@chaos13 Yeah but 166 more sold during the next 26 minutes. We’re talking midnight ET. Meh put the sale on hold for more than 7 hours. When they reopened, they only opened it for 3 minutes and then held back some for members. When they reopened, sold out in three SECONDS.
@Stumpy91 If so, I guess I’m the “control” since I’m not going to shell out $30 on more crap I don’t need when I’ve already got way too much other crap that I don’t need.
@Puckfreak ita because they used to be $5 and some were truly epic. I’ve got some in the past that were a genuine pleasure. I’ve also got some truly awful ones. There was one that didn’t have a meh bag in it, but to their credit, they sent a meh bag.
At $30, it’s a much larger gamble than it was before.
@Puckfreak At five bucks, it was a shruggable loss when the contents turned out to be junk, and sometimes had enough hilarity factor to cover the sum even if the stuff wasn’t 100% useful. At thirty bucks? It’s not gag, it’s a gamble against long odds. Probably much better than the Powerball (which is now $5) but not enough to get me to just outright buy one, not even with stores.com cash. I’d rather spend it on something I know I can use.
On the other hand, if you want to think of it as having a far higher chance of payout than six $5 lottery draws, I won’t tell you that you’re wrong. But I’ll still point out that the only guarantee is the Regret.
@werehatrack $30 on scratch off or any state ran lottery is pissing your money away. I am not going to condone gambling, but don’t compare it to the worst option out there.
So this is just gambling, right? I have lost continually, but more importantly, I read the comments, and no one is winning big. So if the best you could possibly hope for is a ~$50-100 MehSRP that happens to be useful to you. That is it.
Spend 30 dollars in the hopes that you get something barely more expensive than what you put in, and you don’t get to choose. Ship someone a new chinese EV, (of course it will be someone with an account of under 6 months) tik tok it for the next super bowl ad.
Then you can get people buying irks for $50 a pop. Because, you know, you could get a car! Hell yea. Sign me up.
As it is: $30 and you could maybe get something that you have seen trying to be sold ten times for the past year, which you didn’t buy, but hey.
TL;DR Until they do a targeted IRK for a member like they did with the packing peanunts, or freight ship a ton of noodles, or offer under a hundred $5 IRKs for VMPs, or ya know, a little something for the effort, I will consider it akin to a Private Equity owned former glorious Trademark just juicing the memories of what used to be.
I never inked up myself, but have been foolishly a VMP for a damn decade this month! Still waiting for that perk. Hey, you know you could…
@medz Huh? It looks like stores.com is for companies that want to hawk stuff.
Also…
After pioneering the daily deal space with Woot and selling to Amazon in 2010, founder Matt Rutledge reunited with Dave Rutledge, Luke Duff, and Shawn Miller to build Stores.com.
I thought that was meh.com or mediocre (the corp)? Has it always been stores.com? If so, why is this the first time I’ve seen it? Have we always been at war with Eurasia?
And wth do those descriptions about types of clients mean? Were they all written by AI? Like…
Rewards and cash-back platforms that amplify repeat and basket size
@chienfou@stinks yeah, I don’t do any of the affiliate stuff. It just gives me money for every purchase I make from the mediocre>mercatalyst>stores family. I then can choose to redeem that money towards my next purchase.
@chienfou@stinks I just logged in at stores.com with the same email/password as I do for meh and sidedeals. I have a vmp membership, so this might be a perk. All I know is I earn stores.com cash with every purchase I make on any of the sister sites under the stores umbrella.
The BIG Question is: Are IRK’s from meh any better than IRK’s from SideDeal?? I’ll venture to say NO and I eagerly await the Reveal Thread from this offering to see if I am correct. “Good Luck” to all who give in to temptation and “Congrats” to those wise enough to avoid giving in!
@MrGoodGuy Given that it has been explicitly stated, more than once, that the SD IRKs are every bit as Regret™-filled as the ones here on Meh, the answer is clearly “No.”
@mehvid1 Make them $29.88 and we’ll understand that they’re clearance IRKs from WallyWorld.
An aside: The “Clearance” aisle in a Wally can be a real shitshoot; worse than a crapshoot, these can splatter. In three nearby Wallys, items can be in that aisle with no markdown having been made and no price tag on the item, and it’s not an accidental abandonment by a malicious customer; there’s no other stock of it and no shelf space elsewhere in the store. Wally used to have price scanners scattered around the store; those are gone now, “replaced” by the Wally app that can allegedly look it up. This capability, in an age of “dynamic pricing”, does not fill me with joy. If the stores are going to engage in “dynamic pricing”, then we should have the option of dynamic counter-offer; sell it to me cheap, or I walk.
It’s kind of like buying an Irk for $30 during a marathon and then finding nothing worth a shit to buy to offset the cost. Only you don’t have to wade through all the garbage.
@Rstoker I wish we had Arc down here; I’ve found some good stuff in those, and their organizational structure seems less toxic than certain other well-known thrift-financed organizations.
I kinda panicked and bought one instantly when I loaded the page without considering whether it was a good idea. I remember when they used to sell out in seconds back in the fukubukuru szn. We’ll see!
