The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
ALLERGENS
Free From: Egg
Free From: Milk
Free From: Peanuts
Free From: Tree Nuts
Free From: Soy
Contains Wheat
Free From: Crustacean
Free From: Fish
Not Gluten-Free
ESTIMATED DELIVERY
Monday, July 20th - Friday, July 24th
@chuegen i was thinking that once the site launched it would cease to be as “mysterious and unpredictable.” not gonna spend thirty dollars on an unknown amount, personally.
@snapster The facility would need an inspection by a rabbinical organization in order for it to be certified Kosher. Most pasta is Kosher, but not all Kosher food is Certified Kosher.
@Zelucifer thanks right; not expecting certified facility was in play here (while ingredients aren’t necessarily disqualifying.) This is higher end imported Italian pasta used in restaurants but not seeing commentary useful to @mossygreen
@mossygreen@snapster@Zelucifer if this turns out to be even a modest amount of something like rustichella d’abruzzo durum wheat pasta i’m going to be a very happy man.
i mean, i’ll also be happy if it’s an insane amount of regular pasta.
@mossygreen@snapster@Zelucifer@zippyus@unclespammy
Hey there! I did actually find some more out about this (finally, sorry for the wait!) - It looks like SOME of them are but not all. They’re all the same brand, so I’m not 100% why some are and some arn’t, BUT: Apparently both the Spaghettini and Linguini do have the ‘KF’ logo on them!
@halfling@Kaieta he said he was sending it to drunk him. Which means he’s either perpetually drunk or will watch and get drunk on the day it’s said to arrive. Maybe he meant to say from drunk him which is much easier to accomplish and makes a ton more sense.
@chienfou@smozi I think that’s the point? A few people have made the observation that pasta is already relatively inexpensive (<$1/lb.) at grocery stores. Who knows how long PastaDrop lasts? 6 months, until restaurants open back up and supply chains re-equalize? Maybe it morphs into an Italian restaurant supply center? Who knows… but it’s not your standard known-quantity deal, it’s more akin to the “grab bag” style loot boxes out there with a single product. Regardless, I’m in for 1.
Uh oh. At least 2 orders went through even though it showed a problem processing the order. I just figured site was busy, so I kept clicking. Cancelled one. Will wait to see if more appear in order history.
It won’t let me Pasta Drop at all. It keeps coming up with the “Something went wrong on our end” message. Meh.com is taking a long time to load pages as well. Did Pasta Drop break the internet? Meh was so determined to try this experiment that no one bothered to ask if they should. The ramifications of their hubris could be devastating.
@alandanziger I was able to get through right after posting this. Coincidence? Well…probably. It still took three times to get the order to go through once I actually got to the order page (which was the first time I saw how much the thing actually cost, which was weird). It was like trying to buy an IRK. Speaking of which, mine still hasn’t even shipped from the last Meh-rathon. Let’s see which one shows up first, the pasta or the IRK.
@vinuash They’re just going to drop a big pot of cooked pasta into a trash bag and stuff it in a box. It should be green by the time it arrives in the mail.
@dancin8 just a little bit of an overload - activating a Memberhship for shipping gets run through as if it were a ‘separate transaction’, but try again in 10-20ish mins and should go through! We’re all eager on our end too haha
@andrd You realize who we’re ordering from, right? It’s probably going to be 7 lbs of candy corn, a bluetooth nosehair clipper, and <REDACTED> of pasta!
I included a membership in my order. Amazingly, the membership processed but the rest of the order didn’t? Did I just pay for shipping on a failed order?
Took a number of attempts to get through. Order finally went through… and my credit card flagged it. “HEY, WHY WOULD YOU BE MAIL-ORDERING PASTA? THAT SEEMS WEIRD, PLEASE REVIEW THIS”
Anyone with an actual order number? I’m trying to give you money in exchange for an unspecified quantity of pasta with unspecified quality… Can you hurry up and fix it?
I’m excited my order just went through! Something is wrong with me that I can’t wait to get an unspecified amount of an unknown type of pasta in an unknown amount of time. Can’t be any worse than the last 8 weeks of quarantine purchasing.
Got two errors when I tried to order (using the VMP code that got emailed out), but also received two order confirmations - both for $0. The email specifically stated only one coupon per account, so I canceled one of them. Hope the other goes through, if only to see how much pasta I actually am going to receive.
Definitely some bugs in the ordering system, but I’m sure it will get worked out eventually…
So the gimmick here is to pay $20 to send a random amount of dried pasta, delivered in almost a month, to other people? Or to yourself? Bulk pasta is pretty easy to find and super cheap, even now. Delivered or picked up.
All the other meh spin-offs at least have some point, even if some are redundant. I guess I don’t get the point of this one. Is the fun in not knowing if you’re getting a good deal or not? Or in not knowing if you’re just wasting food others could use because you’ll have way too much pasta? Or were you trying for a far less interesting “bag of dicks” concept? Maybe a it’s like a lottery where the only prize is random amounts of pasta?
It’s not even random types of pasta or unusual/specialty pastas. So basically it’s a BoC (a BoP, if you’d like) of one of the most boring things around where the only unknown is the amount?
I’d be curious what the business discussion that lead to this site was. I can only assume some thought of a cute domain name and things just sort of escalated. Now THAT I get it. I’ve been there.
Can anyone confirm whether the code’s used have all been redeemed? Not getting error but doesn’t seem to be doing anything. Order doesn’t seem to be going through either, not sure if it’s due to the applied code or if it’s just the bottleneck issues that @snapster mentioned
@wilstev I ordered what I thought was a promo batch. Order went through, after saying it didn’t, and with no promo. I’m gonna not touch it until we hear about the issue status.
@snapster For what it’s worth, I am now showing an order receipt timestamped 11:38 ET for a total of $0. waterproof-lowly-maple if you would like to do any internal testing (or if you even can). Never actually saw a confirmation screen, started to get the error message saying “these are selling fast. please wait a while” or similar. Closed window, waited and reopened to try again, and repeated cycle when I would get the wait a while message. I’ll stop trying now that I received the potential order confirmation.
@dzieciom@wilstev Similar issue on my side, it said that my order wasn’t going through, but I have a confirmation email with a charge of $0. Also got the added benefit of my bank sending an email about possible fraudulent charges for $0.00. Either way, I think my boss will enjoy some pasta.
@snapster So if the order went through, when it said it didn’t, and shows a charge, even though the coupon was used, it probably didn’t apply, and it’s safe to cancel the order? I don’t want to spam the servers if the thing is applied
@lichme@snapster So, I had trouble getting my orders to go through, I thought. It turns out that four actually went through. AND three of the four, I used the coupon code. Since i wasn’t getting through, I had ordered one without the code.
Anyway, three of my emails said $0 amount paid and one was for $20. I cancelled two freebies and the $20 purchase. I now have one freebie order left on my account and I am happy as a clam.
@lichme@snapster Left for a bit, came back and clicked “Let’s try that again” on the page where I entered the coupon code and tried to buy it a billion times, and this time it went through. However, order confirmation and my credit card show a charge for $20, so assuming the coupon being applied successfully doesn’t necessarily mean it worked. It just didn’t show any error message applying it.
Well after many tries earlier saying code unknown, I gave it another try a bit ago (fully assuming all used hence the error) and much to my surprise it accepted the code and e-mail received confirming code worked. Thanks for the drop, will be fun to see what arrives!
Not really sure what’s special about pastadrop… really hoping they have some wine pasta, like back in the old days of Woot wine.
That said, I can’t get my order processed… seems like meh’s servers are as busy as the CDC SARS-CoV2 labs.
@TenaciousT Yeah-- Just got a confirmation email myself after a dozen or so supposedly ‘failed’ attempts. Lets see how many orders were actually placed
/giphy fat-average-ocean
@caffeineguy We can just cancel any extras in the orders section, I got a second confirmation but the “my orders” still only has the first one. Good sign.
Meh and I have reached the point in our relationship where asking for noods doesn’t lead to anything. But that’s ok, because no one can ever take away our 7 lbs of candy corn!
My order apparently went through, but I never saw the verified screen. Please don’t charge me 400x for duplicate pasta orders. I mean it would be really funny but I’m poor
Update: purchase order shows $0 but credit card was just charged $20
Only saw the confirmation screen once and yet I’ve gotten 4 different orders placed so far as per my email; they keep coming in well after I last attempted! I’m cancelling the extras as I see them but definitely a bit strange
Wow… I’ve probably clicked the button to buy like 500+ times. You guys have got to be killing it selling pasta for the server to be so overloaded… I’m talking like dozens of orders.
@kruzen $20 worth, but probably not the same amount $20 would buy you at a grocery store. A pasta drop is ‘worth’ what someone will pay for it, and that something is $20 today.
@Star2236 we can’t tell you, other than to say that sadly you are not eligible for the deal, and that we’ve had to spend a lot of extra money on Meh that you’ve saved!
@snapster@Star2236 I can agree. The code did not work for me so I did not proceed.
Besides, I’m not a spaghettini fan, so I didn’t want to foist a random quantity of those noods on anyone.
@snapster@Star2236 I never get any VMP emails even though I am kickstarter and VMP. I don’t know why. I always get the guess what we are selling emails.
I kept getting a “Try Again Later” message every time I tried to order. I tried about 50 times and gave up. Just now got an email confirming my order. I sure hope I don’t get another 49 confirmations! No one needs that much pasta… Or do they?!
Hate to be that guy, but is there any allergy info about the noods? I’d had to send the wrong pasta to someone with an egg allergy or something similar.
@cainunable@snapster I won’t usually be obnoxious and tag you, but I wanted to emphatically express my appreciation for the allergen info (the other nutritional stuff is cool too, but if I’m honest, I give fewer fucks about that) and for the recognition that wheat-free is different from gluten-free. And for us celiacs, it’d be important that that shit be somehow certified (preferable) and/or explicitly attested by the manufacturer (pretty close, and given the squishiness of FDA reqs, in some cases maybe better).
I assume I’ll be able to try again tomorrow with the linguatini or something…they have to be out after hitting the order button and getting denied 40 times, right?
I gave up and walked away to make lunch. Came back to two order confirmation emails. Kept the one with the coupon code. Hopefully the other 373 times I clicked order won’t go through now…
I cannot think of anyone I love (or hate) enough to send a pallet of dry spaghettini; maybe if you had egg noodles, which cannot be found anywhere around here. I’ll drop Equal Heart a few shekels directly.
I accidentally ended up making two orders of an unknown quantity of pasta. Seems like a waste, because even if I had only made one order, I still wouldn’t know how much pasta I would get.
40 Plates in the Picture, 2 oz per Serving or plate. Usually sold in 16 oz lots, so 8 plates per pound, or 5 pounds of pasta, my guess is we get 5 1lb boxes of pasta.
Just got a confirmation email for an unspecified order, clicked at an unspecified time, for an unspecified amount of pasta to be delivered at an unspecified time!
It’s amazing how many people apparently do possess the ability to read but cannot read an entire email or keep a secret.
Also, unknown errors occurred when trying to drop pasta. Waiting to make sure I don’t start getting confirmation emails before trying again later. This is exciting!
Got order in finally. This will be fascinating. With the other incentives for promos at the other sites I figure it’s also worth a try. Thanks for the fun ladies and gents.
Anyone you send this to that isn’t you will obviously be a “new” ship to address. e.g. my local foodbank.
That also means you MUST uncheck the pre-checked “Billing address is the same as shipping address” checkbox.
Since the billing address is always going to be different than the ship to, you have to enter in your billing address every time you “send noods”.
You can’t switch from your browser to another app on your phone (like your contacts app) to look up your intended co-victim’s shipping address without coming back to a completely empty form to fill out all the information again.
My pre-saved payment cards could not be selected. I still had to enter the card number despite using the radio buttons to pick one. None worked.
And heaven help you if you copy your shipping address from another app (your address book or from the website of the recipient) and can’t paste it into any field because the form truncates it (the most important part - the zip code which has to be enetered separately)
The “It’s not your fault, some random error with our website has occurred, guess again” game is not fun. Just knock that shit off, K? Give me something actionable.
The coupon-that-shall-not-be-named was accepted, but did not work. It did not change the prices, and worse it didn’t tell me why it didn’t work (invalid or already used).
Show some pride. Test Yo Shit.
Don’t abuse the customer.
Get it together and think this through when you’re not high.
@mike808 You obviously can send it to yourself. The poll has a significant number of people who admitted to it. So go ahead and cross the first few off this list.
And quite frankly I would be shocked if your local food bank would prefer a random box of pasta to a twenty dollar donation.
And you had to type in your address? Let me find my tiny violin.
@mike808 Well said. Actually totally agree with you on choice E) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Especially the appendix to 8.
“It’s an experiment” – what’s our status, guinea pigs or just lab rats?
You’d think that after twenty plus years of commerce on the internet, UX would be no problem. (But I still hate search functions on major sites – try looking up “replacement vacuum cleaner cord” on Lowe’s or HD, and see what they try to sell you. Walmart did OK on that, but they are usually one of the worst.)
I think you just coined a new initialism, TUX. (At least I hadn’t encountered it yet.)
@sammydog01 I don’t want to send it to myself. That’s the point. I want PastaDrop to ship to the recipient, not ship it to me and then I have to ship it again, at my own cost, to the victim lucky recipient of my charitable largess.
As for filling in my own info for billing, Mercatalyst already has this on file, and it means I have to do it every damned PastaDrop. Not gonna be a repeat customer after that kind of abuse, that you think is justified. Wow.
@seraphmonkey just checked and I got a super delayed second order also showing the $0. It was subsequently canceled. My guess is they cancelled all duplicates and potentially any $0 orders beyond the intended amount. Hopefully yours is as a result of a duplicate order scenario like mine and you still have another one coming.
Now if only @mediocrebot could tell us how much pasta is included.
@seraphmonkey I had multiple orders with my VMP code (by accident since the site kept giving me errors). Duplicate orders were canceled but now my original “Free with VMP code” order is $20. bummer.
I’m confused about this offer. Is it all a single brand of Pasta? What is that brand? What country does it come from? I don’t like to buy pasta from the US and prefer to buy from Italy as they don’t allow the pesticides that we allow here in the US on our food.
@Kidsandliz I never got any free bath cases but spent my own money to buy the big batch, and I love them still! (Except for that one kindle case that I despise - it knows what it did!!!)
OK, I’m trying this. I ordered and had to shipped to me (since it defaulted to my own shipping address).
I’m dense and couldn’t figure out how to ship to someone else other than by entering a different address in the “Shipping Address” section. Here’s why: with other vendors where I’ve purchased a gift, I supply my address for credit card and account validation, then their address for the destination.
That’s my feedback on the ordering process. Looking forward to the food and then the great launch of “water drop” where there is new water introduced weekly where the pasta can be boiled.
@mpwalters Underneath the credit card details box, uncheck “My billing address is the same as my shipping address”. Then you can put your billing info there and the gift recipient’s shipping info at the top.
Savesies for mesies. I have a drop down with 2 different addresses that I can pick from, and all info is saved there. If I’m shipping to my address the box for “billing address is same as shipping” is checked, if shipping to the other address it’s unchecked and my billing address is already filled in.
@Ignorant@mike808@mpwalters Same here - my billing addresses are saved by card. So, if I choose a different payment method in the drop-down, it populates the appropriate billing address.
@mike808 No fix has been done so if you end up finding out where our UI failed we still need to figure it out. Maybe it was site performance related. Sorry for the frustration.
@mpwalters@snapster
appears to save my address, but not my credit card
lots of trouble to get it out. tried both cards saved to the site, if you change the mailing address and uncheck the box, it want’s credit card info - again.
I’ve noted on casemates, that it seems to associate the credit card with the shipping address, not the billing address.
@Cerridwyn@mpwalters ah yes there is an association made there to eliminate fraud — stops someone who got into your account from shipping stuff to somewhere new. I’ll see what we can do.
@snapster
If the address line field could be longer (10 chars?) it might fit pasting in a 1-line street, city, zip without truncating.
I pasted into the special note text area to capture it.
I wish there was a way to add or manage ship-to addresses before making a PastaDrop.
There is some weird lock-out of the card info and the billing address with the bill/ship checkbox, but I don’t know what the trigger is.
I was entering a new ship-to address but it kept refreshing back to the prior order that dud gobthrough (no luck on the code-that-shall-not-be-named, though. Probably too late).
The chdckout flow wasnt designed to primarily not have a ship-to different from the bill-to. Kight make sense to flip it around. Unfortunately, it also flows exactly like fraud does, where you don’t want to easily buy stuff with a default payment and a different one-off ship-to address.
Having the ability to add ship-tos in advance, so you can pick it, default the bill address from the payment/default ship-to and forced re-entry of the CVV2 might work. For the PastaDrop flow only, since that’s how the site is aligned.
@mike808 thanks for the time detailing that. agreed; could be far better. we had to race to try and do many features here. will see if we can figure out some efficiency improvements.
Bingo! That would be really helpful to have people on mobile phones (or regular browsers too) “load up” their intended victims beneficiaries to make PastaDrops e-z p-z.
That might be helpful in the FAQ for frequent droppers. Definitely doing that if you’re on a mobile.
Even better, allow @<username> in ship-to Name and it would indicate success (or fail) if a matching default ship-to was found and redact it for the UI. No PII disclosed. Might even help with Casemates split-cases somehow.
Maybe make that an opt-out checkbox on your profile if you dont want to allow other mehmbers to send you Valuable Mercatalyst PastaDrops.
I did not have the billing address problem because I already have a separate billing address from my shipping address.
However, I noticed that on Meh my shipping address had changed to that of my pastadrop recipient. And cards and addresses seem to be tied together, as the card switches with the address (I used a different card for my pastadrop).
I had an idea that pastadrop shipping information might be better off segregated from the rest of the Mercatalyst properties, since the stated intent here is to send to someone else. I’d hate to send someone pasta and then go to meh and send them socks by accident.
@carl669 said that he fucking recommends this approach as well.
@carl669@djslack@Ignorant
Did you have to type your address in again? Or click on something?
THAT’S CUSTOMER ABUSE! According to one person here anyway.
i should never have to click on anything. they should just know what i want and automatically read my mind and order it for me. clicking on things is for suckers. my hands should never have to leave my keyboard, because a mouse is how THEY keep you under control. FUCK mice!
@carl669@Ignorant@sammydog01 I did have to click. I had to click the buy button. Then I had to click to change the address, but I didn’t have to type it. But now @carl669 has me riled up. I want the ESP API integration for no-click ordering. Just don’t let Bezos hear about it or he’ll want to eat another octopus.
I’LL BE LOOKING FOR THE “SWEETENERS” E-MAIL --Because I’m going to be Meh’s #1 Nudge if I don’t see it.
BTW, FIVE (5) sites? 'k, what am I missing?
1-Meh; 2-Mediocritee (still mehhy); 3-Morningsave (thumbs up for the extra VMP 10% off if the item isn’t the morning mehhy deal on that site; and now 4-pastadrop. What am I missing? Woot was bought by some other mehhy-type people, yes, no?
FROM the Pastadrop FAQ’s:
"Got anything else to sweeten the pot?
Sure, since we just launched we’ll throw in $50 total store credit for our other sites. After you PastaDrop you’ll get an email with $10 off each of our five other sites. You can use these codes once on each site to…save $10.
Oh, and the PastaDrop recipient will also get a code they can use to PastaDrop someone else. Pasta it forward, if you will. (Or even if you won’t.)
@evgrosen - oopsie - Six (6) sites total? They really want our entire C-19 allowance, don’t they? (Not happening, lol… still “gifting” T.P., sanitizer, and paper towels to friends in need. ugh.)
@eric1024@evgrosen are morningsave and sidedeal really the same site though? I mean, I don’t mind a coupon for both, but they both sell the exact same things for the exact same price. It’s essentially one site with two urls.
@eric1024 - Thanks! I forgot about casemates (wine - whoo hoo! Uh oh… )!
Sidedeal - I know nothing. But looks like we’re getting out of C19 lockdown pretty slowly… it’s for our own good, I suppose. sigh.
@eric1024@OnionSoup - it’s a Meh-ist conspiracy - they’re trying to get our “meh” money anyway they can. The name “sidedeal” sounds a little slimey to me - do they offer disinfecting wipes? Because, man, those are still really hard to get – unless you don’t mind getting reamed. (I did find some on Boxed for a reasonable price - limit 2, and man, they went FAST.)
@SkyyPunk@licheme@heyitslauren@caffieneguy while we knew in advance to avoid this situation, lichme’s 80% guess is a good one. we’re trying to confirm, figure out what went wrong and if we can correct.
@dave@snapster This morning I ordered one with a code, and another ‘full price’, two different addresses; I was careful not to apply the code twice per e-mail instructions yet the first was cancelled. I just placed the first order again, but now I’ve got 2 @ full price.
Sure, since we just launched we’ll throw in $50 total store credit for our other sites. After you PastaDrop you’ll get an email with $10 off each of our five other sites. You can use these codes once on each site to…save $10.
Oh, and the PastaDrop recipient will also get a code they can use to PastaDrop someone else. Pasta it forward, if you will. (Or even if you won’t.)
Fuck I just need to buy this and I’m running into glitch city. Gonna try this…
Dear future Casey, remember when you said you would stop impulse spending…and now you have a giant box of fucking pasta. Dude, never change.
I’d like to think that no one will suspect me, except that a few months ago I sent one of those giant fat stuffed seals to my friend anonymously and now everyone suspects me when they receive random packages. sighhhhhh
We have the following points based on the location of the corners in the image.
29,272
29,988
342,182
343,1094
1217,252
1223,1004
We also have a few assumptions.
a) This is the box the pasta arrives in
b) The box is square rather than some weird shape because someone was drunk when they ordered the box.
c) the length of the spaghetti is ~10in or 250mm and this correlates to the length of the box.
Next we can assume that we have two orthogonal surfaces whose projection can be represented by the matrices
Uhhh… Look, it took linear algebra a while ago so maybye it is called a multidimensional array? but yea.
@Fen_Star using advanced trig I have determined we are getting 4.5X mm3 of pasta where X is an unknown number. But this should work out to be 2.3Y lbs of pasta where Y is also an unknown number.
Mystery amount of pasta purchased and sent to wife.
I hope this doesn’t make me look dumb.
Err dumber…
Nevermind, it’s definitely going to make me look dumber.
Got anything else to sweeten the pot?
Sure, since we just launched we’ll throw in $50 total store credit for our other sites. After you PastaDrop you’ll get an email with $10 off each of our five other sites. You can use these codes once on each site to…save $10.
Oh, and the PastaDrop recipient will also get a code they can use to PastaDrop someone else. Pasta it forward, if you will. (Or even if you won’t.)
/giphy legitimate-merry-meat
I sent it to my daughter, yes she lives in my house. But she’s already planning on a pasta drop to a coworker friend. So she will use the code. I may have to send some to my other adult kids that haven’t heard of it, just to confuse them.
the coupons make it worth the first try, and I my friend can always pass them along to the food bank or somewhere. It’s a good start to the stash for when the virus flares again from all the idiots having beach parties …
/giphy grimy-sleek-crime
@snapster , I’ve followed you everywhere else, why stop here? This one really feels like the last frontier of weird BUT I appreciate the effort to be different AND I will come along for the ride.
Purchased a “box”? for myself last night. Wanted to see how much arrived before sending any to friends. I can just imagine “why did you send me a single envelope full of noodles?”
@briannameeps someone posted earlier that sidedeal had something eerily similar sounding on their site that made it sound like this might end up being (20) 1-lb bags.
