txas4suzi wrote:my 1st for 2011!!
just earned my purple badge
10 of them Big o' Cosmos's


oh yeAH!!!!!

Congrats on the Purple! :D

AWSOME I got one! I doubt it will be as randome and all wootilisious as it was for the Christmas Random Crap. This is the best part, we pay for the antipation and excitement waiting for the shipped message and then comparing the size and weights to everyone else's and waiting some more. The crap in the box is just the icing on the cake.
This is my 4th of the last 5

Polly12200 wrote:Not carp? Quick, cancel the evites for the gefilte fish party.

Too bad, I have Sophie Tucker's gefilte fish recipe and am looking for an excuse to try it!

It took me 4 years but I finally got one. It better be some really crappy crap or I'm gonna be mad.

After many years of searching, I have once again found the elusive Bungle Octopus Carrier. I am extremely excited to see what this Bungle Octopus Carrier looks like.

That was cool. Looked up from my work PC after the item showed up (bad). Switched to my PC and refreshed the page (bad). The page came up almost instantly (good). Clicked the buy button, it worked (good). Entered my password on my work keyboard (bad), did it again (real bad). Took my keyboard and put in the password and clicked buy. Waiting, Waiting, Waiting.... Got a email from paypal. Way cool. Got it.

WOOT WOOT! I got Crap!

Holy Big Orphaned Cetacea Batman! I actually saw it this time it does exist! Maybe next time I can actually buy one.

this Big Orphaned Cetacea is a Big Orphaned Cetacea. i got all the way to the page if everything looks well click the button and i did. 5 mins later i apear at the next woot page and the order did not go through. We, the Hitchhikers happened??

sweet Big Orphaned Cetacea!! ive been trying forever and it always appears when im at work! thank the good Woot gods for my Big Orphaned Cetacea!

mrbidness1 wrote:WOOT WOOT! I got Crap!

I missed crap while I was outside saving my boat from 60mph winds and tornado watches! :/

Scored one this time...easiest ever. Went right thru without any hitches. Got the Christmas Bag , too. Two in a row without any problems. Hopefully a sign of better things to come. Come on WOOT GODS....smile down on me and send me something great. I have never scored anything great but still fun all the same.

Ok, so it took me forever to comment on this, but I got my first Big o' Cosmos today. I am so excited I am sitting here beside myself. What amazes me is that I screwed up my credit info and had to reenter it all over again, and I still got in on it. Either their servers have been upgraded or they had a lot of Cetaceans laying around.

darrylk wrote:Yup. Wootalyzer (and probably others) didn't recognize it, so they didn't alert their masters and/or bring up the buy page. I, however, still managed to miss it.

Same thing happened for the Xmas Crap, but that time I didn't get one, but my wife did. This time, I got one, she didn't.

Wow. That was the least agonizing experience I've ever had trying to buy the Big Orphaned Cetacea. Today's is my second in ~3 years.

Here are some tips for those who are entering info and perhaps losing out because of it: use paypal so you don't have to type in credit card info, or, if you don't want to do that, have all of your info typed and ready in an e-mail draft or Word doc so you can simply cut and paste your name, address, CC number, security code, and your woot password. You would probably have enough time to type it up while the servers are churning before the order page comes up. I use paypal, but always enter my password into the google search box and then copy it so I have nothing else to do but paste it in, do a quick scan, and hit the gold button.

deaddrop wrote:I missed crap while I was outside saving my boat from 60mph winds and tornado watches! :/

Ya'll must be in Florida eh?

Woo Hoo. My second bag o crap. The day is good.

ChicagoJayhawk wrote:Congrats on the Purple! :D

OK...what does the purple mean? I am purple, too. Just noticed that.

phiyuku wrote:Got my first Big o' Cosmos but sadly I didn't change my shipping address before hand and now it will send to my home address so it would be a while before I get to open it after I come back from my dorm.

Email service@woot.com right away and ask them to change the shipping address. They're very helpful with this sort of thing.

I finally got one... after so many years of trying. Oh happy Day.... or maybe Oh CRAPPY Day!

I can't wait to see what kind of crap I got!

Woohoo! Number 2 for me!

