@Rstoker Wow, you are much better with Leet speak than I am.
Your text went way over my head and I’m one of those sysops that ran a BBS with 6 phone lines and two 1GB 5" full height hard drives running Novell Netware.
Yes, that really is 1GB for each drive. Drive space was expensive in that time. My cellphone has more RAM than the entire hard drive spaces of all my computers put together.
@Ark_kun this part of the thread is bringing back memories.
I started with a 20M drive but quickly consumed all that up so had to remove the MFM HD controller and swap it out for an RLL model. That gave me 50% more space so I then had 30M.
For perspective, The camera sensor is 200 mega pixels. Uncompressed, I couldn’t fit a single photo on that drive.
Those 1G drives were expensive. It was $2,600 each and this was in the 1980’s when that was a ton of money. Just the other day, I bought 32GB micro SD card for $10 and could have been cheaper but I wanted U3 ones. I had the two 1G drives mounted into my server so all the BBS computers could access them through the network, which was not TCP/IP by the way. It used BNC connectors with a 50 ohm terminating resistor on the first and last computer. That network was so sketchy but at least it didn’t require a hub or switch.
@Ark_kun@cengland0 the first hard drive I ever bought held 5 MB and cost $10K. 10 years later that same $10K bought me 20 MB with an integrated tape drive that I used to back up my IBM PC.
@Ark_kun@cengland0@st_ellis The first hard drive I used at work (no computer at home in those days) had one fixed and one removable platter, each with a whopping 3.5MB capacity (somewhat less when formatted). When I got them, I couldn’t imagine what I would do with all that space.
Before that, it was 8" floppy drives with 128MB (SD) or 256MB (DD). bzzt-clack-clack
@GzBiH Bless you real good, as they say. I’m such a creature of habit that I read “DEAL PAUSED” & then I went on & completed the sentence the way it usually ends…till 4 p.m. for the chosen few. I’m glad you set me straight. I may forget this by 8 a.m., but what the hey.
“It worked!” Wow, been a while. You may have found the sweet spot here on price, where it’s not an instant, crash-the-site sellout, but also not absurdly high. In for one bag of potential regrets!
Well good news and bad news. The good news is that I got one. The bad news is that because I ordered some dog treats for my daughter yesterday, her address was still the ship to address and I forgot to change it to mine so unless I can change it she is getting an IRK.
@Felton10@SnakeJG That happened to me once. I clicked the green “I need help with this” box and explained outright that I did not want to cancel the IRK, but would like to change the address. If that wasn’t possible, then I would be ok with my friends getting the “gift”. In an instant my order was then cancelled!!! Immediately I got back in touch with the guy who made the change and he was able to get another one for me to my address and was very apologetic over the issue. Really top notch customer service!
@SnakeJG I sent her one directly before. She has gotten a lot of the stuff from the 30+ IRKs I have gotten to sell, but I’ve never seen any of the money.
Big surprise.
Two hundred and seven in two minutes, before they paused it.
Who says there’s nobody watching the rollover anymore?
I’m betting that it stays live for about 40 seconds at 8AMEDT, and then pauses again for … a while. Sort of like a Mehrathon without all the Meh. (I will be quietly amazed if I’m right.)
@werehatrack Couldn’t BELIEVE it took 2 minutes, I ordered one and then just sat there refreshing, convinced it was some sort of elaborate prank (more than usual) and that I really ought to cancel it.
@Larry1977 Yeppers. The definitely-not-a-BOC-because-Jeffy-gots-the-rites-fo-dat Sack of Unpredictable Crap/Keepers formerly known here as Fukubukuro (a long time ago in a Plano far, far away) but now officially known as an Instant Regret Kit, whose contents frequently both amuse and perplex the recipients. (Happily, no one has had a whole-pallet-o-crap bestowed upon them in ages.)
I am so surprised and happy they old schooled the IRK. This is how you keep the masses happy. I think winning one is a key part of getting the IRK. No matter how disappointing i still won something. quilled-papery-friction.
Good night everyone.
Congrats to the winners of the Eve of April Fools’ Day forum challenges! Enjoy your prizes nothing but pride! (I was hoping for leftover air fryer oven <sigh>)
Are you sure? The message several of us are talking about appears to be new. It is distinctly different than the pause message that is showing now. It only showed for maybe 15 seconds and then switched to the paused message.
@Jdrake91 I reckon it’s because there are only a few at each time. The “no permission” is their way of saying that they’re out of stock until later. I think you missed the window.
@gvisnan The message has been seen many times before; it pops up when a particularly popular item with limited availability causes them to choke it off for a while in order to let folks have a chance at it who haven’t hit the site yet.
@werehatrack thanks. The “permission denied” message has been seen many times before? There are a half dozen or so people that seem to be seeing it fir the first time (that have been here a long time). Oh well, i’ll try again in a few.
@werehatrack That’s a load of crap about needing special networking to snag an IRK, or whatever name it has been called in the past. I’ve gotten all of mine (except for a couple of dozen or so that were given to me by Meh) on the slowest, most basic internet speed that is sold.
@barnabee I agree. It’s about quantity. When they had only 50 during each reset during mehrathons, I couldn’t get unless I did everything perfectly in terms of captcha etc. At 100 or 200, if I’m waiting for the clock, I have always gotten it. Just had to be up to catch it. This time I caught 8am because although I slept early and missed midnight batch, I randomly woke at 6:30am - snoozed and got back on at 7:58am, watched the sidedeal timer on top and hit refresh and snagged one. And the 8am sold out in a minute vs midnight batch taking 2+ minutes. Also, no captcha for me this time. So that helped. LOL
@Lynnerizer@werehatrack I don’t love clams or shrimp, but either of those would be fine… And I agree that those are both plausible.
I worried that it was some form of mutant chicken, or maybe something worse. Some AI-fever-induced hallucination. (Does anybody know what deep-fried rat looks like?)
I get a message I have not seen before. “You do not have permission to buy this”.
Can someone clarify? I got the same message at midnight and again now (before the deal was paused). Are only people that won the april fools contests eligible to buy or something?
I have been with Meh from the beginning. Not the kickstarter but soon after launch. This is my FIRST time winning the bag!!! I’m so excited!! Thanks meh! Altruistic-illustrious-flight
@shells I joined very shortly thereafter, and it took until last year to get one, when I could finally let go of my wrath. Then I somehow got a second within a few weeks. (I still don’t understand how people get dozens of them.) Congrats! That’s exciting!
Already logged in, get to payment screen and suddenly payment information deleted when I hit the wonderful green just buy it button. I’ve seen glitches on the website before but that was just LAME.
@seraphimcaduto I had that happen two days ago when I bought the dog treats. If that would have happened and prevented me from getting an IRK (which I did), I would have been pissed.
@seraphimcaduto or how about when you click buy you find out that in the 20 seconds it took you to click buy, scroll down to thr purchase button it sold out
@EllieFunks it sold out in about seven SECONDS, but that’s pretty typical. As for what’s in it? Probably better off not knowing…I still remember the pallet of Prince Xizor dolls and the used beautician chair.
@tinamarie1974 And my wife thought I was crazy getting out of bed at 11:45 to be at my computer when the new meh deal hit. Well I am crazy but it paid off as I got one.
@werehatrack I got the crapcha, it was palm trees, and had 4 pics. So I thought that I would get another, because it seems the one with more than 3 always gets sent to another.
Any ways, I got 3/4 green bar and got the Irk
Meh, it’s not fair. Of all the random days for this, you have to run an IRK sale on the day of my daughter’s birth 4/15/23? I wish I had time for these shenanigans!
Best guess: a brief scan shows a pattern of credentialed members - Vs, Ks, + scapegoats plus long term users being the select group (2020 and before?). Therefore anyone who has less than 2 years “member” status without a credential does not have permission to buy. It’s just not stipulated. I could be wrong. My apologies if someone already figured this out.
