@cengland0 Except perhaps maybe this time it will - last time he obviously didn’t have way too much time on his hand, only just a little bit too much. Might make a difference.
I didn’t buy one of these the last time, and therefore didn’t have the opportunity to put one in my mailbox and have it not work. Can i have someone else’s money back?
@DaveInSoCal our dog barks when the mail gets put in the box. Works really well. Do you think this very reasonably priced gadget could be rigged to pick up dog poop?
@cengland0 I have a young one at home who likes to help clean… everything. The pellets actually seem to be killing the grass too (weird), and the holes in the yard for baby nests are not fun either. They’re only cute when they’re little.
/eightball Indoor unit uses 3x C battery. Really? Most likely
/eightball Who uses C batteries? Without a doubt
/eightball Do they still sell those anywhere? Don’t count on it
@cengland0 Yes, and these kinda gadgets always take Cs or Ds. They need the long lasting power so that you’re not changing em out every month. And they need to be Cs or Ds cause cheap and cause you gotta buy em. I had to buy like a caseload for those Mr. Beams lights.
@cengland0 LOL… We needed one on the bow of the schooner I worked on in Norfolk on the Elizabeth River where we sailed, daily, past the Navy base. Needed a submarine alert system on the bow for stray submarines in the river. One time we nearly ran over a submarine… true story…the captain said, “but I don’t see it on radar” (after I had run back to tell him since he was ignoring my hand signals) - duh, of course not… and then he realized how dumb he sounded.
Meh security alarm -/ double meh- don’t know think swans will be coming up to my door maybe opossums but not swans!( opposums love cat food I leave outside for the feral cats)
MY doggie loves my front door one will be happier now that I have a different brand for the back door. Hope they are on different channels, but for the price, you can’t beat it.
I am, however, pleased to share that today I’ve beaten my record for consecutive meh clicks:
104 in a row
longest streak: 104
Apparently I missed a day in February, probably right around when I was getting surgically shanked in the spine to get some relief from a few collapsed discs. Damn you, biology, for trying to stifle my unrepentant consumerism!
I have them guarding my fruit trees & garden. Some #%@^&head raided my yard last year taking all my fruit and much of the food from my garden. If they try it this year hopefully I can catch them in the act.
@mbimeh Happened to me too. I had it on video with some cheap analog cameras. Asked around if anyone recognized the faces from print-outs. It was a bad video. But still found out where the kids lived and then a friend asked me what I planned to do when I confronted the kids. Didn’t have a good answer so I didn’t do anything.
I’ve since upgraded to some digital 1080p cameras so I’ll get a really good look at them the next time. It’s now been about 7 years and nobody has touched my trees.
@mbimeh
Next time give the fuck head thieves some salt and pepper to go with the produce- Load your 12 gague with: 12 Gauge Salt & Pepper Rounds ½&½ hot pepper powder/rock salt, Twice the deterrent:
@cengland0 like, actual kids? (as opposed to 20-somethings living on their own?) because then i’d just tell their parents. even if they have shitty parents who won’t reprimand them, often just knowing they were found out is enough to dissuade them from doing it a second time. usually that stuff is ‘because i can, and because no one will know it was me.’
(but also, it makes me so sad! people are just so inconsiderate to their fellow humans sometimes )
@jerk_nugget Yes, kids around 10 to 12 years old stole my tangerines.
One day I was at one of the ponds in the neighborhood watching baby ducklings. There was a young kid around 7 or 8 throwing rocks and sticks at the ducks. One hit a baby and I took the kid to his house to tell his mother what happened. She didn’t care. Luckily there was a paramedic next door who helped revive the duckling. I took it home for a couple days until it fully recovered then released it back to it’s mother.
After that experience, I figured the people living in the apartment complex nearby my house don’t care what kind of trouble their kids get into. It wasn’t worth my time tracking down their address for about 20 tangerines that they took. I wasn’t going to press charges and take them to court or anything like that so what good would it have done to spend that time?!?!?
I won one of these last time. My son has an absolute blast with it - he loves it and it works very, very well . . . If you buy the little AA to C battery adapters, you can use a single rechargeable Eneloop in place of each C battery and save a lot of $$ as the thing eats batteries like @MrsPavlov eats chocolate, IME.
