Oh hot "Broth of Chicken" -- when will you ship!?

--Bill

I expect high things with my bunch of corns

murphyw wrote:

Oh hot "Broth of Chicken" -- when will you ship!? --Bill

If it arrives hot, you know it's fresh. :-)

Trik wrote:

Below is my correspondence with woot regarding this issue. They have a more than apathetic tone, and seem to really not give a crap. Or maybe all the crap is in bags so they can't give me any. Whichever the case, I'm more than dissapointed. Hell at this point an automated email that said they were sorry would be better than this BS. I never got a reply to my last email. Oh well... maybe customer service is only availabe on a first come first serve basis starting at 12 midnight each night. Dan Seals <danseals@gmail.com> Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 2:41 AM To: service@woot.com Here is a screenshot of my order from the 11/4/05 Woot. Make it happen, I never got a confirmation (I sat there trying to input it for literally an hour) -Dan Seals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Woot : Service <servicewoot@woot.com> Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 8:18 AM To: Dan Seals <danseals@gmail.com> Order status is always located in Your Account and clicking on the item ordered. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Seals <danseals@gmail.com> Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 10:54 AM To: "Woot : Service" <servicewoot@woot.com> Well its not listed there. My screen-shot shows I was there, seems like 90% of people hit the Order button and nobody got any orders, how the heck did this thing sell out? Well obviously your server got slammed, I'm sympathetic to that, but I literally sat there for an hour last night trying to get one, and I know that you sold them during that time because of the site statistics. Are you saying my order didn't go through?! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Woot : Service <servicewoot@woot.com> Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 10:56 AM To: Dan Seals <danseals@gmail.com> if the order went through there would be an order number for the item under the "your account" tab at our website. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Seals <danseals@gmail.com> Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 11:02 AM To: "Woot : Service" <servicewoot@woot.com> ok "if the order went through there would be an order number for the item under the "your account" tab at our website." That seems fair. Now what happens when I press the "stupidly large 'buy it' button" when i'm ordering something? I'm expecting a reply of "your order is placed" Now thats great, why didn't that happen?! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Woot : Service <servicewoot@woot.com> Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 11:06 AM To: Dan Seals <danseals@gmail.com> im guessing because server overload caused many folks to have 100 attempts before the order was accepted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Seals <danseals@gmail.com> Fri, Nov 4, 2005 at 7:49 PM To: "Woot : Service" <servicewoot@woot.com> are you guys sorry that happened? do you care?

If it were me, I'd quickly fulfill every one of these type of complaints by just processing $8 orders.

Throw two pens and a stick of gum in a brown paper bag and take the profit!

phortres wrote:

You bitch about as well at Terrell Owens...he has been suspended indefinately...

I enjoy your two seemingly unrelated statements. Seriously what do these have to do with each other?

Terrell Owens gets paid millions of dollars to play a game. He should shut the F*#K up and play.

Should I be suspended? From Life?! ahhhhhhhh /em hangs himself.

backwords wrote:

This is my theory of what happened that day. Due to the massive amount of members in the WOOT community many people check everynight to see what the Woot of the day will be. Everyone was astonished and saw the BAG OF CRAP. Everyone except the totally new people knew this might be their only chance. Everyone clicked immediately causing the severs to overflood. Some lucky few who refreshed at the exact time got it right away. While others who were a couple of seconds and minutes off got hit with the server overflooding. Woot employies realized that very few people were actually buying the Bag of Crap. They knew something was wrong with their servers so to get rid of some people and delay the problem they did the unexpected. They put a phony "Sold Out!" sign. Everyone was all bummed and blamed the servers. Many people allmost killed themselves and went to sleep. Yet some dedicated few kept refreshing and refreshing hoping it would be for sale again. Woot employies figured that a lot of people left, so they started selling it again. They were wrong, so they put the "Sold Out!" sign back on. And then at around 2:30 AM CST 11/04/05 they started selling more. Many people had left by then and the servers had a break and many got their orders placed including me. This explains what happened on 11/04/05. If you look at the order chart thingy it shows that most were in the last hour because of the servers not getting orders in the begining.

Um, OK. Interesting theory, but I'll take Snapster's word for what really happened.

mini-update 11:44am - not that it matters now, but our codeslaves reported (once they woke up today) encountering and fixing an address change problem in the order process that was causing 30 second database hang ups (stacked on top of each other) last night. These would pile up while we were getting 1200 requests a second to the server. Once this code was streamlined, a final reboot and re-release allowed us to speed through remaining 600 orders in about 90 seconds.

