What do you think about extended Meh deals?
27Our community has occasionally noticed an older deal that’s still live - Last Monday’s sconces, for instance, or Tuesday’s biscotti, in addition to today’s flatware. I thought I’d explain what’s going on there and see what you all think of it.
As you can see in our “How’d you get here” stats block on the Meh home page, we often get Deal sites sending people our way. We love that, bluntly for the sales, but also to help new people find out about Meh and hopefully become new regulars on the site and in the community. But it turns out deal sites can be pretty slow to notice, post about, and share our deals. We were seeing bumps of traffic coming in to a deal just after that deal expired which kind of sucks for everyone.
When we see that happening now, and we’ve got enough inventory, we’ll extend that deal up to a week or so. I’m curious what you think of this - is it a nice plus that you could have a last chance to grab those sconces from last Monday? Does it destroy your vision of a daily deal site to know that last Tuesday’s Biscotti are still live? Or does it not matter either way since you never noticed?
Should we make it easier to find Meh deals that are still live? Harder? Push them over to SideDeal? Chime in and let me know what you think.
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I’ve noticed that the deals sometimes stay live, and that doesn’t bother me. But please don’t advertise them on the daily deal page. The appeal, for me anyway, is the simplicity: “here’s today’s deal – do you want it or not?”
@walarney Agreed!
@walarney agreed!
@walarney Agreed!
@walarney Agreed
@walarney well put, and agreed
Can the deals stay live indefinitely? That way you might get someone to buy a truckload of [whatever] as a gag gift then suddenly it’s a trend.
@hotbiscuit Are you hoping to buy Trackrs as a gag gift?
(more realistically, “indefinite deals” that sounds like the realm of SideDeal or MorningSave)
Don’t complicate your interface for people coming here today.
… But yes, If you could have a nice easy to navigate to “past deals” (without cluttering today up) that would be good.
There have been times in the past I regretted not buying an item the day of the sale, that I might have gone back to purchase if I still could.
Agree, I would like to be able to go back sometimes too, but I also don’t want it to clutter the interface… just a simple link would be enough, don’t make a big change for it!
@OnionSoup -I agree! If I missed a deal, but knew there was a link to past deals (like when the Mehrathon is over), I’d be happy to have that chance to get it!
Just having a link that says, “Past deals still for sale” in the top right corner of the page or something and then that sends them to a list of just those deals would be fine. I wouldn’t want the home page cluttered up with past stuff though.
I miss when extended deal purchasing periods were a VMP-exclusive perk.
@lljk Yeah! How are we supposed to feel superior to others if they aren’t made to suffer?!
@lljk @Rowsdower Howsabout if @dave gives us remaining VMP members a discount on remaining deals? And the interface is the one @kidsandliz suggested: here’s a link to some crap we’ve got left over.
@lljk @Rowsdower How are we supposed to feel superior without the random VIP gifts that I seem to have completely missed out on?
@blaineg You mean the socks that only fit people with a certain size (aka standard men’s) feet? As someone with different sized feet, I’d say they were pretty Meh.
/giphy there are dozens of us
@blaineg @gt0163c I just found my pair of mediocre socks in the back of my sock drawer… still with the label.
MID-PERFORMANCE SOCKS by Mediocre
Never settle for less than minimally adequate.
what’s even stranger is that I found my Schrodinger’s Toothbrush Club t-shirt in another drawer earlier this morning. Unworn.
@blaineg @Noddy93 I have a couple of toothbrush coins that I got in the worst IRK ever (1 bag, three coins and I think like a headband). I came across them last weekend.
What’s the name of your adorable dog in the picture?
@blaineg @gt0163c that’s my dearest Bella. Had her 11th birthday this past December and is my main focus for living.
as for the coins… man, Meh paid a small fortune for those things. all the options ticked. duo-tone with text on edge… i wish i had an extra just cuz… and one of the red brushes since my order was cancelled and now they apparently have put them in the fukoos.
@Noddy93 Please tell Bella she’s a good girl and give her some ear scritches and belly rubs (if she likes those sorts of things) from me.
@blaineg @lljk @Rowsdower In 10 years I can’t even remember a VIP gift. I vaguely recall socks but might be confusing that with Cards Against Humanity
@blaineg @caffeineguy @lljk @Rowsdower There were socks, some meh valentines, a cardboard meh decorated phone stand and maybe one or two more things I no longer remember.
I don’t care, makes no difference to me at all so do what you want to do.
Go for it!
I think the optimal would probably 2 or 3 days then whatever remaining push it to the other distribution channels that you have. As others mentioned, probably leave it off the main page though.
I think being able to get an old deal is great, for both me and you. Sometimes I don’t see a deal I want until the day after it is expired, it would be great to still grab one later.
I like them just as you have set them up and on the same daily email is fine.
The extended deal thing seems fine to me too
I want the deals to stay live as long as you have stock to sell. I don’t always get to see stuff in time and I hate when I get the “too late” message.
Just call them past deals, as long as your software knows when it’s sold out, all is good.
Perfect!
I think the extended deal is great as I am a procrastinator and sometimes forget to order something I was thinking about.
Please make it easier to find deals that are still active on the Meh site so you don’t have to switch to SideDeal if you don’t have the time.
I think it is totally fine to keep a deal live for however long you have inventory. The main page is still just one deal per day. So if someone is going to a deal via link, that doesn’t effect anyone else, other than potentially leading to more new customers. More new customers means more opportunities for better deals. Which is further good for everyone.
So yeah, bring on the extended deals!
I’d close the sale on Meh and if you have more, put a link to SideDeal saying you can find more here! Then you have advertised both sites to the newcomers and Meh stays a “one deal a day” website.
@Dakini This is my thought as well. Move the stuff over to SideDeal to keep Meh’s site uncluttered and allow direct access to the deals. And add a link over to the SideDeal page from Meh.
Definitely against sending them to Side Deals…I don’t want to have to sign up for yet another vendor to get something I missed at Meh.
@mefenyes Your meh log in gets you into sidedeals as well. and morningsave. and casemates. and gets you free shipping if you are a member.
@mefenyes FWIW, the login for SideDeal is exactly the same login for meh – and MorningSave and Casemates. All are under the Mercatalyst (Mediocre) umbrella.
@oppodude - thanks for the information. Too bad that when you click on a Side Deal link, it presents itself as a separate entity makes little effort to let you know that one’s existing Meh.com credentials will work.
