Swingline … Worked in a cubicle farm a few years ago. One bored afternoon, collected all of the staplers on the floor. 79 distinct models, all Swingline. Not a single unique feature on any of them. Very weird business model. Must sub-contract manufacturing in small batches.
In completing the finishing touches in my classroom, I realized how much I really needed a quality laminator. Unfortunately I’m a teacher and dropping over a hundred on such a device just isn’t gonna happen. Well, fuck.
It’s almost as if you realized how much I’ve been longing for a laminator with ““Intelligent” pouch thickness detection to determine optimal settings based on thickness,” Meh. I don’t know how you do it.
Just stopped by to click the meh button…And even that doesn’t do this “deal” any justice. Blech…Save it for the whiners who need their beauty sleep…it’ll be a nice surprise for them…:)
I’m not sure at what price a laminator becomes an impulse buy item. And I’m not sure how many people need a laminator, but don’t want the $20 model, but don’t want to spend $400 on the high end model, and will check Meh today. Think it might sell fewer units than yesterday’s TV.
Then again, maybe I’m just not the target audience for this offer. You could make the same argument about blenders as I did above, and if I hadn’t had a Vitamix already I’d have been all over one of those Blendtecs.
@KDemo Hey! No, all the flooding is a few hours south of here, thankfully. We have been getting lots of rain off of that system, but not dangerous amounts. Thanks for checking in on me, though!
@djslack Aw man c’mon, I just found a crayon and a blank piece of paper in my house, stuck it in a foodsaver bag and uploaded a pic of it to the internet just for a goof, and now you’re asking me to go downstairs and turn on the iron?! You ask too much.
@Moose So… I found crayon and paper, vacuum sealed, and then couldn’t find the iron. We bought a house yesterday, and my fiancee has been packing random stuff in anticipation for two weeks.
So I tried a hair dryer. Didn’t work. But just so I didn’t ask you to do something I wouldn’t do myself, here’s where we are so far:
I’m still looking for the iron, so if I find it, I’ll continue for science.
@ELUNO does everyone elses’ screen show an otter (or whatever animal that is) about to grab 1/2 an ice cream sandwich after the sound check ends? Where is that video? How does it relate to laminated coupons, are the coupons for ice cream sandwiches? If there are enough ice cream sandwiches to share with furry friends and i’m a llama, do i get one?
The videos at the end are just suggested videos that YouTube thinks you would like, not related videos. Mine change depending on the last few videos I’ve watched.
@ELUNO I had the same video show up after I watched some otter videos. I already had the icecream sandwich otter photo saved on my phone from months and months ago.
@fuzzmanmatt Comparing apples to oranges. Yours is a highly rated laminator, so I’m sure you’re pleased with your purchase. It ‘s a great product for the money–a good value. There are some major differences in the specs on the two units, though, so it’s not really fair to say the $20 one is the same thing as the one Meh is offering. …just sayin’
@lizalyo you’re right, for the six things I’ve laminated mine was totally worth it. If i was purchasing for work, it’d be a different story. But really, i only laminated my ham licence, my medical information card, and my heavy equipment operators licence. And lots of crap that probably didn’t need to get covered in melted plastic…
@JasonToon tried so very hard to make me understand why I need this but alas I still do not understand why I need it. I have a laminator already and thus I must pass.
I read the copy a few times. I must have missed it. Does this come with any Lami? Whatever those sheets are called. No laminator sheets is what I’m asking?
A laminator is a dream come true. If I had a laminator, I’d be mentioning it in every conversation.
I have 1 of these GBC Laminators and they suck! Had to use it today. Do yourself a favor and get a different brand which don’t need you to buy protective covers to put the laminate in. They don’t tell you these carp before you buy it either n then you have to figure out what the hella you need to do to keep the laminate from melting and sticking on the machine’s rollers . . . Meh! Oh yah, just read the guy’s above mine . . . they don’t come with any laminate packs either (like other laminators do.)
@klaptrap Circuit breaker code must be broken, and no one from meh is around this weekend to keep the beauty sleepers from rioting, so they stacked their most meh deals possible, put it on autopilot, hoped for the best, and skeedaddled right out of town. Cause you don’t want to be in town when the beauty sleepers riot because meh isn’t “fair”.
Yikes, just me and 25 other teachers/spouses-of-teachers that were super excited about this deal, it looks like. I wish I could get another one for her team at work.
