My last 3 have been horrible…sometimes a lot of the same stuff. I liked it better when I paid $5 or $10 for a snowballs chance in Hell racing for it. At least then it felt like a prize of useless crap when you got one
@rubyshooz59 It ain’t called the IRK for nothing.
Oh, my last two have been full of garbage as well and one didn’t even include the bag, but at least I got an IRK stuffie.
I think I am better off waiting for mehrathons in purchases just to get an Irk as a bonus. The question is whether or not certain items I was tempted to buy appear in the first place.
@JT954 And sure enough one of them was: A portable charger with Qi capablities. Bought that and the two pack of Qi chargers along with an IRK. This will be my fourth IRK ever.
@mediocrebot so, chocolate, hot sauce, and a time bomb… Oh and a contract, presumably saying you won’t hold Meh responsible for any buildings you blow up. Sounds good.
@heartny@mediocrebot@OnionSoup
I’m wondering about that contract in front of that IRK. What’s next… Are they going to start having us sign away our first born?
Lol
@heartny@Lynnerizer@mediocrebot to me, it looks like there is a bomb in that instant regret kit the contract is probably a waiver “I will not hold mercatalyst responsible if I accidentally blow my leg off with this kit”
Are they going to start having us sign away our first born?
I am more than willing to do that. Not only that I am sure I will be offered a life time supply of the best irks on the planet to take her back once they realize what they have gotten themselves into.
Looking at the current meh offer, they didn’t have the link to the IRK. I got so excited. Could this be the day they go back to the 5 dollar (or 10) on meh, first-come-first serve model that we all know and love. Could it be!
Found the link. $50. You are out of your fucking mind. Everyone receives shit these days.
@KNmeh7 Same here. Only resolution was to examine life choices. Seems to be a good chance to examine this particular example (or Meh as a matter of fact)
A lot of people didn’t get trackrs or craft paint in the last irk (myself included).
There’s a good chance the trackr days are over and IRKs will now be a bounty of goodness. That said, $50 is a lot for an irk, but if you’re spending $40 anyway and you get the money back it’s no different to a $10irk, which go pretty quick.
@blaineg@MsELizardBeth OK… So people doubting the trackr epoch is over. Maybe you’re right time will tell…
. I’m probably not buying anything this round anyhow because watching money right now… But it will be interesting to see. Looked like only about half of people got trackr bombed last time, which is less than previous IRKs.
@blaineg@MsELizardBeth@OnionSoup I am sure they saved out trackrs so that they can spread the trackr bombing out longer since we all comment on it each irk. I have at least 50 or 60 or them (a bunch of boxes and individual ones) if anyone feels deprived. Yours for pirate shipping postage.
@blaineg@Kidsandliz@MsELizardBeth oh, I have more than enough trackrs. On request even got some extra sent to me from ybmuG. I had an art piece planned using them that was going to go out with the meh-exchange… Which I guess isn’t happening now.
@blaineg@MsELizardBeth@OnionSoup Well the exchange - not sure what star is doing. I had covid right before christmas and now am sick with something else. Once I recover from this shit I can make an effort but it will not be elfster as I refuse to give them my information. If someone wants to run the elfster side of things I can deal with who hasn’t sent, who hasn’t posted, get names of people who want to send but not receive if some don’t send…
@MrMark yeah. I guess how quickly depends on how busy they are. I don’t think it’s coded to automatically refund you. I think their employees must manually go through each order and check for refunds. Which sounds a horrendously repetitive job to have to perform.
@blaineg i hear you i have sooo MANY TRACKERS FROM PAST 2 IRKs and theres no app to set em up
i ave some as gifts before learning theres no way to activate them i was so embarrassed
@thp72 Be nice but with irks that is irrelevant. I’d imagine they have a pile of boxes stacked up, someone prints the mailing labels, slaps them on and meh is good to go. Every once in a blue moon they will actually perpetuate a joke like the bubble wrap one from several years ago or someone will get something that seems really personalized but that seems to not happen any more.
@Kidsandliz I’m not being mean, I’m being honest. It wasn’t a few given out here and there. They put cases of them in quite a few irks. And it was in consecutive irks. Read the comment below this one. Read the comments from the past few irks. Trackrs, expired vegan not-corn nuts, and expired hand sanitizer. That seems to be what most people got for two consecutive irks. I get the concept of irks. It’s not all going to be useful. But going back to the days of their boc, they used to throw in at least one good thing.
