@Lazarpandar So informative.

@yakkoTDI I came here to make the will it blend comment and I made it.

@cengland0 They won’t make themselves, now will they?
Looking at you, pal. Kinda thirsty over here.

@Jamileigh17 I literally bought a blender seconds ago but your comment soothed my regret as I purchased a smaller one.

@yugrudfooz NO!

@yugrudfooz This thing has 3 layers of blades. No more pushing ice down to the bottom blade. This thing has power. No more getting ice stuck on the blade so the blade will not spin. This is bigger than my old blender.

@Stallion Blenderrific.

@skymeat i do the same thing with tequila. i call it marinating.

@Dizavid I want a new blender, and I was thinking the same thing.

@jetkins Hi Jet, would love your opinion of proper percentage discount from new-refurb. Inquiring minds wanna know.

@Lincoln This is meh. I want stupid discounts, not proper ones.

@Jetlag good call, shame on me. i’m a merchandiser here so i may be able to assist some sort of stupid discounts for future deals wondering what price would equal silly stupid savings

@Lincoln 50% off and I would have bought it. 45% and I would have at least thought about it for more than a few seconds. Besides the fact that it’s a refurb that’s basically all moving parts, gota keep in mind that the warranty is significantly shorter.

@lordbowen congratulations on making it to a place anyone under the age of 40 will likely never reach.

@elimanningface I took 30 years of lower pay, less benefits, and a restrictive work environment in a government job in exchange for a solid pension program that would allow me to retire at 55. It’s all a trade off. I was offered lucrative jobs in the private sector many times but chose long term financial security over shorter term affluence.

@moondrake sweet, that is the norm now so I guess we all have a shot at retirement after all. I overspoke.

@elimanningface

@Joedetroit The lid has a flip top spout so you can add stuff while it’s running (as long as what you want to add isn’t a whole adult hand. You MIGHT be able to squeeze a baby’s hand in there, though, if you really try. There’s nothing quite like fresh baby juice to wake you up in the morning.)

@steelopus No way! I bought one a couple years ago & the lid locked down before you could start it & there was no flip top spout. New (er?) feature!

@yogapants This is no Vitamix, but at $50, it meets the needs of most people. However, if you blend daily, the Vitamix is a much better investment as it will easily last 5 years.

We bought our Vitamix in 1992 and we use it regularly. Have only had to replace 1 carafe when the bearing on the blade seized. Motor base is still going strong.

@mehvermore could you repeat that? I couldn’t hear you over your blender

@pyro008 I put this code in and it works. First how did you find it, and second, @woodhouse would you mind explaining this coupon code? Because it definitely seems shady.

@pyro008 @sammydog01 We’ve got this coupon code feature and I thought I’d try a limited experiment. Not really something I planned out more than just wanted to see how it worked, but it’s good to hear feedback.

@pyro008 @sammydog01 I am interested in hearing where the code was as well.

@dave My guess is your feedback will be a bunch of pissed-off purchasers. But I didn’t buy one so whatever.

@ConandLibrarian I checked the twitter feed. No coupon but it did offer to translate the tweet from Danish.

@sammydog01
https://slickdeals.net/f/10000528-ninja-bl610-professional-blender-refurbished-38-5-s-h-for-nonvmp-members
is where I saw it. Guessing it is some kind of deal with Slickdeals, but you’d think that to try out a coupon code they could’ve gone with VMP members or something.

@pyro008 Thanks. You would think that maybe @dave would think of us VMPs. But no. Slickdeals probably gave him a free Fitbit or something.

Coupon code still good at almost 10pm central. @Dave, I don’t think it’s shady to try some marketing and see if you can pull some new eyeballs from Slickdeals. It’s not a reward, it’s an acquisition cost (read: bribe to come buy). We VMPs are already here. It is a substantial discount, though, and if I’d bought at $50 i might have some remorse.

I didn’t buy at $38 either, because I already have a very good blender and to buy another would be to invite my betrothed to try to defeat the lid safety mechanism and blend various parts of my anatomy for overflowing the kitchen gadget collection.

I’m hoping that we also get to find out how it worked.

@djslack Suck-up.

@djslack 44 uses, all but 5 of which paid shipping (which was the only way I could set the coupon to this amount). Overall, I think not really worth the trouble, but I like experimenting with this stuff. I’ll have to think through how we could try out some VMP coupons.

@dave I hope the majority of the 39 non-vmps were new signups and they stick around. Thanks for the transparency. Little experiments are fun.

@dave I’ve been paying shipping every month for months without actually getting anything shipped. I’m sure I’m not alone either.

@djslack dang, the second reveal that i thot was a dude, but me thinks u r knot - i also have a treasure trove of Meh. items staking up…

@Yoda_Daenerys huh? I think you lost me somewhere in there.

As I seem to follow it, I think you think I’m not a dude? If that’s the concern, I am. I just like to cook and have kitchen gadgets. The parts of my anatomy I think might get blended would be the dangly bits.

My being a dude and cooking is fine, because my lady doesn’t often like to cook so she is more than happy for me to do it. If only I could convince her that mowing the lawn would help us to both do our part to defeat gender normative stereotypes…