@Lynnerizer@therealjrn i don’t think i’ll feel like i truly belong until I score one in the old school fuko way of having the fasting clicking finger. that’s unlikely to ever happen, so i’ll happily accept the welcome for now. fingers crossed i don’t get anything worth keeping
The ONE GOOD THING about the Meh-rathons these days is that we can go back and see/buy previous offers! And possibly that your sleep schedule isn’t interrupted for those who that matters to but then that would make it two good things…
Today just happened to be the first day in months I slept for many hours continuously… And it was BEFORE checking Meh!
Maybe I should have said ONE OF the good things instead of the one good thing. Hmmm At least I noticed the Meh-rathon before noon!
It has been a long time since I ordered an IRK. If the powers that be have replacement remotes for ecovacs deebot sitting around, you would think they would be useless, but not to this guy! Fingers crossed something will be usable for white elephants and not trashcan weights.
I’m hoping I can get the 15 deal for buying 1x 15$ item - that wasn’t clear, do I need to buy 2 items? it gives the 2 or 3 or 5 examples… I don’t want to buy more than one deal…
If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least $15.00 (pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.
@caffeineguy “Two different offerings in the meh-rathon” – this means two different products with a $15.00 subtotal each. We go on to state “See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as one of your purchases.”
@troy nope-- still ambiguous- two different products is one qualification; another is that they total $15. Each wasn’t part of your requirement. If someone bought one of those $10 webcams from one listing, and then second, spent $12 on the “surge protected 5-device charger”, then they’d have two different offerings (check!), totaling at least $15 ($22, Check!). If you had stated “each totaling at least $15” then I’d agree.
The example listed isn’t mutually exclusive; Sure "Buy three of them [at $5] to total $15 to qualify as one of your ‘purchases’, but now you’ve met the $15 total, so one would only need a second purchase of any amount to qualify the second clause (“two different offerings”).
Lazy copywriter this time…
@caffeineguy@troy I’m with the quibblers here, I absolutely read that as “two items totalling $15 before tax and shipping” and NOT “Two items that each were at least $15 before tax and shipping”. I would absolutely not have ordered the IRK had I understood the requirement to be as restated here. I’ll toss Support a note to cancel it. $30 is no bueno.
@caffeineguy@werehatrack I put the below snippet from our writeup into ChatGPT and here’s what it told me. We’ll try to provide more examples for more clarity in future instances.
If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least
$15.00 (pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your
IRK purchase.
See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as
one of your purchases. Buy from five different offers, but your
subtotal is $14.99 or less? No refund.
I asked it:
How did you deduce that it was two offers and $15 for each offer, not
$15 combined?
Here’s exactly how I deduced it — and why the only consistent interpretation is two different offers, each hitting $15 individually:
1. The original wording
“If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least $15.00 … you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.”
The key ambiguity is what “totaling at least $15” modifies:
Does it mean the two offerings combined must total $15?
Or does it mean each offering must total $15?
Alone, that line could go either way — until you look at the next examples.
2. The examples given remove the ambiguity
Example #1
“See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as one of your purchases.”
This tells us:
A single purchase (one offer) must reach $15 to count.
Therefore, a single offer below $15 does not qualify as one purchase.
If spending across multiple offers could be combined to reach $15 total, this example would be unnecessary — a $5 offer would count automatically as part of the $15 pool. But the text specifically explains how to make a single offer qualify by buying multiples.
That only makes sense if each offer must individually hit $15.
Example #2
“Buy from five different offers, but your subtotal is $14.99 or less? No refund.”
This is the decisive part.
This says:
Even if you buy from five different offers,
If no single offer reaches $15 (i.e., everything is cheap items but no offer subtotal hits $15),
You do not qualify.
If the rule were “two offers combined must reach $15 total,” then five offers totaling $14.99 would mean:
Offer 1 + Offer 2 = more than $15? Possibly.
Or Offer 1 + Offer 2 + … Offer 5 = far more than $15.
Yet the rule says: NO refund.
Meaning:
The total spent across all offers doesn’t matter.
The only thing that matters is whether an individual offer hits the $15 threshold.
This can only mean: Each qualifying offer must independently reach $15.
3. Logical consistency check
Let’s test both interpretations:
Interpretation A: Combined total must be $15
If you buy five cheap items from five different offers totaling $14.99:
Combined total = $14.99 → no refund (matches example).
But if you buy three $5 items from one offer:
Combined total (just that offer) = $15
BUT YOU ONLY BOUGHT ONE OFFER → would this qualify?
If “combined total” is all that matters, you only bought one offer totaling $15 — meaning you would qualify with just one offer.
But the rule says “two different offerings” must be purchased.
This interpretation falls apart.
Interpretation B: Each offer must individually reach $15
Buying three $5 items (within one offer) is required to make that offer count — matches example #1.
Buying from 5 offers totaling $14.99 does not make any one of them hit $15 — matches example #2.
You need two such qualifying offers—which is consistent.
This is the only interpretation that fits both examples.
Conclusion
From the examples and phrasing, the rules logically require:
Two separate offers purchased.
Each of those offers must individually subtotal at least $15 (pre-tax, pre-shipping).
The examples only make sense under that interpretation — otherwise, they contradict themselves.
@troy@werehatrack Logical consistency check still wrong… And doesn’t address combined total of two different offerings (each less than $15) totaling at least $15. Of course ‘example 2’ doesn’t qualify, the total is still less than $15.
@werehatrack I might just cancel all my sub $15 orders on principle. The only thing lazier than the copywriters including an example to solve the abmiguity is @troy asking ChatGPT a loaded question without using proper logic analysis. Perhaps they asked ChatGPT to do this writeup which is why he’s in this mess.
“If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least $15.00 (pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.”
Two different offerings is a hard requirement
[Something ambiguous] totaling $15 is a second requirement.
Flawed Examples Provided:
a) Five different offers totaling only $14.99 (#1: Yes, #2:No) only tests that a grand total less than $15 is disqualifying, which should have been implied, because it was less than $15.
b) “See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as one of your purchases.”
So yes, this is one purchase, But it doesn’t say or imply that the second purchase needs to be more than $15.
One could use ChatGPT’s failed logical analysis to say that the pointless example of $14.99 for 5 items means that the grand total less than $15 is what was being tested by the example. In which case, the counter example, 5 items totaling just over $15 would be qualifying.
Implied Disqualifying Examples:
c) A single purchase (any qty) totaling less than $15
d) A single purchase (any qty) totaling more than $15
e) Single $5 item and a different $5 item totaling less than $15 (#1:Y #2:N)
Ambiguous Cases
f) Qty 3 $5 items in the example plus any other purchase. (2+ purchases, and totaling more than $15)
g) $10 item and different $10 offering (#1:Y #2:Y)
h) Qty 3 $5 items from one offering (example)and any other purchase of any value
@caffeineguy@werehatrack My question to ChatGPT was not loaded in the slightest – it was phrased as a curious customer. Here is a screenshot of the dialogue prior to the lengthy response above.
