They always say. “You WILL regret this. We’re not being funny.”
And after the last few, I’m coming around to believing them.
Maybe I’m wrong, I’ve never been in retail, especially not as a honcho, but I don’t forsee the 6 coupons for use over the rest of a yesr and a half to entice those who have been dropping like flies from the membrrship because (they say) they havent been buying enough things anywsy.
@troy Ahem. Assuming that one is foolhardy enough to purchase three unique Mehrathon items as required, and receives the six coupons at some point, can those coupons all get applied to one purchase later, or are they “one $5 coupon per purchase”? (I ask because I seem to recall that this was a thing once before.)
@werehatrack
Thanks for tagging Troy. I (foolishly) figured they would be monitoring this (and the “it’s a meh-rathon”) thread. I just tagged him with the stores.com cash question for that reason.
To clarify, because we always seem to end up with somebody who doesn’t immediately grasp the details:
Only purchases made from the Meh dot com site during the Mehrathon can count toward the IRK coupons-as-regret-reduction deal. Purchases on SideDeal, Morningsave, Casemates, and Hammacher-Schlemmer do not count.
If you buy an IRK and also make one Meh purchase during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get $0 in e-coupons to spend on Meh or SideDeal, because the deal this time requires three unique item purchases.
If you buy an IRK and also make two purchases from two different sale listings during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get $0 in e-coupons to spend on Meh or SideDeal, because the deal this time requires three unique item purchases.
About that “Unique Item” requirement: the three purchases must be from three different sale listings on the Meh dot com site. (Thus the “unique item” notations above.) By way of example, buying two different items from the same sale listing (like one pack of blue socks at 2:07AM and one pack of green socks from the same listing but bought at 8:43AM) only counts as one unique item for refund purposes. (“Unique” has a meh-unique meaning here.) You need a total of three purchases made from three different listings during the 'Thon in order to qualify for the coupons-as-amelioration-of-expense AT ALL.
Continuing on…
If you buy an IRK and also make three unique-item-by-the-Meh-rules purchases from three different sale listings during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get an email containing six unique-to-you $5 e-coupons that you can use to receive $5 off the price of purchase of other merch on Meh or SideDeal. This is not guaranteed to reduce your regret at having bought an IRK. (In fact, the regret is the only guarantee.)
If you buy an IRK and also make four or more unique item purchases from four or more different sale listings during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get an email containing six unique-to-you $5 e-coupons that you can use against purchases of other merch on Meh or SideDeal. Glutton for punishment, much?
If you buy an IRK and also make one purchase from each and every different sale listing during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get an email containing six unique-to-you $5 e-coupons that you can use against purchases of other merch on Meh or SideDeal, and at least one staffer will point and giggle at the list.
If you do not buy an IRK but you make one, two, three or more purchases from different sale listings during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get $0 in e-coupons to spend on Meh or SideDeal, and you will totally miss out on the opportunity to experience the genuine Regret™ that only comes from buying an IRK.
Items available during the Mehrathon but purchased before the 'Thon began or after it ends do not count toward an IRK refund. Sorry, any “oh, shit, can I cancel this thing I bought yesterday and rebuy it today during the 'Thon to get the IRK discount?” CS requests will get a sneer of derision (privately) and a polite response of “no.”
Hope that helps. (Powers that be, feel free to edit any errors.)
@therealjrn Eh, I wrote it up once a while back, saved a copy, then expanded it, and added some snark, and this time it’s been tweaked for the current deal. Who knows, I might even buy enough crap in the 'thon to qualify for spending $30 to get disappointed into having to buy even more crap later.
@mikibell@werehatrack When I ordered my IRK on Sidedeal, I was given the opportunity to use my stores.com cash towards its price. I chose to do that and it worked.
But do those purchase truly reduce the regret or simple the cost of said regret?
