SideDeal Instant Regret Kit, 17 November 2023 Edition
17This is absolutely the best advice of all, straight from the blurb posted with the item:
Easy and smart: Don’t buy this IRK. Shop in the Meh-rathon if you’d like, but avoid all the regret.
That said, inevitably, at least one person will try each of the many ways that they can think up as approaches to rules-lawyering the deal, to get additional cheap IRKs, or get just one cheap without spending $20 (or more, but only the first $20 counts) in the Mehrathon. .
Don’t Be That Person, mmmkay?
ONLY purchases made using the genuine November 17/18 (EST) Mehrathon “Buy It” buttons can qualify for the SINGLE up-to-$20 discount on the purchase of ONE IRK.
You get NO DISCOUNT/REBATE for stuff bought before the Mehrathon, stuff bought somewhere else, stuff bought on SideDeal or Casemates or Morningsave at ANY time, or stuff that you meant to buy but didn’t. Unless you like being mocked, play by the rules and take the regret that comes as standard equipment with a typical IRK purchase.
Or avoid the regret and don’t buy one.
It’s your choice.
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Is this a promise to mock those who attempt to create a loophole? I like that idea.
@djslack It’s allowable as a Tradition.
My only IRK was full of things I could gift or use, so I decided to quit while I was ahead. Then tonight I woke up at 3 AM after falling asleep on the sofa, looked at my emails, and bought an IRK. I can only hope that I don’t regret my impulsive move and slink off shamefacedly to bed.
/giphy hairy-miraculous-manager
/youtube Oops I Did It Again
If you don’t regret your Irk, Meh will give you $500 in compensation.
Maybe.
It’s my daughter’s birthday today. She is turning six. This IRK will be for her. (Hopefully she gets something useful for her)
@NoIRK I hope she likes mens XXL boxer shorts, 30 useless TrackRs, a bunch of acrylic paints, and a Meh bag. Good luck!
The last few irks have been more meh than usual.
@Lichme Can you poke mehstalker with at sharp stick? It hasn’t updated since the 10th.
Thanks.
Just to be very clear, because I didn’t get the email (or memo!), we have until midnight of Nov 18th (Eastern) to make our $20 of mehrathon purchases?
@lehigh Yes.
@lehigh @werehatrack
@lehigh @werehatrack
Wait, what? We have an extra 24 hours, after the mehrathon is over, to spend the $20 of refundable money?
@Lynnerizer Not really 24 EXTRA hours; it’s a 2-Day mehrathon EXTRAVAGANZA!! Enjoy!!
@IndifferentDude THANK YOU!
What is that pacific?
@lauradb76 9PM on Saturday.
@werehatrack it seems like it has already been up for a day…maybe somethi g that actually interests me will come up.
UGH fine, I’ll order the stupid thing. Probably won’t even get 32 identical bottles of craft paint.
/giphy unhelpful-musty-hall
@mossygreen Of course not. It’s almost always a multiple of three, so you’d get 30 or 33. Maybe even 36! (But 24 is a full case…)
@werehatrack ENDLESS DISAPPOINTMENT.
@mossygreen
If I ordered my Meh items first, can I buy the IRK next? Or do I have to IRK first?
@smkarizona Don’t have to irk first but it might get sold out if you don’t. Your decision on how to gamble.
@smkarizona I usually grab an IRK, then shop through the ICYMI section before bed… that’s how I play IRK Roulette.
@wifeduck exactly my plan! Thanks.
@smkarizona I’m chicken, I don’t buy the IRK unless I’ve found enough crap I want to buy.
No warranty, expressed or implied, but I’ve never seen one of the refund IRKs sell out.
@blaineg @smkarizona you have now. LOL
@blaineg @smkarizona @wifeduck wow
Wasn’t this supposed to extend to today? Did they really run out of crap?
@pakopako Today is Sunday, the 19th. The 'Thon was Friday and Saturday, the 17th and 18th. Having to work on Friday was no excuse!
@smkarizona @wifeduck
My sundial says you posted this on the 19th. The IRK was available on the 17th & 18th.
@blaineg @smkarizona The IRK did sell out, therefore if one were to have looked at it on Saturday evening, one would have seen it sold out regardless of when my statement was made.
