That’s not the only thing going on. Watch the timer. 10 seconds between flips, and then the final digit is always between 0 and 5? So entirely skips :36 through :39 and :26 through :29? Either my clock is very screwy or more is going on.
Edit: Well… now my timer is gone… nvm then. Nothing to see here. Justs a totally normal Mehrathon that’s not a Mehrathon. Carry on.
@ircon96 night shift stories are the best. like the time the drunk/high patient thought he was in a helicopter and tried to jump out of the ambulance… while we were on the highway. good times.
ignore everything i said. timer is gone. someone messed up. i thoroughly expect pie in the face video of the rapscallion who enticed us with a mehrathon.
edit: although the copy does does say a mehrathon is afoot. so, damned if i know.
edit for the edit: ignore the ignoring. the fine print says to come back at 0830 EST for more tomfoolery.
@carl669 That’s weird, mine said to come back at 9am…? WTF are they trying to pull here? (This time, the timer disappeared & now says to come back at 9:30am.)
@medz@sammydog01 Or, better yet, THEY should give US $5 for taking this crap off their hands. The inconvenience of throwing it out &/or donating it is worth at least that, surely.
@ircon96@medz@sammydog01 I’m taking a load of stuff today to donation that includes IRK items. It is my goal to do a deep clean on my home on all the stuff that is pushed into nooks and crannies and drawers and cabinets and…it was amazing how much stuff I had. (and I’m sure stuff I will find)
@medz@sammydog01@sunnysideup22 I am WAY overdue for a massive clean out, I’m one step below being the subject of an episode of Hoarders! Good luck with your deep clean, I’m impressed with your gumption!
@duodec@Lynnerizer@werehatrack I can write a quick program to pick 50 names at random without having to store them in a butt first, just in case that’s relevant to your needs.
@amehzinggrace no multiple people are buying any new irl put up for sale. I’ve seen them post about it as it’s definitely allowed. However, it Suxs for those of us who can’t even buy one yet
Be interesting to see if they stop selling out as the price goes up. If Meh was still selling stuff like they did their first few years I’d be willing to pay more to get the coupons, but their more current selections don’t really make me wish I had coupons to use.
Wonder how much the VMP/mehmber ones will cost if we still get our hour.
@Kidsandliz Actually if we could stack the coupons like gift cards, it would be worth it to me to try for more expensive IRKs. I do still buy a few things across the sites.
@SylvreKat well, not exactly, but that’s happening too. Meh says so.
I meant that if someone has a bot that can successfully autobuy IRKs and doesn’t check the prices, they will hopefully be in for a rude awakening and have hundreds of dollars in coupons to show for it.
@Star2236 I actually tried at $50 when I finally saw what was happening, but wasn’t fast enough and definitely not going any higher than that. Would have been tough to spend 10 coupons anyway.
@djslack@werehatrack
I wonder how many people got multiple boxes at higher price points? I would have for $10 -$15, maybe even $20, but at $70 it’s way to rich for me. I wish I would had caught on early in the morning to hat they were doing.
@djslack@Star2236@werehatrack They STILL sold out almost instantly as the prices rose; even this latest one at $70 sold out , although it took 3 minutes.
@SylvreKat Wyoming is always there, and bright, but not much of a trend other than that. You can still click the forum posts and then the banner to get to the sales page to check yourself
This makes none of the senses to me. I get the “bot tester” experiment, but hopefully this isn’t a “let’s see if someone will pay $100 for an IRK (minus $95 worth of nonstackable pretty useless coupons)”, and then later we’ll rewarding them for trusting us… But if they’re just doing it to test the bots, it’s bad marketing for anyone new here who just wants to buy something.
@Jeffrok I will say, if you’re heavy into buying stuff from meh or side, then it’s worth it to buy one of these. But from what I’ve read, I can’t imagine anyone being that into either site’s merch.
I’ve been doing some math, instead of working… as you do. here’s what I’ve come up with:
If the IRK releases continue on an hourly basis, meh will sell up to 1,100 IRKs today
If they sold all 1,100 IRKs at the ever-increasing prices, they would make $58,000 in gross revenue
But each $5 spent on an IRK comes with a coupon for $5 off a future product
People who bought an IRK at $5 get one coupon, and they’re very likely to redeem those coupons. But people who buy an IRK at $105 will get 21 coupons each, and they’re very likely to NOT be able to redeem all those coupons. My estimate for total coupon redemption is 85%.
Also some people will cancel their orders. I estimate 70 cancellations.
