Boy! I want a neighbor like yours! Did you exact revenge? A flaming bag of poo on the doorstep perhaps?

Its shaggadelic people!!

Finally got back in town to open my mystery box, only to find signature wasn't needed and I was shagged!!!
Contents:
1- Ipod mini theater
1- Altec Lansing XM speakers
1- Phillips Universal remote
1- Surge protector
1- Heart rate monitor
1- USB phone
1- Set of phillips headphones
1- Set of 20 TDK snap and save disk cases
1-Handcrafted leather cd case
1-Barbie nail polish
4-Candlestick votives


THANKS THINGFLING!!!!

I didn't get shagged and I didn't get things that I could use but I did get what I paid for which was a Mystery Box and that was all that I expected!

It seems that the only way to make some of you happy is to ask you to give TF a list of the the things you want in your very own MB so that you can either get some insanely priced items or so that you can go sell them for an incredible profit on Ebay or wherever.

If you don't like these items and keep feeling you are being ripped off then stop buying or stop bitching!

TF seems to be the one site that goes out of their way to try and make people happy and all I keep reading from a select few is about how unhappy they are and how ripped off they feel. I pity you going through life like that when others have real problems and your main complaint seems to be that you got something you don't have a use for or that you can't sell it on Ebay for enough money to cover the purchase price.

Truly unbelievable!

I am screwed too

They tried to deliver mine 3 times, and they say I have to go and collect it now, but I am at work for long hours, and am unable to get them to re-route it to a different address !!

Guess it will end up going back to TF and I will have to get a refund !!! - grrrr!!

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Flings so far :67 - Total Amount spent at Thingfling so far : $935.31 - Yikes !!!!

I know I've already done my fair share of whining, but here's a little more.

Most other MB's contain a lot of little stuffs. This MB only contained 4 things - XM, iPod, Remote, and broke-ass headphones. No little cables of free packs of super glue or cable wraps or SB PS2 controllers. Nothing fun for the others to grab and enjoy it with you. It's like if you went downstairs on Christmas and there was no stocking - there was only two presents. The fun part is opening lots of little things and playing around first....

I agree on the $ thing. With the other high(ish) $ MB's the $30 and $60 the main item was worth more that the price of the box. You would think it would be the same or better with an even higher priced box but I could go out and buy everything in the box separately for less than $123.45. I can't get enough of the fan though. I love that thing.

Okay, box was fairly disappointing, I am sure the Royal Court is tired of hearing this. The posts with the cry for standalone items should be heeded. For all you MB loyalists, yes it was a mystery box, we understand that. But how many mystery boxes do we have to open to find that they need something else to even use it?

The XM radio thing - no alternate input, so completely useless unless you are one of the 100 or so people across the world who bought one of those two models of radio? They're not even the good radios!! I have two XM radios - no joy in Mudville, baby, can't even be hacked to work with one. So that goes out the door.

The video speaker stand? Hi-rez video? My lily white bottomside! I rarely watch video on my Zune, but ported over a DVD in pretty hi definition and it still looked like watching an old TV thru a layer of gauze. Got my buddy to bring over his iPod that he hooks up to his LCD screen to watch thru and it looked just as bad on this screen. High point, with the Zune in TV Out mode, the Zune screen shows up on the video screen and you can roll thru the menus on that, though not with the remote. The sound is okay, if you were living in a one room walkup in Queens and had no other means of entertainment, it might be okay but literally! I hooked a pinhole camera up with the idea of hacking out the vid screen to mount in my truck as a backup cam, don't bother, can't see anything the picture is so bad. I routinely hook this camera up in my house to watch my living room over the net when out of town - such fun living in a high crime area where breakins are fairly common. But over this screen - worthless. My buddy with the iPod is the biggest scrounger I have ever seen and HE didn't want this.

The remote. Okay, this is the first remote EVER to work my Polaroid 37" LCD, so i programmed it to run everything - DVR, TiVo, DVD player, stereo, TV and it even learns specialized buttons - as long as there is a button you don't mind changing the routine for. Now the bad. HEAVY. HEAVY. HEAVY. And it is so long you have to two hand it to work multiple buttons. Maybe if I had NBA player hands this would be an alternative, but this has already been relegated to a drawer after less than a week of use and I have gone back to my three remotes.

My headphones actually work, but are you kidding? I used smaller cans when I was a deejay in college

The PDA case is the most useful thing in it. I super glued another piece of vinyl into the right side as a pocket and stuck my little digital camera in there. The slots on the right side hold SD cards and spare batteries. So I don't have to have all that stuff loose in my bags when I take it anywhere anymore. Yay. Hundred thirty bucks for a camera case!

