Woot off
 

Another chance to buy good junk :)

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Annnnd there goes my productivity for the day.

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I'm looking for a good 19"-21" LCD wide screen monitor....or a radar detector (for totally legal purposes of course).

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I'm hoping for a new mouse. With my luck I already missed it though.
I almost wooted one of those $5 toolsets earlier, but I eventually decided against it.

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Almost bought the pistachios...

That's the only good thing I've seen so far.

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I got the $4.99 tool set. It was more of a why not type deal.

I wanted that dang Star Wars set, but they only had one :(

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I want a bag of crap (ive never gotten on before :( ). Anyway, whats great for wootoffs is a program called wootalyzer (www.wootalyzer.com). It tracksthe item currently on and can open the internet window on any item and other stuff like that.

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Yet another woot-off today!

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Yes, it is indeed a Woot off! :-)
The only thing i've seen so far is the silly Dyson vacuum :-( I need a Bag-o-crap!

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the 8gig Refurbished nano is going quick for $129

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BLAST I MISSED THE BANDOLIER OF CARROTS!

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Man, always when I've no money. They need to get a better Woot-Off schedule...

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Indeed. These Woot-Offs sound like a lot of fun. I really need one of those check cards. :(

A job would be nice too...

**sigh**,

-Vivek

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OK - I'll admit to being a woot-noob.

Where the heck do I go to learn what the heck a woot-off is, and to learn how to participate?

Blake

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A woot-off is a special day on woot.com, which occurs roughly once or twice a month, when they go away from their one-product-a-day system. Instead, products are sold continuously, with a new one showing up a few seconds after the previous item sells out. You can tell when a Woot-off is occuring when there are two yellow flashing lights beneath the product, and a bar showing how many are left.

Woot-offs are usually the only opportunity to purchase the coveted "Bag of Crap," AKA BOC, Bandoiller of Carrots, Blinged-out Cabbage, etc. These cost a dollar each, and contain random, usually cheap, items, but sometimes contain great deals. These usually create a mad rush to kill off woot's servers, and are usually sold out within a 30 second period.

Due to the unpredictable pace and direction of Woot-offs, "Pro" wooters often devote entire days to constantly monitering the site.

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Woot is a site that offers "One deal one day" normally for technology products. They update once a day, at 12:00 Central time, so those of us on the west coast are often up till 1:00am in hopes of a "Random Crap", which is often called a BOC or Bag of Crap . (There are other brands of "Woot" wine,shirt, and sellout.) Sometimes they vary from technology products but not that often, it happens during the woot-offs sometimes for some type of nut.

Once in a while, they will create an event called a woot-off, which is where they forget their "One deal one day" slogan and offer a new deal as soon as the previous one sells out. These sales can last anywhere from 12 to 72 hours, often ending in a novelty item.

Sometimes they throw in a "BOC" which is a 1 dollar mystery item, that can range from a plastic drink bottle to very fancy flat screen TVs.

You can find out more on their site, www.woot.com

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Another woot off today! Looks like I'll have something to keep me busy today after all.

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Somebody buy those vacuum cleaners so we can move on.

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Woot Vacuums, wonder if we could use them for air compressors...

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A power cable for $15? Seriously?

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The alienware one? That's what you pay for shielded cables. Kinda like the ones that run/ran the OI receivers on the menorah alongside the field.

Good quality costs money. Go figure. :p

Nothing great worth buying/mentioning yet.
Still waiting for something good.

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OK prepare for the good stuff, I have to leave my computer now.

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Elvis has entered the building, the latest woot off is here!

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somebody buy this hard drive. Please!!

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So much for work.

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Oh, come on!!! They always have Woot Offs when I don't have any money! :rolleyes:
Guess I'll catch up on what I'm missing out on....

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anybody see a BOC yet

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Nope, but you can check here to see if you've missed it. It will show you everything that has been up.

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Another day of the woot-off.

Anyone pick up anything yet?

I'm still waiting for something interesting to show up.

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Almost bought the Acer 22in LCD but decided not to. So far I havent bought anything.

