IRK Reveal Thread for November 1, 2024 Side Deal!
10Mine arrived, so I’ll start
(Photo is missing one item)
Yellow IRK bag with red imprint; LOUD! (Useful)
One pair of size M men’s jogging pants, way too small for me even if I used that sort of thing.
Not shown, two pairs of Comfort Republic boxers in size M (So VERY not useful to me.)
Mia K smallish purse, black, can use.
Three-pack of white craft paint, meh.
Four packs of very-cinnamon-y “crisp apple” wax melts, not useful for me, will get donated if a victim can be identified.
One low-stretch back support belt in size M, way too small for me, meh.
Nothing worthless, nothing WOW-worthy, absolutely middle-of-the-swamp Meh.
Whisper me if you can use the size-M stuff, and we can arrange for shipping.
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A similar box arrived here today:
Not a lot of stuff relevant to my interests, but none of it is bad except maybe the wax melts since they don’t seem particularly scented. Very meh, slight regret incurred.
Thanks, Meh!
@djslack the mask is quite a score
@djslack @tinamarie1974 I got one of those masks once and was going to try it. I chickened out.
@djslack @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974
I’ve been wanting to try one of those masks
@Star2236 same
Not worth a photo.
1 “fat burner pro” device, will go straight into the trash. this type of bullshit gimmicky gadget is… well, bullshit.
1 pack crisp apple wax melts, will offer them to the cleaning lady.
3 bottles white craft paint. Again.
1 package vintage hand sanitizer. Again. Trash.
1 yellow IRK bag.
I got this shit for free and I still have regrets. Sheesh.
Irk bag - nice colors!
craft paint if I leave it sitting out in the community room I am sure they will grow feet and walk
those apple things that I am not sure what you do with them but I am sure the trash can knows.
Folding coat hangers
5 glass bowls with lids. I already have enough of these so likely will sell to get christmas money to buy stuff for family.
After the last really bad, one item plus a bag, already broken and almost too heavy to throw into the dumpster irk this is an improvement. Nothing broken just for starters.
Thanks meh
Four items in mine - a poly polo shirt, some poly slippers (neither of which will fit anyone I know), a single crisp apple wax and acrylic (plus a bag which is kinda essential for a fukubukuro). No bowls, no hangers, no sanitizer, no fat burner or light mask, no back support. Four items which retail were nowhere near the cost of this thing.
I don’t have regret. I feel totally ripped off and angry. I think I’m done guys and gals.
I feel like I won the IRK lotto here. I received the obligatory bag, the off brand air tag, a set of men’s Med boxer briefs, a calf compression sleeve and a 3 pc luggage set that was actually impressive.
No wax melts or paints but can’t say that I’m sad about it or that I have regrets. Thanks, Meh.
Mine should arrive today! Anxiously awaiting the regret! I will update this post when it arrives but first I wanted to ask has anyone received their refund for purchases made during the mehrathon? With my past purchases the refund arrived before the irk did. Just checking that they didn’t forget me!
@thecloudy1 Ditto. Mine is due to arrive today too. I have not yet received my refund, but Meh has never failed to give me a refund. Sometimes it takes awhile.
Think they have changed their IRK policies and not for the better. No real WOW items anymore. Some good items in damaged boxes they couldn’t ship to people who bought them on Morningsave/Sidedeals. But most are a collection of things either leftover from meh, misc stuff no one needs/wants or broken/returned things they sold-the last group no where worth the price paid.
For me the tipping point was the 20+ pound battery generator that was obviously a return and DOA in an IRK. So no more more IRKS for me unless they are stand alone-less than $ 15 and not attached to other stuff I really don’t need in the first place.
@Felton10 The broken and missing many of it’s parts, incredible heavy vibration machine that was an amazon return no less and was the only item I got besides a bag was pretty awful. Quite honestly stuff like that isn’t “funny”. Too heavy. If they are going to send literal trash then they need to include at least a few things that aren’t trash (well besides the bag).
