@vodyanoi Do you feel an inexplicably deep-seated and pressing need to spend at least $20 finding out if you got enough usable stuff in the IRK to cover the expense? No just-a-buck-after-credits deal this time. It’s $29, and the most you can get refunded is ten dollars, assuming you buy something from one or more of the Marathon sales pages.
My kids are usually happy with the IRK’s I receive, because they’re the ones I give them to, with the exception of the massager. My husband stole that one
@catthegreat You should get a ten dollar (plus tax) refund in the next week or two. If I’m reading it correctly. Plus whatever you ordered and a box of glitter paint and Cleveland skyline. (Maybe you’ll get something great, you never know.)
@catthegreat I believe you wait until the secret council reviews your purchases, murmurs in the dark, asking an elder god to give you a partial refund of $10.
This morning…
Wife: you got a pressure washer
Me: I didn’t order a pressure washer
Wife: whats on the front step then?
Me: that looks like a pressure washer, but I didn’t order a pressure washer
Wife: …
Me: omg I think I know what this is, and I no longer regret it.
I will always enjoy ordering these. Maybe because I have a large number of family and friends who seem to have a need for items that I don’t need so it’s easy to give them away. Most of the IRK’s I have received, I usually find something in them that I am able to use. My favorites include the sports bras, kitchen items and luggage.
I am new to Meh, but a long time Wooter. I snagged an IRK and it lived up to its name and not its hype. Do the items in it cost at least what I paid- yes. Will I use any item in it- no. Will I ever buy another IRK- no.
@mahorn4 I think these days, the median Bag Of Crap is probably better than the median Instant Regret Kit. (Didn’t use to be that way), that said, there are some real gems out there with people getting full luggage kits, or nice Cuisinart appliances… BOC seem to be more a safe bet but IRKs I feel like more chance of getting something really special… that said, I’m seeing less and less special items as times go by unfortunately.
I can never get a BOC unfortunately. I made the mistake of installing Woots app and it always messes up the login for me when I try to buy something. It’s always a pain to log in to buy, BOC or not. (I need to delete their app to give myself a chance again)
@OnionSoup Thanks! I am pretty good at scoring a BOC and get just as much excitement and more useful stuff for $10 than the $40 I spent in this IRK. This IRK had a generic smartwatch, off brand sonic toothbrush, womens robe set, some media paper, a collapsible strainer, and a bag.
… and it always messes up the login for me when I try to buy something.
@mahorn4@OnionSoup The secret in the past was to use Woot’s login and payment for BOC due to the extra time for login verification on Amazon Pay. They have since moved to 100% Amazon Pay, however, so everyone is on equal footing now.
BTW, all of the login restrictions, requirements, and verifications are on Amazon’s end, so there’s not much that Woot can do to minimize that. If the server didn’t crash during a Woot-off, they’re doing good already. Still, it’s thousands and thousands of Wooters vying for dozens of BOCs each release, so there’s plenty of disappointment to go around. Same goes for the occasional $1 midnight madness and $1 WTF events.
I still laugh over what did crash their servers one time. A massive run on the aluminum foil. $1.99 for 250 sq.ft. was an excellent price!
@mahorn4 assuming the IRK was only $10, that doesn’t sound terrible for $10… Although if you only bought the other items to money back for the irk, I see the disappointment.
Ever since doing the woot app it seems to redirect me to my browser to sign in. Then when I sign in and it returns me to woot app, it doesn’t think I’m logged in or says I’m on an invalid page and makes me login in two or three times before it sticks.
Even boring items that don’t stress the server takes a good five mins to actually purchase.
I think I need to just bin the app, it makes buying anything from woot too stressful.
@narfcake@OnionSoup My trick for getting BOCs on the app is to log out and then back in on both the app and forum every so often to ensure I have not timed out. Then the AmazonPay button shows and I can purchase quickly. Good luck and thanks for your conversation.
I got one of those large rolling luggage bags that I really don’t need, two Casery phone grip and stands that I don’t know what I would use for, and three "TrackR pixel trackers that I bought before and all the batteries were dead. If I can find someone that needs the bag this will be pretty good.
Got my IRK today. A Cuisinart toaster, 3 quip toothbrushes, a polyester shirt, and a MacBook Pro hard cover. So much regret. Can’t wait for the next one.