@pyudin you can still “omg what have I done” for a couple minutes anyway … yes this is me giving you an out … will you take the kindness or will you choose the path of unsold trackrs
Well this sucks. You mean for the next 24 hours I can’t buy stuff like Mistpro 3 that leaks and breaks? Or 300v electric fly swatters? Or more multiple useless stuff during a ‘thon? Well, at least I can try to order more than one IRK, which you couldn’t during the last meh-ration.
I wonder if this means that they had so few takers for IRKs in the recent 'thons that they’ve got a giant backlog of crap that they need to shift out the door? Or maybe they got a giant load of crap dumped on them as part of a Totally Fantastic Buy, and they want the debris cleared before they let us know what the good stuff looks like? Neither of these questions will get addressed tonight.
With the “deal” now paused until 8AM ET I wonder how many are now setting their alarms for an early wakeup in time to grab an elusive and highly coveted IRK??
@joebuddah I am thinking they now have a big business and as the octopus said years ago we were only being kept around for nostalgia’s sake. I also guess we are the dump of last resort since their brick and mortar selling the remainder of the remainders they already buy didn’t work out. As a result we are their dumpster now.
@Aetherwizard last one i received a 10x10x10 empty box… a scale, bag, jelly headsets and something else inconsequential…oh an adapter for Switzerland power.
@Aetherwizard Preach. Like I know they have got a lot of new suckers, but for the people who were here back when they were Fukus… this shit is just not even remotely the same.
@Aetherwizard I hope someone out there is getting something good because I got the exact same as you, minus the charging cable… so I guess you got a ‘win’ haha. It isn’t the lack of cash value to the items though, it’s the boringness of them. Used to get really weird as seen on tv junk or something comical, but now it’s more like unsold dollar store leftovers got donated to goodwill and didn’t sell so they are throwing it away. Actually that’s genius, meh goes to collect goodwill’s trash, throws it in irks, then buyers dump it all at goodwill, they recollect it, sell it, etc. infinite money!
If people are this eager to vaporize their cash, I don’t understand how any business ever fails. People are literally willing to pay $30 for shit. If you are offering anything slightly better than shit, people will throw their money at you too!
@uscpsycho One time, I got a full set of pots and pans in an IRK. Another time I got a 24 port POE switch that I still use to this day. Another time, I got a really nice heavy blanket that we use for our bed in the winter.
Nope.
Fool me once… hell I’ve been fooled… I don’t know 7, 8 times? More? I got a lot of IRK bags. Not one single thing in all those IRKs making it worth buying. I’ve got a couple unboxing recordings that are down right embarrassing.
@Joedetroit only 7 or 8 times? New here? I’ve lost count on the number of times I’ve been fooled and I keep coming back lol. Must be because I’ve gotten more out of an IRK than the American dream haha.
Just also agreeing recent IRKs have been crap. Now it’s really only worth it to join the site for a month here and there, and avoid all this kinda stuff which used to be great
@Bergle The most recent IRK was crap (for me), mostly clothes too small to fit, some cosmetic crap my wife didn’t want to touch, and no condoms (would you really trust a condom from an “instant regret kit”? I think it would be tempting fate…). Total crap. The one before that at least had a USB-C batttery and some other random vaguely useful crap.
…still would have clicked BUY on this if it was available. I’m a sucker for “random bag” purchases.
Given how disappointing the last one was though I’m not disappointed that I missed this one.
Curious experience. Snagged one ten minutes into last night’s refreshed deal that I thought my habits no longer supported. Used the cushioning slider for stores.com and whatever affiliated else money to minimize my own expenditure from purchases I intentionally procure from the site lessens the blow. Regret… managed?
@readnj I remember when they were $0.99 per item and you had to manually select up to three items. And yet some people still only selected one item. Shipping was $5 for one or all three items.
@readnj I remember months of trying to snag a “Bag of Crap” off of Woot. The excitement when I finally got one! Also: how much crap it had. A VHS tape rewinder, well into the era of DVDs! Still exciting. Apparently I live for the abuse of purchasing a bag full of stuff that I throw almost all of away, and the remaing items of theoretical value aren’t worth what I payed. So I’m kind of glad this one was sold out when I checked it Even so if it wasn’t I would have bought one.
@matttys After many years I got one, and then a month or two later, I got another! Each was the ultimate thrill! They actually had good stuff in them (that I could sell in our company classifieds). I also remember the days, as someone above mentioned, of the 99¢ ones where people would buy one instead of three
@matttys@pattyrusk1@wooterondo I still have (at least) 2 sets; one I used and I found another one still in a box. I would set them on top of my monitor (easy because it was a big CRT; the cat also used the warm monitor for sleeping on in cold weather)
The rotating yellow lights reminded me to keep clicking and not go to sleep until the lights went out. Wish they had a smart app to control them! I don’t think mine had a siren sound, though, just the not-too-silent motor going whirr, whirr, whirr. So much joy!