Farther down, I noted that the regret is the only thing that’s guaranteed. Buying the crap needed to get the e-coupons can bring its own regret entirely separate from the Regret™ included with each IRK. This is not negated by the fact that occasionally someone has received an IRK that was not 100% regrettable; there will be more than enough regret overall, yadda yadda, lather rinse repeat, your mileage may, vary ask your physician if IRK is right for you.
Forgetting how much regret I had last month I’ve been waiting for my birthday IRK in May’s Meh-rathon!
…after a rough day yesterday this is right on time!
@mycya4me
Are you saying that you HAVEN’T gotten one since they were $5.00? That was a long time ago… Don’t you ever get curious about what you might’ve gotten? Me, I have too much FOMO! 🫣 …
TBT, I could handle the $10 IRKs all day, but these $30 IRKs are killing me! (As you can clearly see from the last Giphy I posted up above Lol…@) And lately it doesn’t seem like ANYONE is hitting the jackpot with something spectacular!
Noooooooo, not today, it was Monday May 11. I’m still considering it my birthday IRK, maybe I should’ve said my belated birthday IRK.
Thanks for the HBD wishes, I appreciate that!
@Kyeh@Lynnerizer Belated birthday? Is that one you can delay for a while? Mine have been occurring much too frequently lately.
And Happy Birthday. Hope your IRK is worthy.
Hmmm I’m missing the morbidity of anything here but I’m having a hard time getting my head together today anyway.
Things have been more than a little stressful for me the last few days. I’m sure it’s something I could of/should of unloaded on the goat…
@Lynnerizer@phendrick Oh, it’s definitely morbid! The denizens if Wonderland aren’t really a very agreeable bunch! They’re constantly lecturing Alice or putting her down, etc. Those books (In Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass) are actually very odd in a kind of wonderful way. Not sweet at all.
@Kyeh@Lynnerizer
" I’m missing the morbidity of anything here"
What comes to my mind for stopping a 7-yo from having more birthdays is a suggestion of assistance in youthanasia.
@Kyeh@Lynnerizer Yeah, Mehrathons and IRKs mess with my mind also. Trying cost/benefit or risk/reward analyses, and then just going to something of a coin flip on the whole schmear. It seems that regret is always waiting on both horns of the dilemma.
Also today is the deadline for appeals of the exorbitant property appraisals the local tax CAD foisted on us. People have reported as much as 60% increases on residential values YOY. Truly in(s)ane. There’s been some 1776 type talk around here.
And, to boot, their online portal for such appeals has been overwhelmed and non-responsive. I’ve got until midnight to make an in-person drive with forms to their dropbox. Another form of “guilty until proven innocent”, with yearly recurrences. They give nothing to justify their assessments, but hat-in-hand you have to document everything for any appeal.
And what really got my goat was their online portal Terms and Conditions with among other things: 1. anything you submit or adjustment you accept is binding and irrevocable but any error on their part can be corrected at will whenever; and 2. modifications to the terms can be made by them at will and apply retroactively to when you originally accepted the terms. The first is crap and the second should be illegal. </rant>
You know, it wasn’t the fact that my last–well, shit, I have lost count–many have been absolute junk that most should have been binned at the factory. It also wasn’t the fact that you can’t even give money back, and instead are doing this non-stackable coupon bullshit. Nor was it the fact that the coupons expire, because that is just capitalism.
I won’t say end-stage capitalism or whatever trendy thing we call this dystopia we live in, because companies have been trying to asterisk their "gifts / coupons / winnings " ever since they first gave one. Which is why in some states gift cards an never expire, or can’t have “maintenance fees” (don’t get any ideas), etc.
Have yours expire. That is your choice that you made based on profit maximization.
It has fuck all to do with accounting difficulties. That isn’t witty. Or funny. Or whatever you were aiming at.
@KNmeh7
I don’t think they were being smart asses. I think they were just being upfront about the fact that it makes their books look unbalanced. They have to be tracked on your ledger until they’re redeemed or expired. Expiring by the end of the year makes your books show one less outstanding liability at EOY.
@chienfou You know what would show no outstanding liability? Refunding $15.