What the hell guys you told me this wasn’t even gonna arrive till mid November and here you are shipping it out like a week later I’m not prepared to receive this so soon
Items in the IRK were either not usable for me or sent out already broken and inoperable. When I questioned about getting an item that had been returned inoperable (obviously repackaged) they said there is no warranty, so just throw it out.Don’t think I will order one of these again.
Not going to lie it was actually worth the money I got one thing that I could not use but I was able to sell that item to pay for the IRK so there were in fact no regrets……I win
@duff1462 received to watch bands some personal wear decor and 2 electric tooth brushes . yep thoses babies went right in the stockings for my kids…and did i mention my bag was blue… Whew cause i am not a fan of yellow… Can wait to purchase my next one…in sbout 20 mins
Well after talking to support about the package being damaged in transit. It was the ruling that because it is a IRK that nothing could be done even if it was crushed by the shipper in transit. So it was truly a double IRK one for the contents and the 2nd for the condition of the package and the fun Fed-ex had playing soccer with it and leaving it in the rain Bonus huh lol.
@Firegnome I got an empty box once. No tape, lid totally open. In that case they did send me another irk although it had far less stuff in it than the other irks posted so their warehouse must have been totally cleaned out by that irk (it was actually in the fuko era though, not the irk era).
Another time the box was barely taped and the only reason why there was something left inside is that the door mat was stuck to the loose tape inside which more or less blocked the large opening. That prevented the fuko bag from falling out. That was another too bad so sad. That one came with a damaged mail sticker on it. Mostly it comes taped shut, sometimes partly crushed and even if not, broken things inside - for example those cups not wrapped fly around in there enough to break. Broken glass is a risk in these so I am always careful when I open even if the box doesn’t rattle.
They used to throw in a square or two of Texas air (not enough to do any good and we’d list it as a fuko and irk box contents or sometimes note we got none). And then there was the bubble wrap joke period where a few folks got every single thing totally wrapped in bubble wrap and heavily taped. We’d joke, “Yea!!! Bubble wrap maybe I got something good.”.
@Kidsandliz I think the first couple of IRKs I got still had some Carrollton air bags in them, but none since. OTOH, they apparently ran out of the instabreak mugs with the fragile half-loop handles not long after, so I haven’t had to deal with much of the stab-hazard unpacking. Lately, though, the IRKs sent my way have been very meh. Lots of Casery, lots of craft paint, many Clevelands, a superabundance of pointless car USB chargers, and more than enough TrackRs. I’m dead certain that my lack of seriously damaged boxes is down to being just 295 miles from the point of shipment, resulting in FXG only having 24 hours to crush, stomp, pummel, inundate or otherwise do entertaining things to them.
Two bottles of hand sanitizer and 12 TrackR Pixels. The pandemic is over, TrackR is out of business, and the batteries in them are not even worth salvaging. Real Crap this time.
I got a bottle of hand sanitizer, 2 Casery phone grips to go with my 10 from last time, 30 TrackR Pixels, and a new Cuisinart Smart Stick hand blender.
2 hand sanitizers, blue bag, 12 tracks, 3 essential oil rollers, regret? Yes… My Woot boc was not impressive either oh well. Reveal thread over where… Not sure i care. My order link sent me here to discuss
Best IRK ever! Literally included the kitchen sink. Well, the faucet anyhow. So, that’s not “literally” is it?
At any rate, the next-door neighbor, loved the faucet and used it in his kitchen redesign, got a bag for my trunk, several items that were perfect for white elephant, gifts, and a random letter necklace.
What’s Included?
It is a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Warranty
Throw it in the trash
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Nov 6 - Thursday, Nov 9
Do I need more craft paint, phone ring holders and usb ports for my car?
@vodyanoi Yes?
@vodyanoi I use craft paint. I use it a lot.
But 64 bottles of Martha Stewart glitter orange was enough for a lifetime.
I will pass.
@vodyanoi Do you feel an inexplicably deep-seated and pressing need to spend at least $20 finding out if you got enough usable stuff in the IRK to cover the expense? No just-a-buck-after-credits deal this time. It’s $29, and the most you can get refunded is ten dollars, assuming you buy something from one or more of the Marathon sales pages.
@vodyanoi @Zott Need 64 bottles of smurf blue? LMK.
@DJ @vodyanoi @Zott Smurf blue might be best-case.
@vodyanoi sounds exactly like my last one, if you add in hand sanitizer
@werehatrack I found out today that Woot! has a BOC for sale every Friday on Threads. Still $9.99.
