Why do you force East coast people to cancel?
4Dear John,
I've been with Meh since the very early days. Really, look it up. Did you even have computers back then? I love you. You are funny and I get good stuff cheap! What could be better? Well, it would be better if you were not EastCoastists. You clearly hate East Coast types. I went to bed at at 11pm and was up at 6:15 like normal, non-lazy East coast people with disposable income for silly subscriptions. First thing - excited and giddy as usual - I check Meh. Like a hundred times before, the deal was sold out!!! - making my subscription useless. $5 does not just come out of thin air and I'm pretty sure that is more than $50 bucks per year!
So, it is not you... I'm still oddly attracted to you despite the fact that you clearly hate my kind. But, at the heart of my relationship with you is my inner cheapness. I'm afraid we must part as friends. Let's keep in touch!
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@josephcronin If you've been here as long as you say you have, you've undoubtedly seen this very topic come up numerous times (maybe you were even around when the Great East vs. West battle was fought!).
Meh does not favor any timezone- every individual has to decide what is important for them, and then change or don't change things accordingly.
@lotsofgoats deserves a metric ton of blame for this sad state of affairs.
@dashcloud I really hope you took that more seriously than @josephcronin meant it. Hopefully there was a little tongue-in-cheek action in this topic?
@dashcloud hi lemme just pass this on to my new temp beep boop
Bullshit. The way Meh is currently configured it favors the West Coast. They could just as easily put products up at 10pm est as 9pm pacific time. It's all automatic anyway, if it's not their developers leave something to be desired. However coupla times a month something interesting is still there when I can get to a computer so I keep my vmp. But I don't get frustrated after all, if I don't buy shit, I've still got money.
@cranky1950 oh shit, you're right, it would be way easier if we figured out a way to automatically put the products up for sale at midnight.
Just here to confirm your suspicions... $5 x 12 > $50 indeed. The math checks out.
Dear @josephcronin,
Please stop being a whiner about the time products go on sale... it's like being upset that Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, I mean couldn't they pick a more appropriate time to have sales like a Friday the 13th but only if the moon was full... Seriously. they have a thing. You may not like it, but that's your choice to go to bed an hour early. I'm up most mornings at 3 AM. I miss meh stuff when I'm exhausted... or like last night it was 11:30 by the time I Was packing it in to go to bed... and I thought only 30 mins to meh. It's a Tuesday, which recently has been what I've called "Shit Tuesday" (Note I haven't liked the recent 2 for Tuesdays... where are the speaker docks?!?!) But I was like WTH, I can try... and I was glad I did. :)
Oh and yes @stitch did end up waking us up and keeping us awake most of the day with his not wanting to sleep at night again business...
Dear @josephcronin,
Every once in a while, I feel like a giant carrot. Have you ever had that feeling? I didn't think so.
I think that I am unique in that the carrot is a good vegetable. Not to say that I am a vegetable. If you threw
me in a pot of boiling water, I would not go quietly like a vegetable, but I would kick and yell and put up a fight. And even if you managed to get me into the pot, I would not look like a vegetable because it would not
be a pretty sight. If you tried to put me in a salad, you would have a hard time tossing the salad and more likely than not, break your Gucci salad tossing spoon that you worked so hard for.
Remember when you first saw the spoon? It was a week before Christmas and there it was, in the Kmart window. For only $89.95, you could be the proud owner of the only Gucci salad tossing spoon. You worked for weeks and weeks to save up that money because 5 cents an hour just doesn't add up very fast and your pimp kept ripping you off and not giving you your share of the money and when you asked him for it he said, "Pass me the marshmallows BEE-YACH!"
So, you left and finally earned that money. But then you heard that I felt like a carrot and tried to put me into your salad and when you went to toss it, that $89.95 Gucci salad tossing spoon shattered like a terminator doused in liquid nitrogen. Oh you cried and cried and I just laughed and laughed, and I laughed, I cried, and it was better than Cats. What a shame, I said. That spoon has gone to waste. Then you serve that salad to your guests and all of them die because due to splinters in their throats. What a pity. And then I say, "Dumb Ass."
