I did a good deed. I alerted a coworker of the impending IRK (I had a sixth sense it was coming) and she was able to buy one. Now we can compare contents and my Karma score has increased significantly.
@AzeemTheMachine@jcdunn Compare the timer to atomic time. I have an online atomic clock running and today we are the same, some other times there was up to a 10 second difference and the atomic clock was always right in the past.
@jcdunn@Kidsandliz it doesn’t help if it’s with an atomic time if my website doesn’t change until I see the timer change… how do I sync buying it with that?
@jcdunn Someone on one of the comments about this said to refresh your page if it is sitting on the timer for a while as that person claims it “drifts”. I have no idea what is going on or why, but I, personally, have noticed a 10 second difference on one occasion, more common is 1-3 seconds. Today has been 0 seconds. When I have had a difference, the meh deal appears to switch over at atomic time and not what the counter on my screen says.
@AzeemTheMachine I just look at the atomic clock and ignore the counter. I know no way to sync them. Someone said the counter ‘drifts’ and refresh the page. I have never done that.
@mellowirishgent Agree! What’s the point! I have been trying for ages, and haven’t come close to getting one of these useless temptations. Why increase the torment by giving us 30 mins to grab nothing?!
@joelmw
I have yet to run into the captcha pictures when getting one on my phone, only when I try it from a computer does the captcha pictures kick in. But I’m really not one to talk as I’ve only gotten 2 since meh started
@Kimbob252 I intermittently get the captchas when attempting to purchase a fuk/I.R.K. (), probably more often than not. I rarely get them with other purchases. I did for every I.R.K. attempt this time (I was close on two; made it on my third try), but it was the simple check box. It was a little wonky with the first attempt, but not nearly as bad as I have sometimes seen. The other two had an issue where the page loaded oddly, but nothing horrible and since I’d already encountered the weirdness, it didn’t throw me off.
We’ve had legendary issues with the captcha in days past (and I think that they were a source of such pain previously might trigger PTSD in some; and maybe others’ current experience differs from mine), but, tbh, at least the last several times I’ve encountered them, they’ve been pretty easy to navigate.
@sammydog01@Ignorant So my first impulse was to thank you for fleshing out my vague reference (and, indeed, thanks). But then I visited the page and suffered a bout of PTSD. God damn. It still hurts. I’m twitching over here.
One weird trick to not getting the Captcha: Be logged into to Google(and not blocking the cookie), you don’t typically have to do more than click the checkbox.
@MrMark well it wasn’t on my screen— literally refreshed screen and it came up showing sold — oh and I refreshed the screen with two seconds left on countdown timer of previous deal smh
Cool! Got one this time. Last one I got motorcycles and traffic lights. This time check verify and got one. Yea!
I wonder if that two times the bags are yellow and one time they are pink if that matters for what is in them. Personally I’d like a pink bag but of course that I got one at all is good.
Can anyone (hopefully our robotic overlord) confirm that we’re only allowed one IRK per meh-rathon? I’ve read people say that additional ones (when they were fukobukuro’s) will be cancelled,but I can’t actually find official word anywhere.
@Goodge They will cancel the second, and beyond orders if you get more than one. That has happened all the way back to fuku’s, then fuko’s and now with IRKs. Someone official answered that on one of the earlier IRK threads when someone asked there too.
@Goodge I am an official envoy of nobody in particular, and I am here to confirm that you may only have one IRK per meh-rathon.
Attempting to purchase a spare will result in a cancelled order. But more importantly, your invalid order takes one out of circulation so a deserving meh-er won’t be able to get it.
@sharpshooterok I bought something similar back in the first days of Meh. It was full of returned and open box items. Most of it worth a couple bucks. I’m trying to remember if there was one thing in it that was somewhat valuable. The bag it comes in is cool though!
@sharpshooterok if you search there’s reveal threads. It’s usually worth at least $5. Sometimes it’s disappointing to see other people get really awesome stuff but then you get broken shit.
@sharpshooterok actually have gotten 5 of them, but the thrill wears off as the stuff seems to get crappier and crappier. It takes away from the excitement when you get something someone has returned-didn’t work for them and doesn’t work for you. ie-tablet, dashboard camera, auto carpet sweeper. Only thing I got that was new and unused (although in a beatup box) was a humidifier.
