I got my order in just in time, right before it sold out. I look at it like playing the lottery or shooting dice. If I get the Baggy of Crappy , I hit the jackpot. Otherwise, the lights will go under my Christmas tree along with the others I bought.

gwaki wrote:I just thought of this... So does woot prevent people from ordering with multiple accounts? I mean I have to believe some people would do it just to increase odds/

If they want the bassoons on crack that bad, let 'em.

My personal favorite method of distributing the burritos of chorizo is the $1,000,001 -$1,000,000 method. Stops bot-users that have a brain, and overcharges those w/o.

So... Why did they have 50,000 wootoff lights in there office?

insanedane wrote:Sounded like a good idea so I expanded it to the last year. Of the 259 business days:

0 ******************************* (31)
1 **************** (16)
2 ****************************** (30)
3 ********************** (22)
4 ********************** (22)
5 ********************************* (33)
6 ************************** (26)
7 ****************** (18)
8 *********************** (23)
9 ************************************** (38)

Chances based on data:

0 - 31 out of 259 chance = 11.97%
1 - 16 out of 259 chance = 6.18%
2 - 30 out of 259 chance = 11.58%
3 - 22 out of 259 chance = 08.49%
4 - 22 out of 259 chance = 08.49%
5 - 33 out of 259 chance = 12.74%
6 - 26 out of 259 chance = 10.04%
7 - 18 out of 259 chance = 6.95%
8 - 23 out of 259 chance = 8.88%
9 - 38 out of 259 chance = 14.67%

So 9 is still the best, 1 is still the worst, but 5 embrangles slightly less.

Well, how about only Mondays, for the last decade or so? Or just the last decade of Julys? How about just the second Monday in July for the entire history of the DJIA? Or just all Mondays in July to get a better sample?

Must.... have.... more.... DATA!!!!

CarolinaKSU wrote:

Come on zero!

At the current rate we should be at zero in about 3 1/2 years...... But what the hell, I'll have my BBAAGG OOFF CCRRAAPP! (and W00T! lights)

Actually I just need it to be down to 8136. I loose another chunk of retirement, but at least I'll have MY BAG!

Happy Birthday Woot and lets go almighty #1

zach12 wrote:So... Why did they have 50,000 wootoff lights in there office?

Because their warehouse was full of crap.

wow woot made about $5,00,000 by selling those crappy lights although, I bought one of those too; go number 5, Ha Ha

ejwalker3 wrote:This is the closest I've come to some apcray. I like the new system, just wanted to point out an assumption we were all following - that 10% of us would be getting apcray. It's possible that only 1% of us would get apcray or 99% could get apcray.

That would only be possible if the order numbers were also random. The order numbers are almost certainly handed out in numerical order, meaning that there would be an equal number of order #s ending with each digit. Hence, 1 out of every 10 people gets the right final digit. No more, no less.

It be even more poetic if Woot went public tomorrow. Their stock price could determine the burrito of chorizo outcome. Imagine 50,000 people running up the stock so it would end on their order number.

I say cheers to you Woot!! Happy birthday!! Come on 9!!!!

when do we find out whether we got the lights or apcray? do we just have to wait til we get it in the mail?

rlorenz89 wrote:My personal favorite method of distributing the burritos of chorizo is the $1,000,001 -$1,000,000 method. Stops bot-users that have a brain, and overcharges those w/o.

Pardon the ignorance, but what exactly did they do?

so what could we use the lights for i got one but not sure what i could use it for, possibly i could become a Mall Cop...?

Happy B-DAY

Go 1 go 1 go 1!!!!!!

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

3boysmom wrote:Pardon the ignorance, but what exactly did they do?

They made the price of a burrito of chorizo $1,000,001, but if you used a "coupon code" that was in the description, it took $1,000,000 off your total.

That was April 1st.

bringing out corpses bringing out corpses bringing out corpses

rkear2 wrote:when do we find out whether we got the lights or apcray? do we just have to wait til we get it in the mail?

Check the Dow Jones numbers Monday night. It's explained in the description on the Woot homepage.

Looking for a 2 to drop. Congrats woot for being around and giving more people a chance to win(?)! Early congrats to those whose number drops.

kredal wrote:They made the price of a burrito of chorizo $1,000,001, but if you used a "coupon code" that was in the description, it took $1,000,000 off your total.

That was April 1st.

I like that too. Thanks for filling me in. Also, I am looking forward to getting my lights even though a monkey would have been kind of cool.

maby they are giving apcray to everyone!


I mean maby, alot of people are bitching about it but they are the ones that use scripts and bots and stuff too, but if it is a chance thing GO 3

3boysmom wrote:Pardon the ignorance, but what exactly did they do?

last april fools woot sold a burrito of chorizo for 1,000,001 dollars, but they had a cupon code for a million bucks off the bot would try to buy it but who really has a million bucks

sshoultz wrote:Did anyone order enough lights to have say a 50% chance or 100% chance of getting a burrito of chorizo? I realize you can only order 1 per person/account. But, in my case there are three of us in the family who ordered one.