One thing that’s better is the I.R.K. bag (unless they forget it which happens; reports are they will send one if you complain.) these I.R.K. bags are actually usable but a bit big. I got some groceries packed into one this morning. The old W bags were usually just brown paper lunch bags…
@matttys@pattyrusk1@pmarin@wooterondo I had a really great one for my last BOC! It was unicorn worthy. I just snagged one a few days ago but I’m not getting my hopes up. They can’t all be amazing.
There are so many bad Irk stories that I feel like I should share my very much incredibly rare irk experience I had. I received one item. A pots and pans set with a damaged box, but otherwise new. I sold it for $100 on FB marketplace.
Don’t worry, folkes, the very next Irk I bought was almost completely useless.
@goldnectar I once got a similar cookware set that I didn’t need, but my stepdaughter was cheerfully willing to take it off my hands. She has also relieved me of the various eye masks and such.
I’m not sure what this is all about but I’ll be back at 4pm when it opens back up! I just opened my last IRK yesterday and was shocked to see a piece of luggage!
Can lightning really strike twice or am I pushing my luck here?
…guess we shall see because I’m a huge sucker for a good surprise!
@jchizmar
I’ve got a good feeling, you’re going to get something good!
And on the other hand…
How the heck did I miss it, I set an alarm and everything! Like I didn’t even get to try for it, I’m totally bummed about it! Guess I’ll take my luggage from yesterday and fill it with tears… Or just take it as a win and shut the heck up! Lol
@jchizmar@rcwbbb
Gotcha, pictures it is!
Once I find the IRK reveal thread that is, I did look for it to see if anyone else got the luggage, or something even better! I KNOW I’m not the first person to get their IRK, it wasn’t that quick.
@Kyeh@Lynnerizer And all this time I thought @Star2236 was the one who hit the jackpot in the June 17 IRK with the tabletop radio. You hit the luggage jackpot and didn’t post? Not even words? Sounds like the Episode V Star Wars movie where Master Yoda says, “No, there is another.”
@rcwbbb well, I couldn’t get in at 3:59.58 either. First click at 4.00 let me put it in cart but cart said sold out.
What’s funny is it was $10 with hoops to jump through to get $5 back, people would complain about the hoops and it would probably still be available at $10.
It’s so much better. This was porkbelly, I butterflied. Then coated with a fennel spice blend. Put a tenderloin in the center and rouladed and tied with twine. It’s amazing hot or cold.
I think some fictional movie characters have legal protection. Odd, but true. I had trouble with Star Wars Greedo but generic Greedo got through. I think Vader has better lawyers. I think they work on the dark side, like that’s anything unusual for a lawyer…
Edit reminds me at the time of the original movie, I argued with my friend about Mos Eisley being a hive of scum and villainy, and he said it was villianry, which I think was wrong.
@pmarin Google AI says most of the dictionaries agree with you:
Villainy is the correct and standard spelling for the character, quality, or conduct of being an evil person. While “villainry” is occasionally used in modern contexts to mean the specific actions or crimes of a villain, it is widely considered a non-standard or misspelled variant.
Hmmm I saw this and said, oh cool an IRK. What do I get for recycling or tossing their gar-bage?! What, nothing? Yeah, fool me once… shame on you… You wrap up the IRK on sidedeal with some discount thats fine. Flat out $30. No thanks, not going to waste my money on that deal.
@ohhwell 65% sold in first 1/2 hour
Pause for 7 1/2 hours
Resume
Sell another 32% in 3 minutes
Pause again for 8 hours
Resume
Sell the remaining 3% in less than 3 minutes
What do these people know that I don’t know? And these are selling for frickin’ $30.
Specs
What’s Included?
It is a mystery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Warranty
Throw it in the trash
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Jul 6 - Tuesday, Jul 7
I can’t believe you’ve done this.
Meh
@jaybird The definitive response.
It’s a trap!
I’m confused
It’s me, Side deal Danny.
/giphy gainful-personable-earwig
WHY NOT
Did it once years ago, totally regretted it and decided to never do it again. Narrator: He did it again.
@meherson I read that in Morgan Freeman’s voice.
@cbilyak @meherson I read it is Ron Howard’s voice. Arrested Development!
@meherson I read that in meherson’s own voice in a a rinse and repeat - regret yet again tone of voice.
Only 94 sold at 4 minutes past the hour.
The last two I got were truly IRKs. I’ve had some bangers in the past, but they’ve been just a couple boxes of condoms and socks.
@chaos13 the fact that its $30 with no BuyMoreCrapdiscount of any sort
also it came out literally on a random Saturday
@chaos13 Yeah but 166 more sold during the next 26 minutes. We’re talking midnight ET. Meh put the sale on hold for more than 7 hours. When they reopened, they only opened it for 3 minutes and then held back some for members. When they reopened, sold out in three SECONDS.
Not so long ago it would have been worth it to get a chance at a couple of dozen eggs (if that’s what’s on the right side)
Another “experiment”?
@Stumpy91 If so, I guess I’m the “control” since I’m not going to shell out $30 on more crap I don’t need when I’ve already got way too much other crap that I don’t need.