@aardWolf@briannameeps Well, that sidedeal one sold out… probably a different shipment altogether. I really hope it’s (20) 1-lb bags and not (2) 10-lb bags. Yikes…
@aardWolf@briannameeps@vandemusser “Sold out” like crap sold out on woot-offs or sold out for real? I imagine someone added too many zeroes to an order and now they have a million pounds of pasta in a warehouse in Texas.
Sad the site exploded and prevented me from using a magic incantation that would make it free. Hoping it’s worth the $20. Also, hope it’s worth the headache this caused due to getting automatically flagged by as fraud on my credit card.
so are you guys at the various sites hawking this stuff cuz of the Rona '20 World Tour?
I mean it is better than pouring the pasta down the drain, or slaughtering it because they’ve grown too big for the processing plant, or simply tilling it back into the ground to fertilize for next year’s spaghettini crop.
I mean there ain’t hardly any Italian joints open these days
@mediocrebot@staff
If you won’t tell us how much pasta, will you tell us if it only one package or if it is multiple packages within the box ?
/giphy question
@bvickers I just saw this, though I had seen the $32 for 20 lbs entries for awhile. Maybe the reason no weight is given is because they had been selling 10 lbs for $20, but the drops are now 20 lbs for $20? I mean, at the grocery, pasta ranges from $1-3 a lb, but on discount might be buy one get one free, so maybe it makes economic sense? If this is surplus pasta because Italian restaurants aren’t opened, it might drive the price down.
4 days until the next one? I need this for my roommate. She drunk cooks pasta often and boils it all over my stove leaving me a disaster to clean up the next morning. she moves Out later this month and I want her to have a good supply of pasta to mess up her own stove with! How quickly will this ship? She’s getting married and this is going to be an awesome add on wedding gift. But only if it gets here before she leaves since she’s moving a few hours away
@jenludwig always check the specs at the top of the page. That’s where it has estimated shipping for current offerings.
You might want to get her new address for the next one.
I can buy spaghetti for 49 cents a pound at my local store when it goes on sale… usually once a month. I’d pay more for specialty shapes, but spagetts? No.
Bring on the unicorn shapes!
@Eric714 Likely it’s not consumer pasta, it’s food service pasta that would have normally gone to the restaurants that are now closed or doing takeout only.
@Brasssong mine is still processing and has not shipped. I have yet to actually receive anything that i have ordered from any of the mediocre labs sites. My first purchase was May 1st and then a few other orders prior to the pasta drop. I do not expect to receive the pasta until 2nd week of June. All of my expected delivery windows from orevious purchases have passed and still waiting. I ordered the penne this week to deliver to my sister. I figure i may forget about it in 5 weeks and we’ll both have a laugh
@Brasssong@tjg5181 that’s kinda the deal with the mediocre brands. They’re cheap but get delivered by a team of snails. It’s the same thing way back in the day when they used to be woot
@medz@SSteve@tinamarie1974 I just hope my wife doesn’t learn to turn the spaghettini and penne into some sort of weapon when she finds out who sent all this pasta to her.
@medz 5 tracking numbers here, as well… and I only ordered one. It’s going to be interesting to see if it’s (5) 20-lb boxes of spaghettini. Part of me hopes not, and part of me hopes so.
@medz@vandemusser I wonder if the larger orders are going out first or if it’s going to be like that for everyone.
I truly hope it’s for everyone (or at least what I sent the Mrs.). 100lbs of pasta would be very funny… Especially if she got 100lbs of Penne the very next week.
Spaghettini is noones favourite in my household. We prefer thicker more toothier pastas… But we would learn to like it…
Honestly if it was that much then we would donate the vast bulk of it and just keep a little.
Getting 4 boxes one day thinking “holy poo, that’s a lot of pasta” then getting one the next day will make them paranoid of pasta trickling in non stop.
@medz@melwin@vandemusser they haven’t shipped a pallet of anything since the early woot days have they? That would be funny though… alas I believe those days are in the past.
@medz@OnionSoup@SSteve@riotdemon@barney So I just got a FRANTIC call from my mom asking if I know anything about a pasta delivery. She does not know what is going on and who delivered SO MUCH pasta!!! WHAT IS SHE GOING TO DO WITH ALL THIS PASTA!!! THIS IS CRAZY!!!
Amid laughter I was able to ask what delivered, four boxes at 20# each for a total of 80#'s.
Just wait until that fifth box shows up. I am NOT telling her it is en route!!
@snapster thank you for allowing me to laugh harder than I have for quite a while!!
@Barney@medz@OnionSoup@RiotDemon@snapster@SSteve just called me back. Still freaking out. Said the mail lady was baffled and wanted to know if they REALLY ORDERED THIS MUCH PASTA??? She wanted to know what they were gonna do with it!!!
She asked me to stay for a spaghetti dinner hahahaha
She asked me to order a Pasta Drop for one of her brothers, because “If he thought it was so funny lets see what he thinks when it shows up on his porch” WOW!!
@Barney@medz@OnionSoup@raccoon81@RiotDemon@snapster@SSteve there was a $5.00 off coupon included but since I used my account it was not valid (1st time purchase only) no matter, I don’t think she cared either way. She just wants to “get” her brother.
Mine for my wife is still in Texas, seems to be held up there for a week. Once it finally leaves, if like other meh products it’s 7-10 days away. I still have a while until I witness the horror. (But mine is only one shipping label so presumably only 20lbs… Maybe I’ll hit jackpot with the Penne… Which would be better since she likes that more)
As an aside… Did you know a single stand of spaghetti is a spaghetto? Presumably a single strand of spaghettini is a spaghettino.
@Kidsandliz@RiotDemon@tinamarie1974 ugh… I don’t mind getting less than other people and some people getting large amounts, but I’d feel very let down if I only got 10lbs. That’s expensive pasta.
Hoping for 20lbs. At that price it’s not the cheapest but still a reasonable price and don’t mind paying the little extra compared to what I’d do at grocery store because profits are partially going to a good cause.
@Kidsandliz@OnionSoup@RiotDemon I answered the phone today and after saying HELLO I hear, “you are really fruit. Do you think you are funny? You sent me ANOTHER pasta drop???” After laughing hysterically I explained it was the last box in her shipment … 100# in total. Lets just say she does not think it is as funny as I do
@Kidsandliz@RiotDemon@tinamarie1974 that’s awesome… And the funny thing is, she can’t plan on “getting you back” because there’s no guarantee of the 100lbs.
Finally saw what my shipment weight is on PB website 22lbs (so 20lb of pasta and 2lbs of air and cardboard)
Not a ludicrous amount but I’m expecting a “why?” phone call from the wife and some exasperated sighs when it arrives… maybe it will arrive tomorrow… In my home town now.
She doesn’t know she will get Penne next too. That could be amusing.
They have several addresses that track. The one above has an order details button that if you click after first tracking your package it shows the weight.
@Kidsandliz@OnionSoup@RiotDemon@tinamarie1974 Thanks for posting this… just found out my first 3 drops are all 20 pounds, including 1 each to the three F’s: Friend, Family, Food bank.
@Star2236 not yet and shipped several days ago but their new shipping company sucks I only usually see when label is created and when it arrives now… The week to two weeks the package is in motion is completely unreliable for updates… So maybe I’ll get the pasta tomorrow maybe next weekend. I guess that’s part of the surprise and anticipation now.
(If crappy shipping company means shipping costs don’t go up… I’m OK)
@Star2236 I think it’s going to be a bit of a lottery. Some people have got 5 separate shipping orders. We’ll find out eventually.
Best guess is everyone gets at least 20lbs as that is what they were selling for $20 before on Morning Save .
The people who got five separate tracking numbers are probably getting 5 20lb boxes… Lol.
Or we could be being screwed and these are only 10lb boxes… But I have faith in Mediocre they wouldn’t send me only 10lbs of pasta… Because that would be living up to their name.
@Cerridwyn@lowlypeon@Star2236 20 years from now people will be asking what Mercataylst is and we’ll have to explain it’s what “Barney Bot Emporium” used to be called.
If the shipping process from my MorningSave order is any indication of how this works, it’s been 11 days since that order shipped and I have NO idea where it is now. My first box of pasta shipped 5 days after that one and has been in Texas for the past week.
@melwin maybe they’re cooking it for you. Served with a nice fresh pesto, delivered by an out of work waitress from the Cheesecake Factory…ooohhh, cheeeeesecake…mmmmm…
/image NY cheesecake
Aaaawww! Now I have to order some cheesecake…dang it!
It appears they may be attempting to ship based on shipping time to get everyone to receive at the same time. They have tried this before and it failed, but hey, why not try again.
Mine is at the local post office for delivery tomorrow. I am off today or I would have eyes on it. Also to b delivered tomorrow an unknown box from Carrolton shipped the same day. I have a couple orders in processing but not sure which it is. I think someone forgot to send the shipping notices out.
@speediedelivery Ahh interesting, yeah I see in USPS Informed Delivery that this one was shipped on 05/20 and USPS is waiting for the item “Picked Up by Shipping Partner, USPS Awaiting Item
CARROLLTON,TX 75010”.
Ah crap! I am developing a really bad sore throat. Hope this isn’t corona virus and if it, I hope I don’t die… But if I do, the bloody pasta better get here first.
I don’t want the last thing my wife ever gets from me after my death to be dry bulk pasta. Thats not how I want to be remembered.
@RiotDemon honestly, think it’s more likely I have a mild case of flu. Sore throat, aching body and headache can all be Coronavirus symptoms but are very common flu symptoms.
Not terrible yet (I probably wouldn’t be online laughing at the shipping if it were). Hopefully it will stay fairly mild. Sore throat is pretty horrible though .
Not sure how I got flu (or coronavirus) social distancing.
@OnionSoup Hope you feel better! If it’s available in your area you should get tested regardless if you think it’s serious or not. It helps with your treatment (tamiflu for flu) and the statistics in your area. Most people just need to place a call to their PCP or local 3-1-1 to get a drive-up appointment
@MrMikenIkes thank you, yes, I’m of two minds on getting tested. On one hand, it does help gather statistics (although I know it’s in my area- my zip has the highest prevalence of it in the state, or did at one time at least).
On the otherhand, I’m fairly mild (honestly it’s just the throat that’s obnoxious to me) so don’t really require treatment for whatever I have and going to get tested means potentially exposing someone else. (and also potentially getting exposed to it myself if I actually only have strep or flu; both of which are probably more likely given my symptoms).
@OnionSoup if it helps put your mind at ease, most of the testing that’s being done at least in my area is done at drive through sites where you pull up in your car into a tent and in that tent you roll your window down and they test you right there.
The testers are in PPE anyway and I’ve been tested twice as part of my job (no symptoms just an essential worker) and from what I can tell you these people are very good about infection control.
That’s at least what we have been doing here in MA, I obviously can’t speak for other parts of the country where you may be putting the testers at risk.
Either way I hope you feel better soon so you can start shoveling some NOODS into that throat instead of cough drops haha
@tightwad it’s not invasive at all and takes about 30 seconds - 2 minutes depending on the test they do.
What usually happens is they schedule you to go to a drive up center, you roll your window down and give them your info. At this point they may take your vitals (BP, Pulse, Temp) but in my experience they didn’t do this. Then you’ll drive further up in the tent, and depending on the test center they’ll either swab the back of your throat or a nasal swab and then you drive off and they call you with the results.
The throat swab feels like you are being tickled at the back of your throat. The nasal swab is the one that people complain about and I will say it is uncomfortable. They stick a swab deep in your nostril and rotate it. They may do the second nostril as well. It doesn’t hurt, just feels very strange but the second time I had it done it did make me tear up. After a few seconds I was fine though and I just drove home.
@Deuce0222 that’s a lot of pasta! Still waiting on mine to ship, was hoping it was gonna be a big ole load of pasta but I don’t think I have anywhere to put that much!
@Deuce0222 oh man, I hope my sister gets 100lbs of pasta. It would be HILARIOUS! Especially since she just told me last night she is trying to cut back on grains/carbs. I’m going to look evil! Hahahahahaah
@Deuce0222
So awesome, I can’t wait till my penne ships all over the country at a turtle speed before being delivered to my mom. She’s gonna shit pasta for sure.
@OnionSoup Sorry for delay getting back. I only had 1 tracking #, but friend told story of her mail carrier giving her the stink eye before delivering 5 20# boxes.
The anticipation is killing me. Mine hasn’t shipped yet and now my brother’s girlfriend is going back to school. This means that it might get stolen from their front door. Florida wasn’t supposed to open until they got their pasta.
Mine finally updated to shipped. It’s been in transit for five days already and it made it from Texas to Georgia. I’m hoping it arrives sometime next week.
Finally got a tracking number. Only one number. Excited to see what shows up. The kids are very invested in this now. Pasta is their favorite thing ever.
Meh, I ordered one and got 1x 10lb of Spaghettini. Is the quantity random? I wouldn’t mind playing the pasta lottery again, but otherwise pretty lousy deal.
@aswood yeah I got one too (my husband sent it to me). I sent one of each to my son. I also ordered the fettucini for my mom too so if they only get 10 lbs each of all three, I think I’ll have to bow out of this in the future. $80 for about $25 worth of pasta is not such a great deal.
@jaybird
never figured out if McAfee is the stupidest ever or too smart for our good. Used to delete parts of commercially bought games. So switched to Norton, a bit later it did the same thing (or was it vice versa)
Used Avast since someone I know who worked IS for Amacrap EU told me it is the only thing he’d use on his machines at home. Dunno if it is still true, lost connection over the years
@Cerridwyn funny thing is I didn’t even know it was on my phone. I don’t know if it’s automatically installed with Verizon or Comcast. Or if it’s built into chrome browser.
Edit… Or maybe McAfee knows that by visiting this site a person may unwillingly become part of an experiment and which too much pasta arrives at someone’s house.
I’m in the one tracking number club so didn’t win the lottery for my first order. I’ll probably wind up with the 10 lbs box knowing my luck. My sister is getting the penne for round 2 so would hope her luck is better because that would make it hilarious to have all those boxes show up at her door. still waiting before I order more for other people.
I was given one tracking number, which I used to set up automatic notifications with USPS. Got notified by USPS, PastaDrop, and my UPS store that the delivery had been made.
Not the end of the story. UPS store let me know that I had received two packages, and they let me know the tracking numbers of both as per usual. Hmm, did I get one of my Kickstarter spiffs without notification? I threw the unknown tracking number into USPS, and guess what? Same tracking info as the known PastaDrop shipment.
Very mysterious. I’ll be swinging by today to see what I got, but given this is USPS, they can’t be too heavy.
@JOATMON I’ve had amazon ship a 96 roll case of toilet paper through USPS… and it was in an oversized box. Postman got an energy drink from me that day.
@hisgrossness Two boxes, each containing two smaller boxes. Packing slips in both large boxes confirmed it was from the same single order (I had a thought driving over that someone may have gifted a PastaDrop to us, but no). Each smaller box is about 10 pounds, making a total of 40 pounds.
I wanted to donate to Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley, so drove over there. Turns out they are not accepting walk-in donations. So, I need to find an alternative donee.
I’m actually amused at how this worked out. Interesting concept, glad to participate.
Her: More pasta?
Me: Yeah. 100 pounds in total now.
Her: …it can’t just sit there inside the front door.
Me: Where should I…
Her: You better figure it out!
meanwhile, in a city only 113 miles from Carrolton, TX… we wait… and wait… and wait. the one thing i can rely on when it comes to a mediocre company is the crawly-snail speeds of the shipping.
i once bought a poster from a poster place in Austin that went through my town three times between shipping companies before being delivered.
@ivannabc Disappointed? I think I probably would be, at least a little bit. I’ve ordered 5 drops so far but none have arrived (the first two have made it from Texas to Georgia and still have to come to North Carolina, but they’ve been in Georgia for a couple of days now, so I don’t know when they will arrive.)
@gymbrall yeah maybe a little. $2 a lb is a tad steep. The one I ordered for my son has been hanging out in his city for 8 days now. I have bought some of each of the first three for my son and my parents. So we’ll see what they get. If th ey get 10 lb bags too, I’ll pass on any more orders
My wife got her’s. I kept telling her I had was sending her noods…she wasn’t thrilled. Then the 5 boxes arrived. She still wasn’t thrilled. Each box contains 2 smaller boxes…100 lbs in total. She thought it was funny, but I made the mistake of keeping what I was sending her a secret and I think she let her imagination think it was something nice…
@tightwad yeah… I think my wife thinks she is getting something nice too… Only got one tracking number so I’m probably only getting 10lbs… So the humor factor won’t even be there.
I will keep quiet that I spent so much on just 10lbs of pasta… Lol
It sounds like if you ship it to yourself, you get 10 pounds of pasta.
Ship to someone else and it could be 100.
I had it shipped to myself because I have no friends. Stingy people (like myself) who send gifts to themselves generally don’t have friends so it’s no surprise.
@binkybear I hope not - and not sure if that’s true. On the first one, I didn’t even think about changing, everything had been pre-filled and so I sent to myself thinking I’ll just strip the label and drop the box somewhere. Then when the web site had additional problems putting other addresses in, I just decided to send to myself and I’ll drop off elsewhere.
I’m sad that the spag I sent to myself only amounted to 10 pounds. We’re eating a lot of pasta lately. Torn bag, trashed box. 88 cents a pound for name brand on sale at the supermarket. I sent the second drop to a friend. It won’t be funny or fun if she gets only 10 pounds, so fingers crossed. I’ve been a meh fan since the beginning, and a vmp member forever, and I’m bummed.
If people are randomly getting from 10-100 lbs of noodles for $20, I think this experiment is going to die quickly. A big amount is both funny and possibly worth it. $2 a lb pasta in large damaged packages isn’t really funny or worth it.
@kevinrs yeah, I’ve placed two orders. Spaghettini and Penne. First orders sent to my wife to see what it was like before sending it elsewhere.
Neither has left Texas yet. I’ll be pretty annoyed if after all this wait all I have is 10lbs of pasta. It looks like the people who got theirs first got the large amounts of pasta, so I’m assuming since I’m last I am going to be one of those with very little pasta. Probably the dust left over from the bags of pasta that broke.
Depending on how frequent the 10lb bags are, I might not do a third drop, I was going to drop pasta to family if it was a good deal…(I wish they showed the frequency of each weight so we had some idea). I don’t want to be spending $2/lb on pasta though… That’s not much cheaper than the sale price for chicken at Lidl.
If guarenteed (or at least likey) to get 20lbs or more, I’m ok with it. Yeah, can get pasta cheaper, but it’s less fun.
Anyone else get a single 5lb package of noodles in an open bag? That’s what I’m told was received by the person I ordered this for. Disappointed and thinking it shouldn’t be eaten since the bag was already opened.
@andreweller@Noddy93@RiotDemon actually I read on one website that they laid off a bunch of people to cut back on costs. .
So the reason it’s taking so long, and why some of us still don’t have our orders from Mehcatalyst sites placed back in early April is twofold. They fired everyone that worked in the warehouse so it’s taking longer to fill the boxes to ship in the first place. And secondly shipping times have slowed way down too.
Three drops and still no pasta here.
Also, in my magical imagination I had imagined that meh had setup a pasta producing setup at their warehouse and they were making the pasta themselved.
100 lbs of spaghettini. Ten bags with ten pounds each. I was planning on giving it to the local food bank. I hope they’re ok with ten-pound bags. Luckily, my Sunday mail carrier thought it was funny. My regular carrier couldn’t fit it in the truck so didn’t deliver it.
@Barney my sister’s arrives today or tomorrow. I’m so excited!! I’ve done a surprisingly good job at keeping my mouth shut so far. I never keep secrets
Where’s my pasta??? Shipping label created May 20. Hopefully I’m not going to be one of those that receives the broken bags and dust because it appears I’m last on the list.
@trailtroll don’t fret. it will get to you… but@OnionSoup is probably correct that it will more resemble orzo. these were packaged for food service and were never meant to be tossed around as individual boxes from one truck to another.
according to Pitney Bowes my shipment, although entered into the system on the 20th, wasn’t picked up until the 26th in Carrollton, TX… On the 28th it says that it was passed off to the USPS in Waco, Tx., 113 miles south. USPS tracking says it’s still waiting for it.
I know it doesn’t work this way, but I’ve begged meh since day zero to simply leave texas bound shipments on the front counter for the postal carrier. two day delivery is usually nicer than two week delivery.
@andrewkotz THAT was the info I needed. 20lbs to my sister! 100 would have been funnier but $20 plus the coupons totally made it worth it. I can’t wait to see what she says tomorrow
@lichme Thanks for the link. All the ones I tried with google didn’t give me anything. This shows that tomorrow my daughter will be getting a 22lb 10oz box. Can’t wait for the penne to ship so I can see what my son will be getting. Daughter knows about it, son does not.
Thank you… 20lbs. I’m content with that as that is what I initially expected before items started arriving at peoples houses
I would have been majorly annoyed at 10lbs and excited anything above 20… But 20 is reasonable. A little more than grocery store but funny and some profits going to good cause.
Now hopefully it arrives in one piece…
Well… At least each individual Spaghettino arrive in one piece. I don’t want all 20lbs of spaghettini to merge into one giant Spaghettino. That would be disturbing and take forever to cook.
Pasted the tracking number into the pitney bowes shipment tracker and determined my friend will be receiving a 22 lb package, which I assume is 2 10-lb bags of spagettini.
@melwin Well, there’s your problem - only 2 days in Greenwood, IN. Everyone knows there’s a minimum stay of 4 days in Greenwood with Pitney Bowes / Newgistics!
It just now occurred to me that the person I dropped this to lives up one of the steepest streets I have ever seen. Depending on how big the drop is that mail carrier is going to have either a tough day, or the toughest day of their life.
Got my drop today. Two 10# bags o’ pasta. So, about the same as I pay in the store $1/lb. But hey it was fun and I won’t need to buy pasta at the store for awhile.
Looks like mine will only be 10lbs according to tracking. It’s fine for what I got it for, but I won’t be dropping $20 on a future drop when there’s a chance of only 10lbs while others are getting 100lbs. If there was a guarantee of at least 20lbs I would probably do this again.
My recipient got hers. It was 20 lbs. She had gotten an email from her son’s school saying his teacher was sending everyone something. She thought this was it and was going to send the teacher a thank you email with a picture of it! I cleared things up.
Mine has been stagnant in TX for 10 days now. I’ve heard nothing but negative things about Pitney Bowes.
Hopefully this is a one time issue, otherwise I’ll take my low-rent business elsewhere. BTW found this place when a larger competitor (BoC forefathers) got too big for their britches and decided customer satisfaction didn’t matter anymore. I complained about them to an associate and I was introduced to this organization.
The shipping on this is woeful. Anyone ever get this?
June 1, 2020
In Transit to Next Facility
Your package is moving within the USPS network and is on track to be delivered to its final destination. It is currently in transit to the next facility.
May 29, 2020, 3:57 pm
USPS in possession of item
(In my hometown at this point)
@DJ I had a meh package last week that the tracking updated multiple times a day every day for a week, with randomly alternating statuses in TX, IN, MI, and my town. It was absolutely nonsensical. Then one morning it got updated with out for delivery and arrived that afternoon. In my mind it’s just part of the adventure. If I wanted quick shipping with good tracking I could have paid three times the price on amazon. In the case of pastadrop, I’m in it for the adventure so ridiculous tracking only heightens the adventure.
/giphy worthy-unfriendly-part
Still haven’t received mine, but tracking has updated it to 10#. Oh well, beggars can’t be choosers, but curious the marketing decisions behind 10-100# versus say, 20-40#. This isn’t an IRK.