If they choose go go about this entire stupid route trying to make us purchase 6 times by the end of the calendar year on duplicate offerings of, likely, the shit that was in the irk, then they chose to do so because they want us to order 6 times this year, NOT because it makes the books look unbalanced.
It isn’t like, gee, mehtizens, we really wish we could let you stack these or use these next year, but shucks, ya know, our hands our tied. Poor us.
They could they didn’t and the accounting is not the reason. I guess is what my gripe is about. Why bring it up? Why are we discussing this still?
@KNmeh7 Coupons expire at the end of next year, 2027. And they don’t have to be spent on a duplicate offering – we have a running average of 82.5% fresh offers since the beginning of meh.com (currently at 82.9% for the year)… so there’s still plenty of freshness to choose from.
I did originally request for these coupons to not expire… but I got overridden by accounting rules.
/showme Anthropomorphized goat trying to redeem billion year old IRK coupon for onion rings at the restaurant at the end of the universe. The alien waiter sighs.
@KNmeh7 This seems like an offering that doesn’t appeal to you.
So… just don’t buy it?
It’s that easy. No one is forcing you. And you don’t have some contractual arrangement with Meh to provide you with your ideal IRK (ahaha there is no such thing) on demand every Mehrathon.
Personally, I preferred this. While I don’t know I’m going to get $15 of value out of an IRK (other than amusement at SO. MANY. CONDOMS.) I do know it’s pretty likely I’ll buy 6 things over the next year. It was a temptation I could satisfy and know I’d lose basically nothing.
But they’ll probably go back to the partial refunds, esp if this doesn’t do well, and that’s fine! I can just not buy that IRK. Or buy that IRK, and then shake my head at another 150 condoms.
The fact that the IRK is still active now doesn’t seem to be a good sign. It has been a bit since I have been on this site so I guess we are far from the old days where the servers would crash and then all the IRKs would be gone as soon as it got posted.
@werehatrack@wisenekt
IRKs then: $5, contents include at least 4 powerbanks shaped like chickens, a LED pen that makes lightsaber noises while you write and connected to your phone via Bluetooth to duplicate everything you wrote onto a proprietary note-taking app which is no longer available, hot pink Bluetooth speaker shaped like a dog turd, three packs of hip underground indie ramen noodles, Buddhist noise generator that plays the missing 18½ minutes from the Nixon tapes, a pair of socks with a teething ring attached (!?), and an infrared thermometer that reads back in Rankine. Some incredibly lucky people would get full luggage sets, outdoor power generators, or pallets of ramen noodle flavored ice cream. The sort of regret you love, you just label it “regret” because that makes it even funnier.
IRKs now: $30. Contents are a torn t-shirt that doesn’t fit any documented human being and a package of expired stroopwafels. Some incredibly lucky people get their packages porch-pirated. The sort of regret you just try not to think about.
@werehatrack@wisenekt@ZPB I will say, it did turn out to be lucky the time FedEx (grrr) just lobbed my IRK in a snowbank 100 feet from the house and next to the trash bins, where it was promptly taken. Based on the IRKs everyone else was unveiling, what I got instead was an improvement.
@werehatrack@wisenekt@ZPB I did have one of my IRKs porch pirated, by an Amazon delivery driver who grabbed it on his way out of my driveway.
I like to think it was the most regretful kit I. The History of IRKs, as I did follow up with Amazon and told them what would happen to their driver if he returned to my house after they said they couldn’t guarantee he wouldn’t be dispatched to the same location.
@missdorkgirl
I believe those are standard placeholder numbers that they put in pending shipment.
Also I didn’t realize they were shipping to Hawaii. Cool.
What’s Included?
It is a mystery ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Warranty
Throw it in the trash
Estimated Delivery
Friday, May 22 - Tuesday, May 26
/showme coupons made of regret
@LJeAYsy4LoqxEC Here’s the image you requested for “coupons made of regret”
So, does buying the IRK generate 10% cash back in the form of “stores cash” for members/VMPs?
