jaymanmsu wrote:I would like to remind all first-time Shiner BOCk drinkers -- and those who have not gotten one in a while -- to enter and update your info at bFusion's crap tracker at http://wootsack.bfusion.net/index.php

So if I'm not first timer, and have gotten one recently I don't have to enter? :/

On a serious note, I did enter mine, but the page for current crаp is mislabeled as 5/27/10, while the actual BоC offering was on 5/26/10... Just thought I'd let you know...

its not letting me enter mine....the submit button is disabled...

LEM- wrote:So if I'm not first timer, and have gotten one recently I don't have to enter? :/

You still have to enter, I just shouldn't have to remind you.

I just added mine and my hubbys craps on the spreadsheet......

troyal82 wrote:its not letting me enter mine....the submit button is disabled...

Above the submit button it says something about click here....click there and some numbers will appear and just type them on your keyboard as you see them, once you do that the submit button will become active, because you verified your humanity!! lol

weird....I swear I tried that before and it did nothing...worked now. Thanks!

kayboss wrote:Above the submit button it says something about click here....click there and some numbers will appear and just type them on your keyboard as you see them, once you do that the submit button will become active, because you verified your humanity!! lol

bmxjimp wrote:Maybe I should be a moderator...

Then you could change your name to JIMP! Hehehehe

SuperTully wrote:Surely the street must be at least?

I just double checked and my street is not on there either. Probably good for google cause my neighbors don't take kindly to strangers. I live 1 1/2 miles down a dead end road...in the middle of the woods.

I have a question. Last time I got a Bowl of Cereal was for the April Happy Hour and I am now wondering whether I got ripped off by the Post Office. I received a tripod, a camera bag, and a children's microscope/telescope set. According to the rules I should of had another piece of crap in my Bowl of Cereal, unless they are counting the toy as two craps (which seems kind of stupid, as it is in one box). Perhaps someone at the PO took a five finger discount?

nolaw17 wrote:I have a question. Last time I got a Bowl of Cereal was for the April Happy Hour and I am now wondering whether I got ripped off by the Post Office. I received a tripod, a camera bag, and a children's microscope/telescope set. According to the rules I should of had another piece of crap in my Bowl of Cereal, unless they are counting the toy as two craps (which seems kind of stupid, as it is in one box). Perhaps someone at the PO took a five finger discount?

you are supposed to get a minimum of 3 items and it looks like you got three to me.


THE HOLY CRAP COMMANDMENTS v3.0

I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond ONE bag of some kind and THREE crappy items.
II. Thou shalt not whine and complain when some people’s crap turns out to be nicer than yours.
III. Thou shalt take a moment to consider whether you might be better off just not buying this crap.
IV. Thou shalt not expect better crap just because things are different this time. Crap is crap.
V. To paraphrase Stephen Stills, shalt thou not get the crap you want, want the crap you get.

I added my order number to the spreadsheet. I love the anticipation of seeing what everyone gets.

To the Woot Gods:
I have a request. A friend of mine just posted on FB that her young son had his MP3 player stolen at a church function of all places. If it is not too much trouble would you please include a fully functional MP3 in my crap so that I can give it to him.

Thank you

jaymanmsu wrote:You still have to enter, I just shouldn't have to remind you.

You should remind to everybody, and at least on every other page! Trust me, many people don't read beyond a page back, if at all! In previous threads I've posted my smartpost guide (coming up when there's some movement) every so often, and still people asked how to track by reference or find their dimensions - even later on the same page! That just tells you how far back they read, and some of them were far from being first timers!

After five years of trying, I finally got my big ol' carburetor. I can't wait to see what arrives!

nolaw17 wrote:I have a question. Last time I got a Bowl of Cereal was for the April Happy Hour and I am now wondering whether I got ripped off by the Post Office. I received a tripod, a camera bag, and a children's microscope/telescope set. According to the rules I should of had another piece of crap in my Bowl of Cereal, unless they are counting the toy as two craps (which seems kind of stupid, as it is in one box). Perhaps someone at the PO took a five finger discount?