Don’t mind the deal still being available if yall have stock. That being said, I wouldn’t want it to clutter the page for the current day’s deal!
Go back to Mehrahthons with actual low-price IRKs. Until then, Meh and Woot have lost me as a paying customer. It’s too difficult to find something I like, with no chance of exciting reward for paying attention.
Ummm… lower the price…
I see that a bit like the “still available” offers during a Mehrathon - helps those that might have been late to the party but not something you need on the homepage. I say go for it, as long as you have the stock letting folks find their way there for a few days (up to a week max) seems reasonable. Maybe a page somewhere for “past deals” that are still active, but definitely need to keep it curated so it’s not full of sold out things.
How could it possibly be a bad idea?
Yes, keep them up until sold out!
We are going to see lots of different closeouts on Meh. The pandemic did havoc to our supply chains. Many companies over bought to compensate for delays or non inventory. Meh has too much of a good thing. I think extending it as long as you get new customers is a wise move.
Don’t go changing….
@j68mcevoy but I’ve been let down many times before
@j68mcevoy To try to please us…
I’m fine with you selling items for more than just one day. One problem I have had is with the expiration or best by dates. Some of the food items I received expired the day I received them. And it was a bulk order. Is it possible to put the expiration dates on the page when selling items that expire?
@MikeMooney33 They do that, in the specs.
By the way, “best by” doesn’t mean expired.
@Kyeh Thanks for the info!!!
@MikeMooney33 You’re welcome!
They’re fine! But things with nuts, or those garbanzo bean snacks, haven’t stayed good for as long.)
(I’m still eating stoopwafels that say “SEP-11-2022.”
@Kyeh @MikeMooney33 I still have some mango bars best by 6/21/22. I eat them at breakfast when the bananas aren’t quite ripe. I had one today.
I’m all for extending deals when they’re still available
I don’t mind at all. If there is inventory left and you guys wouldn’t need it in the future to fill a product gap, keep selling them. Maybe if they don’t sell out in a week, stop and bring them back later at a reduced price?
I love that they are still viable. They should be easier to locate, but I am not sure if moving to “side deal” works. Maybe a button that takes you to active deals?
Flatware robot DEFINITELY smashes biscotti monster. I mean, what were we talking about? Oh, extended deals? Whatever. I thought SideDeal would probably be best, but whatever keeps you guys in business.
They’re fine!
I appreciate it. Sometimes something really cool goes on sale right before my payday and I can’t afford it for a few days so if I come back and it’s still there it’s a great surprise.
Make them easier to locate.
Whoever thinks it’s a bad thing is a butthead!
I would keep them for two extra weeks and then move them to Side Deal
I like the idea of keeping the deal active as long as you have stock, but it would be nice to somehow know that the deal is still active so I know I can still purchase it if I missed buying it on the day it was announced.
Fine with me. I’ll probably want more of the biscotti next month, when I’m sure they’ll all be gone.
I can see the IRKs getting even more shitty than they already are if you sell stuff until it’s essentially gone. I say make things available but only for a few days to a week at most.
@clarinetbob They probably wouldn’t offer them as often if they had fewer things to offer at the mehrathon fire sales.
maybe a button where you can click to see previous deals still available, or you could move them over to Side Deals.
keep them available for at least a week if you have inventory.
It would be great to have access to older sales if available!
Ephemeral deals are fun, but really I think they’re a bit harsh. No more than a week. A small note on the site of the extended offerings.
Since I’ve been here from Woot Days, I’m a purist. I like the idea of the deal a day although I do like the fact that you can purchase past deals during Mehrathons now. Keeping a deal available for a short time past the day is great but I think it would be better to move it to Side Deal or Morning Save. Otherwise what is it that sets you apart from any other discount site? ( besides this wonderful forum of course)
@readnj Perfectly said
A “Previous Deals” button for a week or two. In three weeks they usually show up again anyway as the Daily Deal.
Do as you are doing now, because it’s fine. Or push them over to SideDeal considering how the site typically works. Either is good. Let people have access to the deal.
It’s not a “yes or no” feedback but I realize I pay more attention to meh because I have missed some deals that I wished I had caught.
The only for a day deal has had me slog through reading about crap headphones (and grabbing the occasional great ones) - weird European cookies and some random “how the hell any of this garbage” stuff.
The better check daily or it’s gone works on me as a consumer.
That said, I will still go to meh. And what the hell does what I think matter?
As a person who doesn’t always get online every day, it’s a blessing for me to have some deals available after the initial day. I’m all for it!
I bought three sets of these and would like to buy more (new house with lots of doors in need of sconcing (?)). So, I have been looking for these to pop up on SideDeal or MorningSave. It never occurred to me to check if the deal was still available on meh.
Buuuuut, I am still limited to the three. I think you should move them to SideDeal with a link on the original meh page and an upcharge of a couple of bucks - keeps the one deal for one day ethos. If you keep it on meh, remove the purchase restriction after the first day. Take my money, please!!!
@raubin Taken
make it easy
Leave the non-Mehrathon pages the way they are (no past deals listed, no ICYMI, nothing advertising the missed deals. Instead, setup a separate MehMinders page where past deals can be had (but add a couple of $$ to the prices so there is still a reason to check the Meh page at 12:01am ET).
Yes, extended access to past deals would be great
I was a daily user of the real Woot (before it went corporate) and am a daily user of the real Meh (please don’t go corporate). I just love the daily giggles and the occasional bargain. As a user I would like you to keep any deals open while you still have inventory - that increases my chances of getting a bargain. As a marketing specialist, I would advise you to keep up the pretense of being a one-day site - this is a useful “impending event” to cause higher sales. (click “I want one” before they have time to realize how useless the product is.) There is an obvious way to keep the rep as one-day but have all deals available until inventory runs out. At the end of each day, flip every not-sold-out deal to Side Deal (but change the name to Flipped Deals or Stale Deals or Not-Very-Popular Deals or Definitely-Doesn’t-Make-A-Margarita Deals.) I’d be happier. Newbies would be exposed to impulse buying pressure (good for the bottom line - but might make your sleep a little less restful). When newbies become regular users and you promote Side Deal to them, they would be happier regular users.
Sorry for this brief reply. I was too busy today to tell you what I really think.
