Looks like a pretty decent deal. A'zon has refurbs of the same model for $240, so this is a $55-60 off depending on whether you figure in shipping. I like how the description says it comes with "Manuel". Can I yell at it like Basil Fawlty?
I'm pretty sure my first Woot was Pinnacle video editing hardware. Never used it, want even what I thought it was but who cares? I'm dang proud of my first. I need something just as mediocre for my first Meh.
Attention Meh Patrons: We have been acquired by iRobot. As we passed the 3 unit sold mark we realized this was peak-meh. By joining forces, the synergy between our two companies will help us to sell the other 7 Roombas we bought.
thank you for your strong support - it has been a great run. paper bag matt
I don't get it. I mean I get it, but I don't get it. Nowhere in the description of the 1st item does it say squat about tasting like breakfast octopus. I heard that was what this was all about. And dammit, I wanted to have the breakfast octopus. In fact, I think everyone here deserves breakfast octopus. Unless this is a "breakfast octopus flavored Roomba". In that case, I'll take three.
If you vote Meh, may you still buy the item? Does your Meh revert? Or are they mutually exclusive. Ex: I have bought the Roomba, but i feel Meh about it. Or, I was Meh about buying the Roomba, but i went ahead and did it anyways.
I think it is safe to assume at this point that Snapster's home and a couple of warehouses are stuffed with nothing but Roombas. I suspect we'll see him on Hoarders in a few years; beard down to his ankles, a half-crazed expression on his face, clutching a Roomba under each arm, and when they drag him from an elaborate sofa cushion and cardboard box structure as they stuff him in a paddy wagon he'll be screaming, "They're my children! You can't take them from me!"
So I'll probably wait until then to snag a Roomba so I can get the, "Stuff-we-found-in-crazy-hobo's-shack" price.
What the hell. I'll be the fourth sucker. I needed another semi-new one any way & promised myself if I saw a newer one than the 530 series, I'd get it. Please let it last longer than the old one. Please? Might as well change my name to "Mark." :::sigh:::
It's the perfect day one meh. You've waited all this time for the launch, you've stayed up... aaaaaaand it's a Roomba. Deflated. Meh. OHWAIT! Now I get it!
Annnnnddddd... yep. Meh #2. A rhooooomba. Maybe I'll buy one so that I can swap the battery into one of the powerless robot vacuum carcasses that I have lying around. On second though... nah.
I've owned a few of these over the years (all pre-2007 woot purchases), however there's one thing that makes me throw it in the garbage, give it away, drive it directly into a firepit.
Chair legs. Invent hoverchairs and I'm ready to resume a relationship with a robot floor cleaning device.
This is the one I have now, and we use it daily, although we didn't get it from That Other Site, we got it from Hammacher Schlemmer, because of their awesome return policy that makes it worth the extra few bucks. Generally, if these things survive their infancy, they last a long time, although you do have to fix the occasional jams. Not sure about the reliability of a refurb (roxxor!).
If my old 530 from Woot years ago had died, I'd get this. But it still lives, just could use some new brushes. If this were a bit closer to the cost of brushes, (their not that cheap) I might have home for the new (refurbished) one.
Hope the keep selling them. My old one is sure to die sometime.
If this runs out of battery before finishing my entire apartment, will it pick up where it left off after it recharges, or will it start from scratch? Apartment is ~1,100 sq feet with multiple rooms.
Pulled the trigger. My old Roomba died years ago. I was so sad. But today was like buying a new robotic puppy that cleans messes instead of making them.
Ever wonder what the meh offices look like? I envision 20 foot high teetering stacks of roombas with sansa mp3 players wedged in precarious places to keep them from falling over. All surrounded by boxes of dysons for extra support.
I purchased this on 8/13/2014. The battery arrived defective and meh.com referred me to iRobot who informed me that meh.com is not an authorized agent and they will not honor the 90 day warranty but offered to sell me an $80 battery... FYI
Product Dimensions: 13” diameter x 3” height
Product Weight: 8.05lbs
Ships via FedEx SmartPost
Warranty: 90 Day Manufacturer’s Warranty
In The Box:
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, March 18th - Friday, March 22nd
Ahhhh the upside down smiling cyclops again.
Yeay! A Roomba has been on my list but just couldn't bring myself to push the button, but at this price...Yeay!
How do you keep finding Roombas? HOW?!!?
A little known fact about Roombas is that they undergo mitosis
i stayed up until 9pm for this??
on a different note, that's a pretty good price. refurb directly from irobot is $249.