So now you are stuck with an untossed salad, 10 dead dinner guests, a broken Gucci salad tossing spoon, and someone who feels like a carrot. Life's a bitch, isn't it?
Sincerely,
carl669
@carl669
That was great...just fucking great.
@carl669 Whatever you're smoking, pass it around. I need some of that beauty in my life.
@carl669 I think I love you.
@carl669 I've missed your fuckery these past few weeks.
@carl669 Oh I really wanted that spoon! Why, oh why, did you have to bring it up again?
@Thumperchick you've obviously had something more important to attend to. but don't worry, the fuckery will always be here when you have the time to check it out. now, go stockpile some sleep!
Holy fuckballs. This shit again? Really?
Grow the fuck up.
If you've been here this long, then you know what time the new deals go live each night. If you're gonna' get butthurt because they didn't save you one, then check it when it launches. You admittedly said you checked it 6 HOURS LATER.
If the deals are smokin', then your plan is broken. 12AM EST or GTFO.
@capguncowboy
lol
@Ignorant i kinda feel like that should be on a shirt
I love purple.
@Barney Finally. A statement that all of America can get behind. Thank you @Barney for attempting to heal the time zone divide. Also - isn't Mountain time the best? You get TV earlier but football isn't on too too early.
@oppodude I'm on Central time, but I'm just happy that Meh decided to offer their deals an hour earlier than Woot time.
@Barney Oh I am in Central Time as well. I usually can see my order on the map as I may be the only Meh-no-nite in the county. I just lived in the ABQ for a few months and Mountain Time was spiffy. But Central Time is the bees knees.
I feel like Meh hates their timezone the most. If a new deal came on at 11pm I may be tempted to stay up and wait for it. At midnight I have no desire to be up for it, unless it is known or eluded to that a fuku may be coming.
Also, if your pillow was that shitty you would of probably still been awake and should of checked. So perhaps you didn't need a new pillow anyways.
@MrMark Meh's time zone is central not eastern.
@Ignorant Methinks @mrmark is in the Eastern time zone, hence the "at midnight".
In any case, if it was earlier, then they're just going to be fighting against more west coast folks who are awake. And then there would be some other excuse.
@narfcake that was in response to this
@Ignorant Ah. Good point. I would say it's my fault for not reading it thoroughly enough, but there's a perfectly good goat who hasn't gotten enough blame this month -- so dammit, @lotsofgoats!
@Ignorant Apparently I wasn't clear.
Stating meh hates their time zone the most, then talking about how I feel 11pm is the worst time for a deal to start, I thought implied I was aware their time zone was central.
Perhaps more information would of helped. Such as I value sleep over the chance to buy a unknown item at an unknown price. So normally I may go to bed at 10:30. If the deal came on at 11, I may be inclined to wait until 11 to check before going to bed. But being in the eastern time zone I go to bed because I don't want to wait until midnight. Most nights this is the better decision.
I obviously blame @lotsofgoats for the confusion.
@MrMark I'm still confused
Looks like 11pm is fine but midnight isn't. Oh well I'll blame @Lotsofgoats too for my poor reading comprehension.
When I was on the West Coast, 9 pm was too early to check Meh. I was, you know, busy doing things like having dinner with people and socializing with friends.
Back here on the East Coast, 9 pm is still too early for me to check a website. Midnight is perfect. Not all of us are morning people. Why the fuck do you get up at 6am anyway? That is obscene.
@elpepe yes! This!
@elpepe nah, it's heathcare
Back in MY day, all we east coasters had was 1am deals on Woot. Meh has given the gift that keeps on giving… an extra hour of sleep every night. Because I WILL wait up for the deal. It's just going to happen.
no they don't, those of us who contribute to society have to get up by 5am or get stuck in traffic so bedtime is no later than 11pm.
@cranky1950 hmmm so because I wake up @ 6 am, I don't contribute to society?
@mikibell I didn't wake up until a little after 7:00, so I guess I definitely don't.