@f00l,@kdemo, and heck I don’t know who to tag, does anyone know who I can ask that if these are still available later that maybe I can buy two more? My family mostly live in the country with long driveways and these would be great. I bought three, one for myself, my mama and one of my sisters. Then I texted another sister and a nephew not even thinking about the limit, of course they both responded. The nephew can be disappointed but not the baby sister. If I have to go without I will but I’ll be sad and alas unprotected! Any help will be immensely appreciated.
@mehbee If you reimburse me I can buy 3 for you. Email me at my username at yahoo. @woodhouse@thumperchick@Iforgetwhothethirdpersonis once someone changed the number someone could buy of something for me so I could get more since they were no where near selling out and I wanted them for christmas presents for family. Perhaps this could be done for @mehbee?
@Kidsandliz You are always the sweetest and most generous person. Let’s see if they let me buy a couple more and if not I can definitely reimburse you. Thank you so much for the offer and the help.
@mehbee Early on 2 people were involved in helping me get enough speaker docs for family for birthdays/christmas… just paying it forward. I am not going to be home some of today so don’t wait until too late. You might want to email me now so I can give you my phone number and then you can call me if you need me to do it (I don’t check internet stuff on my phone).
@Thumperchick So that is OK? I don’t mind creating one in my husband’s name but just wasn’t sure if it was three per person or per address. I’d rather do that and save @kidsandliz 's good nature for something I really truly want! I mean I want these but let’s be honest, they’re not speaker docks.
@Thumperchick That’s a bummer I set up my sister an account so I could just send hers and my moms to her, but I guess since I’m paying for it, if still won’t let me buy it. I’m sure they will sell them again or at least I hope so. I thought of another way I can use it. We are putting up an above ground pool and I can put one near there.
@dbreland1015@mehbee so you still need me to buy them then? Email me at my user name and the usual yahoo. Do you have a different credit card you can put in there? That might make a difference.
@narfcake I changed the name to my sister’s and shipping address to her home address. Only thing I can think is the billing address for the CC. But shouldn’t like my husband be able to buy his own?
@mehbee - I just noticed that you tagged me. The second account really should work. I’d ask @shawn if he can tell what’s holding it up.
Not sure if anyone’s around to help on a holiday weekend, though.
If they don’t all sell, there’s a fair chance you will be able to buy some on MorningSave later. Since you’re still VMP, it won’t cost much more.
@mehbee we do some fuzzy matching of multiple orders to prevent eBay resellers from buying up all the inventory. I like @KDemo’s idea of waiting for Meh Encore on MorningSave to buy more.
@KDemo I think it was because the account was from the same IP address. @kidsandliz helped me out. Thanks so much kidsandliz!! @shawn, I totally understand, not trying any funny business and they definitely won’t be resold, unless it’s at a yard sale cause they suck or are annoying!
Well now I have two back-ups (wasteful-jolly-root) got them at harbor freight 3 years ago, they seem to do ok unless the wind blows hard then its bing-bong or some noise like that so I just turn them off until she stops blowing…
But get this: Several purchasers tried to install it in their mailboxes, per the suggestions in the comments, failed, and wrote to customer support complaining that it didn’t work. Yes, we were asked to refund money because a product didn’t do what some random nutjobs (all due respect) suggested in the comments. We did not.
@mehbee I need to know when my zillion dollar check is going to arrive from Publisher’s Clearing House. Where I live someone would likely steal it without a warning unless I remembered to enter from my billing address (a friend’s house that backs up to a golf course) instead of where I actually live (which backs up to 8’ fences between us and very large homes who are likely pissed over the development here and “fronts and sides” up to no fence between us and the homeless, muggings, parking lots and commercial stuff).
@Kidsandliz Well I’m pretty sure no such check is coming my why but I do get excited when the little true mail I get arrives…will it be junk mail, a bill, jury duty, a card(yes I still get one or two of those!), or sigh with happiness, will it be a PACKAGE!!!
@mehbee Yeah I have jury duty in my future too. Just got, the other day, one of those forms you have to fill out, accompanied by all the threats of bad shit that will happen to you if you don’t do it.