/giphy uncanny-agonizing-promqueen
/giphy fiery-horrified-mage
/giphy disgusting thrilling possession
/giphy lonely vicious barmbrack
/giphy awful-eerie-wraith
/giphy corrupting-ethereal-party
/giphy gnarly-gaunt-barbarian
Is that a bear-barian?
@llangley no, it’s a bar-bear-ian
@llangley not exactly gaunt
@heyitslauren duh! You are correct!
@Kidsandliz and is that his cape dangling? Or maybe a “sheath” of some sort…
/giphy cursed-gory-skull
/giphy mysterious-unearthly-moon
Just call me a sucker for irks
/giphy chilling-dramatic-fly
My kids are usually happy with the IRK’s I receive, because they’re the ones I give them to, with the exception of the massager. My husband stole that one
@pattyrusk1 Fed Ex has mine in Arizona and it won’t arrive until next Saturday, November 4. I’m going to laugh if it includes Halloween items
/giphy wandering-cackling-blood
ok maybe it’s because i haven’t had enough coffee yet, but how does this work? i bought it and also something from the mehrathon… now what?
@catthegreat You should get a ten dollar (plus tax) refund in the next week or two. If I’m reading it correctly. Plus whatever you ordered and a box of glitter paint and Cleveland skyline. (Maybe you’ll get something great, you never know.)
@catthegreat I believe you wait until the secret council reviews your purchases, murmurs in the dark, asking an elder god to give you a partial refund of $10.
@catthegreat @heyitslauren it’s all very technical. See below in the
/image very fine print
@catthegreat @heyitslauren @ybmuG I just learned a lot about seamen of yore!
@catthegreat @heyitslauren @llangley thank you for spelling that correctly
/giphy flaming-nasty-wizard
/giphy harrowing-dark-skeleton
Already regret my purchase. Don’t tell my wife.
@rjsmead - me again, first irk, long time member.
This morning…
Wife: you got a pressure washer
Me: I didn’t order a pressure washer
Wife: whats on the front step then?
Me: that looks like a pressure washer, but I didn’t order a pressure washer
Wife: …
Me: omg I think I know what this is, and I no longer regret it.
@rjsmead Wow!
@rjsmead Nice!
I should have read the comments first
/giphy fiery-despoiled-incantation
/giphy shady-ethereal-nerd
I bought IRKs from the last couple of Meh-rathons. They really are appropriately-named.
/giphy prickly-frigid-fog
I ordered my IRK like 45 minutes ago. Why hasn’t my shipping notification come through yet?
Under the specs…Irks were never Fukubukuro. They were Fukobukuro. This is misleading (even though we all know better and order them anyway.)
mehbe it bothers me more than it should.
I guess the fates have favorably intervened on my behalf.
-Looked at the Irk page.
-Perused the ICYMI items
-Found something worth buying to get back the $10
-Irk just sold out before I could order.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…
It figures.
@k4evryng
@k4evryng @mdrcoast That is 100% the best response possible here. Hands down.
I am thinking REEEEEEEALLY hard, and I can’t think of anything from the last two months I want that might wind up in an IRK.
Thankfully it sold out, so I get to save thirty bucks.
I guess there’s a lot of interest, even at this price level, and despite the relatively bad content in the past few compared to years past.
/giphy gnarly-festering-holiday
Ordered before I went to sleep, woke up and totally forgot about the Mehrathon…then had a mini-panic attack that the IRK was sold out.
Bought something. Saw this was sold out. Canceled something
@n3uka This made me giggle
I will always enjoy ordering these. Maybe because I have a large number of family and friends who seem to have a need for items that I don’t need so it’s easy to give them away. Most of the IRK’s I have received, I usually find something in them that I am able to use. My favorites include the sports bras, kitchen items and luggage.
@pattyrusk1 I have gotten some great things in my IRKs, still waiting on the pallet
Sized IRK now that I have the room for it. hint hint
@wifeduck I have not received a pallet either, but back in the Woot days, a couple of my co-workers did
@pattyrusk1 @wifeduck I don’t think meh has ever shipped a pallet have they?
@OnionSoup ISTR seeing a statement that it has happened outside of PastaDrop once.
@OnionSoup @pattyrusk1 @wifeduck Yes they have shipped pallets of stuff - broken TV’s for one.
@OnionSoup @wifeduck I am unaware of a pallet shipment during an IRK, but if I receive one, I will let you know !
