@norman8 Got one scheduled in 2 weeks plus an endoscope at the same time. Why waste putting me under with only one procedure. Should be a piece of cake after my bout with kidney stones three months back . Had to be put under 3 times during 2 hospital stays and one out patient visit during all that.
Why the eff not. Just for fun. After all secret Santa and white elephant gift exchange season is coming up. Just the right occasion for a buttered-dynamic-curtain.
@ruouttaurmind In for two with same rationale: /giphy barbed-benevolent-song
Although I have no clue how the Gif relates to the words, I loved the “joke”…
I mean, it’s all crap. But at least they’re being up front about it. I can respect that. And I will probably yet again cut myself on it. Making this the third consecutive combo I’ve cut myself on. Let’s go for the trifecta/E.R.!
@ponagathos I don’t practice santaria, but I did bury my last Kershaw I got from woot in the yard 2 years ago, after I severed a tendon in my hand cleaning my vacuum cleaner. It’s great though, my finger still mostly works. And I can tell you that that was the most expensive thing I’ve gotten from woot ever. as the surgery was somewhere around 10,000 dollars.
@revloki Ouch. Well, at least you still have a finger. A few years ago, my cousin managed to lose the tips of three fingers(one below the top joint) on a table saw. This year he lost another tip using a…wait for it…bagel slicer.
@ponagathos You mean one of those guillotine-like bagel slicers? The ones you have to push down by hand…like, manually? See now, people like your “cousin” are the reason there are warning labels and guards on everything.
@tweezak I can not disagree. It was one of the push down bagel slicers, obviously not being used correctly. And I assure you, it really is one of my cousins. Mom had 10 brothers and sisters, dad had four. I have 37 first cousins and I don’t know, several hundred second cousins. Irish Catholic. Every sperm is sacred. My grandpa liked to joke that they had half a dozen kids before they figured out how it was happening.
@ponagathos Wow. Those things are designed specifically to protect people who can’t handle a knife from cutting themselves…and your cousin defeated the safety guard. That’s quite an accomplishment. Just goes to show you there’s probably a market for a better/safer bagel slicer. Trouble is they’d find a better idiot to hurt themselves with it.
@mehmoth but you can’t pick your friends’ noses…unless they are really good friends. Or unable to do it themselves. Like that dude’s cousin who cut off part of most of his fingers.
What’s there not to like… random stabby bit, electrocute yersulf bit, and old AND outdated bluetooth/30pin ipod dock bit?
The only things missing are:
a) purple
b) melted candy korn to use stabby bit on.
Gah, I want that S&W because I’m a sucker for tanto blades. I don’t know why, but I am. The rescue knife might be nice to throw in the glove box. I don’t really need steak knives, but, you know, knives. The other crap I have no need or use for. If I could pick my knife, I’d probably be in for a couple, but I don’t want to end up with like 3 bundles with steak knives. If there were a knife bundle, I’d be all over that. Can we do that?
@PhysAssist@deanb1015 I’d be happy enough with a knife bundle that included steak knives. I mean, it’s not like it’s bad to have steak knives. I have some and they get used occasionally, although more as kitchen knives when the others are all dirty.Too many knives is never enough.
@narfcake Well it came off unpause this morning. Is it now another blame (so now equals out the unblames) or more unblames thus increase my unblame credit? Oh and can I pass on any unblame credits I still have in my account to @RiotDemon for her use in October?
@narfcake What boxes where? And I was planning to end this with blame credit because it might be useful in the future or I could gift it to a future goat when they least expect it.
Model: SCWASBIAB (It’s not so hard to abbreviate your products into a
model number, folks. This one returns absolutely 0 search results and
has a nice look to it, if we say so ourselves)
Not to be that guy, but you didn’t abbreviate anything, you acronymized it.
Is that BT adapter universal or does it only work with that dock?
Edit: Closer inspection of the picture leads me to believe it’s the old-school iPhone port, so I can’t use it for other music applications. Had it been universal I might have pulled the trigger. Oh well.
@ACraigL same. i even searched for the BT adapter manual online to make sure. (found it, & yeah the only connector on the device is the 30 pin apple port)
I loose backup batteries and pocket knives at an alarming rate. Was sat at 1130p when it was sold out, had to set an alarm for 7a on a sat to buy this crap. FML.
dogged-rigid-territory
Makes me think my Bassglehunds finally dispatched the evil chihuahua next door and took over their yard?