@troy Fine-- don’t admit the mistake. I cancelled 3 pending orders… One was a single $12 overpriced power strip I bought first and don’t need, Second was a pair of $9 items that I don’t really need, and Third was a pair of $10 cameras I was going to test on my 3D printer. For the latter two, I only bought 2 because so you had a little more margin since y’all were paying shipping anyway.
@troy Even ChatGPT can’t decide…
“If I buy 3 items from a single offering for $5 and then a single item from a second offering for $1 does it qualify?”
No, that would not qualify for the refund based on the terms provided. Here’s why:
First, you bought 3 items from a single offering for $5 each. This gives you a total of $15 for that offering.
Second, you bought a single item from a second offering for $1.
So your total across both offerings is $16. While this is above $15, the key point is that the refund condition requires two different offerings, and those offerings must total at least $15 before tax and shipping.
Since you purchased three items from a single offering for $15, this doesn’t meet the “two different offerings” requirement. You need to have two separate offerings, each with a distinct purchase, for the total to qualify for the refund.
For example, if you had bought:
1 item from Offering A for $10
1 item from Offering B for $5
That would total $15, and you would qualify for the refund.
So, in your case, you’d need to buy two different offerings, each with at least $5 (totaling $15 or more) to qualify for the refund on your IRK purchase.
@troy Prompt: “the prior response about a $10 purchase and a $5 was contradictory”
You’re right! I see how that could be confusing, and I appreciate you pointing it out. Let me clarify that.
The terms say you need to buy two different offerings with a total of at least $15. Based on that wording, the interpretation is that the total from your entire order (not per offering) must meet or exceed $15. So, let’s break it down clearly:
You need to buy at least two different offerings, and the total price of all the items across those offerings should be $15 or more to qualify for the refund.
In the example I gave earlier (a $10 item from Offering A and a $5 item from Offering , the total would be $15, which meets the requirement. But the important part is that each item must come from a different offering.
So, if you purchased:
3 items for $5 each from Offering A ($15 total)
1 item for $1 from Offering B
You’d have two different offerings (Offering A and Offering , and your total purchase price would be $16, which qualifies for the refund. You would meet the condition of two different offerings totaling at least $15, and you’d get your $15 refund on the IRK purchase.
In short: Yes, if your total is $15 or more across two different offerings, you qualify for the refund. The specific distribution of items between offerings doesn’t matter as long as the total for the two offerings combined is $15 or more.
@caffeineguy My guess is that it is missing the context of the example provided on the sale which makes the difference:
See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as
one of your purchases.
This example indicates that, in order for a purchase to qualify as “one” of the “two different offerings”, the total must be $15.00. Therefore, a single purchase totaling anything less than $15.00 is irrelevant.
We will provide more examples for more clarity in future sales.
@caffeineguy@troy I think you should just make it simpler in future sales. I think you guys are getting so tricky with the discounts that it’s just making people give up in disgust. I would …
@caffeineguy@Kyeh@troy I have a solution to all of this. Just send me the money for anything you bought instead of meh and then you won’t have to worry about what Chat GT says or doesn’t say. And you won’t have to worry about regret with an irk either. You win. I win. Right?
November has otherwise been extra regrettable already, but when I ended up buying some 'thon stuff that came up to more than the required amount, I decided that an IRK could hardly make things worse. So I did what I had vowed never to do again.
@werehatrack I wish I’d read this thread Saturday. I too interpreted the IRK description as requiring 2 different purchases, with a total for all (not for each item) of $15 or more. And it’s too late to cancel now.
The sad bit is I could have just doubled my Meh shirt order and been fine, and would have done so… but I thought the instructions were pretty clear that what counted was purchases totalling $15, not each over $15.
@troy, maybe if this many people read the instructions as meaning something different than you intended, Meh should offer to honor it. Or let us cancel our orders.
@brainmist In the past, I’ve often made a point of asking for clarification on the IRK rebate policies, and have seen them changed early more than once. This time, I didn’t microscopically analyze them, and went with the first impression.
Somebody with a rules-lawyer proclivity needs to read those things before they get posted, and make damn sure they are NOT AMBIGUOUS AT ALL. But it has to be a staffer, because it involves internal company information, so it can’t be me.
It’d be interesting to toss this, not to ChatGPT, but to, say, math teachers who’ve had to write unambiguous word problems. Internet-in-a-blender seems likely to contain some crap.
@brainmist@werehatrack Or maybe, they should not try every stupid rebate game (that changes from month to month) to sell an IRK and just pick a price, or just make them limited offers in the moment like they used to.
@caffeineguy@werehatrack I don’t mind the games… it keeps things interesting, and I understand the reasoning behind them (incentivizing impulse buys of mehrathon offerings). But yeah, an extra proof-read (NOT by ChatGPT) would have helped here. If they’d written:
“If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon, EACH TOTALING at least $15.00 (pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.”
That would have been clear, I think. But “two different offerings totaling at least $15” seems very much to be stating the two offerings will be totaled together.
Anyway, this poor dead horse has been beaten into the afterlife. sets wreath on grave
Signed up as a member first time just to save on shipping for irk Trying to take the product description to heart and suppress my anticipation about it haha. But it feels a bit like how I used to get excited before getting subscription boxes (not into those anymore, gotta be more frugal now) but just one time irk as a treat for myself for the brutal year most everyone likely had including me? Count me in…
(we know we all deserve it! Happy Thanksgiving!)
@customers there has been some confusion on the parameters to receive a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase. The requirement was:
Purchase from two different offers that each have a subtotal of at least $15.00
This means a $30.00 minimum spend on Meh, assuming you made two $15.00 purchases. If you met this requirement, congrats! You will be getting a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.
If you did not meet this requirement and felt in any way misled, please feel free to visit your SideDeal orders page and/or your meh orders page and cancel what orders you’d like. If your orders can’t be canceled on these pages, please write into support and we’ll do our best to accommodate requests.
@troy thanks for giving us an option to walk some of these non-qualifying orders back but I feel like the important clarifying text could have been useful at the time of purchase
@troy That was not the ‘requirement’, that was what you ‘intended’ the requirement to be. The description was ambiguous, and not just in one place. There were at least 5 different ways you could have made that clear and/or solved this problem…
used the term ‘each’ in your definition of the constraints (adding each to one of 2-3 places would have made it clear)
used a more clarifying example than a misleading one that’s 5 orders just short of $15.
When asked about it, still during the meh-ra-thon, you could have updated the description and made cancellation easier
simply accepted and admitted your mistake and addressed the ambiguity in favor of the customer.
MEH CAN STOP PLAYING STUPID GAMES WITH EVER CHANGING IRK REBATE OFFERINGS
@troy Your intended way is the way I read it, but agree it could have been worded better to start with. Or maybe have had an example of 3 different item purchases of $14.99 each NOT qualifying. (That’s why Schaum’s Outlines have so many example problems…)
English tends to be vague or ambiguous at times.