9pm is late to you? Crap... I'm still working at that time of night.
No thanks.
Meh.
Lol, it's so typical. Rutledge either loves these things, or has a warehouse full of them
or a house full of them
It's because the Roomba was the first deal that was ever on Woot. See there is a symbolism to this. No one has caught it so far.
Some of us caught it. ;)
Some of us even expected it.
Are you sure it wasn't an electric lawnmower? I was pretty sure that was the original Woot deal...
oh looky, a roomba!
Sigh. Off to bed.
yes, but an hour earlier!
and the streak is over at 1
I love the fact that the Roomba is actually cleaning the background of the page. Is the background going to change every day depending on the item?
you'll have to check every day to find out
I find this screen-shot/whole page capture to be fascinating. just....look at it...it says so much.
I hadn't realized how filthy the site had gotten with all the construction.
Great write-up. But... meh. Pass.
Streak-killer!
A legitimate meh from me! I already have my Dyson I got from that other site years ago.
I've never been so happy to meh before.
Well, I really am feeling meh. I know you warned me and all, but I actually let myself feel excitement while waiting the changeover. Lesson learned.
Side note...a Roomba was my first woot purchase many, many years ago. I used it twice before selling it on Craigslist.
did anyone else 'woot this deal'? or is it just me. let's make it popular!
Yes!!
just the notice I needed.
You're welcome. :) you can send me my complementary roomba whenever!
aaand we're banned. there goes the business model.
and it's gone now
Cut throat...it's just a deal. So much hate.
wow. they nuked it again.. lame.
I ask them what's up with that: http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/fa4073f6-a719-4d44-a797-77b0841370df/why-doesnt-woot-com-accept-deal
You guys were really banninated from Woot?!?! AWESOME! That's the best laugh I've had in ages! OMG - how I've missed you guys!
in case my snark gets misinterpreted, I'm refurbishing a comment I made yesterday. http://is.gd/ZJsAT1 TL;DR: I still like Woot.
Woot's just butthurt because they want to do what Meh is going to, but with Amazon backing, they will never be able to turn back.
Looks like a pretty decent deal. A'zon has refurbs of the same model for $240, so this is a $55-60 off depending on whether you figure in shipping. I like how the description says it comes with "Manuel". Can I yell at it like Basil Fawlty?
lol damn, I wasn't a fast enough ceo moderator to fix it. I will work on my ninja edit skill. emmanuel maybe?
@snapster in space?
C-c-c-combo breaker. I'll pass.
Did I need this? No.
Did I want to be the first person to buy the first ~publicly~ traded item? Yes.
Personally I found this to be a very fitting first deal.
Long Live Meh.
Edit: Also to commemorate the Day 1 I'll be giving away a "dann of crap" over at #Mediocre on rizon.
Quite easily one of my easiest giveaways ever
Congrats to @CowboyDann on the f1rst Roomba purchase
So YOU'RE the one. Because, literally, it says one person has bought this so far.
Good to see you around Dann. I've missed my partner in crime... err... cowboy stuff
Now it's two. Long live Cowboy Dann!
Boom, another one bites the dust. 3 suckers now
I think we should do a boM trade much like the ones from last fall. I vote Dann as chief BoM Puba.
I think I won one of these in that meh number game
the return of the roomba its like i'm back in the heyday that other site already.
I was considering asking this, but you answered it for me!
What did I ever do to deserve this fate?
Who will be the first non K or M (Or Octopi) to post? Anyone?
great question - this is essentially the experiment of meh.com!
That dubious honor belongs to @aringer and @janetv in the Guest Book thread.
Feelin' that honor! Ohhhh! Soooo honorish! ;-)
Found a Video Demonstration:
iRobot 500/600 series Manual
PC Mag gave it 3.5/5 roombas
I give 4/5 waffles.
I like this one better:
Oh my god, you're even using FedEx SmartPost [sic]!!!!
This was my first woot: http://www.woot.com/offers/irobot-roomba-discovery-se-dec-07
I should probably keep with tradition and get one of these.
something
meh. It's alright. It's good for people that already plan to get it but it's not something that'll make me jump to have
I'm pretty sure my first Woot was Pinnacle video editing hardware. Never used it, want even what I thought it was but who cares? I'm dang proud of my first. I need something just as mediocre for my first Meh.