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I bought a 50" DLP from Best Buy about a year ago. I wish Woot had the Olevia 60" LCD back then. 60"ers back then were like >$4000.

Last night I couldn't go to sleep because I thought... what if the BOC was the next item? The solution: take my laptop to bed with me.

... no BOC yet. I already own leak frogs.

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I kinda hate when they do wine.woot detours on the day's I'm at work.
If I was able to get to the wine site, I may have bought a round of what they are offerering, just to get the darn woot-off moving along.

But since I'm not able to visit that site, no such luck.

Oh wells. I have a meeting to go to anyways.
Yay woot-off pause! :cool: :rolleyes: :p

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They're making the Bowl Of Cherries a very rare item this woot-off. Still no sign of them, yet.

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Bag of Crap now. But the servers are having issues.

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YES!!! YES!!! I have w00ted 3 BOCs!!! My life is complete :ahh:

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I was able to get to the I Want One page, but when I clicked on get 3 I got the "server is too busy" message. I was rather disappointed that it didn't work or stay consistent.

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Yet another chance to buy some cheap stuff!!

It's wootoff time!!!!

http://www.woot.com/

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Noooo!

Error 500 FTL.

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Was that during the arcade cabinet? lol
I finally got woot to come back & saw that around that time.
Oh wells.. No arcade cabinet this time around for me! :rolleyes:

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I wish I could have found something in the past two woot-offs...I feel bad not buying any of these good deals. I am taking my lap top to class, just to possibly get another round of BOC's

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The only thing I love about wootoffs other than the BoC is the wootoff song...

That song is incredibly catchy.

Other than those two things, i'm done with woot offs. The constant terrible vaccuum cleaners and that darned ROOMBA have really turned me away from this whole deal hehe.

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Agreed. The vacuums and roombas are getting annoying.

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Did they really just have an (actual) Bandolier of Carrots shirt that I missed?!?!?!

:(
So sad. That's what I get for going to my car at lunch time.
Oh wells.

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They did, and this is turning out to be the slowest woot off ever.

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And... I missed the actual BOC now I see. :(
Oh wells.. I haven't paid much attention to this one.:rolleyes:

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Darn my environmental studies class! I missed the last BOC due to that class too.

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I haven't bought anything in the last 3 woot-offs I don't think.
Kinda depressing.. Nothing really peaked my interest except things I missed like the Bandolier shirt, the BOC & the Monkeys.

I bought today's shirt though. w00t!

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I definitely bought the bacon salt. Oh god, I can't wait. If anyone wants to eat my cooking for the next year, they BETTER like bacon.

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woot 0ff!

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Hopefully more productive than the last.....

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I'm going to really regret showing all of you this (especially when BOC time rolls around), but has anyone else noticed that the next item up to be wooted is listed in the blog before it shows up on the main page??? lol
Programming error, or intentional? The world may never know!

Good stuff.


http://www.woot.com/
Compared to:
http://www.woot.com/Blog/

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Good job, Mr. Clock. You broke the Woot.com system! Now the world will implode on itself!!!

But seriously, good find. I never even knew they had a blog. I'm assuming it's intentional, but it could be that the servers get so busy that the blog posts before the actual item catches up. Who knows....

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Awesome... Now I can add Woot to the list of systems I've broken, on top of already large companies like Disney. lol (Yeah... I kinda broke the Monorail... long story. HA! - Search CD for the story if you're interested.:D )

As for the woot problem, it seemed to have been resolved.. So sad. I kinda liked the sneak peek of the next item.

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Another woot-off is upon us. :yikes:
I think I'll start my Christmas shopping in the morning by buying ridiculously priced... umm... stuff.

http://www.woot.com/

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Despite my history with these things, I think I might have money tomorrow to do a little Christmas shopping tomorrow.

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The last two wootoffs (at least), they have had Saitek Gamepads for around $5. We tested them with the new control system. See http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=10592

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Happy Ship Day! It's Woot Off Time!

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Why would they have woot off on ship day?!?!? that's so not fair

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Umm... yesterday was ship day in case you hadn't heard. :p
It's a post ship day woot-off!! YAY!