@blaineg @smkarizona @wifeduck One of the things that some find annoying about the SideDeal IRKs is the lack of a counter that says how many have been sold. So we don’t know if they sold out at 300 units (that probably would have happened earl;y Friday morning) or 500 or 750 or 1000 or 1250, or some other number altogether. In years gone by, the total number of IRKs available in a given 24-hour 'Thon tended to float in the vicinity of 1000, and a 48-hour sales period might have necessitated setting the limit higher, but how far?
@blaineg @smkarizona @werehatrack all valid points, maybe they could add a counter just for the IRKs there, you know for us statistics nerds. LOL
@blaineg @smkarizona @werehatrack @wifeduck I was keeping an eye on the main page link that showed a general total sold, I think it sold out around 1200+. I was surprised it passed 1000 (I bought when it showed 800+, got a little casual checking the totals). Of course, no way of knowing how accurate the count was.
This time I bought my IRK early, (1am) and even though I never believed in this let’s hope it makes a difference in what I get! Last month I swore it was the last time I was going to waste my money, yet here I am. Lol
I was so beyond being full of regret, I was down right embarrassed! I ended up with a pair of men’s shorts, a useless to me and anyone I know ugly pair of loafers and a cheap bra. NO IRK BAG! 
That’s it, 3 measly items!
(Boy oh boy don’t I sound spoiled and entitled! Yikes!
) It was a sad day and for the first time I felt something other than good feelings after opening my IRK.
Only because my guy Tuc is such a cutie, here’s my IRK I never posted! 
@Lynnerizer I will let you know what a 12:05 am IRK gets you. Hopefully the space saving pans for the RV?
Edited for emojis fail.
@Lynnerizer
Tuc looks pretty unimpressed.
(And he IS a cutie!)
@Kyeh Oh yeah, definitely unimpressed! I said it was a sad day around here, forgot to mention I meant for everyone!
And thanks, we’re both truly in love with him! 
Lol
@wifeduck
GOOD LUCK!
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer yes….he is absolutely gorgeous!!
@Lynnerizer Very pretty cat. Contact support about your missing irk bag. They will send you one.
@Lynnerizer posted my 12:05 IRK in the thread. Gotten your yet?
/giphy accused-temporal-saturn
Now, it’s November 18. Is this a new IRK compared to the November 17 one and can be ordered again and is subject to getting another $20 discount (when ordering $20 or more from the November 18 Meh-Rathon) or is it considered the same IRK?
@datruandi You didn’t read the top of the page yet, did you?? If you did, you would have read the following:
“ONLY purchases made using the genuine November 17/18 (EST) Mehrathon “Buy It” buttons can qualify for the SINGLE up-to-$20 discount on the purchase of ONE IRK.”
You’re welcome!!
@datruandi @IndifferentDude
@IndifferentDude thanks for the snark, it hinges on that those IRKs were the same IRK.
/giphy approachable-dusty-cereal
/showme approachable-dusty-cereal
@mediocrebot Mmmmh, hair for breakfast.
@blaineg @mediocrebot That looks like shedding cat hair.
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot Hair would have been better than what I got.
Oh, what the heck
/giphy ghoulish-audible-willow
I’m a sucker for regret.
$10 is an acceptable amount for me to gamble since I easily found more than $20 of Mehrathon stuff within the first few hours.
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve gotten one, and I very much need the chuckle (or even possibly, the cheer!) of a surprise box. My mom passed away almost 2 months ago, and she loved hearing about my Irks. She was an amazing bargain hunter, extremely generous, and had a good sense of humor…so she was so excited for me when I got awesome items cheap, and laughed with me when I got less than useful stuff.
So whatever comes my way, it’ll be fun to open no matter what’s inside. 
MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!
@k4evryng So sorry for your loss. I’m sure your Mom will be watching you open it
. Hope you get something extraordinary!! 
@llangley thank you so much. She was a neat lady and will be dearly missed by many.
And I agree…she will absolutely be watching, lol!