Plenty of Tech Lights from last Bag of Slightly Used Kittens!

http://www.octobermedia.com/lights/

$3 each shipping based on how many you buy

I even had time to update my shipping address mid-crap???

rehta wrote:What exactly is a Big Orphaned Cetacea? I've seen so many people get so excited to buy one... Is it just random stuff that you pay $8 plus tax for and it might just be stuff you immediately chuck in the trashcan, so woot is just making easy money off of us?

That's exactly what it is. I've scored 3 or 4 bags over the years, and I'd say 50%-75% of the total contents have either been tossed or set aside for reasons that I am unable to explain to my wife.

There are also tales of wonderful things being included, so anything is possible. My favorite example, based on my actual personal experience is one time when I got a previously viewed VHS tape of Stephen King's "The Stand".

WOOT! Big o' Cosmos #2 for me!

I had the Wootalyzer going and it worked fine for me. I was just about to leave the house actually when I hear it screaming at me that there was a new item. I almost didn't look. Glad I did :0)

Happy happy day.
All blessings to the Woot gods.
Got a Big Orphaned Cetacea.

Thank you Woot! The anticipation is half of the fun! And of course this will be a Youtube video for us again. I just hope my girlfriend doesn't keep yelling "Is that a letter? Did we get a letter? We got a letter!!!!!!"

And it was just a disc.

(Seriously, she's not really nuts)

what do you get in a Big Orphaned Cetacea? What was the best thing you ever got in one?

anicolew wrote:I won I won I Won!! First time ever in over a year!! Niceeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Score one Big Orphaned Cetacea for me! I had 4 pages open, with 3 of them saying I could not purchase because I already had. LUCKY ME!!! Sorry to all you others.. BUTTTTTTTTT I WON!

congrats!!
cool t-shirt

tedknaz wrote:100+ orders? Yeah, it's your turn for sure. Congrats!

Thanks, Ted!

It's nice of you to notice the tons of WOOTS I've purchased. And that doesn't even include all the Kids and Wine WOOTS I've bought.

I sure hope you were also able to snag a coveted Big Orphaned Cetacea!

In for one! 2nd Black Onion Carp in the last month. WOOT!!

My #2 Bag of #2! I'm amazed that it occurred so early in the woot-off, that they waited until I got home from work to do it and that I was able to get the order in after all the server issues they've been having today!

First day on woot and I got a Big o' Cosmos. awesome sauce.

Here's my version of the proceedings here on the discussion forums:
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The Phases of the Big Orphaned Cetacea (according to DrGandalf):

Phase 1: The discussion of getting vs. not getting the Big Orphaned Cetacea, with the usual reference to the cursed bots, Woot's horrible servers, and related.

Phase 2: The discussion of when will Woot finally ship the Bags, and did you get your tracking number, and the creation of the spreadsheet.

Phase 3: The discussion of how much the packages are predicted to weigh, how big they are, how Smartpost is sending them all around the country, and whether they are arriving early, late, or maybe never, and how to find out all the tracking information.

Phase 4: The revealing of the contents of the much awaited Bags of Crap, with much hooting and Wooting by those that are happy, some grumbling by those that are not, but with most folks happy that they got to play the game no matter what they got. Plus, the great hunt for The Letter!

Phase 4a: The waiting for and the revealing of the contents of the POC (Pallette of Crap) that the recipients of The Letter receive.


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Phase 1 seems to have been remarkably civil this time.

Big Orphaned Cetacea 1/25/11 1

First woot since '08 :D

(Sellout doesn't count)

Thank you wooters.us for the "Buy" link.

is it just me, or does 1.something seconds seem a little unrealistic for the first wooter? I'm not bitter, I did manage to get my first Bottle of Cola. YAY! I was just wondering if that it typical...

deaddrop wrote:I missed crap while I was outside saving my boat from 60mph winds and tornado watches! :/

Those watches are probably made in China, and if you just strap them to your wrist your boat will be fine.

woohoo Big o' Cosmos on the way to me!

Got my First Big o' Cosmos and only my third Woot purchase. Been watching for years but just got lucky that i purchased the previous item and decided to wait around....