@thp72 I wasn’t saying ‘you be nice’. I was saying ‘It would be nice’. I have boxes and boxes of them too and gotten them multiple times. I agree though that expired trash that you can’t use shouldn’t be sent out. That is what their dumpsters are for.
The thing is, if it is in a dumpster, it has different tax implications than if they warn people in advance of luck of the draw but that most boxes will be junk. Besides, some of my irks have had things like stock vacs and hepa filters in them.
It is just luck of the draw if you get a good one with like open box returns, or a pre formulated one with all the same surplus items from the warehouse. And at least you get a reusable grocery bag. @Kidsandliz@thp72
@smerk85 I bought my first irk in 2006. At that time, the irk was called something else because the people behind meh were running a different site. I am quite aware of how their luck of the draw works. When you played and lost, it was because the stuff of value was not useful to you. But it had some sort of value. 36 trackers with no iphone app to track them because the company is no longer in business is not like a gold colored ring that sticks to the back of a phone. I will never use the ring but it still has value. The trackers are valueless. If they had thrown in a box of 3 trackers, again, I would get it. But they sent a case of 12 boxes of 3 trackers.
And the grocery bags didn’t arrive in time. The irks were sent out without the bags.
@thp72 I would hardly call Android-only app capability as valueless. Something like 70% of the world market of portable devices use Android, so iOS is in the minority there(so like, if you itemize your tax deductions, donate them to Goodwill and claim the list price as a deduction and you will get a good little adder to your tax refund, or sell on e-bay, as the going rate seems to be between $15-$25 per 5 pack).
I got my first BOC over at Woot in 2004, back in the early days of deal a day websites, so I am right there alongside you. Actually a fraternity brother of mine at the time once got a fully functional open box flatscreen TV in his BOC. I have been getting fuko, and now irks here for some time as well(I think I even got the last fuko and the first irk, and competed in the re-naming contest). If you think the trackr pixels are bad, you must not remember bags upon bags of slightly melted together candy corn. The whole point of the boxes is to clear out the warehouse to make way for new bulk buys of random things, and there are only so many 1-offs and open boxes laying around, but a large pool of folks who want irks.
@smerk85 Trackers with dead batteries from an out of business company that only 70% of the people may be able to use if they implement a workaround to account for the lack of a proper app? Sorry, I would certainly call that valueless.
I get the point of the bags and boxes. That has never been the issue. I’ve always known that there’s a chance I won’t have a use for what’s in the boxes but played the game anyway. But two irks in a row had the same thing, expired food, unusable trackers, and expired hand sanitizer. Sorry, that’s just taking advantage of the customers.
@thp72 The thing is, 70% usable is way better odds then like sending out a women’s size medium T-shirt for the Browns. Or like an old docking station for the iPhone 3, which represents a tiny fraction of iOS users, so it really isn’t that big of a difference, and if anything it is more useful(again, remember, eBay is selling these things for at least $15 a 5 pack, and you can always use that value to get a tax writeoff from the Goodwill when you donate them, and get a tax refund from them).
As for corn nuts… They don’t actually expire. They are a dried food item. They won’t ever get to a state where they are unsafe to eat, the worst that happens is that 3-5 years after they are produced, the oil in them can go rancid and taste bad, but you will know by smell when that happens. The best by date on spiced snacks like that is because the spices are volatile, and the flavoring fades, which leaves you with… Mildly flavored but still salty snack foods.
And hand sanitizer? It is alcohol. So long as the bottle stays sealed and the level inside is still near the top due to no leaks, again, it is not something that actually expires, the date is mainly useful for knowing how old it is once you crack the seal. Now, once you crack the seal, normal evaporation happens, and the concentration of alcohol can drop below the minimum effective level, but that is only a concern when the seal is punctured so evaporation can take place, and with a full looking bottle it still isn’t a problem until you use about a quarter to half of the bottle to leave room for evaporation to occur readily, so decanting into smaller bottles that are filled to the brim can greatly extend life for many years past the date on the bottle.
But who am I to complain? Ultimately if you aren’t buying irks anymore, that just increases the number of more random boxes of stuff per capital for the rest of us, so you do you. Just saying I personally don’t mind luck of the draw, as I have landed a few really fun ones here and there over the years.