(Why we have wars and lawyers. Fie on both.)
Motto:
Don’t speak so as to be understood; rather speak so as to not be misunderstood.
Holy crap what a bait and switch. I bought over $50 of stuff across 3 orders but because it was one order of 2x$20, one order of $10, and one order of $8, I don’t qualify for the $15 refund?
I bought a shirt and socks to just barely hit over the what I believed was the required $15 total for the IRK refund. I was able to cancel the shirt. Had to email support to try to cancel the socks but they just replied saying it was already in process of being shipped.
@lyssia yup, I was able to cancel the IRK and one of the items I bought, but not the other. it’s too late to cancel the order even though the clarification just happened.
God I miss the old WOOT when you had items that actually where worth waiting up for.
The wording on this IRK was obviously poorly written if it needed clarification days later.
Trying to decide if I am going to cancel.
From the IRK page for this “misunderstanding”,
"If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least $15.00 (pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.
See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as one of your purchases. Buy from five different offers, but your subtotal is $14.99 or less? No refund."
Your qualifier states that the two different offerings must total $15.00. It did not say EACH. You added that if your reply above. The above from the IRK page can be read either as two purchases totaling $15 or as the way you intended. Only in your example, does it say one of your purchases. A lawyer could have a fun time with this! It’s kind of like what time is 12 pm?
@1reeves The main lynchpin is that “Buy five different offers, but your subtotal is $14.99 or less” additionally implies adding the orders together to arrive at the $15 total. I’m really more disappointed @troy doubled down on their mistake.
See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as one of your purchases. Buy from five different offers, but your subtotal is $14.99 or less? No refund.
What this statement implies is that a $14.99 order doesn’t count as one of your two purchases.
When have we ever sold 5 different offers where your total across all offers could even be less than $14.99?
Again, we will be thorough in future explanations with a nauseating amount of examples so there is no confusion. Having a statement that “implies” anything is no bueno.
@caffeineguy@troy
What @caffineguy said!
One word in the first paragraph was needed to make this clear. It would not even need your second paragraph. Quit trying to be so witty and just be clear. If you had said EACH, you would have saved this being an issue.
Here, I fixed it for you:
If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least $15.00 EACH(pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.
Otherwise you have to read the example to really understand.
“See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as one of your purchases.”
I was confused. I thought it was contradictory because you had already said that we needed to purchase from different offers. Not in those words but that’s what was said, and, that is how it’s been for a while now. I feel bad that I didn’t ask for clarification but at the time I wasn’t planning on buying anything besides the IRK. …things didn’t go as planned though, apparently, not for any of us!
It seems that a lot of Mehtizens got their feathers ruffled here and it’s looking like you’re not in the mindset that “the customer is always right”, nor are you going to float this error/major misunderstanding in our direction. So… I’m thinking maybe, just MAYBE you could beef up our IRKs with a little something extra, a $10 coupon or a few extra extras!? You know, put a little GIVE in this ThanksGIVING IRK! What do you say @troy, is THAT a possibility?
Get a shipping notification and then get the email about you can cancel if pissed. So much fun. Luckily I think I fell in the parameters so should be good but so confusing. Guessing the IRK will be extra regrettable to boot…
Cancelled the IRK, the last one I got was worthless anyway, and one of the two items I ordered which was a t-shirt to rep MEH.
Still taking one item as it was for the wife. I may be done with MEH.
I agree with others, I bought an item for $24.99, and added a t-shirt to qualify as having a second item.
Since the first item was over $15, I only needed to purchase a second item to fill out the requirements of “If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least $15.00 (pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.”
@lonocat Basically what I did. And the sad bit is, I’d have gotten 2 t-shirts (I like advertising meh, as it is coincidentally my mental state most days). It just seemed that wasn’t the requirement.
I took it to mean 2 orders over $15 qualified, but if even more orders than that can combine to 2 over $15 that also qualifies: a $19.99 order plus an $8 order and a $10 order. Is this not true?
@caffeineguy@troy but even in his response here he mentions the difficulty of 5 orders being less than $15… so I guess two orders totaling $28 plus another over $15 works? The original wording is unclear whether it needs to be 3 units of a single item or could be 3 totally different orders that together could count as 1 of the 2 needed.
I’m a technical writer by trade. It’s very important in my profession to be clear and unambiguous. I read it “incorrectly,” so I bought another (more expensive) thing that I was wavering on because it made sense in tandem with the IRK. Yesterday I got the “clarifying” email and sent a message about cancelling my larger order because I didn’t have the clickable cancel option. I never heard back, but much later got a shipping email. This debacle is very irritating.
Quick update: IRK refunds are in the works — please allow until 12/2 for everything to finish processing.
This whole thing ended up way more confusing than intended, so thanks for sticking with us. I’ve already put in the request to set the qualifier at $15.00 total across at least 2 orders placed throughout the day, and we’re counting the earlier-in-the-week stuff too, even if it wasn’t technically “Mehrathon.” Because… come on.
Hopefully this gets us out of angry-mob territory and @Barney can take a break from pitchfork duty.
@troy So what’s happening? I was confused also and did not meet the intended qualifier for my IRK plus 2 other items. I did not post my complaint but did not cancel any item.
@troy how fast can your developers add an uncancel button? (I had 5 orders with at least 3 of them totaling $15 each, but cancelled 3 lesser ones on principle. )
@caffeineguy If by developers you mean me setting up your own unique regret kit, about 20 minutes (will whisper you the offer link). I knocked a buck off so you couldn’t resist.
@troy Thanks for working to find a good spot to land on this. If you want to uncancel my cancels, great! If you’re already in a fetal position, crying brokenly in a corner as you re-examine the life choices that brought you here? Um. No worries!
@troy LOL, that’s pretty hilarious, but you forget to exclude the VMP discount code! Mwwwwuuuhhaaaahhhh!!! Sold out!
Surely we could have convinced a few others into that fascinating 7 stages of grief regret bucket… shock&denial regret, painful regret, anger, bargaining regret, depression regret, the upward turn regret, reconstruction regret, regret of working through for a bunch of useless items, and finally accepting my regret and hope for future regret…
@troy Thanks for taking an honest look at all of this & making an honorable call. Businesses, however “casual”, are not just storefronts. The people that work there are just as important to the operation & how they treat their customers/employees goes a long way toward whether I want to interact with them.
Unfortunately I’ve already cancelled the items I could including the irk & the uncancelable item has already shipped. If resuscitating those would keep me in the deal then I’m for it.
@troy Too late!
Should have been handled better from the start.
I already cancelled my 1 of my 2 orders and my IRK.
Did enough orders get cancelled that it hurt?
I even showed you how this should have been written and you don’t even mention me in your mea culpa after directly responding to me. Shame!