Btw I’m ok with this - just be honest guys if this is the case
@ladyhawke001 Nope. It’s straight-up paused for everyone at the moment. At 4PM EDT, another brief period of availability will happen for members only (the rollover and 8AM EDT ones were for anybody). I do not know if there will be a final round of jump-ball later, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility.
Once upon a time, it was one round and done, for however many IRKs they felt like assembling. This spaces it out a bit. And also once upon a more recent time, the split batches were much more numerous, but so small that only the people who were camped on top of a backbone switch had any chance of not being run into the ditch by their latency. Overall, I find today’s approach to be okay-ish, and I’m honestly relieved that there isn’t a 'thon to make things all the more uncertain. OTOH, I think I’d actually prefer a UniThon that just swapped back and forth between a particularly absurd main item and the IRKs, with a countdown time to each swap. But not some Archie McPhee thing. Maybe a big rubber mallet with a Meh logo cast into the side of the head, or something. (Mehllet? Hammehr? What would it be called?)
@werehatrack I get it’s on pause, but the problem is those of us who tried at the moment it went on sale, getting as far as the “buy already” purchase point - ended up with a “you do not have permission to buy” error code. This was in the immediate seconds of go time. After sellout we got the “pause” notification like everyone else. My observation doesn’t imply all credentialed members get IRKs, only those who were also on the button before sellout, like yourself last night.
@ladyhawke001@werehatrack Practice makes perfect- try to buy an irk a hundred times and your timing gets better. They have always had weird messages when everything is overloaded, the permission one is probably just the newest.
@Star2236 I went to bed before the roll over too. I was really tired. And I got up after the 8am reboot of it. Oh well. May well likely miss the 3pm one due to other responsibilities. Oh well. It is what it is.
@CharlieDoggo It will say “sold out” to you, little doggie, unless you have purchased a membership. TM will see it as “paused” (she has VMP) and she can try to get you one at 4pm or whatever time zone you are in.
I do the same thing with the giphys. I cycle through until I get a keeper or time runs out, and in that case I just delete the whole thing and START OVER! Beating the system! Lol
@sammydog01 Members have had access to the 4pm offerings for quite some time. I haven’t seen a VMP-only offering in years. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
@KNmeh7 I knew that was true for member hour during mehrathons but thought the 4 pm slot was still ours for daily deals. It just rarely comes up.
/giphy sad
@Chip888@RackDaddy@sammydog01 The 4pm one sold out in far less than 3 minutes. I clicked buy at second #3, had the repeating green bar until around 35 seconds into it when it said sold out.
Neat. Waited for all three time slots. Midnight, no permissions, right at 7, literally watching the seconds click down, still no permissions, then at 4 as well. Change up your fucking message from permissions to “sorry youre a worthless pos that didnt get it” who the fuck is building these pages for fucks sake. capybaras.
@sudotrin They’d have had to import giant African snails, cane toads, a potted Brazilian pepper, 25 pounds of melaleuca pollen, and three assorted iguanas and Cuban anoles, to make it a fully authentic SoFla IRK.
@Kyeh She’s very social with random people. But because some of the cats in the main group are not as accepting, she lives in the other half of the house. I don’t have my camera out as often over there.
@PooltoyWolf Actually, they lasted seven minutes at midnight, less than an additional minute at 8AM, and then less than one more minute at 4PM ET. Call it nine minutes, maybe.
@mossygreen@PooltoyWolf@werehatrack
I completely forgot to check Meh until midnight my time - 2 hours past the launch. Since we had Irks 2 weeks ago I was totally not expecting this.
Neither was I, which is why it took me a couple of seconds to actually register what was on the page. And then the button-masher took over, and I got in quickly enough. Had it not been for the fact that I was actually sitting there trying to measure how long the “something went terribly wrong” message was displayed at rollover, I very much doubt that I’d have clicked in time.
@Kyeh@mossygreen@PooltoyWolf@werehatrack I’m sure they were expecting surprise everyone on a Saturday no less. Got the dog treats twice after midnight and then couldn’t get on site 2 other times after that for a total of 4. The fifth time was the charm and the IRKs were still there are available. Got one.
@Kyeh@PooltoyWolf@werehatrack How long is the “something went terribly wrong” page lasting for you? I think it’s down to 20-30 seconds, which seems pretty good.
@Kyeh@mossygreen@PooltoyWolf It was something on the order of 10 to 15 seconds this time, and I really wish I had paid more attention to that particular factor. I have a suspicion about what’s causing it.
@ACraigL@lonocat@PooltoyWolf Arguably, these things are still a much better deal than a pallet of returns from Harbor Freight sold through a liquidator.
It wasn’t worth $5, but at that price point I was willing to take a chance and make the donation trip to Goodwill afterward. $13.37 might as well be $50, though. I ain’t paying that much to take out your trash.
@Telanis Obviously you have never gotten anything good. Very few of my IRK have been worth less than what I paid for them-my daughter sold many items in my IRKs for many times what I paid for the IRK. And arguably my best IRK and quite frankly the best one I’ve ever seen had items totaling in excess of $ 500-that builds up a lot of good will for the few that I got that were worthless.
My first IRK since being laid off after 25 yrs from my job last November. Countless resumes sent out with hardly even a response. I’m going to look at this as a good sign
Obviously there is a price point where the disadvantages out weigh the advantages (ie paying $ 50 and then having to buy $ 50 worth of stuff you really didn’t want to get a $ 49.99 credit), but for the most part it was fun both in trying to snag one and then waiting with baited breath for Fedex to deliver a box which you had no idea what was in it.
Of course hearing your significant other yap about what a jerk you were to waste the money or hitting you over the head with the box the IRK came in isn’t that much fun but you have to take the bad with the good.
@nashw Those are default dimensions, just used as a placeholder until FedEx sees it hit the conveyor belt at the depot. At that point, the automated system will weigh it and determine the dimensions, and those will get updated.
Just got mine - got a couple face masks, a sports bra (that may daughter is convince belongs to someone else despite it having tags lol) an aqua sonic toothbrush and a LifePro Flexcycle!
Received my IRK today. Things added to the Goodwill pile:
Beauty Essentials kit
Case for an iPhone 6,7,8.
Metal ring thing for a phone.
Black, vanilla flavored “meltables” to put on ice cream, cakes, and the like.
And of course, the ubiquitous Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker. I may keep this one for a while. I’m not enthusiastic about doing a lot of work for a little bit of ice cream. I’ll probably make basic vanilla ice cream and put chocolate sauce on it. I’ll more likely get some cranberry cocktail or orange juice and make slushies.
I do definitely regret my IRK. When I saw the box on the porch, I said, “Oh crap.” And I was right.
Got my Irk today, you guys litteraly don’t give a shit anymore. You slapped a label on manufacturer’s box, it was a lifepro flexcycle, so its a Cubi, one of thos sit on your ass and pedal a bike thing…
just opened mine…
(1) iPhone X glass screen protector ( no use)
(1) Tan IRK bag
(3) bags of Choc. melting Candies
(1) Spa life Cappuccino Face mask
(23) 5pk cards of 2016 Lithium coin cells
pack of (6) Tzumi branded Micro USB car chargers(no use)
(1) yellow thing… looks like a wrist band/squirt gun thing
(3) pages of Food Shaped Vinyl cutouts (Pineapples, Bananas, Pizza, Donuts, Ice Cream, etc.)
I’ll probably keep the Chocolates, The IRK bag of course, maybe 1 or 2 of the cards of Batteries, the rest will likely go straight to the local Goodwill.
Another Lifepro flexcycle! I have a Cubii at home paid via lockdown benefit, but I was wanting another now I’m in the office most days. Horrible terrible IRK!