@DickE since it is now two hours later for future reference…
You can cancel an order within 60 minutes. The cancel link will show in your account on the page with the order.
And then reorder what you want.
Two separate orders in my experience will actually ship in separate boxes unless they’ve tweaked their shopping process. And of course two separate shipping charges if you don’t have VMP.
… Or contact customer support, except that isn’t likely to help in this case, outside office hours and on a weekend.
@TheFLP baseball bat deflectors hmmm… once, in a very small town, my next door neighbor put out her newly made “special” mail box at the street. Special because it was full of cement. We had had a rash of mail box drive by (from the back of a pick up truck according to witnesses) smashing of which her box 2x in 4 days had been the victim. Well the brats did it again. Only this time when their bat hit the mailbox it didn’t smash/get knocked off the post and the kid doing it broke his arm.
@Omehgawd Well attach it to some rube goldburg contraption that is triggered by the sensor that will dump some thing on her that she hates on top of the noise. I am sure the same people who had too much time on their hands that figured out how to alert them to the arrival of the mail can figure it out for you.
@RedOak Yep, we’re retrained. And when we mess up, we’re punished not only by our missing food, but the fragrant flatulence for the next 12 hours or so.
@DickE note: you can reply to a comment directly under that comment, rather than as a new stand alone comment.
And it was my reply to your comment that was two hours later (and too late to cancel your order), not your frustration with being able to increase your order quantity.
These are terrible. Sun light and wind makes em go off, them the cats go off!! As do I. They look cool and high tech but not if they constantly go off and then I am checking for mail with the same constancy.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Outdoor unit
1x Indoor unit
1x Set of mounting hardware
Pictures
Included
Back
Retail packaging
Price Comparison
$21 at Amazon
Warranty
1 Year Swann
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
/giphy blah
nice and it turns 15 today
/giphy unmoved
The price actually went down. The last time it was offered, it was $15. That’s unusual. Usually the prices go up on Meh.
@cengland0 Not only that, the one they sold last time was only for driveways, this one does not have that limitation ^^.
@lichme Except this time we know it doesn’t work in a mailbox.
@cengland0 Except perhaps maybe this time it will - last time he obviously didn’t have way too much time on his hand, only just a little bit too much. Might make a difference.
I got this last time… can I get my money back because I didn’t try to put it in my mailbox?
Still have some from 1990’s.
Meh
Shoutout to warshington! DAMN YOU DAVE!
@therealjrn Woo Hoo!
I thought it was used to tell me when this guy shows up…
@somf69 they have some good food. I remember them being pretty expensive though…
@somf69
Swann small step for man…
I didn’t buy one of these the last time, and therefore didn’t have the opportunity to put one in my mailbox and have it not work. Can i have someone else’s money back?
@DaveInSoCal our dog barks when the mail gets put in the box. Works really well. Do you think this very reasonably priced gadget could be rigged to pick up dog poop?
You did NOT send me a free one for my rabbit problem last time. As a result, I now have many more invading my yard. (Pic taken yesterday)
@lichme Couldn’t consider something that cute to be “a problem.”
@lichme New rabbits come from piles of pellet poop?
@reddinghill actually, those “pellet” piles are the neighbor baiting the yard for rabbits so his pet falcon can have some fun.
@lichme If it’s not intended to detect swan motion, why do you think it would detect the ever-more-subtle rabbit motion?
@cengland0 I have a young one at home who likes to help clean… everything. The pellets actually seem to be killing the grass too (weird), and the holes in the yard for baby nests are not fun either. They’re only cute when they’re little.
@lichme I have an infestation of goslings at my house.
@lichme
/giphy bunny bunny bunny
Indoor unit uses 3x C battery. Really? Who uses C batteries? Do they still sell those anywhere?
/eightball Indoor unit uses 3x C battery. Really?
Most likely
Without a doubt
Don’t count on it
/eightball Who uses C batteries?
/eightball Do they still sell those anywhere?
@cengland0 Yes, and these kinda gadgets always take Cs or Ds. They need the long lasting power so that you’re not changing em out every month. And they need to be Cs or Ds cause cheap and cause you gotta buy em. I had to buy like a caseload for those Mr. Beams lights.
