ignorant wrote:

But there was still one more item wrapped in protective foam...I unwrapped the foam to find...

Kudos!!!That's what's up. I can just wish I get an electronic return. All the boot leg Wiis seem to have run out, my bag is 6.3lbs so I was concerned about being stuck with one. As long as I don't get 20 spitball dart boards I wont cry.

I'd say my haul was pretty good:

Barrels of Crud received Saturday 1/28 -

1 Ultimotion Video Game
1 Hulk USB Smash Button
1 Fruit of the Loom XL T-shirt (teal)
1 Spitball Dartboard
1 Cafe Bingo
4 AA Batteries
1 Red Duffel Bag
46 Bags of Texas Air (yes, 46)

All in all, not a bad haul. Good work, Colonel!!

Crap! The Ultimotions are still out there.

"Last night I dreamed my Barrels of Crud was walking along the beach with the FedEx guy. Many scenes from its delivery flashed across the sky. In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there were one set of footprints.
This bothered me because I noticed that during the “in transit” periods of the delivery, when I was suffering from F5 anguish I could see only one set of footprints.
So I said to the FedEx guy, "You promised that you would have custody of my Barrels of Crud until smartpost drop off at my local post office. But I have noticed that during the seemingly immobile periods of Barrels of Crud delivery there have only been one set of footprints in the sand.
Why, when my Barrels of Crud needed you most, you have not been there for my Barrels of Crud"
The FedEx guy replied, "The times when you have seen only one set of footprints, is when I carried your Barrels of Crud""

O.M.G.

Idk how many people got this but I laughed till I cried.

1.9lb of crap is taking its time.. multi ppl from my state reported in but alas.. still looking at 1 more days me thinks

Pretty much the same as everyone else. Two XL t-shirts, spitball targets and the nylon duffel bag. Underwhelmed but oh well, it can only get better next time. Glad to have gotten my first for 2012, hopefully won't be the last.

Mine arrived yesterday. Pretty underwhelming.

1 Blue bag
1 Hulk Smash USB
5 Fruit of the Loom plain t-shirts - XL and various colors

The rest was literally trash.

1 Pioneer head phones with opened packaging and RMA label. Non-Functioning.
1 Small Zip-Lock baggy full of disposable earplugs
3 Screaming Woot-Monkey capes with no monkeys
2 Small plastic fish. Too dirty and broken to let my kid play with.

Not sure this was worth it but guess I cant complain.

monos98 wrote:Mine arrived yesterday. Pretty underwhelming.

1 Blue bag
1 Hulk Smash USB
5 Fruit of the Loom plain t-shirts - XL and various colors

The rest was literally trash.

1 Pioneer head phones with opened packaging and RMA label. Non-Functioning.
1 Small Zip-Lock baggy full of disposable earplugs
3 Screaming Woot-Monkey capes with no monkeys
2 Small plastic fish. Too dirty and broken to let my kid play with.

Not sure this was worth it but guess I cant complain.

You got three capes and you are complaining? you should be crap ban

I'd rather have yours..... 2 candle holders and a hulk smash button that doesn't work....... I will say this was the worst i have gotten yet.. Even the Delta airlines flight kit was better than this.... I understand crappy but this went to Dot's Poetry Corner.

monos98 wrote:Mine arrived yesterday. Pretty underwhelming.

1 Blue bag
1 Hulk Smash USB
5 Fruit of the Loom plain t-shirts - XL and various colors

The rest was literally trash.

1 Pioneer head phones with opened packaging and RMA label. Non-Functioning.
1 Small Zip-Lock baggy full of disposable earplugs
3 Screaming Woot-Monkey capes with no monkeys
2 Small plastic fish. Too dirty and broken to let my kid play with.

Not sure this was worth it but guess I cant complain.

I only got a bag plus two items but MINE WAS AWESOME!




The usual red duffel bag, the usual Ultimotion, and the unusual and totally awesome 7" ANDROID MID!

Edit: Oh right, and mine was 6 lbs, 17.2 in. x 14.4 in. x 10.7 in.

Edit edit: The tablet turned on! It actually appears to work! But it only has 10% charge and the power adapter was mysteriously missing from the box...

Hell! Who got the letter?

Got my bag on Friday, finally getting to post now:

1 XL Jerzee's shirt (Brown)
2 XL Fruit of the Loom Shirts (Light Blue, Teal)
1 Box of Whiskey Stones (half-missing LOL)
1 Leopard Print Off-Brand Snuggie
1 Blue Duffel Bag

Not a bad haul at all. Its fun drinking Whiskey while dressed up like a leopard. The wife really enjoyed that.

Mine arrived today (a day early). It was 4.6 lbs.

1 Ultimotion
1 Pet Life Parka
1 Recycled bag

My Bag of Cuuuuuute! (3.3lbs) came in a day early! Way to move it Smartpost!

Inside, I found...