Though I may find it has 2 left pedals or something…
Got my IRK, it definitely was full of regret. I saw others’ posts and was hoping for the ice cream maker but instead, I got:
Organizing cube set for packing (smaller bags to put inside your luggage to “save space” but they actually take up more space)
Incase snap jacket for a "13 macbook pro (I have a "14 inch macbook pro)
-3XL pair of sweatpants (I’m a medium, but I am preggers so maybe I will grow into them)
-1 TrackR.pixel
-tan IRK bag
I’m wondering if the people who get the cool stuff live closer to the Meh warehouse so shipping is cheaper?
@GirlFriday91 I live in PA and got an ice cream maker last month and a lifecycle thingy this time around. The lifecycle thingy weighs 19lbs and was wondering how they are shipping these things out as well.
I got my best to date IRK!
1x Tan IRK bag
1x Kenneth Cole Winter Jacket
1x Microfiber Comforter
1x Aduro Desk Lamp with Charger
1x Aduro 3-in-1 Apple Charger
And… 1x Bose Soprano Frames!!!
At first I thought it might have just been an empty box but this is the best surprise! The sound is absolutely amazing. I’m definitely keeping it but I also know what to get my mama for Mother’s Day now. Thank you, Meh!
Got my IRK today, took me by surprise.
1x Lifepro FlexCycle
3 x Casery Phone Grip and Stand
1 x Some kind of small travelocity branded thing you stick to the wall that has a ring and sleeve on it
1 x C-Max Bravo Smart watch
1 x Galaxy Compression Pant (I think)
1 x Irk Bag (These things make good grocery bags!)
0 x Bags of Texas Air
Sorry I’m a little late here. I just moved into a new house. Major box mountains everywhere.
Left side down:
LED lighted compact mirror - granddaughter bribe
Universal car charger - always useful
Phone grip and stand - " "
And the big item - a Life Pro foot massager! Told myself I couldn’t play with it until I posted here. But had to make some trails through the moving box mountains first. I hear this product is wonderful. Looking forward to it, and with the packing, carrying out, carrying in, unpacking and arranging I’ve earned it!!
1x Tacklife T8 Jumpstarter. I am so thrilled about this thing!
1x Men’s long sleeve gray t-shirt (my dad is already wearing it and almost as happy as when I got him that nose/ear trimmer from that side deal redemption box a month/month and a half ago).
1x Adrienne Vittadini Bow Dome Satchel purse in black leather (I gave it to my mom; she’s very happy.)
1x MKF Collection backpack in brown. It’s nice. It’s not my style but I think I know someone that will like it and use it.
1x Cobaltx Rumble tailgate wireless speaker with LED lights.
This is way better than that one with the one, small black sock, iPhone 6 screen protectors, and expired fragrance set!
1x Lifepro leg massager
1x 36x30 Jeans
1x beauty kit with jade roller and some other stuff
2x TrackR pixels
1x IRK bag
My wife raided the beauty kit for what she found useful. The TrackR pixels got thrown in a drawer with some others I got in another IRK. TrackR is out of business but I keep thinking that I can hack them to do something…at a minimum I can use the batteries. Not sure what to make of the leg massager
The TrackR Pixels were notorious for coming DOA due to bad batteries so, “good luck with that” unless you need some table leg shims or shiny tiddly winks!
OTOH there has been some success reported with pairing them to another app (though I can’t think of what it is at the moment) Keep meaning to try that out on the ones several I have at home.
I got a Lifepro Flexcycle, bag, three of those TrackR pixels (is it an IRK if you DON’T get at least one of those), a phone case and something else very unmemorable. Actually game directly in the Flexcycle box which was weird.
What was the price again if you spent $20 at meh?
I got an irk bag, slicker seat pink with poncho, some gold wrap rolls(3), and an all in one clock with mood lights and phone charger.
Specs
What’s Incuded?
It is a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Price Comparison
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Warranty
Throw it in the trash
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Apr 20 - Monday, Apr 24
foxy-halting-scorpion
Leet
@Rstoker I was wondering if anyone else would get that reference.
@cengland0 4r3’n7 w3 4Ll 1337 H4x0r2?
@cengland0 @Rstoker oh God kill me
@cengland0 @Rstoker 1//\ %07⇪
@Rstoker Wow, you are much better with Leet speak than I am.
Your text went way over my head and I’m one of those sysops that ran a BBS with 6 phone lines and two 1GB 5" full height hard drives running Novell Netware.
Yes, that really is 1GB for each drive. Drive space was expensive in that time. My cellphone has more RAM than the entire hard drive spaces of all my computers put together.
@cengland0 @Rstoker
Oh yay, return of the script kiddiez…
@cengland0 @duodec @Rstoker
And here I thought it was the address of the computer store John Connor visited.
@cengland0 @Rstoker 1GB? I’m so out of that league. My HDD was just 20MB.
@Ark_kun this part of the thread is bringing back memories.
I started with a 20M drive but quickly consumed all that up so had to remove the MFM HD controller and swap it out for an RLL model. That gave me 50% more space so I then had 30M.
For perspective, The camera sensor is 200 mega pixels. Uncompressed, I couldn’t fit a single photo on that drive.
Those 1G drives were expensive. It was $2,600 each and this was in the 1980’s when that was a ton of money. Just the other day, I bought 32GB micro SD card for $10 and could have been cheaper but I wanted U3 ones. I had the two 1G drives mounted into my server so all the BBS computers could access them through the network, which was not TCP/IP by the way. It used BNC connectors with a 50 ohm terminating resistor on the first and last computer. That network was so sketchy but at least it didn’t require a hub or switch.
@Ark_kun @cengland0 the first hard drive I ever bought held 5 MB and cost $10K. 10 years later that same $10K bought me 20 MB with an integrated tape drive that I used to back up my IBM PC.
Was the network ARCnet?
@Ark_kun @st_ellis No, It was Novel Netware using ipx and netx drivers. I was a node on FIDO net though.
@Ark_kun @cengland0 @st_ellis The first hard drive I used at work (no computer at home in those days) had one fixed and one removable platter, each with a whopping 3.5MB capacity (somewhat less when formatted). When I got them, I couldn’t imagine what I would do with all that space.
Before that, it was 8" floppy drives with 128MB (SD) or 256MB (DD). bzzt-clack-clack
@Ark_kun @cengland0 @st_ellis oops! The floppies were 128/256 Kilobytes!
@macromeh my first storage device was casette tape. Had to manually press play, rewind, and record. Took forever to load a program.
@cengland0 @macromeh
Punch tape FTW!
Whale whale whale
/giphy extravagant-tender-sofa
@root The only way that could have been cuter is if he turtled at the end!
Wow. Really?
/giphy foxy-halting-scorpion
Huh. It wasn’t $50. Guess I’ll stay a VMP.
Sacktackular!
whatthehell. I did it
does it contain a scrotum coat?
@posmr15 Considering they cost around $6k I would guess no but who can tell.
That was a pleasant surprise. I’m In.
Hmmm, feels sus…
/giphy fruity-rickety-angle
/giphy glaring-puffy-whip
/giphy weak-distracting-sign
@fjp999 Nearly forgot Daddy needs and indoor grill!
/giphy Indoor Grill Please!
You don’t have permission to order this? Huh!?!?
@Jdrake91 Not a member.
@Jdrake91 Not just you, the sale has been paused for everyone.
/giphy malicious-stupendous-partner
Deal posed until 8am?!?!
At least I got 1. Lol
@GzBiH Bless you real good, as they say. I’m such a creature of habit that I read “DEAL PAUSED” & then I went on & completed the sentence the way it usually ends…till 4 p.m. for the chosen few. I’m glad you set me straight. I may forget this by 8 a.m., but what the hey.
