@boygenius1991 Yes. Haven’t tried any of the use cases implied by the writeup, but as a pillow to put behind your back and recline into on a sofa, it is a really nice thing for the back, neck, and shoulders. I was concerned that it wouldn’t have sufficient power to really do much, but that fear was unfounded.
@ice992 Bought last time. You better have a strong back when you turn them on- Very rough. but the pillows were nice and firm and use both as back supports on our living room sofa.
@kdemo I ask again, how is wishing the President of the United States a happy birthday disingenuous? I’m assuming you would be A-OK with me wishing a certain former Secretary of State a happy birthday?
@Felton10 I didn’t directly ask for a $5 rebate (for me, it wasn’t really about the $5, but what this scenario represents), but I did attempt to email customer service regarding the lack of trust this instills with their customer base.
Jonathan told me their prices fluxuate with the market.
Bruh. You specialize in selling products that have proven NOT TO HAVE A MARKET. By the time Meh is selling it, you are one of only a tiny orange handful of places this self-admitted garbage can be purchased. Meh buys these lots of discontinued or close-out merch and knows exactly what they can sell it for to hit that sweet spot of profitability and value.
When you start playing with that number (outside of 2-for-$ or putting together bundles), you start losing your customers’ trust. And the last thing Meh wants to is condition people to sit and wait on a potentially better price down the line.
I said all this to Jonathan in a reply to his “market” comment. He replied back simply thanking me for the feedback and spoke nothing of making an attempt to earn back a customer’s trust.
@kungfuqua looks like you succeeded at emailing customer service. Bruh. I have lots of questions.
Were you happy with your purchase at $49 this time yesterday?
If you had not seen this offer would you have less trust for Meh? Another thing about visiting one of a handful of places that sell something is that when it’s gone, it may not come back. You decided to purchase at the price you did, and they fulfilled the transaction for you. You have had the use of this pillow since the last sale.
If Meh sells this pillow again tonight for $34, you might have a point. But that’s not the case here. If Meh sold this pillow next week for $54, would you then feel like you beat the system?
Have you ever filled up your gas tank and then three days later saw the price of gas was ten cents lower per gallon? Would you go into the gas station and tell them how they have lost your trust and they should give you a refund?
I believe Meh may not know exactly what that sweet spot of profitability and value is. Or they may have gotten a call from the manufacturer saying “hey, we got another container full of pillows here and we’ll sell them to you for $5 less each” and Meh is doing us a solid by passing the savings along. Despite all the transparency here, we don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.
"If you had not seen this offer would you have less trust for Meh?”
Meh has worked to cultivate a consumer base that checks this daily deal site DAILY. So:
there’s no reason to expect someone wouldn’t notice unless they only recently discovered the site
under the supposition that the only reason I would now distrust them is because I visited the site today, the takeaway there is that their actions are fine as long as no one notices?
“Another thing about visiting one of a handful of places that sell something is that when it’s gone, it may not come back.”
Absolutely correct. That is the nature of buying close-outs and discontinued merchandise and then selling them to the public at bargain prices. But this particular brand has also made their name on selling specifically mediocre products. Very little of what they sell would result in anyone beating themselves up for missing out on it. Which means it’s essential to strike a balance between offering these products at the right price the first time. Shoppers of this site could care less if Meh sells out of something for the most part. Examples like today will condition them to hold out for a better offer, even if it means they ultimately miss out.
“You decided to purchase at the price you did, and they fulfilled the transaction for you. You have had the use of this pillow since the last sale.”
Thank for explaining how exchanging money for goods and services works.
“If Meh sells this pillow again tonight for $34, you might have a point. But that’s not the case here. If Meh sold this pillow next week for $54, would you then feel like you beat the system?”
As I originally stated, it wasn’t specifically about the $5, just the practice in general. Sorry you had to read my commentary on this for anything less than the $15 difference you believe the trouble would be worth, though. I am sure we can start a GoFundMe if you need compensated for your time.
If a product I had purchased on this site at one price was sold in the exact same capacity on this site again a few months later for more, best believe I would be in this forum advocating for potential buyers to be aware of the price hike so they could weigh that into their purchasing decision. I would not feel like I beat the system, I would feel as if the system was flawed.