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check out shirt.woot today as well. The "love machine" is rather cute and fitting for the day after ship.

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No money. I'm starting to think this is a conspiracy! :p

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I got two green laser pointers. Sweet.

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I missed that sweet Razer Soundcard for only $50, but I don't really need it anyway. It's still a steal of a price though, which makes me a little sad.
I did get a razer (electric shaver this time, not the gaming peripherals) though. For only $30 with shipping for a Remington, how could I not?

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Here we go again.

Tweeters, you can follow @wootoff to stay up to date.

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Worst possible day. I have a test this morning then I'm in and out of class the rest of the day. Not to mention the fact that I'm broke. :(

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VEXplorer RC Robotic Construction System $79.99

get em while their hot!

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Just bought 2!

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Here we go again. Started at 1am.

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I've attempted to view the last two woot-offs and the servers crashed the second i did so. i had a friend on the phone who refreshed his page right before i opened mine and he was still fine (the second time at least) so i haven't bothered to look at all. i don't have any monies/an account anyways >.< maybe by the next woot-off i will.

[edit] i risked it and went there.... detour'd to wine.woot less than 20 minutes ago. -_-
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[edit2] either the BOC isn't tweeted or it hasn't been up yet
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Here we go again.

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I'm going to call that the BOC is going to be on there some time between 5pm & 6pm EST again.
It always comes up as I'm driving home. (re: The last 3 woot-offs)
Annoys me to no end! :mad:

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And one more time.

This time with added server errors.

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woot off.

I knew it was coming today.

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Wahoo!!

I have the woot ap for my iphone, and realized the item was up. Figured it was time, went to the computer and the next item was BOC! wahoo.

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Did anyone win an extra Memorex HD camcorder that they would like to sell to me? Please :D

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Uhh, out of curiosity... What is a woot-off?

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It's on woot.com. The site normally sells only one item per day at a cheap price, and once that item sells out, there is nothing else to buy on the site. During woot-offs (which last from 24-72 hours, and occur about once a month), they sell things one after another. Once one item sells out, they start selling the next.

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ha, I asked that same question about a year ago.

From wikipedia:

Woot-Off
The site occasionally deviates from the one-product-per-day model for a "Woot-Off", where a succession of products are available for a period of unannounced length, usually 24–72 hours. This mode is indicated by rotating lights and a bar displaying the percentage of product's stock remaining. When one product sells out, it is replaced within a minute or two by a new product. The percentage bar is the only indication of how much stock remains; Woot never gives the exact quantity available until after the item has sold out.
During April Fool's Day 2008, Woot staged a Woot-Off offering the same product repeatedly, except for a few brief periods when Woot sold Random Crap instead.

Bag of Crap
In lieu of typical product sales, Woot occasionally offers a blind grab bag officially called "Random Crap". Its accompanying picture has lent it the name "Bag of Crap" (BOC). The BOC contains at least three items whose value and quality are not guaranteed, but sometimes expensive items are included. The BOC typically triggers thousands of order requests and sells out within seconds. Processing a customer's order for a BOC may take over an hour.

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Anyone buy anything yet this time around?
Just picked up the flying monkeys with special orange cape!

Not sure if I'm diggin' the exclamation point shirt that's up right now.

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I got my first bag of crap, I've been trying for over a year. :yikes:

Also got a Vornado fan to help try and cure the odd temperature problems my dorm has, and I got the Pi shirt. Overall a good day.

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When did the BOC come up? I must have totally missed it.
Oh wells, I got 3 woot monkeys, & bought something for my Dad (which he may already have, so it may be mine, but oh wells! lol)

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BOC came up right around 3:40pm on Wednesday. Everything crashed, but I refreshed the page that Wootalyzer brought up a few times and it loaded. First time that has ever worked so I was happy.

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woot.com sounds fun! i will have to check it out sometime...maybe i could find a keyboard for my psp... yup thats how bored i am, im on my psp rGht now

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W00T Off is on, nice of them to wait until after ship