Instant Regret Kit- non-working massage gun
1Is Meh now sending out worthless, non-operating junk in the IRK? That’s what I got- a nice looking rechargeable massage gun, that simply doesn’t work. It plugs in, green light and screen shows it is charged, and nothing happens when you push the power button. It’s a doorstop, essentially, with many parts that are choking hazards.
Also an inflatable ball, a couple of Verbatim tracking tags, and the usual IRK bag. Last time I fall for this scam.
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@dave
@chienfou @dave
That’s kinda rude. But I like it lol
@chienfou @dave @Star2236 it’s kind of perfect tbh.
@dave @sillyheathen @Star2236
I found it “pithy”.
They always have. In fact I see way less broken things lately than back in the day. Granted IRKs used to be $5. Then $10. Now whatever the hell whacky price they decide based on the mehrathon. It’s in the name. Quite literally. Instant REGRET kit. I get being disappointed but they warn you up front.
@sillyheathen I know. It has been a while (knock on wood) since I have gotten an irk full of broken glass (including a couple of things I really, really wish hadn’t been smashed in route) since outside of the bubble wrap multi irk running joke everything just gets tossed in there unwrapped.
@dkarmol I have gotten plenty of broken or non-working items in various irks. I have gotten lucky a few times to get some nice working stuff or unbroken breakable things as well. It’s a crap shoot. I’d say my hit rate of good stuff that works/unbroken glass stuff though is far, far less than 50%. The odds are, at least, better than winning the lottery though. There is that to be said.
@dkarmol @Kidsandliz @sillyheathen honestly part of the appeal was that you might get some very cool possibly expensive non working thing from old woot/meh and be able to fix it.
Happens less/mainstream people aren’t all “take everything apart” nerds
@ChadP You stole my reply out from under me.
I prefer returned electronics over the expired food and cosmetics items they are sending now. They shouldn’t send stuff that could make a person sick.
@medz Is there still someone out there who doesn’t understand “Best by” vs. “Expired”?
(If so, then California is your friend.)
@rpstrong ok, I’ll let you put 2 year expired eye patches on your face. Good luck with that
@medz What part “expired food” did you miss?
@rpstrong your face
/showme person with low standards happily eating expired food items from a mediocre online store
@medz Here’s the image you requested for “person with low standards happily eating expired food items from a mediocre online store”
/giphy goteem
@medz yeah that’s just fucked up dude. Way to show your ass
@unksol I’m scared?
@medz I agree because if I don’t like the food, it is just thrown away or maybe fed to wildlife since the local food bank won’t accept food beyond the best buy date. Yes, the food might be still good but it’s a matter of pride of the food bank runner. When she was down on her luck back in the day, she applied for government food assistance and got turned down. As a consolation, the assistance office gave her a grocery bag of dented cans and food that was beyond the best by dates. She said it was the most humiliating time in her life to have to ask for assistance to help feed her kids and the bag of food just seemed like just another kick down,
I got a few Irks that were OK. Microfiber sheets, a pillow, etc. Then, it was expired lotions, and food.
The high point (low point) was when I got a brand new rechargable vac. With no battery. And no battery for it available, no where. Expired foods are ok, if they don’t contain fats. Fats go rancid. You may not taste it, but they are doing harm to your body.
@yeld What brand was the vacuum?
@yeld at least it don’t Suck.
@narfcake Don’t remember and it is long gone.
@narfcake @yeld one of those things that depending on the connection you may have been able to build a battery pack but… Not for your average consumer. Or take the motor for a project
I have only bought one and was initially delighted to find it included a robot vacuum. It took a while to charge, and then it failed to operate properly. That is, it would run, but it would stop the minute it bumped into a table leg or whatever. I tried it in a couple of different rooms (on tile and carpet) and could never get it to run for more than a few minutes. It’s in my pile of electronics to recycle now, and my greatest regret is the amount of time I spent trying to get it to work.
@marksullivan5
Which brand/model was it? I have a couple I’ve bought from this site and may be interested in acquiring it from you for spare parts…
(And if it doesn’t match my models I’m pretty sure someone else on this site might be interested in the same thing)
@chienfou iHome Auto Vac Nova S2
@marksullivan5
Ratz, doesn’t match either of mine…
If nobody else expresses an interest I may have you send it to me just to see if I can get it to work … If it’s still in the box or wouldn’t be too hard to package I can send you a pre-paid mailing label for it.
Just need to decide whether I want to devote some time to do something with it as opposed to the other 40,000 projects that I have around the house…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@marksullivan5 but if you had fixed it… You would have been thrilled lol at least for a few minutes. I got a robo vac with a discontinued app that can be functional. I still use it.
Fixing a bump sensor is gonna require some disassembly/soldering iron which some people are into
@marksullivan5 @unksol But please not like this:
/image stock image soldering iron fail
@marksullivan5 @narfcake ouch. That’s not gonna be a fun burn
Let’s again remember my broken office worn HP laser jet printer that broke my poor delivery guy’s back that was impossible to get rid of for free until three years later I hid it in a cardboard box on curbside bulk pickup day.
@DLPanther
I’m surprised Best Buy wouldn’t take it. I’ve
dumpedrecycled similar things with them in the past.@chienfou @DLPanther Saying broken and HP is somewhat redundant. The joke is that HP means Horrible Printers – and given how they make printers a subscription and DRM ink cartridges plus give them expiration dates, they’re easily the most anti-consumer of them all.
@chienfou @DLPanther @narfcake I have an ancient HP1200 laser printer that is still hanging in there. It was made from 2001-2005, Paper tray is broken but I have it propped up.