“Have you ever filled up your gas tank and then three days later saw the price of gas was ten cents lower per gallon? Would you go into the gas station and tell them how they have lost your trust and they should give you a refund?”
There is a consistent market for gasoline, one that is set by the cost of oil.
The market for most of the items that end up on Meh DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE. There is a reason why, nine times out of ten, the point of reference for a regular retail price for these items is Amazon, and that’s because Amazon has just about everything and is usually one of the only other places left to buy this crap, and even then half the time it’s only available via a third-party seller being fulfilled by Amazon, so the price may have very little to do with the reality of the market.
Meh essentially controls their market because Meh bought in on their product at a unique price. Comparing the purchase of anything from this site to commodities like gasoline is asinine. Don’t @ me about this again, I’m not going to argue with you here about it.
@zachhh
My wife told me to get rid of them, they made her back and neck worse - I didn’t think they were that bad though… it’s one of those things that you use a few times (maybe) and they end up at a tag sale or goodwill (if they accept pillows)
@zachhh This works well for me - I think this is one of those things where either you like it or you don’t. The roller things inside push fairly hard. You could put something thin between that and your back if it was too hard for you (I am normal weight and it is fine for me). And I found I needed to use it where it wasn’t necessarily all the way touching the bottom of the chair seat to get it where I need it (I have scoliosis and chronic back issues). I happen to like it with the heat (bought for a family member but they might not get it since they don’t know about it and I find it useful). I think this is one of those things that you won’t know until you try it. Also I found that if I ran it for more than two cycles then my back did hurt more. Run it for less and it hurts less.
I have one of these from the last sale. I’d say… it’s not really that great for massaging your back, but it’s really great if you’d like to get places other than your back.
@RiotDemon@djslack oh my god I didn’t even notice LOL
I swear I didn’t mean it in a sexual way. I just meant after leg day you can lean back in bed and use it on your aching thighs rather comfortably.
Yes I’ve sat directly on it and it does feel good on the butt, that’s as far as we’ve gone.
Bought these last time. Very hard massage, hurt too much to use. Tried to give them away, not one person wanted them. We finally found a taker when we described it as having “hot rotating boobies”
Similar to @sammydog01, I use a very thin pillow on top of the massaging nubs. They are quite hard and strong, but that also then allows you to adjust them in some ways.
Are these actually worth the $44? The write up suggests, yes, if you use the pillows in creative ways… Actual elaboration by one reviewer pokes a hole in that pipe dream. Meh… I’ll just skulk back into my corner and eat my $20 worth of probiotic gummies in one sitting.
@bbf Well depending on your budget you may or may not consider them expensive. As far as working or not compared to massage chairs umm well there is no comparison. BUT it does help me. Sometimes I like how hard it pushes and sometimes I put a bit of padding between it and my back. I also found running it for more than 2 cycles makes my back worse rather than better. I had bought it for a family member as a gift and they might not ever see it since they don’t know about it.
@bbf I think it is a ‘love it or hate it’ kind of thing. I bought one the second time meh sold them and I have probably used it 90% of the days since then. Does it replicate a real massage? No. But that many real massages would cost a fortune. Plus I can use the massage pillow while sitting on my couch watching Brooklyn nine-nine.
I got this the last time. Neither my husband nor I were happy with it. No matter how I placed it, my back hurt worse than before. My husband said he couldn’t really feel the message or the heat.
We ended up giving it away and the person we gave it to loved it. You never know.
@Fuzzalini Maybe the least circular, but there have been some that weren’t fully circular. (ex: a cog, a circle wearing square pants, circle with a square hat/hair etc…)
I bought this on a whim for my wife, figuring she would either love it or think it was very meh. It turned out to be super helpful for some chronic pain she has, and she has absolutely loved it.
Until tonight, when she tried to plug it in and instead accidentally plugged in a different cord that happened to fit. It made a weird POP and fried the motor.
