Welcome to Meh!
14I received this email today personally from @snapster. It's about time, because i never really felt welcome here until today. Thanks!
"What th-? A welcome email so long after signing up? Yeah, it's not a mistake. It just took us forever to write one. So we're not going to let all that procrastination go to waste: we're sending this to everyone who ever signed up. One less item on our to-do list! Now we can deal with those raccoons in the warehouse.
Our Stupid CEO:
Hey, thanks for signing up to Mediocre through our Meh project. Meh is a shameless throwback to my first venture, Woot, which was sold to Amazon in 2010. We've revived the original 2004 daily deal business model with an even snarkier attitude towards retail.
THE RULES: Sell one thing a day. Repeat.
Not terribly complex. But the Meh project is the heart of what we are building at Mediocre. As wholesalers by trade, we shun the traditional retailer role. Success for us here is to grow an intelligent, informed community that eschews superfluous services in favor of making shit cheaper. You could call it "anti-retail": an experiment in selling without marketing hype or bias. But maybe the term "anti-retail" is itself marketing hype.
You'll have more fun with this whole thing if you join the conversation about each day’s sale event or whatever else the community is talking about.
Hope you enjoy it. It’s not for everyone. We’ll try harder.
Disappointingly Yours,
Matt Rutledge
Mediocre CEO"
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Didn't get mine yet. I feel even less welcomed now.
@ACraigL But who do you blame for that?
@sligett I blame the goat, of course. @Narfcake has that today, I think. Double disappointment because I thought this response was the welcome email.
@ACraigL I have shirtgoat duties. @lotsofgoats has the scapegoat duties.
@narfcake Apologies. I totally blame @lotsofgoats for that misunderstanding.
@ACraigL No worries. I'd post a catshirt answer ... but you don't like catshirts, so I'll be nice.
@narfcake It's a life choice, but I acknowledge the genre exists. It's your day -- catshirt with abandon.
@ACraigL I've had a stranger comment on a catshirt - "You don't have a cat for that reason, right?"
I found my welcome letter. My ISP decided this was spam. Male enhancement hormone ads flow right to my inbox, however.
Wait! -- Male Enhancement Hormones = M.E.H. Ohhhh, now I get it.
WOW SPOILER ALERT
Well, I'm conflicted. On the one hand, I feel special for getting an email from @snapster directly. On the other hand, it's clear now that it was a form letter emailed to everyone. Yes I know it said it in the email itself but I still was choosing to believe it was directly written specifically to me. Now I know it wasn't and I feel less special.
So now I'm stuck feeling about 50% special.
sigh
@Bingo
@Lotsofgoats Yes. This.
Very nice welcome note. Very effective. Remind me never to ask you to notify my next of kin.
How long before we bring back the woot lunch auction to meh?
Not a bad form letter, as form letters go. Meh.
It arrived somewhere between "timely" and "the sun just became a red giant" - so very appropriately meh.
Please give us a two year lead time notice if you decide to sell or shut down Meh.
(The other welcome letter post string from 4 hours ago: TLDR.)
I hate joining the conversation.
Meh is where I call home.....
Whew! Glad I was not the only one to get the Welcome note... I thought I was being called out for not commenting daily (monthly or even bi-yearly) on the forums... (Socially inept INFJ here) 👀
Just when I thought I was less than mediocre. Thanks for the slight boost.
Knock me over with a feather
@Veloslave 🎵Yes you could. But you know it's not allowed.🎵
I wonder when Meh is going to start offering side deals? Maybe they could call the site "Hem".
@danoinct https://morningsave.com/
@danoinct how about "eh" for a name?
@carwinew Eh? Psshhh
It's just spam
@somf69 That is hurtful.. My welcome letter is going to be nice and cozy in my inbox for years to come!
@somf69
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/spam