@ircon96@Kyeh To clarify further I started with lyrics from the song Mack the Knife (most widely known version is by Bobby Darin). Then came the Morphine song references. First was Sharks, then French Fries with Pepper, 2/2/22 was a play on the lyrics from French Fries with Pepper and I then brought in the song Thursday.
I was hoping it would keep going because Morphine was a great band.
@ircon96@yakkoTDI I knew Mack the Knife but I was clueless about the band Morphine.
Very clever. I guess you could keep it going still… In spite of me…
@Kyeh@yakkoTDI Lol… We prob could have kept going for quite awhile if i were more well-versed in the band’s catalog, but i mostly just appreciate their greatness in general (& suspected yakko would, too) & figured another shark-themed song was in order.
@Kyeh@yakkoTDI@werehatrack Well, I eventually got to sleep for a few hours, when I had a dream that you were dreaming and I was dreaming, I was supposed to go to Miles Davis’ funeral at 5:09, but i can’t make it on my own, driving down the pitch-black road… Weird, huh?? I’ve gotta stop eating angel food before bed!
Good: It’s from Shark. It probably works pretty well.
Bad: The battery is built-in so once you’ve run it flat, the vac is out of action until it recharges. Once the battery dies for good, it’s really hard to replace (for most people).
Just wanted to let people know that the 5 year warranty only applies to Shark Ninja products bought DIRECTLY FROM SHARK NINJA. That means since you’re buying this from Meh.com the 5 Star Warranty doesn’t apply…and this is what Shark Ninja told me when I received a DOA Shark vacuum from SideDeal. They make you pay for the parts and shipping if you didn’t buy it from Shark Ninja directly.
And if it helps further - I also bought a Ninja coffee machine shipped and sold from Amazon.com and Shark Ninja told me the same thing - their 5 Star Warranty doesn’t apply since I bought it from Amazon.
Hope this helps someone…unless Shark Ninja just told me wrong info…twice.
@silveropal3 forgot to mention the warranty that DOES apply is the Shark Ninja Limited 1 Year Warranty on Shark Ninja products bought from authorized retailers…if meh.com is one of them. shrug
@silveropal3 I’m not surprised. Lots of manufacturers are getting burned by counterfeits. Denon, for example, won’t honor warranties on any of their products not sold by an authorized dealer…and scamazon ain’t one.
@tweezak agree - I’m not surprised either. Just didn’t want other people to go through the same thing I did because it was a bit of a hassle talking back and forth with them.
@silveropal3@tweezak how is Denon getting burned with counterfeits? If it is not theirs, they can just say so and do nothing. Or are the counterfeits so good Denon can’t tell which is theirs and which are fakes?
@adr5 The problem is that the packaging is so convincing that the retail buyers don’t know that the item is counterfeit, and the item inside is seldom up to the level of quality or performance of the real thing. Most of them just end up causing people to decide Denon’s not worth having anymore, damaging the brand. And as for the ones that get returned for warranty repair or replacement, Denon is between a rock and a hard place, because it’s often difficult to get the customer to understand that they bought a fake.
@adr5@silveropal3 I didn’t specifically say Denon was getting burned, just that they won’t honor the warranty on anything not purchased through an authorized dealer. Though my statement could have been interpreted that way. Counterfeit products I suspect mainly hurt a company’s reputation by their brand being associated with garbage. Particularly if people don’t send the thing in for service and find out it’s a fake then they will always feel like that brand sucks and then tell all their friends. No bueno.
@adr5@werehatrack Precisely. A company I used to work for had a huge problem with this so much so that they started a whole department dedicated to detecting fake packaging by analyzing the printing. We got really good at it and even began contracting out the service.
No way is a Shark stick vac worth $200. $400! You are out of your fucking mind. I have a refurbished Shark stick that I reluctantly paid $100 for from Woot. It has a removable battery pack. It does not have the screen and associated electronics which are just unnecessarily stupid. Shark vacs work well, but FU Shark if you think I’ll pay $200 for a stick vac.
@MarkML Well, Walmart is a scam anyway. They are using their marketing and subsequent fake reputation to fool people into thinking they are getting a good deal.
@JvB@MarkML@tweezak
Most of my daily calls are those ESL-sounding people who want me to tell them my SSAN or CC #'s so they can “verify” them. Lately getting a lot of calls from the “Amazon Fraud Department”, questioning the $2000 charge for an Apple computer I just purchased. NOT. I told one caller I didn’t know they had such a department and never ordered anything from that department, and got rudely hung up on.