Mine just arrived, 2 10lb packages totaling 20lbs. I was hoping for at least this much since I’ll be essentially living off pasta for the foreseeable future and it saves having to for for it at the store at the same price.
Well just like all my most recent irk purchases, it seems I got the bottom of the barrel package again. I got 10 lbs, but at least my bag appears to be sealed. This will be the first and last drop for me. I agree with other posts that said the minimum should have been 20 lbs. Would have been happy with that, and laughed with others getting 100. Getting 10 just feels like I subsidized nicer packages for others. I’ll just take my coupons and walk away from pastadrop.
@RdiPr yep I wish I had gotten mine before I had ordered for my parents and son. I’m going to feel like it’s a complete waate if I spent $60 on $20 worth of pasta.
My drop arrived today. Box crushed and opened, containing 10lbs of pasta in a bag with cuts and holes all over it with pasta falling out of the bag inside of the box.
@Raider perhaps ‘straight in the trash’ is a bit extreme… in order to cook it you’re going to kill any creepy-crawlies that may have found its way on to your skinnysketti. perhaps buying 5 cans of cheap-ass sauce and delivering to a “church under the bridge” type thing in your town. those holes in that bag won’t mean a thing to them.
@Thunderbums did you actually spend the $20 or were you one of the people who may or may not have used a possible super-secret coupon that may or may not have existed that made the order a no-cost-to-you item?
Mine arrived, 20lbs, lovingly swaddled with Texas air and double-boxed. No damage, all good.
I had some for dinner. It was okay. I cooked it for 8 minutes like I usually cook De Cecco “thin spaghetti” but it ended up overdone. I have 39 more opportunities to practice! Until the linguine arrives.
I can’t read all of the earlier 700 posts, but I was tracking mine when a seemingly stealth box arrived Saturday (!!) afternoon from USPS with 20 lbs in it. But I kept getting notices from my USPS tracking that the package was still coming, and Monday, there was another 20 lb box. So 30 lbs for the food kitchens - figured out how to store the open 10lb bag and we made up some tonight - not bad, actually.
Shipping on mine says “Label Created. USPS Awaiting Item” Anyone else? Estimated delivery was between May 26th and June 1st, but apparently mine hasn’t even shipped yet?
@jennisashark The estimated delivery was changed to June 22-June 25 although a lot of people are already receiving theirs. The covid virus is causing havoc with shipping.
@Barney@jennisashark nah… the far end of my expected delivery date is still June 1. this ain’t a covid thing, this is purely on Pitney Bowes being a horrible, terrible, no good company. I feel bad that The Labs went with them. BAAAAAD decision.
@Noddy93 Okay, so it’s Pitney Bowes fault, but if you scroll up to the beginning of this thread, you will see that the dates have been changed. Believe it or don’t, I don’t care.
I do know that it will get to you sometime. And if it doesn’t, Customer Service will issue a refund.
@jennisashark June 12th. Shipment has arrived at the USPS facility twice now according to shipping. But still, no estimated delivery date. It’s the 15th. I ordered this a month ago. I’m beginning to lose hope.
I received my 10lb bulk bag of spaghettini today. Box was crushed and plastic bag containing pasta cut open in numerous places. What a complete waste of food to ship so carelessly so it’s been exposed to who knows what during shipping and now must be thrown out.
And it’s not from my order number. Would someone like to confess who sent this? You can whisper to me if you are shy and you don’t want anyone to know that you are a nice person. I WON’T TELL!
Otherwise, just shout it out that you helped the bestest little ol’ nursing home in Oz.
It’s now 60 pounds Spaghettini total for Grace Cottage.
Supposedly my package was given to my local USPS very early morning the first. USPS tracking says it is still in Indiana. I have to say the suspense is getting ridiculous
I finally received my shipment and per Pitney Bowes shipping indicator, received only 10 lbs of noodles. A receipt with the shipment indicates that I’ve received 80 servings of noodles. This does not calculate. I typical one pound box contains 4 servings meaning that I’ve been shorted by 10lbs. Where’s the rest of my pasta?
Ok, color me confused but pleased. I posted yesterday I got my drop and received 20 lbs, but today another box came and now I have another 2 packages, for a total of 40lbs. The box says on it “PASTADROP 2” on the top, the first box having nothing on it. I just kinda assumed when I opened it that it was the Penne from the second drop. A surprise for sure, and I’m happy to have it, but I wager the poor postman isn’t.
@Tiamat114 Same thing happened to me! I placed one order and got 20 lbs on Monday and was like “Whoa! This is a lot of pasta!”. And then today, I got ANOTHER 20 lbs! Wtf am I going to do with 40 lbs of pasta?!
My order only has 1 tracking number, which Pitney Bowes says is 22 lbs. Informed Delivery from the USPS tells me there is a second tracking number with another 22 lbs… But one is coming on Thursday and the other is still in PB purgatory.
I am totally caught by surprise. I knew that Morning Save had an over abundance of pasta, but I never knew that someone would send my 20 pounds of it! Never heard about this nefarious bunch until just a short while ago my poor husband came in, out of breath, toting a Pastadrop box. (We’re old people.)
Now I want to get in on the action. Where can I buy a Pasta Bomb? I know several people who deserve a drop.
@stolicat@Teripie wasn’t there a free month shipping membership for new users listed on Slickdeals recently too for mercatalyst group websites? Is that still active.
I got one of my orders a few days ago and the package was already opened. Not sure if I should throw it out or request a credit…thoughts from the gallery?
Pasta finally arrived. 40lbs (PB website said 20, so you can’t trust their tracking information).
I’m very happy. I had dreaded the 10lb drop but got the marvelous 40lb drop instead… Woo hoo! Pasta for dinner tonight.
Oh and the packaging was fantastic. Boxes inside boxes and bags and air inside those. These were well packaged to survive the onslaught and rough handling of Pitney Bowes.
Bravo meh team. Bravo.
/ Moral of the story… The weight PB tracking says isn’t necessarily accurate.
@RiotDemon@yoyoflamingo most of my boxes end up partying in College Park for about a week… If memory serves correct, that’s part of metro Atlanta right?
@OnionSoup@RiotDemon It is - only reason I know is some places say Atlanta and some College Park - However, mine says picked up from there today, so there is hope!
Mine is slated to arrive by tomorrow. I’m hoping the tracking is off because it says I got the dreaded 10lb drop.
But I also have 2 other drops coming to my address (drops 3+4.) Drop 2 is supposed to be 20lbs going to a friend in another state. Drop 5 (there will be a drop 5 right?) is gonna go to my mother way up north in Maine.
@MrMikenIkes they bought the entire contents of Performance FoodServices pasta warehouse… I image there are several more weeks to go at least.
What pasta do restaurants usually have? That’s what they bought out of the warehouse.
There’s almost certainly going to be a lasagna week and a macaroni week. Probably rotini and several more of the skinny noodle types.
They probably won’t sell farfalla, shells, or my favourites cavatappi and gemelli because those aren’t common restaurant pastas.
I bet at least every other week is going to be some long stringy pasta type though because that’s the most common type of pasta in restaurants.
Oh and tracking might be off. My tracking for the first drop said 20lbs and I got 40lbs. I think the weight is only one box. So yours probably came in a multiple of 10. In 10lb boxes. It might just be 10, or it could still be more.
@OnionSoup nice! Yeah that’s gonna be a LOT of pasta to drop on people. This drop was indeed 10# of spaghettini but it was packed well and I broke more of it trying to get it into an airtight container than they did during shipping.
I got a linguine and a ziti coming to my address (one to my wife and another to me) so I think anything else that gets dropped will probably go to other friends and family. I might jump on the rotini for home too if it comes up.
Having a pregnant wife whose only pregnancy craving is pasta makes these drops a lifesaver for me!
Put in your tracking number then click the little pin icon that looks like a Google Maps button, that will brings you to a different tracking page which lists the weight on the bottom
3 weeks to get 10lbs of spaghettini for $20 That won’t last a hungry Firefighter long. At least with an IRK I expect to be disappointed. Never received any “store credit” via email either…
@KNmeh7 Thank-you! I had checked spam and it wasn’t there either…I think there is a disconnect regarding the PastaDrop page in general. I’ve been a member of Meh (and affiliates) for ages and never received a single email about my order…unless gmail hates them for some reason. LOL
Everyone enjoying their first drop and mine still stuck in PB Texas lockup. Has been there since 5/26 and hasn’t departed Grapecine yet. Then it will take another 2 weeks to travel to east coast. Booo. My sister may get week 4 before my wife gets week 1
@tjg5181 I got our shipment of spaghetti two weeks ago. We got the penne today. But the order I placed for my son a month ago is still in transit. It’s been “picked up and processing by agent” in his city since 5/29. Weird
I got my surprise 40 lbs of pasta in today… Tracking number said 20 lbs, but there was a hidden second box. I posted the extra 30 lbs on Facebook and had three friends claim it in under a minute.
I didn’t major in T&L, but the reason my school had a better-than-average rating is because a ton of stuff goes through Ohio. It isn’t like I am in Montana. I have no idea why PB is so inept.
Last time I checked, FedEx’s busiest hub is less than a half-day away. We have interstates going in all directions.
I don’t get how people are getting other drops, and people here are getting multiple drops, but all they do to mine is continually push back the estimated delivery date.
Mine arrived. I sent this drop to myself… Next time I’m dropping on my brother. I received forty pounds across two large boxes; each box has two smaller boxes inside. Those small boxes contain 10 pounds each. Was shipped with some air-fill padding and seems to be in good condition.
I’m curious if other people actually had the pasta drop? The box was super beat up, I should have figured the contents might be damaged. I had sent it to my self. I went to pull the bag out and all 10 pounds of pasta ended up on my bare foot. Hurt like hell and now I can’t eat any of it! So did your pasta get delivered or dropped on your foot because the bag was ripped wide open in shipment?
@ccasey3655 My box was pretty beat up, but since they cheaped out and only gave me 10#, I think it was insulated from the abuse with the Texas air packs.
I guess I should be thankful my bag arrived intact.
Hmmm… I’m not sure if this is just the post office being dumb or if they’re trying to figure out how to deliver 100# of pasta to a rural address. “Delivery Exception” is the “Please Wait…” of delivery messages.
10 pounds, box totally mangled, bag ripped open. Fortunately my recipient is pretty understanding. I think shipping these 10lb bags in a box big enough to hold twice that much is just asking for it to bounce around like a football player’s brain inside his skull until all are ruined.
I might be willing to give this one more shot (with a much less dense variety of pasta, and shipping to myself rather than to anyone I respect). But between that and the abysmal shipping I think I’d consider this experiment a failure.
Well, I shelled out $20 for #10 pounds of pasta/spaghettini. I knew the amount was not set in concrete, but still feel a bit ripped off, TBH. I have a family of 6 disabled adults. I could have gotten this at the store for this price! Sigh.
@hgilchri I dropped a food bank a couple weeks ago… will be curious if that amount is “random” or maybe a “weighted random”. Good luck to you and I admire you taking on that responsibility!
My brother’s spaghettini is finally moving again. It sat at Atlanta since the 27th. On the 3rd it was processed and then in transit. On the 5th it arrived at Atlanta again, lol. Says he should receive it on the 10th.
My linguine says it’s supposed to be delivered on the 10th too.
1st and 3rd drops delivering at the same time, go figure.
We got ours a week ago, two 20lb boxes over two days. Gave one to the neighbor, kept one. Went today to find some place to store our second bag and found it was torn open (and spilled about 1/2 out when I lifted it out of it’s little sub-box). Had neighbor check theirs and one of them was also ripped open. Contacted CS and we’ll see what happens.
Has anyone gotten a CS response yet? Are they replacing or refunding? Replacement would be fine by me …
the one i sent my buddy finally arrived…2 days ago…
only a single 10# bag…
I knew it was a random Draw kinda thing, but Dang!
$2/lb for pasta? better be good stuff! anyone cooked some yet?
also, if I were to order a future drop, would having the words “soup kitchen” in the name of the recipient improve my chances of getting a bigger shipment?
not trying to scam y’all, I’d be Legit sending it to a local Soup Kitchen that fully runs on donations.
It’s pasta. Neither better nor worse than grocery store stuff. (This is a restaurant supply brand btw).
How good it is depends on how well you cook it. Remember this is thinner than regular spaghetti so your cook time is slightly less… Easier to overcook this.
Oh, oops! I forgot to chime in with my pasta report. I got 20 lbs. That’s about what I would have gotten for $20 at the store, so I guess it’s a fair deal. I admit I was hoping for a little more, because I always cook extra for my chickens, so it goes kind of fast. Yes, for my chickens. They livin’ their best life.
How long do you wait before deciding it isn’t coming? June 1st tracking shows it hit my town. Pitney Bowes tracking says USPS has it USPS tracking says it is waiting for it from Pitney Bowes! Ugh.
Cool, apparently because I shipped pasta to someone here, it changed the shipping address on all the other sites, so now stuff I ordered elsewhere is being shipped to the opposite side of the country. Neat.
Pitney Bowes shipping leaves a lot to be desired. Order for a friend was placed a month ago. It’s been sitting in Brooklyn NY with no movement for a week.
Just received pasta drop #1.I have never before accepted a shipment in such poor shape. Box partially destroyed, and pasta bag ripped open - some pasta out of bag and probably out of box. Nice concept - 10# of high grade spaghettini, but poor execution. I have complained to vendor - we’ll see what they do to correct. I could NEVER order as a gift without reassurance that shipping problems have been fixed.
@richferg I had a similar issue. PastaDrop customer service offered their apologies, but no geature of replacement. This is pretty poor customer service!
@donrull Guess I wasn’t alone in this treatment. Don’t worry fairly soon someone will chirp up “but coupons!” as if that somehow will magically cure our disappointment of being left pastaless.
@Raider I reached out again through social media and if they can’t resolve it then I’ll file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. A coupon is still a form of payment and if they’re not going to provide the product in acceptable condition, then they need to return the coupon.
@donrull As the site has now ended I’m sure they would be willing to reissue any coupon.
I honestly keep waiting for something to have been done because in my experience with this company CS goes above and beyond with customer satisfaction, with the company giving them leeway to have fun with it. Time will tell, but the total silence certainly has been disappointing.
@Raider Clearly not the same customer service experience as you have had. "Megan (Mercatalyst)
Jun 18, 2020, 12:07 PM CDT
Hey there!
Thanks for sending the photos over - it looks like this got pretty badly mishandled in shipping, I’m so sorry about that. The amount of pasta is completely random though.
We’re unfortunately not able to reship these orders back out. It looks like this one was 100% free with the coupon, so there’s nothing to refund back. I’m sorry again!"
I did ask about reissuing the coupon or sending whatever active pasta drop they have as a replacement, and was told NO.
@donrull I never received a reply, from the same CS rep, when I asked if anything would be done to replace the inedible pasta or loss of rare VMP perk.
Hey there!
Thank you for sending the photos over - it looks like this sustained some pretty heavy damage in shipping, I’m so sorry about that!
I’m passing these over to my team to review as well to see if we can work on more preventative measures for this kind of thing. There was no charge for this order, and there’s no need to send that back to us.
Heard back from CS about my damaged order. They stated that I did not need to send it back, and since I used a coupon that may or may not have existed that was that. I responded asking if a replacement would be sent as this represents a loss of a rare VMP perk…which went unreplied. So looks like that’s the end of my disappointing Pastadrop experience.
@Raider I don’t think that coupon that may or may not exist would do you any good now anyway since this is the end of pastadrop. You did get $10 off coupons from the other sites with the perk though.
@Ignorant I asked if a replacement would be sent for the damaged product received, not a reinstatement of the coupon. Ignoring that, as the response came last week, if the coupon had been reinstated as a “processed return” at the time I would have been able to attempt to use it on this weeks offering. Neither event happened.
While coupons were received, that is not what I was looking forward to…it was a combination of the mystery and the pasta. To be honest the coupons likely will now remain unused, that is generally what happens when something leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It went from me telling people how great the entire thing was, to disappointment. I’m glad the vast majority had a great experience with this very unique experiment. Unfortunately for an unlucky few of us who received destroyed packages the same cannot be said.
@Noddy93 You’re right, I do not doubt that this experiment would have lasted longer if shipping was at “normal rate”. I’m sure others were like me waiting to see what the first order was like before they would drop an order on a friend or family member.
@Raider Or it would have ended sooner as people would have mobbed the order process? The company did say that it was intended to be a short-term experiment, a month or two only, in the article about it.
@Karpadm76 Not for the pasta delivery, but an Item from morningsave showed me that recently. It has twice appeared in my town and then back in neighboring state before a few days ago being loaded on a container on the other coast. Seems to something the shipper is now doing.
@Noddy93 heavens above… 25 days of shipping for 113 miles. but I got my 10 pounds.
one reason why the multi-company shipping has always sucked for me is that although I live in a town of 120,000 people, the USPS shut down our local distribution… so companies like Pitney Bowes delivers the crap to the USPS in Waco which then sends it back to Dallas to have it delivered to Waco.
tonight I will drown this misery in pasta and whisky
@Noddy93 Was it actually delivered not torn open in a destroyed box? If so it would seem to be a rarity of late for delayed orders. Congrats on finally receiving it, enjoy.
@Raider it was packed in one of the smaller box. there was a slit on the edge, a good 5 inches, but there was suspiciously little debris in the box. it’s gonna boil which will kill anything so I’m not worried about it killing me… outside of already being old and fat.
I was planning on donating to my local “food for families” event but instead I’ll just keep it.
I ended up having to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau since both Megan and her supervisor in customer service were not at all helpful and offered nothing for the poorly package and damaged product I received. As a VMP, I’m pretty disappointed by their careless attitude. https://www.bbb.org/us/tx/carrollton/profile/online-retailer/mercatalyst-inc-0875-90544607
This was going to be a complete donation for us, since we do not eat pasta. However, it was disappointing not to be able to give anything to our food pantry and kitchen since I received a poorly packaged product in a crushed box and open package that they can not take to serve to anyone.
@donrull How dare Mercatlyst screw up like this after all of the good its done with PastaDrop. It’s pretty obvious that you should also cancel your VMP and leave once and for all. That’ll show 'em.
I’m sad. The spaghettini I shipped has been lost. I’ve been refunded. I was really looking forward to talking with my brother after it shows up. Now I’ll just have to bring him some of my pasta in person whenever I can see him.
Mine left Texas on May 20. It made it to California (where I live) before heading to Nevada. It’s been back in California in San Bernardino since June 5, Where it was “ Picked up and Processed by Agent.” Since then, no update whatsoever.
I get it - I got it for free (VMP), and was going to gift it anonymously to some friends who weren’t expecting it, so why am I complaining. But damn, a full 5 weeks for shipping is pretty poor.
NUTRITIONAL FACTS
Serving Size: 2 oz.
The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
ALLERGENS
ESTIMATED DELIVERY
Monday, July 20th - Friday, July 24th
carb me, daddy
It’s not aliiiiiive yet?
Edit: we have lift-off!
Hahahaha, send noods
@lichme
/giphy send noods
@lichme Yours will actually be a box of glitter and zip ties.
But how much pasta are you actually sending? It doesn’t say.
/giphy YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH
Yeah, this. You could at least list how much is being sent. Someone really dropped the meatball here.
It’s like they’re just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks
@cinoclav Wait they are sending meatballs too? That’s incredible!
@patti According to the pic at the top, it’s never ending pasta
@patti Read ze FAQ.
Respectfully submitted,
Douglas C. Neidermeyer
Sergeant-at-Arms
@chuegen i was thinking that once the site launched it would cease to be as “mysterious and unpredictable.” not gonna spend thirty dollars on an unknown amount, personally.
@patti $20 worth. Inflated or Deflated value depending on what you get.
@patti I distinctly saw (or heard?) the word “bulk”. Just to be safe, I’m trying it out on a friend I know could use 24 boxes of spaghettini.
Ah yes, the spaghettini!
@chuegen Thank you. It’s helpful but you know.
@chuegen @patti I did, but do not see where it gives a amount. Can you point me to where it answers that question on the FAQz? TIA
@mehbee @patti
"How much is ‘a bunch of pasta’?
To be determined.
Do you even know how much pasta you’re sending to people?
Right now, it’s mysterious and unpredictable."
HEY, NOW YOU HAVE A REASON TO TALK TO YOUR FRIEND
@lichme @patti They’re shipping us an Olive Garden?!
@chuegen @patti Exactly
@patti just a guess, but I would think it would be like their pasta deals on sidedeal -
When I click on the “The Spaghettini” link at the top of this page, I get an error. FIX IT.
How much Spagho is in the drop?
@OnionSoup either more or less than $20 worth
I’ve been asked if this is certified kosher.
@mossygreen hmm, i’m not 100% sure but I did find this link: https://www.kosher.org.uk/article/all-pasta-kosher
no squid ink or anything like that in here, hope that helps!
@mossygreen from my understanding of the preparation needs, it is not
@snapster The facility would need an inspection by a rabbinical organization in order for it to be certified Kosher. Most pasta is Kosher, but not all Kosher food is Certified Kosher.
@Zelucifer thanks right; not expecting certified facility was in play here (while ingredients aren’t necessarily disqualifying.) This is higher end imported Italian pasta used in restaurants but not seeing commentary useful to @mossygreen
@mossygreen @snapster @Zelucifer if this turns out to be even a modest amount of something like rustichella d’abruzzo durum wheat pasta i’m going to be a very happy man.
i mean, i’ll also be happy if it’s an insane amount of regular pasta.
@mossygreen @snapster @Zelucifer @zippyus @unclespammy
Hey there! I did actually find some more out about this (finally, sorry for the wait!) - It looks like SOME of them are but not all. They’re all the same brand, so I’m not 100% why some are and some arn’t, BUT: Apparently both the Spaghettini and Linguini do have the ‘KF’ logo on them!
If I send this to drunk me does it count as a surprise?
@Kaieta absolutely, but even more so if you get it when you’re drunk too
@halfling @Kaieta he said he was sending it to drunk him. Which means he’s either perpetually drunk or will watch and get drunk on the day it’s said to arrive. Maybe he meant to say from drunk him which is much easier to accomplish and makes a ton more sense.
@bradsour @halfling It’s more of a werewolf thing, as soon as I clock out I’m drunk
@Kaieta
@Kaieta No, only if drunk you sends it to sober you.
@Kaieta you have to guarantee you stay drunk until it arrives or you might accidentally send it to sober you.
@Kaieta only if you send it through time and space Interstellar style
/giphy interstellar
@halfling @Kaieta and fortunately, unlike Casemates, they will not automatically refuse to deliver if you are drunk!
@curtise @halfling @Kaieta yeah, lately UPS just leaves the wine with my 12 yo son…
Yeah, this is a little vague for me. No amount, no info on where it’s made. For all I know this could be Ronzoni.
@sandbarhappy you should be so lucky! your sainted mother cooked all day for you, now mangia!
@sandbarhappy @zippyus ronzoni is trash pasta though
I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND ANY OF THIS!!! In for one.
@shubydoo in for four, all going to different people.
/giphy hostile-touching-knife
/buy
Yeah, the description is super light… I’m hoping the box is super heavy. But HOW HEAVY?
@marcee $20 heavy
@marcee
/giphy what’s in the box
@marcee @zippyus
EXACTLY!
@marcee @zippyus The perfect gif. You win.
I’m down for this but I agree w/ others that more details somewhere on the page on the actual contents of the box would be great.
@smozi Read the FAQ.