Now what everyone raves over - the fan. I ask again, are you kidding me??? I got one off Ebay that lets me program up to ten phrases into it for 5 bucks, shipping included from Hong Kong. Currently says "WWW.THINGFLING.COM" (heh heh heh, not copyright infringement, it is an Homage),"Maiden Rules!!!" (from when I went to an outdoor concert), Hug Me Please? (for using in bars), and "Another Bud Lt?" (also for using in bars, always gets me served quick, the gals behind the bar love it cuz I point it at them and it cools them off). If TF would make theirs customizable, they would then rule. As it is, it gets used occasionally when the other ones batteries run down.

Oh yeah, a CD/DVD case to add to the other 10 I have in a drawer and don't use.

COULD I use all this stuff? Sure, if I went out and spent a couple hundred samolians on the stuff to make the others work, but this is ludicrous to keep getting stuff you have to have something else for them to be of any use.

Talk about the thrill of the mystery all you want, but it would be nice to get something even slightly useful when spending this amount of money.

Since someone's post led to this one, let me be the first - How about a USEFUL 150.00 MB? Something that stands on its own, or somethingS that stand on their own???

And by the way, everyone talking about the remote as if it is a bar of gold? Another outlet site has them for 30 bucks. In the immortal phrasing of Stan Lee - 'Nuff said.

until the next post...

Yes, that we keep falling for these, yes, it is "Truly unbelievable!"

We used to get a lot of funky little doo dads thrown in, now it's called "Shagging" and that is all the posters keep looking for. THAT is "Truly unbelievable!"

Rather than throw the stuff directly in the garbage bin because these items have no use for 99% of us, and no one to "gift" them to, so we hope to recoup some cost on Ebay or somewhere else rather than leave a box full of useless electronics sitting around and have someone wring out their heartstrings and tell us we should stop talking about it, THAT is also, yep, you guessed it - "Truly unbelievable!"

We obviously have the disposable cash to buy these, we know the fun of the Mystery Box, yet we keep getting slapped with useless stuff. If an item depends on some other item to even work, make it an AMB, give us a hint that "Yes, this item will not be useful for 99% of you, but for that 1%, you can get a great deal on this and possibly some related items, we'll still move inventory and we can stop listening to you complain" seems like a wholly novel idea on how to do business.

Telling us we have the possibility to spend 130 bucks on really good stuff that we will WANT to have and then shipping us a box full of stuff that won't work for us plus some dollar store goodies just seems to be plain bad business. "Truly unbelievable!"

Even reading through the "Shag's"... Barbie Nail Polish???

Okay, here's my bid for shagging as so many seem wont to do...

Gee my life is a literal shambles right now but I have been able to scrape together enough pennies from the local convenience store Take-A-Penny dishes to get this latest Mystery Box. Woo Hoo was I surprised to find such amazing items! I mounted the Altec Lansing IVT712 on the wall and now me and my closest 7 friends get together and watch Dog The Bounty Hunter in super-duper high resolution! It really takes our minds off the fact that we are all unemployed! We all take turns putting our feet up on the new footstool with special cloth areas to keep our feet from sliding off that other people less imaginative might have put an XM radio on, then take turns carrying the new remote around and handing it off to the burly guys in the crowd, we tried to hand it to little old Aunt Olivia and it durn near took her arms off as it dragged her down into the couch under it's massive weight. But she smiled as it happened so we know it was a pretty special day for her AND she found a quarter in the couch we can put toward the next Mystery Box! I wouldn't presume to beg for a shagging but gee Shaggy, if y'all could find it in yer heart of gold to throw in a couple clothespins for me next time and maybe a couple bottles of Barbie Ear Wax Removal drops, little Agatha might be able to hear again and stand up on her own two feet after we pin her to the wall.

I'm sorry if this offends anyone, well, not really, but GEE WHIZ people! Stop telling us to stop complaining!!! We were sold a bill of goods! The reason we all made guesses about what could be in those boxes is that we hoped for once the description might actually fit the box! We don't expect HD TV's, we don't expect new cars, but we do expect a credible return on our payment. A GPS? Why not??? All kinds of places have refurb GPS's that TF could have gotten hold of, and it doesn't require you to have any other item to run it than a car, and some you don't even need that! Digital cameras in the 4-7MP range? Well within the confines of the 130 buck range even added to other items. This is not beyond the pale of reason to think might have happened. And they were only guesses, not demands. We're not asking for our "very own MB's", we are just asking that for once we get something in one that is useful and supports the price. I can find websites that sell 64MB Flash drives for 20 bucks, but would anyone in their right mind buy it at that price? Telling us the 'inherent worth" of these items is also ludicrous, otherwise TF would not be selling them, the manufacturers would still be shipping them out the door to standard retailers. WE know the stuff is refurbed and/or not moving and sitting in a warehouse somewhere gathering dust, we understand the business model TF works under, we just wish they would give us that credit and if they tell us we can expect a really amazing collection of things, then gosh darnit, SELL us some really amazing things!