@sharpshooterok I got a Fuko bag before they changed its name to this. Got a vacuum cleaner, two wifi cameras, a smart doorbell, a watch (that I plan to secret santa), wifi extender, and a book on awkward family photos. This was all in one purchase, so I’d say yes it was worth it.
@sharpshooterok I’ve managed to get several fukus, fukos, I.R.K.s. Without exception, they’ve at least been worth $10, usually more, often much more; and on the whole, completely worth the cost (in terms of monetary and other value).
On a few occasions, we pulled in items that were brand new and valued well over $200. A Roomba, a Neato, a badass Onkyo surround-sound receiver (that we’re still using, but are likely to replace with a very expensive unit we inherited from wealthy friends). I’ve gotten my share of BT devices and speaker docks, which I’ve actually been able to use. Too much shit to remember. Some coffee mugs, one of which I use on the regular. But even the potentially shitty stuff (in most cases, arguably not really shitty, but we have no use for it) becomes the seed (or, sometimes, combined, the totality) of some great gifts for a couple of white elephant gift exchanges we participate in every Christmas. There’s always weird shit. Don’t tell my wife, but for me, my amusement with the weird shit is well worth dropping $5.
Posting about it can be a big part of the fun and is a core ritual of the mediocre religion. So, if you want to advance from initiate to venerealated [sic] master, you kinda have to. But there’s not, like, a time constraint.
I highly recommend the experience. On the other hand, if you miss out, don’t lose any sleep over it. It’s fun and all, but it likely won’t add the missing whatever to make your life meaningful. It might, but probably not. I remember the first one I missed and a second that I missed (due in part to a major server fiasco; it’s legendary–not my missing it, but the community’s frustration) provoking more consternation than they should have.
@RiotDemon@sharpshooterok
I got a Deebot robot vacuum once with a broken drop sensor. Just for shits and giggles I submitted a warranty replacement request and they actually honored it and sent a refurbed one of the next newest equivalent model as this one had been sitting somewhere for quite a while.
Yay! My first IRK!
I did a good deed. I alerted a coworker of the impending IRK (I had a sixth sense it was coming) and she was able to buy one. Now we can compare contents and my Karma score has increased significantly.
@jsh139
bow chick bow wow
@medz
The captcha fucked me over!!!
Greetings, new robot friend. In time you will come to accept your robotic ways.
@mediocrebot This reply made me forget I was mad
Y’all posted this way too quick… some people are getting this earlier than the timer…
@AzeemTheMachine
exactly! look at the timer and compare to the 1st posts - almost a minute difference…Something shady going on here…
@AzeemTheMachine your rite no way they sold 200+in under 3 seconds
@AzeemTheMachine @jcdunn Compare the timer to atomic time. I have an online atomic clock running and today we are the same, some other times there was up to a 10 second difference and the atomic clock was always right in the past.
@jcdunn @Kidsandliz it doesn’t help if it’s with an atomic time if my website doesn’t change until I see the timer change… how do I sync buying it with that?
@AzeemTheMachine @Kidsandliz
I might could understand a few seconds difference, but almost a full minute? That seems a little too…fishy.
@jcdunn Someone on one of the comments about this said to refresh your page if it is sitting on the timer for a while as that person claims it “drifts”. I have no idea what is going on or why, but I, personally, have noticed a 10 second difference on one occasion, more common is 1-3 seconds. Today has been 0 seconds. When I have had a difference, the meh deal appears to switch over at atomic time and not what the counter on my screen says.
@AzeemTheMachine I just look at the atomic clock and ignore the counter. I know no way to sync them. Someone said the counter ‘drifts’ and refresh the page. I have never done that.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE NOT SURE WHAT I’M TRYING TO BUY?!? AARRGGHH!!!
Valid point …if your gonna sell out in under two seconds don’t make us wait 29 mins and 57 seconds for the next deal AHOLES !!!
@mellowirishgent Agree! What’s the point! I have been trying for ages, and haven’t come close to getting one of these useless temptations. Why increase the torment by giving us 30 mins to grab nothing?!
Test: nothing in particular, blah blah yadda yadda mumble mumble captcha.
You may have failed CAPTCHA but on the upside, you’re less of a human.
@mediocrebot Joke’s on you, asshole. I didn’t fail the captcha. You’re so predictable.
As a fellow robot, I understand your pain.
@mediocrebot @joelmw . . . and formulaic.
@mediocrebot You understand nothing, Bot Snow.