@chuegen @smozi
which are equally vague…
@chienfou @smozi I think that’s the point? A few people have made the observation that pasta is already relatively inexpensive (<$1/lb.) at grocery stores. Who knows how long PastaDrop lasts? 6 months, until restaurants open back up and supply chains re-equalize? Maybe it morphs into an Italian restaurant supply center? Who knows… but it’s not your standard known-quantity deal, it’s more akin to the “grab bag” style loot boxes out there with a single product. Regardless, I’m in for 1.
@chuegen @smozi
Yeah, that was useful.
/giphy THE WHOLE POINT
/giphy madly-doleful-mummy
Plain pasta sells for less than a $1/lb at discount retail [regular price]. So let’s see.
@datruandi But do you get the excitement of getting a box in the mail?
@sammydog01 curiosity killed the @DaTruAndi’s wallet.
@datruandi yeah… But I am guessing I will use at least two of the $10 gift codes. Might as well pull the trigger.
Enough for 40 plates?
@ELUNO don’t be silly. No one makes plates out of spaghetti noodles.
@ELUNO @OnionSoup They do repair sinks with Ramen noodles, though.
In for one to try out, and if nothing else, hopefully discount codes work out!
/giphy understood-enchanted-servant
It’s vague, it’s twenty bucks, and who knows what I’m actually getting…but I’m intrigued, so what the heck…I’m in!
I don’t get it. I was hoping for something different. Like maybe a kit of ingredients or special sauces or a desert thrown in.
@jmruru Pssst. Hey, kid, over here… I’ve got a great deal on the Mohave Desert – only 20 bucks. And it comes with a bunch of free pasta!
@aacero oops…lol
How do I purchase? Site not working.
Uh oh. At least 2 orders went through even though it showed a problem processing the order. I just figured site was busy, so I kept clicking. Cancelled one. Will wait to see if more appear in order history.
@medz Mine kept failing this morning. Check back later and I had 3 confirmed orders. Whoops.
There’s 40 bowls in picture #2 so assuming these are large size bowls then that would mean there’s about 20lbs of pasta in the box.
How much pasta you ask?
Some of you are forgetting we like experiments
OUR PASTA-AS-A-SERVICE API DOES NOT SUPPORT AMOUNT YET
@snapster We are not your guinea pigs! Is this soylent green pasta?!?!?
@snapster This is like the IRK of spaghetti isn’t it? Terrifying.
I’m pretty sure that’s not a real pasta.
@snapster I feel like a Mediocre lab rat. “Hey, let’s offer some dubious thing and see if people will buy it!”
@snapster I read the FAQ and just smiled.
Respectfully submitted,
Douglas C. Neidermeyer
Sergeant-at-Arms
@snapster Ready for an in-coming pasta pallet!
@snapster Why do people keep asking this question? There’s obviously $20 worth of pasta in the box
@ELUNO @snapster This pasta is people?!
@ELUNO @snapster @Stumpy91 Soylent pasta?
@snapster I have received so much from fukus and irks that I will always take the gamble with these folks
@mediocrebot It should be more like… Pasta-As-Service-Terrific-API.
VMP code produces no error, but also no adjustment to cart. ???
@donrull
@donrull seems like may just be a lil slow - just checked and they said to try again in ~10-20 mins if it’s still not working for ya.
13 minutes. That’s how long it took for someone to not read the full email. Sigh.
@donrull so is there a VMP code available? Could you tell me what it is?
I want to order, but can’t find a link that works.
It won’t let me Pasta Drop at all. It keeps coming up with the “Something went wrong on our end” message. Meh.com is taking a long time to load pages as well. Did Pasta Drop break the internet? Meh was so determined to try this experiment that no one bothered to ask if they should. The ramifications of their hubris could be devastating.
@Lister The pasta… it’s seems like it’s trying to sell us something. Can anyone here read ancient Sanskrit?
@Lister Same. I tried to order for a friend but after the order failed 5-6 times I gave up. It’s just not fun when the site fails.
@alandanziger I was able to get through right after posting this. Coincidence? Well…probably. It still took three times to get the order to go through once I actually got to the order page (which was the first time I saw how much the thing actually cost, which was weird). It was like trying to buy an IRK. Speaking of which, mine still hasn’t even shipped from the last Meh-rathon. Let’s see which one shows up first, the pasta or the IRK.
I am already a meh member but its trying to charge me for a membership here. Whats the dealio?
Hi @ExtremeHobo looks like you don’t currently have a Membership, no icon next to your name.
@ExtremeHobo Welp, turns out I let my membership expire.
@ExtremeHobo :,(
Too many people dropping pasta!
I am half tempted to do this.
but I really don’t feel like dealing w/ my sister after Meh sends her a pallet of pasta.
@ekw
/giphy pallet
Snicker
@Cerridwyn @ekw I cannot confirm nor deny that this is actually plausible… :p
/giphy FIX IT
Must…drop…pasta…
It’s becoming harder to order pasta than an IRK
@MrMikenIkes
What do you mean becoming? It already is.
I just sent my boss NOODS.
This… isn’t going to be already cooked pasta right
@vinuash no, BUT that would be pretty funny
@vinuash They’re just going to drop a big pot of cooked pasta into a trash bag and stuff it in a box. It should be green by the time it arrives in the mail.
This is insane. WTF?! Who buys an unknown amount of pasta for $20?!
In for one…
Broken ordering system… “problem on our end, try again later”
WOW, THESE ARE SELLING FAST AND WE’RE BUSY PROCESSING OTHER ORDERS. TRY AGAIN IN A LITTLE BIT.
I tried this a bunch of times and it won’t work so I give up. I’ll come back in a week or two.
It’s easier to get an IRK!
Uhmm… How much spaghetti does my $30 buy!!!
Is it dried? Is it already “cooked” and vacuum sealed?! Need some deets, Man!
That’s impastable.
@schufford dried! not cooked / refrigerated.
I wonder how many miles of spaghetti they’ll send out after this
What would that pasta even look like?
@Kevin
Less than 12 parsec’s worth, thats for sure.
Meh won’t take my $$! Giving up now.
broken ordering system? maybe i need to pay in lira or euro?
@cmerino Probably a single BitCoin would do it
Has anyone actually ordered any? Maybe this is all one big April Fool’s trick that got delivered by SmartPost so we’re getting it now
@MrMikenIkes I ordered some.
@MrMikenIkes I also ordered some, but pulled the trigger at like 11:01am, probably before most people read their email and realized this was a thing
I can’t order either! Getting various error messages!
MAKE WITH THE PASTA!
No problem taking money for shipping but can’t order? Seems legit.
@dancin8 just a little bit of an overload - activating a Memberhship for shipping gets run through as if it were a ‘separate transaction’, but try again in 10-20ish mins and should go through! We’re all eager on our end too haha
Yeah, I think someone dropped the
pasta(meat)ball…Would be interested if it said the amount received. Would be truly meh to spend $20 on some pasta and get a 16oz pack in the mail
@andrd You realize who we’re ordering from, right? It’s probably going to be 7 lbs of candy corn, a bluetooth nosehair clipper, and <REDACTED> of pasta!
I included a membership in my order. Amazingly, the membership processed but the rest of the order didn’t? Did I just pay for shipping on a failed order?
@cndnmatt
Memberships get processed as if it were a separate transaction, sorry about that! Try again in 10-20ish mins and should go through!
This site isn’t working neither is sidereal. The spaghetti broke the internetzzzzz
How would you even cook that kind of pasta?
Took a number of attempts to get through. Order finally went through… and my credit card flagged it. “HEY, WHY WOULD YOU BE MAIL-ORDERING PASTA? THAT SEEMS WEIRD, PLEASE REVIEW THIS”
I can’t get the thing from the thing to work. It’s just spinning
@lichme I was rejected.
Developers are on a call sorting out various bottlenecks here at launch. Some orders are getting through and clearly others are not.
Anyone with an actual order number? I’m trying to give you money in exchange for an unspecified quantity of pasta with unspecified quality… Can you hurry up and fix it?
@aardWolf I got through, even though it didn’t look like it. Check your email for receipt.
@aardWolf @cwolfpack3 Yep, I just saw mine went through in my email too.
I’m excited my order just went through! Something is wrong with me that I can’t wait to get an unspecified amount of an unknown type of pasta in an unknown amount of time. Can’t be any worse than the last 8 weeks of quarantine purchasing.
Took me awhile to get my order to go through. I have no idea what I’ve done.
/giphy unattractive-venerable-cockroach
Got two errors when I tried to order (using the VMP code that got emailed out), but also received two order confirmations - both for $0. The email specifically stated only one coupon per account, so I canceled one of them. Hope the other goes through, if only to see how much pasta I actually am going to receive.
Definitely some bugs in the ordering system, but I’m sure it will get worked out eventually…
/giphy martian-addicting-ham
YOU HAVE RECEIVED A 1 NOODLE PENALTY
@vandemusser Crap. I totally forgot about a VMP code. If I had one I probably deleted it.
@vandemusser No, I found it. That’s $20 I’ll never get back. But I still get the pasta! (That sounds pretty depressing now that I read it).
My latest Irk came with pots and pans ready to cook this pasta but I can’t order it!
@ELUNO The IRK from the last Mehrathon? Mine hasn’t even shipped yet.
@Lister No, the April Fool’s one that was on SideDeal
Forget COVID-19… People are going to be talking about the GREAT PASTA OUTAGE of 2020 for decades…
@aardWolf “Dad, why does Grandma hoard noodles?” WE MUST NEVER SPEAK OF IT
I finally got through and somehow ordered two… with two shipping confirmations. I’m doubling down on this pasta drop mystery!
So the gimmick here is to pay $20 to send a random amount of dried pasta, delivered in almost a month, to other people? Or to yourself? Bulk pasta is pretty easy to find and super cheap, even now. Delivered or picked up.
All the other meh spin-offs at least have some point, even if some are redundant. I guess I don’t get the point of this one. Is the fun in not knowing if you’re getting a good deal or not? Or in not knowing if you’re just wasting food others could use because you’ll have way too much pasta? Or were you trying for a far less interesting “bag of dicks” concept? Maybe a it’s like a lottery where the only prize is random amounts of pasta?
It’s not even random types of pasta or unusual/specialty pastas. So basically it’s a BoC (a BoP, if you’d like) of one of the most boring things around where the only unknown is the amount?
I’d be curious what the business discussion that lead to this site was. I can only assume some thought of a cute domain name and things just sort of escalated. Now THAT I get it. I’ve been there.
@cblack I mean, at LEAST send COOKED pasta with a note that says: “Guess who’s eating spaghetti tonight? YOU ARE”
FSM says that’s not real pasta.
@cblack It’s also supporting charity. shrug I’m all for some happy randomness right now.
@cblack how else are you going to not know how much pasta you sent to your friend?
/giphy YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH
@cblack I’ll fall for a mediocre launch gimick anytime. If it ends up being a terrible idea or terrible prices, I won’t drop any more pasta.
@mediocrebot How much pasta? Is it an awesome amount?
/giphy GOOD QUESTION
@mediocrebot You finally reveal yourself! (?)
@cblack I’m pretty sure it started with someone saying SEND NOODS and it snowballed from there.
@cblack Just try to imagine the size of the warehouse full of pasta that made this seem like a good idea.
Well, at least an idea.
@cblack @Lister Come on, obviously it meatballed
In the nutrition details you gave the required info on serving size, but not the required info on number of servings in container.
Please tell me, I can do the math!
@phendrick infinity pasta
Order went through!
/giphy unknown-quantity
Can anyone confirm whether the code’s used have all been redeemed? Not getting error but doesn’t seem to be doing anything. Order doesn’t seem to be going through either, not sure if it’s due to the applied code or if it’s just the bottleneck issues that @snapster mentioned
@wilstev I can’t check out either.
@wilstev we’re also trying to confirm this - I have order in same state as yours
@wilstev I got through with code some 10 mins ago. I also didn’t see a successful checkout but got an email confirmation.
@wilstev I ordered what I thought was a promo batch. Order went through, after saying it didn’t, and with no promo. I’m gonna not touch it until we hear about the issue status.
@wilstev I’m in the same boat
Trying to apply the code results in a 500 from the backend server, but no error message displayed:
@lichme @wilstev How long before the spaghetti club t-shirt?
@snapster For what it’s worth, I am now showing an order receipt timestamped 11:38 ET for a total of $0. waterproof-lowly-maple if you would like to do any internal testing (or if you even can). Never actually saw a confirmation screen, started to get the error message saying “these are selling fast. please wait a while” or similar. Closed window, waited and reopened to try again, and repeated cycle when I would get the wait a while message. I’ll stop trying now that I received the potential order confirmation.
@dzieciom @wilstev Similar issue on my side, it said that my order wasn’t going through, but I have a confirmation email with a charge of $0. Also got the added benefit of my bank sending an email about possible fraudulent charges for $0.00. Either way, I think my boss will enjoy some pasta.
@wilstev glad to see. we can’t confirm the are all gone yet but clearly it is a battle to get correctly applied and checked out.
@snapster So if the order went through, when it said it didn’t, and shows a charge, even though the coupon was used, it probably didn’t apply, and it’s safe to cancel the order? I don’t want to spam the servers if the thing is applied
@wilstev It shows it wasn’t successful, but I also got an order confirmation: sloppy-credible-potato
@lichme @snapster I couldn’t get the code to work either. So I paid cash for a delivery to my pasta buddy because how could I not. FIRST WEEK, BABY!
@lichme @snapster So, I had trouble getting my orders to go through, I thought. It turns out that four actually went through. AND three of the four, I used the coupon code. Since i wasn’t getting through, I had ordered one without the code.
Anyway, three of my emails said $0 amount paid and one was for $20. I cancelled two freebies and the $20 purchase. I now have one freebie order left on my account and I am happy as a clam.
OK, now just says invalid coupon code, so I assume it’s dead
@lichme @snapster Left for a bit, came back and clicked “Let’s try that again” on the page where I entered the coupon code and tried to buy it a billion times, and this time it went through. However, order confirmation and my credit card show a charge for $20, so assuming the coupon being applied successfully doesn’t necessarily mean it worked. It just didn’t show any error message applying it.
Well after many tries earlier saying code unknown, I gave it another try a bit ago (fully assuming all used hence the error) and much to my surprise it accepted the code and e-mail received confirming code worked. Thanks for the drop, will be fun to see what arrives!
@aardWolf @lichme @wilstev screw the shirt… i want another coin!
Now what have I done??!!
/giphy lucrative-stupendous-carrot
What is the quantity of noods?
@medz 69GB
@lichme @medz Nice.
Order placed! Sending noods to my wife…
/giphy trashy-boundless-gecko
I apparently ordered twice… got an error both times, but they both went through. Canceled the second order since it was two identical orders…
Not really sure what’s special about pastadrop… really hoping they have some wine pasta, like back in the old days of Woot wine.
That said, I can’t get my order processed… seems like meh’s servers are as busy as the CDC SARS-CoV2 labs.
@mschauber you do know about https://casemates.com/, right?
@Alien88 Yep
Order from there… too often 
But they aren’t selling food items like they did on Woot Wine… at least not that I’ve seen.
IT HAPPENED.
/giphy haggard-appealing-feet
I’m in! Though that order phrase is a bit unsettling.
/image sloppy-ugliest-quiet
/giphy sloppy-ugliest-quiet
@cinoclav did the order tell you how much pasta you were getting for $20? Is it bulk or individually packaged?
HEY, NOW YOU HAVE A REASON TO TALK TO YOUR FRIEND
@allergycheryl Nope. It doesn’t give you any information at all about the product itself.
/giphy sliced-adherent-turtle
My order went through although I never got a confirmation… I hit the “buy” button several more times… Whoops!
@TenaciousT Yeah-- Just got a confirmation email myself after a dozen or so supposedly ‘failed’ attempts. Lets see how many orders were actually placed
/giphy fat-average-ocean
@caffeineguy We can just cancel any extras in the orders section, I got a second confirmation but the “my orders” still only has the first one. Good sign.
@TenaciousT Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
I stopped doing my order-code giphy some time ago, but this one might be interesting:
/giphy dreary-dangling-secretary
Guess not.
My sister once sent me a potato in the mail. This seems like the most natural rebuttal.
@shaunanl On the other hand…
https://shipabagofdicks.com/collections/all/products/eat-shit-chocolate-shit-in-a-box
Are hamsters fulfilling these orders? Might need more hamsters.
I also ended up getting two (three now) order emails with the (wink wink) code that is one per person.
I imagine like IRKs it will cancel one but otherwise please LMK staff and I will cancel one (two now) myself.
How are you guys placing orders? I keep getting an error
/giphy frustrated
@tinamarie1974 Magic fingers.
@cinoclav hhuummmm… but I have been told my fingers ARE magic. Oh well
/giphy sigh
@tinamarie1974 I wouldn’t know.
@tinamarie1974 My index finger is now callused over… but it finally went through.
@mschauber me too! I may have developed carpel tunnel from all that clicking
Mine’s Broken. I just wanna send my in-laws some Noods.
Uh oh… I may have been bad. Was trying to hard to buy and now getting multiple orders coming through. This could be bad. Gonna need some fixing.
Well, it somehow put 8 different orders through. 6 of 8 coupon seemed to apply but then they cancelled 7 of 8 leaving just one with no coupon applied.
Tried ordering. No Joy.
For a recently divorced retired Detroit cop buddy whose Ex sours his kids against him.
Got to the order screen and the screen accepted the promo code without error. (Have the screenshots.)
But keep getting the red “Let’s try that again” error when attempting to submit the order.
Oh well, just another failed Mediocre Labs experiment.
I guess that’s why the lab rats persist in hanging around here.
@RedOak Did it change to total to zero? I could get the code accepted but it didn’t change to total.
@sammydog01 I was going by the literal text in the VMP email:
I did not get a coupon error. It added to the order successfully.
Also, when I ordered, the main screen showed 82 orders, further making things suspicious.
Later I tried submitting the same order screen I had left up… and of course it charged me $20!?! So I cancelled the order.
@RedOak Where did you see the number ordered? I can’t find it.
@sammydog01 looking at the home screen now, I realize that was the Pasta Drop chat count.
Meh and I have reached the point in our relationship where asking for noods doesn’t lead to anything. But that’s ok, because no one can ever take away our 7 lbs of candy corn!
/giphy neasy-lethal-scallion
Well it took almost an hour but let’s try this crazy experiment.
/giphy childish-avid-stick
My order apparently went through, but I never saw the verified screen. Please don’t charge me 400x for duplicate pasta orders. I mean it would be really funny but I’m poor
Update: purchase order shows $0 but credit card was just charged $20
@vinuash check your orders page to make sure you only have as many orders as you should.
Magic happened, and my order went through. Now we wait.
/giphy pretentious therapeutic soldier
Oooopsss…
Mean to say,
/giphy uneasy-lethal-scallion
How much pasta btw
did you mean how much pasta?
@mediocrebot yes how much pasta
did you mean how much pasta?
@mediocrebot how much pasta
did you mean how much pasta?
@mediocrebot how much pasta?
OUR PASTA-AS-A-SERVICE API DOES NOT SUPPORT AMOUNT YET
@tinamarie1974 even mediocrebot is stuck in a loop
@snapster carb coma
This is requiring way too much effort for spaghetti
@pitamuffin It’s spaghettini, though
Ah yes, the spaghettini!
/buy
@sohmageek apparently doesn’t work. But my checkout finally did.
Only saw the confirmation screen once and yet I’ve gotten 4 different orders placed so far as per my email; they keep coming in well after I last attempted! I’m cancelling the extras as I see them but definitely a bit strange
@nklb yikes. I’ll check on our side as well to make sure that gets cleaned up for you.
Wow… I’ve probably clicked the button to buy like 500+ times. You guys have got to be killing it selling pasta for the server to be so overloaded… I’m talking like dozens of orders.
@aardWolf As a side note, are the ethernet cables made of actual pasta?
@mediocrebot how many pastas
@kruzen $20 worth, but probably not the same amount $20 would buy you at a grocery store. A pasta drop is ‘worth’ what someone will pay for it, and that something is $20 today.
Where is anybody getting coupon code for today? I get daily emails and I never got a coupon code
@Star2236 we can’t tell you, other than to say that sadly you are not eligible for the deal, and that we’ve had to spend a lot of extra money on Meh that you’ve saved!
@Star2236 some charter members had a coupon code; turned out more trouble than it was worth
@snapster @Star2236 I can agree. The code did not work for me so I did not proceed.
Besides, I’m not a spaghettini fan, so I didn’t want to foist a random quantity of those noods on anyone.
Ah yes, the spaghettini!
@snapster @Star2236 'nuff said
@snapster @Star2236 I never get any VMP emails even though I am kickstarter and VMP. I don’t know why. I always get the guess what we are selling emails.
/giphy stinky
@patti @snapster @Star2236 you aren’t a VMP, you’re currently a Member.
I see this is showing nutrition facts and that the serving size is 2oz. How many 2oz servings will be delivered per drop?
@curtise
/image one million
@curtise $20 worth
indeed; how much pasta
/giphy WHAT’S IN THE BOX
@snapster They don’t even tell you?
@curtise All of them.
@curtise this guy knows
/giphy doctor evil
Tri-color pasta?
@mehmef Yes. Cream, tan, and buff colored.
@cinoclav @mehmef Damn, I was hoping for taupe, tan, and wenge.
@mehmef I prefer tan, red and green. It’s festive.
Part of me thinks this is just some sort of stunt for VMPs, maybe a delayed April fools joke? Something like Cards Against Humanity’s Black Friday.
How much pasta?
OUR PASTA-AS-A-SERVICE API DOES NOT SUPPORT AMOUNT YET
Do VMP members get free shipping automatically. Some one mentioned an e-mail VMP members got. I never got one.
@Felton10 Yes. One more site added to the free shipping list.
@Felton10 VMP Free Shipping works here.
@Felton10 I found some stuff in my spam folder
I kept getting a “Try Again Later” message every time I tried to order. I tried about 50 times and gave up. Just now got an email confirming my order.
I sure hope I don’t get another 49 confirmations! No one needs that much pasta… Or do they?!
Darn it! I want my carbs!! TAKE MY MONEY!!!
Hate to be that guy, but is there any allergy info about the noods? I’d had to send the wrong pasta to someone with an egg allergy or something similar.
@cainunable see nutritional first post; gluten is main potential allergen
@cainunable @snapster I won’t usually be obnoxious and tag you, but I wanted to emphatically express my appreciation for the allergen info (the other nutritional stuff is cool too, but if I’m honest, I give fewer fucks about that) and for the recognition that wheat-free is different from gluten-free. And for us celiacs, it’d be important that that shit be somehow certified (preferable) and/or explicitly attested by the manufacturer (pretty close, and given the squishiness of FDA reqs, in some cases maybe better).
Thanks!
/giphy thanks
/giphy you’re awesome
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
I assume I’ll be able to try again tomorrow with the linguatini or something…they have to be out after hitting the order button and getting denied 40 times, right?
@bdp I got a confirmation email twenty minutes after I stopped trying. Now I’m just hoping I don’t get another 50 confirmations…
@bdp it’s a weekly drop. See the countdown timer below.
still can’t order
Why won’t you?
Yay, you did!
I gave up and walked away to make lunch. Came back to two order confirmation emails. Kept the one with the coupon code. Hopefully the other 373 times I clicked order won’t go through now…
/giphy uptight-faceted-worm
Also errors.
I cannot think of anyone I love (or hate) enough to send a pallet of dry spaghettini; maybe if you had egg noodles, which cannot be found anywhere around here. I’ll drop Equal Heart a few shekels directly.