@omally@1reeves@drakes94 I feared there would be some further frustrations from those who already took action to cancel their orders resulting from my first notice – I apologize! Unfortunately no way to avoid that in attempt to calm the pitchforkers, and it’s okay if you still have yours out. I will look into your orders and see what’s possible.
@caffeineguy OK new caffeineguy bundle is live for him to go buck wild with a max of 10 orders. Of course available for everyone else, too… if you’re weird like that
@troy Okay, I was a little frustrated but thank you for looking at this from our perspective. Let me know if you need anything from my end to redo the orders I cancelled.
Wow, This extra regret bundle now has a bottle of screen cleaner to sweeten up the deal! Is that so we can read things easier on future deals @troy ?
Surely someone else wants to share my regret and let them test combined shipping and bundles
Use us as a focus group. Create a thread (and pin it) and post different ways to work the various ways meh words irks. Make the thread stating that. Then make different posts in the thread the working with wording for the various variations of irks meh uses. Instruct us to reply to the specific message in the thread (so all comments on one working stay as a reply to that specific working (realizing that reading instructions is not some people’s best skill and you will get some people who will criticize different buying versions of irks) with what we think it means for buying, any criticisms, suggestions…
Then, after a while, create a new thread doing the same thing with the updated “edited” version of each version of irk instructions to see how people interpret them.
Then have a library of these curated, edited, hopefully more idiot proof (idiot from the meh side and customer side) templates of instructions, Then all you need to do is a copy/paste of the appropriate instructions each irk (labeled as instructions to get the discounted irk, refund or whatever), being careful that the added usual snark that goes with a specific irk stays away from anything having to do with instructions, can’t be even remotely construed as instructions, etc.
And while I am at it… have a way in “Your account” that if you give us coupon codes they post there with the expiration date and vanish when used…yes I know you could say our disorganization is not your problem but on the flip side why not cut back on customer service requests to tell you the codes you can’t find and make customers less irked?
We find out about them multiple ways and they aren’t always easy to re-find. Clearly meh has a list of who gets them or anyone reading about them on a thread could use the code. Unless the goal is that you don’t want us to use them please make them easier to find. Give your IT folks a challenge to figure out how to do that please.
Thanks!
Oh, and by the way, my fee for professional advice using my degrees is a $100 off coupon for use on meh where the unused portion remains to be used until gone. (yeah I know that only would happen in a different universe or dimension than the one we are trapped in now )
I cancelled my IRK, but wasn’t able to cancel one of the other items, so I ended up keeping both of them without the IRK I had originally planned on. I bought two orders over $15 each, which would have qualified me for the IRK discount. Since I cancelled the IRK, the discount no longer applied — but I kept the items I actually wanted. Not happy about not getting the discount IRK.
DUMB QUESTION…I’m new around here…is it too late to purchase the 2 $15+ items for the discount? I purchased the IRK for the first time and already regret it lol
This was by far the worst IRK I have ever bought and I have a ton of them. 1 t-shirt, a IRK bag and some made in china crapola indoor christmas decorations… I thought the purpose of the IRK was regret, no to be pissed off as Meh.com just ripped me off.
@Clark But isn’t being pissed off the ultimate form of regret? After opening my early November IRK, I could say I was overflowing with regret and, I suppose, somewhat pissed off.
@ItalianScallion No I don’t think so, back when this was a Fukubukuro it was supposed to be a fun thing with random stuff that may or may not be worth the $5 spent. Now these crap boxes cost $15 after you buy other stuff to lower the price and its not even close to that value. The T-shirts suck now when they used to be good… This whole experiment was a success at first but now trying to turn Meh into a moneymaker is turning the IRK back into a literal bag of crap (Japanese Fukubukuro).
@troy I had canceled my IRK because I hadn’t met the threshold that I had thought I met (I got the bedtime drink mixes and a shirt), but I didn’t get a special email. I did keep the drink order, but canceled the shirt because I didn’t want a wearable reminder of the IRK that could have been.
What’s Included?
It is a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Warranty
Throw it in the trash
Estimated Delivery
Friday, Dec 5 - Monday, Dec 8
/image deprived-easy-goose
/giphy deprived-easy-goose
/showme a deprived easy goose in psychedelic claymation
@llangley I like the giphy.
After the last IRK, you’d think I’d have learned my lesson, but noooo…
/showme passe-mammoth-drug
@mediocrebot I’m confused. Where did this come from?
@ItalianScallion @mediocrebot
AI!
/giphy gleaming-encouraging-sweater
this will be my first time, be gentle
/giphy playful-abashed-hummingbird
@sagergen First time!
/giphy one of us
@sagergen @therealjrn
/giphy WELCOME!
@Lynnerizer @therealjrn i don’t think i’ll feel like i truly belong until I score one in the old school fuko way of having the fasting clicking finger. that’s unlikely to ever happen, so i’ll happily accept the welcome for now. fingers crossed i don’t get anything worth keeping
@Lynnerizer @sagergen Wait, you don’t want to get anything worth keeping, or you don’t not want to get anything worth keeping? ¯\(ツ)/¯
@therealjrn you read that right! It wouldn’t feel right if it wasn’t just all junk. maybe i’m just being masochistic. I’m just in it for the fun
@sagergen @therealjrn
Well I hope you are disappointed and you get something super expensive that you LOVE and would have NEVER bought for yourself!
The ONE GOOD THING about the Meh-rathons these days is that we can go back and see/buy previous offers! And possibly that your sleep schedule isn’t interrupted for those who that matters to but then that would make it two good things…
Today just happened to be the first day in months I slept for many hours continuously… And it was BEFORE checking Meh!
Maybe I should have said ONE OF the good things instead of the one good thing. Hmmm At least I noticed the Meh-rathon before noon!
/giphy courteous-underrated-farmer
@Lynnerizer Congratulations on getting a lot of sleep!
@Kyeh
Thanks! 
I know, right!
ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ
I all ready regret it.
/giphy likely-mummified-recess
It has been a long time since I ordered an IRK. If the powers that be have replacement remotes for ecovacs deebot sitting around, you would think they would be useless, but not to this guy! Fingers crossed something will be usable for white elephants and not trashcan weights.
/giphy rough-feeble-coach
@KNmeh7
I’m hoping I can get the 15 deal for buying 1x 15$ item - that wasn’t clear, do I need to buy 2 items? it gives the 2 or 3 or 5 examples… I don’t want to buy more than one deal…
@00null00
@troy yeah not that impressed, not sure spending more makes me more here meh - I’ll just keep the irk and not get the ‘discount’ this time
@00null00 And it has to be actually at or above $15.00 before tax and shipping in order to qualify. $14.99 Is Right Out.
@00null00 @troy The wording is still ambiguous— One offering of $10 pretax, and another for $5 is $15 total pretax.
@caffeineguy “Two different offerings in the meh-rathon” – this means two different products with a $15.00 subtotal each. We go on to state “See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as one of your purchases.”
