bobpaul wrote:They realized $49.99 wasn't competitive.

No, it wasn't supposed to go at $49.99 but our Pentium 1 66MHz server wouldn't allow us to set the price correctly before it launched. Everyone gets the $39.99 price, no one will be charged 449.99.

Mysteria1884 wrote:Gotta love when someone who joined May 2009 and who has only bought two things flips out b/c they didn't get the bee oh see.

2.5 years, 34 woots, no bee oh sees for me. I'm too far from Houston to get it.

I hear ya..... 5 years this month and 133 woots, and only once did I get the bee oh sees.

NightGhost wrote:LOL

My son told me that the dog was acting frantic, so of course he let him down to the basement game room where he was playing COD, instead of letting the dog out...

So you can guess what the dog did in the basement.

So while I was cleaning up the doggie scaffolding, i missed the bag!

Looks as if the servers were so tied up I wouldn't gotten through anyhow - Wootalyzer and Wooters.us failed to load the buy page.

Wootalyzer and Wooters.us=FAIL

haku wrote:so you are saying that even after knowing for years how the servers and connection are not sufficient, that w00t is still not able to do anything like, buy servers that will handle the traffic, or hire someone that knows what the hell they are doing ?

LOL, strange huh?

How do I know when there is a "bag of cap"? That's easy, I loose my woot connection.

You can get a NEW drive,With Cables, for a similar price on mwave.

BigD wrote:No, it wasn't supposed to go at $49.99 but our Pentium 1 66MHz server wouldn't allow us to set the price correctly before it launched. Everyone gets the $39.99 price, no one will be charged 449.99.

Hooray!!!

BigD wrote:No, it wasn't supposed to go at $49.99 but our Pentium 1 66MHz server wouldn't allow us to set the price correctly before it launched. Everyone gets the $39.99 price, no one will be charged 449.99.

from woot staff cool you should speak more often

BigD wrote:No, it wasn't supposed to go at $49.99 but our Pentium 1 66MHz server wouldn't allow us to set the price correctly before it launched. Everyone gets the $39.99 price, no one will be charged 449.99.

Hooray!!!

crowsnest wrote:FED-EX FREIGHT ON THE WAY TO MY HIZZLE NOW. SUPPOSED TO ARRIVE TOMORROW, BUT IT STILL SAYS ITS IN SOUTHHAVEN THAT I DONT UNDERSTAND BUT FED EX SAID BEING DELIVERED TOMORROW SO..............................

blah blah blah

BigD wrote:No, it wasn't supposed to go at $49.99 but our Pentium 1 66MHz server wouldn't allow us to set the price correctly before it launched. Everyone gets the $39.99 price, no one will be charged 449.99.

Thank you, woot. I still love you.

newegg has 500gb drives for 49.99 shipped if you click the "email promotions" link to get the promo code.

Cameraman wrote:Better sell some computers next woot, I just punched a hole through mine.

Then how are you typing this?

BigD wrote:No, it wasn't supposed to go at $49.99 but our Pentium 1 66MHz server wouldn't allow us to set the price correctly before it launched. Everyone gets the $39.99 price, no one will be charged 449.99.

Is that the same Timex Sinclair 2000 that delivered the Bucket Of Chum...?

chriswirz wrote:You can get a NEW drive,With Cables, for a similar price on mwave.

Again, this is a drive with a 32mb cache, as opposed to the 16mb you linked. Although kudos for at least pointing out that it's similar rather than claiming it's identical, like most seem to.

phr wrote:newegg has 500gb drives for 49.99 shipped if you click the "email promotions" link to get the promo code.

THIS IS WOOT!!!!

(you know...this is SPARTA!...ahem..okay)

Well, I got myself a new hard drive. My current one is about to die soon. It's a 4 year old Western Digi 200GB 5,400. I'll probably just use it as a backup until it does die..

gr8byes wrote:What a sham. there is no reason anyone should be able to get 4-5-6 of these in a row when there are those of us that couldn't even get on the website. Woot leaps into the vacuum. goodbye. I hope all your bags are filled with deformed Star Wars figures.

Really! What's with all the newbies getting these when there are people who've been around since 2005 and haven't gotten one? Shouldn't they like, grandfather people in for one after a while?

tango645 wrote:Thank you, woot. I still love you.

I'm holding out for the make-up sex...

notthaticare wrote:Not a good price for a 6mo warranted refurb!

... woot! dropped the price

Well, $45 is better than $55. Drop it another $10 and you'll be getting close to a deal.

