I'd like to be the 50000000th person to say the obligatory "Damn crappy woot servers screwed me outa my Bag of Cuuuuuute!".

You know, I expected the Barrels of Crud to come later so I did some shopping. Came home just in time to see it but not in time to buy it. What a shame!

Well, hopefully I can get myself a nice keyboard or headset. I'd pick up a Black Widow if there was another one up there :p

mingsty wrote:Bob and Doug McKenzie approve!

Nice work and nice image!!!!

Took awhile, but score!

I don't understand. Your site said I won a Bag of Cuuuuuute! on this woot off. When I paid for it. A notice came up "sold out". It should have said sold out when the notice came up that I had won it. You have a terrible system and shouldn't confirm a sale, then when paying say its sold out. There is no joke about duping a customer.

jrstinkfish wrote:I got my order in the instant the Barrels of Crud went up, hit all the right buttons, got to the processing order screen, where it stayed forever ... and didn't manage to get one. Well, I assume I didn't, I haven't gotten an email and it doesn't appear on my account. Seems to be almost random whether or not you get one, even if you make it all the way through the process and got your order in at the beginning. Grrr.

Well, the item was posted nearly two and one half hours ago and mine is STILL processing! I'm afraid to give up or refresh after reading some of these, but I fear I'm just being silly not to shut it down.

BelyndaG wrote:Well, the item was posted nearly two and one half hours ago and mine is STILL processing! I'm afraid to give up or refresh after reading some of these, but I fear I'm just being silly not to shut it down.

If you haven't gotten a confirmation email by now, you didn't get it. Doesn't matter if it's "still processing" or not.

GuardianBob wrote:I was part of that, and if you got on the waiting list, you'd get denied for the next order. They shipped BOCs to people that were denied due to the bug. Awesome customer service.

They split it up into 3 separate offers, I believe it was an April 1st. There were over 1000 pages of comments as a result.

Thanks for validating my craptacular memory. I miss the massive pages of posts. We cant blame woot for that. It's all on us.

Obscure movie quote #3
" I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better. "

If SOPA passes, I think I could get bused for movie quotes.

BelyndaG wrote:Well, the item was posted nearly two and one half hours ago and mine is STILL processing! I'm afraid to give up or refresh after reading some of these, but I fear I'm just being silly not to shut it down.

Check your email for a confirmation letter, or open a second Woot tab and check My Account. You should see a confirmation by now in one of those two if you got it.

whew, looks like i got one of the last ones

mikebbass wrote:Obscure movie quote #3
" I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better. "

Sounds like Saving Private Ryan where Hanks is talking to Upham.

CapnJB wrote:Sounds like Saving Private Ryan where Hanks is talking to Upham.

Nope, but good guess and even gooderer that you didnt just look it up. The movie in question is way way way cheesier and also awesome.

Morac wrote:If you haven't gotten a confirmation email by now, you didn't get it. Doesn't matter if it's "still processing" or not.

Yup, I finally gave up or it gave up on me. It suddenly went to the "What is Woot?" page (I was on my iPhone and might have bumped the screen) and when I went back I got an "Your order didn't go through" page. I would cheerfully have given up long ago, but every time this happens someone posts a note that says that they hung on forever and it finally went through. Ah, well. I was able to get a couple of Bags in the past year or so, but really wanted a bag from Colonel Crap. Ah, well.

Who needs a bag? They've been selling nothing but crap for the past three days!

I cant believe I missed this! Stupid job making it so I can get my random bag!!!

mikebbass wrote:Obscure movie quote #3
" I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better. "

"Starship Troopers." I just watched it again a couple of days ago to make sure it was just as crappy as I remembered.

The best moment I had during that movie was in the theater on the way out the door, when we spotted a five-year-old clinging to his father's leg, shrieking, "DON'T LET THE BUGS SUCK OUT MY BRAINS!"

Pinkys should be allowed to procreate, let alone take barely-post-toddler children to R-rated movies. Especially Verhoeven movies.

Speaking of, if you didn't score a Bag of Cuuuuuute!, you could always blame SOPA and/or PIPA. No one would think less of you for it.

To my stunned surprise, I logged in to my email a few minutes ago and found the following:

alfisti13,

Thank you for your purchase.

Your order number xxxxxxxxfor 1 Bag of Cuuuuuute! has been received by Woot on 1/19/2012 and your credit card has been charged $8.50.

Oh joyous day! My first barf on the carpet ever...hope it's not a barf bag experience!

alfisti13 wrote:Got the closest I have ever been before but alas, no barf on carpet for me. Maybe someday, but not today :O(

Yay, I got one!!!! Oh wait no I didn't, because I was sleeping in.

I'm just glad Woot! is doing something different with the Barrels of Crud instead of posting it at 4 in the afternoon. Maybe one day they will post one as the daily deal and not during a Wootoff. Then maybe people won't whine.

The Barrels of Crud thing at this point just puts me into a bloody eyed fury. I've been buying woots since 2005, I have a fast internet connection and keep fairly modern computers and uncluttered browsers. I have clicked "I want one" within five seconds on no fewer than 20 bags of crap over the years and I have never even come close to getting one.
There are sigs of Barrels of Crud hounds on these items that list ten bags and the user only has ten woots... it's seriously infuriating.

Woot should close purchasing Barrels of Crud offers to people who've never bought anything before. Show some love to their actual loyal customers.

Snagged one! So what is this WootSack business?

I got one! For the first time in over 5 years! My 30th birthday is in a month AND I'm getting married this year, so please, O Benevolent Woot Gods, bestow upon me a lovely gift in my Burly Octopus Coven!