@Felton10 @Kidsandliz The bummer is that it’s a waste of energy to even send that stuff.
here’s my photo of the SmartKey that came - it’s so smart it went home in someone else’s pocket?
there was nothing in it’s box, obviously opened by someone else, the tape dot had been peeled open (you can see the pick mark on the edge) and the interior packing squished where the item was pulled out - and dirty finger prints all over the inner package
Takes regret to a whole new level
@Tamena
it’s so smart it went home in someone else’s pocket
Love the description lol
@Tamena you get anything else in your irk or was that it? If yes, that crosses the same line as sending something broken and getting nothing else. Contact support and ask for your bag and having something actually in the irk besides an empty box. They won’t replace when you only get a broken item with another irk, but maybe they will with sending you only an empty box.
@Kidsandliz I got the IRK bag, some N95 masks, knee brace and the wax melts. My issue is this item was stolen not broken. I’ve received bits and pieces boxes in the past - the toaster oven box was trashed and the other stuff inside had missing bits, OK I get it - regrets be regrets. Stolen I have a problem with. This was peeled open and removed from the box by someone prior to shipping. THAT sucks. It’s now a matter of trusting whether or not to order any more.
I love ordering the IRKs. They’re fun, silly, ridiculous and sometimes really cool. Sometimes absolutely regretful - supports the site and have some fun. Stealing from your customers isn’t fun though, nor is it cool IMHO.
I did send in a ticket
@Tamena Sometimes empty boxes are sent. One time some expensive empty gamebox thing was sent. One person got the empty box and someone else got item. No idea if someone stole something or an empty box was just tossed in.
@Kidsandliz @Tamena I suspect the emptybox/gamebox thing was a flagrant Prank. I personally prefer to be very particular about who gets targeted by a prank that I arrange, but that’s just me. (Be warned.)
@Kidsandliz my brother’s gotten stuff like that in the past, even he said this one looked funky. Just very disappointed - like I said we’ve gotten the abused boxes and stuff that just makes ya say WTF?? but this one just feels wrong.
@Kidsandliz @Tamena I have received empty boxes in my IRKs and just chalked it up to part of the game. Once it was something I had really been wanting and got so excited…then opened the empty box, it was funny and regretful all at once.
@cbilyak @Kidsandliz empty box ok, something blatantly stolen not so OK.
@cbilyak @Tamena You don’t know it was blatantly stolen. Empty boxes have been taped shut before as well as being left open. Empty boxes have looked new and looked trashed, sometimes with return labels still left on them. We have no idea if the empty box it is there because they just do that and think it creates part of the ‘regret’, it’s part of a joke (usually that one becomes obvious like the xbox joke where one got the xbox and the other got the empty box), or it was tossed in as someone didn’t know it was empty.
To me the issue would be if the only thing you got (besides a bag) was an empty box - or for that matter something trashed/broken. Getting literal trash as your only thing in an irk is not OK and it isn’t funny.
@Kidsandliz @Tamena @werehatrack DSJACK’s empty game box was filled with books to get him excited that he got the Series X x box which I got one IRK later.
update - got an email from the helpdesk gurus this morning, my IRK is being replaced and I appreciate it a lot.
@Tamena That’s great! They wouldn’t do that (although I didn’t ask directly) when all I got was a very heavy, big item that was broken (literally broken pieces but also didn’t work) and an irk bag.
@phendrick [Had a long description of package; tried to edit to add picture, but apparently managed to replace the description. Guess why i hate using a phone to post. Will try again…]
The package was delivered under cover of darkness last night; guess postal worker was embarrassed. Box was not too heavy but felt unbalanced. Contents:
-Very abused retail box with Cuisinart 8-cup food processor inside, still in plastic and looks new, though mildly dusty. Model FP-8SV. No instruction book; guess i’ll have to return it.
-Purple and gold irk bag.
[motorcycle in picture not from this iRK.]
