly-useless TrackR pixels, which can be used with my Android with the Swiftfinder app, but no one seems to have found an alternative iPhone app for them, so my most forgetful kid can’t use them. Which wouldn’t be so demoralizing if I didn’t already have a bag of these from Meh from a previous sale, so I now have like 20 useless little Bluetooth trackers…
The blue tote.
And a cracked and kinda heavy shredder, which I haven’t yet plugged in to see if it works. Kid responded, “Hey, I could make confetti!”
Definitely kinda meh.
@tondaanderson hmmmm, maybe you could make the trackers into tree/ holiday ornaments…
@gnoogie @tondaanderson … or BINGO markers!! , or color them Black and Red for Checkers!! … or …
Blue tote
Vankyo projector
Spa life facial mask
TackLife jumpstarter
M ForgeFR fire resistant shirt
@rescuedragon
@SillyHeathen might be interested in the fire-resistant shirt if you aren’t…
@Kyeh @sillyheathen I don’t need it, it was going to go to goodwill
Blue tote
Winter coat xl
Hair extension thingy
Uv sanitation pouch
The first Instant Regret Kit I’ve ordered. It is the last box I will ever order. 13" Snap Jacket, I don’t have apple products, I’ll have to put a C plug on the Charge Pak, never use a phone ring sticky thing, Queen size sheet set will never get used because it won’t fit our king beds, best item was the knife and the blue Tote bag is ok.
@queenie602 maybe you could use the sheets as a picnic table cover, blanket for sitting on at a park or beach, to make pillows, making into curtains, or a pillow fort cover…
@queenie602 Guess meh doesn’t care about repeat customers. They get your $50 and then it’s “See ya later SUCKER”!!
Seriously the worst IRK ever!
six micro USB cables(I only have Apple products). A two pack of canned 95 face masks, 2 iPhone six -8 cases. I have a 13. A goofy phone grip and stand that I will never use, letter board letters 2 packages 188 characters each mind you(what the hell are they even for?), a hard case for a MacBook ( I don’t have a MacBook) and a “Unicutie” diy pretty putty that definitely seems like a dollar store find that I would be embarrassed to give it to a kid for Christmas. Yikes!!
Hmmmm, still haven’t emptied the box completely, but I am not seeing any irk bag. I did get my very first irk item, which appears to actually be a 13 cup Cuisinart food processor with dicing kit. It’s actually something we’ve needed, so I’m very happy with my first irk
YAY!!! 
@gnoogie WOW!
@gnoogie spoke too soon, along with the food processor, i got a tan irk bag
and card holder with a nonresidue leaving sticky back & a bag of light blue vanilla meltables (appropriately pretty spring color) 
& most of a ring (slightly too small for my currently inflamed fingers, with 6 green stones & 5 teenier green stones each on both sides of the middle empty four prongs (might come in handy for anyone needing to draw blood, becoming blood siblings, or administering poison or incapacitating agents (like when the a-team would knock out b.a. for flying)) & 3 blue bell & howell multilights with magnetic extenders & a long, er, um, spreader spatula thingie, which would work well with the food processor 
extra YAY!!! 
I got a clipless curling iron (hair too short), a small fanny pack (too small for me), a sketchy-looking USB power block (UL or bust!) a peel-and-stick of the Cleveland skyline (not hipster enough to use ironically), and a 2XL pair of yoga pants (still don’t fit). The IRK bag isn’t bad, though.
“Instant Regret” is aptly named. AArrgh!
No toys!
Got several vanilla melting chocolate (I know that doesn’t make sense), as well as a rainbow unicorn decorating kit, some iPhone 6 and iPhone 8 accessories (literal trash) and a MacBook case for an older model that might fit something else, we’ll see. And a bag, of course.
My kids will love the rainbow unicorn kit and I’ll eat the vanilla chocolate. So for $0.01 I’d say I did OK. If I had paid the $50 I’d be furious but only with myself as the description clearly stated that this was extra regretty stuff.
Got 4 iPhone screen protectors (own 0 iphones), a pair of tights (size small), a bag, a pack of non medical face masks, and a shiatsu neck massager (heated). Overall, at a final price of 1 c for a neck massager, not too bad.
Women’s Kenneth Cole puffy winter Coat, Diamond muse Tennis Bracelet, Mia K Handbag, Irk bag and some rose gold foil thing. Regrettably opened in front of my wife, so I can’t use any of these as gifts. But not a bad day for her.