First, let me say that it came up between 3 and 5 PM eastern on the second day of the wootoff, just like clockwork.

Second, WHY does everyone feel the need to come here and comment like "I can't see anything" or "I got to the order page and nothing happened" while the Bag of Cuuuuuute! is up. Alll that Potty Emergency takes bandwidth too, so you're only making the problem worse.

Lastly, D'oh! I just missed it! I was on my way home from work.

hippie19 wrote:Yay, I got one!!!! Oh wait no I didn't, because I was sleeping in.

I'm just glad Woot! is doing something different with the Barrels of Crud instead of posting it at 4 in the afternoon. Maybe one day they will post one as the daily deal and not during a Wootoff. Then maybe people won't whine.

They do. It's called Christmas, April Fool's Day, and Woot Birthday.

iaincaradoc wrote:"Starship Troopers." I just watched it again a couple of days ago to make sure it was just as crappy as I remembered.

The best moment I had during that movie was in the theater on the way out the door, when we spotted a five-year-old clinging to his father's leg, shrieking, "DON'T LET THE BUGS SUCK OUT MY BRAINS!"

Pinkys should be allowed to procreate, let alone take barely-post-toddler children to R-rated movies. Especially Verhoeven movies.

You are correct sir! Although I love that movie for its pure cheese and lamitude.

bruceoite wrote:Snagged one! So what is this WootSack business?

Fill in your info into the spreadsheet at the link below as you get it. We like to revel at others successes (and sometimes failures).

http://wootsack.bfusion.net/index.php?tDate=2012-01-19

TCayer wrote:First, let me say that it came up between 3 and 5 PM eastern on the second day of the wootoff, just like clockwork.

Second, WHY does everyone feel the need to come here and comment like "I can't see anything" or "I got to the order page and nothing happened" while the Bag of Cuuuuuute! is up. Alll that Potty Emergency takes bandwidth too, so you're only making the problem worse.

Lastly, D'oh! I just missed it! I was on my way home from work.

This is the 3rd day of the Woot-Off.

alfisti13 wrote:To my stunned surprise, I logged in to my email a few minutes ago and found the following:

alfisti13,

Thank you for your purchase.

Your order number xxxxxxxxfor 1 Bag of Cuuuuuute! has been received by Woot on 1/19/2012 and your credit card has been charged $8.50.

Oh joyous day! My first barf on the carpet ever...hope it's not a barf bag experience!

$8.50? Are you bribing Woot with an extra $0.50?

mikebbass wrote:You are correct sir! Although I love that movie for its pure cheese and lamitude.

You act like I said "crappy" as if it were a bad thing.

TCayer wrote:First, let me say that it came up between 3 and 5 PM eastern on the second day of the wootoff, just like clockwork.

Second, WHY does everyone feel the need to come here and comment like "I can't see anything" or "I got to the order page and nothing happened" while the Bag of Cuuuuuute! is up. Alll that Potty Emergency takes bandwidth too, so you're only making the problem worse.

Lastly, D'oh! I just missed it! I was on my way home from work.

I'm pretty sure this is the third day of the woot off.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

But maybe I can't count.

And it was at 10:49 AM PST, meaning 1:49 PM EST, unless I can't add.

mikebbass wrote:$8.50? Are you bribing Woot with an extra $0.50?

Must be in TX, that would be taxes.

mikebbass wrote:$8.50? Are you bribing Woot with an extra $0.50?

It's called tax.

willicaptain wrote:Fill in your info into the spreadsheet at the link below as you get it. We like to revel at others successes (and sometimes failures).

http://wootsack.bfusion.net/index.php?tDate=2012-01-19

Ok, so it doesn't start auto-filling in the info from the order number? Just whenever I learn more, go back and put it in?

GuardianBob wrote:Must be in TX, that would be taxes.

Yep. It's $8.64 here in NY. $0.64 tax.

Speaking of tax, I got my W2 off of a website this morning whilst in bed with my iPad. I then went to the App Store, downloaded TurboTax, filled out my taxes, and submitted to the IRS... all before getting up from bed this morning.

The future rules.

OldMatador wrote:Yep. It's $8.64 here in NY. $0.64 tax.

Speaking of tax, I got my W2 off of a website this morning whilst in bed with my iPad. I then went to the App Store, downloaded TurboTax, filled out my taxes, and submitted to the IRS... all before getting up from bed this morning.

The future rules.

Mus be nice to be able to use the 1040-EZ form

I got this one. Let's see if it is any better than the last 2 I got (September & December 11). Hopefully it will be more like the only other one I got (September 09) and filled with truly random items, not just the same 4 or 5 items everyone else gets. If it is like my last two, this will be my last one until I find out they are really doing random again.

bruceoite wrote:Mus be nice to be able to use the 1040-EZ form

i used whilst in a recent body of work that i wrote and got hand slapped by my colleagues with the critique "that's too british".. are u british, b/c i think they are right, only brits should actually use whilst... otherwise u project a wannabe vibe.. just sayin

bruceoite wrote:Mus be nice to be able to use the 1040-EZ form

Exactly, Turbo Tax doesn't do so well when trying to depreciate sheep, and deal with other farm expenses.

mikebbass wrote:$8.50? Are you bribing Woot with an extra $0.50?

OldMatador wrote:It's $8.64 here in NY. $0.64 tax.

Washingtonians have it worse.



EDIT: If anyone is trying to do the math, we have to pay tax on shipping.

mikebbass wrote:This is the 3rd day of the Woot-Off.

It was also at 1:37pm Eastern time.