/giphy succinct-notieable-fork
Is it just me or did @jasontoon take credit for 1 thing twice. He say 5 thing set this unit apart: width of laminated item, thickness of pouch, that it is thermal, then the volume. The volume he noted 2 ways: 47 inches a minute or up to 4 letter size pouches (4x11=44, expect a 1/4 margin all around so really 46 which is still less than 47 in previous clause). Seems to me jasontoon skimped out on an attribute. Or is meh’s sale price an unstated attribute?
Discuss (she says, hoping for some amusing dialogue)
@mollama i think the fifth one was requested by asking the Meh.tizens, aMeh.ricans and Meh.xicans to provide the fifth wheel of the sales pitch.
but yea, there is the price, unfortunately that was listed before the counting began, so of course it doesn’t count.
did you count how many songs @jasontoon actually listed in his “10 song play list” , and the one by the who seems to be by not the who. but the other 8 or 10 were fabulous.
As a teacher, I can see the value of having one of these purchased for the department or having a break room laminator.
However, you have to get permission to purchase this out of the budget, which is impossible on a Sunday.
@wickhameh oh buy it. They will reimburse you. Right after the area principle says sure, and the district head says sure and the school board meets. It’s a sure thing! Not
Found a letter-sized laminator at GW for $7.99 and bought a pack of generic sheets for about $15. Slow to heat up and slow to do a sheet, but how often do I use it? 50 years ago, on the night before I joined the Army, my father came to my room and handed me a small, fragile printed prayer he had carried all through WWII. So now it is really quite old and I laminated it. Think of stuff you have before you decide about not owning one.
i think Meh. wants to donate one of these to my spouse who teaches high school math in a disadvantaged urban district. i just know they want to, i know it, i know it
like kevin costner said in field of dreams
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Could I feed bits of plant matter through it? I remember “laminating” four-leaf clovers with contact paper or packing tape when I was a kid.
/giphy lucky
In our house we have one of the cheapo $20 ones that I bought at Wal-mart. My wife likes to cook, and prints recipes that she finds while internet browsing. Ones that everyone like get laminated and put into a binder. She is now up to about 5 volumes of spill-proof personalized cookbook.
As a tabletop game designer, I REALLY want to buy this, but refurbs have burned me in the past and I’ve already got a crappy $20 machine. I literally have sheets too wide for mine that this would handle just fine… blargh.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Laminator
Pictures
Laminator
Tray
Close up of controls. Quite exciting, this computer magic.
Suzanne is cramming for her finals
Your kids will expect their art to stay on the fridge for way longer now
Baby arm
Price Comparison
$390.99 (new) at Amazon
Find a relevant price comparison? Please share it in a comment in this thread
Warranty
90 Day Mediocre
Expensive…
Meh laminator –
Dafuq?
Swingline … Worked in a cubicle farm a few years ago. One bored afternoon, collected all of the staplers on the floor. 79 distinct models, all Swingline. Not a single unique feature on any of them. Very weird business model. Must sub-contract manufacturing in small batches.
@MehnofLaMehncha you are the reason that this exists…
@TheDagda
Hey! I gave them all back! Just borrowed them for our inventory!!
I could totally use this at work! I am always needing to make signs in my libary.
@conandlibrarian
/giphy libary
When I saw the price I thought it said $10 and I nearly mashed the buy button.
@lljk
These things are expensive cuz the only customers are businesses and government. One writes it off, the other doesn’t give a shit what anything costs.
@MehnofLaMehncha this one is nicer than the one in my office… I want to buy it so bad…
@lljk I thought it said $10.00 too! Wow!! what a double take I did.
110? Are you crazy meh?
/giphy laminate me
Ooh, kinda neat. My wife is a teacher and she laminates stuff all the time for her class. Hmm, early Christmas present?
A $110 refurbished laminator? Is that price missing a decimal point between the ones or are lamination machines that freakin’ expensive?
@Tin_Foil The latter. If you’ll turn your attention to the three hundred ninety dollar price comp…
He’s got a point, it’s historically expensive for whatever reason.
@Moose The former. A good price on laminator is $20-30. Years ago i got one such from Microcenter.
Very, very niche this one - for someone to need it because of speed. It’s like “high-throughput pencil sharpener”.
Lam-meh-nator
This is what I stayed up to 9pm for?
Can I use it to store extremely thin slices of food?
@awk I can’t see why not.
@awk even better you could seal them raw and then store them cooked!