On the 12th day of the Wootoff, my true love gave to meeeeeee:

*takes deep breath*

12 iPods touching
11 Monitors subbing
10 Roombas cleaning
9 LCD HDTV-ing (yes i was punchy when i wrote this)
8 Cameras megapixeling
7 remote controls universaling
6 coffee makers brewing
FIIIIIIIVE Glowwwww Liiights!! (yes I know, it should be four lights. Sorry.)
4 2-way radios
3 netbooks
2 cooling mats....

And a B O C with a monkeeeeeeeeeeey!

scaffolding! Missed the scaffolding while I was.......WORKING!!! LOL

bobpaul wrote:They realized $49.99 wasn't competitive.

EG: http://puredigitalusa.com/product_info.php?products_id=1292

The drive in that link has a 16MB cache. The one in the Woot has a 32MB cache.

■Annual Failure Rate: 0.34 %

woot's failure rate for offering this pos 100%

Apparently someone took a big ol' baby of the cosmos, set it in front of Woot's web server and lit it on fire.

On the bright side, I stopped caring about the fact that it's a woot-off and got some sleep instead of watching for a bag. They've already binned you into what you'd get if you did manage to buy one anyway. And frankly I see no reason to waste my money knowing I really would just get scaffolding.

sillypickle wrote:Then how are you typing this?

I use my n800. It's a little awkward, but it works. Maybe he has a computer alternative as well.

In for one. I'm still using a an old Maxtor PATA drive that's about 6 years old. Since my MB has a SATA port, I think I should start using it.

Mysteria1884 wrote:Gotta love when someone who joined May 2009 and who has only bought two things flips out b/c they didn't get the bee oh see.

2.5 years, 34 woots, no bee oh sees for me. I'm too far from Houston to get it.

DUDE YOU GOTS ISSUES

Does anyone know if you could use this hard drive to upgrade a PS3?

So I have a question for the carp hunters: Will you enjoy the toothbrush sterilizer more when it comes randomly in a bag?

haku wrote:so you are saying that even after knowing for years how the servers and connection are not sufficient, that w00t is still not able to do anything like, buy servers that will handle the traffic, or hire someone that knows what the hell they are doing ?

So you are saying that they should spend all that extra money to handle what is effectively a DDOS that happens only once in a blue moon? When they don't even really lose out, because they sold them all anyway, and were back up soon after to offer the next item?

Seems like a bad idea to me...

BigD wrote:No, it wasn't supposed to go at $49.99 but our Pentium 1 66MHz server wouldn't allow us to set the price correctly before it launched. Everyone gets the $39.99 price, no one will be charged 449.99.

You guys have some sweet gear.

Bah! I didn't notice it was 'refurbished'. They bring this up right after conditioning everyone to click as fast as possible with the bag-o-scaffolding. What a giant SCREWING I just took. And of course there is NO WAY TO CANCELL the order, even when it is still selling. Shame on Woot!

BigD wrote:No, it wasn't supposed to go at $49.99 but our Pentium 1 66MHz server wouldn't allow us to set the price correctly before it launched. Everyone gets the $39.99 price, no one will be charged 449.99.

Haha oh Woot we all love you, even if you are a bit stingy with the Buckets of Calamari.

BigD wrote:No, it wasn't supposed to go at $49.99 but our Pentium 1 66MHz server wouldn't allow us to set the price correctly before it launched. Everyone gets the $39.99 price, no one will be charged 449.99.

449.99? Whoa!

Hey, at least we know they see the images we have of their server room.



Thanks woot!meisters for keeping your sense of humor even with all of the Boggy Old Creature grumbling!

Damn! No Box of Cheerios after being on Woot for 28 hours - 2 hours of driving time!!

I is sad.

BigD wrote:No, it wasn't supposed to go at $49.99 but our Pentium 1 66MHz server wouldn't allow us to set the price correctly before it launched. Everyone gets the $39.99 price, no one will be charged 449.99.

Hilarious! I love this response (and the damn server frustrated him so much he didn't press SHIFT for the $ - tough day my man

dbody wrote:blah blah blah

DONT CRY!!!! CRYBABY!!! LOLOLOLOLLOLOOLOLOLOLOL

Bah! I didn't notice it was 'refurbished'. They bring this up right after conditioning everyone to click as fast as possible with the bag-o-scaffolding. What a giant SCREWING I just took. And of course there is NO WAY TO CANCELL the order, even when it is still selling. Shame on Woot! There should at least be a way to cancel the order until near the end of the sale on that item.

crowsnest wrote:FED-EX FREIGHT ON THE WAY TO MY HIZZLE NOW. SUPPOSED TO ARRIVE TOMORROW, BUT IT STILL SAYS ITS IN SOUTHHAVEN THAT I DONT UNDERSTAND BUT FED EX SAID BEING DELIVERED TOMORROW SO..............................

Southaven you say? May I ask if you are close to Memphis?