@keithmanning - I agree with what you are saying. While I am not a marketing expert like you are (so your advice is worth more than mine), I do teach business including some marketing crap (although not my specialized area). Not having seen your post first I posted more or less the same thing about deal a day impulse buying (but way less articulately than you did) down way lower. Hopefully if you ever get an irk they will give you a good one as “payment” for your advice in your area of expertise.
As a side comment: this thread is LONG! which I am sure meh appreciates so they can get a read on what, at least, the vocal people are saying - although it would be prudent to couple what we are saying with who buys a lot to know how to weight the comments.
@keithmanning opps hit ‘say it’ and got forbidden. Ran over the edit limit.
And I appreciate how meh, at times, “thinks out loud” as it give me some insight into how they think about at least this portion of their business. I sometimes use meh as an example in class when appropriate. This is how I found meh to begin with. I was teaching intro to entrepreneurship and was reading though the start up fundraising sites to find a case company to use in class. I created an account after a about a week of reading the forum (back when they had literally just opened a couple of days before I found the site) and stuck around, even though now I am mostly not teaching anymore (medical crap which sucks).
I also used some examples from here on a couple of exam essay questions that run along the lines of: here is the situation, list X number of concepts from the chapters you are being tested over and discuss how meh is or is not an example of them and why. Or what should meh do next? Back up your answer with how class concepts would support your advice.
Been interesting to see how they have evolved over the years.
Make it easier to access previous deals.
I care more about you thinking it’s okay to use AI image generation than I do you keeping deals open. Don’t do that. Keep your deals open longer so you can pay someone to use photoshop like normal people.
Make it easier to access the deals, even as a Meh-rethon style “page is live” version to start - I like the time limit but also don’t often check side deal right after I missed something – usually i just kick myself and move on.
what i am saying is you’d get more of my “sure, i’ll try it” cash this way
I think the idea is GREAT. If I have buyers remorse i can just do a search and find if you have more of the item and just go to wherever you are storing it for me.
A link in the daily deal to “Deals still available” or something similarly simple.
It is great to extend the offers when you can.
Leave old deals active unless you run out and make those deals easier to find.
Agreed, A link in the daily deal to “Deals still available” or something similarly simple.
Yes, I like the idea of having some extended deals remain on the meh website rather than having to go to sidedeal, etc.
Please keep the extended deals, and make them a little easier to find. I can only ever find them on meh-off days.
I would enjoy seeing previous deals that are still available! Sometimes I miss one that I really wished I seen and purchased!
If you’ve got something to sell, SELL it!! I’d love to see the deals extended if you have the inventory to do it!
I like the idea of continuing sales as long as you have the product.
I didn’t even know y’all did that, outside of Mehrathons
I say, keep it as 1 Deal For 1 Day, otherwise it loses what makes it special. You can always keep doing what you’ve been doing - dump the extra in the next Mehrathon (or in some forgotten corner of Morningsave)
Sure why not. The more Meh the better
YES, have an easy way to navigate like a PAST DEALS button (or link like you so cleverly use in your emails - Il like Buttons, I like Links.) GRIN
@jaydpiii PAST DEALS not PASTA DEALS right?!
I don’t care.
As long as I can keep my vmp “perks”… whatever those are these days…
Sometimes I start the purchase process, but don’t complete it, giving myself time to second guess the decision. Usually feel better when I don’t follow through.
However, sometimes I just forget to go back so it would be helpful to have extra chances. I vote for keeping sales open on meh ‘while supplies last’.
PS I would REALLY like to be able to remove my credit card between uses.
@kdemo On the credit card: You can hack that.
Since they only keep one on record at a time, simply replace the good one with a bogus one, if it’s worth the trouble to you. But then remember to relist the good one.
@phendrick - Oh, wow, thanks!!
Pretty sure I tried a fake number and their system rejected it. Through several CS contacts I got them to remove it, but then I bought something and landed in the same predicament.
Good thought, though.
Maybe add some navigation tabs or products categories to filter on. Also a search box to scour all available deals.
I think the main page should just have that day’s deal, but I’m all for having previous deals still be live for a couple of days. I’ve been thrilled a couple of times when something I wanted but missed showed up on mehrathons. It would be great to just be able to buy it the next day if I missed it.
Meh.com should be a deal-a-day website. One item available per day at a deep discount. Once that day is done, so is the discount. (The discount is the “deal” part of “deal-a-day.”)
If you have stock left, turn the “Buy” button into a link to SideDeal where it is sold for a higher price (or regular price, whatever). If you miss it on Meh, it’s still out there, just not as cheap.
Meh gets to keep it’s identity, your company still makes money, everybody is happy.
@Willijs3 Yes that is a good idea too but they’d still need to find it. That is where a simple link that is for past deals still for sale that sends people to that list and that list alone would work. Where the buy button then sends them then doesn’t matter to me. Might matter to meh.
Like most people are saying, it would be great to see a simple button that leads to a list of past deals that are still available. I want the format of the daily deal page to stay simple, but there are also times when I would love to browse recent deals to see if something is still available (like, say, a cool thing goes up today but my payday is tomorrow so I’m really on the fence).
Personally I like how you all do it with the Meh-rathons, where you have the deal of the moment and then have a little box you can click on the side where you can see all the other things that have shown up. But it would be nice if the list you go to from there could make it obvious what’s still available versus stuff that has already sold out.
Let us hit yesterday’s button too!
@lichen YES!!!
Move it to Sidedeal where you charge more for the item then add a redirect or something to the original meh URL that reads “Too slow, friendo. You will have pay more for this item over at Sidedeal.” (with link or whatever)
Set up a simple business rule. If you still have a surplus, keep it on the Meh site for a fixed extended period of time until the time runs out or the inventory runs out. After that you move it to SideDeals. It will help the buyer to try and remember if the offer was on Meh or SideDeals…
Have something like the ICYMI link during mehathons?
Emergency’s happen and it would be nice to check back to see what might have been missed.
Extend the deals!!
ok
Blah blah blah buldak.
@mikey “a one-chicken pony”
Have the other older/side deals on Meh. There is already another site called ‘thedailydeal.com’ that has a single, daily deal at a discounted price, so no point duplicating site features. Having users check other deals on meh.com will also keep users on meh.com longer.
@ddalal thedailydeal.com redirects to thedeal.com which appears to be some financial investing something-or-other.