@awk
Was thinking the same thing. Vacuum sealers for individual slices of smoked turkey?
@awk it will also cook your food. It’s a thermal laminator.
@awk
How does this compare to a left-curve banana slicer?
@awk Why do you want me to ruin the laminator I just bought?
In completing the finishing touches in my classroom, I realized how much I really needed a quality laminator. Unfortunately I’m a teacher and dropping over a hundred on such a device just isn’t gonna happen. Well, fuck.
@mehdaf
I love the smell of mimeograph ink in the morning.
Hey @studerc Amazon has the 9" version on sale today for $15.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B010PK3G96/
The 12" version is $42.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01JQ98AZC/
Staples is selling this new for $800 not a bad price. http://www.staples.com/Swingline-GBC-Fusion-5100L-12-inch-Laminator-1-Minute-Warm-up-15-10/product_1668257
Can somebody tell Meh that their account must be hacked?!
@IdHateMe
Sure
@Moose
@everyone
According to this guy, your account’s been hacked. Did that happen, what, 2 years ago?
@IdHateMe Is he taking credit?! GET HIM!
This immediately made me think of Creed from The Office.
@Pantheist Funny, I just finished watching Creed the movie.
It’s almost as if you realized how much I’ve been longing for a laminator with ““Intelligent” pouch thickness detection to determine optimal settings based on thickness,” Meh. I don’t know how you do it.
Just stopped by to click the meh button…And even that doesn’t do this “deal” any justice. Blech…Save it for the whiners who need their beauty sleep…it’ll be a nice surprise for them…:)
I love @beachhead
It’s like cake by the ocean…
A…laminator??? What feckin’ year is it?
@alexpope Tomorrow’s deal: ditto machines.
$390 for just the laminator on Amazon, but if you buy the laminator with pouches it drops down to $271.81. Something’s not right there…
@a13z They do a sneaky model switch on that bundle.
@djslack wow that is sneaky! Thanks for the clarification.
Great for those letters you send Meh and Woot to complain about crappy deals.
/giphy meh
I’m not sure at what price a laminator becomes an impulse buy item. And I’m not sure how many people need a laminator, but don’t want the $20 model, but don’t want to spend $400 on the high end model, and will check Meh today. Think it might sell fewer units than yesterday’s TV.
Then again, maybe I’m just not the target audience for this offer. You could make the same argument about blenders as I did above, and if I hadn’t had a Vitamix already I’d have been all over one of those Blendtecs.
Been thinking of you, @djslack. Guess you didn’t get your feet wet in the floods?
@KDemo Hey! No, all the flooding is a few hours south of here, thankfully. We have been getting lots of rain off of that system, but not dangerous amounts. Thanks for checking in on me, though!
Can’t I just use my FoodSaver to vacuum seal my documents?
/giphy you win the internet
@ELUNO Sure, if you want it to look like lunchmeat
(please don’t use this picture to forge my signature on anything)
@Moose Wow. Maybe if you ironed it it would look more official.
@Moose Perfect!
@djslack Actually, ironing might make the rest of the areas “seal” making it more like a laminate.
@djslack Aw man c’mon, I just found a crayon and a blank piece of paper in my house, stuck it in a foodsaver bag and uploaded a pic of it to the internet just for a goof, and now you’re asking me to go downstairs and turn on the iron?! You ask too much.
@Moose Do it for science! You can prove to everyone with a foodsaver that they either do or do not also need a laminator!
I mean, I would do it, but first I’d also have to find a crayon and a piece of paper.
ETA: Challenge (not issued but still) accepted. I might have to settle for a pen or a sharpie, though.
@Moose So… I found crayon and paper, vacuum sealed, and then couldn’t find the iron. We bought a house yesterday, and my fiancee has been packing random stuff in anticipation for two weeks.
So I tried a hair dryer. Didn’t work. But just so I didn’t ask you to do something I wouldn’t do myself, here’s where we are so far:
I’m still looking for the iron, so if I find it, I’ll continue for science.
@djslack @Moose
ok, I had to do it.
Since I take money savings seriously, I tested laminating some coupons.
It doesn’t look too great, but to confirm how laminated it is, I also conducted the famous laminated sound test:
@ELUNO does everyone elses’ screen show an otter (or whatever animal that is) about to grab 1/2 an ice cream sandwich after the sound check ends? Where is that video? How does it relate to laminated coupons, are the coupons for ice cream sandwiches? If there are enough ice cream sandwiches to share with furry friends and i’m a llama, do i get one?
