Quality issue with IRK, meh delivers

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Recently, I complained about the overall quality of an IRK I received. At issue was it was all useful.

Not one to take accusations of superior quality laying down, @koolhandjoe decided to rectify the issue in my latest IRK. And he delivered, bigly.

On Saturday (in the middle of a mehrathon I couldn’t participate in), I received what I have dubbed the ERK (Extra Regret Kit).

Tracking my order, I noticed that there were three packages scheduled for delivery. 6x4x1”, 1lbs each.

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I assumed I was in for a bunch of broken drone parts or some poo-pourri. I was not ready for what I found.

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Up first, there were two cases of youth sized Clawz. Not only did a 24 pairs of these croc-off “shoes”, but none even remotely close to my size. But aha, jokes on you KHJ, my partner has tiny feet.

“Absolutely not, I’m not even going to try them on”.

Useless. Me 0 - Joe 1

the clawz!

In the third box, I’m greeted by 36 pairs of children’s “Little Monsters” socks. Weirdly, my ERK seems on theme with the current mehrathon. Nice.
Sensing the question, partner heads me off at the pass “No. Just donate them”.

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Below I find 22 hard shell cases for 15” MacBook Pros. We have three MacBooks in the house. These fit exactly none of them.

These are specific enough to be bad for the garage sale I was told I’m having. Thoughts of eBay swim to mind.

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Karl Lagerfeld fake eyelash mascara things. 21 of them, in fact. But wait a second, I know this name! Partner recently bought a bag with this name on it, and she was very excited. I learned about a wealthy cat. She takes the bait, returning some time later to report her finding
“It’s not very good, I won’t use it”

I now have ~21~ 20 boxes of some fake eyelash mascara for cats on my hand. I add “can you sell makeup on eBay” to my todo list.

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Continuing my journey towards real, actual, regret I come across a stack of unassembled boxes for a reed diffuser. There are maybe 30-40 (100?) of these. The jibes about poo-pourri have come home to roost.
There are no diffusers. The boxes are dirty. Not even my finely tuned hoarder brain can come up with a use for these. What the actual fuck.

0-5 @koolhandjoe is running away with it, but we’re not quite done yet.

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In the bottom of the box, there are a bunch of padded white envelopes. Surveying the sticker, my heart sinks. Trackr Pixels.

I, like many folks, have received these in past IRKs, and have judged them to be trash. Coincidentally, we’ve gotten AirTags recently and think they’re the bees-knees. This already useless (to me) piece of tech is now extra useless.

And I now have 176 of the fuckers to add to the small cache of these things already occupying space in my closet.

Here is the regret though: I am a techno-weenie with mild hoarder brain. Throwing these out is simply not an option. And now I have so many of them I feel morally obligated to try and repurpose them, somehow. Time that should be spent cleaning my garage. Or building long overdue shelves. I think we’re having a yard sale?

But really, these are probably useful somehow….

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0-6, total blowout. @koolhandjoe finds a way to go above and beyond customer expectations while still proving that meh is a first-class second-rate shopping site.

And I couldn’t be happier.

(Jokes aside, I expected something after my previous taunts, but nothing of this magnitude. I realize we’re a weird customer base, but kudos to all of you who manage to cater to our particular weirdness)