music2video wrote:Mine is now in Chino!

Same here. That took a while.

My 1 pounder
got me:

1 wash cloth
1 bag
1 diva face thingy
2 cupcake lip glosses
1 12 pack of paper clips

Received my Bag Of Coal today...
1-Tabletop Tripod
1-Washcloth
1-Canister Flowering Tea Variety
1-Flimsy Red Duffel

wife and i got our 2 bags today.

Hers 2.5lbs :
1 water sprinkler
2 cupcake lip gloss
1 flower bag
1 shrinky dinks pirates
1 beige hand towel

Mine 5.6lbs
1 water sprinkler
5 xl shirts
1 flower bag
1 diva facial cleaner wipe thing.
1 brown hand towel

all and all a little dissapointing but kinda funny.

It's fair to say I have never seen worse items coming out of a round of crap. Hopefully my package will be an anomaly, but I highly doubt it.

msstrickland wrote:It's fair to say I have never seen worse items coming out of a round of crap. Hopefully my package will be an anomaly, but I highly doubt it.

Yeah - screw the commandments, rules were meant to be broken. This crap is... oh... well... hold on I need a foot flush to finish this thought.

poppiesny wrote:Yeah - screw the commandments, rules were meant to be broken. This crap is... oh... well... hold on I need a foot flush to finish this thought.

If you need any more evidence, take a look at Santa's Bag of Coal from two years ago, the last time I got one. Almost everyone got different hauls, and the items were fantastic. http://www.woot.com/Forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=3689123

I ended up getting over $200 worth of random items, and I even sold a train set I received for a $100. I'm a huge fan of amazon, and still like woot for random deals, but it appears that the glory days of the Bag of Coal are long gone.

Not all that excited to get my crap after seeing all the pretty underwear duplicates...even though I was ecstatic to finally be able to buy another bag after years of trying. Sucks because I can almost always tell, and am ready, when a Burgandy Olfactory Center comes up during a wootoff but NEVER am able to get through because of the crappy servers. Now I FINALLY get one and woot took a turn to making the crap actual crap now.

If Amazon is to blame for the standardizing of the $1 crap they are sending out now, why can't Amazon at least start sharing/helping with woots servers? I mean they have to have the experience of tens of thousands of people buying on Amazon at any minute during the day, can't they figure out a way to keep woots servers from crashing so easily?

Sucks to finally get a Burgandy Olfactory Center after a couple years to realize before even getting it that it is going to suck. Though probably more frustrating is knowing how hard it is for me to get through to then see what seems to be a lot of people posting about the multiple Burgandy Olfactory Center they were able to get (wifes/husbands...whatever). Are they hardlined directly into the woot servers or something?

Jertyrael wrote:It does seem odd that out of the people posting the majority appear to have received the same exact items: Foot Flush, Wash Cloths, T-Shirts, Woot Monkey, Lip Gloss.

If you look at the last few craps, it's the new normal for people to receive largely the same grab-bag of stuff.

Frankly I'd much rather they make craps less frequent and create them like they used to. The odds of getting interesting crap has decreased significantly...

novastarj wrote:If you look at the last few craps, it's the new normal for people to receive largely the same grab-bag of stuff.

Frankly I'd much rather they make craps less frequent and create them like they used to. The odds of getting interesting crap has decreased significantly...

We need Woot to make a New Years Crapolution (that's crap+ revolution not crap+resolution). I liked it when I got electronics and it wasn't always stuff that wasn't sewn or glued together.

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VIVA LA CRAPOLUTION!!!!
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Yay!!! sort of... well my crap finally left Atlanta at 11:51est. Can possibly receive it tomorrow but more than likely will be Friday.
~~Jinx 8)

Jesterfx wrote:
If Amazon is to blame for the standardizing of the $1 crap they are sending out now, ...

That might be a bit harsh. It's not all worthless crap. The pico projection screen I got goes for almost $30 and the spitball dartboard is around $15. While I don't disagree with the bulk of what you said, credit where it's due...at the very least I can sell the screen and make back my $8 and then some.

People are complaining that they received what was advertised and sold, crap. There is a certain irony there.

Anyway, the crap of old was just as much crap as the crap of today, probably crappier, it was just the old randomness of it that was entertaining. Sure everyone wanted that letter, but they were satisfied with broken electronics and random trash.

Speaking of the letter, I am glad I was not the recipient of that car wax. My garage is not a warehouse...well ok, maybe I have some spare parts for my Valk, but not pallets of wax, that's just too much. Funny though, happening to someone else.