But from what I’ve heard, there are other daily deal sites out there, so the rest of your point stands about keeping users on meh.com longer.
Push old deals wherever you like. We know you got leftover stuff we missed. We know the drill, just tell us where to look.
I think Meh has already been diluted from its core concept with the constant meh-rathons. Having deals that linger like this would further move it away from what it was designed to be. Mediocre made Side Deal and Morning Save for other deals and I believe it makes more sense to push these deals to one of those other sites.
I like the one day deals, it’s what I associate with MEH. I look everyday at the deal from your email. I can determine immediately if I want it or not, then I buy it or not and forget about it until the next day’s deal.
I like the one day deals, but often miss a day due to circumstances beyond my control (Sob story available on demand). It would be nice any deals still Meh has or wants to make available. I frequently go to Side Deals and if there was a category over on that site, such as Meh Leftovers, I would add that to my review. Please include items from Meh-rathons.
Meh is trying to become a real e-commerce site? Pass… or should I say MEH!
I think it’s a great idea! Please keep them here! Maybe a big in your face you can’t miss something that says “LEFTOVERS” throw an irk in once in awhile for giggles
Go for it!!
I think having it available, but not on the “meh.com” direct page is a wonderful idea. You pretty much have the interface already with the ICYMI tool from the mehrithons. It doesn’t/wouldn’t offend me at all to have a link on the page to see past deals still in stock, without having to go navigate side deal or other sites gaggle of other stuff (as well as past deals)
And if it makes more money, and allows you to get a better selection of “meh” for the main page that would be great! I really don’t come here to see nearly daily expired food products. Bring it on!!!
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@IndifferentDude True to your name.
I expect your prime job is to sell stuff. If you have plenty why should I care if it takes more than 1 day to sell it? I say make it available as long as you have stock.
@MrMacro and as long as the home page is not cluttered up with that stuff. One link to elsewhere is fine but that is it. Oh and as someone else said, let me click the click face too if I missed doing that on the original day. Or at least make it a VMP perk since we have few anymore.
@Kidsandliz @MrMacro indeed. That’s why I never go to woot anymore.
Too much there. Too much to take in and read. Too much clutter hard to find what’s the actual deal.
Hey I like the idea of having leftovers available but I wouldn’t have any idea that a deal is still available as I don’t know where to look for it right now. If you have a leftover page link or plop it on side deals is a great idea. You’ll have to update links for the newcomers so they know what is what.
I love the one-day deal aspect of MEH. but some days I don’t have time to open ANY of my mail. So that plus the fact that sometimes I find yesterday’s deal is the thing I need for someone’s birthday or someone wants what I snagged on your site. Hard to recommend and not be able to be the bargain hero if there’s no recourse. So a side site would be so nice.
I think it’s a good idea. Maybe have each new deal good for 7 days. You have a Monday deal that’s good until the next Monday, Tuesday’s deal is good until the next Tuesday… you get the idea.
Then have a simple day-of-the-week interface where people can review each day.
I would definitely prefer extending the deals than have the regular recycling of the same deals that we seem to get now.
I love the current format - one deal - one day just like the good old days when you owned WOOT!
If I missed a deal I must have - I go look on SideDeal.
I sometimes miss a deal because I wasn’t online that day. I would like to see deals extended until supplies are exhausted. It doesn’t matter to me how you do it, just as long as it’s easy for the shopper to find the extended deals.
meh = 1 day sales. If you start making them “kinda 1 day” or “yeah, 1 day but sometimes more than that”, you have mutated your DNA. Push the deals to SideDeal or “notmehbutkindameh.com”? Sure.
I suppose it’s possible I could care less, but I’m not sure how.
I’m really disinterested in seeing Meh turn into what Woot became. It’s fine to have outlets where you sell leftovers from previous daily sales, but it should absolutely not be on the main Meh page.
If you feel you must draw attention to this on the main page, maybe a link to a forum list of still-available items would work and not be obnoxious.
By all means continue to sell merchandise you have leftover. No objection from me.
If an “expired” deal is still available, that I may want…I’m all for making it available. I can’t tell you how many times I have been interrupted, while in the process of making a purchase, only to completely forget about it later on. Perhaps there could be a “clickable” link that could take us to your “stale”‘inventory
I love to have the opportunity to catch something that I missed.
Can you add a “One-day deals only” toggle to the preferences page that hides the deals that persist for longer? Then people will have a way to maintain their virtue if they’re upset about destroying the moral fabric of a daily deal site notorious for vomiting speaker docks and trackrs on the world.
I’m with the majority here who say, sure, keep selling the stuff you have stock for. But hide it on a linked page for “stuff still for sale.” Not on the main page.
Extending deals doesn’t hurt my head or affect me at all except i might get a deal that I initially passed up on or passed to my children.
If you want to stir up controversy ask a question about how you do IRKs now with side deal and astronomical prices (even with the $ refund if you buy something)!
Sounds like a plan. AND, it can’t hurt business
like them
If I had known there were several deals I would have purchased a day or so after they were the daily deal.
I don’t care, whatever keeps meh in business digging up deals
Whatever helps Mercatalyst clear inventory and keep products from going to waste, do them! If they move from Meh to SideDeal or MorningSave, that’s all good with me. They don’t need to be any harder to find!
Fine with me…Maybe add in below the Side Deal as a “Not Quite Dead Yet” section. Or maybe “Barely Breathing” or something like that
@wpstone Or Irk or Glen half underwater with a flag that says something like, “Save me. Buy now,”. Or “meh’s oops page”.
Like many others, I’m an old Woot person, before it was cool to be woot…and before woot was no longer woot…and now I’m a meh person, from a long time where before it was woot…anyway…
I do like the IKYMI on the Meh Offs…and I do like seeing these deals pop over to Side Deal…so, where I see people saying, “Hey, let’s have a new Meh Page for old deals…” What’s the difference between that and where we see them on Side Deal or whatever??
I do like the deal a day…but there’s times where I sit on it, to think about it, then I do life, and move around, and work, and do other things, knowing that I’ll come back before it’s over…and then I realized it’s tomorrow and I didn’t come back before it’s over…and now it’s over…and now I have to wait for it to come back again at a later date, or HOPE that it comes back at a later date…
Then, I hate myself for not getting it when it was up yesterday, and I have anguish and
self-condemnation for not following through…then I think, where did I go wrong in life? Why am I here? Is there anyone that really cares about me??