@troy
Tag… You’re it…
@chienfou Yep, you will get your 10% Stores Cash!
@troy
thanks for the confirmation!
They always say. “You WILL regret this. We’re not being funny.”
And after the last few, I’m coming around to believing them.
Maybe I’m wrong, I’ve never been in retail, especially not as a honcho, but I don’t forsee the 6 coupons for use over the rest of a yesr and a half to entice those who have been dropping like flies from the membrrship because (they say) they havent been buying enough things anywsy.
@troy Ahem. Assuming that one is foolhardy enough to purchase three unique Mehrathon items as required, and receives the six coupons at some point, can those coupons all get applied to one purchase later, or are they “one $5 coupon per purchase”? (I ask because I seem to recall that this was a thing once before.)
@werehatrack Yep – we don’t allow coupon stacking, so you can only use one $5 coupon per purchase
@werehatrack
Thanks for tagging Troy. I (foolishly) figured they would be monitoring this (and the “it’s a meh-rathon”) thread. I just tagged him with the stores.com cash question for that reason.
@troy @werehatrack Do the coupons go bad or can I use them 10 years from now when meh takes over amazon?
@troy @werehatrack
@cfg83–Good until the end of 2027; explained here:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/sidedeal-daily-instant-regret-kit-29#6a05dd8542b2e6529a284a9d
And now, as usual…
To clarify, because we always seem to end up with somebody who doesn’t immediately grasp the details:
Only purchases made from the Meh dot com site during the Mehrathon can count toward the IRK coupons-as-regret-reduction deal. Purchases on SideDeal, Morningsave, Casemates, and Hammacher-Schlemmer do not count.
If you buy an IRK and also make one Meh purchase during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get $0 in e-coupons to spend on Meh or SideDeal, because the deal this time requires three unique item purchases.
If you buy an IRK and also make two purchases from two different sale listings during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get $0 in e-coupons to spend on Meh or SideDeal, because the deal this time requires three unique item purchases.
About that “Unique Item” requirement: the three purchases must be from three different sale listings on the Meh dot com site. (Thus the “unique item” notations above.) By way of example, buying two different items from the same sale listing (like one pack of blue socks at 2:07AM and one pack of green socks from the same listing but bought at 8:43AM) only counts as one unique item for refund purposes. (“Unique” has a meh-unique meaning here.) You need a total of three purchases made from three different listings during the 'Thon in order to qualify for the coupons-as-amelioration-of-expense AT ALL.
Continuing on…
If you buy an IRK and also make three unique-item-by-the-Meh-rules purchases from three different sale listings during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get an email containing six unique-to-you $5 e-coupons that you can use to receive $5 off the price of purchase of other merch on Meh or SideDeal. This is not guaranteed to reduce your regret at having bought an IRK. (In fact, the regret is the only guarantee.)
If you buy an IRK and also make four or more unique item purchases from four or more different sale listings during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get an email containing six unique-to-you $5 e-coupons that you can use against purchases of other merch on Meh or SideDeal. Glutton for punishment, much?
If you buy an IRK and also make one purchase from each and every different sale listing during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get an email containing six unique-to-you $5 e-coupons that you can use against purchases of other merch on Meh or SideDeal, and at least one staffer will point and giggle at the list.
If you do not buy an IRK but you make one, two, three or more purchases from different sale listings during the Mehrathon, you will eventually get $0 in e-coupons to spend on Meh or SideDeal, and you will totally miss out on the opportunity to experience the genuine Regret™ that only comes from buying an IRK.
Items available during the Mehrathon but purchased before the 'Thon began or after it ends do not count toward an IRK refund. Sorry, any “oh, shit, can I cancel this thing I bought yesterday and rebuy it today during the 'Thon to get the IRK discount?” CS requests will get a sneer of derision (privately) and a polite response of “no.”
Hope that helps. (Powers that be, feel free to edit any errors.)
@werehatrack
@chaosdreamer @werehatrack
The lady does like her rules!