@troy nope-- still ambiguous- two different products is one qualification; another is that they total $15. Each wasn’t part of your requirement. If someone bought one of those $10 webcams from one listing, and then second, spent $12 on the “surge protected 5-device charger”, then they’d have two different offerings (check!), totaling at least $15 ($22, Check!). If you had stated “each totaling at least $15” then I’d agree.
The example listed isn’t mutually exclusive; Sure "Buy three of them [at $5] to total $15 to qualify as one of your ‘purchases’, but now you’ve met the $15 total, so one would only need a second purchase of any amount to qualify the second clause (“two different offerings”).
Lazy copywriter this time…
@caffeineguy @troy I’m with the quibblers here, I absolutely read that as “two items totalling $15 before tax and shipping” and NOT “Two items that each were at least $15 before tax and shipping”. I would absolutely not have ordered the IRK had I understood the requirement to be as restated here. I’ll toss Support a note to cancel it. $30 is no bueno.
@caffeineguy @werehatrack I put the below snippet from our writeup into ChatGPT and here’s what it told me. We’ll try to provide more examples for more clarity in future instances.
I asked it:
Here’s exactly how I deduced it — and why the only consistent interpretation is two different offers, each hitting $15 individually:
1. The original wording
The key ambiguity is what “totaling at least $15” modifies:
Alone, that line could go either way — until you look at the next examples.
2. The examples given remove the ambiguity
Example #1
This tells us:
If spending across multiple offers could be combined to reach $15 total, this example would be unnecessary — a $5 offer would count automatically as part of the $15 pool. But the text specifically explains how to make a single offer qualify by buying multiples.
That only makes sense if each offer must individually hit $15.
Example #2
This is the decisive part.
This says:
If the rule were “two offers combined must reach $15 total,” then five offers totaling $14.99 would mean:
Yet the rule says: NO refund.
Meaning:
This can only mean:
Each qualifying offer must independently reach $15.
3. Logical consistency check
Let’s test both interpretations:
Interpretation A: Combined total must be $15
If you buy five cheap items from five different offers totaling $14.99:
But if you buy three $5 items from one offer:
If “combined total” is all that matters, you only bought one offer totaling $15 — meaning you would qualify with just one offer.
But the rule says “two different offerings” must be purchased.
This interpretation falls apart.
Interpretation B: Each offer must individually reach $15
This is the only interpretation that fits both examples.
Conclusion
From the examples and phrasing, the rules logically require:
Two separate offers purchased.
Each of those offers must individually subtotal at least $15 (pre-tax, pre-shipping).
The examples only make sense under that interpretation — otherwise, they contradict themselves.
@troy @werehatrack Logical consistency check still wrong… And doesn’t address combined total of two different offerings (each less than $15) totaling at least $15. Of course ‘example 2’ doesn’t qualify, the total is still less than $15.
@werehatrack I might just cancel all my sub $15 orders on principle. The only thing lazier than the copywriters including an example to solve the abmiguity is @troy asking ChatGPT a loaded question without using proper logic analysis. Perhaps they asked ChatGPT to do this writeup which is why he’s in this mess.
“If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least $15.00 (pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.”
Flawed Examples Provided:
a) Five different offers totaling only $14.99 (#1: Yes, #2:No) only tests that a grand total less than $15 is disqualifying, which should have been implied, because it was less than $15.
b) “See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as one of your purchases.”
So yes, this is one purchase, But it doesn’t say or imply that the second purchase needs to be more than $15.
One could use ChatGPT’s failed logical analysis to say that the pointless example of $14.99 for 5 items means that the grand total less than $15 is what was being tested by the example. In which case, the counter example, 5 items totaling just over $15 would be qualifying.
Implied Disqualifying Examples:
c) A single purchase (any qty) totaling less than $15
d) A single purchase (any qty) totaling more than $15
e) Single $5 item and a different $5 item totaling less than $15 (#1:Y #2:N)
Ambiguous Cases
f) Qty 3 $5 items in the example plus any other purchase. (2+ purchases, and totaling more than $15)
g) $10 item and different $10 offering (#1:Y #2:Y)
h) Qty 3 $5 items from one offering (example)and any other purchase of any value
@caffeineguy @werehatrack My question to ChatGPT was not loaded in the slightest – it was phrased as a curious customer. Here is a screenshot of the dialogue prior to the lengthy response above.
@troy Fine-- don’t admit the mistake. I cancelled 3 pending orders… One was a single $12 overpriced power strip I bought first and don’t need, Second was a pair of $9 items that I don’t really need, and Third was a pair of $10 cameras I was going to test on my 3D printer. For the latter two, I only bought 2 because so you had a little more margin since y’all were paying shipping anyway.
@troy Even ChatGPT can’t decide…
“If I buy 3 items from a single offering for $5 and then a single item from a second offering for $1 does it qualify?”
No, that would not qualify for the refund based on the terms provided. Here’s why:
So your total across both offerings is $16. While this is above $15, the key point is that the refund condition requires two different offerings, and those offerings must total at least $15 before tax and shipping.
Since you purchased three items from a single offering for $15, this doesn’t meet the “two different offerings” requirement. You need to have two separate offerings, each with a distinct purchase, for the total to qualify for the refund.
For example, if you had bought:
That would total $15, and you would qualify for the refund.
So, in your case, you’d need to buy two different offerings, each with at least $5 (totaling $15 or more) to qualify for the refund on your IRK purchase.
@troy Prompt: “the prior response about a $10 purchase and a $5 was contradictory”
You’re right! I see how that could be confusing, and I appreciate you pointing it out. Let me clarify that.
The terms say you need to buy two different offerings with a total of at least $15. Based on that wording, the interpretation is that the total from your entire order (not per offering) must meet or exceed $15. So, let’s break it down clearly:
You need to buy at least two different offerings, and the total price of all the items across those offerings should be $15 or more to qualify for the refund.
In the example I gave earlier (a $10 item from Offering A and a $5 item from Offering
, the total would be $15, which meets the requirement. But the important part is that each item must come from a different offering.
So, if you purchased:
3 items for $5 each from Offering A ($15 total)
1 item for $1 from Offering B
You’d have two different offerings (Offering A and Offering
, and your total purchase price would be $16, which qualifies for the refund. You would meet the condition of two different offerings totaling at least $15, and you’d get your $15 refund on the IRK purchase.
In short: Yes, if your total is $15 or more across two different offerings, you qualify for the refund. The specific distribution of items between offerings doesn’t matter as long as the total for the two offerings combined is $15 or more.
@caffeineguy My guess is that it is missing the context of the example provided on the sale which makes the difference:
This example indicates that, in order for a purchase to qualify as “one” of the “two different offerings”, the total must be $15.00. Therefore, a single purchase totaling anything less than $15.00 is irrelevant.
We will provide more examples for more clarity in future sales.