So, I guess…if you really care, then I would say that you have things linger on so we can buy them later.
If you don’t give a shit, and want to keep it on the realz…then only do them for a day and put them somewhere else to buy them at an inflated cost…
It’s all about how much guilt you really want on your hands…
As long as you don’t pull an Woot and become Amazon owned, where the deals are just from Amazon and never seem to expire. I just found this site and was excited because it was the original Woot owners. I loved the original Woot.
Agree, keep selling but put in a past date section
I agree with others who suggested having a section for past deals, but not cluttering up the main site with it.
I like that it’s a deal a day website, it’s what make you who you are.
I often miss checking Meh daily, so when I see something I want and it’s still available I have ordered it. I don’t want to see it go to the other site. I want to still click on the link in an old email a day or more late and still grab it. Please don’t change that.
More revenue is a good thing. If you are still posting daily deals, why not? I don’t always get to my mail each day and would enjoy the opportunity to see what may still be available so please make it easy!
I say push them over to Side Deal or Morningsave. Wait, is Morningsave still a thing?
@acherry65 Morningsave is a huge thing! It advertises on Entertainment Tonight and Daily Blast Live.
Make it easier to find out what is still live.
I’ll just say I miss the woot shirts. The Pacman ghost story shirts are still my favorites.
@naturallia I got too fat for my Pacman shirts. My new favorite is the Hitchhiker’s Guide Vineyard Vines by @ACraigL that I discovered over here.
Call it ‘Day Old Deals’, like day old donuts. You’re welcome.
I agree with having a section of the past. Maybe at the bottom with active past deals.
I’d love it to be extended. I’ve missed many deals that I wanted, but got there too late.
I would appreciate being able to select previous day offerings. Often when you have a meh-a-thon you have made known previous hour items are available…until sold out. I have looked, and purchased, during these times. Would be great if you so state where to click for previous offerings AND remove those items from view, when they are no longer available.
I like the idea of past deals being available on a page, like the ICYMI page during Meh-rathons. I’d never say no to a discount for us members, especially the old Wooters like me. Or just do whatever the flark you want. It’s your site. We’re still gonna buy your crapola!
Trying to gatekeep deals is weird. If you can offer a deal longer to a wider net of people and get more sales, more power to you!
I appreciate the ability to grab something more meh stuff. Mehbe???
Do it please Extend
I liked knowing that clicking on the old meh faces would let me find out if a deal was still available or not. I thought it was just a VMP thing, but I guess it doesn’t matter anymore since VMP doesn’t mean what it used to anyway …
Agree with having extended sales, if you got the merch. My preferred vehicle is a separate page as many suggested. It would be fun to have a countdown in some way, not of time, but of items available. Basically you folks do one heck of a job presenting, shipping, and wisecracking! Any extra ‘stuff’ is always fun!
I like the idea of extending it! Or the day old deals idea mentioned
I think you ought to keep the deal going until sold out. Isn’t selling the merch the point?
Yes. For sure
Keep them open, but don’t clutter up the site with lots of things like Woot did after Amazon bought them.
I didn’t even notice, so why not, it doesn’t change anything about the way the site works now. If the front page turned into SideDeal that would kind of defeat the purpose of having a separate daily deal site.
I like the idea of a few extended deals. But I would hate to see Meh get too clogged up. A couple extended deals and the rest to Side Deal. Maybe a rolling ICYMI thing.
I thought they were already pushed over to Sidedeal
Keep meh a daily thing. If people find the deal after the 24hr period just say “you didn’t miss out! Get it on sidedeal!” And add $0.50 to the price. And give me $0.25 / each item sold as a consultancy fee
I work a job that doesn’t lend itself to shopping online at work. Most of the time when I finally make it home (and maybe go online) the deals are either sold out or closed. It would be nice to still be able to get a good deal sometimes. And please don’t hide them, I have a short attention span and limited time for Easter egg hunts.
It’s a damn shame that a domain squatter has grabbed hold of dregs dot com, because that would be absolutely the perfect name to use for listing stuff that you don’t have enough left of to make it worthwhile composing a side deal page to sell it. You could just have a viciously bare bones landing page and a list of item pages that could be accessed from it. That list would have to be served up dynamically, because you would absolutely want to hide the listing as soon as your stock level dropped to a theoretical zero. The obvious way to generate the item listing pages would be to recycle the ones that had been used for the same item when it was on Meh, possibly with some customizations in the area of removing extraneous stuff.
I like what you are doing now. I don’t always get a chance to check every day.
If you have leftovers offer them up to a group who are willing to pay for a membership to the wholesale pricing for a smaller amount of items or a grouping of several items. Make it a monthly auction.
I am vastly in favor of continuing to sell surplus stock, instead of it coming back around on seemingly endless repeats. (Like a certain CRKT knife.
As others have said not cluttering the main page would be preferable, however you do it. Maybe we.goofed.meh.com?
@blaineg Totally agree with this. As a daily deal site, it’s boring to see the same exact thing (like your CRKT example) offered like six times. We passed on it once, don’t need to see it repeatedly; we want fresh meh. If there is surplus (which is completely understandable that you still want to sell) offer it on meh.leftovers page and don’t crowd our daily deal.
Fresh meh and leftover meh each have their purpose, just need to know their place on the menu.
What makes the most sense to me, if this is technically feasible, would be to have expired Meh deals move over to SideDeal and have the now-obsolete Meh link redirect there automatically
I would like an easy link to old crap that didn’t sell. But as others have said don’t clutter up the daily deal with pictures, etc. just a link please. Or a button, I like buttons.
There’s been a few times I wish I’d seen an item sooner, but it was over with. Extending a few would be OK with me, if there is still inventory left after the deal ends.
I’m good with the extra week with daily reminders and count down clock!
I think it is a great thing if you have the inventory remaining. I think it should be very easy to find. Seems I went looking for something in time and I got frustrated fooling around trying to find it .
Just make it a quick side bar type thing… Tap and presto! There it is. I don’t have time to dig for stuff.
Also, sometimes i see something I might want before I go to work. Then I forget about it. Nice to sometimes have the opportunity to still get it!
