dbamberg wrote:For me it's always been patience. Click the button. Give it a chance to load. Put in code and click button. Wait. Give it a chance to load. Click giant button. Wait for email confirmation. Nothing more. Not obsessively hitting F5 or refresh

Agreed. It took almost two minutes to the first gold button, then another two to the second one, and then about a week before I got the confirmation screen.

Saved by the iPhone... N41

SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NightGhost wrote:I'm with you on that. I buttafuocoed many times, and while I may have whined a bit, I certainly would never criticize someone for celebrating.

I play poker, and I've had to endure opponents standing up, dancing, and shrieking when they put a beat on me. But I realize that they're just pumped at their own good fortune, and aren't trying to diss me.

Same here, except you didn't put a beat on anyone specifically. Celebrate away!!!

I wanna play some poker with you! :-) I'm tired of whiners ... in all walks of life! I've only been lucky 3 times now at the Bucket of Candy, but sure am happy with all the rest of the great deals I get from Woot! And if I don't care for Woot's deal ... I look elsewhere. Life is full of choices & those that choose to whine here, well .... Woot needs to add another section of cheese! LOL

After 5 years of unsuccessfully clicking on "I want one", finally today "I got one". The gloating of previous winners notwithstanding, we had come to the conclusion that it was not possible to procure a bag of random crap from our location. Now we know that miracles are possible even from our IP address in the hills of Virginia. It's good to not be getting off the bowl all of the time.

Got One! had to use my iphone, since woot is blocked on my computers at work. i was shocked i made it in on time.

I was able to get one this time. I did have wooters.us up and heard the sound but did the normal "buy one" button. After an agonizingly long time I got the order page and then the confirmation page. No special skillz or robots other than hearing the sound from wooters, and I actually saw the screen on another browser session before that went off. It's been a long dry spell since my last bag so I hope it's nifty. Thanks, Woot!

Ah finally my crap cherry is BUSTED, s a t i s f a c t i o n ! Thanks WOOT!

The Carp... She is MINE!

Muahahahahhaha

my second... last was a bust tho

dt40748 wrote:Somehow, and I have no idea how, but woot must know that I am getting married in two weeks! That is just enough time to get my Bucket of Candy (for the first time during an actual woot-off) to my door. HOW DID YOU KNOW? I am forever greatful for the gift, in advance. My wife-to-be, also very excited!

Actually, your box may come while you're off on your honeymoon. Quite a few of the last round of craps took more than 2 weeks to arrive.

Bah, I was in a lab!

tmcronin wrote:After 5 years of unsuccessfully clicking on "I want one", finally today "I got one". The gloating of previous winners notwithstanding, we had come to the conclusion that it was not possible to procure a bag of random crap from our location. Now we know that miracles are possible even from our IP address in the hills of Virginia. It's good to not be getting off the bowl all of the time.

got hung on the credit card accept screen again :<

wootai82 wrote:Got One! had to use my iphone, since woot is blocked on my computers at work. i was shocked i made it in on time.

holy crap woot is blocked at your work? and i thought my place blocked everything?

thanks Woot! My first bucket of candy My family scattered around the country is sooooooo jealous

Just for grins, and because someone asked me to on previous threads, I made a tally of what I got in my 12 Bags so far.

For the number of items, multiple identical iterations of a single item count as one. Little extra bits, like paper clips, paper scraps, empty plastic bags and such are not counted.

I define a "Used" item as something I found a purpose for. The purpose may be giving away or donating to a charity auction. A "Real Good" item is something that I may or may not have purchased in the normal course of things, but was happy to receive. The Bags are listed separately.

Twelve Baskets of Cats Contained:

49 total craps, of which 8 were "used" and 10 were "real good". That leaves 31 (64%) of the items being true crap. But it also means that 36% wasn't. I suppose on average I got one or two decent items per bag.

12 Bags, of which 4 were used and 3 were real good.

Got my second! I am all a twitter in anticipation!