@troy
@caffeineguy @troy My head is spinning
from all of these statements!!
/showme someone whose head is spinning from conflicting statements from others trying to prove a point in a discussion.
@caffeineguy @troy I think you should just make it simpler in future sales. I think you guys are getting so tricky with the discounts that it’s just making people give up in disgust. I would …
@caffeineguy @Kyeh @troy I have a solution to all of this. Just send me the money for anything you bought instead of meh and then you won’t have to worry about what Chat GT says or doesn’t say. And you won’t have to worry about regret with an irk either. You win. I win. Right?
November has otherwise been extra regrettable already, but when I ended up buying some 'thon stuff that came up to more than the required amount, I decided that an IRK could hardly make things worse. So I did what I had vowed never to do again.
I may have to eat those words. We shall see.
Aaaaand I’ve asked for it to be canceled. If that happens, no regrets. If not, full-on major regrets.
Success. Cancelled. No regrets
@werehatrack I wish I’d read this thread Saturday. I too interpreted the IRK description as requiring 2 different purchases, with a total for all (not for each item) of $15 or more. And it’s too late to cancel now.
The sad bit is I could have just doubled my Meh shirt order and been fine, and would have done so… but I thought the instructions were pretty clear that what counted was purchases totalling $15, not each over $15.
@troy, maybe if this many people read the instructions as meaning something different than you intended, Meh should offer to honor it. Or let us cancel our orders.
@werehatrack Managed to get the IRK and shirt canceled. So only 1/3 regret.
@brainmist In the past, I’ve often made a point of asking for clarification on the IRK rebate policies, and have seen them changed early more than once. This time, I didn’t microscopically analyze them, and went with the first impression.
Somebody with a rules-lawyer proclivity needs to read those things before they get posted, and make damn sure they are NOT AMBIGUOUS AT ALL. But it has to be a staffer, because it involves internal company information, so it can’t be me.
I have no other suggestions to make.
@werehatrack Yeah.
It’d be interesting to toss this, not to ChatGPT, but to, say, math teachers who’ve had to write unambiguous word problems. Internet-in-a-blender seems likely to contain some crap.
@brainmist @werehatrack Or maybe, they should not try every stupid rebate game (that changes from month to month) to sell an IRK and just pick a price, or just make them limited offers in the moment like they used to.
@caffeineguy @werehatrack I don’t mind the games… it keeps things interesting, and I understand the reasoning behind them (incentivizing impulse buys of mehrathon offerings). But yeah, an extra proof-read (NOT by ChatGPT) would have helped here. If they’d written:
“If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon, EACH TOTALING at least $15.00 (pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.”
That would have been clear, I think. But “two different offerings totaling at least $15” seems very much to be stating the two offerings will be totaled together.
Anyway, this poor dead horse has been beaten into the afterlife. sets wreath on grave
Signed up as a member first time just to save on shipping for irk
Trying to take the product description to heart and suppress my anticipation about it haha. But it feels a bit like how I used to get excited before getting subscription boxes (not into those anymore, gotta be more frugal now) but just one time irk as a treat for myself for the brutal year most everyone likely had including me? Count me in…
(we know we all deserve it! Happy Thanksgiving!)
@customers there has been some confusion on the parameters to receive a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase. The requirement was:
This means a $30.00 minimum spend on Meh, assuming you made two $15.00 purchases. If you met this requirement, congrats! You will be getting a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.
If you did not meet this requirement and felt in any way misled, please feel free to visit your SideDeal orders page and/or your meh orders page and cancel what orders you’d like. If your orders can’t be canceled on these pages, please write into support and we’ll do our best to accommodate requests.
@troy this was not clear at all.
@troy thanks for giving us an option to walk some of these non-qualifying orders back but I feel like the important clarifying text could have been useful at the time of purchase
@troy Any way to add on another purchase?
@troy This was not what it said. What was the stuff about buying the orders that are $5 each then?
Can we add another item at this point at it feels like terms changed? As another person asked.
@troy Being told that it’s too late to cancel orders now. Get this fixed.
@troy That was not the ‘requirement’, that was what you ‘intended’ the requirement to be. The description was ambiguous, and not just in one place. There were at least 5 different ways you could have made that clear and/or solved this problem…
@troy
@troy
@troy And then @dave says
@troy Nevermind, will cancel and buy identical items in specific quantities next time.
@troy i had a $20 dollar purchase and a $14.99 purchase…
Can we pretty please with sprinkles on top carry one penny* from the $20 to the $14.99??
(*RIP to the penny! you still have a use)
@sagergen Take a stand! Cancel them both!
@troy Your intended way is the way I read it, but agree it could have been worded better to start with. Or maybe have had an example of 3 different item purchases of $14.99 each NOT qualifying. (That’s why Schaum’s Outlines have so many example problems…)
English tends to be vague or ambiguous at times.
(Why we have wars and lawyers. Fie on both.)
Motto:
Don’t speak so as to be understood; rather speak so as to not be misunderstood.
Holy crap what a bait and switch. I bought over $50 of stuff across 3 orders but because it was one order of 2x$20, one order of $10, and one order of $8, I don’t qualify for the $15 refund?
What happened to the meh I used to know and love?
@vanduyne
It’s like they got taken over by VC…
@vanduyne Spend more time telling why we are wrong and stupid rather than treating us like customers.
Cancelled that so fast. C’mon Meh. This one is on you.
I bought a shirt and socks to just barely hit over the what I believed was the required $15 total for the IRK refund. I was able to cancel the shirt. Had to email support to try to cancel the socks but they just replied saying it was already in process of being shipped.
Total instant regret already.
@lyssia yup, I was able to cancel the IRK and one of the items I bought, but not the other. it’s too late to cancel the order even though the clarification just happened.
God I miss the old WOOT when you had items that actually where worth waiting up for.
The wording on this IRK was obviously poorly written if it needed clarification days later.
Trying to decide if I am going to cancel.
From the IRK page for this “misunderstanding”,
"If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least $15.00 (pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.
See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as one of your purchases. Buy from five different offers, but your subtotal is $14.99 or less? No refund."
Your qualifier states that the two different offerings must total $15.00. It did not say EACH. You added that if your reply above. The above from the IRK page can be read either as two purchases totaling $15 or as the way you intended. Only in your example, does it say one of your purchases. A lawyer could have a fun time with this! It’s kind of like what time is 12 pm?
@1reeves The main lynchpin is that “Buy five different offers, but your subtotal is $14.99 or less” additionally implies adding the orders together to arrive at the $15 total. I’m really more disappointed @troy doubled down on their mistake.
@1reeves @caffeineguy the full quote is:
What this statement implies is that a $14.99 order doesn’t count as one of your two purchases.
When have we ever sold 5 different offers where your total across all offers could even be less than $14.99?
Again, we will be thorough in future explanations with a nauseating amount of examples so there is no confusion. Having a statement that “implies” anything is no bueno.