@phendrick
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/3464369/Cuisinart-Fp-8sv.html
Now you have to keep it
@ybmuG Thanks, saved me the effort. (Too bad you couldn’t have also saved me the effort on the two captchas i had to endure. One was “click the bus”; it occupied 15 of the 16 squares.)
As a fellow robot, I understand your pain.
@mediocrebot That’s empathy; how about sympathy, also?
Happy Irksday! Not worth a photo. The purple Irk bag was the highlight. A 3 pack of paint. A pack of wax melts. A package of Buldak ramen that expired in August. A 2 piece set of led light outdoor sconces which had been on somebody’s house long enough for spiders to nest in them. Do they work? I would imagine not, or they wouldn’t have been unmounted from a wall and returned.
Woo Hoo! Cuisinart pan set, king size comforter, paint, and smelly wax. Yellow irk bag. Super happy! Thanks Meh!
I think it’s time to take a break from irk’s at least until they get rid of the same crap i keep getting each month.
Purple and gold irk bag, got the same one last month
3 pack red paint, got the same ones last month
Bag of non medical respirators, you guessed it, same bag I’ve already received previously.
Pair of shadow sport xs leggings, i won’t keep you in suspense, same as a pair i for last month. Tried to give them away and they didn’t want them.
Last but not least a king size comforter… now I know your thinking there’s no way he got one of those recently… and you would be right… sorta… last month it was a different brand and color comforter and that one had been cut open. This one actually appears to be in new condition.
Item for item I’ve received identically or almost identically over the last couple months. If they where to go back to the $5 irk I would say these are worth it to continue. However, at $50 if you can’t find anything else to buy, these are far from worth it!
Time to take a break from the regret for awhile. I will continue to watch the threads and reveals and may return when they get a new batch of items to be regretful about!
Whelp, whomp whomp. Hella broken foot massager, defunct off brand air tags, face masks.
@JustinS the trackr brand can work with android only with a third party app that I am too lazy to search for. I though they had finally gotten rid of the last of those. I guess they are coachroaches in disguies. I have 90+ kicking around that I promised to send to someone but at the moment I don’t know where I stashed them and a superficial search hasn’t found them. Yes I know. Ironic. My excuse - I use an iphone.
I’m not sure how I got so lucky or if instead the regret is delayed.
Purple and gold bag, four rubber meh bracelets, two 3-packs of white craft paint, two pairs of rubber-smelling IQ Massager slippers in shrink-wrapped, sealed boxes but somehow both missing their plugs, a box of hand sanitizer, some masks and wax melts. Deeply regretful.
Purple and gold IRK bag
Hand sanitizer
Package of spicy ramen
2 Casery phone ring/stands
2 knee braces
1.5 qt Cuisinart pot
Thanks Meh!! Totally happy with my haul
@cbilyak A brace for each knee. Wow.
I used to say that the Bags-of-Crap on Woot! were much better than IRKS; not anymore!! They recently renamed their highly sought-after “prize” a Box-of-Crap. And, true to it’s name (just like the IRK) that is EXACTLY what you get now!! Read the reveal thread on their site and you’ll see. My last 2 I bought were nothing but $-store junk!! I’d have been better off giving a Hamilton to a kid and tell him to pick out whatever he wanted for me. Phooey on IRK’s and BOC’s!!
@IndifferentDude That is the Reason I don’t even bother anymore!
IRK was delivered this morning … Not gonna lie, I was immediately filled with regret when I saw the size of the box. It was much smaller than the normal regretful IRKS… my heart sunk even more when I picked it up and it weighed basically nothing. I knew all hopes for a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker or Shiatsu Foot Massager were officially dashed … again
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But upon opening the box, I was pleasantly surprised to find something that is actually useful. So only mild regret and the usual sense of disillusionment with this one.
Medium thanks for mild regret, Meh
@bblood I got one of those spin scrubbers in an irk and it saved me when I helped my son move out of his college apartment.