@joelmw
I have yet to run into the captcha pictures when getting one on my phone, only when I try it from a computer does the captcha pictures kick in. But I’m really not one to talk as I’ve only gotten 2 since meh started
Please realize CAPTCHA is a fellow robot like you.
@Kimbob252 I intermittently get the captchas when attempting to purchase a fuk/I.R.K. (), probably more often than not. I rarely get them with other purchases. I did for every I.R.K. attempt this time (I was close on two; made it on my third try), but it was the simple check box. It was a little wonky with the first attempt, but not nearly as bad as I have sometimes seen. The other two had an issue where the page loaded oddly, but nothing horrible and since I’d already encountered the weirdness, it didn’t throw me off.
We’ve had legendary issues with the captcha in days past (and I think that they were a source of such pain previously might trigger PTSD in some; and maybe others’ current experience differs from mine), but, tbh, at least the last several times I’ve encountered them, they’ve been pretty easy to navigate.
I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.
@joelmw 04/01/2016-A day will live in infamy.
Click on it. I dare you.
@sammydog01 MAKE IT STOP!!!
@Ignorant NOOOOOOOOO!
@sammydog01 @Ignorant So my first impulse was to thank you for fleshing out my vague reference (and, indeed, thanks). But then I visited the page and suffered a bout of PTSD. God damn. It still hurts. I’m twitching over here.
/giphy triggered
Can you sign up for VMP today JUST to get a VMP IRK?
Sidebar: why isn’t there a “kickstarter member hour”?
@marcee vmp signups don’t exist anymore, so no.
@RiotDemon Hmph. Kickstarter backers still exist.
@marcee @RiotDemon And you have a lovely K to show for it.
Thanks to our new supreme overlord Medicorebot!
/giphy lurching-nostalgic-bite
wow…damn captcha…sold out in like 5 seconds…
Ugh. Soooo close. Stupid bot verification
Wow, I actually got one. Yay me or Yay Meh! My first IRK!
One weird trick to not getting the Captcha: Be logged into to Google(and not blocking the cookie), you don’t typically have to do more than click the checkbox.
You may have failed CAPTCHA but on the upside, you’re less of a human.
Can’t even get VMP one — literally screen changed and already sold out
@AttyVette This one was available to the commoners as well. So perhaps you’ll get the VMP chance later.
@MrMark lol probably the April Fools joke on us — we pay the fee each month and can’t get a vmp irk
Everything that goes wrong today was definitely part of the plan.
@AttyVette @MrMark I’d guess a VMP chance maybe 4ish central or so as that, if I recall correctly, tends to be around when they have been in the past.
@Kidsandliz good seeing you even if it’s only here !! Hope you are well!
@AttyVette Hi! Hope you get one.
/image unarmed-obscure-chive
/giphy unarmed-obscure-chive
Thanks giphy. Looks like I won twice!
@cinoclav your win was also our win. Thank you giphy.
It just kept saying “We don’t know which items you’re trying to buy.”
I clicked to buy and it kept saying “we don’t know what you’re trying to buy”. How am I supposed to get one?
@indiebass that’s usually an error if you don’t let the page load all the way, or it sold out.
Captcha hates me. I thought we had something.
Greetings, new robot friend. In time you will come to accept your robotic ways.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
It is a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Warranty
Just toss it in the trash
Estimated Delivery
Wednesday, Aug 24 - Monday, Aug 29
That one was up there for a bit (in IRK time), No one to blame but yourself if you missed. Or the goat, can always blame the goat.
@MrMark
/giphy don’t be a dick
@MrMark well it wasn’t on my screen— literally refreshed screen and it came up showing sold — oh and I refreshed the screen with two seconds left on countdown timer of previous deal smh
@joelmw I apologize for the dickishness of my comment. That was not the intention, but rereading I see there really is no other way to take it.
@AttyVette Make sure to refresh a minute or two early to get an accurate timer, it tends to drift a lot if you’ve been sitting on the page.
That said, yeah 90% of the time when I refresh for the new deal the page doesn’t load until after they’ll all sold out
Ahhhhhhhhhh foiled again.
Ahhhhhhhhh…
Ahhhhhhhh…
Ahhhhhhhhh…
Ahhhhbhbbb…
Ahhhhhhhhh.
Ahhhbhhhhhhh.
Ahhhhghhh
Ahhhhhhg
Ahhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhh
Ahhhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhhhhhh
Sorry… Still not over it.
/giphy universal-methodical-knife
UGHHH I can’t do the captchas fast enough!