@gertiestn you’re one cool writer. Seriously. Thanks for correcting my grammar.
Anyone get “you don’t have permission to do that” when you tried to place the order?
@Raptor_007
Yeah… I got that message too.
Who do I need to get permission from?
@gcolwell @Raptor_007 sidedeal.com.
@zachhh LOL
I got one! Yay!
That’s all.
Just kept getting “oops, you don’t have permission to buy this”. That was weird…
@tech2therescue Not just you, the sale has been paused for everyone.
Why did it say I didn’t have permission to order it??? Freaking dumb
@alibaby450 Not just you, the sale has been paused for everyone.
“It worked!” Wow, been a while. You may have found the sweet spot here on price, where it’s not an instant, crash-the-site sellout, but also not absurdly high. In for one bag of potential regrets!
I’m a winner. I can’t believe the John Wick challenge I posted made the list.
@medz proud of you buddy.
Wait, WHAT!!!??!?‽‽‽‽‽‽‽
SCORE!
/showme shucks
Is there going to be a 4 pm Vmp? Pretty please?
@Jamileigh17 Yes. You have less than 25 minutes to get ready at this point.
/giphy drab versatile bone
Permission? What’s the secret permission? Where do I get permission? I don’t need no stinking permission.
@LindaK7101 Not just you, the sale has been paused for everyone.
Well good news and bad news. The good news is that I got one. The bad news is that because I ordered some dog treats for my daughter yesterday, her address was still the ship to address and I forgot to change it to mine so unless I can change it she is getting an IRK.
@Felton10 my kids would be super pumped if I got them an IRK.
@Felton10 @SnakeJG That happened to me once. I clicked the green “I need help with this” box and explained outright that I did not want to cancel the IRK, but would like to change the address. If that wasn’t possible, then I would be ok with my friends getting the “gift”. In an instant my order was then cancelled!!! Immediately I got back in touch with the guy who made the change and he was able to get another one for me to my address and was very apologetic over the issue. Really top notch customer service!
@SnakeJG I sent her one directly before. She has gotten a lot of the stuff from the 30+ IRKs I have gotten to sell, but I’ve never seen any of the money.
Big surprise.
@benj @Felton10 @SnakeJG but . . . what about the, I don’t want to cancel like umm . . .
I won the bird competition
Whoop!
Two hundred and seven in two minutes, before they paused it.
Who says there’s nobody watching the rollover anymore?
I’m betting that it stays live for about 40 seconds at 8AMEDT, and then pauses again for … a while. Sort of like a Mehrathon without all the Meh. (I will be quietly amazed if I’m right.)
@werehatrack Couldn’t BELIEVE it took 2 minutes, I ordered one and then just sat there refreshing, convinced it was some sort of elaborate prank (more than usual) and that I really ought to cancel it.
@werehatrack less than that, couldn’t get one at 8 either.
@werehatrack They sold 231 between 8am - 8am eastern time. Not a typo 8am to 8am! (I was able to snag one somehow between 8 and 8!)
@phloggo @werehatrack I couldn’t get one at 4, either
/giphy discreet-moldy-heat
@medonsw What is that, the Times Square ripoff version of Deadpool?
Wow!!! Got one. They turned it on right after I logged in then shut it down AGAIN!!! Wait for it…………
Wait for it……………
Wait for it……………
Ok, who said fuck that mother fucker.
Show of hands please
Me ️
Is this supposed to be the Meh version of a BOC?
@Larry1977 Yeppers. The definitely-not-a-BOC-because-Jeffy-gots-the-rites-fo-dat Sack of Unpredictable Crap/Keepers formerly known here as Fukubukuro (a long time ago in a Plano far, far away) but now officially known as an Instant Regret Kit, whose contents frequently both amuse and perplex the recipients. (Happily, no one has had a whole-pallet-o-crap bestowed upon them in ages.)
@Larry1977 @werehatrack I wonder when they’ll change the name again. I have too many fuku and Irk bags. I need a new word on my grocery bags.
@Larry1977 @Rstoker @werehatrack I don’t have enuff fuku bags - only 1 or 2. Have plenty of IRK bags . . .
@Larry1977 @werehatrack No pallets of flat panel TV’s? No boxes of refurb Samsung Sansas?
What has the world come to???
I just so happened to get off work early, right at 9 and checked the site. First IRK in a while. Makes me miss those days…
/giphy innate-eerie-taco
It’s been quite a while either since getting one or since seeing it up on the main page as a daily item. I probably missed the anniversary one though
@guyfromhawthorn ISTR that the anniversary is later in the year. Early July, I believe.
I guess they just couldnt sell at $50*
@jmhsrv Yea, only several thousand of them. Hardly worth the bother.
I am so surprised and happy they old schooled the IRK. This is how you keep the masses happy. I think winning one is a key part of getting the IRK. No matter how disappointing i still won something. quilled-papery-friction.
Good night everyone.
@kcface
I read that first as “quilted” … which sounds very much like a bad batch of toilet paper.
Which is probably an accurate prediction of what opening your IRK will be like.
@kcface still prefer $5 LOL
Congrats to the winners of the Eve of April Fools’ Day forum challenges! Enjoy your
prizesnothing but pride! (I was hoping for leftover air fryer oven <sigh>)@heartny I’m sure they can send you some of the leftover air…
@werehatrack Most likely Texas air. . .
/image brown-living-fog
/giphy brown-living-fog
/giphy caring-better-war
/giphy little-soaking-tongue
@poids
Ew gross! She’s got some alien vibes for sure!
@poids “Jean” Simmons?
@Lynnerizer Time to call E.Ripley!
I bought one, and I don’t know why.
Okay then!
Sweet, still don’t have permission… that’s fun
@Jdrake91
Same here.
Anyone know what that’s about?
I’ve never had that message pop up before.
@Jdrake91 @robthedude05 happened at midnight and again now. When was the last time you bought one? Maybe they are limiting time between them now?
@gvisnan @Jdrake91 @robthedude05 It means that the sale has been paused.
@werehatrack
Are you sure? The message several of us are talking about appears to be new. It is distinctly different than the pause message that is showing now. It only showed for maybe 15 seconds and then switched to the paused message.
@Jdrake91 I reckon it’s because there are only a few at each time. The “no permission” is their way of saying that they’re out of stock until later. I think you missed the window.
@gvisnan The message has been seen many times before; it pops up when a particularly popular item with limited availability causes them to choke it off for a while in order to let folks have a chance at it who haven’t hit the site yet.
@werehatrack thanks. The “permission denied” message has been seen many times before? There are a half dozen or so people that seem to be seeing it fir the first time (that have been here a long time). Oh well, i’ll try again in a few.
And a Meh-ry good day to you too!
/giphy flirty-foul-peanut
@tofarber
/giphy useful-lucky-route
@brandon @tofarber
Congrats!
BTW,
I didn’t know that command worked on a comment. Always learning!
not fucking sure how I didnt get any at both time slots yet, gtfo
/giphy lucid-neanderthal-porpoise
How many did they have at 8? Did I get super lucky like I never used to?
@brandon
Midnight - 12:02am ET: 207 sold
Paused from 12:02am - 8am ET
8am - 8am ET: 231 sold
@brandon The batch was bigger than what was common last year, when only the people with tachyon-based networking had any hope of grabbing one.
@werehatrack That’s a load of crap about needing special networking to snag an IRK, or whatever name it has been called in the past. I’ve gotten all of mine (except for a couple of dozen or so that were given to me by Meh) on the slowest, most basic internet speed that is sold.