@smerk85 I can always find someone who can use a woman’s large browns shirt because it’s still functional. You can spin it however you’d like. If you’re down to saying it has value if you donate them and use the deduction if you itemize, you’re kinda reaching. And it’s not like there were a few irks like that. There were a lot of losers who got cases of them. If it were a pack or two and there was something like a woman’s large browns shirt, it would have been different. But to dump a case into so many irks, again, is taking advantage of people.
But if you truly see the value in a case of boxes of trackers, feel free to make me an offer. I’m more than willing to part with them.
@customers A quick update on your Instant Regret Kit - We’re a little delayed in getting these out the door. I expect them to start shipping tomorrow, and I’m hoping they’ll all be shipped by the weekend.
Sorry, you’ll have to wait a bit longer for your truly fulfilled regret.
@dave Also, already got the refund, so decidedly less regretful out the gate. Not sure what to make of this…does this alter my mindset as I await the actual substance? Does my position on the regret scale, all else being equal, differ now?
@dave so…you regret the news, and now we have more extra regret? Will this mean that I will have a larger box of regret, or smaller? It will probably at least weigh more.
Thanks for the update, transparency is always a good thing. At least you didn’t “ship them” and then not really ship them.
Sidenote: I’d be ok to pay for shipping if I didn’t have to deal with FedEx SmartPost, they always drive the order to my city, then to Houston, then back to my city. It’s probably the dumbest logistical thing they do.
@dave “Patience is a Virtue” or so they say & “Everything worth receiving is worth waiting for” so I’m patiently waiting for something truly wonderful, spectacular & marvelous. I hope I’m not disappointed.
@dave the delay is fine, I am certain my box is filled with actual US currency in small, unmarked bills totalling an amount that will allow me to retire much sooner rather than later, so all good here.
@dave I, for one, am thankful you waited for that shipment of real physical bitcoins to arrive to ship the irks out. The fact that years ago Bitcoin was only worth like $20, and thinkgeek took the keys for real actual bitcoins and printed them on paper slips which were rolled tightly and slipped into actual physical coins sounded silly at the time, which is why they say gathering dust on a warehouse shelf for all those years.
But now that you got your hands on them at bargain basement prices, and slipped them into the irks, I for one welcome them!
@dave the waiting is the best part. I forgot I bought it almost, so if it takes another week, I’ll forget I spent money on it, and it will be like a box of cool free stuff that showed up!
Well, that was a short delay - just got my shipping notice. So was the “delay” a ruse to increase anticipation so that ultimate regret is heightened when the disappointment is realized?
A box of 30 TrackR Pixel Bluetooth locators! At first I was bummed about these because the app was discontinued back in 2021, BUT they are compatible with the free SwiftFinder app! I immediately put on the living room Roku remote that always gets lost. It worked! Very happy!!
I have been a member of the meh community Since day zero, Plus I was a long time member of the original woot. Over the years I have received some true disappointments, I receive some stuff that I could use some stuff that I threw away and some stuff I donated. I have received a delivery from a 18 Wheeler truck that had over 250 pair of psycho Eyeglasses, I’ve received a rumba, Some really good appliances like a panini maker and an air vacuum system, And I have appreciated every single item, even the speaker docs and candy corn.
Today once again I was amazed at what I received.
I got a…
beautiful thirty six c bra
A couple of car chargers
A really nice t shirt with a raccoon on it
foundation that expires in two weeks
The obligatory meh bag
… And a Cuisinart Wine Refrigerator
What’s Included?
Warranty
Throw it in the trash
Estimated Delivery
Friday, Jan 19 - Monday, Jan 22
/giphy pass
/giphy shall not pass
50 dollars? No ma’am
@khaleesi0 you wild but right. No way!
I miss the speed test. Now I just don’t obsess.
Details say 40 back if you buy 40 in mehrathon stuff. So a $10 irk plus 40 of meh stuff.
@milstarr
It’s definitely worth it to me! My last irk was fantastic, and just what I needed after my house burned down in Sept.
@milstarr I got a dollar of ginger treats. Is the IRK free for me?
@stinks
No. Read the details.
@werehatrack Now take the IRK away. Same story?
In for one.
I like to assure my regret early I guess.
@k4evryng I regret your decision.
@Ignorant I’m quite sure I will too!
My last 3 have been horrible…sometimes a lot of the same stuff. I liked it better when I paid $5 or $10 for a snowballs chance in Hell racing for it. At least then it felt like a prize of useless crap when you got one
@rubyshooz59 It ain’t called the IRK for nothing.
Oh, my last two have been full of garbage as well and one didn’t even include the bag, but at least I got an IRK stuffie.