Probability doesn't work like that. You get a better chance if you buy more but it never reaches 100%. There's always a chance that you miss the number no mater how many you buy. Granted, if you have one of every number you know you'll get one, but these refer to the chances of getting those numbers. Here are the chances of getting at least one carp from 1 to 7 orders:

1 10.00000%
2 19.00000%
3 27.10000%
4 34.39000%
5 40.95100%
6 46.85590%
7 51.87871%

Anyway, you get the point.

burrito of chorizo



burrito of chorizo


burrito of chorizo

huujedi wrote:Go 1 go 1 go 1!!!!!!

No! No! Go 6! :D

sshoultz wrote:Did anyone order enough lights to have say a 50% chance or 100% chance of getting a burrito of chorizo? I realize you can only order 1 per person/account. But, in my case there are three of us in the family who ordered one.

Probability doesn't work like that. You get a better chance if you buy more but it never reaches 100%. There's always a chance that you miss the number no mater how many you buy. Granted, if you have one of every number you know you'll get one, but these refer to the chances of getting those numbers. Here are the chances of getting at least one carp from 1 to 7 orders:

1 10.00000%
2 19.00000%
3 27.10000%
4 34.39000%
5 40.95100%
6 46.85590%
7 51.87871%

Anyway, you get the point.

I placed my order this morning before work. I did not get a confirmation right away. I wasn't worried because I read many comments that the confirmations were taking a while.

When I came home, I still did not have a confirmation. Luckily, it wasn't sold out yet. I tried again, paying with PayPal like I always have here on woot. There was a processing error saying something about they don't accept paypal accounts that have no funds and are backed by bank accounts because it takes too long to verify. So I used my debit card.

Is this new? I never keep money in my paypal account, but have always used it for woot orders.

DJIA prediction: 8191

COME ON 1!

This is more fun than roulette.

Number 2 club go!

I'm going to be so pwned on if the number is 2 and I get all lights and nothing else.
Especially if the box is huge and filled to the brim with lights

A better way, IMO, would be to reward the wooters with the most woots and work your way down until the apcray is gone. No one really knows who has the most or how many past woots it would take to make the apcray grade. Of course I may feel this way because I am working on #116.

sshoultz wrote:Did anyone order enough lights to have say a 50% chance or 100% chance of getting a burrito of chorizo? I realize you can only order 1 per person/account. But, in my case there are three of us in the family who ordered one.

Probability doesn't work like that. You get a better chance if you buy more but it never reaches 100%. There's always a chance that you miss the number no mater how many you buy. Granted, if you have one of every number you know you'll get one, but these refer to the chances of getting those numbers. Here are the chances of getting at least one carp from 1 to 7 orders:

1 10.00000%
2 19.00000%
3 27.10000%
4 34.39000%
5 40.95100%
6 46.85590%
7 51.87871%

Anyway, you get the point.

Everyone, join in!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WOOT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WOOT

YOU LOOK LIKE A SCREAMING MONKEY~

AND YOU SMELL LIKE ONE TOO!

(also, capslock is cruise control for cool.)
I hope I get a B O C!

sshoultz wrote:Did anyone order enough lights to have say a 50% chance or 100% chance of getting a burrito of chorizo? I realize you can only order 1 per person/account. But, in my case there are three of us in the family who ordered one.

Probability doesn't work like that. You get a better chance if you buy more but it never reaches 100%. There's always a chance that you miss the number no mater how many you buy. Granted, if you have one of every number you know you'll get one, but these refer to the chances of getting those numbers. Here are the chances of getting at least one carp from 1 to 7 orders: (percent)

1 10.00000
2 19.00000
3 27.10000
4 34.39000
5 40.95100
6 46.85590
7 51.87871

Anyway, you get the point.

I hope I'm unlucky.

sshoultz wrote:Did anyone order enough lights to have say a 50% chance or 100% chance of getting a burrito of chorizo? I realize you can only order 1 per person/account. But, in my case there are three of us in the family who ordered one.

Probability doesn't work like that. You get a better chance if you buy more but it never reaches 100%. There's always a chance that you miss the number no mater how many you buy. Granted, if you have one of every number you know you'll get one, but these refer to the chances of getting those numbers. Here are the chances of getting at least one carp from 1 to 7 orders: (percent)

1 10.00000
2 19.00000
3 27.10000
4 34.39000
5 40.95100
6 46.85590
7 51.87871

Anyway, you get the point.

jenopy wrote:
(also, capslock is cruise control for cool.)

This is amazing.. I'll be quoting you sometime in the future! THNX.

Common 0

straka2537113 wrote:last april fools woot sold a burrito of chorizo for 1,000,001 dollars, but they had a cupon code for a million bucks off the bot would try to buy it but who really has a million bucks

That was actually 2007.

2008 was the neverending Woot-Off of Black and Decker batteries with random apcray sales throughout the day, and 2009 was the million dollar shipping, with a coupon code of a secret!, since people in Texas got screwed by the sales tax on the Million Dollar apcray.

I got all three. =)

Serves me right for forgetting that it's woot's birthday. DRAT IT!

At 3:59 PM tommorow I'll will buy/sell a DOW components and change the closing number!

Figure that into the probability equation.