@therealjrn Eh, I wrote it up once a while back, saved a copy, then expanded it, and added some snark, and this time it’s been tweaked for the current deal. Who knows, I might even buy enough crap in the 'thon to qualify for spending $30 to get disappointed into having to buy even more crap later.
@therealjrn @werehatrack I think I will save the $$$ on buying the IRK & 3 unique items, & save myself the Regret. It might e the best move!
@werehatrack now we need clarification on if we can use Stores.com Cash on the irk or the 3 unique items, does that negate anything?
@mikibell @werehatrack When I ordered my IRK on Sidedeal, I was given the opportunity to use my stores.com cash towards its price. I chose to do that and it worked.
@werehatrack
But do those purchase truly reduce the regret or simple the cost of said regret?
@ItalianScallion @werehatrack
I saw that it WOULD work, just it is not spelled out in the terms and conditions, so I don’t want to miss out on my coupons
(ha ha ha ha ha)
@ItalianScallion
Farther down, I noted that the regret is the only thing that’s guaranteed. Buying the crap needed to get the e-coupons can bring its own regret entirely separate from the Regret™ included with each IRK. This is not negated by the fact that occasionally someone has received an IRK that was not 100% regrettable; there will be more than enough regret overall, yadda yadda, lather rinse repeat, your mileage may, vary ask your physician if IRK is right for you.
@werehatrack As Maxwell Smart used to say, “Chief, there’s only one part I don’t understand…The part after it’s very simple.”
Forgetting how much regret I had last month I’ve been waiting for my birthday IRK in May’s Meh-rathon!
…after a rough day yesterday this is right on time!
HBD TO ME!
/giphy snotty-dead-destruction
Well I sure as heck hope that’s NOT A OMEN! 🫣 …for me or my IRK!
@Lynnerizer I believe it is! So watch out! I have bid on a IRK since they change the price from $5.
@mycya4me
Are you saying that you HAVEN’T gotten one since they were $5.00? That was a long time ago… Don’t you ever get curious about what you might’ve gotten? Me, I have too much FOMO! 🫣 …
TBT, I could handle the $10 IRKs all day, but these $30 IRKs are killing me! (As you can clearly see from the last Giphy I posted up above
Lol…
@) And lately it doesn’t seem like ANYONE is hitting the jackpot with something spectacular! 
@Lynnerizer! Is today your actual birthday?
@Kyeh
Noooooooo, not today, it was Monday May 11.
I’m still considering it my birthday IRK, maybe I should’ve said my belated birthday IRK. 
Thanks for the HBD wishes, I appreciate that!
@Lynnerizer Oh! Well, happy extended birthday, then!
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer Belated birthday? Is that one you can delay for a while? Mine have been occurring much too frequently lately.
And Happy Birthday. Hope your IRK is worthy.
@Lynnerizer danged FOMO.
/showme imaginary-gleeful-daisy
@phendrick Here’s the image you requested for “imaginary-gleeful-daisy”
@Kyeh @phendrick
Thanks for the birthday wishes, I LOVE that happy daisy! Actually, I thought it was a sunflower!
@Lynnerizer @phendrick
Humpty Dumpty tells Alice that you can, sort of:
Alice … said: 'one can’t help growing older.’
‘One can’t, perhaps,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘but two can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven.’
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer “with proper assistance…” Is that not morbid, or am I missing a different interpretation (especially for a childrens’ tale)?
@Kyeh @phendrick
Hmmm
I’m missing the morbidity of anything here but I’m having a hard time getting my head together today anyway. 
Things have been more than a little stressful for me the last few days. I’m sure it’s something I could of/should of unloaded on the goat…
@Lynnerizer @phendrick Oh, it’s definitely morbid! The denizens if Wonderland aren’t really a very agreeable bunch! They’re constantly lecturing Alice or putting her down, etc. Those books (In Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass) are actually very odd in a kind of wonderful way. Not sweet at all.
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer
" I’m missing the morbidity of anything here"
What comes to my mind for stopping a 7-yo from having more birthdays is a suggestion of assistance in youthanasia.