Attention Meh Patrons: We have been acquired by iRobot. As we passed the 3 unit sold mark we realized this was peak-meh. By joining forces, the synergy between our two companies will help us to sell the other 7 Roombas we bought.
thank you for your strong support - it has been a great run.
paper bag matt
I think we all knew deep-down, that these weren't going to sell. You were too successful the first time around. We already have these things
Mehricans never say die...unless the business model fails. :)
Crap, we bought 10 of those things, no wonder you're paper bagging it @snapster
A part of me loves having the conversion rate this low though. It means you guys really care and are not just using us for our deals.
This will do wonders for my hipster cred.
Don't forget we're giving one away to @capguncowboy, so that takes care of one more without any of that silly profit!
Yeah, but that one is going to be broken anyway, so it's not really a loss of profit
it's a cowboy styled conspiracy, first to buy and first to win
Oh god, I hope they come with saddles!
Shoot out at the okay corral.
Yikes. looks like my last edit didn't take and it left my butchered copy. Lets try again. Days like this: http://tinyurl.com/opbfmpo
Killed the butchered one for you :)
Haha, those were good times... Things went downhill so fast after that
For a few days (weeks?) after launch, I was king of the hill in d.w! reputation.
"Mehricans" if it didn't sound like " 'muricans" I'd call everyone here one. Because "Mehers" sounds like a disease. Perhaps it is?
Meherese? Mehicans? Mehians?
Does it work with Linux??
I've been meaning to write a driver for them but I've been kinda busy
I'm buying one and naming it "Miss Daisy"
Of course the first meh is a Roomba. Adding another to my army would probably incite a rebellion, so yeah...
I don't get it. I mean I get it, but I don't get it. Nowhere in the description of the 1st item does it say squat about tasting like breakfast octopus. I heard that was what this was all about. And dammit, I wanted to have the breakfast octopus. In fact, I think everyone here deserves breakfast octopus. Unless this is a "breakfast octopus flavored Roomba". In that case, I'll take three.
Welp. Meh is now officially banned from deals.woot. More developments to come I'm sure. Or they just hate us...
meh probably needs to join some sort of referral program first to be accepted.
I think that's the straw. Now that Meh is here, I don't know that I'll go back. Perhaps we can launch some octopus deals as a farewell?
Now that is seriously messed up. Does it give a reason?
Do they ever give a reason? Communication and reasoning was never their strong suit
They don't ban a site just because it's a Woot competitor though (they do Tanga deals). Singling out Meh for no reason seems mean-spirited.
No reasons given. Posted threw questions all were deleted with no comment.
@Starblind of course they ban a site for competitive reasons - it's actually interesting you expect otherwise.
They only banned meh because they still can't explain the breakfast octopus.
...and you never know when a breakfast octopus is going to come back to kill you with ALL EIGHT TENTACLES!!!
@Snapster Well, somebody started a d.w question about the ban and supposedly we're awaiting "clarification". Looks like a new low for Woot.
@studerc Feel free to say your goodbyes in style :-) http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/de10c60b-f0f3-458d-abe9-038994e1b4f3/c
If you vote Meh, may you still buy the item? Does your Meh revert? Or are they mutually exclusive. Ex: I have bought the Roomba, but i feel Meh about it. Or, I was Meh about buying the Roomba, but i went ahead and did it anyways.
You can do both.
I think it is safe to assume at this point that Snapster's home and a couple of warehouses are stuffed with nothing but Roombas. I suspect we'll see him on Hoarders in a few years; beard down to his ankles, a half-crazed expression on his face, clutching a Roomba under each arm, and when they drag him from an elaborate sofa cushion and cardboard box structure as they stuff him in a paddy wagon he'll be screaming, "They're my children! You can't take them from me!"
So I'll probably wait until then to snag a Roomba so I can get the, "Stuff-we-found-in-crazy-hobo's-shack" price.
In all seriousness though, I would get one at this price if I had the excess money for it. Been in need of a vacuum upgrade for a while now.
I see 'em as Doctor Who-ish like the Cybus Industries earpods. We all buy them, and one day, snapster sends a code. We'll be "upgraded."
So, anybody else this think this should have been a leakfrog?
Please, don't make tomorrow a Dyson.. :)
What the hell. I'll be the fourth sucker.
I needed another semi-new one any way & promised myself if I saw a newer one than the 530 series, I'd get it. Please let it last longer than the old one. Please?