@david808 The candy corn I received in the last Saturday bundle arrived surprisingly unmelted. It was even still soft and chewy rather than brick hard like I had expected. Quite exciting!
Michael Trent Reznor […] is a descendant of George Reznor, who founded the Reznor Company, a heating and air conditioning manufacturer, in 1888 (which was sold in the 1960s).
@Felton10 if you were more likely to buy crap you can see, this would have sold out in mere seconds. The crap you can’t see is much more in demand. Schrodinger’s crap both does and does not contain a Roomba, TV, Nintendo switch, speaker dock, or whatever else your heart desires until it is delivered and opened.
@Stumpy91 Reason: If there were no fucking Captcha the fuko would go almost exclusively to bots and sell out before you could click buy. They do exist.
@djslack Woot doesn’t use Captcha for BOCs. Are you saying most of those are purchased by bots? I score a BOC most every Woot-off. I haven’t scored a Fuko in over a year because of the Captcha.
@Stumpy91 Woot has so many items for sale a bot to find and buy boc would be a less straightforward proposition, but it probably exists. I’m not sure what their quantities are like over there, but I know the excitement over the boc isn’t the same any more. I’ve seen comments here about boc hanging around for a long time.
With one item that drops on a schedule (even in a Mehrathon) a bot to auto buy fukos is trivial. I could do it and I’m not a programmer. The Captcha does a lot to cut that down.
Whether you have scored a fuko has little to do with the Captcha and more to do with supply and demand. If there were no Captcha, the supply would go that much faster even if you took bots out of the equation. I personally have been stymied more by the “oops, these are selling fast” delay algorithm than by Captcha. When that was implemented my perfect record went away and I wasn’t able to buy one until the last Mehrathon.
@djslack I don’t have a problem with the use of Captcha if it works correctly. I’ve repeatedly been prevented from purchasing even after solving the puzzle and it saying I’m a robot. I’ve heard many similar stories.
@Stumpy91 you have to wait for the checkbox to appear checked before clicking buy it. Sounds like the Captcha hasn’t finished processing so it doesn’t know you’re verified yet. The buy it button could be disabled until verified to prevent this.
@StGermain I could actually use the crap too. As soon as it refreshed i scrolled down to clicky and boom, gone. VMP indeed… I need my Enderson bags to arrive so I can prance around in my butt pack.
The little thing that adds Bluetooth to a thirty-pin docking station works. I have a Klipsch speaker dock I got either here or there, and this works fine.
I got the Smith & Wesson “tactical” knife. It’s very light, especially in the handle. The liner lock is thin but works. It’s got the little flipper thing sticking out the back, like a Kershaw knife, but it’s not assisted open, so that’s worthless. It opens OK with the thumb stud and seems reasonable sharp. It doesn’t have the torsion bar to keep it closed, but it seems to stay closed when I shake it.
It’s an OK knife, unlike the horrible Remington knives I got, which are dangerous.
I had decent hopes however the power bank is dead and the ipod dock may actually be the worst sounding one I have heard to date. At least the knife is decent and I can use the Bluetooth adapter on an old JBL dock that has been collecting dust…
Received my “assortment of crap” bundle yesterday. I got the Outdoor Nation knife. Spring assist on it is pretty stout. The liner lock pretty much sux, but I hate liner locks from the go.
Unfortunately the little LED flashlight attached to the side is broken. Too bad, since that was about the only “gee wiz” feature I was looking forward to playing with. I recon I ought to check the rest to see what else is DOA.
@ruouttaurmind Yeah mine was broken too. Wondering if maybe the batteries are dead but in this tiny town dump no idea where to find them or the cost. This was going to be a present but to send it on as one I will end up having to spend more on batteries. That was not in the budget.
@Kidsandliz I didn’t check the battery size on these, but I replaced the batteries in a little keychain flashlight for my brother a few months ago and they look about the same size. It was around $3 for four of them. Not really worth it for a $4 knife I guess.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@mikemo I am attempting to charge mine now. No lights will go on where the 4 little light holes are. Good thing you posted as this was a present for someone and it would not have looked good to have given a DOA gift. Hoping it works. I guess I’ll know later today. I’ll have to check the speaker. This seems more like fuko items rather than something we would buy outside of a fuko. I expect that what I actually buy to be working unless they warn us we are taking a chance to get a DOA item.