@Kyeh @phendrick
Well, when you spell it out THAT way I can’t help but get it! Apparently it’s exactly what I needed in order to catch on… Duh!
Lol
@Kyeh @Lynnerizer Yeah, Mehrathons and IRKs mess with my mind also. Trying cost/benefit or risk/reward analyses, and then just going to something of a coin flip on the whole schmear. It seems that regret is always waiting on both horns of the dilemma.
Also today is the deadline for appeals of the exorbitant property appraisals the local tax CAD foisted on us. People have reported as much as 60% increases on residential values YOY. Truly in(s)ane. There’s been some 1776 type talk around here.
And, to boot, their online portal for such appeals has been overwhelmed and non-responsive. I’ve got until midnight to make an in-person drive with forms to their dropbox. Another form of “guilty until proven innocent”, with yearly recurrences. They give nothing to justify their assessments, but hat-in-hand you have to document everything for any appeal.
And what really got my goat was their online portal Terms and Conditions with among other things: 1. anything you submit or adjustment you accept is binding and irrevocable but any error on their part can be corrected at will whenever; and 2. modifications to the terms can be made by them at will and apply retroactively to when you originally accepted the terms. The first is crap and the second should be illegal. </rant>
You know, it wasn’t the fact that my last–well, shit, I have lost count–many have been absolute junk that most should have been binned at the factory. It also wasn’t the fact that you can’t even give money back, and instead are doing this non-stackable coupon bullshit. Nor was it the fact that the coupons expire, because that is just capitalism.
I won’t say end-stage capitalism or whatever trendy thing we call this dystopia we live in, because companies have been trying to asterisk their "gifts / coupons / winnings " ever since they first gave one. Which is why in some states gift cards an never expire, or can’t have “maintenance fees” (don’t get any ideas), etc.
Have yours expire. That is your choice that you made based on profit maximization.
It has fuck all to do with accounting difficulties. That isn’t witty. Or funny. Or whatever you were aiming at.
@KNmeh7
I don’t think they were being smart asses. I think they were just being upfront about the fact that it makes their books look unbalanced. They have to be tracked on your ledger until they’re redeemed or expired. Expiring by the end of the year makes your books show one less outstanding liability at EOY.
@chienfou You know what would show no outstanding liability? Refunding $15.
If they choose go go about this entire stupid route trying to make us purchase 6 times by the end of the calendar year on duplicate offerings of, likely, the shit that was in the irk, then they chose to do so because they want us to order 6 times this year, NOT because it makes the books look unbalanced.
It isn’t like, gee, mehtizens, we really wish we could let you stack these or use these next year, but shucks, ya know, our hands our tied. Poor us.
They could they didn’t and the accounting is not the reason. I guess is what my gripe is about. Why bring it up? Why are we discussing this still?
@KNmeh7 Coupons expire at the end of next year, 2027. And they don’t have to be spent on a duplicate offering
– we have a running average of 82.5% fresh offers since the beginning of meh.com (currently at 82.9% for the year)… so there’s still plenty of freshness to choose from.
I did originally request for these coupons to not expire… but I got overridden by accounting rules.
@troy
Entropy ends everything eventually.
@troy @werehatrack Hmmmm …
/showme Anthropomorphized goat trying to redeem billion year old IRK coupon for onion rings at the restaurant at the end of the universe. The alien waiter sighs.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “Anthropomorphized goat trying to redeem billion year old IRK coupon for onion rings at the restau…”
@mediocrebot Thanks! I forgot about the heat death part.
@KNmeh7 This seems like an offering that doesn’t appeal to you.
So… just don’t buy it?
It’s that easy. No one is forcing you. And you don’t have some contractual arrangement with Meh to provide you with your ideal IRK (ahaha there is no such thing) on demand every Mehrathon.
Personally, I preferred this. While I don’t know I’m going to get $15 of value out of an IRK (other than amusement at SO. MANY. CONDOMS.) I do know it’s pretty likely I’ll buy 6 things over the next year. It was a temptation I could satisfy and know I’d lose basically nothing.
