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Nato, who are you hearing that from? Is it just speculation amongst friends, or do you actually know someone who knows something about what woot is going to sell, and when?
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I was tempted by the wooden keyboard, but a) it's not much more expensive elsewhere, and b) in the half-minute it took me to decide, it sold out.
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I haven't been following this woot-off. Been busy with work, plus I forgot to do my timesheet last week so I'm a bit short of cash. I would've liked to try for the BOC, as I could have afforded THAT, at least, but *shrug* not too upset I missed it.
I've been looking at the community to see the past items every so often, and the only thing that caught my eye was that wooden keyboard. Neat!
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This is the first time I've ever watched a Woot-Off. I've got Wootaholics up to tell me when something new comes up, but even with that, I've missed several things that seem to have come and gone within seconds. The bag-o-crap I understand, but a digital tape measure?
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(I'm using the woot tracker at Bagsofcrap.com, and the one I'm using--they have like 4--doesn't have the descriptions, so I didn't know what the heck you were talking about at first!)
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zgator, during woot-offs they frequently sell off their leftovers, so they might only have ten or twenty of some of these things.
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I was in class for the bag of crap. I'm not really interested in anything else as I have just about no money right now.
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quote:Originally posted by Noemon: Nato, who are you hearing that from? Is it just speculation amongst friends, or do you actually know someone who knows something about what woot is going to sell, and when?
I asked the guy in charge of their website.
The BOC's always seem to come up when I'm not at the computer. Oh well, I got a nice mp3 player/audio recorder out of this woot-off.
They had 446 of those tape measures, but cheap items like that sell really fast. The Woot-offs are a like a big stress test on the website; they've got thousands of people refreshing like mad whenever it looks like a product is about to sell out. They've got their system upgraded from last year, so that it can handle the load a lot better, but they don't have a way to process credit cards faster than 4 or 5 every second. The processing for the bags of crap can take up to 20 minutes, I guess.
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I *had* a bag-o-crap and was filling out the credit card/shipping information only to learn that those bastidges don't ship to Hawaii. I almost had it delivered to my daughter on the mainland, but didn't.
I'm so disappointed. I only noticed this thread yesterday and have been having so much fun watching for something I might want. Posts: 2069 | Registered: May 2001
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I had it. I even got to the final yellow button. But I was delayed because the credit card they had on record, it turns out, is the one I lost last week, which I only discovered after they rejected it, and I had to reinput CC info.
I had been refreshing repeatedly when it came up. I was all over the damn thing, and the page loaded instantly.
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I made it to the final yellow button, too. But by the time I clicked it, it came back with "there is not enough to complete the order." Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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My mom has one and loves it - she even got it from woot... Yes I have introduced my mom to the wonder that is woot. Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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Dang! I can't believe I missed the roomba! Last time I looked it was a bluetooth headset *grumble*
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Well, it just came up but it sold out while I was trying to figure out how to up my order to three. They made it so you could only order one this time. Posts: 1547 | Registered: Jan 2004
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It always defaults to one, you have to change it to three, if you can reload your pages fast enough.
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Yeah, Chris, that was my problem. I was looking for where I could switch it, and by the time I realized you couldn't I had missed it.
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