DeviantDragon wrote:Big ol' Cornucopia number 7 in the bag.

Impressive!

I have been wooting for over 6 years and have NEVER got and crap.......Must have bad luck or a slow internet connection.....or both!

ZDarryl wrote:Impressive!

I have been wooting for over 6 years and have NEVER got and crap.......Must have bad luck or a slow internet connection.....or both!

Maybe because you're using a refurb HP?

chefferz wrote:Maybe because you're using a refurb HP?

REFURB HP?????? I don't think so! I build my PC's from the ground up, never buy that overpriced pre-assembled CRAP!

ZDarryl wrote:REFURB HP?????? I don't think so! I build my PC's from the ground up, never buy that overpriced pre-assembled CRAP!

Wait, I mean maybe because you WEREN'T using a refurb HP.

Didn't you know? Woot preloads a secret program on the HPs that directly connects to the server during woot offs and gives your computer a backdoor to the Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia

I personally didnt use a refurb HP, I just got the super secret program from an anonymous source that allows me to get the first woot in 4.226 seconds.

chefferz wrote:Wait, I mean maybe because you WEREN'T using a refurb HP.

Didn't you know? Woot preloads a secret program on the HPs that directly connects to the server during woot offs and gives your computer a backdoor to the Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia

I personally didnt use a refurb HP, I just got the super secret program from an anonymous source that allows me to get the first woot in 4.226 seconds.

HOW IN THE HECK DID YOU DO IT? YOU MUST KNOW THE WOOT PEOPLES PERSONALLY..... YOU ARE TRULY AWESOME!

I have no idea what they even send you when you win the crap. Is it any good?

ZDarryl wrote:HOW IN THE HECK DID YOU DO IT? YOU MUST KNOW THE WOOT PEOPLES PERSONALLY..... YOU ARE TRULY AWESOME!

I have no idea what they even send you when you win the crap. Is it any good?

Seldom, though it's often funny, and sometimes epic. I've just scored my 5th, and have yet to receive epic content, but there has been spectacularly cr@ppy up to pretty decent. But mostly spectacularly cr@ppy. I've never failed to find a suitable use for any of it, however. Up to and including as gifts to people who might find it equally amusing or less crappy. :D

kreegah wrote:Seldom, though it's often funny, and sometimes epic. I've just scored my 5th, and have yet to receive epic content, but there has been spectacularly cr@ppy up to pretty decent. But mostly spectacularly cr@ppy. I've never failed to find a suitable use for any of it, however. Up to and including as gifts to people who might find it equally amusing or less crappy. :D

Yeah I got some neon orange flower power bag in the last one, and a perfect pushup set with FREE INSTRUCTIONAL DVD!!!!!!!!!! WORTH $29.95!!!!

CCericola wrote:My hope for my bundle of camera-guys?

Peace on earth and good will toward men.

If I can't have that, can I get something my wee-one can enjoy? Maybe a blu-ray player or a 57" LCD TV? She's a hardcore techie at 1.

Aww... I was hoping this was going to be an SNL skit reference.

dvsmith wrote:Aww... I was hoping this was going to be an SNL skit reference.

A bit of a Sneakers reference, but I'd feel a little to creepy asking for ThreePieceWoot's phone number.

When my box comes I will wrap it and place it under my Christmas tree to be opened Christmas day.

Who am I kidding, I'll leave work early as soon as it arrives and rush into my house with my box cutter out.

CCericola wrote:A bit of a Sneakers reference, but I'd feel a little to creepy asking for ThreePieceWoot's phone number.

Don't forget Tahiti.

That's me on the "never got one" list.

I have friends who have gotten multiples, and say they didn't really have any trouble.

Every time I get it, even if it's only seconds after it comes up, I just get timeout after timeout, rarely getting to the "buy" screen, and I've never had it get past that. I've had it sit there spinning, waiting for server response, for half an hour.

All this talk about people never being able to get them made be go through my account history and count up my boxes of carcinogens. This one makes 9 and the best things I received were the Microsoft Zune and a 30gb iPod.

Definitely worth my total investment of $72 but keep in mind those were the good ole days. Back in the day I think the random cables they threw in were more entertaining then anything else they could put in. God I miss the days of untangling all those wires to see if just one of them would prove to be useful. It also seemed that letters were more regular then they are now. Not that I am complaining or anything just saying times change but the anticipation for the crap to arrive remains the same.

After all that I really don't know why I just continued to babble...