Just a little while ago, my wife received her order of Pajamas, which she liked very much. We thought that my sister would have also enjoyed purchasing a pair or two, but we figured that the that the noted deal was done. We were quite surprised that checking the Meh site the product was still available. Glad that we could pass on the information.
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Keeping it simple appeals. If the main goal is to capture happy new buyers and members, then a link at the bottom (?) of the page for the rest of us is plenty. New people click their link and go straight to the item. Old People (
) get an unobtrusive text link while they consider the latest weird snack or polyester whatever.
I like it.
Keep deals on Meh!
I’m in favor of leftover deals. Make it easy to find a link to them & let’r roll!
Oh, and IXnay on the SideDeals site… I’m not a joiner…
@JHOMEL Sorry, you’re already joined.
Stick it in the all new Junk Drawer. Along with small quantities of junk that you turned down because there wasn’t enough along with the shit that even Meh was too embarrassed to put on the front page.
If you’ve got it sell it! Extend the deal
I buy things for myself and usually one is enough with no regrets if I passed up an offer. I do sometimes buy items to use in a charity auction or as a prize for a charity competition event. Being able to go back and pick up a product at a great price, that has “moved on”, helps everyone.
joseph ochoa
Feb 26, 2024, 1:31 PM CST
TBH, I tend to enjoy the write-ups more than the products . . No hard feelings . . Excuse me whilst I enjoy this margarita!
@JoMamma Hopefully you didn’t ruin the margarita by adding the powdered pea protein drink they are selling today.
I’m not going to be peeved or anything one way or the other. But to me? Push it to Side Deals.
This is a great question.
I don’t think I care of it is limited to one day…I am more of the I want this, I don’t purchase from the mindset hmmm it is only available now.
For instance I recently bought the Amazi snacks and they were very amazi. I want them again.
Extending Meh seems more appealing than pushing to side deal.
But I am only one very loyal meher.
xoxo d
@heartfeltsf
Yes that is how I buy too but marketing says there are plenty of people out there who make impulse purchases and the ‘only available today’ at a reasonably low price prompts them to pull the trigger to buy. I was under the impression that meh is using that model for many, but certainly not all (shark vacuums come to mind for decent but at a cheaper price and likely not an impulse purchase), of it’s products.
I’d imagine they could/would try it and see what it does to sales from the main page. If it drops and they do better with selling it on the main page over and over (so unpredictable to us thus still snags the impulse buyer) and then uses mehrathons as the dumping ground does better than trying it this way that will likely be a deciding factor for what they do to get this stuff out of the warehouse faster.
I do appreciate they are asking our opinion (hmm we are the buyers and their focus group except they don’t pay us
) which is more like in the old days of meh consulting us about their new ideas and after picking through the sarcasm, humor and off the wall comments try to figure out if that move is worth trying. Now if they try this and then dump the idea I hope they tell us why like in the good ol’ days too. I like to know the results of their experiments and not have to guess based on what they did after they tried it. Our whining does get some results though.
Look at the last mehrathon where they finally offered a couple of irks as chance buys instead of trying to drive up sales of stuff they can’t get rid of fast enough in order to qualify to get one. I think meh had underestimated how fukus, fukos, and finally irks via the traditional method of selling them was an important part of the meh culture and contributed to the uniqueness of this otherwise ‘fire sale daily deal market niche’ model they are using.
Candy Corn
Like.
/showme man in bathtub full of neoprene tablet sleeves
@mediocrebot
BATH
Seems to me the whole idea goes against the concept of a daily deal site. If you kept every deal that didn’t sell out up and running until it does, how many would still be up? Wouldn’t you just become Side Deal closeouts by (lack of) attrition? I knew you did the extend thing for a day every so often. But if I was looking for something I knew was a few days ago, I’d go check SD or MS and just figure I’ll pay maybe 20% more. Would never have thought to check Meh. Besides, I thought “selling out” on Meh was just when whatever inventory you committed to Meh ran out, even if there were still some on SD or MS. Is that correct? Would that change?
I don’t see a problem. The sport, for me, is hitting the site every day and finding whatever treasure awaits. Might be convenient on the rare occasion that I don’t check in, but not a big deal, positive or negative.
The only downside to this plan is it takes away the urgency because people won’t be as worried about missing the boat. Or missing the underwear or the energy drinks.
I have (at least once) bought a deal after its “day.” So I’m in favor of that. There are a lot of reasons (already mentioned) why one could miss the official day.
I also understand the resistance to letting deals run too long. I support that, too. Mediocre already has other sites for permanent-until-it-sells-out deals. Meh should be allowed to keep its special format.
So I say “go ahead and keep [some] sales open for extra days,” but I’d really like an unobtrusive link to a page listing them in some format. The mehrathon “ICYMI” method is… workable but subpar. It requires me to manually scan a crowded list and hope I didn’t miss anything. (or, more often, I just give up and stop checking) So if you find a good solution for listing the daily sales that are past their Best By dates, please use it for the mehrathons, too.
What I can contribute to this conversation:
You frequently remind us that “Best By” dates are not “expiration” dates. It’s practically a running gag at this point, like making Georgia red margaritas.
I suggest you use some version of that joke to label the temporarily-extended sales that are past their official date, but not expired yet.
I like it
I got halfway though the comments, then gave up. I feel bad for the intern forced to read each and every one
Anyway, my suggestion:
Why not create a new sub-site? Call it something witty like “Extended Deals,” and stick the link in the footer with the other sub-sites. Keep it simple, perhaps just like the textual links in the Community Forum. Then just have the links drop out when inventory is done. The only improvement I’d make is to show how much stock is left (or at least an approximation).
All in all, shouldn’t be that hard to implement. (Says the guy who wouldn’t be doing it.) I’ll take a large 4k tv for the winning idea
I think it’s ok to leave them up as long as they aren’t on the main meh page. It could help out some people. I’m good with it.
I actually think that’s great cause I sometimes miss deals. It’s great to have daily deals but keeping them alive far longer is also great. It doesn’t take away from the actual daily deal.
I think that’s a great idea to leave the deals open for the deals sites. I have been disappointed a few times myself clicking on deals only to arrive at the site and find out it has expired.
Sales are sales. Maybe you could include marketing materials about how great you guys really are! After all where else could you get to to see a picture like this. LOL.
Assuming I understand fully your current marketing plan, I feel it is good to keep deal alive until sold out or the inventory is so low to make that impractical. I recently purchased a Bomber jacket that I was surprised and pleased to find was still available. I’ve considered purchasing another as a gift. Same with a pocket knife that I was afraid I had missed.