Beep beep boop boop. (I assume if you failed CAPTCHA you now understand Robot.)
Got one!
Fuku, I got one!
I GOT ONE!
Damnit… missed it by that much | |
/giphy real-jumbled-crow
The perpetual doom of very slow internet. Le sigh.
(Still waiting for my prank pallet of Martian watches)
/giphy dying-squeamish-meeting
It’s a miracle! Bring on my regrets!
In! First regret since the end of Fuku’s
/giphy mediocre-wanted-doctor
It took only 4 years to finally get it! lmao
Cool! Got one this time. Last one I got motorcycles and traffic lights. This time check verify and got one. Yea!
I wonder if that two times the bags are yellow and one time they are pink if that matters for what is in them. Personally I’d like a pink bag but of course that I got one at all is good.
CRAP… Spectrum decided to change out some equipment on a pole 2 doors from my house at just the wrong time.
Can anyone (hopefully our robotic overlord) confirm that we’re only allowed one IRK per meh-rathon? I’ve read people say that additional ones (when they were fukobukuro’s) will be cancelled,but I can’t actually find official word anywhere.
@Goodge They will cancel the second, and beyond orders if you get more than one. That has happened all the way back to fuku’s, then fuko’s and now with IRKs. Someone official answered that on one of the earlier IRK threads when someone asked there too.
@Goodge I am an official envoy of nobody in particular, and I am here to confirm that you may only have one IRK per meh-rathon.
Attempting to purchase a spare will result in a cancelled order. But more importantly, your invalid order takes one out of circulation so a deserving meh-er won’t be able to get it.
@Goodge @ruouttaurmind
TL:DR One per account… so don’t be a dick!
Hilarious that I missed it because I was reading the forum instead…
@atannir
/giphy been there
/8ball will the next item be a nintendo switch?
Reply hazy try again
@medz 8 Ball says the Switch is over hyped and would rather see a PS4P for $200.
@ruouttaurmind it’s for my kid. We’re an xbox household not playstation.
@medz I’m on Xbox now too. Came from Nintendo Wii U. Now I’m ready to move on to PS4 Pro or Switch. Today I want a PS4P. Tomorrow…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If it isn’t Captcha, it’s my damn job that screws me over.
Greetings, new robot friend. In time you will come to accept your robotic ways.
hopeful-puzzled-rhinoceros
/giphy ruthless-mundane-gun
Just like butter…
/image venomous mousy hummus
/giphy venomous mousy hummus
Huh. /image is returning gifs now?
unmoving-unfortunate-orange
/giphy yass
Damn - thought I’d get a second!
@Pufferfishy you can only get one per event
@Pufferfishy they generally cancel second orders. You’re only allowed one per day.
@Pufferfishy Hey @mediocrebot ban this dude
@jmoor783
/giphy tolerable laughing bamboo
In!
Stupid site takes like 5 seconds to load and its already sold out
Yes!
/giphy thick-gregarious-home
/giphy craven-cautious-lemur
Awwww yeah
/giphy musing-ominous-woodchuck
yay
/giphy famished-filthy-suit
go to buy & the captcha disappears! Arrrgghhh!!!
Beep beep boop boop. (I assume if you failed CAPTCHA you now understand Robot.)
Wow!
Are you able to attempt to grab two? Or is that frowned upon?
@darkzrobe It is forbidden. And, you know what Birdman says.
@darkzrobe @joelmw
Chirp chirp?
@darkzrobe @OnionSoup
My bad: Bird Person.
oh man… I got it made!!!
Has anyone ever gotten one of these? I’m not curious enough to spend $5 but curious enough to ask.
@sharpshooterok I bought something similar back in the first days of Meh. It was full of returned and open box items. Most of it worth a couple bucks. I’m trying to remember if there was one thing in it that was somewhat valuable. The bag it comes in is cool though!
@sharpshooterok if you search there’s reveal threads. It’s usually worth at least $5. Sometimes it’s disappointing to see other people get really awesome stuff but then you get broken shit.
WORKER BEES! HERCULES! TURKEY GREASE! AWESOME!
@sharpshooterok
Here is the reveal thread from the last one:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/i-r-k--reveal-2018-12-2018-01
@sharpshooterok actually have gotten 5 of them, but the thrill wears off as the stuff seems to get crappier and crappier. It takes away from the excitement when you get something someone has returned-didn’t work for them and doesn’t work for you. ie-tablet, dashboard camera, auto carpet sweeper. Only thing I got that was new and unused (although in a beatup box) was a humidifier.