So… if anybody has one of these laying around gathering dust, I would definitely love to arrange something to take it off of your hands.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Massaging Pillow
1x Decor Pillow
1x Power Cord
1x 3ft Extension Cord
Pictures
Pillows
Couch
Premium
Side
Back
Light Blue Stripes
Moroccan Midnight
Greek Key Black & White
Abstract Blue Stripes
Floral Green
Greek Key Taupe
Box
Price Comparison
$95.99-$129.95 without bonus pillow at Amazon
Warranty
90 Day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
are these good?
@boygenius1991 Yes. Haven’t tried any of the use cases implied by the writeup, but as a pillow to put behind your back and recline into on a sofa, it is a really nice thing for the back, neck, and shoulders. I was concerned that it wouldn’t have sufficient power to really do much, but that fear was unfounded.
Not sure if I knead or not. Hmmm…
@ice992 Bought last time. You better have a strong back when you turn them on- Very rough. but the pillows were nice and firm and use both as back supports on our living room sofa.
Hey I paid $ 49 for these last time. Where is my $ 5 price match rebate?
[VMod cleanup on aisle 3.14159.]
@Felton10
@zachhh
@Felton10
Not sure why this became political…
Yeah, give it a rest you two.
@PlacidPenguin apparently there were idiots involved.
@davidwr99
@Felton10
Happy Birthday, Mr. President.
Funny, he doesn’t look any older.
@Felton10 @zachhh You guys need this product to relax and chill out.
@therealjrn
@Felton10
@kdemo Hey, it was the President’s birthday yesterday! How is wishing a happy birthday Mr. President a troll?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@therealjrn - Oooh. And a disingenuous troll at that.
@kdemo I ask again, how is wishing the President of the United States a happy birthday disingenuous? I’m assuming you would be A-OK with me wishing a certain former Secretary of State a happy birthday?
@therealjrn
Kissinger’s birthday is May 27.
@Felton10 @davidwr99 @SoftAsFur @DavidChurchRN
@therealjrn Your post almost got caught up in the cleanup.
@narfcake any way to mark an edited post? I wanted to star some of these, but I don’t want to give stars to jerks.
@PlacidPenguin
Darnit! I missed it again!
@therealjrn
Want a reminder for next year?
@RiotDemon Not really. It’s either I edit or delete …
@Felton10 I didn’t directly ask for a $5 rebate (for me, it wasn’t really about the $5, but what this scenario represents), but I did attempt to email customer service regarding the lack of trust this instills with their customer base.
Jonathan told me their prices fluxuate with the market.
Bruh. You specialize in selling products that have proven NOT TO HAVE A MARKET. By the time Meh is selling it, you are one of only a tiny orange handful of places this self-admitted garbage can be purchased. Meh buys these lots of discontinued or close-out merch and knows exactly what they can sell it for to hit that sweet spot of profitability and value.
When you start playing with that number (outside of 2-for-$ or putting together bundles), you start losing your customers’ trust. And the last thing Meh wants to is condition people to sit and wait on a potentially better price down the line.
I said all this to Jonathan in a reply to his “market” comment. He replied back simply thanking me for the feedback and spoke nothing of making an attempt to earn back a customer’s trust.
@kungfuqua
Now THAT’S FUNNY! BWHAHAHA!
@kungfuqua looks like you succeeded at emailing customer service. Bruh. I have lots of questions.
Were you happy with your purchase at $49 this time yesterday?
If you had not seen this offer would you have less trust for Meh? Another thing about visiting one of a handful of places that sell something is that when it’s gone, it may not come back. You decided to purchase at the price you did, and they fulfilled the transaction for you. You have had the use of this pillow since the last sale.
If Meh sells this pillow again tonight for $34, you might have a point. But that’s not the case here. If Meh sold this pillow next week for $54, would you then feel like you beat the system?
Have you ever filled up your gas tank and then three days later saw the price of gas was ten cents lower per gallon? Would you go into the gas station and tell them how they have lost your trust and they should give you a refund?
I believe Meh may not know exactly what that sweet spot of profitability and value is. Or they may have gotten a call from the manufacturer saying “hey, we got another container full of pillows here and we’ll sell them to you for $5 less each” and Meh is doing us a solid by passing the savings along. Despite all the transparency here, we don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.
@kungfuqua Uh, too late for that with some of us mehmbers that carried the trait over from Woot.