I think I am better off waiting for mehrathons in purchases just to get an Irk as a bonus. The question is whether or not certain items I was tempted to buy appear in the first place.
@JT954 And sure enough one of them was: A portable charger with Qi capablities. Bought that and the two pack of Qi chargers along with an IRK. This will be my fourth IRK ever.
/giphy negative-tantalizing-hydra
@JT954 HAHAHA I bet meh didn’t think of that as a buying strategy. Even a better argument to do irks old style.
/giphy sigh
Really trying hard to keep my resolution and not buy one.
@dasred dammit.
/giphy stingy-experienced-oxygen
Ah what the hell
/giphy crusty-terrific-vest
My $75 IRK was worse than most of the $5 ones. Never again.
So is that side deal IRK going to be the only IRK today? Or do they sprinkle them on Meh?
@lauradb76 they have not been on Meh in a very long time
/showme the contents of a $50 instant regret kit
@mediocrebot so, chocolate, hot sauce, and a time bomb… Oh and a contract, presumably saying you won’t hold Meh responsible for any buildings you blow up. Sounds good.
@mediocrebot @OnionSoup
IDK, That IRK looks WAY BETTER than any IRK I’ve gotten in the past 2 years!
@Lynnerizer @mediocrebot @OnionSoup It’s nice to see that Mediocrebot has gotten better with wording.
@heartny @mediocrebot @OnionSoup
I’m wondering about that contract in front of that IRK. What’s next… Are they going to start having us sign away our first born?
Lol
@heartny @Lynnerizer @mediocrebot to me, it looks like there is a bomb in that instant regret kit the contract is probably a waiver “I will not hold mercatalyst responsible if I accidentally blow my leg off with this kit”
@mediocrebot Now I’m hungry for some tasty Karaoke sauce
@heartny @Lynnerizer @mediocrebot @OnionSoup
I am more than willing to do that. Not only that I am sure I will be offered a life time supply of the best irks on the planet to take her back once they realize what they have gotten themselves into.
@dave @mediocrebot looks like it’s mooning us
@dave @mediocrebot @pakopako If that hot sauce causes an otherwise sane person to do karaoke, that’s some potent sauce!
@dave @mediocrebot @pakopako @ybmuG I always wondered what a karaoke looked like.
Are they free range?
@blaineg @dave @mediocrebot @pakopako @ybmuG Not just free range, but they go to 11.
Looking at the current meh offer, they didn’t have the link to the IRK. I got so excited. Could this be the day they go back to the 5 dollar (or 10) on meh, first-come-first serve model that we all know and love. Could it be!
Found the link. $50. You are out of your fucking mind. Everyone receives shit these days.
@KNmeh7 Same here. Only resolution was to examine life choices. Seems to be a good chance to examine this particular example (or Meh as a matter of fact)
A lot of people didn’t get trackrs or craft paint in the last irk (myself included).
There’s a good chance the trackr days are over and IRKs will now be a bounty of goodness. That said, $50 is a lot for an irk, but if you’re spending $40 anyway and you get the money back it’s no different to a $10irk, which go pretty quick.
@OnionSoup I got another fricking case of them, no bag, and more expired hand sanitizer.
@MsELizardBeth @OnionSoup There’s no chance of running out of trackrs. None.
@blaineg @MsELizardBeth OK… So people doubting the trackr epoch is over. Maybe you’re right time will tell…
. I’m probably not buying anything this round anyhow because watching money right now… But it will be interesting to see. Looked like only about half of people got trackr bombed last time, which is less than previous IRKs.
@blaineg @MsELizardBeth @OnionSoup I am sure they saved out trackrs so that they can spread the trackr bombing out longer since we all comment on it each irk. I have at least 50 or 60 or them (a bunch of boxes and individual ones) if anyone feels deprived. Yours for pirate shipping postage.
@blaineg @Kidsandliz @MsELizardBeth oh, I have more than enough trackrs. On request even got some extra sent to me from ybmuG. I had an art piece planned using them that was going to go out with the meh-exchange… Which I guess isn’t happening now.
@blaineg @MsELizardBeth @OnionSoup Well the exchange - not sure what star is doing. I had covid right before christmas and now am sick with something else. Once I recover from this shit I can make an effort but it will not be elfster as I refuse to give them my information. If someone wants to run the elfster side of things I can deal with who hasn’t sent, who hasn’t posted, get names of people who want to send but not receive if some don’t send…
I got trackrs and expired food in my last IRK. Gonna go with no on this one.