Oh, I was also pushed back to Jan 7. 6.1 lbs, probably the same things everyone else in this weight class received.

Mine is 5.9 lbs (at the Post Office to be delivered) and the wife's is 1.8 still seeing the sights in Atlanta after a 6 day road trip from Dallas.

I've been looking at the posts and have yet to see anything over 6 lbs. Did I miss something? These are the 2nd and 3rd Burgandy Olfactory Center#39;s for the family, got 44 lbs of Burgandy Olfactory Center from WOOT!s birthday last summer. The whole idea is someone is going to get something that gives them bragging rights. It doesn't seem to be happening this time around.

Crap is crap and you get what you get but anymore it's like kissing your sister; you get the kiss but it's just not the same.

I think maybe we have discovered why TPW left!

I was going to wait and post until after I got my SBOC, but after all the comments I have read I feel the need to speak up. People are complaining about their crap, but it is not the actual crap that is the fun part of this...it is the anticipation of your crap that is the fun in it.

If you are going to gripe about the crap you get then don't play the game and let someone else have a chance at it.

You read the Burgandy Olfactory Center commandments and bought a bag anyway.

BTW my SBOC weighs in at 7.6lbs.

Even after all the negative people on here I am still having fun waiting for it. My son and I will open it together because he understands what the Burgandy Olfactory Center is all about...not the actual crap but the fun in opening the box.

Just my 2 cents.

Smartpost loaded and ready to depart Dallas. Atlanta here we come!

So my Bandolier of Confectionery is now in my home state of Massachusetts, less than 10 miles from where I work. Yet the delivery date is still Saturday 1/7.

I wonder if I could call up FedEx and ask if I can pick it at the facility?

Of course, seeing what people are getting, I don't know if it's worth the extra gas.

songbirdjhs wrote:Mine is 5.9 lbs (at the Post Office to be delivered) and the wife's is 1.8 still seeing the sights in Atlanta after a 6 day road trip from Dallas.

I've been looking at the posts and have yet to see anything over 6 lbs. Did I miss something? These are the 2nd and 3rd Burgandy Olfactory Center#39;s for the family, got 44 lbs of Burgandy Olfactory Center from WOOT!s birthday last summer. The whole idea is someone is going to get something that gives them bragging rights. It doesn't seem to be happening this time around.

Crap is crap and you get what you get but anymore it's like kissing your sister; you get the kiss but it's just not the same.

I think maybe we have discovered why TPW left!

I'm at 9.6 ill get 2 footwashers 2 chapstix and 10 shirts and 10 smedium t-shirts. That's a $19.99 value and comes with a free gift.

Even though i didn't get what i wished for, Santa's Sack of Crap was a Fun Ride! Check out my 2012 Unboxing video on you tube! Thank you Woot! Was well worth it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov-N3PPONFQ&list=UU8aF58gOnVi0fmz3khC7img&index=1&feature=plcp

Is the "letter" for the pallet of crap still standard during each Burgandy Olfactory Center And how many "letters" does Woot typically give out during each Burgandy Olfactory Center 1? 2?

jdhmail wrote:I was going to wait and post until after I got my SBOC, but after all the comments I have read I feel the need to speak up. People are complaining about their crap, but it is not the actual crap that is the fun part of this...it is the anticipation of your crap that is the fun in it.

If you are going to gripe about the crap you get then don't play the game and let someone else have a chance at it.

You read the Burgandy Olfactory Center commandments and bought a bag anyway.

BTW my SBOC weighs in at 7.6lbs.

Even after all the negative people on here I am still having fun waiting for it. My son and I will open it together because he understands what the Burgandy Olfactory Center is all about...not the actual crap but the fun in opening the box.

Just my 2 cents.

I have never once complained about the crap that I have received, however I have to disagree with you in part. Yes the anticipation is the best part, however that anticipation has been damaged by the lack of randomness. My first Burgandy Olfactory Center was utterly worthless, but also hilarious. It had broken "The Incredible" figures, damaged mp3 players and cables for devices that I don't even own but I loved it because it was unique and at the very least technology related. Some bags after that had value like a refurbished Zune or Kodak camera and I loved those too. One Bag had a case of mini tripods, worthless to me but awesome in its randomness as well.

The anticipation only works when there is potential of epic win and epic fail. It seems as if the potential, much like Elvis, has left the building. I hope I am proven wrong. I hope someone gets a letter and then posts pictures of Woot delivering a rusted out 1971 Ford Pinto into their front yard.