@cranky1950 I think you are thinking of farmers. Farmers get up at 5 am.
@cranky1950 I stay up until midnight eastern to see the new deal and then I go to bed and wake up at 3:55 am to begin working. That's less than 4 hours of sleep. I have to make up for it by taking naps throughout the day.
I consider myself a contributing member of society.
@mikibell If you feel that way then maybe it is so, however, only your positivistic exclusive attitude renders your argument any validity at all.
@cranky1950 Perhaps you should re-read your post:
"no they don't, those of us who contribute to society have to get up by 5am or get stuck in traffic so bedtime is no later than 11pm."
cranky1950 said 2 hours ago
I am always positive that my arguments are valid! Now if I can only convince the hubby, they are not only valid but right, too.
In addition, I wasn't arguing, I was questioning -- I believe that is the intent of a "?" at the end of a sentence.
@cranky1950 48 years I contributed to society. I no longer have to get up by 5am. (Actually never did seeing as I mostly worked evenings)
@MrMark This farmer gets up at 7:30. Whoever taught dairy farmers to milk first thing in the morning didn't realize the biological fact that the cows will eat more if you leave them alone until after breakfast. Cows that eat more produce more... The only thing worth getting up earlier for is weather sensitive harvests.
@cranky1950 Wait, I thought that one of the reasons anybody lived on the coast was they liked lots of traffic. There are some places in Central and Mountain that could fulfill your need for being stuck in traffic, but by and large, most places will let you get that extra hour (or two) of sleep.
Sounds like a lifestyle choice to meh.
@2many2no @shawn As a side note, the meh spell checker wanted me to spell "fulfill" as "fulfil."
Per the Grammarist:
May be time to switch from the OED to Merriam-Webster?
@MrMark Nope, nurses.
Who's John?
@thismyusername
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_John_letter
@thismyusername i think he meant Johnny.
@cranky1950 A classic example of early American "hip hop rap."
I may have to become GoaT-for-a-day just exploit this shit again to my advantage. I LOVE it! Muwahahahahaha......
p.s. Fuck you Westies!
@mfladd -
Well i'm near enuf to meh hq that some Breakfast Octopus should suss out my loc of the moment, and come forth riding a goat, or perhaps driving a team of goats, or perhaps being ridden by a goat, and then, when at last in my presence, with trumpet fanfare, on bended knee, salute and present my purchase with many flourishes, thus freaking me out so i call the cops and get that B. Octopus hauled off to the clink for re-education.
Meh never does this for me, even tho i'm vmp and have bought billions and billions of items from them.
As you can see, they just dont care.
If it really bothers you, go to the old fashioned split sleeping schedule. Go to bed at 8, wake up at 12, get your deal, a snack, read a bit, then go back to bed...
@josephcronin, I will not join the heap of people upon their soapboxes. Instead, I will helpfully point out http://morningsave.com which is a Meh site, but rolls at 6 am Eastern. They DO love us, so much that they made a new site and said it was for us. Please don't poke the snakes again, okay? Xoxoxo, Pamtha
@Pamtha Wait what? How long has this been around and why weren't the loyal folks here notified or did I miss a memo?
@readnj Its been mentioned in various threads around here. The site had been in beta (but running) for a few months, and now it looks like the "sneak peek" banner has been removed. It must he full live now! Hooray for 6 am Eastern!! #TeamEastCoast #EarlyBirds4Life
@Pamtha Now just a minute. I'm a contributing member of society and live on the west coast. I can't be waking up at 3am. I want something done!
@readnj yes, you did
@Cerridwyn Probably because I am on the East Coast...
@cbad (a) just change your clock to several hours ahead so it isn't 3am. Problem solved. (b) stuff seems to hang out on that site for a while so likely no danger, at least right now, of missing anything if you waited to check it.
I live on the "EAST COAST" I go to bed at 12:01 every night......12:02 if I buy something
What is the potential upside to being a contributing member of society? Never tried it, but perhaps i will ger myseld a new hobby!
@f00l totally overrated.
@f00l and a new spell checker...