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This stuff is going ridiculously quick. I can barely decide whether I am interested before it sells out.
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We're now stuck on tire pressure monitors LOL. I think it went 10 items in about 45 minutes before these posted. And we've already had our first server crash of the Woot Off.
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Normally Woot posts one item a day at midnight Central time. When it sells out, that's it till the next midnight.
However, about once a month, they hold a Woot Off. First item lists at midnight, but as soon as that item sells out, another one replaces it. And it keeps on going for roughly 36-48 hours. Smaller quantities of items, usually leftovers of items that didn't sell out on the daily listings.
And then there's the BOC. Usually the last item in a Woot Off (but has been known to appear earlier to confuse the regulars or even on rare occasion on the daily listing), you have absolutely NO idea what you're getting on this one but it's up to three items at a buck an item plus shipping. BOCs are guaranteed to crash the servers as everyone and their uncle tries to get in on that action.
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Gah! Somebody buy the home theater system so we can get something else up. I've been watching it for 15 minutes already!
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Possibly wrongful, but since I don't know how to link-share a soon-to-disappear WOOT! tale...
Once upon a time, wootie-pies, there was a handsome young man who came upon an iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220. The iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 could sense and find dirt, provide up to 120 minutes of cleaning power, recharge in three hours and was smarter than any regular vacuum, yet was lying there, unable to move. The young man looked down, and saw that the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 was caught on a piece of a pizza box that was smeared with peanut butter and cat hair. The young man clicked his tongue with pity and helped the poor Roomba free. It did not say thank you or look back, it merely rolled on, cleaning the forest and heading toward the recharge station it called home. The young man went along his own path as well.
Years went by, and the young man was now old, and had also somehow been captured by bandits! The bandits threw the old young man into a pit full of sharp sticks and poorly stuffed bean bags. They yelled from above and threw inexpensive cheese at his face, as bandits often do. From deep in the dark corner of the pit, the old young man heard a rumbling of stair-sensing technology coming to lif, and he trembled as it began moving through the Virtual Walls that kept it in check, growing closer and closer to him…
It was the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 he had rescued all those years ago! Surely, he thought to himself, surely it will repay my kindness today! But no, my friends, the iRobot Roomba Discovery SE 4220 simply rolled over him without remorse, pity, or any spark of good intentions whatsoever, as though he were just another dust bunny.
And that brings us to our moral, wootie-pies. For now you understand why all of nature abhors a vacuum.
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Someone broke the site. Runtime error on the main page and the blog page, forums are responsive enough where people are posting in the last item about the error. They must have finally posted the BOC. Or flying monkeys.
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Looks like the monkeys mark the end of the woot off--I'm not seeing the rotating lights and reverse progress bar.
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Oh, man, I missed a coffee maker. The last one I got from woot broke the other day, and I've been keeping my eye on the site for another one.
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I could have got a bag o' crap, but it needed my card's security code and I didn't have it ready And it sold out...
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I was so close -- I know my card's code and entered it quickly, but darn page took too long to load. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Not quiote sure how this one's gonna work, actually. There were several BoCs this time but each one sold out almost instantly and many folks (myself included) thought they were solid until they got the dreaded "Sorry, we're sold out, but you're in line" message. This happened to me twice today.
The description of this last one makes me wonder if everyone "on line" will get one, or just the people that got one of the last ones, or what.
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As in, just about anything. They guarantee what's in them will be worth at least as much as the price, and possibly a lot more. Some people have received giant HDTVs in their bag of crap.
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