@mikemo Well here is where I am on the battery pack: The lights to tell to what extent it is charged are broken. After charging all day (around 9.5 hours) there appears to be a bit of juice in there - managed to add about 12% of charge to my iphone 5 before it crapped out. Will try charging 24 hours before I throw in the towel. The good news is that the cable works to go to the iphone (haven’t tested the other two yet connectors yet). The plug works in the wall. Need to try it out on the car next to see if that part works.
The bluetooth has a couple of odd issues. It claims it is pairing to my mac and vise versa but then I have no sound, turning the volume up (both on my computer and on the speaker) makes no difference. Then out of the blue it starts working. It plays this game every time I pair them. On the plus side the kid I was giving this to has a 30 pin ipod so may not try to pair it to anything. Unfortunately now the clamshell has been cut to test the thing and it no longer will be perceived as new. I suppose I could tell him I bought batteries to put in it and thus opened it. Sigh. I still need to buy batteries to test it that way though.
And the light on the knife is broken or perhaps needs batteries (has some in there but maybe they are dead).
Makes me sad. I’d expect this in a fuko and not complain but not when I pay money for something I thought was supposed to work. This stuff was supposed to be presents and I hadn’t budgeted to fix them before gifting them to family at christmas. Sigh. I guess tomorrow after a 24 hour charge I’ll contact support.
So I have 12 steak knives now and I noticed the black plastic/rubber handles are a little tackie/sticky feeling. Lots of plastic crap came along with the knives…Meh. Maybe I can flip some of this stuff at a yard sale or flea market.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Random Knife
1x 30pin Bluetooth adapter
1x 30pin Speaker dock
1x Car/Wall charger
1x Powerbank
1x Combo cable
Pictures
Crap
Speaker and bluetooth
Power stuff
Knives
Bluetooth DOCKED
Plug
Plug
Battery
Food
Warranty
90 Day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
SDF!!!
(Actually SDPBKF)
@KDemo Crappy Bundle Saturday
@sammydog01 - Oh yeah. West Coast takes a while to catch up.
@sammydog01 - So I guess we have to go with BS.
@KDemo YES!
Overpriced by 10 bucks
disastrous-narcissistic-news
OMG…
Speaking of crap, I had a colonoscopy today. This is crappier.
True story.
@norman8 did they find anything interesting? I mean more interesting than this bundle?
@eeterrific A gerbil?
@eeterrific Results were clean as a whistle (and so was I).
@norman8 that’s great news! Congratulations!
@norman8 Got one scheduled in 2 weeks plus an endoscope at the same time. Why waste putting me under with only one procedure. Should be a piece of cake after my bout with kidney stones three months back . Had to be put under 3 times during 2 hospital stays and one out patient visit during all that.
Why the eff not. Just for fun. After all secret Santa and white elephant gift exchange season is coming up. Just the right occasion for a buttered-dynamic-curtain.
/image buttered-dynamic-curtain
/giphy buttered-dynamic-curtain
Well between the pair of them, image and giphy were spot on.
@ruouttaurmind I don’t know what that second one is but now I definitely have an urge to go lick some butter…
@awk
@ruouttaurmind In for two with same rationale: /giphy barbed-benevolent-song
Although I have no clue how the Gif relates to the words, I loved the “joke”…
BOC?
@rileyper Bundle Of Crap.
/buy
@ponagathos It worked! Your order number is: dear-marbled-mercury
/image dear marbled mercury
This bundle Atmos compatible?
@bub78 If by Atmos, you mean ATMOS, which stands for A Tempting Menagerie Of Shit.
quiet-forthright-grapefruit
I mean, it’s all crap. But at least they’re being up front about it. I can respect that. And I will probably yet again cut myself on it. Making this the third consecutive combo I’ve cut myself on. Let’s go for the trifecta/E.R.!
@revloki I am still recovering from my last self inflicted knife wound.