@lindseylulu Same! And expired hand sanitizer
Just to clarify…The $40 is given back later correct? I shouldn’t see $40 take off at time of purchase?
I purchased the 3 piece luggage set, so well over the $40 quota.
@MrMark yeah. I guess how quickly depends on how busy they are. I don’t think it’s coded to automatically refund you. I think their employees must manually go through each order and check for refunds. Which sounds a horrendously repetitive job to have to perform.
@MrMark @OnionSoup It’s not coded, it’s very manual, and it takes as long as it takes.
Already met the $40 minimum, but the last several IRKs have been so regretful that I’m still hesitating on this $10 IRK.
@blaineg i hear you i have sooo MANY TRACKERS FROM PAST 2 IRKs and theres no app to set em up
i ave some as gifts before learning theres no way to activate them i was so embarrassed
@blaineg @eskouf I got an entire case of them in my last IRK and gave the entire case away as a prize for a family Christmas game this year.
@blaineg @eskouf yes there is a 3rd party app. Swiftfinder for andriod.
$50 worth on trackrs with no app to track them and expired not-quite-corn-nuts? Say no more, I’m in.
/giphy beat me harder
@thp72 there is a 3rd party app. Swiftfinder for andriod
@Kidsandliz Maybe they should have asked about phones before they dumped their trash on people with iphones.
@thp72 Be nice but with irks that is irrelevant. I’d imagine they have a pile of boxes stacked up, someone prints the mailing labels, slaps them on and meh is good to go. Every once in a blue moon they will actually perpetuate a joke like the bubble wrap one from several years ago or someone will get something that seems really personalized but that seems to not happen any more.
@Kidsandliz I’m not being mean, I’m being honest. It wasn’t a few given out here and there. They put cases of them in quite a few irks. And it was in consecutive irks. Read the comment below this one. Read the comments from the past few irks. Trackrs, expired vegan not-corn nuts, and expired hand sanitizer. That seems to be what most people got for two consecutive irks. I get the concept of irks. It’s not all going to be useful. But going back to the days of their boc, they used to throw in at least one good thing.
@thp72 I wasn’t saying ‘you be nice’. I was saying ‘It would be nice’. I have boxes and boxes of them too and gotten them multiple times. I agree though that expired trash that you can’t use shouldn’t be sent out. That is what their dumpsters are for.
The thing is, if it is in a dumpster, it has different tax implications than if they warn people in advance of luck of the draw but that most boxes will be junk. Besides, some of my irks have had things like stock vacs and hepa filters in them.
It is just luck of the draw if you get a good one with like open box returns, or a pre formulated one with all the same surplus items from the warehouse. And at least you get a reusable grocery bag. @Kidsandliz @thp72
@smerk85 I bought my first irk in 2006. At that time, the irk was called something else because the people behind meh were running a different site. I am quite aware of how their luck of the draw works. When you played and lost, it was because the stuff of value was not useful to you. But it had some sort of value. 36 trackers with no iphone app to track them because the company is no longer in business is not like a gold colored ring that sticks to the back of a phone. I will never use the ring but it still has value. The trackers are valueless. If they had thrown in a box of 3 trackers, again, I would get it. But they sent a case of 12 boxes of 3 trackers.
And the grocery bags didn’t arrive in time. The irks were sent out without the bags.
@thp72 I would hardly call Android-only app capability as valueless. Something like 70% of the world market of portable devices use Android, so iOS is in the minority there(so like, if you itemize your tax deductions, donate them to Goodwill and claim the list price as a deduction and you will get a good little adder to your tax refund, or sell on e-bay, as the going rate seems to be between $15-$25 per 5 pack).
I got my first BOC over at Woot in 2004, back in the early days of deal a day websites, so I am right there alongside you. Actually a fraternity brother of mine at the time once got a fully functional open box flatscreen TV in his BOC. I have been getting fuko, and now irks here for some time as well(I think I even got the last fuko and the first irk, and competed in the re-naming contest). If you think the trackr pixels are bad, you must not remember bags upon bags of slightly melted together candy corn. The whole point of the boxes is to clear out the warehouse to make way for new bulk buys of random things, and there are only so many 1-offs and open boxes laying around, but a large pool of folks who want irks.