PeterDave wrote:What I think is in poor taste, is you singling me out of more than 100 posts of people celebrating their luck. Many "bragging" about 10 or more Bucket of Candy in their wooting career. Really, those are just statement of facts.

If you get pulled over for speeding, do you complain that the guy in the car behind you was also speeding? Just because somebody else has committed the same error, doesn't make your own error any less erroneous. And yours was the first I saw that bragged about an unreasonable number of Craps and had absolutely nothing else to say. At least the other commenters had some interesting information on how they scored. I'm also unimpressed with people who have nothing more to post than "missed this one". Again, no real contribution there other than seeing your avatar pop up again.

And poker buddies who gloat after a win? That's also in poor taste.

It's really astoundingly egotistical to say that a perfect stranger should be happy for you because you scored one, or ten. Especially in a zero-sum game such as this.

yessss 2nd one!! woot!

I wanted the horn before the crap but when I clicked to buy it was locked up...I knew the crap was on the table. After about 30 refreshes it came up and with a little patience I got through and got my random crap.

Dear Woot! Put the horn up again!

Like usally, the damn servers crashed. I got a purchse page, and when I hit the gold button I got the gold finger. Oh SNAP, something went wrong, we need your password. Hell I was logged in and buying crap all day, why did it need it then. Crappy WOOT!!!!!!

Now.... I got one of these random crap things before.... and it was SUPPOSED to be a Bountiful October Cornucopia, yet w00t in their infant wisdom shipped a BOX of crap.

Now... Lets see if I get what I freaking ordered the LAST time... a Bountiful October Cornucopia.

Dang bait and swichers!

Hmmmmmm --- like last time --- too easy. Something is afoot... maybe the smart Wooters are avoiding this "obsolete calendar" time. Years of trying, and 2 in a row.... Hmmmm... "Let's let the dumb Wooters take all of the calendars -- I'll get the 50 Sansas next time. Booo hahaha!" We'll see, my Wooties, we'll see....

zeroelement wrote:grrr sever crashed wasnt able to get one!

Server seemed to be crashing a lot today.

One thing that has helped me get Craps is what I call my "one click, wait and pray" strategy.

When I first started Wooting I would click the gold buttons, get frustrated with the times it took pages to load and (1)open multiple pages and (2) keep clicking the buttons.

Then I started a Master program in college for Information Systems/ Information Technology and found that what I was doing was counter productive. By opening multiple screens to try and get through and continue clicking pages while they were trying to load I was pushing my data packets out of queue, creating (or at the least exacerbating) bottle necking of data packets and forcing losses of information transferred.

When I started clicking the buy one once and waiting, without multiple clicks and multiple pages, I found myself making it all the way to the final confirmation screen much more often.

This is just my personal observation, but this is also my 10th successful BOC.

After all this time I finally score! My life is now complete.

mbrund wrote:Like usally, the damn servers crashed. I got a purchse page, and when I hit the gold button I got the gold finger. Oh SNAP, something went wrong, we need your password. Hell I was logged in and buying crap all day, why did it need it then. Crappy WOOT!!!!!!

Do you use Paypal? It always asks me for the password again for Paypal.

After years of trying for a Bandoleer of Carrots, I finally got through. This is my very first one, and I can't wait.

woohooo

got my carp!

It was weird, I actually clicked on the wootalyzer to take a look at the air horn that was for sale, and the wootalyzer didn't go off with the carp alarm til I was about to push the big yellow button!

this is truly a lucky carp for me!

Your assessment is very valid, it's not just total requests to the servers, but also the likelihood that the server will end up rejecting multiple requests and get them confused, forcing a reset of the connection which can kill your order attempt.

personally I have always had the best success when connected through a connection that I know has very few other people running a connection to woot on, during a woot off I usually have a remote desktop session running on my webserver hosted at a major NOC, fast and there are definitely fewer hops from my server to woots servers compared to going to through all the hoops of a residential ISP.

zen21tao wrote:One thing that has helped me get Craps is what I call my "one click, wait and pray" strategy.