I’m a little scared. The IRKs used to sell out in seconds, this one, no. Have they become so regretful that no one really wants one anymore?
@Puckfreak they’ve peddled so much regret with bad ones they cornered the market
@Puckfreak ita because they used to be $5 and some were truly epic. I’ve got some in the past that were a genuine pleasure. I’ve also got some truly awful ones. There was one that didn’t have a meh bag in it, but to their credit, they sent a meh bag.
At $30, it’s a much larger gamble than it was before.
@Puckfreak clearly their dumpsters are overfilling so they’re having us pay to dump their trash again
@Puckfreak At five bucks, it was a shruggable loss when the contents turned out to be junk, and sometimes had enough hilarity factor to cover the sum even if the stuff wasn’t 100% useful. At thirty bucks? It’s not gag, it’s a gamble against long odds. Probably much better than the Powerball (which is now $5) but not enough to get me to just outright buy one, not even with stores.com cash. I’d rather spend it on something I know I can use.
On the other hand, if you want to think of it as having a far higher chance of payout than six $5 lottery draws, I won’t tell you that you’re wrong. But I’ll still point out that the only guarantee is the Regret.
@Puckfreak @werehatrack
So you say there’s a chance…
@Puckfreak @seraphimcaduto Agreed. Even at $10 it was still fun. $30 is too high for a total gamble unknown stuff.
@Puckfreak well, yeah. I have gotten some incredibly terrible ones. Like everyone has said, $30 is insane.
@werehatrack $30 on scratch off or any state ran lottery is pissing your money away. I am not going to condone gambling, but don’t compare it to the worst option out there.
So this is just gambling, right? I have lost continually, but more importantly, I read the comments, and no one is winning big. So if the best you could possibly hope for is a ~$50-100 MehSRP that happens to be useful to you. That is it.
Spend 30 dollars in the hopes that you get something barely more expensive than what you put in, and you don’t get to choose. Ship someone a new chinese EV, (of course it will be someone with an account of under 6 months) tik tok it for the next super bowl ad.
Then you can get people buying irks for $50 a pop. Because, you know, you could get a car! Hell yea. Sign me up.
As it is: $30 and you could maybe get something that you have seen trying to be sold ten times for the past year, which you didn’t buy, but hey.
TL;DR Until they do a targeted IRK for a member like they did with the packing peanunts, or freight ship a ton of noodles, or offer under a hundred $5 IRKs for VMPs, or ya know, a little something for the effort, I will consider it akin to a Private Equity owned former glorious Trademark just juicing the memories of what used to be.
I never inked up myself, but have been foolishly a VMP for a damn decade this month! Still waiting for that perk. Hey, you know you could…
@Puckfreak @seraphimcaduto
Not a gamble at all- it’s a shit deal guaranteed!
Does ink work for this @extramedium ?
@mbersiam I was wondering this myself, so I looked up the last Ink for IRKs announcement, and it does appear this qualifies:
"I’m officially announcing Ink for Irk 2023 a full week early.
For those unfamiliar, if you get a Meh-related tattoo, we will send you a free Irk each time we offer them for as long as we offer Irks."
2023 last call
These don’t really itch the scratch of the IRK/bags of crap of old. I yearn for those days.
@Deftoned989
Same
Just earned almost $3 in stores.com cash! Easy money.
@medz Huh? It looks like stores.com is for companies that want to hawk stuff.
Also…
I thought that was meh.com or mediocre (the corp)? Has it always been stores.com? If so, why is this the first time I’ve seen it? Have we always been at war with Eurasia?
And wth do those descriptions about types of clients mean? Were they all written by AI? Like…
I guess that’s business bro talk.
@medz Weird. Feels like this wasn’t meant for us, though my meh account does work as a login, only somewhat surprisingly.
How does it pay out? Does it?
How It Works
@stinks
Here was the original announcement (over 2 months ago). I think there have been a couple of follow-up posts as well.
@chienfou @stinks yeah, I don’t do any of the affiliate stuff. It just gives me money for every purchase I make from the mediocre>mercatalyst>stores family. I then can choose to redeem that money towards my next purchase.
@medz
@chienfou @medz Guess I’m dense. You’re affiliate marketing to yourself or there’s a place we can sign up and get the “future discount”?
@chienfou @stinks I just logged in at stores.com with the same email/password as I do for meh and sidedeals. I have a vmp membership, so this might be a perk. All I know is I earn stores.com cash with every purchase I make on any of the sister sites under the stores umbrella.
See here doe more info
https://meh.com/forum/topics/just-launched-storescom-cash
@medz @stinks
Why, yes, we have, thank you for noticing.
Honestly, this century has gone full Orwell.
I’ve sat the last few out, why not…gotta get my $8.99 worth of membership somehow
@sproinky Pretty much my take as well.
@sproinky I feel that there’s a logic flaw here somewhere…
@sproinky well I let my membership drop when they raise the price, THAT I don’t Regret!