But they’ll probably go back to the partial refunds, esp if this doesn’t do well, and that’s fine! I can just not buy that IRK. Or buy that IRK, and then shake my head at another 150 condoms.
Forth IRK (Irrational RetirementFund Killing) of the year…
/showme fantastic-raging-spinach cooked in coconut milk devoured in a poor house on a tropical island while a $30 tear flows into the ocean
@Junior305 Here’s the image you requested for “fantastic-raging-spinach cooked in coconut milk devoured in a poor house on a tropical island whi…”
I can’t quit you…
/giphy utopian-euphoric-meerkat
Why don’t the forums work on iPhone anymore? The screen window is always wider than the viewport
@shawn Thoughts?
@sproinky
It works on my iPhone.
The fact that the IRK is still active now doesn’t seem to be a good sign. It has been a bit since I have been on this site so I guess we are far from the old days where the servers would crash and then all the IRKs would be gone as soon as it got posted.
@wisenekt They were five bucks back then, too. For five bucks, the fun was in just trying to get one at all. At thirty, meh.
@wisenekt
It’s a 2 day Mehrathon.
Woo. Hoo.
@Kyeh
i am just so excited.
@werehatrack @wisenekt
IRKs then: $5, contents include at least 4 powerbanks shaped like chickens, a LED pen that makes lightsaber noises while you write and connected to your phone via Bluetooth to duplicate everything you wrote onto a proprietary note-taking app which is no longer available, hot pink Bluetooth speaker shaped like a dog turd, three packs of hip underground indie ramen noodles, Buddhist noise generator that plays the missing 18½ minutes from the Nixon tapes, a pair of socks with a teething ring attached (!?), and an infrared thermometer that reads back in Rankine. Some incredibly lucky people would get full luggage sets, outdoor power generators, or pallets of ramen noodle flavored ice cream. The sort of regret you love, you just label it “regret” because that makes it even funnier.
IRKs now: $30. Contents are a torn t-shirt that doesn’t fit any documented human being and a package of expired stroopwafels. Some incredibly lucky people get their packages porch-pirated. The sort of regret you just try not to think about.
@werehatrack @wisenekt @ZPB An incredibly well put description!
@werehatrack @wisenekt @ZPB I will say, it did turn out to be lucky the time FedEx (grrr) just lobbed my IRK in a snowbank 100 feet from the house and next to the trash bins, where it was promptly taken. Based on the IRKs everyone else was unveiling, what I got instead was an improvement.
@werehatrack @wisenekt @ZPB I did have one of my IRKs porch pirated, by an Amazon delivery driver who grabbed it on his way out of my driveway.
I like to think it was the most regretful kit I. The History of IRKs, as I did follow up with Amazon and told them what would happen to their driver if he returned to my house after they said they couldn’t guarantee he wouldn’t be dispatched to the same location.
I just got a notification that my SideDeal order has shipped. The only SD order I have is this IRK.
/giphy That was CRAZY fast!
That bodes not well ---- and considering I’ll be waiting til NEXT month since Hawaii is SOOOOOOOOOO FAR AWAY …
WEIGHT 1 lbs / 0.45 kgs
DIMENSIONS 6x4x1 in.
TOTAL PIECES 1
PACKAGING Package
@missdorkgirl Holy crap! Mine is due MONDAY!
This is some very instant regret!
@missdorkgirl
I believe those are standard placeholder numbers that they put in pending shipment.
Also I didn’t realize they were shipping to Hawaii. Cool.
Uh… there better also be a Meh branded bag because I’m hoping to get a green one.
YAY! Mine arrives this Tuesday! Woo Hoo
May Meh-ration ended on May 15 at 12:00 a.m. ET. (Friday night at midnight).
IRK shipped at 9:04 p.m. May 15 evening, before the frickin’ Meh-ration was even over. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
@rcwbbb
That would seem to preclude any of the “one-offs” left after the marathon being included.