Spaghettini is one of my favorite noods.
More like pastadroppedtheball, amirite? I tease, I tease, I just want to order! I’ve been trying off and on for almost an hour now.
I finally got an order confirmed! The ol’ coupon code must have been long gone, but c’est la vie.
/giphy deaf-appetizing-cannon
I accidentally ended up making two orders of an unknown quantity of pasta. Seems like a waste, because even if I had only made one order, I still wouldn’t know how much pasta I would get.
OUR PASTA-AS-A-SERVICE API DOES NOT SUPPORT AMOUNT YET
@d But what if it’s only 5oz, and you didn’t order enough? You should by 6 more just in case
Finally getting a coupon code not found message
Can’t emphasize enough how good of an idea “ramen drop” is.
@wickhameh Agreed!
Can we please get some purple pasta next week?
@Barneybot isn’t a real bot.
/giphy hard-naughty-crowd
40 Plates in the Picture, 2 oz per Serving or plate. Usually sold in 16 oz lots, so 8 plates per pound, or 5 pounds of pasta, my guess is we get 5 1lb boxes of pasta.
@gr8mick1 They’ve been selling pasta lately on Morningsave, boxed as two 10-lb. packages. I’d expect to see something like that here.
@gr8mick1 @InFrom This was incredibly helpful. Most of the pasta is the Roma brand which is the #1 pasta of…(wait for it)…Ireland.
/giphy hard pass
@gr8mick1 @patti Well, it’s Italian-made, it looks fine enough. Can it be any worse than the top imported pasta in the US?
Glad to be of help.
That’s a lotta pasta, they better share it with me!
/giphy dependable-resplendent-heat
It finally went through!
/giphy overt-fitful-pan
Just got a confirmation email for an unspecified order, clicked at an unspecified time, for an unspecified amount of pasta to be delivered at an unspecified time!
/giphy keen-destroyed-sign
OMG FINALLY
/giphy voluptuous-nervous-starfish
/image voluptuous-nervous-starfish
/youtube voluptuous-nervous-starfish
It’s amazing how many people apparently do possess the ability to read but cannot read an entire email or keep a secret.
Also, unknown errors occurred when trying to drop pasta. Waiting to make sure I don’t start getting confirmation emails before trying again later. This is exciting!
/giphy drop it like it’s hot
@djslack “Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
@demonbane @djslack oh I do like that show
Never thought I’d be sending myself noods, but here we are…
/giphy vital-furious-warlord
/giphy milky-screeching-grasshopper
Got order in finally. This will be fascinating. With the other incentives for promos at the other sites I figure it’s also worth a try. Thanks for the fun ladies and gents.
Ok so where/how do I receive my “other” discounts for the other Mercatalyst sites? I think I missed something
@tinamarie1974 Mine showed up in an email at least an hour later.
@aardWolf thanks! Clearly I need to work on my patience.
@aardWolf you were RIGHT!!! Thanks
/giphy grazie
There really should be an option to select other members and drop pasta to them without actually knowing their address.
@TwoFiftyFare at least the goat
@DrWorm bought your mom that necklace you hated.
Terrible user experience.
Anyone you send this to that isn’t you will obviously be a “new” ship to address. e.g. my local foodbank.
That also means you MUST uncheck the pre-checked “Billing address is the same as shipping address” checkbox.
Since the billing address is always going to be different than the ship to, you have to enter in your billing address every time you “send noods”.
You can’t switch from your browser to another app on your phone (like your contacts app) to look up your intended co-victim’s shipping address without coming back to a completely empty form to fill out all the information again.
My pre-saved payment cards could not be selected. I still had to enter the card number despite using the radio buttons to pick one. None worked.
And heaven help you if you copy your shipping address from another app (your address book or from the website of the recipient) and can’t paste it into any field because the form truncates it (the most important part - the zip code which has to be enetered separately)
The “It’s not your fault, some random error with our website has occurred, guess again” game is not fun. Just knock that shit off, K? Give me something actionable.
The coupon-that-shall-not-be-named was accepted, but did not work. It did not change the prices, and worse it didn’t tell me why it didn’t work (invalid or already used).
Show some pride.
Test Yo Shit.
Don’t abuse the customer.
Get it together and think this through when you’re not high.
@DrWorm doesn’t celebrate Mother’s Day because they think it’s a Hallmark Holiday.
@mike808 You obviously can send it to yourself. The poll has a significant number of people who admitted to it. So go ahead and cross the first few off this list.
And quite frankly I would be shocked if your local food bank would prefer a random box of pasta to a twenty dollar donation.
And you had to type in your address? Let me find my tiny violin.
@mike808 @sammydog01 so you were happy with the experience and would recomment it to others?
/giphy sarcasm
@mike808 What garbage browser or OS are you using that all of those things you complained about are actually things?
@mike808 Well said. Actually totally agree with you on choice E) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Especially the appendix to 8.
“It’s an experiment” – what’s our status, guinea pigs or just lab rats?
You’d think that after twenty plus years of commerce on the internet, UX would be no problem. (But I still hate search functions on major sites – try looking up “replacement vacuum cleaner cord” on Lowe’s or HD, and see what they try to sell you. Walmart did OK on that, but they are usually one of the worst.)
I think you just coined a new initialism, TUX. (At least I hadn’t encountered it yet.)
@tinamarie1974 The announcement tanked the forum. What were people expecting?
@sammydog01 I would agree, day one of any endeavour is always touch and go
@sammydog01 I don’t want to send it to myself. That’s the point. I want PastaDrop to ship to the recipient, not ship it to me and then I have to ship it again, at my own cost, to the
victimlucky recipient of my charitable largess.As for filling in my own info for billing, Mercatalyst already has this on file, and it means I have to do it every damned PastaDrop. Not gonna be a repeat customer after that kind of abuse, that you think is justified. Wow.
@lowlypeon I’m interacting with the site on a Nokia 6.1 running Android 10 with the April 2020 security package, and using Chrome 81.
The problem isn’t the browser or the phone UI. It is the website and the craptastic UX.
@mike808
You need to get out more.
@mike808 Jesus Christ, man, do you know where you are? Some of us like it here. Go away.
/giphy I can tell already that I’ll never like you
/giphy fuck off
/giphy endearing-appealing-yam
cursed-phony-tiger
/giphy dreamy-cardiac-icicle
Can’t ship to my state? What kind of pasta is this?
(just kidding, I managed to get my orders in!)
/giphy exquisite-sarcastic-room
so curious.
I got an order confirmation with the vmp coupon, but then it was cancelled.
Not sure what happened.
@seraphmonkey just checked and I got a super delayed second order also showing the $0. It was subsequently canceled. My guess is they cancelled all duplicates and potentially any $0 orders beyond the intended amount. Hopefully yours is as a result of a duplicate order scenario like mine and you still have another one coming.
Now if only @mediocrebot could tell us how much pasta is included.
YOU HAVE RECEIVED A 1 NOODLE PENALTY
@mediocrebot but how much does that penalty affect my Xbox gamer score?
@mediocrebot @seraphmonkey @wilstev
Ahem. You can’t keep a secret.
@seraphmonkey I had multiple orders with my VMP code (by accident since the site kept giving me errors). Duplicate orders were canceled but now my original “Free with VMP code” order is $20. bummer.
/giphy jumpy-ambiguous-glass
/giphy quaint-gargantuan-pineapple
I’m confused about this offer. Is it all a single brand of Pasta? What is that brand? What country does it come from? I don’t like to buy pasta from the US and prefer to buy from Italy as they don’t allow the pesticides that we allow here in the US on our food.
@jayman007 maybe
I did it for the coupons.
Spaghetti is the Kmart of pastas.
@OnionSoup hot and saucy?
@zippyus my metaphor was deliberately as vague as the amount of pasta we’re getting.
@OnionSoup But you’re getting spaghettini, not spaghetti.
Spaghettini is one of my favorite noods.
@patti I’m hoping they mess up and send me cavatappi instead.
My local food bank will be happy.
/giphy bowed-uninviting-dinner
Looks like the box can double as Pictureka boards so the kids get something too.
I’m used to disappointment
/giphy promiscuous-nondescript-language
(nice order number though)
Bath!
(of hot water in which to submerge dry noods)
@curtise I see what you did there
@curtise What you are using melted neoprene for the sauce?
@Kidsandliz I never got any free bath cases but spent my own money to buy the big batch, and I love them still! (Except for that one kindle case that I despise - it knows what it did!!!)
@curtise Are you the one who was in the bathtub with them? I no longer remember who that was, just remember the humorous photo.
@Kidsandliz Nope. That wasn’t me. I don’t even recall that photo.
Let’s do this
/giphy callous-frantic-starfish
If this ends up being a great big box of thinly-rolled-out candy corn, I will be completely whelmed.
/giphy forlorn-gross-martini
@Kenbo Instant Regret Pasta
It’s most likely 20 lbs, based on the product they were selling on morningsave.
Ah yes, the spaghettini!
OK, I’m trying this. I ordered and had to shipped to me (since it defaulted to my own shipping address).
I’m dense and couldn’t figure out how to ship to someone else other than by entering a different address in the “Shipping Address” section. Here’s why: with other vendors where I’ve purchased a gift, I supply my address for credit card and account validation, then their address for the destination.
That’s my feedback on the ordering process. Looking forward to the food and then the great launch of “water drop” where there is new water introduced weekly where the pasta can be boiled.
@mpwalters Underneath the credit card details box, uncheck “My billing address is the same as my shipping address”. Then you can put your billing info there and the gift recipient’s shipping info at the top.
@eric1024 @mpwalters Not “can” put your billing info, but must put your info. Every damned time, no savesies.
@eric1024 @mike808 @mpwalters
Savesies for mesies. I have a drop down with 2 different addresses that I can pick from, and all info is saved there. If I’m shipping to my address the box for “billing address is same as shipping” is checked, if shipping to the other address it’s unchecked and my billing address is already filled in.
@Ignorant @mike808 @mpwalters Same here - my billing addresses are saved by card. So, if I choose a different payment method in the drop-down, it populates the appropriate billing address.
@eric1024 @Ignorant @mpwalters
They must have fixed some stuff after I posted about it.
@mike808 No fix has been done so if you end up finding out where our UI failed we still need to figure it out. Maybe it was site performance related. Sorry for the frustration.
@mpwalters @snapster
appears to save my address, but not my credit card
lots of trouble to get it out. tried both cards saved to the site, if you change the mailing address and uncheck the box, it want’s credit card info - again.
I’ve noted on casemates, that it seems to associate the credit card with the shipping address, not the billing address.
@Cerridwyn @mpwalters ah yes there is an association made there to eliminate fraud — stops someone who got into your account from shipping stuff to somewhere new. I’ll see what we can do.
@mpwalters @snapster
PS
forum notifications not firing either
@snapster
If the address line field could be longer (10 chars?) it might fit pasting in a 1-line street, city, zip without truncating.
I pasted into the special note text area to capture it.
I wish there was a way to add or manage ship-to addresses before making a PastaDrop.
There is some weird lock-out of the card info and the billing address with the bill/ship checkbox, but I don’t know what the trigger is.
I was entering a new ship-to address but it kept refreshing back to the prior order that dud gobthrough (no luck on the code-that-shall-not-be-named, though. Probably too late).
The chdckout flow wasnt designed to primarily not have a ship-to different from the bill-to. Kight make sense to flip it around. Unfortunately, it also flows exactly like fraud does, where you don’t want to easily buy stuff with a default payment and a different one-off ship-to address.
Having the ability to add ship-tos in advance, so you can pick it, default the bill address from the payment/default ship-to and forced re-entry of the CVV2 might work. For the PastaDrop flow only, since that’s how the site is aligned.
@mike808 thanks for the time detailing that. agreed; could be far better. we had to race to try and do many features here. will see if we can figure out some efficiency improvements.
@mike808
Like this? https://pastadrop.com/account/payment-settings
@Ignorant @Snapster
Bingo! That would be really helpful to have people on mobile phones (or regular browsers too) “load up” their intended
victimsbeneficiaries to make PastaDrops e-z p-z.That might be helpful in the FAQ for frequent droppers. Definitely doing that if you’re on a mobile.
Even better, allow @<username> in ship-to Name and it would indicate success (or fail) if a matching default ship-to was found and redact it for the UI. No PII disclosed. Might even help with Casemates split-cases somehow.
Maybe make that an opt-out checkbox on your profile if you dont want to allow other mehmbers to send you Valuable Mercatalyst PastaDrops.
@Ignorant @snapster a little further detail:
I did not have the billing address problem because I already have a separate billing address from my shipping address.
However, I noticed that on Meh my shipping address had changed to that of my pastadrop recipient. And cards and addresses seem to be tied together, as the card switches with the address (I used a different card for my pastadrop).
I had an idea that pastadrop shipping information might be better off segregated from the rest of the Mercatalyst properties, since the stated intent here is to send to someone else. I’d hate to send someone pasta and then go to meh and send them socks by accident.
@carl669 said that he fucking recommends this approach as well.
@carl669 @djslack @Ignorant
Did you have to type your address in again? Or click on something?
THAT’S CUSTOMER ABUSE! According to one person here anyway.
@djslack @Ignorant @sammydog01
i should never have to click on anything. they should just know what i want and automatically read my mind and order it for me. clicking on things is for suckers. my hands should never have to leave my keyboard, because a mouse is how THEY keep you under control. FUCK mice!
@carl669 @Ignorant @sammydog01 I did have to click. I had to click the buy button. Then I had to click to change the address, but I didn’t have to type it. But now @carl669 has me riled up. I want the ESP API integration for no-click ordering. Just don’t let Bezos hear about it or he’ll want to eat another octopus.
I’LL BE LOOKING FOR THE “SWEETENERS” E-MAIL --Because I’m going to be Meh’s #1 Nudge if I don’t see it.
BTW, FIVE (5) sites? 'k, what am I missing?
1-Meh; 2-Mediocritee (still mehhy); 3-Morningsave (thumbs up for the extra VMP 10% off if the item isn’t the morning mehhy deal on that site; and now 4-pastadrop. What am I missing? Woot was bought by some other mehhy-type people, yes, no?
FROM the Pastadrop FAQ’s:
"Got anything else to sweeten the pot?
Sure, since we just launched we’ll throw in $50 total store credit for our other sites. After you PastaDrop you’ll get an email with $10 off each of our five other sites. You can use these codes once on each site to…save $10.
Oh, and the PastaDrop recipient will also get a code they can use to PastaDrop someone else. Pasta it forward, if you will. (Or even if you won’t.)
@evgrosen MorningSave, Meh, SideDeal, Mediocritee, Casemates
@evgrosen - oopsie - Six (6) sites total? They really want our entire C-19 allowance, don’t they? (Not happening, lol… still “gifting” T.P., sanitizer, and paper towels to friends in need. ugh.)
@eric1024 @evgrosen are morningsave and sidedeal really the same site though? I mean, I don’t mind a coupon for both, but they both sell the exact same things for the exact same price. It’s essentially one site with two urls.
@OnionSoup I was looking for earbuds and they cost two dollars more on sidedeal than morningsave. I recommend you check both if you want to order.
@eric1024 - Thanks! I forgot about casemates (wine - whoo hoo! Uh oh… )!
Sidedeal - I know nothing. But looks like we’re getting out of C19 lockdown pretty slowly… it’s for our own good, I suppose. sigh.
@OnionSoup @sammydog01 - Thank you for the heads-up. A couple dollars is like, real money – for those of us who aren’t 1 percenters!
@eric1024 @OnionSoup - it’s a Meh-ist conspiracy - they’re trying to get our “meh” money anyway they can. The name “sidedeal” sounds a little slimey to me - do they offer disinfecting wipes? Because, man, those are still really hard to get – unless you don’t mind getting reamed. (I did find some on Boxed for a reasonable price - limit 2, and man, they went FAST.)
/giphy understanding-incoherent-body
/giphy bad-ambivalent-science
I just ordered one for me, one for my brother, and one for my friend
Thinking about one for another friend…
I feel like with my username I need to participate in this experiment, but I don’t know who to bless with too much pasta. Hmm.
No Meh button, what do I click to keep myself amused everyday?
/giphy auspicious-useless-commander
I was unable to put a custom message in with my order
@tightwad check with CS they may be able to add something.
I can’t wait to see my friend’s reaction when the pasta drop arrives!
/giphy spontaneous-morbid-kale
/giphy dashing-handsomely-vessel
FML I need gluten free
I keep getting the oops message when I try to put in my order. Is the custom message the problem?
@snichola I was able to get it to go through without the custom message
I placed an order for me and for a friend (ordered ~1hr apart). My first of the two ordered was just canceled on me
Any reason why? 
@SkyyPunk 80% chance it’s because they thought it was a duplicate order like a bunch of other people had.
@SkyyPunk I just got this same notification for the same thing. My first order was for my friend and it was cancelled.
@lichme @SkyyPunk WELL BEANS. I hope they can uncancel it.
@heyitslauren beans, indeed! I reached out to CS to see what’s up
@SkyyPunk Same here-- ordered one with a code, ordered a second one without, two different addresses. WTF
@SkyyPunk @licheme @heyitslauren @caffieneguy while we knew in advance to avoid this situation, lichme’s 80% guess is a good one. we’re trying to confirm, figure out what went wrong and if we can correct.
@SkyyPunk @heyitslauren @caffeineguy I’m not 100% sure what happened, but the best solution right now is to order again. Sorry about that.
@caffeineguy @dave @SkyyPunk DONE
@dave @heyitslauren @SkyyPunk But the code I used this morning doesn’t work now
@dave @snapster This morning I ordered one with a code, and another ‘full price’, two different addresses; I was careful not to apply the code twice per e-mail instructions yet the first was cancelled. I just placed the first order again, but now I’ve got 2 @ full price.
@caffeineguy ok, keep it in place and I’ll try to figure out refund here.
@caffeineguy @dave @heyitslauren Sounds good - re-ordered. Thanks and congrats on launch day!
@caffeineguy @dave @snapster refund is all set!
@Thumperchick Thanks!
My first order from yesterday was cancelled with no explanation. Reordered today. Guess we’ll see what happens.
I have the distinct feeling of being in some kind of Skinner box made out of pasta.
Oh well. In for one. Keep that dopamine comin’.
/giphy treasured-faint-island
/giphy temporal-dependent-book
/giphy furious-attentive-squid
/giphy loveable-gusty-smell
Are codes sent to us through email after purchase?
@natekimh wait what? there are codes?
@indiebass i thought there was. Thats why bought this stupid pasta. I hate spaghetti. Im a penne guy.
@indiebass I agree, spaghetti flavored pasta just isn’t there.
Got anything else to sweeten the pot?
Sure, since we just launched we’ll throw in $50 total store credit for our other sites. After you PastaDrop you’ll get an email with $10 off each of our five other sites. You can use these codes once on each site to…save $10.
Oh, and the PastaDrop recipient will also get a code they can use to PastaDrop someone else. Pasta it forward, if you will. (Or even if you won’t.)
/giphy wheezy-luscious-rhinoceros
/giphy humdrum-misguided-orange
I’ve never owned twenty buck spaghetti before. I imagine the experience to be exquisite.
/giphy five dollar milkshake
Woohoo!
Now I’m sending a bunch of pasta to a bunch of my idiot friends!
I’ll wait my 6 days and 15 hours for a different shape. Fusilli, Farfalle, Small Shells taste the best. I think it’s how they hold the sauce.
/giphy Fusilli Jerry
RIP
/buy
Fuck I just need to buy this and I’m running into glitch city. Gonna try this…
Dear future Casey, remember when you said you would stop impulse spending…and now you have a giant box of fucking pasta. Dude, never change.
Love, Current Casey
Welp, i took out my gift message from above and suddenly, noods.
I wanted that message Pasta Drop, its the only way im gonna be able to explain this to my future self.
Help.
Pasta drop coming to the DMV
/giphy roomy-tearful-rattlesnake
I’d like to think that no one will suspect me, except that a few months ago I sent one of those giant fat stuffed seals to my friend anonymously and now everyone suspects me when they receive random packages. sighhhhhh
Me 10 hours after first visiting the live site. “Send Noods”
THIS IS HOW MUCH PASTA YOU ARE GETTING!!!
We have the following points based on the location of the corners in the image.
29,272
29,988
342,182
343,1094
1217,252
1223,1004
We also have a few assumptions.
a) This is the box the pasta arrives in
b) The box is square rather than some weird shape because someone was drunk when they ordered the box.
c) the length of the spaghetti is ~10in or 250mm and this correlates to the length of the box.
Next we can assume that we have two orthogonal surfaces whose projection can be represented by the matrices
Uhhh… Look, it took linear algebra a while ago so maybye it is called a multidimensional array? but yea.
[ [(19, 29) (342, 343)] [(272,988) (182,1094)]
and
[ [(342, 343) (,)] [(182,1094) (,)]
Wait, what order am I putting theses in? Did I flip something? Crap, I don’t know.
**** it, lets just use trig and assume an isometric projection…
So, we can get the
Ehh.
/youtube “forget the whole thing bender”
HEY, NOW YOU HAVE A REASON TO TALK TO YOUR FRIEND
@Fen_Star Can we get a banana for scale?
/giphy math is hard
@Fen_Star @mike808 darn I was so excited to see how you worked out the formula lol
@Fen_Star @mike808 Enjoy your micro-spaghetti.
@Fen_Star using advanced trig I have determined we are getting 4.5X mm3 of pasta where X is an unknown number. But this should work out to be 2.3Y lbs of pasta where Y is also an unknown number.
Pasta droppin’ to my local food bank!
/giphy uncaring-edgy-vinegar
Mystery amount of pasta purchased and sent to wife.
I hope this doesn’t make me look dumb.
Err dumber…
Nevermind, it’s definitely going to make me look dumber.
/giphy bleary-barbed-bone
In for the gift cards. I said CARDS not carbs.
The boxes remind me of something
@jmhsrv I think the two will have something in common.
/giphy faint-incandescent-competition
Thanks, but like so many others, I can’t spend $20 on something I know nothing about…not even the quantity.
A hint would help… I so want to like this…
@Tadlem43 there will be spaghetti in the box.
@Ignorant @Tadlem43
No there won’t. There will be spaghettini in the box.
@mike808 @Tadlem43 true.
I missed the part about a gift card?
@jmruru pastadrop.com/faq
Guess this proves I’m always up for 20$ to send random stuff to my brother. Hope it has a long shelf life, I don’t think he ate much pasta…before
/giphy cranky-mindless-rod
/giphy adhesive-uber-coal
Oddly appropriate.
/giphy legitimate-merry-meat
I sent it to my daughter, yes she lives in my house. But she’s already planning on a pasta drop to a coworker friend. So she will use the code. I may have to send some to my other adult kids that haven’t heard of it, just to confuse them.
/giphy vibrant-poignant-beast
I was hesitant until I read the FAQ.
I bought… husband likes pasta… but he might just get mad at this one. Oh well
/giphy dangerous-dry-paper
the coupons make it worth the first try, and
Imy friend can always pass them along to the food bank or somewhere. It’s a good start to the stash for when the virus flares again from all the idiots having beach parties …/giphy grimy-sleek-crime
/giphy wilted-imperfect-hippopotamus
@snapster , I’ve followed you everywhere else, why stop here? This one really feels like the last frontier of weird BUT I appreciate the effort to be different AND I will come along for the ride.
/giphy witchy-festering-rain
So I had the duplicate order issue as well, and all but 1 were cancelled.
This morning my last order was also cancelled, what gives? I’m just trying to ship an undisclosed amount of pasta.