I am not saying they should put Kindle Fires in every bag, or even that the bags should be worth the $8.00 we pay. I am just saying that the anticipation, and thus the pure joy of the Burgandy Olfactory Center was in the potential for either greatness, or stuff someone found on the side of the road on their way to the Woot office to end up in your Burgandy Olfactory Center I guess I just miss the dream.

Thunderthighs . . . can you answer a quick question for all of us?

Are letters being sent out in Burgandy Olfactory Center#39;s anymore or did that stop when TPW moved on to other things?

Thanks!

msstrickland wrote:If you need any more evidence, take a look at Santa's Bag of Coal from two years ago, the last time I got one. Almost everyone got different hauls, and the items were fantastic. http://www.woot.com/Forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=3689123

I ended up getting over $200 worth of random items, and I even sold a train set I received for a $100. I'm a huge fan of amazon, and still like woot for random deals, but it appears that the glory days of the Bag of Coal are long gone.

That thread also tells a big tale....the thread reached over 40 pages before the end of the day, and that was Christmas! LOL And almost 80 pages before people actually started receiving their crap....

Kinda sad...

MyFedex show my Burgandy Olfactory Center is coming in at a hefty 14.2 in. x 10.5 in. x 8.6 in., tipping the scales at 2,5 lbs / 1,2 kgs.

Due to arrive tomorrow.

troyal82 wrote:That thread also tells a big tale....the thread reached over 40 pages before the end of the day, and that was Christmas! LOL And almost 80 pages before people actually started receiving their crap....

Kinda sad...

Much of the difference in thread length could easily be attributed to the fact that this bOhC went to a special page and the discuss this link therefore does not show on the My Account page, rather, commenters have to go back to the 12/25/11 Envy notebook community page to post ??

btw, mine has passed through Earth City and is on the way to my Post Office - may get it tomorrow

I agree; this is just the same old junk OVER and OVER!

Wooters, Where are the scratchy, out-of-focus YouTube videos with the broken, unintelligible running commentary?
WHERE ARE THE LOLCATS???
I'm not getting my $8-worth here and I KNOW its not coming in the box.

oh, and Woot: you're partly to blame. With ALL your employees including the one old guy who runs the little tiny server, don't you have some junk? Broken coffee mugs and a few floppy disks in that bottom right-hand drawer? By now SOMEBODY must have an old broken Sansa at home; good heavens We certainly do.

Estimated delivery pushed back to 1/7/11

Weight updated to 4.2lbs

Left the FedEx Atlanta location yesterday afternoon.

Wife got hers yesterday. Standard crap in a 5-6 pound box.
1 x Fun FootFlush (got it hooked up and working!)
1 x Wash Cloth (price tag showed $12.99 value!)
1 x Diva Face Scrubbing Mitt (mmm...soft...'cept it gets stuck on my stubble)
5 x XL T-Shirts (maybe she'll wear these around the house instead of stealing my woot shirts!)
1 x Green Recycled Bag (with pretty flower on it)

My 1.8 pounder will be here today or tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

wootnewbee wrote:oh, and Woot: you're partly to blame. With ALL your employees including the one old guy who runs the little tiny server, don't you have some junk? Broken coffee mugs and a few floppy disks in that bottom right-hand drawer? By now SOMEBODY must have an old broken Sansa at home; good heavens We certainly do.

Maybe all of us should start sending Woot all of our broken electronics and other junk that we don't want anymore. They could then use this to send out in the future Burgandy Olfactory Center. This should guarantee the Burgandy Olfactory Center are more unique in the future. What do you think?

babalooo wrote:Is the "letter" for the pallet of crap still standard during each Burgandy Olfactory Center And how many "letters" does Woot typically give out during each Burgandy Olfactory Center 1? 2?

I've managed to snag the last 3 Burgandy Olfactory Center and haven't seen a letter in any of them.

Last year's xmas Burgandy Olfactory Center had like 10 letters and they all got iPhones, IIRC. I was pissed because I made a conscious decision to skip that one.

jn082105 wrote:Got my weight info!

19.8 lbs

I hope it's carrots

This seems to be the only reported outlier. Any updates, jn?

As for me (and hopefully the rest of the NYC area), my crop has arrived in Edison, NJ, the last stop before being handed off to the local post office. The delivery estimate has changed to Monday, but figuring they add two business days from the handoff, and that we often receive our Smartpost packages on the same day as the handoff, there's a good chance we'll be crapped on tomorrow (the original delivery date).