1 Hulk Smash USB button
1 XL shirt
1 red duffle bag
1 Spitball Dartpad (Enemy version)
1 cafe bingo
2 AA batteries
3 pouches of air.

JRinOKC wrote:Got my 2.6 pound box today. Here's the contents:

• Decisions spitball dartpad http://amzn.to/wyLLxF
  
• Gwen's Nest recycled tote bag
  
• Hulk USB smash button http://gizmo.do/AcjjmC
  
• Mustard color XL Jerzees t-shirt
  
• Six bags of Texas air
  

No texas air for me but got the same stuff in a 2.5lb bag only my shirt is maroon! I think I will need to find some actual little darts to use instead of spitballs. Thinking I can sand down some pushpins maybe and hang the darpad sheets on the cube walls....maybe they'll stick there...so many ideas!

Oh and can't wait to try out the hulk smash lol.

I haven't received mine yet. I can see it is 9.7 pounds, but I don't see anything for dimensions. Where do you guys get measurements on the box?

ignorant wrote:
But there was still one more item wrapped in protective foam...I unwrapped the foam to find...


...a Pioneer VSX-521-k 5.1 surround receiver! Now, this can't be a working receiver I thought, so I ran and grabbed a couple speakers, some wire and hooked it up. It seems to work great!

Congrats on the Pioneer receiver!

I got mine this morning! The standard crappy blue duffel bag and a poor man's wii, and a holiday pilsner glass with painted lights on it (made in China, so probably lead paint) which will be a big hit at the next christmas yankee swap.

1 bag, 2 craps, maybe I'll get a letter in the mail saying a pallet of tablets is on the way?

edit: that was a 5.5 lb box

omh1009 wrote:Hell! Who got the letter?

I don't think that there's been a letter in many months.

3.8 lbs, arrived 2 days early:

1 red duffel bag (wife's new gym bag)
1 Hulk smash button (I have no idea what to use this for)
1 Spitball "bored" game (perfect for white elephant)
1 Café bingo game (pretend to be entertained at FiveBucks/aka Starbucks)
1 XL beige/yellowish T-shirt (I'm an engineer, not very good with colors)
3 bags Texas air

All new items, a very good random haul! Thanks!

Here was my Barrels of Crud

1) Set of locking tupperware (1 large 3 small containers)
2) 3 useless controllers for ultimotion game sans game (too bad ...my four year old would have loved this !!!)
3) 1 tiny woot cape sans monkey

and one bag.

Seems they were really getting to the bottom of the barrel when they got to mine (it looks like someone tore the box from inside of the ultimotion game in half ...someone out there probably has the game missing three controllers!) Good times ....good times.

I got 4 or 5 Fruit of Loom XL t-shirts
Stanley Barbara's Way Tool Bag
Metal Star Wars lunch box
2 Star Wars cookie cutters (inside the lunch box)
Blue bag

Not bad for my first Barrels of Crud

ignorant wrote:

Sure hope you're better at designing dinnerware than you are at designing shirts.

wendy98765 wrote:

Cat looks displeased at the notion of a pet parka.

Got my second ever bucket of crazy and I'm not complaining.

2 x xl tshirts that will be awesome for the hubby when he's out fixing stuff (brown and teal)

1 x enemy spitball dartboard that will likely delight my nephew on his upcoming birthday

1 x small duffle bag that will be handy somehow I'm sure

Was it the best crap ever? No. But it's my crap and I'm gonna love it. And I've got to say that this time I stayed off the board once I realized I had a pretty standard box and I'm *so* glad I did. It was much more fun this way.

Thanks colonelcrap and the rest of the Woot staff!

keep the pics coming! mine is in transit - will be bringing it to the office and opening with my coworkers (who tried and couldn't get through)...

someone mentioned that i should see if i could figure out what i got from here, and then auction my bag to them... ha, yeah right... my bag is my bag! (even if i get a urine bag)

inkycatz wrote:Cat looks displeased at the notion of a pet parka.

It's currently 79F outside. Plus I woke her up from her nap so she could play in the Woot box.

btmeyers wrote:I got mine this morning! The standard crappy blue duffel bag and a poor man's wii, and a holiday pilsner glass with painted lights on it (made in China, so probably lead paint) which will be a big hit at the next christmas yankee swap.

1 bag, 2 craps, maybe I'll get a letter in the mail saying a pallet of tablets is on the way?

edit: that was a 5.5 lb box

I got the same items. Do not wash the pilsner glass if you want keep the lead paint : )

Update on my Sherwood Netboxx.

It appears to work fine, though I can understand why it was returned. I would never spend the money asked for this thing but it's not too bad. Now I'll rag on it a while...

I have 5.1 speakers. I connected the FR/FL to FR/FL, C to C, SW to SW, and SRR/SRL to SRR/SSL. Auto speaker setup played the tones through all six speakers and promply told me I had FR/FL, C, and SW. Trying to adjust these settings I found that I couldn't turn on SRR/SRL without also turning on SR/SL. The auto setup then failed when the Left and Right Surround speakers failed to play. I set them up manually, figured I'd lose the sound that should come from those side channels, and moved on.