@cengland0
/giphy your mom
@jml326 i always wondered why there was a 12v marine battery in grandma’s nightstand…
Cheap price for some peace of mind. I’m in.
guess what this won’t do.
@alacrity tell you when the mail has arrived? LOL
@alacrity Detect motion?
@alacrity Detect margaritas?
I don’t have a swan(n), driveway or mailbox, but for 10 bucks, what the heck. It might work as a good doorstop.
According to the manual, you can install the indoor unit in your “secret underground submarine docking station”
@cengland0 Good to know. In for two.
@heartny, dude, you got TWO secret underground submarine docking stations??
/giphy the good life
@cengland0 LOL… We needed one on the bow of the schooner I worked on in Norfolk on the Elizabeth River where we sailed, daily, past the Navy base. Needed a submarine alert system on the bow for stray submarines in the river. One time we nearly ran over a submarine… true story…the captain said, “but I don’t see it on radar” (after I had run back to tell him since he was ignoring my hand signals) - duh, of course not… and then he realized how dumb he sounded.
I’m in…if you throw in the 9 volt battery.
Meh security alarm -/ double meh- don’t know think swans will be coming up to my door maybe opossums but not swans!( opposums love cat food I leave outside for the feral cats
)
@AttyVette meant “don’t think any swans …”
This might alert the swan’s from the gators.
MY doggie loves my front door one will be happier now that I have a different brand for the back door. Hope they are on different channels, but for the price, you can’t beat it.
@bobcj0 Instructions state that you have to link them so you can have multiple units without them interfering.
Anybody else having this problem getting to the meh home page? It took me 30 minutes to buy one. The forums seem to work just fine though.
@cengland0 Yes - except for the time it is I was thinking fuko?
@cengland0 not that atypical. But it could also be our truly crappy uverse router.
Nope! No. Uh-uh. No. This thing… no.
I am, however, pleased to share that today I’ve beaten my record for consecutive meh clicks:
104 in a row
longest streak: 104
Apparently I missed a day in February, probably right around when I was getting surgically shanked in the spine to get some relief from a few collapsed discs. Damn you, biology, for trying to stifle my unrepentant consumerism!
FYI- The mailbox alarm works perfectly.
I’m VERY happy with it.
I have them guarding my fruit trees & garden. Some #%@^&head raided my yard last year taking all my fruit and much of the food from my garden. If they try it this year hopefully I can catch them in the act.
@mbimeh Happened to me too. I had it on video with some cheap analog cameras. Asked around if anyone recognized the faces from print-outs. It was a bad video. But still found out where the kids lived and then a friend asked me what I planned to do when I confronted the kids. Didn’t have a good answer so I didn’t do anything.
I’ve since upgraded to some digital 1080p cameras so I’ll get a really good look at them the next time. It’s now been about 7 years and nobody has touched my trees.
@mbimeh
Twice the deterrent:
Next time give the fuck head thieves some salt and pepper to go with the produce- Load your 12 gague with: 12 Gauge Salt & Pepper Rounds ½&½ hot pepper powder/rock salt,
@Zebra
@DickE…so the cops can go chasing sneezing crooks!
@cengland0
So the new cameras worked! Good news.
@cengland0 like, actual kids? (as opposed to 20-somethings living on their own?) because then i’d just tell their parents. even if they have shitty parents who won’t reprimand them, often just knowing they were found out is enough to dissuade them from doing it a second time. usually that stuff is ‘because i can, and because no one will know it was me.’
(but also, it makes me so sad! people are just so inconsiderate to their fellow humans sometimes
)
@jerk_nugget Yes, kids around 10 to 12 years old stole my tangerines.
One day I was at one of the ponds in the neighborhood watching baby ducklings. There was a young kid around 7 or 8 throwing rocks and sticks at the ducks. One hit a baby and I took the kid to his house to tell his mother what happened. She didn’t care. Luckily there was a paramedic next door who helped revive the duckling. I took it home for a couple days until it fully recovered then released it back to it’s mother.