So I estimate meh will sell $52,855 worth of IRKs after cancellations and honor $41,485 worth of coupons, leaving them with a net revenue of $11,370.
If they had sold those IRKs for $5 a piece, they would have made $5,500 in revenue. So according to my estimates they’re netting an additional $5,870 and guaranteeing that customers will come back and make 8,937 purchases using the $5 coupons.
Brilliant work, meh.
P.S. The coupon redemption rate would have to be slightly greater than 89.5% for meh to make less revenue on this offering than they would selling IRKs for $5 (but this doesn’t account for the profit on whatever those coupons are used for).
Oh, bad math strikes again. My estimate for total coupon redemption is 78.5%. I forgot to weight it to the lower redemption rates estimated on the larger number of coupons.
Hallefuckinglujah.
/giphy Hallelujah!
That’s not the only thing going on. Watch the timer. 10 seconds between flips, and then the final digit is always between 0 and 5? So entirely skips :36 through :39 and :26 through :29? Either my clock is very screwy or more is going on.
Edit: Well… now my timer is gone… nvm then. Nothing to see here. Justs a totally normal Mehrathon that’s not a Mehrathon. Carry on.
@triavalon that happens when the timer has more than 99 minutes on it. The last digit falls off the right.
How nice for you daywalkers.
@ircon96 i too, used to be a nightwalker (7p-7a on the ambulance). i definitely preferred it over the deluge of useless calls when i took a day shift.
@carl669 I worked for many years on the overnight shift at a call center/answering service. Definitely, way more interesting stuff goes on at night!
@ircon96 night shift stories are the best. like the time the drunk/high patient thought he was in a helicopter and tried to jump out of the ambulance… while we were on the highway. good times.
@carl669
Sounds like he was trying to GET a helicopter ride…in the air ambulance. 
Good times indeed!
Okay, am I sleep deprived, or did the message change from “come back for shenanigans” to “come back for frustration”?
ignore everything i said. timer is gone. someone messed up. i thoroughly expect pie in the face video of the rapscallion who enticed us with a mehrathon.
edit: although the copy does does say a mehrathon is afoot. so, damned if i know.
edit for the edit: ignore the ignoring. the fine print says to come back at 0830 EST for more tomfoolery.
@carl669 That’s weird, mine said to come back at 9am…? WTF are they trying to pull here?
(This time, the timer disappeared & now says to come back at 9:30am.)
I can’t wait to see who buys the 11 pm irk at $200 or so.
@sammydog01 my autobuy bot has already drained my account today! Irks should only be $5!
@medz @sammydog01 Or, better yet, THEY should give US $5 for taking this crap off their hands. The inconvenience of throwing it out &/or donating it is worth at least that, surely.
@ircon96 @medz @sammydog01
I’m taking a load of stuff today to donation that includes IRK items. It is my goal to do a deep clean on my home on all the stuff that is pushed into nooks and crannies and drawers and cabinets and…it was amazing how much stuff I had. (and I’m sure stuff I will find)
@medz @sammydog01 Wait, so the captchas don’t even work on bots? All they do is slow down humans? Maybe that’s why I can never get an IRK…
I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.
@sammydog01 your estimate was correct
@RiotDemon Woah, I didn’t even do math.
@medz @sammydog01 @sunnysideup22 I am WAY overdue for a massive clean out, I’m one step below being the subject of an episode of Hoarders!
Good luck with your deep clean, I’m impressed with your gumption! 
I want to see what happens if they put one up with a price of -$5.
@werehatrack Only available to those who already ‘won’ an IRK today
@duodec @werehatrack
Well then they should just pick 50 names out of their butts and send them surprise IRKS!
@werehatrack And they force you to spend $5 for a coupon.
@duodec @Lynnerizer @werehatrack I can write a quick program to pick 50 names at random without having to store them in a butt first, just in case that’s relevant to your needs.
@duodec @mikey @werehatrack
Just a figure of speech, no need to really store them anywhere. But I’m SURE you already knew that! Or NOT!
Lol
sneaky sneaky price increasy
So are these being limited to 1 per day/usual?
@amehzinggrace no multiple people are buying any new irl put up for sale. I’ve seen them post about it as it’s definitely allowed. However, it Suxs for those of us who can’t even buy one yet
@amehzinggrace nope. you can get as many as you want… if you’re will to pay
@amehzinggrace @AttyVette I bet you can get one when it hits a hundred dollars.
@AttyVette @sammydog01 hard pass for me… I’m not a hundredaire…
Be interesting to see if they stop selling out as the price goes up. If Meh was still selling stuff like they did their first few years I’d be willing to pay more to get the coupons, but their more current selections don’t really make me wish I had coupons to use.