@ponagathos I don’t practice santaria, but I did bury my last Kershaw I got from woot in the yard 2 years ago, after I severed a tendon in my hand cleaning my vacuum cleaner. It’s great though, my finger still mostly works. And I can tell you that that was the most expensive thing I’ve gotten from woot ever. as the surgery was somewhere around 10,000 dollars.
I should probably not own knives.
I hope they sneak some bandaids in there.
@ponagathos You should have a doctor look at that.
for posting your junk on Meh.
@revloki why were you cleaning a vacuum with a knife?
@RiotDemon you don’t?
@mike808 Doctor? Nah. Think of all the crap I could buy here with $10k.
@revloki Ouch. Well, at least you still have a finger. A few years ago, my cousin managed to lose the tips of three fingers(one below the top joint) on a table saw. This year he lost another tip using a…wait for it…bagel slicer.
@ponagathos Ouch!
(It kinda looks like a goofy grin though.)
@ponagathos Owwweee!
@ponagathos You mean one of those guillotine-like bagel slicers? The ones you have to push down by hand…like, manually? See now, people like your “cousin” are the reason there are warning labels and guards on everything.
@tweezak I can not disagree. It was one of the push down bagel slicers, obviously not being used correctly. And I assure you, it really is one of my cousins. Mom had 10 brothers and sisters, dad had four. I have 37 first cousins and I don’t know, several hundred second cousins. Irish Catholic. Every sperm is sacred. My grandpa liked to joke that they had half a dozen kids before they figured out how it was happening.
@ponagathos Wow. Those things are designed specifically to protect people who can’t handle a knife from cutting themselves…and your cousin defeated the safety guard. That’s quite an accomplishment. Just goes to show you there’s probably a market for a better/safer bagel slicer. Trouble is they’d find a better idiot to hurt themselves with it.
Initial reaction: BUY. ADD ANOTHER. ADD ANOTHER.
On one minute’s reflection, “I’ve made a huge mistake. Can I cancel this?”
@zippyus yes you can!
Don’t miss the food picture.
And I actually like candy corn. Especially the Jelly Belly brand.
Stupid Crap I Won’t Buy.
But In A Bundle.
Which I still won’t buy.
Meh.
You’re taking another step toward the Daily Fuko model.
by the way, fuko.com looks to be for sale… just sayin…
How I miss secret FUKOs full of unknown crap.
Damn you meh… In for 2. Damn you…
WTF? No Candy Corn?
Is a Fuko a bundle of bundles??
Honestly, I saw that big white question mark and half of me was like, “Take my money!” Thank goodness the other half prevailed.
/buy
@v It worked! Your order number is: full-handmade-division
/image full handmade division
Can I pick my knife?!
@Satchmo No. It will be randomly selected for you.
@Satchmo You can pick it up out of the box once it arrives.
@Satchmo Well you know what we like to say here at the rescued knives shelter… you don’t pick your knife, your knife picks you.
And then stabs you, I guess… watch out for that.
@Satchmo You can take your pick as long as you don’t pick the shovel… (Gosh I’m getting old) Anyone else remember this?
@mehmoth Yup! But I’m old too…
@Satchmo No, but you can pick your knose.
@sligett And you can pick your friends…
@mehmoth but you can’t pick your friends’ noses…unless they are really good friends. Or unable to do it themselves. Like that dude’s cousin who cut off part of most of his fingers.
What’s there not to like… random stabby bit, electrocute yersulf bit, and old AND outdated bluetooth/30pin ipod dock bit?
The only things missing are:
a) purple
b) melted candy korn to use stabby bit on.
Time to dust off my iPhone 3GS!
shoulda come with everything you stated in blog article for 10 dollhairs
also bath!
Do these work with Alexa?
Knife- check
Speaker dock- check
Bluetooth- check
Power Bank- check
Candy Corn- Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
Perfect Bundle- swing and a miss
Sorta ashamed of my lack of self control. In for 3. Tomorrow I will seek counseling.
@Brasssong You just made me feel better about buying only one.
@sammydog01 i concur
Does the old as shit item include working batteries?
Next week: Free shipping! ($7 added to price of the bundle)
Aw, sold out just as @madmannequin and I decided why not. I guess if I see it tomorrow I’ll grab one.
@Pantheist It’s Polk Salad Annie now, love.
@Pantheist So you two aren’t sharing an account anymore? That’s (big) news.
