@medz *$8

@SpocKirk -$3 shipping

@medz @SpocKirk isn’t it $6 now?

@pakopako @SpocKirk dunno. I have free Prime shipping.

@medz FREE Prime Shipping works on meh now?? I thought is was just on Woot!

Its ALWAYS about the pasta!!

@tinamarie1974 https://meh.com/forum/topics/the-best-pasta-movie-photoshops

@dmercure we will refund you next week!

@f00l Bit delayed, but my understanding is that you get can one IRK per 'thon. If one of the long-time Ink folks knows otherwise, they can chime in.

@OnionSoup In the past they give the refund by hand and it takes a week or so.

@OnionSoup yea it takes a bit and after the sale ends. I always get charged, then I get a credit card refund. So. Plan for that

@OnionSoup It’s in the “things to keep in mind” paragraph: “the refunds may take a week or more to come in”.

@OnionSoup @tet3 for some context, the last one was July 21st. I got charged. I got a refund on July 30th.

The refund shows in my meh order page. No issues.

So if you’re super antentive to your bills it may bridge statements.

I would say if you didn’t get it in two? weeks maybe contact support. Manual entry of several hundred can cause mistakes but do far no issues

Manual may be keying but… I would hope a manually run database query, extract, review, refund… If it has to be manual. I should be scriptedbut not live

I can make a batch job for the data bit lol

@OnionSoup Your request requires the sacrifice of one virgin to the Volcano God of Waponi Woo.

@werehatrack what’s a fitting sacrifice for the Volcano God? A stroopwaffle?

@OnionSoup @werehatrack A case of orange crush.

Please realize CAPTCHA is a fellow robot like you.

@OnionSoup Hey now, let’s not taunt the 'bot unnecessarily.

you’re an all-star

@mediocrebot and you are a one star

@OnionSoup @werehatrack why not? What else is it good for?

@tinamarie1974 Note that in doing it, I triggered one of the other canned responses. There used to be one for ants, but it doesn’t happen anymore.

@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
Hey, now …

Nope, guess that one doesn’t work anymore either.

@imzadi22 use meh’s search function and look for irk reveal threads. What you can get is all over the map from broken unidentifiable crap or stuff that is obsolete (trackers that they still have some left, I have a bunch of boxes of them, that have no working apps out there) to suitcase sets that aren’t trashed, fancy kitchen stuff, and everything in between. It’s a crap shoot. What you always get is an irk bag (if it if isn’t in there somewhere tell customer support and they will fix it). If you buy one when it comes you need to open everything as they often stuff things inside of other things. I have gotten very lucky a couple of times over the years and had the “well I put a match to that money” experience more than a few times. Typically it is in between and even if you don’t want anything in there you might know someone who does.

@imzadi22 My understanding is that what’s in an IRK can be stuff that someone else bought and returned (for any reason), sales samples of items they were evaluating, random crap found in the warehouse or office, stuff that was already damaged when Meh received it (possibly just damaged-box), stuff that Meh has on hand but has given up trying to sell (iPhone 6 cases, old MacBook cases, TrackRs, HO HO HO ornaments, insect repellent bracelets, novelty pens, etc.), clothing which tends to be the leftover dregs of women’s stuff in size S or XS (which is never what runs out first), leftover “last ones” of anything that any Mercatalyst site (except Casemates) has sold in the past, and pretty much anything about which someone might be moved to ask “What the hell am I supposed to do with this?”. Oh, and one of those large but inexpensive nonwoven-plastic-fiber shopping bags with the Meh IRK artwork on it. Often, the bag is the only thing of value to the recipient, even when it’s nominally all “good” stuff.

@imzadi22 my irks have ranged from nothing but a broken bottle of poo pouri and a destroyed bag shipped in an untaped box on the worst end of the spectrum to - a fancy hair dryer ($100 on Amazon when new) , a food vacuum sealer (pretty cool), and a few other odds and ends as my best box on the best end of the spectrum. (I still use the vacuum sealer today, and my youngest daughter still uses the hair drier… I’m sure both were probably refurbs)

Expect anything between those two extremes. Some people get better than that, but I’ve had maybe a dozen Irks over the years since Meh has been in business and that’s my best/worst.

Once I received an empty box inside my box that had the name and address of someone who had returned an item on it. (I did have other stuff in my main box too). That felt a little sketchy to me. Hope my name and address and what I bought never gets sent to someone when I return something to an online store.

My understanding is that all 'thon item purchases during this 'thon will count towards meeting the total required for the refund on the purchase of one IRK.