@mollama
The videos at the end are just suggested videos that YouTube thinks you would like, not related videos. Mine change depending on the last few videos I’ve watched.
@RiotDemon So now we know a little bit more about @mollama and what is inside his/her psyche…
@ELUNO That sounds laminated to me! Awesome!
@ELUNO I had the same video show up after I watched some otter videos. I already had the icecream sandwich otter photo saved on my phone from months and months ago.
@RiotDemon lol. And that is why your life is so much more interesting than mine. I need more otters!
@ELUNO
/youtube otters chasing a butterfly
@RiotDemon Aww, that’s great. Plus they have monkeys to play with!
/giphy instameh
why would ANYONE spend
hundred and 
on this I wouldn’t know
My job uses a $170 laminator. It’s slow as molasses. It takes ~45 seconds to laminate an 8x10.
Looked it up, 12" a minute.
This machine is four times as fast.
I’m almost tempted to suggest they buy it… But I would hate if it shows up broken, so I’ll pass.
@RiotDemon yeah, plus being a refurb you would constantly be on the edge thinking “when will it crap out?”
I bought mine for, like, $20… https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ZI7MI96/
@fuzzmanmatt Comparing apples to oranges. Yours is a highly rated laminator, so I’m sure you’re pleased with your purchase. It ‘s a great product for the money–a good value. There are some major differences in the specs on the two units, though, so it’s not really fair to say the $20 one is the same thing as the one Meh is offering. …just sayin’
@lizalyo you’re right, for the six things I’ve laminated mine was totally worth it. If i was purchasing for work, it’d be a different story. But really, i only laminated my ham licence, my medical information card, and my heavy equipment operators licence. And lots of crap that probably didn’t need to get covered in melted plastic…
/giphy you can’t laminate your way out of this one meh
@JasonToon tried so very hard to make me understand why I need this but alas I still do not understand why I need it. I have a laminator already and thus I must pass.
There’s something special about hermetically sealing your memento for perpetuity.
@KDemo Can I seal my mentos?
/image mentos
How does this compare to a Ziplock?
Now if you could laminate a turd without getting shitty results I might be in…
@somf69
Maybe if you polish the turd first.
@warpedrotors Only if it is French Polishing.
This will keep my cheese fresh!
@Fish_Kungfu as long as it is very thinly sliced cheese, you might want to think about the vacu seal deal instead
I read the copy a few times. I must have missed it. Does this come with any Lami? Whatever those sheets are called. No laminator sheets is what I’m asking?
A laminator is a dream come true. If I had a laminator, I’d be mentioning it in every conversation.
@wew Can’t you pretend you have one and mention it regardless?
@ELUNO shhhh.
@ELUNO
"Irregardless." I mean, come on now.
/giphy irregardless
@f00l Wait what?
/giphy you crazy
@ELUNO
/giphy crazy wha?
@f00l
/giphy too drunk for shenanigans
@ELUNO
/giphy wha?
I have 1 of these GBC Laminators and they suck! Had to use it today. Do yourself a favor and get a different brand which don’t need you to buy protective covers to put the laminate in. They don’t tell you these carp before you buy it either n then you have to figure out what the hella you need to do to keep the laminate from melting and sticking on the machine’s rollers . . . Meh! Oh yah, just read the guy’s above mine . . . they don’t come with any laminate packs either (like other laminators do.)
@marcuskoenig it says in the description:
Compatible with 3, 5, 6, and 10 mil thermal pouches without carrier or 1.5 mil with carrier
@RiotDemon
Well, this is certainly… something different.
Y’all know that these “pouches” are just overpriced parchment paper, right?
Or is it wax paper. Or silicone bakers sheets. I forget.
@mike808 Yeah so? Do you want us to just buy those and somehow laminate manually?
@mike808 I doubt that. I have wax paper, parchment paper, and silicone mats. They are nothing like the laminating pouches, which are plastic.
@mike808 i prefer to laminate with tin foil, because reusable
These things are great for printing up your own backstage passes. Pays for itself after one use.
@mike808
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/i-dont-work-here-1
At least it’s baby arm compatible. It has that going for it.
What’s with all the expensive crap lately? Where’s our cheap garbage! Come on meh!
/giphy this makes the 720p tv look like a good deal
@klaptrap Circuit breaker code must be broken, and no one from meh is around this weekend to keep the beauty sleepers from rioting, so they stacked their most meh deals possible, put it on autopilot, hoped for the best, and skeedaddled right out of town. Cause you don’t want to be in town when the beauty sleepers riot because meh isn’t “fair”.