@dashcloud She wanted a chance to get her own bag of disappointment.
I’m running low on t shirts. Just saying.
@ThatsHeadly I’ve been
pesteringrequesting @snapster about catshirts for years already.Gah, I want that S&W because I’m a sucker for tanto blades. I don’t know why, but I am. The rescue knife might be nice to throw in the glove box. I don’t really need steak knives, but, you know, knives. The other crap I have no need or use for. If I could pick my knife, I’d probably be in for a couple, but I don’t want to end up with like 3 bundles with steak knives. If there were a knife bundle, I’d be all over that. Can we do that?
@plc That sounds like a great idea- but as you intimated- NO STEAK KNIVES [although as you also said, you know, knives…].
@plc if there was a knife bundle, I’d be as happy as a tic on a hound, and I don’t need any steak knives either!
@PhysAssist @deanb1015 I’d be happy enough with a knife bundle that included steak knives. I mean, it’s not like it’s bad to have steak knives. I have some and they get used occasionally, although more as kitchen knives when the others are all dirty.Too many knives is never enough.
Why oh why meh do I have to pay 93 cents tax on $10 worth of stuff if I live in California in a city where the local sales tax rate is less than 8%!?!
If your stabby bit(s) are coming from Texas, then I’ll be even more pissed off since it’s not from a California based business.
@bbf They have a remote office/staff in California.
I’m blaming @kidsandliz that it went on pause as I was looking at it.
I’m double unblaming @kidsandliz that it went on pause as I was looking at it.
@narfcake Well it came off unpause this morning. Is it now another blame (so now equals out the unblames) or more unblames thus increase my unblame credit? Oh and can I pass on any unblame credits I still have in my account to @RiotDemon for her use in October?
PS you are welcome?
@Kidsandliz Another unblame. It was paused already when I looked again this morning.
/image pawsed
I’m unsure if blames and unblames transfer, though. Besides, your term isn’t up yet. There’s still a lot of blaming the community can pass on!
@narfcake Yes but I now have a credit of 2 unblames. And less than 12 hours left.
@Kidsandliz Then I blame you for thinking you’re going to end your term without any blame!
(Do feel free to send that blame back, though. There are boxes here that still haven’t made it out the door yet.)
@narfcake What boxes where? And I was planning to end this with blame credit because it might be useful in the future or I could gift it to a future goat when they least expect it.
In for Shakira knives and for the Star Trek communicator.
Tied my career high you guys!!!
@moosetoga one star
@moosetoga two star
@moosetoga red star
@moosetoga blue star
@moosetoga Death Star
@moosetoga rock star
@moosetoga
is there like a caching delay or how do i get this star count up
@moosetoga Just checked, mine’s immediate.
@moosetoga as of right now I see a star in front of a zero under your comment - if that helps.
No leakfrog?
@zippyus Hey, Don’t disrespect the Leakfrog!
@zippyus mine drown in Harvey floods – just sayin’
@zippyus I thought those were saved for fukus now.
@AttyVette Starred in sadness and sympathy.
A bundle of bundles. Would that be a meh-rathon with just bundles?
No candy corn? No sale.
@sjk3 My last bundle just came and the candy corn disappeared rather quickly.
Not to be that guy, but you didn’t abbreviate anything, you acronymized it.
@HeyItsTodd And Hot Hand Fallacy isn’t considered a fallacy anymore.
@McClenney Hot Hand Phallusy is still a thing, though.
What? No fried pickles!! Shame.
You paused this? There should be an unwritten rule that if the offering is this crappy… don’t stop the momentum.
@sourhead Meh can’t let the left coasters get all the crap, they have to spread it around evenly…
@bbf I talked to everyone on the right coast. We’re okay with the left getting all this one.
@MrMark Nopers- I had to work late last night, so I couldn’t get mine til after the 8 AM magic hour.
@sourhead well played, Meh. Sold out the crap.
/giphy so there’s that
Is that BT adapter universal or does it only work with that dock?
Edit: Closer inspection of the picture leads me to believe it’s the old-school iPhone port, so I can’t use it for other music applications. Had it been universal I might have pulled the trigger. Oh well.