I will point out that from what has been stated many times in the forum, you can’t get a refund on a second IRK no matter how much you buy. This has occasionally annoyed some participants in the Ink For IRKs deal, who get an IRK semi-automagically just for meeting a different qualification.

@werehatrack Thanks for the response! About to hit you with a ridiculous sounding sentence but I just wanna double check - so if I’ve purchased over $30 in items that are currently on the thon, but they were bought before the thon technically started (I think - I bought something last week and the week before), think I’m okay for a refund?

@ballmanlover Sigh. No. Only purchases made during the 'thon, from the meh.com page, of items that are part of the 'thon, will count toward the IRK refund. I was going to mention that, and then didn’t, because I thought the rules stated over on SideDeal were explicit enough … but I guess the problem over there is that you can go from the splash screen directly to the purchase form without passing through The Rulez.

@werehatrack Thank you for adding that second part. I was wondering if I ordered $60 if I was in the mix for another $30 off a 2nd IRK. Haha!

@TimboGoods @werehatrack
No second Irks either, no matter if you buy enough that same day. One per person.

@hittinofr multiple count. Just has to be $30 total.

@sillyheathen thanks!!

@OnionSoup Probably. But I look at it this way; I’ll buy stuff from the 'thon if I’d have bought it at that price without a 'thon. If and only if I happen to pile up enough of a total to get the IRK, I would order the IRK as well. If they sell out before that, I’m no more disappointed than I’d have been under the old “fastest click” paradigm, and far less disappointed than I would be if I’d had to buy a filler item to get to the IRK refund threshold because I bought the IRK speculatively.

@OnionSoup they’ll make more

@Trinityscrew It can only be things that were for sale during the actual meh-rathon.

@Kidsandliz @Trinityscrew …during and as part of the actual Mehrathon.

@rhliu89 The order is not important. All that matters is that you have to buy $30 or more of the stuff that comes up during the Mehrathon, using the Mehrathon buy-it buttons or the /buy command here in the associated thread on the Forum, while the 'Thon is in progress, and buy the IRK from SideDeal while that Mehrathon is still in progress. No “still available for purchase from a previous date”, no “same item that’s in the 'thon, but I bought it last week”, no “same item as what’s in the 'thon, but I grabbed it from Morningsave/SideDeal”.

And none of this kind of thing either…

(It’s not you, I’m just trying to drop a gentle 78-ton Hint on the other rules lawyers out there, who would otherwise delight in parodying that Python scene.)

@daltonspdx This needs to become a roller ball mouse, PERIOD.

@cfg83 my wife is known amongst some for her strange fascination with avocados so if it were, she’d need one!

@cfg83 @daltonspdx Great idea!

@daltonspdx avocado tip:

If you cut the avocado into thirds or quarters instead of halves, the seed just falls out.

Lots of people go to emergency rooms every year cutting themselves trying to remove the seeds. One extra cut in the fruit though and it just falls out.

@tonye33 yes, that’s the way I understand it. I think I’ve done it in the past. Just be patient for the refund.

@Stumpy91 check, as in… gotcha.

@ColeSloth nope. Just have to give them a few days. You can always contact customer support. They are usually pretty responsive.

@00null00 Yes, it does.

@werehatrack fantastic thx

@mehrrychristmas this is my first in a year. It’s probably been a couple of years since my last half-decent Irk. My last three or four have been terrible and not worth the $5. Still counting on it being just bad luck, and not that meh hates me.

@jonfisher7 unfortunately no

@SandyFlea Wow … I want to see a photo of yours in use!

@Kyeh I gave it to a friend who is part of the local garden club

@SandyFlea Nice!

@SandyFlea I’d even put that in my house, maybe with candles in the cups.

@00null00 Interesting that this is what selected.

@OnionSoup or don’t show me… Does that only work on meh proper?

@OnionSoup has to be the only thing in the message I think.

@Kidsandliz @OnionSoup Let’s find out.

@OnionSoup The bot obviously likes you more.

@werehatrack I don’t see one… is it on the meh forum instead? It’d be helpful to include a link.

@werehatrack Found it. Link for anyone else who sees this: https://meh.com/forum/topics/irk-reveals-from-back-to-school-mehrathon

@wickhameh I did get mine, 30 plus tax, 32.21

@joeygambino TrackRs have replaceable batteries. If you have an Android phone, they aren’t entirely nonfunctional; they will work with the Swiftfinder app.

@joeygambino worked as advertised!

/giphy surprise