@sammydog01 Very coincidental all those brown shirts were in a line. But you may be on to something, brown shirt fridays, One of the most mediocre shirt colors!
Do you ever feel weird about selling to other wholesale distributors, like you’re hamstringing potential Meh sales? I would guess not, since from what I’ve gathered Meh is a small enough part of Mediocre’s overall revenue that it exists more to help move small amounts of inventory instead of to seriously sell at a profit. Like if you bought 100000 speaker docks and you found buyers who would take 45000, 20000, and 30000 of them, that’d be where you’d sell the last 5000 on Meh so as to get them out the door and make room in the warehouse for a big order of knives.
@lljk it cuts both ways. Sometimes Meh is expected to move all of something and wholesale/bulk sales cleans up and sometimes the opposite occurs. In the middle, there’s a artfully crafted delicate sharing process that resembles toddlers fighting for a toy in preschool.
I’m reminded of the Mark Knopfler lyric:
Sometimes you’re the windshield. Sometimes you’re the bug.
@CaptAmehrican@narfcake is correct. The Great Hambino, referencing of course, Hamilton Porter from The Sandlot. One of my all time favorites. We have some 300 lbs capacity Trailer Dolly’s in the warehouse right now, those have been very challenging to find a home for.
@f00l Allow me to jump in on this one… thanks for asking, but we haven’t found the most astonishingly odd or unfortunate or unlovable item yet, but we do strive to find that elusive booger every single day of our lives. Every time we think we’ve hit on a real stinker, it usually exceeds even our low expectations, because if for no other reason, it’s just a helluva deal. I mean crap even my cheap ass “sensible” self would buy, just 'cause. Think speaker docks, knives, food/herb saving vacuum-bagging machinery, phone/tablet/e-reader/ notebook/personal massager battery charging devices, fitness tracking scales and other healthy sounding shit, watches that let you know that there is a message or email on your phone, beverage holding devices (hot and/or
cold !!!), food/coffee cookers, floor care thingys that will get you up off your hands and knees forever, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. One of these days, I promise you, we will have an epic fail, and we’ll do our best to make it a big one. We will do our best to warn you in the write up, but you’ll just know it when you see it. But you still might even buy it… I probably will too, dammit.
@narfcake I just ran into the guy that sold us those way back in '09, and he still is thankful for us helping him out of his “inventory challenge”. And he still cracks up when he talks about the brutally honest write up his product garnered. He’s with another huge toy company now, so you never know what might pop up here in the future. The nice thing then was that someone in the community mentioned something about being able to buy a cheap replacement halogen bulb, thus transforming the crappiest projector into a decent projector. It’s you and others in our community that makes this all worthwhile and a joy to be involved with.
@thegreathambino : Jordan, you can put a longstanding international incident to rest. more than 10 years ago you dodged a very important question, since then there has been international unrest.
did you, or did you not have the room key?
because of that,
should Colin have gotten in the pool?
The most important question you will face, with far reaching implications, so answer wisely.
@thegreathambino: Do you ever have situations where someone wants to buy a lot of something, but would buy more if you’d take something off their hands?
I keep hearing radio ads for generic Viagra even though Pfizer’s patent is still good. You could move millions of little blue pills, Jordan. It would be uplifting and I hardly think Meh would care.
You can say you don’t buy products – but if you’re selling products, you know what people want. Make sure the buyers buy more knives, damnit.
Hi Jordan! Do you have brown shirt Fridays or was that special for one meeting?
@sammydog01 Very coincidental all those brown shirts were in a line. But you may be on to something, brown shirt fridays, One of the most mediocre shirt colors!
@TheGreatHambino
Uh…
No one wants to confuse Meh with UPS
And “brownshirts” has a very unfortunate historical meaning.
Surely there are other mediocre hues.
@f00l I have to agree that brown is about as meh as you can get.
Jordan isn’t really goofy looking to make good gifs…
Ah . . . Um . . . Ah . . . Um . . . .
(1:54)
@Pavlov How does the expression go… The camera adds 10 Um’s?
Do you ever feel weird about selling to other wholesale distributors, like you’re hamstringing potential Meh sales? I would guess not, since from what I’ve gathered Meh is a small enough part of Mediocre’s overall revenue that it exists more to help move small amounts of inventory instead of to seriously sell at a profit. Like if you bought 100000 speaker docks and you found buyers who would take 45000, 20000, and 30000 of them, that’d be where you’d sell the last 5000 on Meh so as to get them out the door and make room in the warehouse for a big order of knives.
@lljk it cuts both ways. Sometimes Meh is expected to move all of something and wholesale/bulk sales cleans up and sometimes the opposite occurs. In the middle, there’s a artfully crafted delicate sharing process that resembles toddlers fighting for a toy in preschool.