Read for yourself in the wootbot post at the beginning of the thread. Code tweak and reboot totally explains the behavior we saw.

Now, who wants to track down where our tracking numbers are :)

Traking numbers are up. 4.5Lb package on its way 11/10 delivery estimate.... Wonder what it could be.

me too 4.5 lbs, 11/10. cant wait

4.5 lbs. seems to be the popular weight........mine due 11/11 in upstate NY. Isn't it the case that often the weights are the same just to facilitate shipping? I seem to remember this being true for other Bags O' C.

4.5 lbs here as well. Estimated Delivery 11/10.

4.5lbs Estimated 11/9 to Atl,GA

*sigh*
4.5 lbs and expect on 11/10 to Piscataway, NJ

I was secretly hoping for a 22 pounder :x

4.5 lbs for me too. I guess I did't get a 61inch DLP flat screen tv like I was hoping for...

ndfrlf2 wrote:

4.5 lbs here as well. Estimated Delivery 11/10.

Exact same for me in NC. We can only hope that good things can come in small, lightweight packages.

Btw, 1200 requests per second is freaking amazing. That should be enough to alleviate the angst for any thoughtful person.

4.5 pounds for 11/10

Same for me - 4.5 lbs, but due on 11/9/05 by Fedex. (Fedex has an amazing ability to get my packages to me one day before the scheduled day, however - usually. Hopefully this will be true for this Beverage of Choice.) I'll be glad to let you know what I get when I get it... (I'm in GA, btw, reason for 1 day earlier than everyone else, I assume.)

4.5 lb, 069537841061660 . Estimated delivery is 11/9.

MY experience on the 4th: I refreshed at the right time, I guess. Right after midnight (CST), I checked the site, saw it was the bag, and sped through the order without any errors. I started getting them, though, immediately after confirmation.

Shipped!!! 4.5 Pounds and delivery on the 9th to Kansas. Wooterville is on its way!

I got mine at 8:45 and got some Japanese or Chinese crap...I'll post photos later...

One question though....no paper bag or $5 discount this time around?

yup.... 4.5lbs also

hmmm 4.5 pounder due on the 11th
1 item

I seem to remember that last time I got one of these everyone's was 5.7 - I wonder if it's a average weight of all of the packages combined or somethin

4.5 headed to Twin Cities, MN. Due on Nov. 10. :) Can't wait. Still must be something worth something. WOOT WOOT WOOT!

Sweet, mine's scheduled for today! I'll let y'all know if it DOES get here today and what all I scored.

same here, 4.5lb

Las Vegas / 4.5 LBs / Nov.10

socal, 4.5lbs, 11.10

I'm glad to see that everyone is getting the 4.5 lb'er. In the early days of the Bag of Crap, they used to give us actual shipping weights, and everyone could guess. I saw my 4.5 lbs, and I was a little depressed, thinking that all I got was the standard crap, and nothing special. But, now that everyone is getting 4.5 lbs, my dim hope is rekindled. Now, I get to be let down twice by this crap. Yes!

I'm getting my 4.5lBeverage of Choicerp on the 10th to socal

4.5 lbs due on the 10th in central Jersey.
Psyched.

4.5 lbs here as well... due the 11th. :)

4.5 lbs. Due TODAY!!! Be still, my heart!

4.5 lbs here. Maybe it's all the same crap?

same.. 4.5lbs hope ill get it soon,

strange thing with my order tho, i never got a confirmation page.. i clicked on the huge button like 3,001,203,987.50 times and only thing that came out was the dreaded error.. i only stopped because something came out of my email that says my order went through. and yes it did..

w00t for my first woot!

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oh.. and its due sometime today. :)

mine is 4.5 lbs also.... hm this is getting interesting =P

4.5 lbs. as well and Due today!!

10.0 lbs due the 10th

heh heh heh, man... wonder what I scored? maybe an old time toaster or a lcd monitor? or could it be a... lol, just kidding, it says the standard 4.5 lbs -- must be the high density cardboard and a couple rocks thrown in for good measure... ;)

4.5 lbs also. Due 11/10 in DC.

4.5 lbs 11/10 to Fargo, ND
I think we're all getting pucks and sushi sets.

4.5 lb Box of Chocolates coming on the 10th to Socal.

I dont know how well you can tell what you have gotten from the weight. This is my lightest out of 3 Beverage of Choice and the last one i got had a shirt, puck, car magnets and it weighted in at 7.5lbs!

If woot would be kind enough to explain the shipping weight and how it works that would be great.