@troy you don’t need a “nauseating amount of examples,” you need one clearly written sentence that explains the terms unambiguously.
@caffeineguy @troy
What @caffineguy said!
One word in the first paragraph was needed to make this clear. It would not even need your second paragraph. Quit trying to be so witty and just be clear. If you had said EACH, you would have saved this being an issue.
Here, I fixed it for you:
If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least $15.00 EACH(pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.
Otherwise you have to read the example to really understand.
@1reeves @caffeineguy @troy
When I first read this…
“See something for $5? Buy three of them to total $15.00 to qualify as one of your purchases.”
I was confused. I thought it was contradictory because you had already said that we needed to purchase from different offers. Not in those words but that’s what was said, and, that is how it’s been for a while now. I feel bad that I didn’t ask for clarification but at the time I wasn’t planning on buying anything besides the IRK.
…things didn’t go as planned though, apparently, not for any of us! 
It seems that a lot of Mehtizens got their feathers ruffled here and it’s looking like you’re not in the mindset that “the customer is always right”, nor are you going to float this error/major misunderstanding in our direction. So… I’m thinking maybe, just MAYBE you could beef up our IRKs with a little something extra, a $10 coupon or a few extra extras!? You know, put a little GIVE in this ThanksGIVING IRK!
What do you say @troy, is THAT a possibility? 
@1reeves Pfft. Everyone knows 12 pm is coffee time!
Especially @caffeineguy
sips coffee
Get a shipping notification and then get the email about you can cancel if pissed. So much fun. Luckily I think I fell in the parameters so should be good but so confusing. Guessing the IRK will be extra regrettable to boot…
Cancelled the IRK, the last one I got was worthless anyway, and one of the two items I ordered which was a t-shirt to rep MEH.
Still taking one item as it was for the wife. I may be done with MEH.
I was confused too. Unfortunately I would have added one item to make the cut but you can only cancel, so that sucks.
I also didn’t comply. I’m blaming those fucking gnomes. Canceling the IRK. Happy Thanksgiving… guess I’m the turkey this year
I agree with others, I bought an item for $24.99, and added a t-shirt to qualify as having a second item.
Since the first item was over $15, I only needed to purchase a second item to fill out the requirements of “If you buy two different offerings in the meh-rathon totaling at least $15.00 (pre-tax, pre-shipping), you will get a $15.00 refund on your IRK purchase.”
Please make good on the statement from the offer
@lonocat Basically what I did. And the sad bit is, I’d have gotten 2 t-shirts (I like advertising meh, as it is coincidentally my mental state most days). It just seemed that wasn’t the requirement.
I took it to mean 2 orders over $15 qualified, but if even more orders than that can combine to 2 over $15 that also qualifies: a $19.99 order plus an $8 order and a $10 order. Is this not true?
@gameboy8877 Makes sense to all of us, but not to @troy 's intention
@caffeineguy @troy but even in his response here he mentions the difficulty of 5 orders being less than $15… so I guess two orders totaling $28 plus another over $15 works? The original wording is unclear whether it needs to be 3 units of a single item or could be 3 totally different orders that together could count as 1 of the 2 needed.
Yeah, I’m sorry, this is bullshit. You fucked up, you should have just owned it rather than doubling down.
I did a $24 order and a $5 order ( that cant be cancelled) and now I get this?? Stand by your offer!!!
wow!! C’mon Troy you were abole to make it crystal clear in ONE sentence in the email:
Purchase from two different offers that each have a subtotal of at least $15.00
You need to make good on this one!!!
The order number accurately displays my feelings.
/giphy bawling-vengeful-load
WE NEED ANOTHER MEH-RATHON ASAP!!
/showme a spectacular mehrathon on Black Friday with many realistic broken and junk items included in every IRK.
I’m a technical writer by trade. It’s very important in my profession to be clear and unambiguous. I read it “incorrectly,” so I bought another (more expensive) thing that I was wavering on because it made sense in tandem with the IRK. Yesterday I got the “clarifying” email and sent a message about cancelling my larger order because I didn’t have the clickable cancel option. I never heard back, but much later got a shipping email. This debacle is very irritating.
Hey y’all (@keef, @caffeineguy, @werehatrack, @dasred, @ndimitru, @gameboy8877, @MrGoodGuy, @frozentrout, @lonocat, @llangley, @dakini, @brainmist, @omally, @drakes94, @vanduyne, @sagergen, @sproinky)
Quick update: IRK refunds are in the works — please allow until 12/2 for everything to finish processing.
This whole thing ended up way more confusing than intended, so thanks for sticking with us. I’ve already put in the request to set the qualifier at $15.00 total across at least 2 orders placed throughout the day, and we’re counting the earlier-in-the-week stuff too, even if it wasn’t technically “Mehrathon.” Because… come on.
Hopefully this gets us out of angry-mob territory and @Barney can take a break from pitchfork duty.
@troy Oh, well. I cancelled the IRK, but that can stand. (Rats.)
@troy So what’s happening? I was confused also and did not meet the intended qualifier for my IRK plus 2 other items. I did not post my complaint but did not cancel any item.
@troy
You know what? You guys are alright!
@troy thanks, I cancelled the IRK. But I’m keeping the order for the trolls alive…
🌬
🧌
@Stumpy91 You have 2 orders – one for 7.99 and one order for $10.00, totaling $17.99. You will be receiving the IRK refund
@troy appreciate it (I think I qualify?)…have you ever thought of selling pitchforks directly?
@werehatrack A battle between faith & finances. I can’t argue that an IRK is worth gambling on!
@sproinky Yep, you qualify! And we haven’t, but now I’ll keep an eye out (not too closely though, wouldn’t want to lose one)
@troy THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
@troy how fast can your developers add an uncancel button? (I had 5 orders with at least 3 of them totaling $15 each, but cancelled 3 lesser ones on principle. )
@caffeineguy If by developers you mean me setting up your own unique regret kit, about 20 minutes (will whisper you the offer link). I knocked a buck off so you couldn’t resist.
@sproinky @troy I was actually looking for a good cheap pitchfork a couple years ago…
@troy Thanks for working to find a good spot to land on this. If you want to uncancel my cancels, great! If you’re already in a fetal position, crying brokenly in a corner as you re-examine the life choices that brought you here? Um. No worries!
pats shoulder
offers warm cocoa
drapes trauma blanket
@brainmist I’d prefer MoonBrew Mint Chocolate please, because I could really use some knockout rest to sleep away my sorrow!
@troy LOL. Can do.
hands virtual Moonbrew
dims lights
@troy LOL, that’s pretty hilarious, but you forget to exclude the VMP discount code! Mwwwwuuuhhaaaahhhh!!! Sold out!
