What happened?
15TLDR: What happened to our nerdy, happy, little corner of the internet? Despite the decidedly exaggerated descriptions due to follow below, I feel disheartened, disappointed, disillusioned, and so, I dejectedly fall into deep despair.
What’s with all the “junk”brands on meh? It used to be merchandise that was supposed to sell in normal channels but didn’t and was then being sold on meh.com by a mediocre corporation (wink, wink) in limited quantities, at (ridiculously) low prices. But now I feel like it’s all shite sold at high prices that’s not even worth it for pennies on the dollar.
Shite that’s almost exclusively seen in suspect retail channels. Such channels that sell crap and shite such as shitty catalogs like Heartland America (are they still around?); outfits like QVC—fun fact: my last IRK had an item from either QVC or HSN—and sort of icky retail channels such as meh’s sister sites that bank on gimmicky media brand associations.
What happened?
What happened to all the refurbs? Where are the Roombas? Where are the Dysons? Where are the name brand electronics that didn’t sell out? What happened to the overstocks, closeouts, and leftovers?
What has become of the once-great Mediocre-verse?
(Back when it was just Meh and Mediocritee?)
What happened to the Mercatalyst Empire?
It seems to me that the Stores.com Shit Show (an exaggerated moniker, to be fair) targets shoddy stuff towards such people that have too little sense and too much money. Is it to simply to slovenly chase so many dollars by stooping that low?
To be fair, maybe it’s not that. In all seriousness, there are plenty of other possibilities.
Maybe I have the wrong impression. This is subjective after all.
On the other hand, perhaps my impression is objective, but I’m simply not in the loop on what happened.
Maybe there are circumstances in the closeout and overstock world that us outsiders normally aren’t privy to. God knows, retail is an entirely different beast than it was years ago.
But still I say: What happened? Why all the shite? I’d love to know such things. Perhaps a soothsayer such as @Snapster could speak, say, and so-forth.
/rant
/Oh god, how did I write this all on my phone???
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With two fingers?
@werehatrack
Seriously though, I don’t have even that modicum of dexterity and motor control. It was almost exclusively with one thumb. My tendinitis loves it…
@GLaDOS @werehatrack Dictation?
Yeah I’ve felt the same lately… So much meh stuff for frankly a meh price. I saw the 2 for $16 LED candles and thought it was a typo tbh…
Maybe it’s just time to sell to Amazon again…
@mikeleemm @GLaDOS @snapster
NO
/youtube break up over breakfast
(Optopus)
Also very tempted to insert something along how smart octopus are
Fuck bezos
Tariffs. Inflation. Supply chain People having less money to spend. Wars. Wholesale theft by the government. Threat of AI.
Lots of shit well outside of any niche companies control impacting prices and consumers.
West Coast pays for the time difference. I often miss out on deals, when I take a look after dinner. Missed the coupons today with the Instant Regret Kit, as the deal is gone. Disappoint is not a good feeling to end your day, while my dinner is still in my stomach.
@richseibert
To be fair, it WAS a 2 day event…
@richseibert um. How are you paying by NOT having to check in at midnight/ 11 pm?
Maybe just set yourself a reminder at 9 pm if it upsets your stomach to wait a full day and then decide to be disappointed.
@brainmist @richseibert not gonna lie. Was waiting for the clock to roll at midnight for years. I’m not going to shed a tear you checking at 9PM as you go to bed?
But to the original OPs point… It hasn’t been worth it for a while. I suspect the pickings have been thin though
@brainmist @unksol true, it was a 2 day event. But pickings were then… no biggie! But all combine to result in ‘membership cancellations.’ Someone had asked why…
@brainmist @richseibert I cancelled my mehbership because of the price increase and only using it at best once a month. Other people may be fine with it.
Now we have a situation where meh has to offer a cool product. It has to be over $100 and it has to be $20+ off to cover the $9 shipping .
If you do multiple orders a month the maths may be ok
@brainmist @richseibert @unksol I do live in a big enough place do multiple orders a month - not to mention I don’t want to also have to do monthly garage sales because I’d have to repeatedly downsize. I’d rather spend my money on good ice cream and good chocolate. meh doesn’t sell that. That only takes up temporary space in my stomach.
Yes I miss the $5 IRK, due to the lack cash flow, a fixed income & the shat that is being offered, I rarely buy stuff, highly thinking about canceling my membership, especially if they go up on the price. That is SO Very disappointing & sad!
@mycya4me but don’t worry! Still a dead goat rotting in the back 40 with the rest of us!
Where is that video with the maggots? Erm. I mean the instructional experiment on cleaning bones.
@mycya4me @unksol where are the NEW videos?
@Kidsandliz @unksol I have not seen them either!
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me lol I just meant that if you give up your membership you won’t lose your goat badge.
Kinda a joke about being put out to pasture. And then because weirdly we had a meh staffer doing bone cleaning videos.
Which if anyone can find… I’ve spent way too much time trying since Google intentionally broke sitesearch. You can find a mention in Google AI which is so so so wrong. They stole the source but they won’t give it to you.
@Kidsandliz @mycya4me for clarity there are no new ones that I know of. I was just trying to find the originals so it made some sense for new people.
They would still be unusual if biology experiments weren’t you thing. Micro-organism breaking dead things down
While I agree the product mix has changed a lot they still do have name brand products available on occasion.
@chienfou Iol I saw that pop up actually. But we all know duracell doesn’t make any of their branded solar stuff.
The positive feedback definitely helps/the keeping everything available for the whole marathon . I would have thought that would have been very niche .
It’s not the original spirit of deep discounts for 24 hours but that ship has obviously sailed long ago.
I mean some toothbrushes could fall off a truck I guess
@chienfou @unksol I have one of those toothbrushes and the schroedinger’s toothbrush swag to go with it from Quip’s ill-advised legal action against meh.
@chienfou @GLaDOS lol the ohshit reports are very much missed. @shaun promised one on the last one but still none
The syndicate has taken over. The AI is about to go primal! Everyone stay outside for the next few months so when they collapse everything, we can enter the dungeon together!
Having lived in the uk for a few years and being married to the Englishman, I approve of your usage of shite.
@sillyheathen
Not to be confused with Shiite…
@chienfou I’d make a historical pun to counter, but I won’t. Though I wouldn’t mind mistaking them for shiitakes.
@sillyheathen
When life gives you shite… make shiitakes ?
@chienfou @sillyheathen well, you know what they grow mushrooms on…
@chienfou @sillyheathen @werehatrack
A big rack in a dark room?
@sillyheathen @werehatrack
In fact, I do…hence the comment
(tho that’s NOT typically the medium for shiitake’s)
@sillyheathen
“the Englishman” still makes me chuckle and IDK why.
Should that be capital T? It’s very endearing in my head
Maybe Notting Hill just broke my brain.
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