Much later in the manual there was a table showing how the speakers were utilized by the different DTS/Dolby modes. I noticed that the 7.1 modes used all of the speakers (duh) but that the 5.1 modes didn't use the Surround Rear R/L speakers. Ohhh! Even though there were no instructions for doing this you have to hook the Surround Rear R/L speakers to the Surround R/L jacks if you only have a 5.1 speaker set instead of the intuitively-obvious action of hooking rear speakers to rear speaker jacks. Manual Fail. After I did this the auto speaker setup was successful (and then I promptly boosted the base). Now, this does free up the rear speaker jacks for the supported separate zone if have one (I don't).

(Being as this is my first non-PC streaming device, aside from Netflix-via-PS3, I can't really directly compare it to anything else.)

The VuNow "pod" is a little underwhelming but usable (due to the artificial low-definition restriction on the PS3 playing YouTube VuNow beats the PS3 hands-down for that purpose). I think there's a software problem because when you start VuNow it'll sometimes go into a boot loop at about the point it says "starting server". (If I were debugging the code I'd look at what happens when the attempt returns an error that the server's already started.) Once this happens a simple power off/on seems to fix it and VuNow starts fine.

When I first started VuNow it sounded like an echo chamber. Selecting stereo and then back to Auto Surround cleared that up. I think that it happened again so the sound selection may be something that I have to do each time I start VuNow.

VuNow is limited to a max of 720p, but that's no big deal. The USB wireless dongle is 802.11g but I have it wired (it's apparently 10/100 but streaming video easily fits into that) to my media center router (I have two WNDR4000 routers set up in client-bridge mode with the triple 5GHz N channels dedicated to the link) so the obsolete/slow/congested WiFi-G is unused and no worry.

Supposedly this will work with some PlayOn server software that you run on your PC to get Netflix, but I use my PS3 for that. VuNow is DLNA 1.0 compatible (not certified) so it should be compatible with any modern server software (including Windows Media Player). From what little I've read 1.0 is client (pull) driven only while 1.5 supports "playing to" the device (push) from media server.

YouTube works pretty well, though if you select "Channels" from the side menu VuNow reliably crashes and reboots. I experimented a little with the "popular websites" and online TV/radio selections. Workable but definitely not like a PC.

I haven't yet tried playing a Blu-Ray from the PS3 but my daughter's Skyrim gaming didn't seem to take an arrow in the knee.

What this thing really does for me is:

• High(er)-Def TV YouTube without hooking up a laptop,
  
• Combining the audio digital cable/TOSLINKto the receiver and HDMI to the TV into one connection through the receiver (must still use TOSLINK from the TV to the receiver for over-the-air play),
  
• I can get 5.1 sound via HDMI when I hook up my gaming laptop for 65-inch gaming (the Olevia only passes through 2.1 or 3.1 via TOSLINK), and
  
• Elimination of my only rationale/excuse to upgrade my VSX-1015 to a VSX-1021 :-(
  

add me to the list of people with only 2 craps.

6.6 lb box contains:
1 Ultimotion
1 Audi A4 DTM 1:16 RC car this one (damaged box but toy looks ok)
1 blue duffle bag

My Barrels of Crud is 150 (2 hours and 55 minutes) away but not expected to be delivered until Thursday. Egads.

My Barrels of Crud contained:

1 Camo Pet Tote
1 Fake Wii Sports
1 Syma Helicopter with no box - looks unused, just missing the box.
1 Missing third item

Can't complain, almost bought one of the helicopters awhile back but decided I shouldn't waste my money. What a mistake, that thing is awesome.

My 2.5 lb package had...
1 Black Duffel
2 XL Tees
1 Discovery Kids dinnerware designer

So is that 3 items or 2?

jsoko wrote:My 2.5 lb package had...
1 Black Duffel
2 XL Tees
1 Discovery Kids dinnerware designer

So is that 3 items or 2?

that qualifies as 3 plus bag

2 - Fruit of the Loom T's (XL) - perfect...
1 - Red Duffle Bag - useable...
1 - USB "Hulk Smash" button - sweet...
1 - Spitball Dartpad - gross...

and...

1 - DVD set (4 dvds) Mystery Science Theater 3000 vol 20 - totally AWESOME

Thanks Woot!

Saw someone with pretty much the same as me:

1 - XL Mustard Shirt
1 - Recycled Matierial Tote Bag
1 - Hulk Smash USB Button
1 - Spitball Dartboard

Can't complain, but I can't gloat either. Meh.

I got mine and welllll.. Crappy

1 plain brown t-shirt
1 plain blue t-shirt
1 recycled tote bag
1 green bucket (broken in multiple places)
1 hulk smash button with spider man smash button software disk (non working)
3 texas air bags, 2 with air

All in all my first truly crappy Barrels of Crud but thanks woots for letting me play!