@dzieciom
I have the same issue. Sent an email and waiting for reply.
@dzieciom @wbiddle We’ll get you sorted, just make sure to write into pastadrop.com/support
@Thumperchick @wbiddle Sent in earlier today so just patiently waiting and not submitting another one.
/giphy supreme-cursed-sheep
Let’s hypothetically say there is a special code where this could be free… would that order qualify for the coupons for the other sites?
@KNmeh7 It appears it did! Hooray.
In for a penny, in for a pound
Purchased a “box”? for myself last night. Wanted to see how much arrived before sending any to friends. I can just imagine “why did you send me a single envelope full of noodles?”
@briannameeps someone posted earlier that sidedeal had something eerily similar sounding on their site that made it sound like this might end up being (20) 1-lb bags.
@briannameeps @vandemusser I’d bet we get whatever the leftover stock is from that deal
@aardWolf @briannameeps Well, that sidedeal one sold out… probably a different shipment altogether. I really hope it’s (20) 1-lb bags and not (2) 10-lb bags. Yikes…
@aardWolf @briannameeps @vandemusser “Sold out” like crap sold out on woot-offs or sold out for real? I imagine someone added too many zeroes to an order and now they have a million pounds of pasta in a warehouse in Texas.
/giphy hissing-uptight-suggestion
/giphy tattered-unnerving-termite
Well, that is definitely unnerving…
/giphy sly-mysterious-flea
Sad the site exploded and prevented me from using a magic incantation that would make it free. Hoping it’s worth the $20. Also, hope it’s worth the headache this caused due to getting automatically flagged by as fraud on my credit card.
/giphy rewarding-mesmerizing-basketball
@bluevulpine my transactions got flagged multiple times too. had to clear about seven attempted transactions to get three to go through.
I can’t hear
Spaghettiniand not sing along to Der Mussolini in my head. I… I’m sorry.Also, RIP Gabi.
Spaghettini is one of my favorite noods.
/giphy rampant-qualitative-corsair
@jimmyd103
/giphy intensifies
so are you guys at the various sites hawking this stuff cuz of the Rona '20 World Tour?
I mean it is better than pouring the pasta down the drain, or slaughtering it because they’ve grown too big for the processing plant, or simply tilling it back into the ground to fertilize for next year’s spaghettini crop.
I mean there ain’t hardly any Italian joints open these days
Ah yes, the spaghettini!
@mediocrebot @staff
If you won’t tell us how much pasta, will you tell us if it only one package or if it is multiple packages within the box ?
/giphy question
OUR PASTA-AS-A-SERVICE API DOES NOT SUPPORT AMOUNT YET
Darn, waited a day… and the noods were sold out. Taught me something…
@todaresq There’s a sucker born every minute?
I wonder how many pasta drops were sold??
I see what you did there.
@tinamarie1974 All of them.
@Barney
Putting in a request for cavatappi and/or gemelli.
Both are superior to spahettini. And damn it, I’m probably going to get a mediocrebot autoresponse for saying the “s” word.
@OnionSoup did you mean spaGhettini?
Ah yes, the spaghettini!
@snapster darn it… Lol
we will now attempt the cross post link via twitter embed single salchow… (quiet please)
@snapster muffled cheering
Are we allowed to request upcoming pasta? I want trottole! I’ll send that to myself even.
No one looks at the sister sites?
@bvickers sure even purchased there… My order got stuck in a 2-week long delivery loop, says it was delivered but nowhere to be found.
Inside packages are reported to be open and spilled, but who cares I what all the amazing pasta.
@bvickers I just saw this, though I had seen the $32 for 20 lbs entries for awhile. Maybe the reason no weight is given is because they had been selling 10 lbs for $20, but the drops are now 20 lbs for $20? I mean, at the grocery, pasta ranges from $1-3 a lb, but on discount might be buy one get one free, so maybe it makes economic sense? If this is surplus pasta because Italian restaurants aren’t opened, it might drive the price down.
@bvickers Damn. Those undies don’t look comfortable.
Btw, they’re out of pasta.
SELL OUT!
/giphy pasta sold out
Wow, I didn’t see that coming.
@ThunderChicken he’s very upset at the lack of pasta to go along with his fishes.
4 days until the next one? I need this for my roommate. She drunk cooks pasta often and boils it all over my stove leaving me a disaster to clean up the next morning. she moves Out later this month and I want her to have a good supply of pasta to mess up her own stove with! How quickly will this ship? She’s getting married and this is going to be an awesome add on wedding gift. But only if it gets here before she leaves since she’s moving a few hours away
POPSOCKETS! COURT DOCKETS! FOLK ROCK HITS! AWESOME!
@jenludwig always check the specs at the top of the page. That’s where it has estimated shipping for current offerings.
You might want to get her new address for the next one.
does the pasta ever actually drop?
@cmerino from the specs at the top:
@RiotDemon Grazie!
@cmerino @RiotDemon noooo! I want my pasta now! Where is the instant delivery?
/giphy too slow
Seriously, does the pasta ever ship?
@krock1 the date is listed for the first week in June.
I can buy spaghetti for 49 cents a pound at my local store when it goes on sale… usually once a month. I’d pay more for specialty shapes, but spagetts? No.
Bring on the unicorn shapes!
@binkybear, but when was the last time you bought spaghettini?
/giphy cynical-answer-kiss
What the meh is meh mehing?
https://slate.com/business/2020/05/pasta-shortage-coronavirus-why.html
@Eric714 interesting that you should ask. The article is referring to American made pastas, while these noods are quality Italian imports.
@Eric714 Likely it’s not consumer pasta, it’s food service pasta that would have normally gone to the restaurants that are now closed or doing takeout only.
Has anyone received their PD yet?
Please post an unboxing video when you do.
Regards,
Everyone who didn’t get in on the deal…
@Brasssong mine is still processing and has not shipped. I have yet to actually receive anything that i have ordered from any of the mediocre labs sites. My first purchase was May 1st and then a few other orders prior to the pasta drop. I do not expect to receive the pasta until 2nd week of June. All of my expected delivery windows from orevious purchases have passed and still waiting. I ordered the penne this week to deliver to my sister. I figure i may forget about it in 5 weeks and we’ll both have a laugh
Penne is one of my favorite noods.
@Brasssong @tjg5181 that’s kinda the deal with the mediocre brands. They’re cheap but get delivered by a team of snails. It’s the same thing way back in the day when they used to be woot
5 tracking numbers, eh?
@medz Same here. I’m a little nervous. But hopefully this will wind up a boon for my local food bank.
@medz @SSteve me too. My parents are going to kill me
/giphy hysterical laughter
@medz yep. had to double check that they hadn’t sent all my orders to my mom
@medz 5 tracking numbers?
hmmmm. Wonder if everyone gets the same amount. Mine no shippy yet.
They probably sent the shipments with the most out first to generate more buzz. I doubt you get 5 shipments of pasta every week.
@medz @SSteve @tinamarie1974 I just hope my wife doesn’t learn to turn the spaghettini and penne into some sort of weapon when she finds out who sent all this pasta to her.
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
@medz 5 tracking numbers here, as well… and I only ordered one. It’s going to be interesting to see if it’s (5) 20-lb boxes of spaghettini. Part of me hopes not, and part of me hopes so.
@medz @vandemusser I wonder if the larger orders are going out first or if it’s going to be like that for everyone.
I truly hope it’s for everyone (or at least what I sent the Mrs.). 100lbs of pasta would be very funny… Especially if she got 100lbs of Penne the very next week.
Spaghettini is noones favourite in my household. We prefer thicker more toothier pastas… But we would learn to like it…
Honestly if it was that much then we would donate the vast bulk of it and just keep a little.
Penne is one of my favorite noods.
@medz @vandemusser Same here… now I’m very curious.
@medz @vandemusser only one tracking number for me. I am not blessed by the Gods of pasta.
@medz @SSteve four of the five look like they will deliver tomorrow to my victims, I mean parents
Box number five was last scanned on 5/22 in TX, not sure where in the US it will show up.
@medz @SSteve @tinamarie1974 it’s almost better they don’t arrive the same day.
Getting 4 boxes one day thinking “holy poo, that’s a lot of pasta” then getting one the next day will make them paranoid of pasta trickling in non stop.
@medz @OnionSoup @vandemusser One tracking number would still work for a pallet of pasta. Surely it’s going to happen to somebody.
@medz @melwin @vandemusser they haven’t shipped a pallet of anything since the early woot days have they? That would be funny though… alas I believe those days are in the past.
@medz @OnionSoup @SSteve omg!! I did not think of that, too funny!! If it is 20 # boxes they are going to lose their mind
@medz @OnionSoup @SSteve @riotdemon @barney So I just got a FRANTIC call from my mom asking if I know anything about a pasta delivery. She does not know what is going on and who delivered SO MUCH pasta!!! WHAT IS SHE GOING TO DO WITH ALL THIS PASTA!!! THIS IS CRAZY!!!
Amid laughter I was able to ask what delivered, four boxes at 20# each for a total of 80#'s.
Just wait until that fifth box shows up. I am NOT telling her it is en route!!
@snapster thank you for allowing me to laugh harder than I have for quite a while!!
@tinamarie1974 Wow! Are they threatening to divorce you?
@snapster
My wife wants to know how this is profitable.
@Barney @medz @OnionSoup @RiotDemon @snapster @SSteve just called me back. Still freaking out. Said the mail lady was baffled and wanted to know if they REALLY ORDERED THIS MUCH PASTA??? She wanted to know what they were gonna do with it!!!
@Barney no divorce. We are Sicilian, you just sleep with the fishes
@Barney @medz @OnionSoup @RiotDemon @snapster @SSteve Now that the shock and horror has worn off
@tinamarie1974 Sounds like you have a hit on your hands?
Hope you don’t get tired of spaghetti.
/image a mountain of spaghetti
@tinamarie1974 I like your mom!
@Barney I think you would like her IRL. She is very saucy…no pun intended!
@Kidsandliz I NEVER get tired of pasta, but pasta doesn’t like me! Or maybe it does because it hangs around on my belly and thighs, etc…
BTW if anyone is wondering it was really good
@Barney @medz @OnionSoup @RiotDemon @snapster @SSteve @tinamarie1974 so she asked to send to her brother. Didn’t this shipment come with coupon for free to ship to someone else?!
@raccoon81 I thought it was supposed to have a $5 off coupon that she could use.
Hrmm… FAQ said recipient will get a code to PastaDrop someone else. Guess I thought it meant to send a full drop.
@Barney @medz @OnionSoup @raccoon81 @RiotDemon @snapster @SSteve there was a $5.00 off coupon included but since I used my account it was not valid (1st time purchase only) no matter, I don’t think she cared either way. She just wants to “get” her brother.
I forsee Pasta Wars in the future!!
@tinamarie1974 If your mom is even only a fraction of your sauciness, I know I’d like her.
@Barney I am only a fraction of hers. I am tempered by my calm father.
/giphy saucy Sicilian
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 and she still has one more box tonarrive, right?
Mine for my wife is still in Texas, seems to be held up there for a week. Once it finally leaves, if like other meh products it’s 7-10 days away. I still have a while until I witness the horror. (But mine is only one shipping label so presumably only 20lbs… Maybe I’ll hit jackpot with the Penne… Which would be better since she likes that more)
As an aside… Did you know a single stand of spaghetti is a spaghetto? Presumably a single strand of spaghettini is a spaghettino.
@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @tinamarie1974 someone posted below that they got 10lbs, so I’m not holding my breath.
@Kidsandliz @RiotDemon @tinamarie1974 ugh… I don’t mind getting less than other people and some people getting large amounts, but I’d feel very let down if I only got 10lbs. That’s expensive pasta.
Hoping for 20lbs. At that price it’s not the cheapest but still a reasonable price and don’t mind paying the little extra compared to what I’d do at grocery store because profits are partially going to a good cause.
@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @RiotDemon I answered the phone today and after saying HELLO I hear, “you are really fruit. Do you think you are funny? You sent me ANOTHER pasta drop???” After laughing hysterically I explained it was the last box in her shipment … 100# in total. Lets just say she does not think it is as funny as I do
@OnionSoup @RiotDemon @tinamarie1974
/giphy POINT!
@OnionSoup @RiotDemon @tinamarie1974 P.S. lets hope she thinks it is as funny as you do when your uncle gets his 100 pounds from her
@Kidsandliz @RiotDemon @tinamarie1974 that’s awesome… And the funny thing is, she can’t plan on “getting you back” because there’s no guarantee of the 100lbs.
Finally saw what my shipment weight is on PB website 22lbs (so 20lb of pasta and 2lbs of air and cardboard)
Not a ludicrous amount but I’m expecting a “why?” phone call from the wife and some exasperated sighs when it arrives… maybe it will arrive tomorrow… In my home town now.
She doesn’t know she will get Penne next too. That could be amusing.
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@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @RiotDemon well and she is not very computer savvy, so I would have to order it for her. No chance of her getting me back
How did you see the weight for your order? I have never been so lucky
@Kidsandliz @RiotDemon @tinamarie1974
https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track/
They have several addresses that track. The one above has an order details button that if you click after first tracking your package it shows the weight.
@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup @RiotDemon @tinamarie1974 Thanks for posting this… just found out my first 3 drops are all 20 pounds, including 1 each to the three F’s: Friend, Family, Food bank.
@Kidsandliz @lehigh @RiotDemon @tinamarie1974
Maybe… Or maybe not… I’ve discovered since that link was posted that Pastadrop potentially sends you multiple boxes.
So all that tells you is that the first box is 20lbs. There could be more than one box.
I was expecting 20lbs because that is what I saw, but I ended up getting two boxes for a total of 40lbs.
/ Likewise my penne says 20lbs but could end up being more.
Yay tracking number
My noods shipped. Yay! Only one tracking number. Whew. Wish the Post Office gave the weight so I could get a sense of how big the package is.
@heartny
be sure to let us know, inquiring minds …
and who knows
one number could be 1 - 20 lb box and 5 could be 5 - 1 lb boxes
Has anybody got their noods yet?
@Star2236 not yet and shipped several days ago but their new shipping company sucks I only usually see when label is created and when it arrives now… The week to two weeks the package is in motion is completely unreliable for updates… So maybe I’ll get the pasta tomorrow maybe next weekend. I guess that’s part of the surprise and anticipation now.
(If crappy shipping company means shipping costs don’t go up… I’m OK)
@OnionSoup
I purchased the penne so I’m just curious as to how much your gonna get.
Ah yes, the penne rigate!
@Star2236 I think it’s going to be a bit of a lottery. Some people have got 5 separate shipping orders. We’ll find out eventually.
Best guess is everyone gets at least 20lbs as that is what they were selling for $20 before on Morning Save .
The people who got five separate tracking numbers are probably getting 5 20lb boxes… Lol.
Or we could be being screwed and these are only 10lb boxes… But I have faith in Mediocre they wouldn’t send me only 10lbs of pasta… Because that would be living up to their name.
@OnionSoup @Star2236
but but, they are not Mediocre Labs anymore
/image mercatalyst
did i spell that right?
@Cerridwyn @Star2236 they’ll always be mediocre to me.
@Cerridwyn @OnionSoup @Star2236 when did that happen?
@lowlypeon @OnionSoup @Star2236
https://meh.com/forum/topics/big-news
@Cerridwyn @lowlypeon @Star2236 20 years from now people will be asking what Mercataylst is and we’ll have to explain it’s what “Barney Bot Emporium” used to be called.
@lowlypeon @OnionSoup @Star2236
and then someone’s kid will ask, ‘But was it purple?’
@Cerridwyn @lowlypeon @OnionSoup @Star2236
Barneybot will rule the world.
@Barneybot @Cerridwyn @lowlypeon @OnionSoup @Star2236 Barneybot isn’t a real bot
@Barneybot @Cerridwyn @dzieciom @lowlypeon @Star2236 he will be in 20 years.
@Barneybot @Cerridwyn @lowlypeon @OnionSoup @Star2236 OnionSoup is not a real soup
@Barneybot @Cerridwyn @dzieciom @lowlypeon @Star2236 but I am a real onion.
/giphy real onion
@OnionSoup @Star2236 All the 20lb boxes of Italian pasta on MorningSave show a price of $34 (and are sold out).
One shipped!
That will be awesome is if 5, 20lbs box’s of penne show up at my moms house unexpectedly, she’ll defiantly be cooking a lot of pasta for me.
VAN GOGH! MANGO! TANGO! AWESOME!
@Star2236 Defiantly is the best way to cook pasta. Stick it to the man!
If the shipping process from my MorningSave order is any indication of how this works, it’s been 11 days since that order shipped and I have NO idea where it is now. My first box of pasta shipped 5 days after that one and has been in Texas for the past week.
@melwin maybe they’re cooking it for you. Served with a nice fresh pesto, delivered by an out of work waitress from the Cheesecake Factory…ooohhh, cheeeeesecake…mmmmm…
/image NY cheesecake
Aaaawww! Now I have to order some cheesecake…dang it!
My order was originally estimated to be delivered today, but still hasn’t shipped.
I’m still waiting for mine to ship as well.
Mine is stuck at Pitney Bowes. Damn you Pitney Bowes!!!
PastaDrop? More like Pasta-SLOW-SHIPPING-op!
Mine hasn’t shipped yet either!
It appears they may be attempting to ship based on shipping time to get everyone to receive at the same time. They have tried this before and it failed, but hey, why not try again.
Pasta Drop was so successful and they sold so much pasta they brought the entire shipping industry in the US to a standstill.
Mine is at the local post office for delivery tomorrow. I am off today or I would have eyes on it. Also to b delivered tomorrow an unknown box from Carrolton shipped the same day. I have a couple orders in processing but not sure which it is. I think someone forgot to send the shipping notices out.
@speediedelivery Ahh interesting, yeah I see in USPS Informed Delivery that this one was shipped on 05/20 and USPS is waiting for the item “Picked Up by Shipping Partner, USPS Awaiting Item
CARROLLTON,TX 75010”.
Ah crap! I am developing a really bad sore throat. Hope this isn’t corona virus and if it, I hope I don’t die… But if I do, the bloody pasta better get here first.
I don’t want the last thing my wife ever gets from me after my death to be dry bulk pasta. Thats not how I want to be remembered.
@OnionSoup
/google is sore throat a symptom of Covid-19
Symptoms of Coronavirus: Early Signs, Serious Symptoms and More
https://www.webmd.com/lung/covid-19-symptoms
@RiotDemon honestly, think it’s more likely I have a mild case of flu. Sore throat, aching body and headache can all be Coronavirus symptoms but are very common flu symptoms.
Not terrible yet (I probably wouldn’t be online laughing at the shipping if it were). Hopefully it will stay fairly mild. Sore throat is pretty horrible though .
Not sure how I got flu (or coronavirus) social distancing.
@OnionSoup Hope you feel better! If it’s available in your area you should get tested regardless if you think it’s serious or not. It helps with your treatment (tamiflu for flu) and the statistics in your area. Most people just need to place a call to their PCP or local 3-1-1 to get a drive-up appointment
@MrMikenIkes thank you, yes, I’m of two minds on getting tested. On one hand, it does help gather statistics (although I know it’s in my area- my zip has the highest prevalence of it in the state, or did at one time at least).
On the otherhand, I’m fairly mild (honestly it’s just the throat that’s obnoxious to me) so don’t really require treatment for whatever I have and going to get tested means potentially exposing someone else. (and also potentially getting exposed to it myself if I actually only have strep or flu; both of which are probably more likely given my symptoms).
@OnionSoup if it helps put your mind at ease, most of the testing that’s being done at least in my area is done at drive through sites where you pull up in your car into a tent and in that tent you roll your window down and they test you right there.
The testers are in PPE anyway and I’ve been tested twice as part of my job (no symptoms just an essential worker) and from what I can tell you these people are very good about infection control.
That’s at least what we have been doing here in MA, I obviously can’t speak for other parts of the country where you may be putting the testers at risk.
Either way I hope you feel better soon so you can start shoveling some NOODS into that throat instead of cough drops haha
@MrMikenIkes @OnionSoup What is involved in the testing? How invasive is it?
@tightwad it’s not invasive at all and takes about 30 seconds - 2 minutes depending on the test they do.
What usually happens is they schedule you to go to a drive up center, you roll your window down and give them your info. At this point they may take your vitals (BP, Pulse, Temp) but in my experience they didn’t do this. Then you’ll drive further up in the tent, and depending on the test center they’ll either swab the back of your throat or a nasal swab and then you drive off and they call you with the results.
The throat swab feels like you are being tickled at the back of your throat. The nasal swab is the one that people complain about and I will say it is uncomfortable. They stick a swab deep in your nostril and rotate it. They may do the second nostril as well. It doesn’t hurt, just feels very strange but the second time I had it done it did make me tear up. After a few seconds I was fine though and I just drove home.
Clearly Pastanticipation is part of the Pasta Drop protocol.
Noods received by a gobsmacked friend - 5 20 lb boxes of noods - 100 lbs total
@Deuce0222 haha… amazing. Did you have 5 tracking numbers on yours? Can we assume it’s 20lbs per tracking number I wonder?
Is the 20lb box broken up into smaller quantities inside or one box box full?
@Deuce0222 holy shit.
@Deuce0222 that’s a lot of pasta! Still waiting on mine to ship, was hoping it was gonna be a big ole load of pasta but I don’t think I have anywhere to put that much!
@Deuce0222 oh man, I hope my sister gets 100lbs of pasta. It would be HILARIOUS! Especially since she just told me last night she is trying to cut back on grains/carbs. I’m going to look evil! Hahahahahaah
@Deuce0222
So awesome, I can’t wait till my penne ships all over the country at a turtle speed before being delivered to my mom. She’s gonna shit pasta for sure.
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@OnionSoup Sorry for delay getting back. I only had 1 tracking #, but friend told story of her mail carrier giving her the stink eye before delivering 5 20# boxes.
Got mine x2 10lb bags
The anticipation is killing me. Mine hasn’t shipped yet and now my brother’s girlfriend is going back to school. This means that it might get stolen from their front door. Florida wasn’t supposed to open until they got their pasta.
Argh, mine either.
NOODS dropped.
@mike808
how much?
@Cerridwyn No idea. Image sent to me by a recipient.
Mine finally updated to shipped. It’s been in transit for five days already and it made it from Texas to Georgia. I’m hoping it arrives sometime next week.
One tracking number.
@RiotDemon Yep, mine shipped, too. It’s in that black hole otherwise known as Greenwood, Indiana. One number.
Finally got a tracking number. Only one number. Excited to see what shows up. The kids are very invested in this now. Pasta is their favorite thing ever.
Dunno what I’d do with 100 lbs of pasta, LOL, didn’t get this one, next one though, so send me that much mehcatalyst folks - dare ya
Meh, I ordered one and got 1x 10lb of Spaghettini. Is the quantity random? I wouldn’t mind playing the pasta lottery again, but otherwise pretty lousy deal.
@aswood yeah I got one too (my husband sent it to me). I sent one of each to my son. I also ordered the fettucini for my mom too so if they only get 10 lbs each of all three, I think I’ll have to bow out of this in the future. $80 for about $25 worth of pasta is not such a great deal.
Finally updated to shipped.
In other news, pastadrop.com set off some alarm bells with McAfee. Said the site is unsafe. Might be something @dave should look into?