I’m reminded of the Mark Knopfler lyric:
Sometimes you’re the windshield. Sometimes you’re the bug.
@snapster Also, Money for nothing
@ACraigL sure but, other than the homophobic slurs, I’m the guy singing that in angst of these other asshole retailers. Right?!
@snapster So what happens to the stuff that mehricans don’t want and wholesale can’t sell?
@narfcake fukus
@CaptAmehrican yep that and/or it sits here getting cost write-downs hoping we sell it at a cheaper price.
@snapster
What’s the most astonishingly odd or unfortunate or unlovable item Mediocre has ever purchased in bulk?
How did you finally re-home it elsewhere?
@f00l was it the pallet of hubmen?
@snapster and @jordan (not sure what jordans username is) whats the oddest hardest to get rid of thing sitting in the warehouse right now?
@CaptAmehrican Going by the replies above, I believe Jordan is @TheGreatHambino.
@CaptAmehrican @narfcake is correct. The Great Hambino, referencing of course, Hamilton Porter from The Sandlot. One of my all time favorites. We have some 300 lbs capacity Trailer Dolly’s in the warehouse right now, those have been very challenging to find a home for.
@TheGreatHambino Like one of these …
… but 300# capacity? Maybe if it was half the HF price (which is $45 with coupon) for it being half the capacity …
@snapster Is shitweneedtosell a bad choice for a domain name?
@TheGreatHambino i know jet ski and kayakers might be interested
@CaptAmehrican I don’t think you need one of those babies for a kayak.
@f00l Allow me to jump in on this one… thanks for asking, but we haven’t found the most astonishingly odd or unfortunate or unlovable item yet, but we do strive to find that elusive booger every single day of our lives. Every time we think we’ve hit on a real stinker, it usually exceeds even our low expectations, because if for no other reason, it’s just a helluva deal. I mean crap even my cheap ass “sensible” self would buy, just 'cause. Think speaker docks, knives, food/herb saving vacuum-bagging machinery, phone/tablet/e-reader/ notebook/personal massager battery charging devices, fitness tracking scales and other healthy sounding shit, watches that let you know that there is a message or email on your phone, beverage holding devices (hot and/or
cold !!!), food/coffee cookers, floor care thingys that will get you up off your hands and knees forever, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. One of these days, I promise you, we will have an epic fail, and we’ll do our best to make it a big one. We will do our best to warn you in the write up, but you’ll just know it when you see it. But you still might even buy it… I probably will too, dammit.
@Jdub Yeah, it’d have to be epic levels of shittyness to not sell.
Then again, this was total shit and yet it manage to sell 839 units at Woot too …
@narfcake I just ran into the guy that sold us those way back in '09, and he still is thankful for us helping him out of his “inventory challenge”. And he still cracks up when he talks about the brutally honest write up his product garnered. He’s with another huge toy company now, so you never know what might pop up here in the future. The nice thing then was that someone in the community mentioned something about being able to buy a cheap replacement halogen bulb, thus transforming the crappiest projector into a decent projector. It’s you and others in our community that makes this all worthwhile and a joy to be involved with.
@Jdub Heh! But no, short of replacing all its guts, nothing could make that projector “decent”.
@Jdub i think todays item portable mister is the stinker of the year so far
Do you feel you were represented in all of your sexy glory in this todays video, or did you leave some of that off camera?
Jordan. More knives, NOW!
dump all of those damn speaker docks off on to ross, or somewhere terrible so we dont have to deal with them anymore.
@ErikRL
behind the scenes
DANCE BREAK
give him shots and it will become dance time. get on it. its a good time, i promise.
@thegreathambino : Jordan, you can put a longstanding international incident to rest. more than 10 years ago you dodged a very important question, since then there has been international unrest.
did you, or did you not have the room key?
because of that,
should Colin have gotten in the pool?
The most important question you will face, with far reaching implications, so answer wisely.
@ErikRL the world is not ready to know!
@ErikRL Backstory, please, with photos if possible.
I really enjoy these sort of videos. Thanks for keeping it relatable!
@thegreathambino: Do you ever have situations where someone wants to buy a lot of something, but would buy more if you’d take something off their hands?
I keep hearing radio ads for generic Viagra even though Pfizer’s patent is still good. You could move millions of little blue pills, Jordan. It would be uplifting and I hardly think Meh would care.
@thegreathambino
I’m sure Meh is a great employer and treats you well.
I guess it’s just me, but if my employer invited a buncha random crazies from the Internet to “meat me”, I’d have 2nd thoughts.
@f00l Re: "random crazies"
I’ll assume you’re speaking for yourself
@compunaut
who me? hey, my family lets me out sometimes.