After that experience, I figured the people living in the apartment complex nearby my house don’t care what kind of trouble their kids get into. It wasn’t worth my time tracking down their address for about 20 tangerines that they took. I wasn’t going to press charges and take them to court or anything like that so what good would it have done to spend that time?!?!?
I’m gonna grab 2 at this price and figure out what i’m going to task them to when they arrive, lol, nice deal team Meh.
Anything I can do to give Mom extra peace of mind now that she’s alone on the farm (and afraid of the .38 I left for her when I was there last month).
Despite the limitations and crappy C battery requirement, in for one (maybe 2?)
/image wishful cursive cattle
I won one of these last time. My son has an absolute blast with it - he loves it and it works very, very well . . . If you buy the little AA to C battery adapters, you can use a single rechargeable Eneloop in place of each C battery and save a lot of $$ as the thing eats batteries like @MrsPavlov eats chocolate, IME.
This is a sore dick deal. You just can’t beat it!
@f00l,@kdemo, and heck I don’t know who to tag, does anyone know who I can ask that if these are still available later that maybe I can buy two more? My family mostly live in the country with long driveways and these would be great. I bought three, one for myself, my mama and one of my sisters. Then I texted another sister and a nephew not even thinking about the limit, of course they both responded. The nephew can be disappointed but not the baby sister. If I have to go without I will but I’ll be sad
and alas unprotected! Any help will be immensely appreciated.
@mehbee If you reimburse me I can buy 3 for you. Email me at my username at yahoo. @woodhouse @thumperchick @Iforgetwhothethirdpersonis once someone changed the number someone could buy of something for me so I could get more since they were no where near selling out and I wanted them for christmas presents for family. Perhaps this could be done for @mehbee?
@Kidsandliz You are always the sweetest and most generous person. Let’s see if they let me buy a couple more and if not I can definitely reimburse you. Thank you so much for the offer and the help.
@mehbee Early on 2 people were involved in helping me get enough speaker docs for family for birthdays/christmas… just paying it forward. I am not going to be home some of today so don’t wait until too late. You might want to email me now so I can give you my phone number and then you can call me if you need me to do it (I don’t check internet stuff on my phone).
@Kidsandliz @mehbee I have no idea how to do that, but I know the layman’s workaround is to use a second account.
@Thumperchick So that is OK? I don’t mind creating one in my husband’s name but just wasn’t sure if it was three per person or per address. I’d rather do that and save @kidsandliz 's good nature for something I really truly want! I mean I want these but let’s be honest, they’re not speaker docks.
@mehbee seems way easier than doing the money shuffle with @kidsandliz
@Thumperchick it does but its still won’t let me buy them. New account, different name and different credit card. By the way, this is me!
@Thumperchick That’s a bummer I set up my sister an account so I could just send hers and my moms to her, but I guess since I’m paying for it, if still won’t let me buy it. I’m sure they will sell them again or at least I hope so. I thought of another way I can use it. We are putting up an above ground pool and I can put one near there.
@dbreland1015 @mehbee so you still need me to buy them then? Email me at my user name and the usual yahoo. Do you have a different credit card you can put in there? That might make a difference.
@dbreland1015 surprising that didn’t work. Try a neighbor or relative’s address in the second account?
@Kidsandliz
Umm, weren’t supposed to tell anyone about that back door, right?
@dbreland1015 @mehbee I wonder if it’s not passing authorization because of the shipping address.
@narfcake I changed the name to my sister’s and shipping address to her home address. Only thing I can think is the billing address for the CC. But shouldn’t like my husband be able to buy his own?
@dbreland1015 check your email. I just answered you.
@mehbee - I just noticed that you tagged me. The second account really should work. I’d ask @shawn if he can tell what’s holding it up.
Not sure if anyone’s around to help on a holiday weekend, though.
If they don’t all sell, there’s a fair chance you will be able to buy some on MorningSave later. Since you’re still VMP, it won’t cost much more.
Good luck!
@mehbee we do some fuzzy matching of multiple orders to prevent eBay resellers from buying up all the inventory. I like @KDemo’s idea of waiting for Meh Encore on MorningSave to buy more.
@KDemo I think it was because the account was from the same IP address. @kidsandliz helped me out. Thanks so much kidsandliz!! @shawn, I totally understand, not trying any funny business and they definitely won’t be resold, unless it’s at a yard sale cause they suck or are annoying!