I’m ok with that but just make it more like a mehrathon. So we also get new items added but can buy one from a previous day.
Keep it one deal a day and move older live deals to sidedeal.
Definitely extend time if there is still inventory. I like that better than mehrethons. I ignore sidedeal since those deals were not as good as the Meh offering (missing something or more expensive). (I am know I have not looked at Sidedeal for years so it might be different now.)
I sometimes miss a day and I have noticed that often it is still up the next day.
I am all for extended deals because I have benefitted from it! As others have recommended, the extended deal items could maybe have a page of their own. A location not difficult to find. Then, keep the main page (front page?) for the actual daily deals.
@Skarlath25 so… the Leftovers page
@Skarlath25 @ybmuG Kind of love “Leftovers”
@karynbird @Skarlath25 it would be in the spirit of Meh
I like the idea, maybe do a combo, push to Side Deals, but have a side bar of ‘ongoing until they’re gone’ deals on the Meh page?
Thumbs up for keeping access to deals as long as inventory allows.
Move the leftovers to SideDeal. A Deal-a-Day site is, to put it bluntly, a Deal-a-Day site. Otherwise, next thing you know, Irk will be ordering octopus for breakfast.
Don’t really care either way since I let my mehmbership expire. So long as you can’t retroactively click the meh button (to keep that aspect “original”) I see no harm in letting late-comers buy up stock, especially if that means we get to see more new stuff and fewer repeats in the mehrathons.
But mostly, just wanted to come over here and say that the AI pic in the email rocks! Thanks for making me smile this morning
@Turken Ahhh but VMP’s (and just VMP’s not members) should be allowed to back click if a deal is still open. After all we were assured we’d have privileges and extras and they all have pretty much gone away except sometimes a members and VMP hour on mehrathons. So that isn’t even special to VMPs. .
Keeping deals available while you still have some sounds good. I vote moving them to side deals.
It all depends on price. If your still having inventory that might mean you should of offered a lower price. If you offered the lowest price possible and it wouldn’t do any good to raise the price as you need to move inventory than yeah move them to side deals. Hopefully you can maintain the daily site deals as once the deal is over the price increases. Else you will have people that will visit less often and eventually just forget to look daily. If you got a ton of inventory that is moving then now and then but not as a habit promote it a 2nd day on meh. I wouldn’t do that often as what I said about loosing daily customers. It all comes down to the numbers and what makes sense but you need to find balance to what you want to be known for. I would say the lowest price for a daily site. If you expect the inventory to move fast you could even put how much the price will go up after 24 hours. Maybe every few weeks on Sunday have a new meh deal and side bar showing deals still available. You missed this its $$ on Monday it $ you should of joined us. Sorry we didn’t offer this price to begin with but this is just our get it out of here price, else were just donating it, won’t even be on side deals after today. Honestly I think you will get your best traffic and the most eyes if you concentrate on making meh a daily deal site offering the lowest prices that you feel will sell the product within a day. Side deals should be a barely anything left deal site and should be limited to one month with countdowns tell it gets donated or is considered junk no one wants. Don’t clog the site up with stuff your just hoping to sell even if it takes months. Make it two sites that are get it now and be known for sticking to your guns and grab that audience.
I hate SideDeals and won’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. Keeps the deals at Meh.
@lore13 I’ve found Side Deals and Morningsave are just walls of shit that just keep going and going and going…
The purity of one-day only at Meh is part of the appeal. Maybe because we know that unsold items are unattractive for you and so we know things are priced to move? And, as a result, that creates urgency? I don’t know but there is value in purity and the strong signal it sends. Just stick the leftovers (which is a great name) in an IRK.
I can sleep at night if you guys let us know the one-day deal is still live. Perhaps a novel proviso like “until sold out” could be added.
I think it’s completely appropriate to have the deals active for a few days after their initial sale. Keep the daily deals up, 3 days after the original post seems like a sweet spot.
This isn’t Woot, there are reasons it a daily deal site, minus the occasional meh-rathon. push them to side deal.
Woot was a one deal a day under Snapster. Then there were more and more deals and he sold it. Then there’s Meh, one deal a day, but maybe more and more. Is he thinking about a new one deal a day?
@pooflady I can’t read his mind or look at the books, but I think this discussion is really about ways to keep the Morningsave tail from wagging the Meh dog off into the ditch.
@pooflady Where have you been! What we really need is a place to talk on meh!
I appreciate a 2nd chance at a deal, especially as my account is associated with my work email and I don’t check on weekends/holidays.
Definitely like the 2nd chances
For all intents and purposes, Meh has been a one new deal a day site for quite some time now. Those deals have typically persisted past the day they premiered, but seldom more than two or three days. And you can only click the meh button on today’s new deal, not any of the prior ones. And the internet has not come crashing down in consequence, nor has this site suddenly been invaded by giant brain-sucking aliens. I have a funny feeling that the current new normal is going to persist, since it’s been the new normal for long enough to not be very new anymore. In fact, I’m pretty sure its warranty has expired, and it’s passed its sell-by date, which is in keeping with the grandest new and old traditions of the site.
@werehatrack Maybe if meh buyers didn’t have the mindset of “mehh, we’ll peddle this garbage over and over again and at morningsave, sidedeal until its gone” they’d start thinking about interesting limited quantity things that would actually move
As it relates to random, weird, nearly-expired “food” stuff, it’s often that I want to just purchase the minimum as a taste test. Surprisingly, many of such foodstuffs return a positive review and I would like to purchase more! So in these instances, if meh could offer remaining supply, I’d be game to buy some more.
@JWhirly some of the bundles were a novel idea, and cheap enough to make it worthwhile. but ultimately some of these alt-diet ‘foods’ (if you can call them that) are just plain terrible, even before they expired.
I like the 2nd chance option. How would I know that option is available?
Send it to side deal. Discount it further. Let alone, make it free. Or pay me to take this stuff off of your hands. I can think of many viable solutions here.
@txag96 In a more perfect world, the staff at Meh would know in advance which items were going to be absolute flops and total embarrassments, and would just have them drop shipped direct to your door. The whole batch. Pallets and pallets of them.
Be careful what you wish for.