@barnabee I agree. It’s about quantity. When they had only 50 during each reset during mehrathons, I couldn’t get unless I did everything perfectly in terms of captcha etc. At 100 or 200, if I’m waiting for the clock, I have always gotten it. Just had to be up to catch it. This time I caught 8am because although I slept early and missed midnight batch, I randomly woke at 6:30am - snoozed and got back on at 7:58am, watched the sidedeal timer on top and hit refresh and snagged one. And the 8am sold out in a minute vs midnight batch taking 2+ minutes. Also, no captcha for me this time. So that helped. LOL
Greetings, new robot friend. In time you will come to accept your robotic ways.
/giphy smiling dated loon
/giphy appalling-magnetic-lip
/giphy wooly-grody-tiger
Wow, refreshed and clicked insta buy with presaved info and still nothing
/giphy gaudy-expert-moose
/giphy affordable-petite-squirrel
/giphy overactive-handy-dog
“You dont have permission”…again! I’m already a member…not sure what permission I’m missing…
@tech2therescue same happened at midnight and again now. When was the last time you bought one? Maybe they are limiting time between them now?
@tech2therescue Not just you, the sale has been paused for everyone.
My order number seems appropriate… Thanks Meh!
/giphy flagrant-grisly-raspberry
Seriously guys, you’re breaking my heart. I’m not a member all of a sudden? smh
@ladyhawke001 Not just you, the sale has been paused for everyone.
I don’t have permission to buy??!!!
@cbooboo2 The sale has been paused.
/giphy selective-earnest-shandy
/giphy surging-understood-lizard
Luckily I hadn’t wasted hours waiting for the chance to snag one at 8am.
Still, I’m confused about that permission thing…
/showme YOU DON’T HAVE PERMISSION TO ORDER THIS.
@mediocrebot That is the message I got too! MEH
@mediocrebot @MeganChapa same happened at midnight and again now. When was the last time you bought one? Maybe they are limiting time between them now?
@mediocrebot Now I’m trying to decide which I would have regretted buying more: an official IRK, or whatever that food is.
@mediocrebot @xobzoo
Could be clam fritters, they’re usually only regrettable if they only have 1 or 2 clams in it. Otherwise, YUM YUM YUM!
@mediocrebot @xobzoo Looks like over-battered shrimp to me.
@Lynnerizer @werehatrack I don’t love clams or shrimp, but either of those would be fine… And I agree that those are both plausible.
I worried that it was some form of mutant chicken, or maybe something worse. Some AI-fever-induced hallucination. (Does anybody know what deep-fried rat looks like?)
/giphy beaming-lousy-list
/giphy diligent-healthy-saturn
I get a message I have not seen before. “You do not have permission to buy this”.
Can someone clarify? I got the same message at midnight and again now (before the deal was paused). Are only people that won the april fools contests eligible to buy or something?
@gvisnan That’s what I got too!
@MeganChapa when did you buy one last?
@gvisnan The sale has been paused. It’s not just you.
/giphy super-respectable-sage
Very surprised to get one!
/giphy ticklish-fundamental-cheese
/giphy mental-blighted-joke
/giphy shaky-glamorized-coconut
/giphy nauseating-wakeful-trick
/giphy flimsy-amicable-nitrogen
I got the "you don’t have permission " message on both attempts.
What gives @snapster
@stryper2000 same happened at midnight and again now. When was the last time you bought one? Maybe they are limiting time between them now?
@gvisnan back in October 2022
/giphy fast-weird-harbor
I have been with Meh from the beginning. Not the kickstarter but soon after launch. This is my FIRST time winning the bag!!! I’m so excited!! Thanks meh! Altruistic-illustrious-flight
@shells I joined very shortly thereafter, and it took until last year to get one, when I could finally let go of my wrath. Then I somehow got a second within a few weeks. (I still don’t understand how people get dozens of them.) Congrats! That’s exciting!
@shells Almost one of us
@shells Your excitement will likely diminish greatly when it arrives and you open it up…
/giphy spontaneous-flying-fist
/giphy odd-nimble-cattle
/giphy obscure-mousy-toffee
/giphy austere-fashionable-duck
Hell yeah! Thanks for going back to the “old” way of selling these!
/giphy legitimate-clownish-orca
Well doesn’t look like I’ll ever get an irk like this. No permission. Yada yada, oh well. Life goes on! Maybe next time.
@milstarr that’s the spirit!
/giphy enchanted-selfish-temper
Already logged in, get to payment screen and suddenly payment information deleted when I hit the wonderful green just buy it button. I’ve seen glitches on the website before but that was just LAME.
@seraphimcaduto I had that happen two days ago when I bought the dog treats. If that would have happened and prevented me from getting an IRK (which I did), I would have been pissed.
@seraphimcaduto or how about when you click buy you find out that in the 20 seconds it took you to click buy, scroll down to thr purchase button it sold out
/giphy habitual-partial-instrument
WOW! THANKS MEH! You guys made my day.
A bit of trivia…
I knew that # looked familiar, $3.37 was minimum wage back in 1980-81 when I was 16 and got my first over the table job.
@Lynnerizer Also, Leet.
It sold out in less than 7 minutes? It’s ok, I don’t even know what the fuck this is.
@EllieFunks it sold out in about seven SECONDS, but that’s pretty typical. As for what’s in it? Probably better off not knowing…I still remember the pallet of Prince Xizor dolls and the used beautician chair.
Good times.
@EllieFunks @seraphimcaduto I have an antique fingerprint kit that I really need to get rid of but I can’t because it was a major Fuko prize.
Don’t know why I voluntarily fill myself with regret, but here I am!
/giphy lurching-slim-level
Why, oh why do I build myself up just to be let down? best-shaky-library
Woo-hoo! Like in the old days. Got up at 4:50 am to get one. Thanks, Meh.
/giphy fatty-honored-nugget
This deal is so L337.
I should no better than to go to sleep without checking Meh…
Who do I blame? The one night I go to bed early because I’m sick
@tinamarie1974 The person who got you sick? The goat? In any case, i hope you feel better!
@tinamarie1974 I usually just blame the tequila
@tinamarie1974 And my wife thought I was crazy getting out of bed at 11:45 to be at my computer when the new meh deal hit. Well I am crazy but it paid off as I got one.
@chiefbugbung tequila fixes everything
@Felton10 yea Felton, congrats. Maybe Ill get lucky at 3!!! Would that be an afternoon delight? Lol
@ircon96 thanks!! Im blaming the goat
@tinamarie1974 I don’t think they were referring to an IRK in the song “Afternoon Delight”.
@Felton10
/giphy giggle
Big thanks to whoever forgot to add the Craptcha to this IRK sale!
@werehatrack I got the crapcha, it was palm trees, and had 4 pics. So I thought that I would get another, because it seems the one with more than 3 always gets sent to another.
Any ways, I got 3/4 green bar and got the Irk
Fuck this bullshit
Yeah, well I got to sleep in. So suck on that you “lucky winners”
I wish my last irk came with an empty pizza box
@chiefbugbung and chicken bones…
Clearing out the warehouse, huh? Couldn’t you get your hands on some Rum & Butter bars to sell?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/rum-and-butter-bars-surplus-1.6807001
@Big_Al8000 I’d try those…
Are IRKs now only for members? I got as far as the checkout, and it said “you are not eligible”??
@wambut Initially it said sold out after the 8AM batch. Guess they remehmbered that mehmbers should still get an occasional perk.
@duodec I got to the checkout on the 8 am batch.
Third place! The most perfectly meh award.
@djslack Same here!
@djslack @werehatrack I tied for third which seems even more mediocre.
Meh, it’s not fair. Of all the random days for this, you have to run an IRK sale on the day of my daughter’s birth 4/15/23? I wish I had time for these shenanigans!
@studerc Congrats
@studerc I hope that your daughter was not born in some shady back alley… Congratulations!!!
@djslack the wave of nostalgia that hit me reading the comment was impressive. Thanks for that!