I'm looking forward to receiving my Bag of Carp. I hope it has stuff good enough to use as a Holiday present for my boss at work.

Last month I tried so hard to get one of these, because it would have been my 100th Woot purchase. My thought was that maybe the Woot Gods would have sent me one of the famed Letters as part of the 100th purchase. But I didn't get a bag last month.

This month I was lucky enough to get one and it is my 105th Woot purchase. Hopefully the Woot Gods might still smile upon me with a letter and enough carp to share with everyone in my office (34 people total) as holiday presents. I would love to be a Woot Santa surrogate (even though I am Jewish).

Internet speed has little to do with it, in my opinion. I have been trying for 5 years to win the Bayou of Crawdads, the whole time on a corporate OC48.. Only recently did I hit a run of wins after changing my F5ing strategy. On the other hand, a friend of mine has won a crazy number of Blonde on Cain's (like 10 or more) on his crappy 768K dsl line, seemingly without even trying that hard.

My unscientific conclusion: Internet bandwidth has little or nothing to do with your chances of getting a Bandolier of Carrots.

Snagged a Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia My Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia grown-up Christmas wish - chestnuts roasting on a Kindle Fire...

I've had 3 carps, and while I've gotten some super crap I also got a 64gb USB drive (that works) & few other things I managed to re-gift for the holidays. My favortie item was this EZ-Shopper bag. It is some weird bag that folds up into another bag to carry around and when you unfold it you can put it on a shopping cart to load up groceries. It's huge and I use it all the time.

So, here's hoping to some fun carp for us all!

Got my first yesterday..so pumped to see what I got!! Anyone ever got anything really cool in theirs?

Can't wait, apcray number 4 on it's way! I am hopeful to see what the Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia has for me this time!

Bag 3 for me coming! - very excited about it.

People at the office still remember receiving crap digital frame covers from my Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia last year, for our office White Elephant gift exchange (among other assorted items)....

Hope to repeat that fine performance again this year, by throwing something just as vile from this Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia into my White Elephant gift exchange this year!

bongofett wrote:Bag 3 for me coming! - very excited about it.

People at the office still remember receiving crap digital frame covers from my Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia last year, for our office White Elephant gift exchange (among other assorted items)....

Hope to repeat that fine performance again this year, by throwing something just as vile from this Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia into my White Elephant gift exchange this year!

Also, just noticed that my woot post automatically formats "Bag_of_Crap" into "Big ol' Cornucopia"

greaseman wrote:Yes, Bags o' Crappiness are only offered in a WootOff. Well wait, I seem to remember one weird exception that involved some sort of contest. Perhaps that was just a bad dream.

Standalone Bicostal Ocelot Communes are sold thrice each year, to honor the anniversaries of:

• the founding of the Bombay Fire Brigade,
• the final marriage of Henry VIII and
• the blinding of John IV Lascaris (what a crazy birthday party that was).

So looking at this woot off! Offering. I would like to pre-congratulate everyone on receiving bingo cards and the evolution of Baggies of Carp. From the people who originally brought us the foot flush, I can only expect Bags For Urine. The bigger question is will it count towards our Bag or towards our Carp.

EDIT: Just noticed that they come with Poo Powder so they will be BFC. Bags for Crap, except those who get the refurb ones. The cycle will be complete.

I finally got my first Big ol' Cornucopia after trying since I joined so long ago I can't even remember. My kids are ecstatic, and I figure I will probably get complete garbage. But just getting one and having that anticipation is worth the $8.

RealtorKen wrote:All this talk about people never being able to get them made be go through my account history and count up my boxes of carcinogens. This one makes 9 and the best things I received were the Microsoft Zune and a 30gb iPod.

Definitely worth my total investment of $72 but keep in mind those were the good ole days. Back in the day I think the random cables they threw in were more entertaining then anything else they could put in. God I miss the days of untangling all those wires to see if just one of them would prove to be useful. It also seemed that letters were more regular then they are now. Not that I am complaining or anything just saying times change but the anticipation for the crap to arrive remains the same.

After all that I really don't know why I just continued to babble...

Ah, the good 'ol days! Back when the crap seemed unique. I'm not sure anyone got the exact same bag contents back then.