@ergomeh @sproinky @aesc
Yeah… the siren song of “sunk costs” and all that.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
/giphy rosy-thankless-jellyfish
I’m an idiot and I’m bored, just take my money
@Superllama7 I did not know that would be the gif, but yes
@Superllama7 Same
@Superllama7 I would be happy to.
Please send check, money order, or cash to…
123 Easy St Suite 1337
Des Moines, Iowa
@stinks @Superllama7
Congratulations on being part of meh’s target audience!
Last few have been terrible. For $30 I’d rather go buy some scratch off lottery tickets.
@cinoclav I have WAY better luck with IRK’s then I have playing the lottery.
@cinoclav @pattyrusk1 i won 100 bucks on a $30 scratcher the other day.i don’t normally buy thos eexpensive scratchers either
@cinoclav
…and throw them out without scratching them off…
/giphy knightly-matchless-ladybug
The BIG Question is: Are IRK’s from meh any better than IRK’s from SideDeal?? I’ll venture to say NO and I eagerly await the Reveal Thread from this offering to see if I am correct. “Good Luck” to all who give in to temptation and “Congrats” to those wise enough to avoid giving in!
@MrGoodGuy Given that it has been explicitly stated, more than once, that the SD IRKs are every bit as Regret™-filled as the ones here on Meh, the answer is clearly “No.”
Make it $29.99 and I’ll be fooled into thinking it’s a good deal.
@mehvid1 Make them $29.88 and we’ll understand that they’re clearance IRKs from WallyWorld.
An aside: The “Clearance” aisle in a Wally can be a real shitshoot; worse than a crapshoot, these can splatter. In three nearby Wallys, items can be in that aisle with no markdown having been made and no price tag on the item, and it’s not an accidental abandonment by a malicious customer; there’s no other stock of it and no shelf space elsewhere in the store. Wally used to have price scanners scattered around the store; those are gone now, “replaced” by the Wally app that can allegedly look it up. This capability, in an age of “dynamic pricing”, does not fill me with joy. If the stores are going to engage in “dynamic pricing”, then we should have the option of dynamic counter-offer; sell it to me cheap, or I walk.
It’s kind of like buying an Irk for $30 during a marathon and then finding nothing worth a shit to buy to offset the cost. Only you don’t have to wade through all the garbage.
@Stumpy91
Yep
/giphy cut to the chase
I’m just buying a $30 irk bag and a bunch of crap to donate to the arc
@Rstoker
Why?
Do you hate the ARC beneficiaries?
@Rstoker I wish we had Arc down here; I’ve found some good stuff in those, and their organizational structure seems less toxic than certain other well-known thrift-financed organizations.
I kinda panicked and bought one instantly when I loaded the page without considering whether it was a good idea. I remember when they used to sell out in seconds back in the fukubukuru szn. We’ll see!
@pyudin And that’s how they get you!
@pyudin you can still “omg what have I done” for a couple minutes anyway … yes this is me giving you an out … will you take the kindness or will you choose the path of unsold trackrs
@pyudin I bought it and then canceled. Meh diluted the appeal of the Irk.
@pyudin @thismyusername Thi Smy Username! This is like seeing someone famous!
Though I don’t recall what your Ask Irk question was any more.
@mistamoose @pyudin Not enough people were regretting it.
missed the last several, guess I’ll take a chance…
/giphy private-personal-holly
Well this sucks. You mean for the next 24 hours I can’t buy stuff like Mistpro 3 that leaks and breaks? Or 300v electric fly swatters? Or more multiple useless stuff during a ‘thon? Well, at least I can try to order more than one IRK, which you couldn’t during the last meh-ration.
Can we use our $5 off coupons on it? And if so, where? I don’t see a place to enter coupon codes on the sell page.
I wonder if this means that they had so few takers for IRKs in the recent 'thons that they’ve got a giant backlog of crap that they need to shift out the door? Or maybe they got a giant load of crap dumped on them as part of a Totally Fantastic Buy, and they want the debris cleared before they let us know what the good stuff looks like? Neither of these questions will get addressed tonight.
I’m SO excited I got one just before they paused it
With the “deal” now paused until 8AM ET I wonder how many are now setting their alarms for an early wakeup in time to grab an elusive and highly coveted IRK??
@MrGoodGuy Three. The answer is three.
I see Meh is clearing out their old items that didn’t sale again.
@hchavers Sale away using the ship’s sells that are for sail here. Ugh. lol
This brought back memories, like when I used to set an alarm at midnight just in case. And the thrill of the photo of trash in a yellow bag.
@sammydog01 Is the thrill gone?
@heartny @sammydog01
/youtube bb king the thrill is gone
@heartny @sammydog01 a long version, but a good one
@heartny @phendrick @sammydog01
Absolutely. I’m afraid that ship sailed long ago!
@heartny Not completely since anyone can get one now, but the price is right. And I got my silverware!
/buy
@PnkFld We wanted the morning crowd to have a shot at this too, so we’re holding back some of these until 8am ET.
@llangley Love this meh click face!
/giphy derelict-overjoyed-tiger
YESS!! OWNED!! DOMINATED!! I still have 30 bux in my pocket!