Wonder how much the VMP/mehmber ones will cost if we still get our hour.
@duodec Maybe they will be free to reward us?
@Kidsandliz Actually if we could stack the coupons like gift cards, it would be worth it to me to try for more expensive IRKs. I do still buy a few things across the sites.
I feel like this is a clever way to find a new price point for the IRKs.
@lothar188
Exactly, glad I got mine at 8am.
So, is there a mehrathon that I’m missing somewhere? Or is it just the really expensive irkathon?
@SylvreKat it’s the Inflation IRKathon. Also an IRK buying bot logic tester. Someone, somewhere is going to be mad.
@djslack Ok, I have no idea what a bot logic tester is. But thanks for explaining.
@djslack Oh, you mean someone’s running a bot testing the logic of meh-ers buying IRKS, or lack thereof at $50 for a non-special IRK.
As the title says, ohhhh, now I get it.
@SylvreKat well, not exactly, but that’s happening too. Meh says so.
I meant that if someone has a bot that can successfully autobuy IRKs and doesn’t check the prices, they will hopefully be in for a rude awakening and have hundreds of dollars in coupons to show for it.
@djslack @SylvreKat Fingers crossed that happens.
@djslack Ahhhh. Now I really DO get it.
That would be funny, wouldn’t it. hee. hee. hee.
Who is paying $40 for irks and how many are you buying?
@Star2236 I’m ashamed to say I tried at $20 but wasn’t fast enough.
@Star2236 Better question is who’s going to pay $60 or more as the price continues to escalate?
@Star2236 @werehatrack
/giphy auctioneer
@Star2236 I actually tried at $50 when I finally saw what was happening, but wasn’t fast enough and definitely not going any higher than that. Would have been tough to spend 10 coupons anyway.
@djslack @werehatrack
I wonder how many people got multiple boxes at higher price points? I would have for $10 -$15, maybe even $20, but at $70 it’s way to rich for me. I wish I would had caught on early in the morning to hat they were doing.
@djslack @Star2236 @werehatrack They STILL sold out almost instantly as the prices rose; even this latest one at $70 sold out , although it took 3 minutes.
Now I wish I’d paid attention to which states are buying. I wonder if it’s the same ones every time.
@SylvreKat Wyoming is always there, and bright, but not much of a trend other than that. You can still click the forum posts and then the banner to get to the sales page to check yourself
Nah, that’s good enough for me. I’ll just look for WY each time now.
Guess we know where most of the bots are, huh.
hee. hee. hee.
Hey, can you use your $5 coupon to buy a later in the day IRK?
@kykazaa Worth trying. Save $5 on a $60 IRK. That makes it only $55 inflated
@SylvreKat but if I buy 11@$60, it’s like I got the $55 one for free!!!
who the hell in hennepin county MN is buying a $65 irk? reveal yourself!
This makes none of the senses to me. I get the “bot tester” experiment, but hopefully this isn’t a “let’s see if someone will pay $100 for an IRK (minus $95 worth of nonstackable pretty useless coupons)”, and then later we’ll rewarding them for trusting us… But if they’re just doing it to test the bots, it’s bad marketing for anyone new here who just wants to buy something.
Boo to that.
@Jeffrok I will say, if you’re heavy into buying stuff from meh or side, then it’s worth it to buy one of these. But from what I’ve read, I can’t imagine anyone being that into either site’s merch.
@SylvreKat nah, I haven’t bought anything in about 3 months.
I love that I have created the theory of a bot trap today.
@djslack Monroe County, NY purchased irks at 8 different times up to the $70 mark. Lots of cows there. Interesting.
I bought one for $50. I figure I’ll probably use more than half of the coupons and I’ll definitely use the mediocritee one.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve been doing some math, instead of working… as you do. here’s what I’ve come up with:
Brilliant work, meh.
P.S. The coupon redemption rate would have to be slightly greater than 89.5% for meh to make less revenue on this offering than they would selling IRKs for $5 (but this doesn’t account for the profit on whatever those coupons are used for).
If anyone wants to comb through sales numbers and get me an actual cancellation count, I can update my numbers.
Oh, bad math strikes again. My estimate for total coupon redemption is 78.5%. I forgot to weight it to the lower redemption rates estimated on the larger number of coupons.
@btwonder you have way too much time on your hands. Or Minitab. One of the two
@kykazaa Excel and ADHD are a dangerous drug.
@carl669 #Buyat100!