I'm still hooked on this site, love the idea of it, love a lot of the bargains and love the MB's, just over time they have gotten shoddier and shoddier. If THEY want us to stop complaining, sell a MB that amazes us, not disappoints! Get us hooked again and let the forums ring far and wide with the greatness that is the TF MB!!! When they are total mysteries but we actually think it might be worth it, we will tell our friends, our neighbors, our neighbors' dogs but when we get boxes filled with worthless stuff touted to be fantastic, that reputation gets around!

We'll stop complaining when we get satisfied. Until that time, maybe they can change the names of these to "Truly Unbelievable Boxes"! There ya go TF Royals, an idea free for you to use and I won't take any credit at all... sell TUB's!

Good for you, you show good judgement and you show that you know TF is going to send out useless items.

From their description: "The ultimate in mystery boxes." "What better way to celebrate our independence then with "the mystery box of mystery boxes."" "We think that you will really enjoy this Mystery Box and will be running it all weekend" "And I don't care what anybody says, I really love this box."

From Dictionary.com"

mis-lead-ing

1. to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
2. to lead into error of conduct, thought, or judgment.

The "ultimate in mystery boxes"? Guess they proved that they know the true meaning of the word "misleading" as it caused those of us who DID purchase it to be lead into an error of judgement. I pointed out those two items that I hoped it might be because that is what I allowed myself to hope it might contain, those were some guesses I made here in the forum. Did I really think it would be? Probably not. Did I think I might "really love this box"? Yes, I had hope. Was that hope dashed when I opened the box and found the huge items that comprised the massive bulk of the weight and price to be useless to just about everyone that has replied? Those that have a use for any of it, much love and they are letting us know. I counted three posts so far of anyone who did with the large items, the other happy people are carrying first aid kits made from PDA holders. Everyone else is sitting behind their screens afraid to type, holding their heads saying WHY, Oh WHY wasn't I more like the people that knew we would get screwed and just stay away from this?!?!?!




Hope Shaggy reads this and you get your Barbie Nail Polish on the next one. Your contention here is that since TF will replace broken items or refund lost shipments or orders they are unable to fill, that's good enough? Very true, they are good at that. Is that enough? There's another site that sells high end mystery items at a higher price point occasionally, $100, $200, $300 even. They are all standalone items which don't require you to have something to even use it. I buy from them. I also by from TF and will continue to buy from TF. Don't fault me for hoping, you can fault me for being an idiot and falling for this, but not for hoping. Please get off your teetering soap-boxes in your feeble attempts to defend TF when you yourselves posit the exact point I am trying to get across. YOU CHOSE NOT TO BUY THIS BECAUSE YOU KNEW IT WOULD BE JUNK (unless you just couldn't afford it, I wish I were in that category, then I wouldn't have to be thinking about this). Sure it's top of "their" line equipment, but yet it is useless in and of itself. Would you say I was crying and whining if I complained that my real estate agent sold me a lot full of bricks? Technically, it is a house, I just need some mortar, wood and wires to gain it's true functionality.

Yes, Grrrrrrr. Sums it up for both sides of the argument. I would love to get on here and rave about an item. But they really need to find something for us to rave about.

I can't see how you can call what TF shipped junk. The items are of good quality from well-known manufacturers. That a lot of people don't have a use of an item isn't part of the equation. TF never said that it was an item that eveyone would find useful. And please don't accuse me of something I didn't say. I NEVER said that I considered the items junk. (And trust me - I can afford to drop more in one day on "junk" than most people can do in an entire year.) I chose not to go for this box since I looked at the "universe" of items that TF had (that I hadn't bought already) and really saw nothing I wanted. Remember - they made no claims in this one about it being something they had never had before - so it was a fair assumption to make that it would be culled from previous items.

And don't use the analogy of your real estate agent screwing you - it doens't work. Implied merchantibility would ensure that you were being offered a house (Not bricks) - but unless specifically stated would not address the style or condition. Only that it was fit for sale. If you got a pile of bricks, that would violate the implied contract. From a legal (and moral) perspective, TF was very upfront about this MB. And trust me - I've gotten pissed about TF in the past and have been vocal in my displeasure. This time though - TF does NOT deserve the griping that's going on. They send out expensive boxes and people didn't llike what they got. What - are you going to go to AC and drop $5K in the slots and then bitch and moan when you didn't win???? Get real...