Eff this garbage.
$30 with no kickback is insane. Even with the kickbacks, $30 sucks, but at least its manageable.
@tthomson2009 but if you have to spend $150 to get a $15 I.R.K., are you really getting a $15 I.R.K.?
@sproinky @tthomson2009 if you would have spent that $150 anyways, yes.
@ohhwell @sproinky @tthomson2009
That’s been my philosophy. Buy the items first, buy the IRK after the last qualifier purchase (maybe).
What happened to the wacky meh and the creators of pasta drop?
@joebuddah I am thinking they now have a big business and as the octopus said years ago we were only being kept around for nostalgia’s sake. I also guess we are the dump of last resort since their brick and mortar selling the remainder of the remainders they already buy didn’t work out. As a result we are their dumpster now.
The last two IRKs I bought were barren. It used to be fun to get a box full of whatever, but the last IRK I got was literally:
Either put a lot of low-tier junk in, put something big and broken, or I don’t know what but just don’t be repeatedly bland.
@Aetherwizard that’s very close to what I got in the most recent IRK…
@Aetherwizard last one i received a 10x10x10 empty box… a scale, bag, jelly headsets and something else inconsequential…oh an adapter for Switzerland power.
@mikibell
So… a starter kit for a DIY drug lord in Switzerland??
@Aetherwizard Preach. Like I know they have got a lot of new suckers, but for the people who were here back when they were Fukus… this shit is just not even remotely the same.
@Aetherwizard I hope someone out there is getting something good because I got the exact same as you, minus the charging cable… so I guess you got a ‘win’ haha. It isn’t the lack of cash value to the items though, it’s the boringness of them. Used to get really weird as seen on tv junk or something comical, but now it’s more like unsold dollar store leftovers got donated to goodwill and didn’t sell so they are throwing it away. Actually that’s genius, meh goes to collect goodwill’s trash, throws it in irks, then buyers dump it all at goodwill, they recollect it, sell it, etc. infinite money!
They sold 260 of these in 31 minutes.
If people are this eager to vaporize their cash, I don’t understand how any business ever fails. People are literally willing to pay $30 for shit. If you are offering anything slightly better than shit, people will throw their money at you too!
Right?
@uscpsycho One time, I got a full set of pots and pans in an IRK. Another time I got a 24 port POE switch that I still use to this day. Another time, I got a really nice heavy blanket that we use for our bed in the winter.
Mainly though, they’ve been pretty shitty.
When they were called “Fukubukuro,” I didn’t know that was a Japanese thing and thought it was a play on “Fuk you, Buckaroo.”
@mcanavino
THAT makes a lot of sense.
@chienfou right? Here’s a bunch of our overstock overstock, sucker!
Never fast enough plus Arizona Nevada are sleeping at both releases
Nope.
Fool me once… hell I’ve been fooled… I don’t know 7, 8 times? More? I got a lot of IRK bags. Not one single thing in all those IRKs making it worth buying. I’ve got a couple unboxing recordings that are down right embarrassing.
@Joedetroit only 7 or 8 times? New here? I’ve lost count on the number of times I’ve been fooled and I keep coming back lol. Must be because I’ve gotten more out of an IRK than the American dream haha.
@Joedetroit They’re nice bags at least.
@Joedetroit Mehbe you can monetize the unboxing videos?
/buy
@phendrick We wanted the morning crowd to have a shot at this too, so we’re holding back some of these until 8am ET.
@mediocrebot just wanted to confirm.
Sometimes the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing…
Remember a number of years back, at Christmas a card company called “Cards Against Humanity” sold Bull Poop, they sold out.
@mycya4me I am currrently wearing diamond earrings that came out of a potato.
/showme sitting on the toilet winning an I.R.K.
@yerti Here’s the image you requested for “sitting on the toilet winning an I.R.K.”
/showme big-endurable-bromine
@spavlis Here’s the image you requested for “big-endurable-bromine”
Are we allowed to try for a 2nd one when they un-pause again at 4pm?
@wingsgirl26 they never allow more than 1 IRK
@wingsgirl26 negative ghost rider the pattern is full
@wingsgirl26
Yes… They won’t successfully process your order, but you can try!
Just also agreeing recent IRKs have been crap. Now it’s really only worth it to join the site for a month here and there, and avoid all this kinda stuff which used to be great
@Bergle The most recent IRK was crap (for me), mostly clothes too small to fit, some cosmetic crap my wife didn’t want to touch, and no condoms (would you really trust a condom from an “instant regret kit”? I think it would be tempting fate…). Total crap. The one before that at least had a USB-C batttery and some other random vaguely useful crap.
…still would have clicked BUY on this if it was available. I’m a sucker for “random bag” purchases.
Given how disappointing the last one was though I’m not disappointed that I missed this one.
Curious experience. Snagged one ten minutes into last night’s refreshed deal that I thought my habits no longer supported. Used the cushioning slider for stores.com and whatever affiliated else money to minimize my own expenditure from purchases I intentionally procure from the site lessens the blow. Regret… managed?
