Remember last year when Meh offered the new site where you could order an undetermined amount of pasta? I ordered a shipment & had it shipped to one of my coworkers. I forgot to give her a heads up about it & she loved the crazy surprise. Does anyone know if that is still in business?
@emt305 my brother kind of briefly freaked out because i shipped it to his office, and he’s in a government building, and he was working at home by then for COVID, so they called to tell him he has some very large packages to pick up.
@emt305 Perhaps someone could send you some, er, “vintage”, “collector’s edition” Pasta Drop.
I think I still have 80 lbs of that shit stuff from some, er, “friends”.
Too bad Meh doesn’t offer a blind forwarding service to Mehmbers, or better, a benefit to VMPs. Where a Mehtizen can ship a package from one mehmber to another without disclosing the residence of either the sender or the reciever to the other. Since Meh already has that information for both parties.
@mike808 “‘Buy’ a BoC from someone else, then assemble one to send to another user” was one of the experiments listed on the old mediocre.com. From what I heard, the idea was killed by the company having no idea how to legally handle taxes in that scenario.
@mike808 To be fair, it’s something I vaguely remember reading a few years ago, so I’m surely leaving out details and may even have it all wrong. But its existence is still a neat tidbit from the early years!
I expect that the main factor is that Meh and then MorningSave/SideDeal were successful enough that the company felt focusing on time-limited deals was better than chasing other oddball ways to sell things.
@craigthom@spitfire6006006
I believe the timing was such that the supplier was looking at a bunch of cancelled pending
orders due to the response to CoViD in early May 2020 or maybe excess capacity and an attempt to keep they factory busy. Much like the early stoopwaffels were evidently excess airline intended inventory approaching end of life dates…
@chienfou@craigthom@spitfire6006006
PastaDrop started in May 2020, lockdowns in the US started in March 2020. COVID was definitely a thing before PastaDrop and was the only reason PastaDrop was able to happen.
I sent a pasta drop to my coworker before Covid was as a thing. She had a great story about them receiving & opening the mystery package. The way everyone fights over IRKs, someone should just sell mystery packages to people. Most of us would order at least a couple times until we’ve been burned.
@emt305 PastaDrop started in May 2020, lockdowns in the US started in March 2020. COVID was definitely a thing before PastaDrop and was the only reason PastaDrop was able to happen.
FWIW the website seems to be de-commissioned, if you
try to use a secure server. Now it ‘works’, but only if you use an HTTP:// lead in. HTTPS:// goes to an ‘unable to connect’ page. So, for instance, the pastadrop.com/faq has been linked to the meh.com/faq and the main page goes to the meh forum site. But, yes, it was fun while it lasted.
Remember last year when Meh offered the new site where you could order an undetermined amount of pasta? I ordered a shipment & had it shipped to one of my coworkers. I forgot to give her a heads up about it & she loved the crazy surprise. Does anyone know if that is still in business?
@emt305 Sadly it is not. I had a blast sending noods to people.
@emt305 my brother kind of briefly freaked out because i shipped it to his office, and he’s in a government building, and he was working at home by then for COVID, so they called to tell him he has some very large packages to pick up.
No, Pastadrop è morta.
Yeah-- we just finished off the last of our ~80# of Penne. Was such a sad night.
@caffeineguy I still have so much pasta
Darn. That was such a fun idea. So random.
@emt305 Perhaps someone could send you some, er, “vintage”, “collector’s edition” Pasta Drop.
I think I still have 80 lbs of that
shitstuff from some, er, “friends”.Too bad Meh doesn’t offer a blind forwarding service to Mehmbers, or better, a benefit to VMPs. Where a Mehtizen can ship a package from one mehmber to another without disclosing the residence of either the sender or the reciever to the other. Since Meh already has that information for both parties.
That would also be great for IRK exchanges.
@emt305 @mike808 there would be so much hilarity that would ensue if we were able to forward random orders!
@mike808 “‘Buy’ a BoC from someone else, then assemble one to send to another user” was one of the experiments listed on the old mediocre.com. From what I heard, the idea was killed by the company having no idea how to legally handle taxes in that scenario.
@lljk Hmm. Hmm. Weird. Nobody has ever figured out how to drop ship? I’m gonna have to call bullshit on that one.
Sounds like an excuse from either lazy programmers or lazy accountants. I’m gonna go with the latter.
@mike808 To be fair, it’s something I vaguely remember reading a few years ago, so I’m surely leaving out details and may even have it all wrong. But its existence is still a neat tidbit from the early years!
I expect that the main factor is that Meh and then MorningSave/SideDeal were successful enough that the company felt focusing on time-limited deals was better than chasing other oddball ways to sell things.
@emt305 @mike808 welp, we should be having a irk exchange in the near future. Possibly a meh-mas in July
They were really only able to do it because restaurant supply places had so much surplus from when everything had to close down
@spitfire6006006 but it started before everything shut down.
It could have been because of a temporary excess inventory, like the original Two Buck Chuck, but it wasn’t because things were shut down.
@craigthom @spitfire6006006
I believe the timing was such that the supplier was looking at a bunch of cancelled pending
orders due to the response to CoViD in early May 2020 or maybe excess capacity and an attempt to keep they factory busy. Much like the early stoopwaffels were evidently excess airline intended inventory approaching end of life dates…
@chienfou @craigthom @spitfire6006006
PastaDrop started in May 2020, lockdowns in the US started in March 2020. COVID was definitely a thing before PastaDrop and was the only reason PastaDrop was able to happen.
I sent a pasta drop to my coworker before Covid was as a thing. She had a great story about them receiving & opening the mystery package. The way everyone fights over IRKs, someone should just sell mystery packages to people. Most of us would order at least a couple times until we’ve been burned.
@emt305 PastaDrop started in May 2020, lockdowns in the US started in March 2020. COVID was definitely a thing before PastaDrop and was the only reason PastaDrop was able to happen.
FWIW the website seems to be de-commissioned, if you
try to use a secure server. Now it ‘works’, but only if you use an HTTP:// lead in. HTTPS:// goes to an ‘unable to connect’ page. So, for instance, the pastadrop.com/faq has been linked to the meh.com/faq and the main page goes to the meh forum site.
But, yes, it was fun while it lasted.