I do my best to play senile in as long a conversation as I can get them into, before they hang up on me, just for my own yucks, and maybe to convince them to remove me from their call lists.
Many times, if they want me to read my number from my SS card, I tell them I’ll have to go find it. I love when they tell me to “take your time”. That’s when I put the phone down and get back to what I was doing, without hanging up. Once I picked up the phone after about 20 minutes and the person was still waiting on me.
Also fun is when they ask for my wife by name, who is in Alzheimer’s care. I say I’ll go get her, it’ll take a few minutes, and again place the phone down.
If I ever learn the SSANs of any members from Congress, I’ll give those out, and maybe said critters will finally get off their fat arses and do something important for a change.
I get a lot of calls showing a local phone # on the Caller ID. If I’m not in a mood to prank them, I’ll interrupt their spiel to ask where they are calling from. And of course they have no idea what number was generated by their automated dialers. I then tell them no way I’m doing any business with a company that lies to me. It’s amazing how many of those “local” numbers give an Out of Service message when you dial them.
My solution is simple: Every outgoing call costs the caller $1, payable to the call recipient, kind of like a “900-” call, even for “Friends and Family”. (Then all those calls from Moms and Mother-in-Laws and ex-SOs will be much more appreciated. [Maybe it should be $2, after all this inflation.] If you legitimately call each other equally, you should average breaking even.) And older people would have a much-needed source of additional income from these calls. I average more than a half-dozen “junk” calls a day. And those are just the ones I’m home for.) Calls to medical facilities or public services should be exempt.
@JvB@MarkML@phendrick@tweezak Junk calls… locally xfinity (my internet) calls telling me they are trying to update my modem. I own my own modem so they don’t update it. Knowing what they were up to from what my next door neighbor who almost fell for it (did not log into the website they gave him) I decided to play along. So they claim the are going to reset your modem and of course nothing happens. Repeat a second time. So then they tell you to log into a website. I pretend to try to do that and tell them that it says 'can not establish a secure connection to the server". They have you try several times.
After wasting nearly 20 min of their time they get frustrated. I tell them I know this is a scam and I have just won points on a website that is having a contest for the most number of minutes we can get scammers to spend with us. I got recalled several days later (these are both fake numbers) and summarized the scam for them. Surprisingly the guy who answered admitted that is exactly what they tell people and then hung up. I haven’t been called since so I must have been removed from their list.
@MarkML Refurb Shark stick vacs for $100 are not uncommon, and something we’ve offered before. New just costs more, and some models like this one are more than others due to upgraded features. (Shark has a ridiculous amount of vacuum models)
@JvB@Kidsandliz@MarkML@tweezak
I’ve now had 8 junk calls for today already, none of which I answered, as I was just not in the mood to increase my blood pressure.
@Kidsandliz Is there such a website for baiting scammers? Sign me up.
@EvilSmoo Takes all the fun out of it with all these bot and AI calls. Can’t even cuss out the evil (no offense meant) perpetrators.
@EvilSmoo@JvB@MarkML@phendrick@tweezak No website for points for baiting scammers. I made that up when I talked to them. Well let me rephrase that - I made it up but who knows. Maybe there is one. Didn’t look. The only website involved was the one they were trying to get me to go to so they could rip me off.
Well this isn’t a shark that will eat much at one meal since the stomach looks on the small side. Also this is unlikely to stand up on it’s own since the dust bin is up high. On the other hand usually sharks do a good job (I have one I bought refurbished years ago on meh which is still going strong).
I bought a Shark Vertex cordless vac from Amazon, very similar to this vac, except no digital screen on head unit (which is just something else to fail), BUT it has 2 removable batteries, a must for any cordless vac, as they are all about the battery, once battery fails you have plastic on a stick! I grabbed it for about $230 on Amazon Warehouse deal (open box, damaged box, returned etc), it was in perfect condition, never been used. I love it! I have a cat and it picks up tons of hair and other dirt. Very easy to use and with 2 batteries I have plenty of power to clean entire house. Highly recommend!
@macromeh The cats here try to “help” by batting small bits of trash and litter under the furniture. The fact that they also create a large percentage of the small bits of trash and litter is not at all a mitigating datum in their favor.
These things are always so great until the proprietary battery life is over. Then, the whole thing ends up in a landfill and you need to buy another whole vacuum.