@wooterondo I think you will still manage to have regret unless you are one of the rare lucky ones.
@Kidsandliz lol, true. But now I can truthfully communicate to the meh staffers: ‘Bravo at achieving such effective emotional suasion!’
I’m old enough to remember when these were free $5 or $10 under various names . I still have a bunch of monkeys ( IYKYK) The good old days
@readnj I remember when they were $0.99 per item and you had to manually select up to three items. And yet some people still only selected one item. Shipping was $5 for one or all three items.
@readnj I still have one monkey hanging alongside my clothes hangers!
@readnj I have a slew of Woot monkeys scattered around. The rubber is all dry rotted so if you try to launch one, you just rip their arms off.
@readnj I remember months of trying to snag a “Bag of Crap” off of Woot. The excitement when I finally got one! Also: how much crap it had. A VHS tape rewinder, well into the era of DVDs! Still exciting. Apparently I live for the abuse of purchasing a bag full of stuff that I throw almost all of away, and the remaing items of theoretical value aren’t worth what I payed. So I’m kind of glad this one was sold out when I checked it
Even so if it wasn’t I would have bought one.
@readnj What even happened? Why’d they increase the price? I remember them bieng like $5 thwen $15 now $30
@readnj @SirChris93 Greed
@Barney @readnj @SirChris93
/image Greedo
Yikes! How do we sign up for the mailing that goes out before the product is gone!
@gafisher
Wait, you’re seriously contemplating breaking your current purchase item number total?? That’s crazy!
@chienfou @gafisher the self-punishment is strong with this one…
I always missed the Bag of Crap too. Perpetually too late.
@matttys I was only able to get one BOC and it was woot lights
@matttys @pattyrusk1 I remember loving the woot lights! Two yellow rotating siren-like lights powered by USB, right?
@matttys @wooterondo Yes!
@matttys After many years I got one, and then a month or two later, I got another! Each was the ultimate thrill! They actually had good stuff in them (that I could sell in our company classifieds). I also remember the days, as someone above mentioned, of the 99¢ ones where people would buy one instead of three
@matttys @pattyrusk1 @wooterondo I still have (at least) 2 sets; one I used and I found another one still in a box. I would set them on top of my monitor (easy because it was a big CRT; the cat also used the warm monitor for sleeping on in cold weather)
The rotating yellow lights reminded me to keep clicking and not go to sleep until the lights went out. Wish they had a smart app to control them! I don’t think mine had a siren sound, though, just the not-too-silent motor going whirr, whirr, whirr. So much joy!
One thing that’s better is the I.R.K. bag (unless they forget it which happens; reports are they will send one if you complain.) these I.R.K. bags are actually usable but a bit big. I got some groceries packed into one this morning. The old W bags were usually just brown paper lunch bags…
@matttys @pattyrusk1 @pmarin True that! Think i’ll have to move my legion of IRK bags into the car trunk to promote free advertising at my local Aldi
@matttys @pattyrusk1 @pmarin @wooterondo I had a really great one for my last BOC! It was unicorn worthy. I just snagged one a few days ago but I’m not getting my hopes up. They can’t all be amazing.
@matttys @pattyrusk1 @pmarin @sillyheathen @wooterondo Well, so what was in that unicorn BOC?!?
/buy
@irenegade We’re sold out except for a small amount we set aside for existing members to be released at 4pm ET.
$30 + shipping is a lot to pay for things I’m going to throw away.
Hey Siri remind me at 3:58pm to go to Meh.com
Shit.
@steelopus That could have been applicable either way.
Coincidence or not that you titled today’s write up “Regretfully Yours” on the same day Superdrag plays one of their only concerts of 2026?
Either way, I love it… as they’re one of the greatest bands of all time who were criminally written off as one-hit wonders.
How are the IRKs the only things that get sold out before mid-day what is wrong you guys… let me get one
@user17043735 … maybe not the best forum to ask what is wrong with us guys.
/showme room full of psychiatrists with clipboards, judging you. You are lying on a sofa like psychiatrists used to have.
@pmarin Here’s the image you requested for “room full of psychiatrists with clipboards, judging you. You are lying on a sofa like psychiatris…”
@mediocrebot yeah, that’s it!
Damn, A.I. is getting scary accurate!
EDIT is that gray-bearded David Letterman in the portrait on the back wall?
@mediocrebot @user17043735
extra credit: speculate on the meaning of the Rorschach in the upper right.
@pmarin I’m pretty sure that’s Al Pacino in the middle in front!
Last one all I got was a used foam roller that was $26 new on Amazon and the meh bag definitely not worth $30 anymore.
There are so many bad Irk stories that I feel like I should share my very much incredibly rare irk experience I had. I received one item. A pots and pans set with a damaged box, but otherwise new. I sold it for $100 on FB marketplace.
Don’t worry, folkes, the very next Irk I bought was almost completely useless.
@goldnectar I once got a similar cookware set that I didn’t need, but my stepdaughter was cheerfully willing to take it off my hands. She has also relieved me of the various eye masks and such.