/giphy laminate the earth
@therealjrn Cat broom. For whenever you need your broom to leave more hair on the floor than it picks up.
@therealjrn @ELUNO
Perhaps I’ll use this to take over the NSA. Badges…stinkin’ badges. That’ll do the trick, won’t it?
/giphy stinking badges
@f00l please. This is the only "stinking badges"
stinking
Yikes, just me and 25 other teachers/spouses-of-teachers that were super excited about this deal, it looks like. I wish I could get another one for her team at work.
/giphy succinct-notieable-fork
Six hours and twenty-seven minutes in and they’ve managed to only sell 27 of these, and even that surprises me.
@JustKen, I actually expect that it will sell out.
@Pavlov you are right, but there were only 100 in stock to begin with
Is it just me or did @jasontoon take credit for 1 thing twice. He say 5 thing set this unit apart: width of laminated item, thickness of pouch, that it is thermal, then the volume. The volume he noted 2 ways: 47 inches a minute or up to 4 letter size pouches (4x11=44, expect a 1/4 margin all around so really 46 which is still less than 47 in previous clause). Seems to me jasontoon skimped out on an attribute. Or is meh’s sale price an unstated attribute?
Discuss (she says, hoping for some amusing dialogue)
@mollama The letter sized pouches are 4x11. So, … wait for it …
.
THIS ONE GOES TO ELEVEN!
@mollama i think the fifth one was requested by asking the Meh.tizens, aMeh.ricans and Meh.xicans to provide the fifth wheel of the sales pitch.
but yea, there is the price, unfortunately that was listed before the counting began, so of course it doesn’t count.
did you count how many songs @jasontoon actually listed in his “10 song play list”
, and the one by the who seems to be by not the who. but the other 8 or 10 were fabulous.
As a teacher, I can see the value of having one of these purchased for the department or having a break room laminator.
However, you have to get permission to purchase this out of the budget, which is impossible on a Sunday.
@wickhameh oh buy it. They will reimburse you. Right after the area principle says sure, and the district head says sure and the school board meets. It’s a sure thing! Not
@wickhameh I’m shocked that reimbursement is even an option for you. Around these parts, everyone just has to buy their own stuff.
Found a letter-sized laminator at GW for $7.99 and bought a pack of generic sheets for about $15. Slow to heat up and slow to do a sheet, but how often do I use it? 50 years ago, on the night before I joined the Army, my father came to my room and handed me a small, fragile printed prayer he had carried all through WWII. So now it is really quite old and I laminated it. Think of stuff you have before you decide about not owning one.
I was hoping for a auto feed scanner. Meh
@Charliethedog wow they like me someone voted for me they really like me
i think Meh. wants to donate one of these to my spouse who teaches high school math in a disadvantaged urban district. i just know they want to, i know it, i know it
like kevin costner said in field of dreams
@Yoda_Daenerys Or maybe 5 Mehtizens will chip in $22 each and make it happen before it sells out.
/giphy tick tock tick tock
Could I feed bits of plant matter through it? I remember “laminating” four-leaf clovers with contact paper or packing tape when I was a kid.
/giphy lucky
In our house we have one of the cheapo $20 ones that I bought at Wal-mart. My wife likes to cook, and prints recipes that she finds while internet browsing. Ones that everyone like get laminated and put into a binder. She is now up to about 5 volumes of spill-proof personalized cookbook.
As a tabletop game designer, I REALLY want to buy this, but refurbs have burned me in the past and I’ve already got a crappy $20 machine. I literally have sheets too wide for mine that this would handle just fine… blargh.
@shinyhat since you are vmp you should try to buy this, the warrenty is thought meh.com(but it is only 90 days)
@shinyhat he-he. “burned me in the past”… lamination humor.
Oh wow, they actually sold out!
@ELUNO well there was only 99. I’m guessing they bought 100, and kept one for the office.
Called it.
@Pavlov
/giphy you magnificent bastard!
@Pavlov I’m really glad i didn’t go with my first instinct and take you up on a bet…
@ELUNO And it looks like someone bought 3 of them. That’s a lot of laminating.
/giphy Meh had 99 problems and now they are all gone.
/giphy sold out?
Damn. My fiance is a teacher and I very much wanted one of these for her… fak!
I hope these are offered again.