Might as well change my name to "Mark." :::sigh:::
It's the perfect day one meh. You've waited all this time for the launch, you've stayed up... aaaaaaand it's a Roomba. Deflated. Meh. OHWAIT! Now I get it!
Meh-ed.
Annnnnddddd... yep. Meh #2. A rhooooomba. Maybe I'll buy one so that I can swap the battery into one of the powerless robot vacuum carcasses that I have lying around. On second though... nah.
as an act of defiance, i'm thinking we should all vote in the $10k derby for this shirt (no...it's not my shirt):
http://shirt.woot.com/derby/entry/79130/not-so-action-packed
i voted
Oh, I voted yesterday. It's a good shirt but I seriously doubt they'll let it win
I've owned a few of these over the years (all pre-2007 woot purchases), however there's one thing that makes me throw it in the garbage, give it away, drive it directly into a firepit.
Chair legs. Invent hoverchairs and I'm ready to resume a relationship with a robot floor cleaning device.
I think it's safe to say that a few of us will be getting these in our fukkabukkukakkis (added an extra syllable in there to censor myself...)
Wait, what happened? The sales counter was at 4 for a long time, then suddenly shot up to 34. Did somebody really buy 30 of them somehow?
My guess is they're from here: http://lifehacker.com/glad-i-could-help-if-you-setup-virtual-walls-they-ca-1602362681
You sold 37? in a row?
I'm not even supposed to be here today!
I just bought 1 of the 39.
This is the one I have now, and we use it daily, although we didn't get it from That Other Site, we got it from Hammacher Schlemmer, because of their awesome return policy that makes it worth the extra few bucks. Generally, if these things survive their infancy, they last a long time, although you do have to fix the occasional jams. Not sure about the reliability of a refurb (roxxor!).
I'm glad to see this awesome twitter account is still going strong:
If my old 530 from Woot years ago had died, I'd get this. But it still lives, just could use some new brushes. If this were a bit closer to the cost of brushes, (their not that cheap) I might have home for the new (refurbished) one.
Hope the keep selling them. My old one is sure to die sometime.
Pretty sure you don't have to worry about @snapster ever NOT selling Roombas.
Yes!!! I've been going back and forth about whether or not to buy a Roomba. Impulse purchase complete!
I would like to get a robot vacuum eventually but not now.
Brazil vs. Germany:
http://instagram.com/p/qNHL4-pIeI/
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA That's Amazing.
Almost forgot to check the site today! And my first thought was 'meh'. Keep up the mediocre work my friends.
If this runs out of battery before finishing my entire apartment, will it pick up where it left off after it recharges, or will it start from scratch? Apartment is ~1,100 sq feet with multiple rooms.
It's path is pretty much random all the time. It will eventually cover every area, but it helps to start it where you want it.
My hope was to schedule it to run when I'm at work. Would you say that it would cover all spaces within the span on a week?
Our place is larger than that & it covers everything in 2 or 3 runs. Though there are times when the roomba quickly gets stuck.
So it depends on how "roomba proof" you place is. It can get tangled in cords, wedged under cabinets or furniture... We've learned to...
roomba proof most of that.
Pulled the trigger. My old Roomba died years ago. I was so sad. But today was like buying a new robotic puppy that cleans messes instead of making them.
Ever wonder what the meh offices look like? I envision 20 foot high teetering stacks of roombas with sansa mp3 players wedged in precarious places to keep them from falling over. All surrounded by boxes of dysons for extra support.
Disturbingly accurate.
add a few gently used cubicles and you're dead-on
Interestingly, roughly 99.8% of people are undecided on Roombas (or just don't like clicking buttons on websites)
Shows shipped as of 0000 EDT on 13JUL14
Okay, just got mine. Anyone know which version of the Roomba firmware these are running? Any benefit to updating?
Mine says that it's remanufactured. That would have been nice to mention in the specs.
It was in the anti-specs... Last bullet in the list under the buy button.
It was clearly listed in the specs -- So that was nice of them. They have little to no control whether you read the specs or not though
Wait wait wait...so now we need to read first before we buy the product?
fyi, here's the deal archived: https://meh.com/deals/irobot-roomba-560
I purchased this on 8/13/2014. The battery arrived defective and meh.com referred me to iRobot who informed me that meh.com is not an authorized agent and they will not honor the 90 day warranty but offered to sell me an $80 battery... FYI
@gliomaboy so... did you buy the battery?
@gliomaboy We're in contact with iRobot about this issue and we'll update when we can.
Best thing I ever bought my husband.