When I first started Wooting I would click the gold buttons, get frustrated with the times it took pages to load and (1)open multiple pages and (2) keep clicking the buttons.

Then I started a Master program in college for Information Systems/ Information Technology and found that what I was doing was counter productive. By opening multiple screens to try and get through and continue clicking pages while they were trying to load I was pushing my data packets out of queue, creating (or at the least exacerbating) bottle necking of data packets and forcing losses of information transferred.

When I started clicking the buy one once and waiting, without multiple clicks and multiple pages, I found myself making it all the way to the final confirmation screen much more often.

This is just my personal observation, but this is also my 10th successful BOC.

Got another Random Crap today ! Can't wait for this one. Everyone was complaining how everyone who received that last one got almost the same stuff and mine was "mostly" unique ! Hope my luck continues !

I miss the good ol' days when you never knew when it was coming. Now it's always the same time. You would think they would keep people guessing to have people linger but now you can ignore the site all day, start checking around 5pm eastern and know in an hour or so you'll see one.

this is the first time i tried to get a Bountiful October Cornucopia and i scored! woot! i can't wait to see what i get. after all the hype, i hope i'm not dissapointed.

TechnoBabbler wrote:Your assessment is very valid, it's not just total requests to the servers, but also the likelihood that the server will end up rejecting multiple requests and get them confused, forcing a reset of the connection which can kill your order attempt.

personally I have always had the best success when connected through a connection that I know has very few other people running a connection to woot on, during a woot off I usually have a remote desktop session running on my webserver hosted at a major NOC, fast and there are definitely fewer hops from my server to woots servers compared to going to through all the hoops of a residential ISP.

2 of us in our 10 person office got lucky with the Bucket of Candy today. I think it is because we shut down the people who were streaming video and music from the web (it's called TV and radio people) and freed up our bandwidth. You bet we're going to do the same the next Wootoff !

Was working away on my work computer through vpn, got engrossed, then realized the next item should be up. Flipped back to my open windows and f5'ed my fingers off to no avail. Firefox and IE assured my there was no such woot.com. Tried Opera and IE from the phone -- all is fubar, big time at the woot. Could see the Random Crap on the tracker dropping to 70%, then 35%, so SOMEONE was getting the crap!

Finally got frustrated, flipped back to the work computer on vpn, saw The Bag, hit many gold buttons, and waited and waited and waited then
w000000000000000000000000000t!

2 for 2 BOCs in the last wootoffs, after four years trying at almost every wootoff with no Bucket of Candy! Maybe the goodluck charm is to purchase something from the wootoff?

Happily anticipating the anticipation for my crap.

Third boggy ole creature of 2010, and fourth overall! This must be the Woot Gods' way of cheering me up after getting turned down for a job. Thanks be to Woot!

I've been stuck in the basement on campus working on a video and I happened to go to woot right before the lovely bag came up. Just got lucky with the super fast connection here at school, I guess, because I must now wait up to 5 business days for my bag to ship out to me :D

KayeS wrote:
w000000000000000000000000000t!

2 for 2 BOCs in the last wootoffs, after four years trying at almost every wootoff with no Bucket of Candy! Maybe the goodluck charm is to purchase something from the wootoff?

Happily anticipating the anticipation for my crap.

You may be right. I purchased something during the Woot-off and also scored the Bright Orange Cheetah.

Thanks Woot, I'll be patiently waiting on the delivery of my Bucket of Candy.

Red Wing wrote:I miss the good ol' days when you never knew when it was coming. Now it's always the same time. You would think they would keep people guessing to have people linger but now you can ignore the site all day, start checking around 5pm eastern and know in an hour or so you'll see one.

I miss that, too. It used to be soooooo satisfying to score that 3 a.m. bag of crap. (This one makes 15 for me. Boo-ya!)