This makes my 6th... by far the best item I've ever received was a GPS. Otherwise, it's all pretty crappy. =)

dbcooper wrote:I have been trying for 5 years to win the Bayou of Crawdads, the whole time on a corporate OC48.. Only recently did I hit a run of wins after changing my F5ing strategy. On the other hand, a friend of mine has won a crazy number of Blonde on Cain's (like 10 or more) on his crappy 768K dsl line, seemingly without even trying that hard.

My unscientific conclusion: Internet bandwidth has little or nothing to do with your chances of getting a Bandolier of Carrots.

Or maybe your corporate OC48 is also running every single new request through web filters and loggers. Then again, since it is a shared connection, maybe your co-workers are streaming pandora music and the local fm station through their computers and eating up the bandwidth.

jon98gn wrote:Or maybe your corporate OC48 is also running every single new request through web filters and loggers. Then again, since it is a shared connection, maybe your co-workers are streaming pandora music and the local fm station through their computers and eating up the bandwidth.

Well, since I am in charge of the OC48, and utilization on it runs at about 2.5% on average, and any loggers and web filters between me and the wild blue internet would have been installed by and managed by me, I think you may be right (but probably not). :P

aphroat wrote:*cry*

Why, oh why, does the Barrel of Carp always come up while I'm at class? And a class during which I can't reasonably have my laptop open, too, so I can't even pretend to be taking notes while I'm really woot!ing.

And jumping up in the middle of class yelling, "Come on...Give me Crap!" is typically frowned on in most schools.

Sooo.... Why does there have to be a conspiracy behind getting a Bootylicious Octopus Cookie? Why can't it just be pure dumb luck? I have gotten mine on my Husbands Gaming PC, on my driod cell and yesterdays on my Verizon netbook... Don't think it has anything to do with the technology... It's just Luck bestowed from the Woot gods!

ThreePieceWoot, I hear you take requests especially as it's the holiday season. If any of those USB plasma balls are still around, please include one in my Blue Oyster Cult. As I've mentioned the last two times (read: March 2011 and Dec 2010), it's not for me, it's for my mom. Many thanks!

navion wrote:I had updated my credit card information not 2 minutes before the Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia showed up. I am glad I updated it. I always like the bandoleer of carnage because no matter how crappy it is, its always worth the $8 spent on it. I have given many a gift using items I have gotten.

I'm sending you a PM. Please read. :D

KelseyGirl707 wrote:Sooo.... Why does there have to be a conspiracy behind getting a Bootylicious Octopus Cookie? Why can't it just be pure dumb luck? I have gotten mine on my Husbands Gaming PC, on my driod cell and yesterdays on my Verizon netbook... Don't think it has anything to do with the technology... It's just Luck bestowed from the Woot gods!

Sing it sister!

SDME! wrote:ThreePieceWoot, I hear you take requests especially as it's the holiday season. If any of those USB plasma balls are still around, please include one in my Blue Oyster Cult. As I've mentioned the last two times (read: March 2011 and Dec 2010), it's not for me, it's for my mom. Many thanks!

Sadly, ThreePieceWoot is no longer with us. (a moment of silence, please)

Wait... he's not DEAD, just no longer in charge of the urine bags.

I doubt it will come this early, but if my Bootylicious Octopus cookie comes on the 17th.... It will arrive on my 5 year anniversary with woot!

dbcooper wrote:Sadly, ThreePieceWoot is no longer with us. (a moment of silence, please)

Wait... he's not DEAD, just no longer in charge of the urine bags.

Oh, Dear God, please, not the urine bags. The wife will leave me if woot! sends me urine bags.

wollern wrote:Oh, Dear God, please, not the urine bags. The wife will leave me if woot! sends me urine bags.

Not mine. If I get them in time for Christmas, they will become Christmas stockings for the nephews. :P

After a short dry spell, I've scored my 9th Big ol' Cornucopia! My daughter and I are waiting, in breathless anticipation, for the arrival of the aromatic bundle.

Thank you Woot.

dbcooper wrote:Sadly, ThreePieceWoot is no longer with us. (a moment of silence, please)

This is so sad. I missed the announcement. I miss him already.

TPW, please keep us posted and, if you're moving to Austin and you're single, I'd love to meet you

I'm still waiting to hear from the new ad-crap-istrator. Who can fill TPW's size 14 extra, extra narrow shoes?

I, for one, welcome our new crappy overlords.

dbcooper wrote:I'm still waiting to hear from the new ad-crap-istrator. Who can fill TPW's size 14 extra, extra narrow shoes?

I, for one, welcome our new crappy overlords.

Nice Simpsons reference!