I can’t find reviews/info specifically for the IZ640H. I am mainly only finding results for the IZ662H and IZ682H models. Does anyone know if the IZ640H is just a Walmart specific but identical version of these other models?
I have one of the refurbished sharks sticks from a drop in the last year. Frankly it kinda sucks, and not in a good way. Suction is very low for how big it is. However, the standing shark vacuum I got around the same time was incredible
Not that it helps anyone today, but for context, Woot had the Dyson v11 cordless vacuum, factory refurbished, on sale yesterday for $299. So the shark direction saves you $100, but that sale sold out yesterday.
Specs
Product: Shark Cordless Stick Vacuum With DuoClean Power Fins and Self-Cleaning Brushroll
Model: IZ640H
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$399.99 at Walmart
Warranty
5 Year Warranty
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Aug 17 - Monday, Aug 21
Oh the Shark hey!
Has such teeth babe!
@yakkoTDI Sharks patrol these waters… Swim like a mother…
@ircon96 Now I want some french fries with pepper.
@yakkoTDI That sounds yummy, I haven’t had those since 2/2/22!
@ircon96 I think the place down the street serves them on Thursday.
@ircon96 @yakkoTDI Huh? That sounds good, but what’s the special significance?
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI Sorry, I’m way behind on replies! They refer to lyrics from songs by the band Morphine. Just the usual silliness.
@ircon96 @yakkoTDI Oh. Okay.
I just listened to the song and I’m still baffled!
@ircon96 @Kyeh To clarify further I started with lyrics from the song Mack the Knife (most widely known version is by Bobby Darin). Then came the Morphine song references. First was Sharks, then French Fries with Pepper, 2/2/22 was a play on the lyrics from French Fries with Pepper and I then brought in the song Thursday.
I was hoping it would keep going because Morphine was a great band.
@ircon96 @yakkoTDI I knew Mack the Knife but I was clueless about the band Morphine.
Very clever. I guess you could keep it going still… In spite of me…
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI Lol… We prob could have kept going for quite awhile if i were more well-versed in the band’s catalog, but i mostly just appreciate their greatness in general (& suspected yakko would, too) & figured another shark-themed song was in order.
@ircon96 @yakkoTDI You DID catch my attempt to add to the string, right?
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI I did not at first, props to you, madame.
Your participation is a cure for my pain! 
@ircon96 @Kyeh
Buena! Buena! That’s the spirit.
@ircon96 @yakkoTDI
You speak my language!
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI Well, so much for Early to Bed! (It’s a little after 8am on Sunday & I’ve been up for about 27 hours… Help. Me.
)
@ircon96 @Kyeh Well to make sure you get enough sleep get someone to hold both hands against the door and dig their feet into the floor.
@ircon96 Get some sleep and don’t dream of O-positive.
@ircon96 @yakkoTDI
Wow, that’s way off kilter!
I hope you did finally sleep - and that The Night was Good.
@Kyeh @yakkoTDI @werehatrack Well, I eventually got to sleep for a few hours, when I had a dream that you were dreaming and I was dreaming, I was supposed to go to Miles Davis’ funeral at 5:09, but i can’t make it on my own, driving down the pitch-black road… Weird, huh?? I’ve gotta stop eating angel food before bed!
Oh no. Brace yourself for the inevitable “this deal sucks” jokes.
@OnionSoup Don’t mind if I do.
@werehatrack well, it had to be done. It’s a tradition.
This thing sucks.
It’s supposed to.
@werehatrack Until the battery dies, then it’s a giant paperweight/doorstop.
@ircon96 Not enough mass to make a useful boat anchor.
Good: It’s from Shark. It probably works pretty well.
Bad: The battery is built-in so once you’ve run it flat, the vac is out of action until it recharges. Once the battery dies for good, it’s really hard to replace (for most people).
Just what I dreamed of, a shark with power fins. Now just need the laser beam.
The marketing department is busy trying to figure out something they can call “teeth” or “gills” on the next model.
Just wanted to let people know that the 5 year warranty only applies to Shark Ninja products bought DIRECTLY FROM SHARK NINJA. That means since you’re buying this from Meh.com the 5 Star Warranty doesn’t apply…and this is what Shark Ninja told me when I received a DOA Shark vacuum from SideDeal. They make you pay for the parts and shipping if you didn’t buy it from Shark Ninja directly.