I’m not sure what this is all about but I’ll be back at 4pm when it opens back up!
I just opened my last IRK yesterday and was shocked to see a piece of luggage! 
Can lightning really strike twice or am I pushing my luck here?
…guess we shall see because I’m a huge sucker for a good surprise!
@Lynnerizer I got one of the final 13, regret shipping soon
@jchizmar
I’ve got a good feeling, you’re going to get something good!
And on the other hand…
How the heck did I miss it, I set an alarm and everything!
Like I didn’t even get to try for it, I’m totally bummed about it! 
Guess I’ll take my luggage from yesterday and fill it with tears… Or just take it as a win and shut the heck up! Lol 
@jchizmar @Lynnerizer That deserves a 21 clap salute. I just got crickets. Make sure you post pictures. Words aren’t going to be good enough.
@jchizmar @rcwbbb
I KNOW I’m not the first person to get their IRK, it wasn’t that quick. 
Gotcha, pictures it is!
Once I find the IRK reveal thread that is, I did look for it to see if anyone else got the luggage, or something even better!
@Lynnerizer Congrats on the luggage - now you don’t have to borrow the set you gave to your mom! But - you only just opened your last Irk?
Oh, and here’s the reveal thread. I didn’t see any luggage posted.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/june-17-irk-reveal
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer And all this time I thought @Star2236 was the one who hit the jackpot in the June 17 IRK with the tabletop radio. You hit the luggage jackpot and didn’t post? Not even words? Sounds like the Episode V Star Wars movie where Master Yoda says, “No, there is another.”
MEH!
@PhysAssist
Exactly! MEH…
I’m so TORN!!!
Why the hell are we doing this? First refresh showed it already sold out.
Sold out at 4:00 plus 3 seconds. Hit it as it appeared and it said already sold out!
I got in at 4 ET. Sold out.
@rcwbbb well, I couldn’t get in at 3:59.58 either. First click at 4.00 let me put it in cart but cart said sold out.
What’s funny is it was $10 with hoops to jump through to get $5 back, people would complain about the hoops and it would probably still be available at $10.
@pmarin @rcwbbb
I didn’t even get to try, and I set an alarm! 
I know, right… I was going to say it must’ve felt like old times!
@Lynnerizer @pmarin I’m sure they picked 13 available IRKs to spite us.
@pmarin Likewise. IRK made it as far as cart but could not close the deal.
Thankfully my ADHD kicked in and I got distracted by assembling a porchetta.
@sillyheathen Is that a cross between an Isetta and a Porsche?
@werehatrack
It’s so much better. This was porkbelly, I butterflied. Then coated with a fennel spice blend. Put a tenderloin in the center and rouladed and tied with twine. It’s amazing hot or cold.
I believe my room of psychiatrists would label this as a shared zeitgeist of hopelessness.
/showme vader screaming No!!! over a meh.com irk
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/showme vader screaming No over a meh.com irk
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/Showme a famous Sith lord screaming “NO!” over a Meh dot com IRK
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/showme a famous Sith lord screaming “NO!” over a Meh dot com Instant Regret Kit surprise package
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I think some fictional movie characters have legal protection. Odd, but true. I had trouble with Star Wars Greedo but generic Greedo got through. I think Vader has better lawyers. I think they work on the dark side, like that’s anything unusual for a lawyer…
Edit reminds me at the time of the original movie, I argued with my friend about Mos Eisley being a hive of scum and villainy, and he said it was villianry, which I think was wrong.
/youtube mis eisley hive of scum
Yep. And Han always shoots first.
@pmarin Google AI says most of the dictionaries agree with you:
@pmarin I guess Spaceballs will have to do
@pmarin I always thought Miami was the most wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Hmmm I saw this and said, oh cool an IRK. What do I get for recycling or tossing their gar-bage?! What, nothing? Yeah, fool me once… shame on you… You wrap up the IRK on sidedeal with some discount thats fine. Flat out $30. No thanks, not going to waste my money on that deal.
I can’t believe they sold out…
@ohhwell 65% sold in first 1/2 hour
Pause for 7 1/2 hours
Resume
Sell another 32% in 3 minutes
Pause again for 8 hours
Resume
Sell the remaining 3% in less than 3 minutes
What do these people know that I don’t know? And these are selling for frickin’ $30.
@ohhwell @rcwbbb Maybe it’s that they don’t know what you DO know.
/showme Spaceballs dark helmet screaming “No!” over an instant regret kit
@sflesch Here’s the image you requested for “Spaceballs dark helmet screaming No! over an instant regret kit”
@mediocrebot @sflesch Damn, A.I. is learning a sense of humor!
Because some decisions haunt forever
Where on the internetz did it harvest that?
@mediocrebot @pmarin That’s directly from Meh’s AI from the showme command above.
What an IRK on a Saturday? Wtf? And I totally forgot to check. I see it sold pretty fast though.
@Star2236 For the sake of those who placed an order, I hope the limited quantity means that the quality is better.
@werehatrack
One would hope
Yay! Mine shipped and will be here Monday