They changed up VMP!!!! COOL!!!!

@snapster

It was snark but not sarcasm.

Intended as humorous. My social skills are a bit rough. ; (

I love it actually.

Mich thx

@snapster

Since you are in Texas, have you ever considered modifying your purchase button slightly?

Something reminiscent of these?*

*Provided there is remaining inventory for sale, the customer has not already purchased their limit, it is not VMP-only merchandise (or the customer is VMP), and suitable billing and shipping info are on file.

(Gotta love terms and conditions)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_take_it

@snapster it’s too decaffeinated morning. I had to really work to decipher that sentence.

@InnocuousFarmer I do know that I do think more slowly without the caffeine you speak of obtained by my own coffee.

@medz yep. Pretty much what I thought.

@medz @RiotDemon seems they’re giving a little more credit for adultiness and initiative to VMP’ers than to the lazy east coasters whose whining about midnight inspired the circuit breakers in the first place.

@duodec I love how people accuse people of needing to get to sleep to be able to function at their actual job of being lazy. It’s like everyone on Meh is supposed to be retired or unemployed or something with the luxury of staying up as late as they please and no obligations the next day.

@jbartus I think he’s saying that East Coast meh customers are unemployed vagrants.

@jbartus Black Friday sale! Starts at 5AM! If you don’t get up in time to be there you miss the doorbusters and cheap TVs. The store will see out of them regardless of your presence so they don’t care.

Design Toscano warehouse has their annual warehouse clearance sale! Starts weekday 9AM! If you don’t take time off from work, you miss it and don’t get to buy that cool helmet and chain mail coif, or the Arthurian knight in shining armor painting to dress up your man cave. Those go fast! They’ll sell out whether you get one or not, too bad so sad.

Deal a day site changes their item at 11PM Central time. Its popular and will sell out! If you aren’t going to make the effort to stay up, you’ll miss out! Or…

Whine whine bitch bitch moan moan until special entitlements are given so coasties have a better chance and some people who actually made the effort and stayed up likely lose out on a chance to buy the item.

If Meh changed the once a day time to earlier I’d have thought it was amusing, but ok fine. The circuit breakers are a flat out entitlement, with the blow to those negatively affected (those who stayed up but miss out anyway) partly ameliorated by the VMP holdout.

My sympathies on your crappy schedule that made it hard to participate before the circuit breakers.

@duodec So your complaining that you don’t like the schedule and that those who previously didn’t like the schedule were just whiners, bitches and moaners?

I’m sure that everyone has the “entitlement” to come back when the 2nd wave of sales is available.

@sykl0ps @sykl0ps Merely noting the difference between the easy-peasy “second” show-up-at-a-set-time in the morning accomodation made for sleepy coasties and the (if real) new, somewhat more challenging and risky (risk of missing the item, none left at the formerly set time) variant for VMPs… as I said above, it seems more adult, more individually respectful of VMP members, their capabilities and initiative.

I like this change, should it turn out to be real. Its a tiny step back from the circuit breaker changes.

If I didn’t, I’d write walmart and other retailers and vendors and tell them they need to have a second, and maybe a third set of Black Friday doorbusters at a more convenient times or days, or it just isn’t fair.

@duodec @duodec Yeah… “Whine whine bitch bitch moan moan until special entitlements are given…” isn’t merely noting the difference.

@sykl0ps But that was after a modestly hostile response to the first post, and a clearly facetious and (to me at least) humorous assertion inserted by someone else. Were you here during the great coastal wars over fukus and other fast selling items? It was pretty intense at times but it was also fun, with scruffulous barbarian coasties battering and badmouthing virtuous honorable mid-continent flyovers with clearly untrue statements, while we pinioned them with elegant ripostes and verbal uppercuts. A grand time!

There was a lot of bitching and whining and moaning and 'its not fair’ing going on amidst the needling, ribbing, and one-upping, but perhaps bringing it up again with that terminology was a bit much. Therefore please accept: “Indignant expressions of dissatisfaction, clear and unambiguous registering of complaints about the then current system, and displays of emotional pain and sorrow at the perceived loss then incurred.” as alternative wording.

@duodec

There was a lot of bitching and whining and moaning and 'its not fair’ing going on amidst the needling, ribbing, and one-upping, but perhaps bringing it up again with that terminology was a bit much. Therefore please accept: “Indignant expressions of dissatisfaction, clear and unambiguous registering of complaints about the then current system, and displays of emotional pain and sorrow at the perceived loss then incurred.” as alternative wording.

Someone is over there moaning about something. I can hear 'em.

Circuit breaker or no circuit breaker, there sure is some moaning.

@duodec sorry, how did you phrase it again… oh right… “Whine whine bitch bitch moan moan I might have to go out of my way to get up early or check back at 4 PM EST because I wasn’t fast enough at midnight EST which I had the luxury of being able to stay up for…”

The big difference between the examples you gave and a daily deal site like Meh is that they’re events, not the daily status quo. Calling out of work for Black Friday or some other single day sale is one thing, you can’t do that every day. The fact is that you’re just spiteful because you in some way feel that your ability to get the items you want has been reduced when in fact it is simply less convenient for you to do so. Quit being petulant just because the shoe’s on the other foot.

@jbartus

Wow, grumpy much? This isn’t like you. Mediocre made their decision, for good or ill, so what anyone says about it (or about why) should matter little if at all. Yet you’re apparently taking my comments like a personal attack. I can assure you they aren’t aimed at you or anyone in particular, other than maybe the group of the shrillest “I’m leaving if it doesn’t change!” complainers during the forum coastal discussions/wars. And you presumed mightily, and incorrectly, on my purported reasons for posting… again unlike you.