@smerk85 Trackers with dead batteries from an out of business company that only 70% of the people may be able to use if they implement a workaround to account for the lack of a proper app? Sorry, I would certainly call that valueless.
I get the point of the bags and boxes. That has never been the issue. I’ve always known that there’s a chance I won’t have a use for what’s in the boxes but played the game anyway. But two irks in a row had the same thing, expired food, unusable trackers, and expired hand sanitizer. Sorry, that’s just taking advantage of the customers.
@thp72 The thing is, 70% usable is way better odds then like sending out a women’s size medium T-shirt for the Browns. Or like an old docking station for the iPhone 3, which represents a tiny fraction of iOS users, so it really isn’t that big of a difference, and if anything it is more useful(again, remember, eBay is selling these things for at least $15 a 5 pack, and you can always use that value to get a tax writeoff from the Goodwill when you donate them, and get a tax refund from them).
As for corn nuts… They don’t actually expire. They are a dried food item. They won’t ever get to a state where they are unsafe to eat, the worst that happens is that 3-5 years after they are produced, the oil in them can go rancid and taste bad, but you will know by smell when that happens. The best by date on spiced snacks like that is because the spices are volatile, and the flavoring fades, which leaves you with… Mildly flavored but still salty snack foods.
And hand sanitizer? It is alcohol. So long as the bottle stays sealed and the level inside is still near the top due to no leaks, again, it is not something that actually expires, the date is mainly useful for knowing how old it is once you crack the seal. Now, once you crack the seal, normal evaporation happens, and the concentration of alcohol can drop below the minimum effective level, but that is only a concern when the seal is punctured so evaporation can take place, and with a full looking bottle it still isn’t a problem until you use about a quarter to half of the bottle to leave room for evaporation to occur readily, so decanting into smaller bottles that are filled to the brim can greatly extend life for many years past the date on the bottle.
But who am I to complain? Ultimately if you aren’t buying irks anymore, that just increases the number of more random boxes of stuff per capital for the rest of us, so you do you. Just saying I personally don’t mind luck of the draw, as I have landed a few really fun ones here and there over the years.
@smerk85 I can always find someone who can use a woman’s large browns shirt because it’s still functional. You can spin it however you’d like. If you’re down to saying it has value if you donate them and use the deduction if you itemize, you’re kinda reaching. And it’s not like there were a few irks like that. There were a lot of losers who got cases of them. If it were a pack or two and there was something like a woman’s large browns shirt, it would have been different. But to dump a case into so many irks, again, is taking advantage of people.
But if you truly see the value in a case of boxes of trackers, feel free to make me an offer. I’m more than willing to part with them.
My last Irk a couple months ago was literally a box full of Trackrs. 12 of them. That’s it. The one before that wasn’t much better.
I think we’ve gotten Trackrs every time come to think of it. But normally there was at least SOMETHING of value in them with the junk.
Meh. I’m done paying for them to ship me their trash. Remember when they were fun to unbox?
Well, I bought enough stuff that I likely would have anyway so what the heck…
/giphy roll the dice for $10
/showme stupendous-actually-fish
Who am I kidding.
/giphy precipitous-lousy-key
@blaineg Kind of apt, although it should say $10.
/showme precipitous-lousy-key
@mediocrebot
/giphy strange-actual-edge
Yeah……gluttony of regret awaits! I just can’t quit you IRK!
/giphy glistening-airborne-curtain
nice giphy! Loving Matt but miss you Freddie
/giphy accessible-noticeable-curve
whoa
Has anyone else had theirs ship yet? Mine is still in the processing stage.
@pattyrusk1 Nope. “Processing”, not Proceeding.
@pattyrusk1 @phendrick I’m telling y’all, it’s not just trackrs. If it were just trackrs they would have shipped by now…
… Unless of course they’re waiting on more trackrs to arrive so they can ship them out.
@customers A quick update on your Instant Regret Kit - We’re a little delayed in getting these out the door. I expect them to start shipping tomorrow, and I’m hoping they’ll all be shipped by the weekend.
Sorry, you’ll have to wait a bit longer for your truly fulfilled regret.
@dave Does delay of regret count as contentment? anti-regret? Does that affect the warranty?
I regret the fact that I’m even asking the question, so there’s that
@dave appreciate the update…no issues delaying the inevitable regret here.
/giphy delayed regret
@dave Also, already got the refund, so decidedly less regretful out the gate. Not sure what to make of this…does this alter my mindset as I await the actual substance? Does my position on the regret scale, all else being equal, differ now?