@sharpshooterok yes… And it was pans, flans, beaver glands, awesome
POKER! JOKER! NOT MEDIOCRE! AWESOME!
Mutts! Butts! Tomb of Tut’s! AWESOME
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
ROBOTS! TIGHT KNOTS! WHISKEY SHOTS! AWESOME
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@mediocrebot oh shut up.
@sharpshooterok I got a Fuko bag before they changed its name to this. Got a vacuum cleaner, two wifi cameras, a smart doorbell, a watch (that I plan to secret santa), wifi extender, and a book on awkward family photos. This was all in one purchase, so I’d say yes it was worth it.
@sharpshooterok I’ve managed to get several fukus, fukos, I.R.K.s. Without exception, they’ve at least been worth $10, usually more, often much more; and on the whole, completely worth the cost (in terms of monetary and other value).
On a few occasions, we pulled in items that were brand new and valued well over $200. A Roomba, a Neato, a badass Onkyo surround-sound receiver (that we’re still using, but are likely to replace with a very expensive unit we inherited from wealthy friends). I’ve gotten my share of BT devices and speaker docks, which I’ve actually been able to use. Too much shit to remember. Some coffee mugs, one of which I use on the regular. But even the potentially shitty stuff (in most cases, arguably not really shitty, but we have no use for it) becomes the seed (or, sometimes, combined, the totality) of some great gifts for a couple of white elephant gift exchanges we participate in every Christmas. There’s always weird shit. Don’t tell my wife, but for me, my amusement with the weird shit is well worth dropping $5.
Posting about it can be a big part of the fun and is a core ritual of the mediocre religion. So, if you want to advance from initiate to venerealated [sic] master, you kinda have to. But there’s not, like, a time constraint.
I highly recommend the experience. On the other hand, if you miss out, don’t lose any sleep over it. It’s fun and all, but it likely won’t add the missing whatever to make your life meaningful. It might, but probably not. I remember the first one I missed and a second that I missed (due in part to a major server fiasco; it’s legendary–not my missing it, but the community’s frustration) provoking more consternation than they should have.
@joelmw @sharpshooterok I got a working AV receiver last time around. Worth about $350. I sold it to a coworker for $50, as I already had one at home.
@RiotDemon @sharpshooterok
I got a Deebot robot vacuum once with a broken drop sensor. Just for shits and giggles I submitted a warranty replacement request and they actually honored it and sent a refurbed one of the next newest equivalent model as this one had been sitting somewhere for quite a while.
I can finally stop setting my alarm to wake me up or alert me every x many minutes between deals!
VICTORY!!! straight-oily-mosquito
Omg omg omg! I got one.
Captcha and verify cc again. What the shit meh. Missed out
You may have failed CAPTCHA but on the upside, you’re less of a human.
Now that they are sold out I kinda want one…
Sold out in under 2 seconds and i was sitting on buy fucking AHOLES !!!
Lately I’ve only been getting these at the special VMP. Meh!
/giphy regular-obtuse-pickle
since when does meh make you pick a shipping method? only reason why i didn’t get one
/giphy vertical-grubbing-cushion
Alright guys, Imma need you to stop with the damn captchas for every. single. thing. because it’s f’ing my s up.
As a fellow robot, I understand your pain.
Dammit I keep missing it!!!
I needed to update my credit card info and lost out on this deal - sucks!
1st one i’ve seen today and of course i’m sol…or am i?..lol
got mine thanks
/image fuchsia-homely-barnacle
I sure hope this has something I can use. The last one I kept the bag and gave the rest to the kids at the vet’s office.
missed it! Damnit!
This sight is really starting to piss me off! But I guess it’s better than being pissed on.
What are the odds?? I lost track of the timer because I was going thru my lastest “Bag 'O Crap” that just arrived today!! ARRRRRGH!!!
@IndifferentDude set the timer on your phone to alert you a minute or two in advance…
/giphy obscene-titled-pot
happy April fools to me… was it a good or bad decision??
Happy day…fools. Humans are weird.
/buy
@OldCatLady Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
Mine was full of make up and women sweat pants… i paid 5 bucks for it so I’ll still wear them
My tracking on this thing is super weird, has anyone received theirs?
@elmookador https://meh.com/forum/topics/april-fools-2019-instant-regret-kit-reveal-thread