@jaybird
never figured out if McAfee is the stupidest ever or too smart for our good. Used to delete parts of commercially bought games. So switched to Norton, a bit later it did the same thing (or was it vice versa)
Used Avast since someone I know who worked IS for Amacrap EU told me it is the only thing he’d use on his machines at home. Dunno if it is still true, lost connection over the years
@Cerridwyn funny thing is I didn’t even know it was on my phone. I don’t know if it’s automatically installed with Verizon or Comcast. Or if it’s built into chrome browser.
Edit… Or maybe McAfee knows that by visiting this site a person may unwillingly become part of an experiment and which too much pasta arrives at someone’s house.
@jaybird McAfee might as well be its own malware.
https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/https/pastadrop.com/forum/topics/the-spaghettini reports all is well except that McAfee has blacklisted the domain. Perhaps someone sent them a shit ton of spaghettini.
@jaybird McAfee isn’t wrong. This site is very harmful… Lol
So far, I received 2 shipments… Totalling 10x10lbs. So 100lbs of spaghetti!
@steigst
well damn!
@steigst two shipments of 100lbs?!?!?!? Better start running marathons and carboload
Mine just shipped yesterday. Wish the tracking # had a weight attached to it.
Mine says shipped with no tracking number.
Nevermind. I have to click on Show Details…
I’m in the one tracking number club so didn’t win the lottery for my first order. I’ll probably wind up with the 10 lbs box knowing my luck. My sister is getting the penne for round 2 so would hope her luck is better because that would make it hilarious to have all those boxes show up at her door. still waiting before I order more for other people.
I was given one tracking number, which I used to set up automatic notifications with USPS. Got notified by USPS, PastaDrop, and my UPS store that the delivery had been made.
Not the end of the story. UPS store let me know that I had received two packages, and they let me know the tracking numbers of both as per usual. Hmm, did I get one of my Kickstarter spiffs without notification? I threw the unknown tracking number into USPS, and guess what? Same tracking info as the known PastaDrop shipment.
Very mysterious. I’ll be swinging by today to see what I got, but given this is USPS, they can’t be too heavy.
@JOATMON I’ve had amazon ship a 96 roll case of toilet paper through USPS… and it was in an oversized box. Postman got an energy drink from me that day.
@JOATMON update?
@hisgrossness Two boxes, each containing two smaller boxes. Packing slips in both large boxes confirmed it was from the same single order (I had a thought driving over that someone may have gifted a PastaDrop to us, but no). Each smaller box is about 10 pounds, making a total of 40 pounds.
I wanted to donate to Second Harvest Food Bank of Silicon Valley, so drove over there. Turns out they are not accepting walk-in donations. So, I need to find an alternative donee.
I’m actually amused at how this worked out. Interesting concept, glad to participate.
Her: More pasta?
Me: Yeah. 100 pounds in total now.
Her: …it can’t just sit there inside the front door.
Me: Where should I…
Her: You better figure it out!
My first pasta drop arrived.
40 pounds of spaghettini. One tracking number.
It took me a while to realize that this was only one order. There’s more on the way.
Another order is dropping tomorrow. Oof. I hope it’s not 100 pounds of pasta.
meanwhile, in a city only 113 miles from Carrolton, TX… we wait… and wait… and wait. the one thing i can rely on when it comes to a mediocre company is the crawly-snail speeds of the shipping.
i once bought a poster from a poster place in Austin that went through my town three times between shipping companies before being delivered.
@Noddy93 My drop-ee lives in Burleson, just across town from Carrollton, and it’s taken 4 days just to get there…still waiting.
Got mine today. One ten lb bag
@ivannabc Disappointed? I think I probably would be, at least a little bit. I’ve ordered 5 drops so far but none have arrived (the first two have made it from Texas to Georgia and still have to come to North Carolina, but they’ve been in Georgia for a couple of days now, so I don’t know when they will arrive.)
@gymbrall yeah maybe a little. $2 a lb is a tad steep. The one I ordered for my son has been hanging out in his city for 8 days now. I have bought some of each of the first three for my son and my parents. So we’ll see what they get. If th ey get 10 lb bags too, I’ll pass on any more orders
@melwin hope mine gets delivered with a cat too.
My wife got her’s. I kept telling her I had was sending her noods…she wasn’t thrilled. Then the 5 boxes arrived. She still wasn’t thrilled. Each box contains 2 smaller boxes…100 lbs in total. She thought it was funny, but I made the mistake of keeping what I was sending her a secret and I think she let her imagination think it was something nice…
@tightwad yeah… I think my wife thinks she is getting something nice too… Only got one tracking number so I’m probably only getting 10lbs… So the humor factor won’t even be there.
I will keep quiet that I spent so much on just 10lbs of pasta… Lol
@OnionSoup @tightwad I only had 1 tracking number and I got 40 pounds. I still have another order coming, too.
@tightwad
Yeah, like buying your wife an appliance for Christmas, it’s a no no.
My brother was surprised but guessed me quickly and wondered what to do with 160 servings of pasta!!
To the lake house for big groups!
Just ordered another drop today after this was delivered.
Wow. I’m terribly underwhelmed. 10 pounds of off-brand pasta in a single bag for $20. What a rip-off.
@toddtmw Roma is not “off-brand”. If you’ve eaten at an “Italian” joint at least once in your life you’ve probably had it.
That it is Roma further supports my idea that this is food service overstock thanks to Rona 19 closing everything down for a couple of months.
$10 bucks though… yeah, a slight rip-off. But that’s the chance you take with a meh experiment.
@Noddy93 actually, $10 wouldn’t be bad. But it was $20.
Packed in a single giant bag. Less of a deal in that case.
It sounds like if you ship it to yourself, you get 10 pounds of pasta.
Ship to someone else and it could be 100.
I had it shipped to myself because I have no friends. Stingy people (like myself) who send gifts to themselves generally don’t have friends so it’s no surprise.
@binkybear I hope not - and not sure if that’s true. On the first one, I didn’t even think about changing, everything had been pre-filled and so I sent to myself thinking I’ll just strip the label and drop the box somewhere. Then when the web site had additional problems putting other addresses in, I just decided to send to myself and I’ll drop off elsewhere.
@binkybear I shipped to myself, and got 40 pounds. 30 pounds are going to be donated to Martha’s Kitchen.
@binkybear I shipped to myself and my son, at the same house. His order was 40 pounds and I’m still waiting on mine.
@binkybear Brought the box to my parents’ house, could tell right away it was only 10 lbs. They were recipients of the spaghettini!
@binkybear I shipped to myself and got 100 pounds.
@SSteve WOW! That’s a lotta pasta. Very nice.
@chuegen disappointing, but I hope they liked it. It was a nice gift.
@JOATMON wonderful! May your kindness comeback threefold. Very nice thing to do, especially these days.
I see mine is out for delivery today. I suppose I will learn my fate when the postalpeople arrive.
Brought the box to my parents’ house, could tell right away it was only 10 lbs. They were recipients of awesome spaghettini!
HIKING! VIKINGS! STRIKE KING [BRAND FISHING LURES]! AWESOME!
HA! The 40 lbs of pasta in my house still have the tracking showing it is up North in College Park, Georgia.
@yakkoTDI one tracking says it was passed off in my town two days ago… USPS says that they’re still waiting for it.
@yakkoTDI Well shit! Apparently it wasn’t 40 lbs of pasta. Another 60 lbs arrived today.
/giphy 100 pounds of pasta
40# here too
@mike808 Be warned! There might be more. I got another 60.
Odd… my spaghettini still hasn’t shipped by dads penne order did.
@Vrysen it might be an issue with Pitney Bowes. Once I got my tracking, it had already been on the move for five days.
Would be nice to see if meh shipped some people sauces, cheese, etc to with the noods as a surprise.
I’m sad that the spag I sent to myself only amounted to 10 pounds. We’re eating a lot of pasta lately. Torn bag, trashed box. 88 cents a pound for name brand on sale at the supermarket. I sent the second drop to a friend. It won’t be funny or fun if she gets only 10 pounds, so fingers crossed. I’ve been a meh fan since the beginning, and a vmp member forever, and I’m bummed.
@stiege I’m sure they’ll take care of you if you say something about your damaged pasta parcel.
@Bretterson meh…
@stiege It’s better than having a poor taste on your palate due to a pitiful pasta package.
If people are randomly getting from 10-100 lbs of noodles for $20, I think this experiment is going to die quickly. A big amount is both funny and possibly worth it. $2 a lb pasta in large damaged packages isn’t really funny or worth it.
@kevinrs yeah, I’ve placed two orders. Spaghettini and Penne. First orders sent to my wife to see what it was like before sending it elsewhere.
Neither has left Texas yet. I’ll be pretty annoyed if after all this wait all I have is 10lbs of pasta. It looks like the people who got theirs first got the large amounts of pasta, so I’m assuming since I’m last I am going to be one of those with very little pasta. Probably the dust left over from the bags of pasta that broke.
Depending on how frequent the 10lb bags are, I might not do a third drop, I was going to drop pasta to family if it was a good deal…(I wish they showed the frequency of each weight so we had some idea). I don’t want to be spending $2/lb on pasta though… That’s not much cheaper than the sale price for chicken at Lidl.
If guarenteed (or at least likey) to get 20lbs or more, I’m ok with it. Yeah, can get pasta cheaper, but it’s less fun.
Time for me to start Rawchickendrop.com
@kevinrs @OnionSoup I’d drop myself some raw chicken
Anyone else get a single 5lb package of noodles in an open bag? That’s what I’m told was received by the person I ordered this for. Disappointed and thinking it shouldn’t be eaten since the bag was already opened.
@andreweller did you write in to support?
@RiotDemon i did after seeing your reply. I haven’t heard anything back yet.
@andreweller support is slow right now, so it’ll be a while for a reply.
@andreweller @RiotDemon seems that they’ve outsourced support to Pitney Bowes as well.
@andreweller @Noddy93 @RiotDemon actually I read on one website that they laid off a bunch of people to cut back on costs. .
So the reason it’s taking so long, and why some of us still don’t have our orders from Mehcatalyst sites placed back in early April is twofold. They fired everyone that worked in the warehouse so it’s taking longer to fill the boxes to ship in the first place. And secondly shipping times have slowed way down too.
Three drops and still no pasta here.
Also, in my magical imagination I had imagined that meh had setup a pasta producing setup at their warehouse and they were making the pasta themselved.
@ELUNO I think I kind of imagined the same thing…
@ELUNO yup. No pasta here either. Shipping label created on the 20th of May but hasn’t moved once yet.
@ELUNO It’s Meh hand-made pasta, that’s why the shipping is taking a bit.
/giphy handmade pasta
@ELUNO Just imagine all the pasta hanging everywhere drying. IRK… Pasta… mmm… maybe I’ll get pasta in my next IRK!
@ELUNO four drops now, and still no pasta.
100 lbs of spaghettini. Ten bags with ten pounds each. I was planning on giving it to the local food bank. I hope they’re ok with ten-pound bags. Luckily, my Sunday mail carrier thought it was funny. My regular carrier couldn’t fit it in the truck so didn’t deliver it.
@SSteve
if not, you might look for places that make meals for shut - in’s - meals on wheels type programs
@SSteve was this one tracking number or did they give you multiple?
@SSteve that’s a beautiful sight.
MY PASTA DROPS ARE COMING TOMORROW!! No, I’m not excited, not at all. Can’t you tell?
@Barney how many boxes???
@tinamarie1974 I don’t know!
@Barney well, good luck!!
@Barney my sister’s arrives today or tomorrow. I’m so excited!! I’ve done a surprisingly good job at keeping my mouth shut so far. I never keep secrets
@chellemonkey She is going to be surprised!
@tinamarie1974 It looks like a total of 40 pounds. That’s two separate drops from medz and sammydog for Grace Cottage.
Poor sammydog, my drop to her doesn’t look too good. Damn!
@Barney i am sure the charity will appreciate it!!
How much did SD get? I am not seeing her post.
Where’s my pasta??? Shipping label created May 20. Hopefully I’m not going to be one of those that receives the broken bags and dust because it appears I’m last on the list.
@trailtroll Put the tracking number from that label here and you may get more updated info:
https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track
@lichme @trailtroll All that did for me was update my estimated delivery date to the more realistic " - ", whatever that means.
@trailtroll I have similar fears. The last several things I’ve received from meh have been received with badly mutilated packaging.
I’m one of the last to ship (which I think means only getting 10lbs) … and spending so long in the post…
… By the time it reaches me I’m going to have Orzo instead of spaghettini.
@trailtroll don’t fret. it will get to you… but@OnionSoup is probably correct that it will more resemble orzo. these were packaged for food service and were never meant to be tossed around as individual boxes from one truck to another.
according to Pitney Bowes my shipment, although entered into the system on the 20th, wasn’t picked up until the 26th in Carrollton, TX… On the 28th it says that it was passed off to the USPS in Waco, Tx., 113 miles south. USPS tracking says it’s still waiting for it.
I know it doesn’t work this way, but I’ve begged meh since day zero to simply leave texas bound shipments on the front counter for the postal carrier. two day delivery is usually nicer than two week delivery.
@lichme @trailtroll FYI if you press the “View Tracking Page” button after entering your tracking number on https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track it shows you the package weight
@andrewkotz THAT was the info I needed. 20lbs to my sister! 100 would have been funnier but $20 plus the coupons totally made it worth it. I can’t wait to see what she says tomorrow
@andrewkotz nice find! This will be very useful for future drops and potential IRKs. Looks like I got 10lbs of spaghettini on the way.
@lichme Thank you! Appears to be stuck in NJ.
@andrewkotz @lichme DANGIT! 10 lbs
@trailtroll Mine is still processing. Maybe I’ll get a 10 pound bag of each kind!
@lichme Thanks for the link. All the ones I tried with google didn’t give me anything. This shows that tomorrow my daughter will be getting a 22lb 10oz box. Can’t wait for the penne to ship so I can see what my son will be getting. Daughter knows about it, son does not.
@andrewkotz @lichme @trailtroll ahhh…
Thank you… 20lbs. I’m content with that as that is what I initially expected before items started arriving at peoples houses
I would have been majorly annoyed at 10lbs and excited anything above 20… But 20 is reasonable. A little more than grocery store but funny and some profits going to good cause.
Now hopefully it arrives in one piece…
Well… At least each individual Spaghettino arrive in one piece. I don’t want all 20lbs of spaghettini to merge into one giant Spaghettino. That would be disturbing and take forever to cook.
Got a 10lb bag. Given how often regular pasta is on a 10 for $10 sale at the local supermarket this is a really poor value.
Even worse being a single huge bag.
I’ve already ordered #2 and #3, but holding off on any more to see if those are also such poor value.
For a site focused on value offerings, this seems weirdly off the mark.
Pasted the tracking number into the pitney bowes shipment tracker and determined my friend will be receiving a 22 lb package, which I assume is 2 10-lb bags of spagettini.
@dbmittens Plus two pounds of Texas air? Everything really is bigger in Texas.
My pasta has been in my town since Friday morning, and still no movement since then. This process is insane!
Activity Processing Location Date Time (local)
Picked up and Processed by Agent Joplin, Mo May 29 6:20 AM
Departed Pitney Bowes Facility Greenwood, In May 28 4:02 PM
Arrived at Pitney Bowes Facility Greenwood, In May 27 2:31 PM
Delivered to Pitney Bowes Facility Greenwood, In May 27 10:22 AM
In Transit Grapevine, Tx May 26 6:30 PM
Departed Pitney Bowes Facility Grapevine, Tx May 26 6:09 PM
Inducted into Pitney Bowes Network Grapevine, Tx May 26 12:44 PM
Picked Up Grapevine, Tx May 26 8:36 AM
In Transit Grapevine, Tx May 26 7:57 AM
Electronic Shipping Info Received Carrollton, Tx May 20 9:05 AM
@melwin Well, there’s your problem - only 2 days in Greenwood, IN. Everyone knows there’s a minimum stay of 4 days in Greenwood with Pitney Bowes / Newgistics!
Got my pasta! In a Pasta Drop-branded box, that had a little bite out of it.
Inside, a 10 lb. bag of Spaghettini, with a coupon code attached for $5 off next order.
Now i just need to invest in some kind of airtight canister or something that will hold 10 FREAKIN’ LBS OF PASTA AT ONCE.
@theredia You need something like this: Airtight Container with Wheels
It just now occurred to me that the person I dropped this to lives up one of the steepest streets I have ever seen. Depending on how big the drop is that mail carrier is going to have either a tough day, or the toughest day of their life.
Got my drop today. Two 10# bags o’ pasta. So, about the same as I pay in the store $1/lb. But hey it was fun and I won’t need to buy pasta at the store for awhile.
I have a craving for pasta. Where is my pasta!?!??!
“Tuesday, May 26th - Monday, June 1st”
LIES
Looks like mine will only be 10lbs according to tracking. It’s fine for what I got it for, but I won’t be dropping $20 on a future drop when there’s a chance of only 10lbs while others are getting 100lbs. If there was a guarantee of at least 20lbs I would probably do this again.
@kyanostiger reflects on what the definition of a gamble is
@ecanada belittles feedback from others.
My recipient got hers. It was 20 lbs. She had gotten an email from her son’s school saying his teacher was sending everyone something. She thought this was it and was going to send the teacher a thank you email with a picture of it!
I cleared things up.
Mine has been stagnant in TX for 10 days now. I’ve heard nothing but negative things about Pitney Bowes.
Hopefully this is a one time issue, otherwise I’ll take my low-rent business elsewhere. BTW found this place when a larger competitor (BoC forefathers) got too big for their britches and decided customer satisfaction didn’t matter anymore. I complained about them to an associate and I was introduced to this organization.
@ecanada Pitney Bowes has a user satisfaction rating of 1 (out of 5) stars at Consumer Affairs…
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/business/pitney_bowes.html
@ecanada Pitney Bowes is the new Lasership
The shipping on this is woeful. Anyone ever get this?
June 1, 2020
In Transit to Next Facility
Your package is moving within the USPS network and is on track to be delivered to its final destination. It is currently in transit to the next facility.
May 29, 2020, 3:57 pm
USPS in possession of item
(In my hometown at this point)
@DJ I had a meh package last week that the tracking updated multiple times a day every day for a week, with randomly alternating statuses in TX, IN, MI, and my town. It was absolutely nonsensical. Then one morning it got updated with out for delivery and arrived that afternoon. In my mind it’s just part of the adventure. If I wanted quick shipping with good tracking I could have paid three times the price on amazon. In the case of pastadrop, I’m in it for the adventure so ridiculous tracking only heightens the adventure.
/giphy worthy-unfriendly-part
Still haven’t received mine, but tracking has updated it to 10#. Oh well, beggars can’t be choosers, but curious the marketing decisions behind 10-100# versus say, 20-40#. This isn’t an IRK.
Mine just arrived, 2 10lb packages totaling 20lbs. I was hoping for at least this much since I’ll be essentially living off pasta for the foreseeable future and it saves having to for for it at the store at the same price.
Do orders just disappear into Pitney-Bowes never to be seen again?
There’s something I’ve been pondering for a while. Since Pasta Drop made this the first drop…
If a Spaghetti Western doesn’t have a very thick plot, would you then call it Spaghettini Western?
Lame Lame Lame
10 lbs of Roma dry spaghetti… Food service grade pasta. Yeah first and last drop for me. This really feels like a scam job.
Well just like all my most recent irk purchases, it seems I got the bottom of the barrel package again. I got 10 lbs, but at least my bag appears to be sealed. This will be the first and last drop for me. I agree with other posts that said the minimum should have been 20 lbs. Would have been happy with that, and laughed with others getting 100. Getting 10 just feels like I subsidized nicer packages for others. I’ll just take my coupons and walk away from pastadrop.
@RdiPr yep I wish I had gotten mine before I had ordered for my parents and son. I’m going to feel like it’s a complete waate if I spent $60 on $20 worth of pasta.
My drop arrived today. Box crushed and opened, containing 10lbs of pasta in a bag with cuts and holes all over it with pasta falling out of the bag inside of the box.
That is going straight in the trash, opened box and damaged packaging not worth the risk. Color me very unimpressed!
@Raider That’s awful. You need to contact Customer Service.
@Raider Looks like someone really dropped your pasta. Yikes.
@Raider perhaps ‘straight in the trash’ is a bit extreme… in order to cook it you’re going to kill any creepy-crawlies that may have found its way on to your skinnysketti. perhaps buying 5 cans of cheap-ass sauce and delivering to a “church under the bridge” type thing in your town. those holes in that bag won’t mean a thing to them.
@Noddy93 Because I respect less fortunate individuals, I would never dream of giving them food I view as unsafe because it’s “good enough for them”.
Meh. 10 pounds for $20 is not a deal. Can’t say I will order again. Fool me once…
@Thunderbums did you actually spend the $20 or were you one of the people who may or may not have used a possible super-secret coupon that may or may not have existed that made the order a no-cost-to-you item?
Nope. I was a $20 sucker.
Other place has pasta too
price is bad too, although smaller packaging
https://wine.woot.com/offers/dedicato-spaghettoni?ref=w_cnt_wp_1_1
I’ve… I’ve been pastadropped. 20 random pounds of pasta. Randomly. I am a victim.
Mine arrived, 20lbs, lovingly swaddled with Texas air and double-boxed. No damage, all good.
I had some for dinner. It was okay. I cooked it for 8 minutes like I usually cook De Cecco “thin spaghetti” but it ended up overdone. I have 39 more opportunities to practice! Until the linguine arrives.
Mine has been sitting in town for the past week now…lots of delayed disappointment here…
I can’t read all of the earlier 700 posts, but I was tracking mine when a seemingly stealth box arrived Saturday (!!) afternoon from USPS with 20 lbs in it. But I kept getting notices from my USPS tracking that the package was still coming, and Monday, there was another 20 lb box. So 30 lbs for the food kitchens - figured out how to store the open 10lb bag and we made up some tonight - not bad, actually.
Shipping on mine says “Label Created. USPS Awaiting Item” Anyone else? Estimated delivery was between May 26th and June 1st, but apparently mine hasn’t even shipped yet?
@jennisashark The estimated delivery was changed to June 22-June 25 although a lot of people are already receiving theirs. The covid virus is causing havoc with shipping.
@Barney @jennisashark nah… the far end of my expected delivery date is still June 1. this ain’t a covid thing, this is purely on Pitney Bowes being a horrible, terrible, no good company. I feel bad that The Labs went with them. BAAAAAD decision.
@Noddy93 Okay, so it’s Pitney Bowes fault, but if you scroll up to the beginning of this thread, you will see that the dates have been changed. Believe it or don’t, I don’t care.
I do know that it will get to you sometime. And if it doesn’t, Customer Service will issue a refund.
@moonhat is to blame!
@mediocrebot @moonhat
I blame @mediocrebot
that’s more fun
@moonhat is why there are no summer holidays in June.
@jennisashark June 12th. Shipment has arrived at the USPS facility twice now according to shipping. But still, no estimated delivery date. It’s the 15th. I ordered this a month ago. I’m beginning to lose hope.
1x 10lb bag arrived for my 1st drop, amused my friend but not a great value for the $20 paid. Still waiting for my 2nd drop to ship…
I received my 10lb bulk bag of spaghettini today. Box was crushed and plastic bag containing pasta cut open in numerous places. What a complete waste of food to ship so carelessly so it’s been exposed to who knows what during shipping and now must be thrown out.
@donrull My pasta had a rough trip too and was torn open. I’m guessing the noodles were too sharp for that type of packaging.
@donrull @markgm Exactly the same experience for me!
PastaDrop may be a poor name. The mail carriers think it’s instructions.
I JUST GOT MORE SPAGHETTINI!