But to respond to your event point: a deal a day site is an event a day site. It may be minor compared to Black Friday but its a daily mystery, and there’s a new unveiling each day. Event! It could be an amazing item that sells out fast, or a stinker that ends up in later fukos because nobody wants it.

If it turns out to be very popular, the original schedule required you to think fast, decide fast, do any research you felt you had to do fast, lest it sell out. And face the possibility of lingering regret when you found out your haste had purchased a useless bauble. The circuit breaker changed that to having hours potentially, a leisurely cruise of reviews and other sites for prices, only requiring some fast refreshing and fingering at the precisely timed later restarts. Ho. Hum. Some event. E-ticket downgraded to B at best.

But Mediocre says that’s how they want it. I think its a diminishment and not just because I can readily stay up later than some. I only returned to commenting about it because of the report of a possible change that brought back some of that uncertainty and urgency that was removed by the circuit breakers.

Personally I wish they had changed the switch time to, say, 10PM, or even 9PM Central instead of implementing the circuit breaker, though I imagine the west coasties would complain about it being too early and the early to bed types out east would also (still) be upset. But Mediocre chose to accommodate its customers in the current way.

So y’all have a wonderful day, and weekend, enjoy your multiple chances to buy stuff (I’ve used it twice, both times at the VMP break), and seriously, don’t take things so personally.

@duodec sorry, I didn’t realize I needed to be explicit. You’re right, a sale a day is an event just like my posting this reply is an event and your reply was an event and every other action taken throughout our days are events. What I meant, and I think you well knew I meant, I certainly elaborated enough, is that the occurrences you described as comparable are special events, they happen once in a very great while, or even one time ever. In opposition, Meh’s deals are routine, they occur like clockwork every day, 365 days out of the year. An exception like Black Friday is not comparable to the rule that is Meh’s deal posting.

@jbartus I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. I understood your point even without the additional exposition, thank you, but, as previously implied and now stated, I do not agree. I don’t expect to change my mind, or yours, clearly, so perhaps there’s no value in continuing.

I’ll continue to enjoy my nightly surprise event; I hope you enjoy the clockwork routine you see it as.

Once again, have a great weekend.

@medz

/giphy exclusive

@medz Are you suggesting a VMPilati secret level?

@medz you don’t even get a vmp tag, so RETRACT that “we” you big K snob

/giphy big K snob

how do we really know you are vmp anywho?

/youtube who can we trust

@f00l @f00l @fool @f00l @fo0i @fooi @f00L @foo1 @fool - please change charge your ID to unambiguous characters

i fell for it (your post, that is), and perhaps others did, but i am on a vmp buying fast so i can get rid of that damn V-badge without remorse

/youtube “i’ve fallen for onion headlines”

/giphy without remorse

/youtube without morrisey

@OldCatLady like the #q tag from deals.woot. or whatever it was

@medz I was thinking the same thing. I knew it had a q, but that’s all I remembered.

@pitamuffin Wootilati is still a tab.

@Yoda_Daenerys

@f00l @f00l @fool @f00l @fo0i @fooi @f00L @foo1 @fool - please change charge your ID to unambiguous characters

Too late. I’m done for.

/youtube too late baby

@OldCatLady

Wootilati

???

Was ist das?

@f00l https://www.woot.com/forums/viewforum.aspx?forumid=67

@Yoda_Daenerys i wonder what it would take to fet V and K mash up!

@medz REINSTATE the Q status.

/giphy reinstate q

@Yoda_Daenerys it is: f, zero, zero, small L

@Yoda_Daenerys I have a dream of all fonts having no ambiguity. As a legal requirement. It would be so beautiful.

@CaptAmehrican

Well now you must start being filled with anxiety from 8am ET onwards.

At least they let you sleep a little.

Such kindness they show us.

@f00l hang on, i’m too TL;DR to know - is this real or like the orson wells martian envasion

/youtube war of the worlds

@Yoda_Daenerys I thought @snapster said @f00l was hallucinating this. But I didn’t check at 7:42 this morning to see who is right.

@Yoda_Daenerys
Both. Or neither.

I forget.

/youtube radio gaga

@UncleVinny And I pity any girl who isn’t me tonight. For sure.

@UncleVinny
@sammydog01

Of course.

/youtube I feel pretty

@f00l This is still my favorite retelling of Romeo & Juliet.

@HELLOALICE oh, hellz yeah. I was in on the kickstarter; never did get that original fuku. just quit answering my emails

@Josephus Hey! Can you send an email to support@meh.com and use ATTN CHAD as the subject? We’ll fix this today.

@HELLOALICE and everyone else:
You see this? These peeple have really redefined ‘meh’ in a GREAT WAY! #awesome

@medz

It’s not paused. It’s sold out.

@mflassy you don’t see it since you’re not vmp.

@RiotDemon

Who do I get to complain to about discrimination?

@mflassy should of signed up before they cancelled it.

@medz
@f00l
@snapster
So what’s the deal? Did vmp change? Was @f00l hallucinating?

@RiotDemon
/image lying sack

@RiotDemon
@meh

It looked like that to me in one day.
Perhaps I was hallucinating.

The distinction between what happens in my mind/brain/whatever and IRL/whatever can confuse me.

@f00l what I find most interesting is that @snapster didn’t correct you.

@RiotDemon

Keep the fun going?

Possibly he knows it’s pointless?

@f00l wait, wha?

@meh

I thought you knew by now that I don’t have a clew.