/giphy incandescent-aloof-sandman
More Belvita to give out to those hungry on the street
/giphy nuisance-sweltering-fact
So why can’t I order one? I spend probably $100 within the last day and a half. But didn’t get a link or see anything about being able to order a IRK. ?
@kwasser1988 on SideDeal
The link is just below the “Time Remaining” on the sale/home page
@ybmuG thank you so much… ive spent hundreds on this awesome site and dont know how to navigate it half the time.
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
@kwasser1988 it doesn’t help that the way to get / terms of an IRK changes periodically (on Meh, on SideDeal, hidden link, on its own, need to buy other stuff, dollar-for-dollar refund, all-or-nothing refund, cash refund, coupon refund).
Seems like they’ve settled into a little more of a standard - $30-ish less up to $20ish dollar-for-dollar refund for a net of as little as $10. Probably the sweet spot.
@kwasser1988 @ybmuG To be clear, only purchases yesterday & today count toward the refund.
@blaineg @kwasser1988 @ybmuG And now even those purchases don’t count unless you already bagged it.
SOLD OUT
Daggummit. Guess I should’ve checked before I bought.
@stinks You missed the chance to say it “STINKS”!!
@blaineg @kwasser1988 @stinks Here’s hoping they’re all crap, so no loss…all but mine, that is
I was thrilled to bits with my last IRK. May the gods of random things bestow upon me stuff I can use. Ahhhmen.
@heyitslauren My last several IRKs have been well below meh. But the BoC I got recently (thanks to a pointer by Mehtizen) was excellent.
@blaineg my last BOC was good too. I got an iPad!
So when does the discount appear? Mine is still showing @ $30 + tax.
@Trinityscrew The item page specifies that it’s a refund, not a discount, and that it will likely take a week or more to process.
Looks like these are starting to go out - got the email about 15 mins ago, and it says it arrived at FedEx location half an hour ago.
@michabailey mine says the dimensions are 6x4x1 - what in the world
@heyitslauren @michabailey Not to worry, those are just the default dimensions that are in the FedEx account. Usually, they will get updated the first time that the automated system at the FedEx hub scans the package as it goes down the conveyor. Sometimes you’ll get it before that happens. It’s never 6x4x1.
@michabailey @werehatrack I wondered that because I’d had a similar experience with my bag of crap at woot. But it’s been scanned a couple times and still says that size.
I’m imagining all the things that I could be getting that is actually that size and it’s a refurbed iPhone thrown into a box, a small box of chocolates, or spiders.
@heyitslauren @michabailey The transit scans at acceptance and local center arrival don’t try to track the size or weight; that only happens on the belt in a hub, and the data may not update before it gets to the destination.
@michabailey @werehatrack AHHHH. …so not spiders.
@heyitslauren @michabailey @werehatrack BEARER BONDS.
@michabailey mine is out for delivery today.
@heyitslauren @werehatrack Kinda surprising that a package can make it all the way to being out for delivery without ever having the size and weight recorded as other than a 1-pound inch-thick photo (which I would assume should affect the billing…)
@ironcheftoni @michabailey oh shit mine too!!
@heyitslauren @ironcheftoni @michabailey That’s actually not terribly surprising to me, there’s a box I shipped to Cincinnati in September whose status shows as “Not closed” despite having been picked up and billed long ago.
Official Reveal Thread now open here!
https://meh.com/forum/topics/thanksgiving-irk-reveal
Just got my IRK. Included one dozen TrackR Pixels.
Anyone have any idea if they’re usable now that TrackR app was discontinued?
@modhran Swiftfinder app works if you’re on Android; nothing for iPhones.
@modhran Yes they are, if you have an Android. Download the SwiftFinder app and they will sync up with it quite nicely. You may need to replace some of the batteries, because these have been sitting on the shelf for probably 5 years or so.
@godainobaka @Kyeh Too bad I’m deep in the Apple ecosystem… maybe I’ve got a friend who needs 'em
So, yeah…
Should’ve totally passed on the IRK.
Box was smaller than in the past, and not even fully packed.
12 useless TrackR pixels (already thew out the ones I had). Two hand sanitizers. A three-pack of hot pink acrylic paint. And the obligatory shopping bag. Not even worth the $10 after the discount.
This will be my last IRK.