@djslack
"If you had not seen this offer would you have less trust for Meh?”
Meh has worked to cultivate a consumer base that checks this daily deal site DAILY. So:
there’s no reason to expect someone wouldn’t notice unless they only recently discovered the site
under the supposition that the only reason I would now distrust them is because I visited the site today, the takeaway there is that their actions are fine as long as no one notices?
“Another thing about visiting one of a handful of places that sell something is that when it’s gone, it may not come back.”
Absolutely correct. That is the nature of buying close-outs and discontinued merchandise and then selling them to the public at bargain prices. But this particular brand has also made their name on selling specifically mediocre products. Very little of what they sell would result in anyone beating themselves up for missing out on it. Which means it’s essential to strike a balance between offering these products at the right price the first time. Shoppers of this site could care less if Meh sells out of something for the most part. Examples like today will condition them to hold out for a better offer, even if it means they ultimately miss out.
“You decided to purchase at the price you did, and they fulfilled the transaction for you. You have had the use of this pillow since the last sale.”
Thank for explaining how exchanging money for goods and services works.
“If Meh sells this pillow again tonight for $34, you might have a point. But that’s not the case here. If Meh sold this pillow next week for $54, would you then feel like you beat the system?”
As I originally stated, it wasn’t specifically about the $5, just the practice in general. Sorry you had to read my commentary on this for anything less than the $15 difference you believe the trouble would be worth, though. I am sure we can start a GoFundMe if you need compensated for your time.
If a product I had purchased on this site at one price was sold in the exact same capacity on this site again a few months later for more, best believe I would be in this forum advocating for potential buyers to be aware of the price hike so they could weigh that into their purchasing decision. I would not feel like I beat the system, I would feel as if the system was flawed.
“Have you ever filled up your gas tank and then three days later saw the price of gas was ten cents lower per gallon? Would you go into the gas station and tell them how they have lost your trust and they should give you a refund?”
There is a consistent market for gasoline, one that is set by the cost of oil.
The market for most of the items that end up on Meh DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE. There is a reason why, nine times out of ten, the point of reference for a regular retail price for these items is Amazon, and that’s because Amazon has just about everything and is usually one of the only other places left to buy this crap, and even then half the time it’s only available via a third-party seller being fulfilled by Amazon, so the price may have very little to do with the reality of the market.
Meh essentially controls their market because Meh bought in on their product at a unique price. Comparing the purchase of anything from this site to commodities like gasoline is asinine. Don’t @ me about this again, I’m not going to argue with you here about it.
@kungfuqua Ok, I won’t.
@djslack Come on, please ask again?
@kungfuqua
What COULD we tag you about then?
@PlacidPenguin
/giphy penguin photos?
@sammydog01
Well THAT’S a given. Was trying to find out the unobvious things.
@therealjrn
Just for the record, I WILL be reminding you of his birthday next year.
I have one from the last sale… will sell it to you for $22
@mcemanuel that bad?
@zachhh
My wife told me to get rid of them, they made her back and neck worse - I didn’t think they were that bad though… it’s one of those things that you use a few times (maybe) and they end up at a tag sale or goodwill (if they accept pillows)
@mcemanuel
I’ll let you pay me to take it from you.
@mcemanuel I see. Thanks for the insight. I got an extra pillow case for these in a fuko and was thinking about buying one.
@zachhh This works well for me - I think this is one of those things where either you like it or you don’t. The roller things inside push fairly hard. You could put something thin between that and your back if it was too hard for you (I am normal weight and it is fine for me). And I found I needed to use it where it wasn’t necessarily all the way touching the bottom of the chair seat to get it where I need it (I have scoliosis and chronic back issues). I happen to like it with the heat (bought for a family member but they might not get it since they don’t know about it and I find it useful). I think this is one of those things that you won’t know until you try it. Also I found that if I ran it for more than two cycles then my back did hurt more. Run it for less and it hurts less.
Guessing it’s one of those products that seems like a good idea until you try it
@Stallion I still use mine!
@mfladd @Stallion Me too!
@Stallion I’m using mine!
@Stallion Yes mine works well - see my comment to the person who has the post above yours.