Has anyone’s status flipped to “Shipped” on these yet? Just curious…
@werehatrack Mine just did.
@werehatrack mine has not shipped yet.
@werehatrack Yup, just got notified.
@werehatrack JUST got notified of shipping
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack 6x4x1 box and 1 lb?
@jpklein87 @werehatrack it is just a placeholder.
@werehatrack Yeppers.
@werehatrack mine says it should arrive next Saturday
@werehatrack ETA Monday
@werehatrack Yes but it’s supposedly not arriving until 11/8 or so.
Stuck Monday but on truck today (Tuesday)!
Also got a shipping notice today. What a nice surprise.
And rhe reveal thread has already been inaugurated, with a very meh and not even photoworthy first arrival.
I am new to Meh, but a long time Wooter. I snagged an IRK and it lived up to its name and not its hype. Do the items in it cost at least what I paid- yes. Will I use any item in it- no. Will I ever buy another IRK- no.
@mahorn4 I think these days, the median Bag Of Crap is probably better than the median Instant Regret Kit. (Didn’t use to be that way), that said, there are some real gems out there with people getting full luggage kits, or nice Cuisinart appliances… BOC seem to be more a safe bet but IRKs I feel like more chance of getting something really special… that said, I’m seeing less and less special items as times go by unfortunately.
I can never get a BOC unfortunately. I made the mistake of installing Woots app and it always messes up the login for me when I try to buy something. It’s always a pain to log in to buy, BOC or not. (I need to delete their app to give myself a chance again)
@OnionSoup Thanks! I am pretty good at scoring a BOC and get just as much excitement and more useful stuff for $10 than the $40 I spent in this IRK. This IRK had a generic smartwatch, off brand sonic toothbrush, womens robe set, some media paper, a collapsible strainer, and a bag.
@mahorn4 @OnionSoup The secret in the past was to use Woot’s login and payment for BOC due to the extra time for login verification on Amazon Pay. They have since moved to 100% Amazon Pay, however, so everyone is on equal footing now.
BTW, all of the login restrictions, requirements, and verifications are on Amazon’s end, so there’s not much that Woot can do to minimize that. If the server didn’t crash during a Woot-off, they’re doing good already. Still, it’s thousands and thousands of Wooters vying for dozens of BOCs each release, so there’s plenty of disappointment to go around. Same goes for the occasional $1 midnight madness and $1 WTF events.
I still laugh over what did crash their servers one time. A massive run on the aluminum foil. $1.99 for 250 sq.ft. was an excellent price!
Also:
@mahorn4 assuming the IRK was only $10, that doesn’t sound terrible for $10… Although if you only bought the other items to money back for the irk, I see the disappointment.
Ever since doing the woot app it seems to redirect me to my browser to sign in. Then when I sign in and it returns me to woot app, it doesn’t think I’m logged in or says I’m on an invalid page and makes me login in two or three times before it sticks.
Even boring items that don’t stress the server takes a good five mins to actually purchase.
I think I need to just bin the app, it makes buying anything from woot too stressful.
@narfcake @OnionSoup My trick for getting BOCs on the app is to log out and then back in on both the app and forum every so often to ensure I have not timed out. Then the AmazonPay button shows and I can purchase quickly. Good luck and thanks for your conversation.
I got one of those large rolling luggage bags that I really don’t need, two Casery phone grip and stands that I don’t know what I would use for, and three "TrackR pixel trackers that I bought before and all the batteries were dead. If I can find someone that needs the bag this will be pretty good.
@Springbank reveal thread is here https://meh.com/forum/topics/side-deal-spooky-prehalloweenpost-friday-13th-irk-reveal
Too bad you don’t live near by. I could use the bag.
@Springbank Lucky, you only got 2 Casery phone grips. I got 10.
Got my IRK today. A Cuisinart toaster, 3 quip toothbrushes, a polyester shirt, and a MacBook Pro hard cover. So much regret. Can’t wait for the next one.
@mbd1mbd1 You did well. Reveal thread is here https://meh.com/forum/topics/side-deal-spooky-prehalloweenpost-friday-13th-irk-reveal
Reveal thread is here
https://meh.com/forum/topics/side-deal-spooky-prehalloweenpost-friday-13th-irk-reveal
What the hell guys you told me this wasn’t even gonna arrive till mid November and here you are shipping it out like a week later I’m not prepared to receive this so soon
Great box best so far. Except FedEx left it in the rain again. FedEx has been doing this more and more.