@mtm I got a Kenneth Cole puffy coat in an Irk a while back, and I really like it. Not sure if it’s the same one but mine is warm and cozy.
So far 2 of the 3 items I ordered arrived (still waiting on the 2pk earbuds) . Then lo and behold, my boxed IRK arrived today. Right now I’m wearing stuff I bought from Meh over the years to celebrate this occasion (stripe shorts, Flask shirt, paw socks [I refuse to wear out my mediocre socks]). Getting pictures ready for the IRK reveal thread.
Considering I sold the topper within 45 minutes of it arriving for $40 AND there were no iPhone 6 screen protectors to enrage me, happy enough with that
I got something from them but it had no irk bag. So is it still an irk then?
@datruandi sure is!
You can reach out to support and they’ll get you your bag: https://meh.com/support
@PHRoG i am irked
Wow! What a great purchase!! I got a black bag, Queen sheets with side pockets, a trunk organizer, coffee face peels, keychain charger, a cooler and a very expensive wrinkle cream. THRILLED!
Correctly named. I got a box of junk. Lesson learned.
I got the Laegendary Buckster, 2 TrackR pixels, three ID holders for the back of your phone, and 5 screen protectors for iPhone 6-8. And a weird wall pop thing.
@helene4377 Score! Gonna dig a hole in your yard?
@sammydog01 I already have a dog for that!
10 lithium batteries (can use), iPhone X screen protector (Android girl, boo), and a Cuisinart toaster oven/broiler with the front window busted out and bits of glass everywhere.
@stephmehnie
Fill out the warranty and say you got it as a gift for Xmas and one of your kids somehow broke the glass while trying to move it. They might replace it for free. I got a personal cuisinart blender from meh that stopped working after a month or two and and filed out the warranty and they fixed it for free. But they wanted to know where I bought it so that’s why I said say it was a gift for Xmas.
I made out pretty well for my first IRK. Got a big ol Holmes air filter, with a few totally-not-pop-sockets and the bag shoved inside the filter box. I definitely won this round.
nothing but crap, 6 Tigi lip glosses and the most horrendous looking large light blue purse/bag that would have even been ugly back in the sixties being carried by an old lady on her way to Florida. None were even suitable to give as gift to my wife or daughters.
not a bad haul - king size sheet set (and we have a king size bed so score!), philips electric toothbrush. irk bag, phone protector, 5 lithium batteries. Well worth the one cent paid.
I got a “dash retro grill & oven” a very silly uv purifier purse labeled $50, iPhone X glass protector, and four trackR pixels.
Also got the refund and like the cushion I bought from side deal even if it smells bad and is probably giving me cancer.
The worst – 2 iphone 8 cases, lip cream, concealer, some kind of bracelet with an empty liquid bottle?, And an Entil Electric Foot spa massager. :-p
@crismoody
I got that foot massager and I love it. It’s also selling for $100 at Walmart, even the lowest price I could find online was $50.
Bubba cooler 72 0z
Stone Hair extension hair spray
A solitary black out curtain (very short tho)
Tzumi Car phone charger plug plus usb c cable (6ft)
Tote bag
Irk delivered on the regret factor.
Nm the car charger came with a usb mini charger not usbc
The package truly delivered instant regret. Never again.
Im happy with my penny IRK and totally awesome robot vacuum from SideDeal I bought. I got a 4 pack of solar lights, a couple iPhone cases, a dumb facelift kit, and some chargers. Not a bad haul, worth more than a penny but less than $50. Smart idea Meh.
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
Wow! That was crap. 9 Tigi lip glosses. 2 other tigi lip balm, 2 Detroit city skyline wall clings, 3 iPhone 6,7,8 glass protectors (we use android), 2 electric razors, a black bag. Bonus, I get to hear my wife complain how I made such a regretful purchase.
1 - Navy Blue IRK Bag
1 -Laegendary Buckster R/C Toy
1 - iPhone Case (8,7,6)
3 - TIGI Maui Lip Cream
1 - tzumi DC Charge Pak (micro USB)
Best IRK or BOC I’ve ever got! Thanks!
The regret is real
Promise of regret fulfilled.
@walarney I’m kind of jealous about the nail grinder - I think it would be good for toenails.
@Kyeh @walarney
I was gonna say the same thing about the grinder lol
1 - aluminum bath shelf
1 - face moisturizing mask
1 - hair extension cleaner
1 - phone charger
I did not read the side deal purchase$50 etc…
That is what I get for not paying attention.