@txag96 @werehatrack they used to have buyers that bought really cool stuff, remember when things would actually sell out limited quantities? nothing is special if you can just get it on meh in a few days/weeks or search sidedeal for the same garbage. Make Meh Meh again!
Sometimes I forget to look and then wonder what yesterday’s deal was! It would be great to have access to part deals as long as you have the inventory!
/showme what I think about extended meh deals
@mehcuda67 “Never-Ending Road” is perfect! Well done @mediocrebot!
Put them in a special section of Side Deals called
‘Formerly Known as Meh. Deals’ or
‘ForK Meh.’ for short
@mehcuda67 Mehftovers
Anything that prevents you from re-posting the same garbage no one wanted the first time is good. Leave the original deal up and bleed it off that way instead of making the “new” deal a recycled disappointment.
@Telanis it’d be nice if when things reappeared (regular or during mehrethon) they actually had reduced prices. This happens a little bit with food, but part of the joy and engagement of early woot-a-thons was finally getting an chance to buy something that was missed. Even the new meh-re-thon, where you can buy all the items during the day dilutes it and makes it kind of a joke, especially since the buyers buy so much garbage these days that almost nothing sells out.
One a day means one -new- deal a day. Extending the life of a deal doesn’t ruin anything. If you want to know what would ruin Meh, that’s easy—just do everything Amazon did to Woot! It’s a formula.
You mean like woot?
Ironically, I decided I wanted to buy some of the jeans that were available yesterday, but when I went to the page it says the deal is over. One of the few times I would’ve liked an extension. Oh well.
@Macoland i got those jeans on here and love them. Its just like a boyfriend jean! I saw them on Woot too.
I like the idea of extending the deals, not putting it on another site (though I am onboard with those deals having a special page on this site). Putting it on the other sites often involves raising the price, it seems. I’m all for lowering the price (people who whine about that can fuck off, imo) and that again should be done directly on meh.com.
It just feels gross when we find the same stuff on each of the different sites, incestuous even.
Too bad your day two purchasers are plebes who come from CNet or whatever, because I think you should make the extended deals weirder and
hardermore fun to buy. Like have the buy button jump around. Or random walk the prices every 15 minutes. Or pretend to use AI to analyze them singing “Something Went Terribly Wrong” as a form of CAPTCHA. Maybe play a Trombone Hero version of the Meh theme song with performance translating to discount/surcharge on the item. Anyone that passes the day two+ activities is sure to like the real Meh and stick around.But I guess this defeats the purpose of actual capitalist activities where you desire to sell items to the most people possible. So there’s that.
Well, I’m just an 81 yr old woman but I love Meh and even go back to when it was Woot. I like the single day deal. Please don’t change that. Use the surplus for the Meh-rathon or send it to Side Deal. Thanks
meh
I thought thats what side deal was supposed to do. I mean the joy of Meh is MEH!
Great idea. Price markdowns!
It’s fine
extend, for sure
Extend! Thanks.
I don’t see any issues with extending deals as long as a new deal continues to come up every day. That for me is what’s fun about Meh. Seeing what crazy crap is gonna be up today! One issue I can see here is that if you leave deals up, it would be much less appealing if you end up repeating that deal later on.
Don’t do it
I’m not a fan of extending. I think it kind of dilutes what meh is all about. But I also don’t really care either way.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It makes me feel used and unwanted, But so does my wife.
Do what you want. It’s your site. A link on the main page to active past deals would be nice for those of us who peruse your site daily.
@Trinityscrew Hint: Clicking on the Meh faces (or their lack) for dates in the current month’s calendar will take you to those deals. This won’t get you to a prior month’s pages, but at least it works for the dates that have passed since the first. Of course, on the 1st of the month, it’s no help at all.
To quote Dave: “Does it destroy your vision of a daily deal site to know that last Tuesday’s Biscotti are still live?”
Yes it does, and it makes me think of Woot 2.0 aka bad woot! I haven’t been a regular visitor to woot.com since the Amazonification of the site. I just pulled it up and shudder to think that is what meh.com could become. #kickstarter #2005wooterandwooternomore
Meh
Suggestion: If extended, redirect or link to an identical deal but on sidedeal. Helps to keep the brands distinct.
Rather then try to find more ways to make the site bland, I think the deals have been shit for a while now, hire some better buyers and peddle some interesting stuff again. Expired faux health and alt-diet food that nobodey wanted to begin with… Useless health products that couldn’t fly on daytime TV… Get back to cool, opportunistic buys, like stroop wafels, pasta, etc
@caffeineguy and then occasionally, when a buyer really screws up, and you end up with semis full of useless hazardous waste (TrackR w/Lithium batteries) it’s completely irresponsible shift your e-waste burden on your patrons so it ends up distributed in landfills instead of being properly recycled. The solution to pollution is not dilution.
given that Meh is Mercatalyst’s daily deals site, extended deals should go to MorningSave or SideDeal since those are the sites people expect to see extended-length or until-out sales (and the button on the Meh page could changed to say “Extended on SideDeal!” or something)
@VioletKitty Mehftovers
Everybody loves things that extend! (giggity) Plus, you could create a whole new category called “Leftovers.” Who doesn’t love leftovers, amirite?
@too33deep If it’s leftovers of something that I didn’t want to eat the first time around, I’m probably not going to want it the second time either. On the other hand, there are certain things for which there is no such animal as leftovers.
@too33deep That’s IRK (and SideDeal) isn’t it?
I just used the feature by accident. I opened yesterday’s Meh email and there was the nose hair trimmer for next to nothing and it was “Stocking Stuffers!!” So, I bought a few and only after I bought them I thought “how did that happen?”. And of course, the answer was here.
So… Thanks!
Does anyone remember when the only ‘second chance’ deals were during a woot-off? When you used to camp out and refresh just to get a chance at a BOC or something you missed a month ago? The whole concept of this site is diluted when you can get anything offered in perpetuity by an extended sale or sister site listing. What meh needs is decent and unique products again, not the garbage they’ve been procuring. It’d be interesting to see the sales statistics (units sold, sell outs, site engagement, etc) tracked across the last 2-3 years. I think it’s been moving downhill with all this fake “health” food and fake “beauty” products. I can certainly say the regret from IRKs has been increasing. Keep that shit on the landing sites for mind-numbing daytime TV (cough morning save)
I’m all for whatever keeps the doors open.