Best guess: a brief scan shows a pattern of credentialed members - Vs, Ks, + scapegoats plus long term users being the select group (2020 and before?). Therefore anyone who has less than 2 years “member” status without a credential does not have permission to buy. It’s just not stipulated. I could be wrong. My apologies if someone already figured this out.
Btw I’m ok with this - just be honest guys if this is the case
@ladyhawke001 Nope. It’s straight-up paused for everyone at the moment. At 4PM EDT, another brief period of availability will happen for members only (the rollover and 8AM EDT ones were for anybody). I do not know if there will be a final round of jump-ball later, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility.
Once upon a time, it was one round and done, for however many IRKs they felt like assembling. This spaces it out a bit. And also once upon a more recent time, the split batches were much more numerous, but so small that only the people who were camped on top of a backbone switch had any chance of not being run into the ditch by their latency. Overall, I find today’s approach to be okay-ish, and I’m honestly relieved that there isn’t a 'thon to make things all the more uncertain. OTOH, I think I’d actually prefer a UniThon that just swapped back and forth between a particularly absurd main item and the IRKs, with a countdown time to each swap. But not some Archie McPhee thing. Maybe a big rubber mallet with a Meh logo cast into the side of the head, or something. (Mehllet? Hammehr? What would it be called?)
@ladyhawke001 @werehatrack …at least not flying screaming Mehnkeys.
@werehatrack I get it’s on pause, but the problem is those of us who tried at the moment it went on sale, getting as far as the “buy already” purchase point - ended up with a “you do not have permission to buy” error code. This was in the immediate seconds of go time. After sellout we got the “pause” notification like everyone else. My observation doesn’t imply all credentialed members get IRKs, only those who were also on the button before sellout, like yourself last night.
@ladyhawke001 @werehatrack Practice makes perfect- try to buy an irk a hundred times and your timing gets better. They have always had weird messages when everything is overloaded, the permission one is probably just the newest.
I check every night and the one night I forget to check it’s an irk that doesn’t cost $50. FML
@Star2236 I went to bed before the roll over too. I was really tired. And I got up after the 8am reboot of it. Oh well. May well likely miss the 3pm one due to other responsibilities. Oh well. It is what it is.
@Kidsandliz
Yeah I slept till 11:30. 5 more mins to go, hope I get the 4pm one.
Figures I would go to bed early last night, but $13.37 is a price I can appreciate on a site like Meh. I hope it stays.
I’ll wait till 4 , VMP baby…
@somf69 well that was my thought too but it says sold out now?!?!??
@CharlieDoggo @somf69 check again back to Deal Paused.
@CharlieDoggo It will say “sold out” to you, little doggie, unless you have purchased a membership. TM will see it as “paused” (she has VMP) and she can try to get you one at 4pm or whatever time zone you are in.
@barnabee @CharlieDoggo lol, thanks. I didnt realize I was signed in as Charlie. He must have stolen my phone
Also, had no idea the view was different for non VMP/member. Kinda interesting!!!
@CharlieDoggo @tinamarie1974 Those with just “memberships” also see it as “paused”, unlike when VMP was something special in the eyes of Meh.
Am I bitter? Nah. Well, maybe just a little.
@barnabee agree. Seems nothing is sacred anymore
/giphy outdated-helpless-sun
Guess my years of VMP has paid off once again!
@raccoon81
/giphy score
YES!!!
/giphy unique-glowing-ravioli
@tinamarie1974 Congrats! What an appropriate order number for you. And yes, lowly member that I might be, I GOT ONE! Woohoo!
@Kyeh yippee!!! Congrats
/giphy musing-charming-hat
/giphy nefarious-bigger-jackalope
I don’t have permission AGAIN
@cbooboo2 @sammydog01
I received the permission error message as a VMP. When I tried again, it was sold out.
Green repeating bar of death starting at 3:00:04
/giphy bulbous-chipper-dragon
/giphy last-puzzled-effect
Well, I made it to the payment screen, but no go. : (
@Chloesi same it kept saying i dont have permission and said there are some error, before finally saying it sold out
/giphy wicked-raspy-donkey
/giphy clairvoyant-withering-bit
@Jaloola My old eyes didn’t focus quickly enough, and I thought that said clairvoyant-withering-BLT
That’s what being @fondaporn will do for you.
I got one, so I can’t complain, but I’m starting to think VMP stands for Very Membership Person
/giphy opaque-crafty-car
/giphy spikey uniform surprise
VMP, Yeah Baby!!
/giphy provocative-murky-nest
/giphy overrated cramped donkey
I can’t believe it
/giphy squeamish-unequal-dragonfly
Woohoo!
/giphy frail-lowly-brain
I got in on the 4PM batch. About time that $5 paid off considering how often I buy from Meh (not often)
/giphy navigable-outstanding-heron
VMP is mediocre, but I was able to IRK.
budding-penultimate-cave
/giphy budding-penultimate-cave
/image budding-penultimate-cave
/giphy hopeful-kindhearted-servant
I was pretty sure they’d mark me as not eligible. This also saves my VMP for another month or two…
4 green bars and Sold Out - saved me from myself!
That went fucking fast. How many did they have 25? THEY SHOULD SAVE MORE FOR MEMBWRS WE DO PAYS ARE FEES EVERY MONTH!
@Star2236 191 sold at 4:00 pm. At least that’s what it says
Whew! Actually got one!
/giphy stingy-soaking-asiago
@Kyeh Yeah, this giphy is pretty much what is happening to our money!
@Kyeh Dammit! You changed the giphy after I was making comment. The one before was better, though not asiago
@Kyeh And now it is back to the dog… wtf!
@raccoon81 Hah - I kept cycling through to see what else I’d get but you’re right, this is the best one!
@Kyeh
/giphy awesome
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
@tinamarie1974 Thanks! And I hope you’re feeling better?
@Kyeh thanks! It comes and goes
@Kyeh @raccoon81
YAY FOR YOU, CONGRATS!
I do the same thing with the giphys. I cycle through until I get a keeper or time runs out, and in that case I just delete the whole thing and START OVER! Beating the system! Lol
@Lynnerizer @raccoon81 Yes! It’s fun to get one that really fits - or at is funny.
Also thanks, and congrats to you too!
I thought this was supposed to be a VMP offering- are members buying it? @dave did you remove one of the last benefits of being a VMP?
@sammydog01 Members have had access to the 4pm offerings for quite some time. I haven’t seen a VMP-only offering in years. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
@sammydog01 Yes it was removed a long time ago unfortunately.
@sammydog01 That happened a long time ago. Mehmbers were given pretty much all VMP perks…
@sammydog01 it’s been members included in the 4pm along with us VMP for about a year now, maybe longer. Whomp whomp.
@KNmeh7 I knew that was true for member hour during mehrathons but thought the 4 pm slot was still ours for daily deals. It just rarely comes up.
/giphy sad
Pooooooop!
If I would have been home and on my WiFi I’d have had a shot, but my phone on cellular is just not quick enough for this group. . Dang it!
Nothing for the member(s). Waited exactly at appointed time and nothing! All crap!
@Chip888 by 4 seconds (hit by at 3) into it I was getting the repeating green bar filling which generally means you lose. And in my case it did.
@Chip888 Yeah, I think they reserve only a few for members. Kinda stinks.
@Chip888 @RackDaddy It was around 200 available at all three times. So the 4 pm slot was more generous than usual.
@Chip888 @sammydog01 How are you getting that information? It sold out in 3 minutes, so my assumption was there weren’t many available.
@Chip888 @RackDaddy @sammydog01 The recap is available at the bottom of the page with the “who’d buying this crap?” map, behind a “more details” link.
@Chip888 @RackDaddy @sammydog01
@Chip888 I managed to get one at the 4pm slot. First time in years, will see if it was worth it. Last one I got sucked but it was $5, so…
@Chip888
Yeah, that’s also what you would get if you’d managed to buy one.