Well now I have two back-ups (wasteful-jolly-root) got them at harbor freight 3 years ago, they seem to do ok unless the wind blows hard then its bing-bong or some noise like that so I just turn them off until she stops blowing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
@pflats but look above and @daveinwarsh did get it to work and says it works well…
@Kidsandliz hoping @daveinwarsh posts instructions, don’t really need to know when my mail is here but its just so darn cool!
@mehbee I need to know when my zillion dollar check is going to arrive from Publisher’s Clearing House. Where I live someone would likely steal it without a warning unless I remembered to enter from my billing address (a friend’s house that backs up to a golf course) instead of where I actually live (which backs up to 8’ fences between us and very large homes who are likely pissed over the development here and “fronts and sides” up to no fence between us and the homeless, muggings, parking lots and commercial stuff).
@Kidsandliz Well I’m pretty sure no such check is coming my why but I do get excited when the little true mail I get arrives…will it be junk mail, a bill, jury duty, a card(yes I still get one or two of those!), or sigh with happiness, will it be a PACKAGE!!!
@mehbee Yeah I have jury duty in my future too. Just got, the other day, one of those forms you have to fill out, accompanied by all the threats of bad shit that will happen to you if you don’t do it.
I want one for U.S. mail delivery, but I’ll install it within the path the mail person takes to my mail box, near my front door.
Anyone know how to change quantity after you’ve ordered?
@DickE since it is now two hours later for future reference…
You can cancel an order within 60 minutes. The cancel link will show in your account on the page with the order.
And then reorder what you want.
Two separate orders in my experience will actually ship in separate boxes unless they’ve tweaked their shopping process. And of course two separate shipping charges if you don’t have VMP.
… Or contact customer support, except that isn’t likely to help in this case, outside office hours and on a weekend.
So why 2 hours when no ones on weekends. Guess all the humor stops when it comes to providing good customer service.
Whoa. Is that someone’s actual mailbox (minus the Photoshopped motion sensor)?
Much cooler than the typical DIY baseball bat deflectors around here.
@TheFLP baseball bat deflectors hmmm… once, in a very small town, my next door neighbor put out her newly made “special” mail box at the street. Special because it was full of cement. We had had a rash of mail box drive by (from the back of a pick up truck according to witnesses) smashing of which her box 2x in 4 days had been the victim. Well the brats did it again. Only this time when their bat hit the mailbox it didn’t smash/get knocked off the post and the kid doing it broke his arm.
@Kidsandliz And I think that manatee would then proceed to eat said kid.
My dog gets on the counter to steal people food. Hope this alarm is loud enough to scare her straight.
@Omehgawd Well attach it to some rube goldburg contraption that is triggered by the sensor that will dump some thing on her that she hates on top of the noise. I am sure the same people who had too much time on their hands that figured out how to alert them to the arrival of the mail can figure it out for you.
@Omehgawd
Our dog does that as well.
Pavlov’s dogs… except in this case it isn’t the dogs that got trained - we have been retrained not to leave food within jaw range.
@RedOak Yep, we’re retrained. And when we mess up, we’re punished not only by our missing food, but the fragrant flatulence for the next 12 hours or so.
@Omehgawd ha! Sounds familiar.
Our dog is partial to bagels. He can also go thru a half loaf of bread pretty quickly.
idiotic-errant-caviar
@tomgreco That order number string really needs a random image.
/giphy idiotic errant caviar
You would not believe how many tries it took to get less-offensive search result for that.
wasent 2 hrs., a fwe minutes my time
@DickE note: you can reply to a comment directly under that comment, rather than as a new stand alone comment.
And it was my reply to your comment that was two hours later (and too late to cancel your order), not your frustration with being able to increase your order quantity.
I got 2 of them. Just to place them across from each other and detect their own movements lol
@Bayamonprieto77 That will only work if they come with ghosts. LOL
I wanted 2 and just got a third. May I return/refuse?
These are terrible. Sun light and wind makes em go off, them the cats go off!! As do I. They look cool and high tech but not if they constantly go off and then I am checking for mail with the same constancy.