Surely we could have convinced a few others into that fascinating 7 stages of grief regret bucket… shock&denial regret, painful regret, anger, bargaining regret, depression regret, the upward turn regret, reconstruction regret, regret of working through for a bunch of useless items, and finally accepting my regret and hope for future regret…
@troy Thanks for taking an honest look at all of this & making an honorable call. Businesses, however “casual”, are not just storefronts. The people that work there are just as important to the operation & how they treat their customers/employees goes a long way toward whether I want to interact with them.
Unfortunately I’ve already cancelled the items I could including the irk & the uncancelable item has already shipped. If resuscitating those would keep me in the deal then I’m for it.
@troy Too late!
and my IRK.
Should have been handled better from the start.
I already cancelled my 1 of my 2 orders
Did enough orders get cancelled that it hurt?
I even showed you how this should have been written and you don’t even mention me in your mea culpa after directly responding to me. Shame!
@troy i mean i guess it’s the thought that counts but i’ve already canceled my IRK and one of the two items i bought.
@omally @1reeves @drakes94 I feared there would be some further frustrations from those who already took action to cancel their orders resulting from my first notice – I apologize! Unfortunately no way to avoid that in attempt to calm the pitchforkers, and it’s okay if you still have yours out. I will look into your orders and see what’s possible.
@caffeineguy OK new caffeineguy bundle is live for him to go buck wild with a max of 10 orders. Of course available for everyone else, too… if you’re weird like that
@troy could you look into what could be done with my order as well, please? I also cancelled 1 out of my 2 orders.
@troy Okay, I was a little frustrated but thank you for looking at this from our perspective. Let me know if you need anything from my end to redo the orders I cancelled.
Wow, This extra regret bundle now has a bottle of screen cleaner to sweeten up the deal! Is that so we can read things easier on future deals @troy ?
Surely someone else wants to share my regret and let them test combined shipping and bundles
@caffeineguy Yep! Your black unit should be coming with the screen cleaner as well, we just didn’t have it pictured for some reason
@caffeineguy @troy I guess I’m weird like that. I ordered one too. I didn’t want to be left out
/showme a 6 pane comic with a creative use for a webcam, power strip, screen cleaner, and cordless drill brushes
@1reeves @lyssia keep an eye on your inbox
@troy Thank you Troy!! Happy Turkey Day to you! No regrets anymore.
@troy Thank you Troy! You deserve an extra large serving of your favorite dish tomorrow.
@troy I have a suggestion.
Use us as a focus group. Create a thread (and pin it) and post different ways to work the various ways meh words irks. Make the thread stating that. Then make different posts in the thread the working with wording for the various variations of irks meh uses. Instruct us to reply to the specific message in the thread (so all comments on one working stay as a reply to that specific working (realizing that reading instructions is not some people’s best skill and you will get some people who will criticize different buying versions of irks) with what we think it means for buying, any criticisms, suggestions…
Then, after a while, create a new thread doing the same thing with the updated “edited” version of each version of irk instructions to see how people interpret them.
Then have a library of these curated, edited, hopefully more idiot proof (idiot from the meh side and customer side) templates of instructions, Then all you need to do is a copy/paste of the appropriate instructions each irk (labeled as instructions to get the discounted irk, refund or whatever), being careful that the added usual snark that goes with a specific irk stays away from anything having to do with instructions, can’t be even remotely construed as instructions, etc.
And while I am at it… have a way in “Your account” that if you give us coupon codes they post there with the expiration date and vanish when used…yes I know you could say our disorganization is not your problem but on the flip side why not cut back on customer service requests to tell you the codes you can’t find and make customers less irked?
We find out about them multiple ways and they aren’t always easy to re-find. Clearly meh has a list of who gets them or anyone reading about them on a thread could use the code. Unless the goal is that you don’t want us to use them please make them easier to find. Give your IT folks a challenge to figure out how to do that please.
Thanks!
Oh, and by the way, my fee for professional advice using my degrees is a $100 off coupon for use on meh where the unused portion remains to be used until gone. (yeah I know that only would happen in a different universe or dimension than the one we are trapped in now
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So…is it too late to order an IRK?
@therealjrn Yep. I see you ordered only 1 thing in the meh-rathon though, so you wouldn’t be getting a refund anyways
@troy ok, ok, you got me there! Thanks for doing the upstanding thing.
@troy thanks for making this right
I meant to post this during Meh-rathon
I cancelled my IRK, but wasn’t able to cancel one of the other items, so I ended up keeping both of them without the IRK I had originally planned on. I bought two orders over $15 each, which would have qualified me for the IRK discount. Since I cancelled the IRK, the discount no longer applied — but I kept the items I actually wanted. Not happy about not getting the discount IRK.
@troy any chance of us getting IRKs we were told to cancel because we screwed up.
@mdrcoast Keep an eye on your inbox
@troy Faith was never shaken!
@troy can you uncancel my irk? Thsnks!
@ndimitru Hey there – we can’t uncancel anything… but keep an eye on your inbox
@troy On second thought, my inbox yearns as well. (Not expecting miracles here.)
Wallaby darned. Inbox fulfilled.
I have something in my inbox
I’m SO not worthy…
Love you guys and Happy Thanksgiving
I am thankful for @troy! I have something in my inbox!
“Meh went above and beyond to make things right—outstanding service that exceeded expectations. Thank you!”
i’ve been dealing with a blackout over here, but I just wanted to thank you guys for setting things right.
I too have in my inbox! Thanks, @Troy!
@Troy I sent a couple of support emails, but I think the question went over the AI assistant’s head. Looks like similar conversations happening here.
@troy All is hugs and kisses from the Meh Minions for now, but be warned, they have short memories and will come for you with the next screw up.
Headhunting is a pastime around here.
@Barney The pitchforks are getting warmed up again now that people are receiving their hard fought irks. Time for vacation @Troy?
DUMB QUESTION…I’m new around here…is it too late to purchase the 2 $15+ items for the discount? I purchased the IRK for the first time and already regret it lol
This was by far the worst IRK I have ever bought and I have a ton of them. 1 t-shirt, a IRK bag and some made in china crapola indoor christmas decorations… I thought the purpose of the IRK was regret, no to be pissed off as Meh.com just ripped me off.
@Clark But isn’t being pissed off the ultimate form of regret? After opening my early November IRK, I could say I was overflowing with regret and, I suppose, somewhat pissed off.
@ItalianScallion No I don’t think so, back when this was a Fukubukuro it was supposed to be a fun thing with random stuff that may or may not be worth the $5 spent. Now these crap boxes cost $15 after you buy other stuff to lower the price and its not even close to that value. The T-shirts suck now when they used to be good… This whole experiment was a success at first but now trying to turn Meh into a moneymaker is turning the IRK back into a literal bag of crap (Japanese Fukubukuro).
@troy I had canceled my IRK because I hadn’t met the threshold that I had thought I met (I got the bedtime drink mixes and a shirt), but I didn’t get a special email. I did keep the drink order, but canceled the shirt because I didn’t want a wearable reminder of the IRK that could have been.