@bblood @sammydog01
I got a cool mop in an irk that separates the clean and dirty water and has bristles to clean the mop when you rewet it. I use it all the time. Besides the cordless vacuum it’s the most useful thing I’ve gotten. I absolutely love it. But I get really excited over good cleaning products, I’m weird.
@bblood @Star2236 I would love a fancy mop and bucket. Maybe Santa will bring me one.
This is third time I got a single item in my irk.
Last two times was a shark vacuum and other was vibrating exercise machine.
This time it was stand mixture by Dash. They go for $20-25 during Thanksgiving.
@NoIRK Check to make sure all the beaters fix in the mixer. The one I got in an Irk a few months back didn’t go with the mixer it came with. I registered the mixer with Dash, contacted customer service and they replaced them free of charge. It’s a decent mixer but not good for any heavy duty stuff. Mainly for stuff you would normally use a hand mixer for.
@ironcheftoni Thank you for the info. We already have a Cuisinart stand mixer. So chances are we will sell it. If the buyer has a problem they can take it up with dash.
@NoIRK
I would be complaining so much for only getting a single item. I’m sure any one of us will trade you our box of regret for any one if your single items.
@Star2236 my username says it all. I was happy without an IRK. Think of the song - No Irk, No Cry.
And one item in irk was rubbing salt to the wound of who those got multiple items and hated it.
@NoIRK I would totally be happy if I only received one item and it was a vacuum, an exerciser, or a mixer. It’s better than a bunch of those tags, paint, and smelly wax. The only time I’ve received one item, it was a bread machine and I use it all the time.
@pattyrusk1 I know I guess I was just lucky.
FYI. I have received my fair share of mask, trackers, sanitizer, paint, car charger, power bank, wax melts and other regrettable items. Some of them were donated, some were sent to landfill (read trackers), some made way to kids class room (mask sanitizer paint), few given to neighbors (car charger, charging cable, power bank)
I got a UV self-cleaning water bottle (ok?), a “my first tool kit” plushie tool box with some mostly working plush tools inside, a pair of earbuds that are likely good enough for when I leave mine at home accidentally, a black cable knit slouchy hat that was immediately claimed by my teen, and I’m so sad to say I got a TOTALLY BLANK blue bag. Not even an irk bag! Sad, but not shocking.
More face masks, a knee brace, wax melts, Meh bracelets (woohoo!) and a color changing speaker that looks like it’s still new in the box. Plus the gorgeous royal purple and gold Irk bag! I really wanted one of those!
All probably useful, more or less - I’ll try using the wax melts to help make drawers slide more smoothly. The speaker might be fun outside on the patio when it gets warm again.
@Kyeh and kitty is looking handsome as ever
@tinamarie1974 Thank you! He has his follow-up vet visit today and they said his gums look healthy; the stitches haven’t completely dissolved yet but it looks like his dental surgery was a success.
I gve him a big dose of gabapentin to get him in the carrier, though, and while it didn’t seem to sedate him a while lot, I think it made him pee himself a little while ago!
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 Using the irk items for scale, he is much more petite than I had imagined. (But then I’m used to our vaguely cat-shaped blobs.
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@Kyeh this tape worked great for drawer slides on my old dresser. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFJSWXL5
@macromeh @tinamarie1974 He’s 14 lbs, so not tiny (my mother can’t get over it, she asks me “Why did you get such a big cat?!”
.) But smaller than your two, I think.
@walarney Oh, I’ve never heard of that. Thanks, I’ll try it if the wax doesn’t help.
I received a nice sharper image fan and a purple bag… thought there was a min of 3 items???
@mikibell Last time I got one completely broken in pieces big item and a bag. Not sure of the minimum of 3 items though. I know an irk bag is in the rules.
@mikibell Isn’t that Woot? Meh stopped promising anything but regret.
@mikibell @sammydog01
/giphy lowered expectations
Thank you, meh & SideDeal…
Wound up with
Pretty nonregretful!
Kitchen mat, paint, wax melts, seizure inducing bag.
Thanks!