And if it helps further - I also bought a Ninja coffee machine shipped and sold from Amazon.com and Shark Ninja told me the same thing - their 5 Star Warranty doesn’t apply since I bought it from Amazon.
Hope this helps someone…unless Shark Ninja just told me wrong info…twice.
@silveropal3 forgot to mention the warranty that DOES apply is the Shark Ninja Limited 1 Year Warranty on Shark Ninja products bought from authorized retailers…if meh.com is one of them. shrug
Limited 1 Year Warranty
@silveropal3 I’m not surprised. Lots of manufacturers are getting burned by counterfeits. Denon, for example, won’t honor warranties on any of their products not sold by an authorized dealer…and scamazon ain’t one.
@tweezak agree - I’m not surprised either. Just didn’t want other people to go through the same thing I did because it was a bit of a hassle talking back and forth with them.
@silveropal3 sorry I meant 5 Year VIP* Warranty not 5 Star
@silveropal3 “Very Impotent Purchaser”?
@silveropal3 @tweezak how is Denon getting burned with counterfeits? If it is not theirs, they can just say so and do nothing. Or are the counterfeits so good Denon can’t tell which is theirs and which are fakes?
@adr5 The problem is that the packaging is so convincing that the retail buyers don’t know that the item is counterfeit, and the item inside is seldom up to the level of quality or performance of the real thing. Most of them just end up causing people to decide Denon’s not worth having anymore, damaging the brand. And as for the ones that get returned for warranty repair or replacement, Denon is between a rock and a hard place, because it’s often difficult to get the customer to understand that they bought a fake.
@adr5 @silveropal3 I didn’t specifically say Denon was getting burned, just that they won’t honor the warranty on anything not purchased through an authorized dealer. Though my statement could have been interpreted that way. Counterfeit products I suspect mainly hurt a company’s reputation by their brand being associated with garbage. Particularly if people don’t send the thing in for service and find out it’s a fake then they will always feel like that brand sucks and then tell all their friends. No bueno.
@adr5 @werehatrack Precisely. A company I used to work for had a huge problem with this so much so that they started a whole department dedicated to detecting fake packaging by analyzing the printing. We got really good at it and even began contracting out the service.
No way is a Shark stick vac worth $200. $400! You are out of your fucking mind. I have a refurbished Shark stick that I reluctantly paid $100 for from Woot. It has a removable battery pack. It does not have the screen and associated electronics which are just unnecessarily stupid. Shark vacs work well, but FU Shark if you think I’ll pay $200 for a stick vac.
@MarkML Well, Walmart is a scam anyway. They are using their marketing and subsequent fake reputation to fool people into thinking they are getting a good deal.
@MarkML @tweezak Can I buy car warranties on there yet? Or will they just know when i need one and call me daily like Im already used to?!
@JvB @MarkML @tweezak
Most of my daily calls are those ESL-sounding people who want me to tell them my SSAN or CC #'s so they can “verify” them. Lately getting a lot of calls from the “Amazon Fraud Department”, questioning the $2000 charge for an Apple computer I just purchased. NOT. I told one caller I didn’t know they had such a department and never ordered anything from that department, and got rudely hung up on.
I do my best to play senile in as long a conversation as I can get them into, before they hang up on me, just for my own yucks, and maybe to convince them to remove me from their call lists.
Many times, if they want me to read my number from my SS card, I tell them I’ll have to go find it. I love when they tell me to “take your time”. That’s when I put the phone down and get back to what I was doing, without hanging up. Once I picked up the phone after about 20 minutes and the person was still waiting on me.
Also fun is when they ask for my wife by name, who is in Alzheimer’s care. I say I’ll go get her, it’ll take a few minutes, and again place the phone down.
If I ever learn the SSANs of any members from Congress, I’ll give those out, and maybe said critters will finally get off their fat arses and do something important for a change.
I get a lot of calls showing a local phone # on the Caller ID. If I’m not in a mood to prank them, I’ll interrupt their spiel to ask where they are calling from. And of course they have no idea what number was generated by their automated dialers. I then tell them no way I’m doing any business with a company that lies to me. It’s amazing how many of those “local” numbers give an Out of Service message when you dial them.
My solution is simple: Every outgoing call costs the caller $1, payable to the call recipient, kind of like a “900-” call, even for “Friends and Family”. (Then all those calls from Moms and Mother-in-Laws and ex-SOs will be much more appreciated. [Maybe it should be $2, after all this inflation.] If you legitimately call each other equally, you should average breaking even.) And older people would have a much-needed source of additional income from these calls. I average more than a half-dozen “junk” calls a day. And those are just the ones I’m home for.) Calls to medical facilities or public services should be exempt.