And it’s not from my order number. Would someone like to confess who sent this? You can whisper to me if you are shy and you don’t want anyone to know that you are a nice person. I WON’T TELL!
Otherwise, just shout it out that you helped the bestest little ol’ nursing home in Oz.
It’s now 60 pounds Spaghettini total for Grace Cottage.
@Barney I’d be more worried how someone got your name and address.
Unless you’ve ever given it out on here, that’s kinda creepy… Lol. Although, maybe worth being stalked if you get pasta out of it.
@OnionSoup I’m not worried. I have a number of friends on Meh who have my address.
@Barney @OnionSoup
I blame @snapster
@moonhat didn’t wear a mask to the grocery store.
YIKES! 20 MORE POUNDS DELIVERED TODAY!
Nathan, my mailman, is happy. He’s now the proud owner of 10 lbs. of Spaghettini.
Supposedly my package was given to my local USPS very early morning the first. USPS tracking says it is still in Indiana. I have to say the suspense is getting ridiculous
I finally received my shipment and per Pitney Bowes shipping indicator, received only 10 lbs of noodles. A receipt with the shipment indicates that I’ve received 80 servings of noodles. This does not calculate. I typical one pound box contains 4 servings meaning that I’ve been shorted by 10lbs. Where’s the rest of my pasta?
@trailtroll 10lbs of noodles = 160oz. A serving of pasta is generally considered 2oz (or 3-4oz only if it’s the main course).
Ok, color me confused but pleased. I posted yesterday I got my drop and received 20 lbs, but today another box came and now I have another 2 packages, for a total of 40lbs. The box says on it “PASTADROP 2” on the top, the first box having nothing on it. I just kinda assumed when I opened it that it was the Penne from the second drop. A surprise for sure, and I’m happy to have it, but I wager the poor postman isn’t.
@Tiamat114 It looks to me that your order gave you AT LEAST 40 pounds of pasta. Who knows, maybe you’ll get more?
@Tiamat114 Same thing happened to me! I placed one order and got 20 lbs on Monday and was like “Whoa! This is a lot of pasta!”. And then today, I got ANOTHER 20 lbs! Wtf am I going to do with 40 lbs of pasta?!
My order only has 1 tracking number, which Pitney Bowes says is 22 lbs. Informed Delivery from the USPS tells me there is a second tracking number with another 22 lbs… But one is coming on Thursday and the other is still in PB purgatory.
I got 40 pounds…and I shipped to myself. I see some are getting a second shipment and now I’m nervous!
I got 10 pounds in my second order, for a total of 50 pounds. How long until the mailman gets tired of delivering these 10-20 pound boxes of pasta?
I am totally caught by surprise. I knew that Morning Save had an over abundance of pasta, but I never knew that someone would send my 20 pounds of it! Never heard about this nefarious bunch until just a short while ago my poor husband came in, out of breath, toting a Pastadrop box. (We’re old people.)
Now I want to get in on the action. Where can I buy a Pasta Bomb? I know several people who deserve a drop.
@Teripie pastadrop.com
@Teripie and dig around the bottom of the box - there should be a $5 coupon in there somewhere.
@stolicat @Teripie wasn’t there a free month shipping membership for new users listed on Slickdeals recently too for mercatalyst group websites? Is that still active.
I got one of my orders a few days ago and the package was already opened. Not sure if I should throw it out or request a credit…thoughts from the gallery?
40lbs just arrived at my parents house - they are very confused - I’m very amused.
80# delivered… another 20# still yet to arrive. Came in 4 boxes in pretty good shape. No damage to bags inside… damn, this is a lot of pasta
@vandemusser
Woohoo!
Pasta finally arrived. 40lbs (PB website said 20, so you can’t trust their tracking information).
I’m very happy. I had dreaded the 10lb drop but got the marvelous 40lb drop instead… Woo hoo! Pasta for dinner tonight.
Oh and the packaging was fantastic. Boxes inside boxes and bags and air inside those. These were well packaged to survive the onslaught and rough handling of Pitney Bowes.
Bravo meh team. Bravo.
/ Moral of the story… The weight PB tracking says isn’t necessarily accurate.
Still waiting - PB says mine has been at their facility in Atlanta since the 27th
@yoyoflamingo mine too. Atlanta must be the party town.
@RiotDemon @yoyoflamingo most of my boxes end up partying in College Park for about a week… If memory serves correct, that’s part of metro Atlanta right?
@OnionSoup @RiotDemon It is - only reason I know is some places say Atlanta and some College Park - However, mine says picked up from there today, so there is hope!
Mine is slated to arrive by tomorrow. I’m hoping the tracking is off because it says I got the dreaded 10lb drop.
But I also have 2 other drops coming to my address (drops 3+4.) Drop 2 is supposed to be 20lbs going to a friend in another state. Drop 5 (there will be a drop 5 right?) is gonna go to my mother way up north in Maine.
@MrMikenIkes they bought the entire contents of Performance FoodServices pasta warehouse… I image there are several more weeks to go at least.
What pasta do restaurants usually have? That’s what they bought out of the warehouse.
There’s almost certainly going to be a lasagna week and a macaroni week. Probably rotini and several more of the skinny noodle types.
They probably won’t sell farfalla, shells, or my favourites cavatappi and gemelli because those aren’t common restaurant pastas.
I bet at least every other week is going to be some long stringy pasta type though because that’s the most common type of pasta in restaurants.
Oh and tracking might be off. My tracking for the first drop said 20lbs and I got 40lbs. I think the weight is only one box. So yours probably came in a multiple of 10. In 10lb boxes. It might just be 10, or it could still be more.
@OnionSoup nice! Yeah that’s gonna be a LOT of pasta to drop on people. This drop was indeed 10# of spaghettini but it was packed well and I broke more of it trying to get it into an airtight container than they did during shipping.
I got a linguine and a ziti coming to my address (one to my wife and another to me) so I think anything else that gets dropped will probably go to other friends and family. I might jump on the rotini for home too if it comes up.
Having a pregnant wife whose only pregnancy craving is pasta makes these drops a lifesaver for me!
@MrMikenIkes @OnionSoup Where were you seeing a weight listed? Neither the tracking page on pastadrop or the USPS showed a weight for me.
@OnionSoup @smerk85 https://pitneybowes.shipment.co/track/
Put in your tracking number then click the little pin icon that looks like a Google Maps button, that will brings you to a different tracking page which lists the weight on the bottom
@MrMikenIkes @smerk85
Go-to https://pitneybowes.shipping.co/track
And enter tracking number…
Or directly enter tracking number in URL
https://pitneybowes.shipping.co/track/YOUR TRACKING NUMBER WITHOUT SPACES
So disappointed and now regret buying the last drop of THE LINGUINE. I got 10lbs of opened noodles and no coupon. Waste of $20.
@batteries coupon code is PastaDrop. It should work on all the sister sites as long as you bought something from PastaDrop.
@batteries @OnionSoup I think they mean no $5 off coupon in the box.
3 weeks to get 10lbs of spaghettini for $20 That won’t last a hungry Firefighter long.
At least with an IRK I expect to be disappointed. Never received any “store credit” via email either…
@jimeezlady It probably went to your spam folder. The code is pastadrop for all the sites. It is tied to your account, so it isn’t a secret.
I haven’t received mine yet, but tracking indicates 10#. It sucks.
@KNmeh7 Thank-you! I had checked spam and it wasn’t there either…I think there is a disconnect regarding the PastaDrop page in general. I’ve been a member of Meh (and affiliates) for ages and never received a single email about my order…unless gmail hates them for some reason. LOL
Sent this to my sister. She got 100lbs!
@Renee4183
and you are still alive?
she must adore you
@Cerridwyn - The funny thing is my house is devoid of all spaghetti now.
Sent to my brother… arrived today. 20#. Confused the hell out of him. Well done PastaDrop.
Everyone enjoying their first drop and mine still stuck in PB Texas lockup. Has been there since 5/26 and hasn’t departed Grapecine yet. Then it will take another 2 weeks to travel to east coast. Booo. My sister may get week 4 before my wife gets week 1
@tjg5181 My order hasn’t even shipped yet…
@tjg5181 I got our shipment of spaghetti two weeks ago. We got the penne today. But the order I placed for my son a month ago is still in transit. It’s been “picked up and processing by agent” in his city since 5/29. Weird
I got the dreaded 10# - all in one bag. Sorely disappointed.
@khiddy Same. PastaDrop has been a PastaFlop for me.
@khiddy @Rossome Me too.
100 lbs to my friend in Manhattan
@aleohansen it came in several shipments two days apart
I got my surprise 40 lbs of pasta in today… Tracking number said 20 lbs, but there was a hidden second box. I posted the extra 30 lbs on Facebook and had three friends claim it in under a minute.
I didn’t major in T&L, but the reason my school had a better-than-average rating is because a ton of stuff goes through Ohio. It isn’t like I am in Montana. I have no idea why PB is so inept.
Last time I checked, FedEx’s busiest hub is less than a half-day away. We have interstates going in all directions.
I don’t get how people are getting other drops, and people here are getting multiple drops, but all they do to mine is continually push back the estimated delivery date.
@KNmeh7 The spag I sent to Westerville delivered today to my unsuspecting pal. He shared a ton of photos of the boxes, and they are amazing.
Mine arrived. I sent this drop to myself… Next time I’m dropping on my brother. I received forty pounds across two large boxes; each box has two smaller boxes inside. Those small boxes contain 10 pounds each. Was shipped with some air-fill padding and seems to be in good condition.
Still waiting for mine. And the site is still blocked by my ISP (Verizon)
No fair. Mine is still processing. I want pasta
I’m curious if other people actually had the pasta drop? The box was super beat up, I should have figured the contents might be damaged. I had sent it to my self. I went to pull the bag out and all 10 pounds of pasta ended up on my bare foot. Hurt like hell and now I can’t eat any of it! So did your pasta get delivered or dropped on your foot because the bag was ripped wide open in shipment?
@ccasey3655 ouch. Contact pastadrop.com/support if you haven’t already.
@RiotDemon I did. Hope to hear from them in 7 days.
@ccasey3655 My box was pretty beat up, but since they cheaped out and only gave me 10#, I think it was insulated from the abuse with the Texas air packs.
I guess I should be thankful my bag arrived intact.
@ccasey3655 @KNmeh7 i got 10 pounds of broken pasta and a busted box. Even an irk wasnt as much of a disapointment.
Hmmm… I’m not sure if this is just the post office being dumb or if they’re trying to figure out how to deliver 100# of pasta to a rural address. “Delivery Exception” is the “Please Wait…” of delivery messages.
@corrado Damn. Normal Postal Service dysfunction. 20# delivered today.
Disapointed. 10 pounds of busted up pasta and a box broken open. A irk box is not this bad.
10 pounds, box totally mangled, bag ripped open. Fortunately my recipient is pretty understanding. I think shipping these 10lb bags in a box big enough to hold twice that much is just asking for it to bounce around like a football player’s brain inside his skull until all are ruined.
I might be willing to give this one more shot (with a much less dense variety of pasta, and shipping to myself rather than to anyone I respect). But between that and the abysmal shipping I think I’d consider this experiment a failure.
Well, I shelled out $20 for #10 pounds of pasta/spaghettini. I knew the amount was not set in concrete, but still feel a bit ripped off, TBH. I have a family of 6 disabled adults. I could have gotten this at the store for this price! Sigh.
@hgilchri My dropee got 20 pounds. Whisper me your mailing address and I’d be happy to Pdrop you on Monday
@lehigh Seriously, thank you for your kind thoughts. I’m touched. We are ok. I was just disappointed. I didn’t realize how random this truly was.
I Pdropped my friend who cooks hot meals for the homeless in her neighborhood, and I really hope she gets at least 20#. Fingers crossed.
@hgilchri I dropped a food bank a couple weeks ago… will be curious if that amount is “random” or maybe a “weighted random”. Good luck to you and I admire you taking on that responsibility!
My brother’s spaghettini is finally moving again. It sat at Atlanta since the 27th. On the 3rd it was processed and then in transit. On the 5th it arrived at Atlanta again, lol. Says he should receive it on the 10th.
My linguine says it’s supposed to be delivered on the 10th too.
1st and 3rd drops delivering at the same time, go figure.
My friend got the drop they were sent, and then streamed themselves making this on twitch.
@vinuash also just to clarify, the other side is a larger opening for their cat to go in!
@vinuash aww, how cute!
@vinuash they deserve an extra 100lbs of pasta for that.
@vinuash
seriously awesome
@staff
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
@Cerridwyn unfortunately tagging @staff doesn’t actually tag anyone at mercatalyst. You would have to do individual usernames.
It does tag someone that chose the name staff though.
The folks I sent it to…crickets…hmm
So the drop I ordered during week two has shipped, but week one is still processing. Ooook.
Still waiting on mine. The tracking is all over the place.
We got ours a week ago, two 20lb boxes over two days. Gave one to the neighbor, kept one. Went today to find some place to store our second bag and found it was torn open (and spilled about 1/2 out when I lifted it out of it’s little sub-box). Had neighbor check theirs and one of them was also ripped open. Contacted CS and we’ll see what happens.
Has anyone gotten a CS response yet? Are they replacing or refunding? Replacement would be fine by me …
@stolicat
that is one sad box
the one i sent my buddy finally arrived…2 days ago…
only a single 10# bag…
I knew it was a random Draw kinda thing, but Dang!
$2/lb for pasta? better be good stuff! anyone cooked some yet?
also, if I were to order a future drop, would having the words “soup kitchen” in the name of the recipient improve my chances of getting a bigger shipment?
not trying to scam y’all, I’d be Legit sending it to a local Soup Kitchen that fully runs on donations.
@earlyre yes. Cooked some first night.
It’s pasta. Neither better nor worse than grocery store stuff. (This is a restaurant supply brand btw).
How good it is depends on how well you cook it. Remember this is thinner than regular spaghetti so your cook time is slightly less… Easier to overcook this.
My 100 pounds of spaghettini arrived on Friday & Saturday.
Pastadrop bringing people together… my message was simply “it’s not a 25 pound bag of beans but hopefully this will work”
@lehigh aww, the “thanks?” kind of bummed me out.
@RiotDemon He was prohibited my his spouse from buying the beans… so perhaps I got him in kitchen storage trouble
@lehigh ohhh, ok. That makes more sense.
@lehigh ohhh, ok. That makes more sense.
My recipient, our son and family in MN got his today. 20 lbs. Package seemed intact.
When will this ship? The second Pasta Drop has already arrived.
I received 20lbs of pasta. I’ll put it to good use!
Oh, oops! I forgot to chime in with my pasta report. I got 20 lbs. That’s about what I would have gotten for $20 at the store, so I guess it’s a fair deal. I admit I was hoping for a little more, because I always cook extra for my chickens, so it goes kind of fast. Yes, for my chickens. They livin’ their best life.
the single order i sent to my mom wound up being five pastadrop boxes of pasta.
she writes to tell me that she has enough to serve 900 people.
a++ good value, would drop again.
How long do you wait before deciding it isn’t coming? June 1st tracking shows it hit my town. Pitney Bowes tracking says USPS has it USPS tracking says it is waiting for it from Pitney Bowes! Ugh.
Cool, apparently because I shipped pasta to someone here, it changed the shipping address on all the other sites, so now stuff I ordered elsewhere is being shipped to the opposite side of the country. Neat.
@lowlypeon it’s fortunate mercatalyst doesn’t have any sites selling sex toys…
@lowlypeon @OnionSoup
Pitney Bowes Facility in Bloomington, CA has been sitting on my pasta since June 1. Bastards.
@connorbush you would think they could afford chairs for their employees.
@connorbush
mine too
amongst a bunch of other mercatalyst orders
the rat bastards
/giphy rat bastard
Should I be concerned that my order still just shows as “processing”?
Pitney Bowes shipping leaves a lot to be desired. Order for a friend was placed a month ago. It’s been sitting in Brooklyn NY with no movement for a week.
@Brandon98 my order disappeared between Pitney Bowes and USPS (each tracking says the other has it) on the first
@Brandon98 @chellemonkey same
Just received pasta drop #1.I have never before accepted a shipment in such poor shape. Box partially destroyed, and pasta bag ripped open - some pasta out of bag and probably out of box. Nice concept - 10# of high grade spaghettini, but poor execution. I have complained to vendor - we’ll see what they do to correct. I could NEVER order as a gift without reassurance that shipping problems have been fixed.
@richferg I had a similar issue. PastaDrop customer service offered their apologies, but no geature of replacement. This is pretty poor customer service!
@donrull Guess I wasn’t alone in this treatment. Don’t worry fairly soon someone will chirp up “but coupons!” as if that somehow will magically cure our disappointment of being left pastaless.
@Raider I reached out again through social media and if they can’t resolve it then I’ll file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau. A coupon is still a form of payment and if they’re not going to provide the product in acceptable condition, then they need to return the coupon.
@donrull As the site has now ended I’m sure they would be willing to reissue any coupon.
I honestly keep waiting for something to have been done because in my experience with this company CS goes above and beyond with customer satisfaction, with the company giving them leeway to have fun with it. Time will tell, but the total silence certainly has been disappointing.
@Raider Clearly not the same customer service experience as you have had. "Megan (Mercatalyst)
Jun 18, 2020, 12:07 PM CDT
Hey there!
Thanks for sending the photos over - it looks like this got pretty badly mishandled in shipping, I’m so sorry about that. The amount of pasta is completely random though.
We’re unfortunately not able to reship these orders back out.
It looks like this one was 100% free with the coupon, so there’s nothing to refund back. I’m sorry again!"
I did ask about reissuing the coupon or sending whatever active pasta drop they have as a replacement, and was told NO.
@donrull I never received a reply, from the same CS rep, when I asked if anything would be done to replace the inedible pasta or loss of rare VMP perk.
Hey there!
Thank you for sending the photos over - it looks like this sustained some pretty heavy damage in shipping, I’m so sorry about that!
I’m passing these over to my team to review as well to see if we can work on more preventative measures for this kind of thing. There was no charge for this order, and there’s no need to send that back to us.
Cheers!
Heard back from CS about my damaged order. They stated that I did not need to send it back, and since I used a coupon that may or may not have existed that was that. I responded asking if a replacement would be sent as this represents a loss of a rare VMP perk…which went unreplied. So looks like that’s the end of my disappointing Pastadrop experience.
@Raider I don’t think that coupon that may or may not exist would do you any good now anyway since this is the end of pastadrop. You did get $10 off coupons from the other sites with the perk though.
@Raider That sucks.
@Ignorant I asked if a replacement would be sent for the damaged product received, not a reinstatement of the coupon. Ignoring that, as the response came last week, if the coupon had been reinstated as a “processed return” at the time I would have been able to attempt to use it on this weeks offering. Neither event happened.
While coupons were received, that is not what I was looking forward to…it was a combination of the mystery and the pasta. To be honest the coupons likely will now remain unused, that is generally what happens when something leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It went from me telling people how great the entire thing was, to disappointment. I’m glad the vast majority had a great experience with this very unique experiment. Unfortunately for an unlucky few of us who received destroyed packages the same cannot be said.
@Ignorant @Raider at least you received a package.
@Noddy93 You’re right, I do not doubt that this experiment would have lasted longer if shipping was at “normal rate”. I’m sure others were like me waiting to see what the first order was like before they would drop an order on a friend or family member.
@Raider Or it would have ended sooner as people would have mobbed the order process? The company did say that it was intended to be a short-term experiment, a month or two only, in the article about it.
My gift arrived
@slipperyp They only ran yours over once. Most get run over twice. Consider yourself lucky.
Did anyones shipping say “container load”, “trailer arrive” or “trailer depart”? Thoughts?
@Karpadm76 Not for the pasta delivery, but an Item from morningsave showed me that recently. It has twice appeared in my town and then back in neighboring state before a few days ago being loaded on a container on the other coast. Seems to something the shipper is now doing.
Where is da pasta?!?! I’m in pasta limbo.
I just had a 2nd box show up like 2 weeks after my first. 40lb total now.
Still waiting. My order has been stuck in Grapevine, TX since June 4. My family got drop number 2 before I even got drop 1…
@alexbrewer Still nothing. I ordered several of the final drop as well, and they are in order status “placed” after a week.
@alexbrewer OK. tracking says Picked up by Processing Agent in my town. Hopefully, it will be delivered.
@alexbrewer Still waiting…
@alexbrewer it’s the hardest part
mine has been in waco since may 28… and now pitney-bowes tracking simply says that “an estimated delivery date is coming soon”.
@Noddy93 hey hey! 3 weeks after the last update my shipment is now back in Dallas! says it should be here Monday. absolutely fantastic.
@Noddy93 heavens above… 25 days of shipping for 113 miles. but I got my 10 pounds.
one reason why the multi-company shipping has always sucked for me is that although I live in a town of 120,000 people, the USPS shut down our local distribution… so companies like Pitney Bowes delivers the crap to the USPS in Waco which then sends it back to Dallas to have it delivered to Waco.
tonight I will drown this misery in pasta and whisky
@Noddy93 Was it actually delivered not torn open in a destroyed box? If so it would seem to be a rarity of late for delayed orders. Congrats on finally receiving it, enjoy.
@Raider it was packed in one of the smaller box. there was a slit on the edge, a good 5 inches, but there was suspiciously little debris in the box. it’s gonna boil which will kill anything so I’m not worried about it killing me… outside of already being old and fat.
I was planning on donating to my local “food for families” event but instead I’ll just keep it.
Well, more than a month after I placed the order, spaghettini has FINALLY been delivered! No reaction yet…
Same. Mine came in poor shape more than a month after being ordered.
I ended up having to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau since both Megan and her supervisor in customer service were not at all helpful and offered nothing for the poorly package and damaged product I received. As a VMP, I’m pretty disappointed by their careless attitude. https://www.bbb.org/us/tx/carrollton/profile/online-retailer/mercatalyst-inc-0875-90544607
This was going to be a complete donation for us, since we do not eat pasta. However, it was disappointing not to be able to give anything to our food pantry and kitchen since I received a poorly packaged product in a crushed box and open package that they can not take to serve to anyone.
@donrull How dare Mercatlyst screw up like this after all of the good its done with PastaDrop. It’s pretty obvious that you should also cancel your VMP and leave once and for all. That’ll show 'em.
@Barney @donrull Your free pasta got damaged in shipping so you filed with the BBB? I hope you don’t plan on using your $50 in coupons.
@donrull I’ll donate some pasta in your name to my local food bank.
Hopefully your loyalty earned you all a free coupon as well!
I’m sad. The spaghettini I shipped has been lost. I’ve been refunded. I was really looking forward to talking with my brother after it shows up. Now I’ll just have to bring him some of my pasta in person whenever I can see him.
@RiotDemon same here. Mine was supposedly in my town on the first but evidently it escaped
Mine says it’s still in KY… I live in OH…
Mine left Texas on May 20. It made it to California (where I live) before heading to Nevada. It’s been back in California in San Bernardino since June 5, Where it was “ Picked up and Processed by Agent.” Since then, no update whatsoever.
I get it - I got it for free (VMP), and was going to gift it anonymously to some friends who weren’t expecting it, so why am I complaining. But damn, a full 5 weeks for shipping is pretty poor.
I’ll keep waiting, I guess…
Well, my order had been refunded because PB told pastadrop it was lost. It ended up arriving today after 42 days in transit.
My brother ended up with 20 pounds.
It’s bitter sweet. I feel bad that pastadrop lost money on this order. I’m happy that my brother ended up with something in the end.
i gotta say… in and of itself the pasta was not worth the wait… but the stuff is pretty damned good eats.