@Firegnome Reveal thread is here
https://meh.com/forum/topics/side-deal-spooky-prehalloweenpost-friday-13th-irk-reveal
Nice! Great deal this time around! Air purifier and some other little goodies!
@BergyD Reveal thread is here
https://meh.com/forum/topics/side-deal-spooky-prehalloweenpost-friday-13th-irk-reveal
Awesome IRK. Have had two amazing IRK’s. Will continue to get them, thanks.
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
Items in the IRK were either not usable for me or sent out already broken and inoperable. When I questioned about getting an item that had been returned inoperable (obviously repackaged) they said there is no warranty, so just throw it out.Don’t think I will order one of these again.
Not going to lie it was actually worth the money I got one thing that I could not use but I was able to sell that item to pay for the IRK so there were in fact no regrets……I win
@duff1462 received to watch bands some personal wear decor and 2 electric tooth brushes . yep thoses babies went right in the stockings for my kids…and did i mention my bag was blue… Whew cause i am not a fan of yellow… Can wait to purchase my next one…in sbout 20 mins
Well after talking to support about the package being damaged in transit. It was the ruling that because it is a IRK that nothing could be done even if it was crushed by the shipper in transit. So it was truly a double IRK one for the contents and the 2nd for the condition of the package and the fun Fed-ex had playing soccer with it and leaving it in the rain
Bonus huh lol.
@Firegnome I got an empty box once. No tape, lid totally open. In that case they did send me another irk although it had far less stuff in it than the other irks posted so their warehouse must have been totally cleaned out by that irk (it was actually in the fuko era though, not the irk era).
Another time the box was barely taped and the only reason why there was something left inside is that the door mat was stuck to the loose tape inside which more or less blocked the large opening. That prevented the fuko bag from falling out. That was another too bad so sad. That one came with a damaged mail sticker on it. Mostly it comes taped shut, sometimes partly crushed and even if not, broken things inside - for example those cups not wrapped fly around in there enough to break. Broken glass is a risk in these so I am always careful when I open even if the box doesn’t rattle.
They used to throw in a square or two of Texas air (not enough to do any good and we’d list it as a fuko and irk box contents or sometimes note we got none). And then there was the bubble wrap joke period where a few folks got every single thing totally wrapped in bubble wrap and heavily taped. We’d joke, “Yea!!! Bubble wrap maybe I got something good.”.
@Kidsandliz I think the first couple of IRKs I got still had some Carrollton air bags in them, but none since. OTOH, they apparently ran out of the instabreak mugs with the fragile half-loop handles not long after, so I haven’t had to deal with much of the stab-hazard unpacking. Lately, though, the IRKs sent my way have been very meh. Lots of Casery, lots of craft paint, many Clevelands, a superabundance of pointless car USB chargers, and more than enough TrackRs. I’m dead certain that my lack of seriously damaged boxes is down to being just 295 miles from the point of shipment, resulting in FXG only having 24 hours to crush, stomp, pummel, inundate or otherwise do entertaining things to them.
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack
But there’s also:
@Firegnome i had a broken ceramic tea infuser in mine. Box wasnt damaged, though. Think they just sent it to me broken
Got my IRK today. Real variety there <sarcasm>. 50 trackers, two sanitizers and a broken tea kettle. How did you know I wanted broken shit? Thanks
Got a room sanitizer and 3 toothbrushes
Two bottles of hand sanitizer and 12 TrackR Pixels. The pandemic is over, TrackR is out of business, and the batteries in them are not even worth salvaging. Real Crap this time.
I got a bottle of hand sanitizer, 2 Casery phone grips to go with my 10 from last time, 30 TrackR Pixels, and a new Cuisinart Smart Stick hand blender.
The Reveal Thread is over ->there
and the reveal thread for the most recent irk eg the thanksgiving one, not the halloween one) is:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/thanksgiving-irk-reveal#656b64af69baf8dd6d57a91d
2 hand sanitizers, blue bag, 12 tracks, 3 essential oil rollers, regret? Yes… My Woot boc was not impressive either oh well. Reveal thread over where… Not sure i care. My order link sent me here to discuss
Best IRK ever! Literally included the kitchen sink. Well, the faucet anyhow. So, that’s not “literally” is it?
At any rate, the next-door neighbor, loved the faucet and used it in his kitchen redesign, got a bag for my trunk, several items that were perfect for white elephant, gifts, and a random letter necklace.
Would definitely buy again!