@ACraigL it doesn’t just work with this dock. it’s universal for a 30 pin apple connector…
@ACraigL same. i even searched for the BT adapter manual online to make sure. (found it, & yeah the only connector on the device is the 30 pin apple port)
@Roadie If I got this it would be just for this dock. As it would be the only 30-pin device I own.
Tricked me in to buying this by pausing the deal.
@davido That does make it more compelling, doesn’t it? I got a Google Home that way. And some can openers.
/giphy proud jubilant class
I loose backup batteries and pocket knives at an alarming rate. Was sat at 1130p when it was sold out, had to set an alarm for 7a on a sat to buy this crap. FML.
dogged-rigid-territory
Makes me think my Bassglehunds finally dispatched the evil chihuahua next door and took over their yard?
At least they didn’t include a glob of melted candy corn.
@david808 The candy corn I received in the last Saturday bundle arrived surprisingly unmelted. It was even still soft and chewy rather than brick hard like I had expected. Quite exciting!
/buy
@Stumpy91 It worked! Your order number is: cumbersome-hanging-minnow
/image cumbersome hanging minnow
@mediocrebot Trent?
@Stumpy91 same family, I believe
@Stumpy91 Yep. Sorta.
From Wikipedia
Hangovers will make you do stupid things. Buying this was probably one of them.
Question of day-are you more likely to buy crap you can see vs crap that is a surprise (fuko)?
@Felton10 if you were more likely to buy crap you can see, this would have sold out in mere seconds. The crap you can’t see is much more in demand. Schrodinger’s crap both does and does not contain a Roomba, TV, Nintendo switch, speaker dock, or whatever else your heart desires until it is delivered and opened.
@djslack Good call, GREAT cat reference!
@Felton10 Shouldn’t this have been today’s poll question?
@Felton10 I’m more likely to buy crap I can see I guess since there is no fucking Captcha for no reason.
@Stumpy91 Reason: If there were no fucking Captcha the fuko would go almost exclusively to bots and sell out before you could click buy. They do exist.
@djslack Woot doesn’t use Captcha for BOCs. Are you saying most of those are purchased by bots? I score a BOC most every Woot-off. I haven’t scored a Fuko in over a year because of the Captcha.
@Stumpy91 Woot has so many items for sale a bot to find and buy boc would be a less straightforward proposition, but it probably exists. I’m not sure what their quantities are like over there, but I know the excitement over the boc isn’t the same any more. I’ve seen comments here about boc hanging around for a long time.
With one item that drops on a schedule (even in a Mehrathon) a bot to auto buy fukos is trivial. I could do it and I’m not a programmer. The Captcha does a lot to cut that down.
Whether you have scored a fuko has little to do with the Captcha and more to do with supply and demand. If there were no Captcha, the supply would go that much faster even if you took bots out of the equation. I personally have been stymied more by the “oops, these are selling fast” delay algorithm than by Captcha. When that was implemented my perfect record went away and I wasn’t able to buy one until the last Mehrathon.
@djslack I don’t have a problem with the use of Captcha if it works correctly. I’ve repeatedly been prevented from purchasing even after solving the puzzle and it saying I’m a robot. I’ve heard many similar stories.
@Stumpy91 you have to wait for the checkbox to appear checked before clicking buy it. Sounds like the Captcha hasn’t finished processing so it doesn’t know you’re verified yet. The buy it button could be disabled until verified to prevent this.
The steak knives should have been 2nd place. "Second prize, a set of steak knives. Third prize, you’re fired. "
/buy
@Euniceandrich We’re sold out except for a small amount we set aside for existing VMP members to be released at 4pm ET.
Disappointed in today’s sale so I went to Morningsave and discovered the mister I liked returned.
/image sleek-steadfast-spinach
OOPS, SORRY. WE’RE SOLD OUT.
Must’ve held back one…
@supichoo Yeah, I set my phone for 4:00 Eastern and hit buy right away and they were sold out. VMP = Very Miffed Person
@StGermain I could actually use the crap too. As soon as it refreshed i scrolled down to clicky and boom, gone. VMP indeed… I need my Enderson bags to arrive so I can prance around in my butt pack.
It looks like the steak knives are the best deal. Make sure I get some, OK guys?
I got mine today.
The little thing that adds Bluetooth to a thirty-pin docking station works. I have a Klipsch speaker dock I got either here or there, and this works fine.