Hot deal tonight — pillow talk
I have one of these from the last sale. I’d say… it’s not really that great for massaging your back, but it’s really great if you’d like to get places other than your back.
@Lazarpandar please, elaborate.
@Lazarpandar You’re quoted in the write-up, with a request for more information on what other places…
@RiotDemon @djslack oh my god I didn’t even notice LOL
I swear I didn’t mean it in a sexual way. I just meant after leg day you can lean back in bed and use it on your aching thighs rather comfortably.
Yes I’ve sat directly on it and it does feel good on the butt, that’s as far as we’ve gone.
@djslack @Lazarpandar I’m slightly disappointed.
@djslack @Lazarpandar @RiotDemon
/youtube sad trombone
So this will or won’t help with a moist downstairs?
@djslack Have you tried a sump pump?
@phendrick I asked once and was told that would cost double. I didn’t have enough cash on hand.
@djslack
/giphy moist downstairs
Bought these last time. Very hard massage, hurt too much to use. Tried to give them away, not one person wanted them. We finally found a taker when we described it as having “hot rotating boobies”
@syms I fold a blanket under mine.
Similar to @sammydog01, I use a very thin pillow on top of the massaging nubs. They are quite hard and strong, but that also then allows you to adjust them in some ways.
I like mine. Not a whole lot, but I do like them.
@sammydog01 @syms wouldn’t “over” work better?
I recommend checking with your Dr. if you want to use it on your neck and you have osteoporosis.
Stop already! For this price you can get a hand meh - 2ce!
No shiatsu, Sherlock!
Gesundheit
Are these actually worth the $44? The write up suggests, yes, if you use the pillows in creative ways… Actual elaboration by one reviewer pokes a hole in that pipe dream.
Meh… I’ll just skulk back into my corner and eat my $20 worth of probiotic gummies in one sitting.
@bbf Watch out, don’t want to turn your microbiome into a macrobiome. 1.44 trillion of anything is a lot to eat in one sitting.
Make sure you vlog about it when you do it.
@bbf Well depending on your budget you may or may not consider them expensive. As far as working or not compared to massage chairs umm well there is no comparison. BUT it does help me. Sometimes I like how hard it pushes and sometimes I put a bit of padding between it and my back. I also found running it for more than 2 cycles makes my back worse rather than better. I had bought it for a family member as a gift and they might not ever see it since they don’t know about it.
@bbf I think it is a ‘love it or hate it’ kind of thing. I bought one the second time meh sold them and I have probably used it 90% of the days since then. Does it replicate a real massage? No. But that many real massages would cost a fortune. Plus I can use the massage pillow while sitting on my couch watching Brooklyn nine-nine.
This is the best item I have ever bought from Meh.com. It works it takes the aches and pains out of my back after a long day at work.
This is the kind of thing that makes me believe that Aliens are real…
Maybe I should buy one just so I’ll have something to do with the Greek Key Black & White cover that came in my Fukubukuro.
I got this the last time. Neither my husband nor I were happy with it. No matter how I placed it, my back hurt worse than before. My husband said he couldn’t really feel the message or the heat.
We ended up giving it away and the person we gave it to loved it. You never know.
cannot wait to receive it and start using it.
I got one. We’ll see if it can make me feel.
Pillow = cushion…
Demo
@medz - Yes?
@kdemo
/giphy oh yes
@medz
Is this the first non-circular Meh button?
@Fuzzalini Maybe the least circular, but there have been some that weren’t fully circular. (ex: a cog, a circle wearing square pants, circle with a square hat/hair etc…)
narcissistic-witty-gerbil
Product DOA… I found out that M Pillow’s website was shut down trying to find customer service. Hopefully Meh will take this dead P.O.S. back!!!
@jrruss
The good news for you is that the warranty is offered through Mediocre, not M.
I bought this on a whim for my wife, figuring she would either love it or think it was very meh. It turned out to be super helpful for some chronic pain she has, and she has absolutely loved it.
Until tonight, when she tried to plug it in and instead accidentally plugged in a different cord that happened to fit. It made a weird POP and fried the motor.
So… if anybody has one of these laying around gathering dust, I would definitely love to arrange something to take it off of your hands.