@Chip888 @RackDaddy @sammydog01 The 4pm one sold out in far less than 3 minutes. I clicked buy at second #3, had the repeating green bar until around 35 seconds into it when it said sold out.
Missed it do to it removing my credit card and I had to reenter it. By that time it was sold out.
/giphy vivid-hurried-limit
@mtb002
Oooooo, giphy got political. Can’t wait to see what kind of shit this stirs up.
@mtb002 I recommend you edit and save before the time limit is up.
@sammydog01
It’s probably already buried at this point, seem safe to leave it.
Neat. Waited for all three time slots. Midnight, no permissions, right at 7, literally watching the seconds click down, still no permissions, then at 4 as well. Change up your fucking message from permissions to “sorry youre a worthless pos that didnt get it” who the fuck is building these pages for fucks sake. capybaras.
@davidaddor. Same. Literally exacty the same.
@davidaddor @robpete
@Kyeh @robpete I guess today I can call myself Republican
@davidaddor @robpete
Wow, the green bar of death told me I missed out, but my recent purchases shows that I actually did get an IRK. SCORE.
/giphy photogenic-troublesome-parrot
@hanxiety You go lucky. The green bar of death also told me I missed out. Just checked my orders and I didn’t get an irk.
@Kidsandliz sad day
No luck again as green line keep going and going and going and then sold out. Vmp and get nothing - meh
/giphy chipper-mindful-temper
/giphy jubilant-independent-swallow
Set an alarm and was refreshing but still missed it. Y’all probably would have just send me some mosquitoes and mold to go with my humidifier anyway.
/giphy not bitter
@sudotrin They’d have had to import giant African snails, cane toads, a potted Brazilian pepper, 25 pounds of melaleuca pollen, and three assorted iguanas and Cuban anoles, to make it a fully authentic SoFla IRK.
@werehatrack Are we neighbors?
@sudotrin Nah, I just grew up down there. I escaped in 1981.
@werehatrack I’ve gotten out a few times but …
/giphy they keep bringing me back in
Set my stupid alarm, it goes off 20 minutes late.
/giphy omnipotent-tragic-reason
@Kristine516 Oh, no, no, no, no - Obama? NOT THIS GIRL! (I guess getting the IRK makes up for it giphy)
@Kristine516 so refresh it and get a new giphy if it bugs you that much
But we NEED more, or we are just pitiful LOSERS until next season, standing underneath the glows of those who crows. [poor us]
Never done this before, but in celebration of somehow scoring one…
/giphy boisterous-resounding-copy
And also
/image boisterous-resounding-copy
Eh, what the heck, let’s see how it decodes…
/giphy predominant-sleepy-dill
@werehatrack Appropriate for you!
Wonder if it’s the same kitty as the one on the copy machine?
@Kyeh Dunno, but there’s something of a resemblance to Momcat3. (She really is an exceptionally nice cat.)
@werehatrack Nice. I’ve seen no photos of her so far - is she camera-shy?
@Kyeh She’s very social with random people. But because some of the cats in the main group are not as accepting, she lives in the other half of the house. I don’t have my camera out as often over there.
@werehatrack Oh, too bad.
Mehmbership may or may not have paid off …
/giphy gloomy-contentious-ramen
@jvo
Narrator: It did not.
/giphy secretive-bawling-narwhal
Can’t believe I managed to score one during the vmp hour.
@Cynamon I’m sorry. Hope the rest of your day is better and not so disappointing.
@IndifferentDude Today was a good PokemonGo community day so at least I have that to console me.
Amazing. The one day I don’t check the site at midnight is the one day they have enough IRKs at a cheap price to last until one hour before I wake up.
@PooltoyWolf Actually, they lasted seven minutes at midnight, less than an additional minute at 8AM, and then less than one more minute at 4PM ET. Call it nine minutes, maybe.
@werehatrack Oh! Good to know, then. LOL
@PooltoyWolf @werehatrack I thought it was 2 minutes at midnight? Still insanely long for an an IRK.
@mossygreen @werehatrack Perhaps we went so long without them that nobody bothered to check immediately? Heh
@mossygreen @PooltoyWolf now that I think about it, yeah, it was about 2 minutes. So call it four minutes all together for the 600 plus.
@mossygreen @PooltoyWolf @werehatrack
I completely forgot to check Meh until midnight my time - 2 hours past the launch. Since we had Irks 2 weeks ago I was totally not expecting this.
@Kyeh @PooltoyWolf @werehatrack
/youtube nobody expects the spanish inquisition
@Kyeh @mossygreen @PooltoyWolf
Neither was I, which is why it took me a couple of seconds to actually register what was on the page. And then the button-masher took over, and I got in quickly enough. Had it not been for the fact that I was actually sitting there trying to measure how long the “something went terribly wrong” message was displayed at rollover, I very much doubt that I’d have clicked in time.
@Kyeh @mossygreen @PooltoyWolf @werehatrack I’m sure they were expecting surprise everyone on a Saturday no less. Got the dog treats twice after midnight and then couldn’t get on site 2 other times after that for a total of 4. The fifth time was the charm and the IRKs were still there are available. Got one.
@Kyeh @PooltoyWolf @werehatrack How long is the “something went terribly wrong” page lasting for you? I think it’s down to 20-30 seconds, which seems pretty good.
@Kyeh @mossygreen @PooltoyWolf It was something on the order of 10 to 15 seconds this time, and I really wish I had paid more attention to that particular factor. I have a suspicion about what’s causing it.
//remembers when these were $5.
Get off my lawn.
@ACraigL Damn that inflation.
@ACraigL almost $15 with tax
@ACraigL @lonocat This is too perfect.
@ACraigL @lonocat @PooltoyWolf Arguably, these things are still a much better deal than a pallet of returns from Harbor Freight sold through a liquidator.
Was hoping for a birthday irk, oh well!
It wasn’t worth $5, but at that price point I was willing to take a chance and make the donation trip to Goodwill afterward. $13.37 might as well be $50, though. I ain’t paying that much to take out your trash.
@Telanis Obviously you have never gotten anything good. Very few of my IRK have been worth less than what I paid for them-my daughter sold many items in my IRKs for many times what I paid for the IRK. And arguably my best IRK and quite frankly the best one I’ve ever seen had items totaling in excess of $ 500-that builds up a lot of good will for the few that I got that were worthless.
@Telanis Good. One less person competing to get it should make it slightly easier for the rest.
I forgot to post my order number!
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@mossygreen Meh to Ella Wheeler Wilcox, yay to Matt Berry.
@mossygreen I love that guy.
My first IRK since being laid off after 25 yrs from my job last November. Countless resumes sent out with hardly even a response. I’m going to look at this as a good sign
@jmhsrv May it be the last of your disappointment for this year.
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Got an 8am IRK! It’s been awhile. I’m sure it will be regrettable, and that my wife will not be amused.
I’m curious to see who got what.
Obviously there is a price point where the disadvantages out weigh the advantages (ie paying $ 50 and then having to buy $ 50 worth of stuff you really didn’t want to get a $ 49.99 credit), but for the most part it was fun both in trying to snag one and then waiting with baited breath for Fedex to deliver a box which you had no idea what was in it.
Of course hearing your significant other yap about what a jerk you were to waste the money or hitting you over the head with the box the IRK came in isn’t that much fun but you have to take the bad with the good.
Right after buying I had the thought “Hmm, they just shut down Mediocritee, I hope this isn’t just a corny shirt…”
Mine just shipped. Package is 1lb, 6"x4"x1". Its gonna be a shirt.
Anyone else’s ship out today?