Jeus wrote:
you are supposed to get a minimum of 3 items and it looks like you got three to me.


THE HOLY CRAP COMMANDMENTS v3.0

I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond ONE bag of some kind and THREE crappy items.
II. Thou shalt not whine and complain when some people’s crap turns out to be nicer than yours.
III. Thou shalt take a moment to consider whether you might be better off just not buying this crap.
IV. Thou shalt not expect better crap just because things are different this time. Crap is crap.
V. To paraphrase Stephen Stills, shalt thou not get the crap you want, want the crap you get.

3 items and a bag. nolaw17, email support and nicely explain the situation, they've taken care of me the two times I've been short an item or bag.

Holy crap, I finally got a Bowl of Cereal. the 27th was a good day.

http://twitpic.com/1rc7af

I'd like a new car, please, to replace the one I rolled down a hill into a ravine back in February. The replacement car we had our eyes on got sold last night and it wasn't to us. *sad*

There is plenty of room in front of our house for large deliveries.

Thank you for your consideration.

(...laughing...)

hungryjack76 wrote:I just double checked and my street is not on there either. Probably good for google cause my neighbors don't take kindly to strangers. I live 1 1/2 miles down a dead end road...in the middle of the woods.

They could always use Google Earth and get a good satellite view.

drift7 wrote:Then you could change your name to JIMP! Hehehehe

Oh noes! You're on to my plan!!1

LOL. Actually, I think I'd have to be an Administrator to change a username, and maybe not even then depending on how Woot has utilized the "username" (instead of user ID) across their various website features...

i have never gotten a Barn of Chestnuts. NEVER in 4 years.

My first ever woot and I got a Bowl of Cereal! hope it keeps me coming back for more :D

I can't stop checking the site every 30 minutes to see if it has shipped yet... LOL

genuisdog wrote:My first ever woot and I got a Bowl of Cereal! hope it keeps me coming back for more :D

Congrats! It took me the better part of 2 years to get my first bag, and you got one on your first try! You will find that it is the most addictive thing on woot, to try and get a bag and then track it relentlessly in the week or so that it takes to get to you.

awtherfrd wrote:I can't stop checking the site every 30 minutes to see if it has shipped yet... LOL

I hear ya .... I can't wait for a tracking number so I can track the package via my droid like an incessant maniac.

Also added my stuff to the spreadsheet.

It says that there were Bowl of Cereal's on
4/14
4/28
5/06
Is that correct? I didn't see them, very confused.

Lakemen wrote:It says that there were Bowl of Cereal's on
4/14
4/28
5/06
Is that correct? I didn't see them, very confused.

Sometimes they have a Bowl of Cereal during Happy Hour, an event that is only announced via Twitter.

Lakemen wrote:It says that there were Bowl of Cereal's on
4/14
4/28
5/06
Is that correct? I didn't see them, very confused.

Book of Crap on 4/14, 5/06?
Secret Book of Crap? Hum...

SuperTully wrote:They could always use Google Earth and get a good satellite view.

All they would see would be a bunch of trees...

Just got my shipping # for my monkies, haven't got one for the Bag of Colombian yet, tho.

hellotoe wrote:Just got my shipping # for my monkies, haven't got one for the Bag of Colombian yet, tho.

The anticipation grows!

Hrmpf! They've shipped my flying screaming monkey already but not my Randon Crap. Hrm. They've taken my money and I've got my receipt so I hope I actually get one. Would be my first.

osiris73 wrote:Hrmpf! They've shipped my flying screaming monkey already but not my Randon Crap. Hrm. They've taken my money and I've got my receipt so I hope I actually get one. Would be my first.