@JvB @MarkML @phendrick @tweezak Junk calls… locally xfinity (my internet) calls telling me they are trying to update my modem.
I own my own modem so they don’t update it. Knowing what they were up to from what my next door neighbor who almost fell for it (did not log into the website they gave him) I decided to play along. So they claim the are going to reset your modem and of course nothing happens. Repeat a second time. So then they tell you to log into a website. I pretend to try to do that and tell them that it says 'can not establish a secure connection to the server". They have you try several times.
After wasting nearly 20 min of their time they get frustrated. I tell them I know this is a scam and I have just won points on a website that is having a contest for the most number of minutes we can get scammers to spend with us. I got recalled several days later (these are both fake numbers) and summarized the scam for them. Surprisingly the guy who answered admitted that is exactly what they tell people and then hung up. I haven’t been called since so I must have been removed from their list.
@JvB @Kidsandliz @MarkML @phendrick @tweezak I’ve gotten calls on work phones.
I’ve got a lot of rage stored up, and as these are not humans, I let loose with the most vile things that I can think of. Rather cathartic.
They hang up. I call back until they block me. And keep going.
Sadly, the work phones seldom get these calls anymore.
@MarkML Refurb Shark stick vacs for $100 are not uncommon, and something we’ve offered before. New just costs more, and some models like this one are more than others due to upgraded features. (Shark has a ridiculous amount of vacuum models)
@JvB @Kidsandliz @MarkML @tweezak
I’ve now had 8 junk calls for today already, none of which I answered, as I was just not in the mood to increase my blood pressure.
@Kidsandliz Is there such a website for baiting scammers? Sign me up.
@EvilSmoo Takes all the fun out of it with all these bot and AI calls. Can’t even cuss out the evil (no offense meant) perpetrators.
@EvilSmoo @JvB @MarkML @phendrick @tweezak No website for points for baiting scammers. I made that up when I talked to them. Well let me rephrase that - I made it up but who knows. Maybe there is one. Didn’t look. The only website involved was the one they were trying to get me to go to so they could rip me off.
@phendrick My father likes screwing with them too…makes them think theyre close to landing the fish, only to be disappointed
@JvB @MarkML @phendrick Check out Jim Browning on YouTube. He’s my hero.
I hope this isn’t the start of Shark Week!!!
Well this isn’t a shark that will eat much at one meal since the stomach looks on the small side. Also this is unlikely to stand up on it’s own since the dust bin is up high. On the other hand usually sharks do a good job (I have one I bought refurbished years ago on meh which is still going strong).
I bought a Shark Vertex cordless vac from Amazon, very similar to this vac, except no digital screen on head unit (which is just something else to fail), BUT it has 2 removable batteries, a must for any cordless vac, as they are all about the battery, once battery fails you have plastic on a stick! I grabbed it for about $230 on Amazon Warehouse deal (open box, damaged box, returned etc), it was in perfect condition, never been used. I love it! I have a cat and it picks up tons of hair and other dirt. Very easy to use and with 2 batteries I have plenty of power to clean entire house. Highly recommend!
@UncleMel
Man, I wish we could train our lazy cats to do that.
@macromeh The cats here try to “help” by batting small bits of trash and litter under the furniture. The fact that they also create a large percentage of the small bits of trash and litter is not at all a mitigating datum in their favor.
These things are always so great until the proprietary battery life is over. Then, the whole thing ends up in a landfill and you need to buy another whole vacuum.
FWIW … Shark makes a version or two of this model with replaceable batteries. It’s pretty spendy, starting around $300, but probably the way to go
I can’t find reviews/info specifically for the IZ640H. I am mainly only finding results for the IZ662H and IZ682H models. Does anyone know if the IZ640H is just a Walmart specific but identical version of these other models?
I have one of the refurbished sharks sticks from a drop in the last year. Frankly it kinda sucks, and not in a good way. Suction is very low for how big it is. However, the standing shark vacuum I got around the same time was incredible
Not that it helps anyone today, but for context, Woot had the Dyson v11 cordless vacuum, factory refurbished, on sale yesterday for $299. So the shark direction saves you $100, but that sale sold out yesterday.
What happened to my free shipping
@Hud11 contact support.