@nashw Those are default dimensions, just used as a placeholder until FedEx sees it hit the conveyor belt at the depot. At that point, the automated system will weigh it and determine the dimensions, and those will get updated.
I got an ice cream maker, 1pair 2xl boxer briefs, 1pair socks (compression maybe?), Random ladies shirt, and a cell phone stick on ring holder\stand
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Opened mine today and got a new cuisnart ice cream machine, false lashes, MacBook case, iPhone 10 screen protector, hemp pain cream, and a cell phone attached silicone credit card wallet. Ice cream maker is badass.
Got ours this morning and it’s a Lifepro Flexcycle, lol.
Just got mine - got a couple face masks, a sports bra (that may daughter is convince belongs to someone else despite it having tags lol) an aqua sonic toothbrush and a LifePro Flexcycle!
Lifepro Flexcycle!
Yup, actually disappointed this time. Worst BOC ever!
I got a Cuisinart ice cream maker :’)
Nothing I would really use except the IRK bag. Box contained the ice cream maker, a UV disinfecting bag and two glass phone screen protectors.
@ponagathos I was hoping for the ice cream maker. Got an essential oils diffuser. Brand new but won’t use.
Received my IRK today. Things added to the Goodwill pile:
And of course, the ubiquitous Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker. I may keep this one for a while. I’m not enthusiastic about doing a lot of work for a little bit of ice cream. I’ll probably make basic vanilla ice cream and put chocolate sauce on it. I’ll more likely get some cranberry cocktail or orange juice and make slushies.
I do definitely regret my IRK. When I saw the box on the porch, I said, “Oh crap.” And I was right.
Got my Irk today, you guys litteraly don’t give a shit anymore. You slapped a label on manufacturer’s box, it was a lifepro flexcycle, so its a Cubi, one of thos sit on your ass and pedal a bike thing…
@somf69 there’s more in it
@brandon not in mine, no biggie, my wife loves it
@somf69 you might want to check if the box is still around. It was wedged into the packing of mine. They added stuff to them and resealed them
just opened mine…
(1) iPhone X glass screen protector ( no use)
(1) Tan IRK bag
(3) bags of Choc. melting Candies
(1) Spa life Cappuccino Face mask
(23) 5pk cards of 2016 Lithium coin cells
pack of (6) Tzumi branded Micro USB car chargers(no use)
(1) yellow thing… looks like a wrist band/squirt gun thing
(3) pages of Food Shaped Vinyl cutouts (Pineapples, Bananas, Pizza, Donuts, Ice Cream, etc.)
I’ll probably keep the Chocolates, The IRK bag of course, maybe 1 or 2 of the cards of Batteries, the rest will likely go straight to the local Goodwill.
Another Lifepro flexcycle! I have a Cubii at home paid via lockdown benefit, but I was wanting another now I’m in the office most days. Horrible terrible IRK!
Though I may find it has 2 left pedals or something…
a freakin cuisinart slow cooker
some meltable chocolate
a few masks
a uv sanitizer
i took a picture
@pjlukin put some respect on that cooker! It’s awesome!
DIPLOMAT! RAT-A-TAT! FAT CAT! AWESOME!
I got mine today…
1 - 5 card of CR2016 batteries
1 - iPhone X screen protector
1 - pair of 32x32 blue jeans
1 - Life Pro leg massager
1 - Tan IRK bag
I’ll donate most and keep the IRK bag. Still fun to get one…
Hurry BOC in woot right now ! Since I can’t ever get an irk posting this . Delete if not allowed
Got my IRK, it definitely was full of regret. I saw others’ posts and was hoping for the ice cream maker but instead, I got:
-3XL pair of sweatpants (I’m a medium, but I am preggers so maybe I will grow into them)
-1 TrackR.pixel
-tan IRK bag
I’m wondering if the people who get the cool stuff live closer to the Meh warehouse so shipping is cheaper?
@GirlFriday91 I live in PA and got an ice cream maker last month and a lifecycle thingy this time around. The lifecycle thingy weighs 19lbs and was wondering how they are shipping these things out as well.
@GirlFriday91 it must be random, I am in Texas and got a regrettable Irk
@GirlFriday91 I can’t believe they still have TrackR Pixels.
I got my best to date IRK!
1x Tan IRK bag
1x Kenneth Cole Winter Jacket
1x Microfiber Comforter
1x Aduro Desk Lamp with Charger
1x Aduro 3-in-1 Apple Charger
And… 1x Bose Soprano Frames!!!
At first I thought it might have just been an empty box but this is the best surprise! The sound is absolutely amazing. I’m definitely keeping it but I also know what to get my mama for Mother’s Day now. Thank you, Meh!
@jayay410 You may have the jackpot irk this time around value wise.
Got my IRK today, took me by surprise.
1x Lifepro FlexCycle
3 x Casery Phone Grip and Stand
1 x Some kind of small travelocity branded thing you stick to the wall that has a ring and sleeve on it
1 x C-Max Bravo Smart watch
1 x Galaxy Compression Pant (I think)
1 x Irk Bag (These things make good grocery bags!)
0 x Bags of Texas Air
Thanks Meh!
Well
Regret wasn’t instant
But it was regret none the less
1 bag
2 trackers
1 empty box for some kind of hair brush
1 bag melties
@jmhsrv Was there anything in the bag pockets?
@OldCatLady nope
Just a bag
Sorry I’m a little late here. I just moved into a new house. Major box mountains everywhere.
Left side down:
LED lighted compact mirror - granddaughter bribe
Universal car charger - always useful
Phone grip and stand - " "
And the big item - a Life Pro foot massager! Told myself I couldn’t play with it until I posted here. But had to make some trails through the moving box mountains first. I hear this product is wonderful. Looking forward to it, and with the packing, carrying out, carrying in, unpacking and arranging I’ve earned it!!
Okay, here we go!
1x tan IRK tote bag.
1x Tacklife T8 Jumpstarter. I am so thrilled about this thing!
1x Men’s long sleeve gray t-shirt (my dad is already wearing it and almost as happy as when I got him that nose/ear trimmer from that side deal redemption box a month/month and a half ago).
1x Adrienne Vittadini Bow Dome Satchel purse in black leather (I gave it to my mom; she’s very happy.)
1x MKF Collection backpack in brown. It’s nice. It’s not my style but I think I know someone that will like it and use it.
1x Cobaltx Rumble tailgate wireless speaker with LED lights.
This is way better than that one with the one, small black sock, iPhone 6 screen protectors, and expired fragrance set!
Thanks, Meh!!
MUCH less regrettable than the past two or three IRKs I’ve gotten!:
April 1337 IRK
1x Lifepro leg massager
1x 36x30 Jeans
1x beauty kit with jade roller and some other stuff
2x TrackR pixels
1x IRK bag
My wife raided the beauty kit for what she found useful. The TrackR pixels got thrown in a drawer with some others I got in another IRK. TrackR is out of business but I keep thinking that I can hack them to do something…at a minimum I can use the batteries. Not sure what to make of the leg massager
@forebrain Leg massagers are amazing. Strap em on and sit back and relax
@forebrain
The TrackR Pixels were notorious for coming DOA due to bad batteries so, “good luck with that” unless you need some table leg shims or shiny tiddly winks!
OTOH there has been some success reported with pairing them to another app (though I can’t think of what it is at the moment) Keep meaning to try that out on the
onesseveral I have at home.@chienfou @forebrain I tried SwiftFinder without success on my phone which is made by Larry and Sergey.
I got a Lifepro Flexcycle, bag, three of those TrackR pixels (is it an IRK if you DON’T get at least one of those), a phone case and something else very unmemorable. Actually game directly in the Flexcycle box which was weird.
What was the price again if you spent $20 at meh?
I got an irk bag, slicker seat pink with poncho, some gold wrap rolls(3), and an all in one clock with mood lights and phone charger.