I got the Smith & Wesson “tactical” knife. It’s very light, especially in the handle. The liner lock is thin but works. It’s got the little flipper thing sticking out the back, like a Kershaw knife, but it’s not assisted open, so that’s worthless. It opens OK with the thumb stud and seems reasonable sharp. It doesn’t have the torsion bar to keep it closed, but it seems to stay closed when I shake it.
It’s an OK knife, unlike the horrible Remington knives I got, which are dangerous.
I haven’t played with the other things.
I had decent hopes however the power bank is dead and the ipod dock may actually be the worst sounding one I have heard to date. At least the knife is decent and I can use the Bluetooth adapter on an old JBL dock that has been collecting dust…
Received my “assortment of crap” bundle yesterday. I got the Outdoor Nation knife. Spring assist on it is pretty stout. The liner lock pretty much sux, but I hate liner locks from the go.
Unfortunately the little LED flashlight attached to the side is broken. Too bad, since that was about the only “gee wiz” feature I was looking forward to playing with. I recon I ought to check the rest to see what else is DOA.
@ruouttaurmind Yeah mine was broken too. Wondering if maybe the batteries are dead but in this tiny town dump no idea where to find them or the cost. This was going to be a present but to send it on as one I will end up having to spend more on batteries. That was not in the budget.
@Kidsandliz I didn’t check the battery size on these, but I replaced the batteries in a little keychain flashlight for my brother a few months ago and they look about the same size. It was around $3 for four of them. Not really worth it for a $4 knife I guess.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ruouttaurmind I would agree, especially since I didn’t budget to have to fix something I bought that was supposed to be working.
The power bank won’t take a charge and the speaker won’t work on AAA batteries. I didn’t expect greatness but I did expect it to work.
@mikemo I am attempting to charge mine now. No lights will go on where the 4 little light holes are. Good thing you posted as this was a present for someone and it would not have looked good to have given a DOA gift. Hoping it works. I guess I’ll know later today. I’ll have to check the speaker. This seems more like fuko items rather than something we would buy outside of a fuko. I expect that what I actually buy to be working unless they warn us we are taking a chance to get a DOA item.
@mikemo Well here is where I am on the battery pack: The lights to tell to what extent it is charged are broken. After charging all day (around 9.5 hours) there appears to be a bit of juice in there - managed to add about 12% of charge to my iphone 5 before it crapped out. Will try charging 24 hours before I throw in the towel. The good news is that the cable works to go to the iphone (haven’t tested the other two yet connectors yet). The plug works in the wall. Need to try it out on the car next to see if that part works.
The bluetooth has a couple of odd issues. It claims it is pairing to my mac and vise versa but then I have no sound, turning the volume up (both on my computer and on the speaker) makes no difference. Then out of the blue it starts working. It plays this game every time I pair them. On the plus side the kid I was giving this to has a 30 pin ipod so may not try to pair it to anything. Unfortunately now the clamshell has been cut to test the thing and it no longer will be perceived as new. I suppose I could tell him I bought batteries to put in it and thus opened it. Sigh. I still need to buy batteries to test it that way though.
And the light on the knife is broken or perhaps needs batteries (has some in there but maybe they are dead).
Makes me sad. I’d expect this in a fuko and not complain but not when I pay money for something I thought was supposed to work. This stuff was supposed to be presents and I hadn’t budgeted to fix them before gifting them to family at christmas. Sigh. I guess tomorrow after a 24 hour charge I’ll contact support.
Yeah! I got the Smith and Wesson knife! That’s all I wanted anyway! The rest of this crap is just icing on the cake.
Ordered two since we still have nieces and nephews with 30-pin phones. I’ll test them now based on all the issues.
Two sets of steak knives. Blech. The random knife was my incentive…
@duodec And first battery pack is dead. I’m not sure if the dock and bluetooth adapter work well enough to use as gifts but we’ll see.
Any reason why the speaker dock using the bluetooth adapter won’t pair with an iPhone 6 ?
@jmbunkin Never mind now it’s working.
So I have 12 steak knives now and I noticed the black plastic/rubber handles are a little tackie/sticky feeling. Lots of plastic crap came along with the knives…Meh. Maybe I can flip some of this stuff at a yard sale or flea market.