In the past they have always shipped my Bowl of Cereal after the rest of my wootoff orders. My guess would be Monday or Tuesday.

hungryjack76 wrote:In the past they have always shipped my Bowl of Cereal after the rest of my wootoff orders. My guess would be Monday or Tuesday.

Since Monday is a US holiday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

GuardianBob wrote:Since Monday is a US holiday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

They promise, that all orders are shipped within 5 business days, and while most regular orders are shipped a lot faster than that - BоC's usually take the full term to go out (which means that more often than not orders made after BоC beat them in shipping department). While there's been exceptions, most of craps I've bought shipped on or close to the 5th business day. Which, given a Monday holiday isn't until Thursday. If they do ship before that - we should consider ourselves lucky!

As far as I am concerned, I'd rather have my crаp shipped later, but have Woot box stuffers take the time to put lots of nice goodies in it, than have them hustly fill it with less stuff just to get it out a day sooner!

All that said, it's now the third day that I have the track by reference set-up for it, and refreshing it at every opportunity... You never know!

LEM- wrote:They promise, that all orders are shipped within 5 business days, and while most regular orders are shipped a lot faster than that - BоC's usually take the full term to go out (which means that more often than not orders made after BоC beat them in shipping department). While there's been exceptions, most of craps I've bought shipped on or close to the 5th business day. Which, given a Monday holiday isn't until Thursday. If they do ship before that - we should consider ourselves lucky!

As far as I am concerned, I'd rather have my crаp shipped later, but have Woot box stuffers take the time to put lots of nice goodies in it, than have them hustly fill it with less stuff just to get it out a day sooner!

All that said, it's now the third day that I have the track by reference set-up for it, and refreshing it at every opportunity... You never know!

I hear ya, I just refreshed like 3 times in a row because I thought that just MAYBE I might get lucky and have a tracking number show up in the 15 seconds it took me to refresh.

Wishful thinking I guess. ;)

Oh I love the joy of hunting for a Bowl of Cereal tracking number.

ThunderThighs wrote:Uhm... 2nd day. You don't count the day of the sale. That's just cheatin' right there.

Why?
I entered the order number in FedEx track by reference site almost as soon as the sale went through. That was on Wednesday, and was first day that I was trying to track it, Thursday was second day, and today is third!

I'm not holding you guys up to counting day of sale for the purpose of determining when the 5th day is... but I am trying to track it for the third day now. :/

So how is that cheating?

ThunderThighs wrote:Because normally our sales don't end until midnight. Orders aren't processed until the next day. Just don't want you to start stomping and pounding the thread walls on Thursday. Wait until Friday.

So be it! As I mentioned above - I'd rather have my BоC ship later with good stuff, then to rush Woot Gods into getting them out sooner! Now this being my 10th BоC - I've learned to wait and be patient. But the poor first timers will have to adjust to this waiting. Especially with a holiday eating a precious day!

...and yet - I'd still be refreshing that Track By Reference tab, even in the middle of the night, and even on weekend/holiday.... Sorry FedEx, you'd have to put up with that extra load I'll have to put on your servers!

dseisler wrote:Dear Woot-

In order to ensure we all get the crap we ordered, and the crap you put into our wonderful bags of cheerios, please use extra tape on the box. Although this will not fully protect the content, it will make it more of a deterrent for those unethical postal workers or unethical sub-contracted postal workers. (They can play the game on their own to get their own crap)

I wouldn't even mind if the price was increased by .50 or $1 to ensure this.

btw, I can not thank you enough for my crap. The excitement of the Bowl of Cereal is enough to give me such a positive attitude even when I spill my milk.

I agree. My last Bowl of Cereal had the tape missing from the bottom of the box and I had only 2 craps. I'm pretty sure it happened at FedEx, since it only spent about 3 hours with my local USPS from arrival to delivery.

This will probably be one of the last craps I get for a while. I'll be joining the airforce soon and once I'm in, then I wont be able to do this kind of stuff! I hope this ones a good one!