@DLPanther probably illegal. Just saying. We have ewaste laws to protect people’s health… Not that recycling works well for plastic
Not going to pretend I haven’t improperly disposed of a CRT before…
@unksol we may have once disposed of CRTs by dropping them off the top of tall buildings, parking garages, and the top level of interstate cloverleaf interchanges. Perhaps they may have been filmed, well before YouTube was a thing. Usenet had interesting videos back in the day.
@djslack @unksol When I was maybe 12 or 13, I was hiking along a country logging road when I came upon a site where some trash had been dumped. Among the trash was a (25 inch or so) glass vacuum CRT from a TV. Being of inquisitive mind (but poor judgement) I found a chunk of metal, stood back a good distance and let it fly. When it hit the CRT, it imploded with a whoosh, sending debris into the air. It was a damp, foggy day and there was a rain of charged debris making little sparks and bzzt sounds. In retrospect I see the error of my ways, but non-the-less weird and interesting.
@djslack @macromeh lol may have put a bullet through some. Or an explosive
I mean that’s more than most. Some people would take it apart and look for anything obviously wrong and fix it but I get if that’s not your thing.
You would have hated getting that pallet of tvs.
I still need to find somewhere to take my ewaste. Best buy isn’t gonna cut it for my random stuff
@unksol
My experience with Best buy has been if I walk in with a cardboard box full of stuff that is e-waste their answer is generally point me in the direction of the closet where they keep the giant box of crap. Of course YMMV… especially if you’re trying to dump off a 4-ft tall 400 lb office printer.
@chienfou yea nothing like that. Just a robot vac. Bunch of pcie cards. Loose cpus. Motherboards. There’s a circuit city server
Its an hour drive and they say 10 items and list laptops. Man I’ve got circuit boards lol. I guess I should try next time I’m in the city if there’s time
If each part counts towards the 10 piece limit it would take forever
@unksol
I know they have a limit, but in my experience, if you walk in there with a closed cardboard box they don’t check it. I have brought in boxes big enough to contain a full sized tower desktop computer crammed full of crap multiple times to my local one. But again, it depends on how anal the guy at the door is.
YMMV
@chienfou have to give it a try next time I go to Costco I guess. That box is bothering me
@unksol
Worst that can happen is they decline to tale it.
@chienfou yea you maybe I’m a soyboy lol
@unksol
I’m conflict averse. IF they told me “no” I would just go back out to the car and put the box back in the trunk. No harm/no foul.
@chienfou lol same. I do not understand the mindset you have to be in to start a fight over something dumb.
Serious stuff… I’ll come equipped with the law/rule. “Please take my junk” meh lol
@chienfou although I do wonder if an employee has to open that box and go “fml” realistically it should just go to a recycler and best buy corporate should compensate them… And then what tax credit are they getting… Which in this case if it’s correct I would be ok with to keep heavy metal out of ground water via the landfill so…
Wait why isn’t this just handled like hazardous material at my county waste disposal?
@chienfou @unksol Freecycle or free on craigslist / facebook marketplace. Never had a problem jettisoning motherboards etc. Recyclers are generally happy to take it.
@chienfou @outdoorslife those sites do tend to rely on population density. That’s a good option for the OP though if they don’t want to take it apart.
If I’m getting rid of something it’s probably so old/unfixable. Sometimes a cat peed on it so the circuit traces are worthless lol
@outdoorslife @unksol
I’ve also had success with turning in recyclables to Office Depot when they occasionally do a “bring an old printer etc. and get credit” program.
@unksol I think you can contend it’s one item… A box of ewaste. It sounds like stuff that’s generally appealing to recyclers, they get precious metals out of circuit boards. They have to limit items to keep someone from rolling up with a truckload of CRTs that they have to pay to dispose of.
@djslack the initial rules as I understand were written because of lead solder. And to keep heavy metals out of the landfill. Lead free solder has of course been a thing for a few decades. Was just mentioned when doing ECET. Wasn’t still a thing doing SMT in a college lab… But still was a thing/watch out for lead in salvage/fixing things.
@chienfou @unksol
It is at the local garbage dump/recycling center. There is just a big bin for electronic recycling and you drive up and drop your items in the bin. (Also bins for motor oil, glass, paper, metal, etc.) They also host Hazardous Waste Disposal days several times a year where you drive up and the friendly staff unloads your toxic stuff, sorts and disposes of it. Probably required by law here (Oregon).
@macromeh @unksol
Damn near unheard of here (in Alabama). We used to have a recycling center just up the street a few blocks, the city stopped taking stuff several years back unfortunately. Now the only thing I can get rid of is electronics at Best Buy or aluminum cans for the Kiwanis at the local Catholic church!
At least you got the Regret part. At least it was not one of the huge Pasta drops of the past or a box of Trak’rs. Just you got a useful IRK bag!
@mycya4me I liked the pasta drops. The trackers… I was going to give to goodwill but at this point they should move to the ewaste pile probably. Sigh
I have issues throwing things out. So does meh
@mycya4me @unksol
IDK
40# of noods to my son was GREAT!
@chienfou @mycya4me I miss the noods
I have to ask how your son felt about getting your noods?
@unksol SO do I … I am a pack rat. that is becoming reformed!..
I Must clean out my Mobile home of 20 years. It is so hard to do. I have a Recycle bin (trash can size) that has become 3/4 full of Paper/ mags. No plastics yet!
I even thrown out old food stuff into the wood being the place… it will go back into nature.
With that much recycling I have only 1 bag of really trash (you can’t recycle that stuff) a month… it is just me.