My bag arrived today. It's not stuff I would pay $8 for, but I guess at *suggested retail* value we didn't do too badly

- The sorta yellow with big flowers shopping bag like above
- Avanti tasseled finger towel, black, dry clean only (yech - will be given away for this reason)
- Kids' Night Out BINGO game (we might use this! )
- Spitball Dart pad (will go to work for display)
- 2x mini cupcake lip-gloss (daughter says it's not so palatable, but she *might* use it)
- multiple bags of TX air

-Martin <><

mikebbass wrote:I have never once complained about the crap that I have received, however I have to disagree with you in part. Yes the anticipation is the best part, however that anticipation has been damaged by the lack of randomness. My first Burgandy Olfactory Center was utterly worthless, but also hilarious. It had broken "The Incredible" figures, damaged mp3 players and cables for devices that I don't even own but I loved it because it was unique and at the very least technology related. Some bags after that had value like a refurbished Zune or Kodak camera and I loved those too. One Bag had a case of mini tripods, worthless to me but awesome in its randomness as well.

The anticipation only works when there is potential of epic win and epic fail. It seems as if the potential, much like Elvis, has left the building. I hope I am proven wrong. I hope someone gets a letter and then posts pictures of Woot delivering a rusted out 1971 Ford Pinto into their front yard.

I am not saying they should put Kindle Fires in every bag, or even that the bags should be worth the $8.00 we pay. I am just saying that the anticipation, and thus the pure joy of the Burgandy Olfactory Center was in the potential for either greatness, or stuff someone found on the side of the road on their way to the Woot office to end up in your Burgandy Olfactory Center I guess I just miss the dream.

+1. It's absolutely the anticipation you are paying for. Not just anticipating your own delivery, but others as well. I'd rather get a bunch of worthless junk than see everyone get the same thing.

mikebbass wrote:
Yes the anticipation is the best part, however that anticipation has been damaged by the lack of randomness.
The anticipation only works when there is potential of epic win and epic fail. It seems as if the potential, much like Elvis, has left the building.
I am just saying that the anticipation, and thus the pure joy of the Burgandy Olfactory Center was in the potential for either greatness, or stuff someone found on the side of the road on their way to the Woot office to end up in your Burgandy Olfactory Center I guess I just miss the dream.

I have to agree. Half the fun was the figuring out what the strange things were that showed up in the boxes. I've received wooden toy hammers, the butt of a plastic rifle, random pieces of plastic molded hair, and broken electronics. I also love the woot branded items like the paper bags, buckets, and bands. The bands were pretty recent but it's been quite a while since I've seen the random fun things in the boxes, and everyone working together to try and figure out what they are.

It seems like the boxes have become more of an obligation for woot then a fun thing and silly thing to do with leftover crap, which is why we are seeing these items that are obviously purchased with the intention of them going in the boxes. I will always go for them anyway, but I'll keep looking back fondly at once they once were.

/this used to be all orange trees, far as the eyes can see.

My Burgandy Olfactory Center arrived with,
1 red duffle gym type bag
1 table tripod in the box still
1 HDMI CABLE in the box still
1 Green palm tree hand towel!

At least mine was unique so far, haven't seen any other like it!! For my first Burgandy Olfactory Center and woot ever, I'll take it. (However was secretly hoping for something CRAZY!)

My 2.2 pound Burgandy Olfactory Center visited Chino, Ca for a Day and now has moved to Los Angeles for some more site seeing. Can't wait to hear all the stories and see the photos of the trip.

Tracking said 5.9lbs...it was about 6.1lbs

1 x Fun FootFlush
1 x Wash Cloth
1 x Diva Face Scrubbing Mitt
5 x XL T-Shirts (these seem huge for an XL)
1 x Orange Recycled Bag (with a flower on it)

Got my sack today, tracking still shows it in transit w/ scheduled delivery date of the 7th. it's not even listed as being in my state yet...i wonder if i'm getting another package on the 7th!?!?!

anyway, here's what i got:

1x red duffle bag
1x tan hand towel
1x philips HDMI cable still in the box
2x Super Special Birthday Survival kits, still sealed.

survival kits were sold on kids.woot back in the summer, here's the link, both are the blue version.
http://kids.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=18221

rogershsv wrote:
- Avanti tasseled finger towel, black, dry clean only (yech - will be given away for this reason)
-Martin <><

A dry clean only towel? Isn't the entire point of a towel to get wet with water? Next you're gunna tell me you have a washable Mogwai.

My 1.3 pound bag left the Northborough, MA Smartpost last night on its way to CT. ETA still Saturday the 7th