@dave so…you regret the news, and now we have more extra regret? Will this mean that I will have a larger box of regret, or smaller? It will probably at least weigh more.
Thanks for the update, transparency is always a good thing. At least you didn’t “ship them” and then not really ship them.
Sidenote: I’d be ok to pay for shipping if I didn’t have to deal with FedEx SmartPost, they always drive the order to my city, then to Houston, then back to my city. It’s probably the dumbest logistical thing they do.
@dave Do we get bags this round?
@dave What? No “we’re sorry” coupon? That’s added regret!
@dave I await my deferred instant regret
@dave “Patience is a Virtue” or so they say & “Everything worth receiving is worth waiting for” so I’m patiently waiting for something truly wonderful, spectacular & marvelous. I hope I’m not disappointed.
@dave
I enjoy delayed gratification, hopefully delayed regret works in a similar way.
@dave the delay is fine, I am certain my box is filled with actual US currency in small, unmarked bills totalling an amount that will allow me to retire much sooner rather than later, so all good here.
@dave The delay is not a surprise. A lack of regrettable contents in the IRK would be a significant surprise. I could do with a surprise this week.
@dave so nice that you care about disappointing us in a timely manner.
@dave I, for one, am thankful you waited for that shipment of real physical bitcoins to arrive to ship the irks out. The fact that years ago Bitcoin was only worth like $20, and thinkgeek took the keys for real actual bitcoins and printed them on paper slips which were rolled tightly and slipped into actual physical coins sounded silly at the time, which is why they say gathering dust on a warehouse shelf for all those years.
But now that you got your hands on them at bargain basement prices, and slipped them into the irks, I for one welcome them!
@dave the waiting is the best part. I forgot I bought it almost, so if it takes another week, I’ll forget I spent money on it, and it will be like a box of cool free stuff that showed up!
@smerk85
FIFY
@werehatrack Haha! I stand corrected
@dave I look forward to my bespoke, custom-designed Regret!
@brainmist @dave bespoke regret is the best!
Well, that was a short delay - just got my shipping notice. So was the “delay” a ruse to increase anticipation so that ultimate regret is heightened when the disappointment is realized?
I think I need a hobby
@ybmuG you and me both
Mine shows as “Shipped”, and it’s via FXG, so I might have it tomorrow.
Mine’s “On Fedex vehicle for delivery.” This may mean that it will arrive late, with a stitched-up wound in its midsection, and no liver.
Mine arrived today. Was apparently two snow globes but arrived as a box of broken glass. I do regret it.
@raidergoalie31 reveal thread is here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/irk-reveal-thread-january-2024-sidedeal
REVEAL THREAD FOR YOUR IRK
https://meh.com/forum/topics/irk-reveal-thread-january-2024-sidedeal
Mine arrived today!
A set of Luminara flameless candles
A plain black tee
2 bottles of hand sanitizer
1 MacBook pro hardshell case
And …
A box of 30 TrackR Pixel Bluetooth locators! At first I was bummed about these because the app was discontinued back in 2021, BUT they are compatible with the free SwiftFinder app! I immediately put on the living room Roku remote that always gets lost. It worked! Very happy!!
I’ll upload a picture later but does anyone know what the hell this big white plastic thing is that says Xpress USA on it
@mbills2223 Is it maybe a Cutting Board from Morningsave??
For the first time in forever I haven’t bought anything during a Mehrathon. I saw nothing I wanted. Missed all the pop-up Irks. Kind of sad.
I have been a member of the meh community Since day zero, Plus I was a long time member of the original woot. Over the years I have received some true disappointments, I receive some stuff that I could use some stuff that I threw away and some stuff I donated. I have received a delivery from a 18 Wheeler truck that had over 250 pair of psycho Eyeglasses, I’ve received a rumba, Some really good appliances like a panini maker and an air vacuum system, And I have appreciated every single item, even the speaker docs and candy corn.
Today once again I was amazed at what I received.
I got a…
beautiful thirty six c bra
A couple of car chargers
A really nice t shirt with a raccoon on it
foundation that expires in two weeks
The obligatory meh bag
… And a Cuisinart Wine Refrigerator
Now, if it works, that would be fantastic.
@somf69 cool!
FYI the reveal thread is here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/irk-reveal-thread-february-matches-made-in-retail
Here is the reveal thread for the meh and side deal irks:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/irk-reveal-thread-february-matches-made-in-retail