nyke15 wrote:Can we make a club for people with 3 craps?

Not to brag or anything

I am in the club for 3, all on the same account and no cheating. Level 1, 2, and 3. I tried for 4 gave up at 6am As my eyes began to bleed... Luckily did not have to work next day. Whew!

This may have been answered, but I can't find it. I saw the game but just ignored it. I clicked the "buy" button and instantly purchased a level 2 bag. Did the system mess up and reward me without having to play the game??

I think it will be interesting to see if there are any differences in the crap from each level. I got a level 3 and my brother got a level 4. Ooooh I can't wait!

I kind of like the different levels. This means we have a smaller group of friends to share our Big o' Cosmos fun with. We're like a little family here!

glad to score the coveted bag o cnotes, a letter to the editer would be super sweet! either way gotta yuoty tube the opening of the bank of capones hidden vault!!!

Woot should do this more often with the bag of cats.
Like the woot your own adventure
or keyword snail for 999,995 off the $1,000,000 shipping cost
It was up for 10 hours before it finally sold out.
Usually its gone in .008 seconds, even knowing when karp will come up.

Kn1nJa wrote:I think it will be interesting to see if there are any differences in the crap from each level. I got a level 3 and my brother got a level 4. Ooooh I can't wait!

We'll have to urge people to post their level along with the usual dimensions and weight info.

kitcatbrat wrote:Weird request, considering over 6000 bags weren't sold on that thread :P

2 Points of clarity that I'm sure YOU will understand since you've been on here over 3 years longer than I have.
A) Each Level had up to 750 Carps available X10 = 7500 total @ 3 per order = 2500 total Woots so no Single Level Big o' Cosmos had 6000
2) Said request makes sense in order to consolidate the posts to 1 thread as long as once the Big o' Cosmos's start rolling in, people also list what Level# theirs was.
Just "My 2 cents."

pingraming wrote:re: Konami Code.... I tried the code a couple of times over the last day and a half, to no avail. till, that is, I read the 'step by step for dummies version' a few post ago. Thanks!

ANYWAYS... the game was obviously programmed to allow for people (smarter peoples than me)... the music changes to the Woot Off theme and the snail gets a Woot Off light on his back.

BUT, I still died when I hit an obstacle...

SO, what does usage of the code accomplish when it comes to winning the game?

You're welcome!

Konami Code For Dummies, I like it! I grew up with Contra and the code is burned into my skull. I think it is just a nice little Easter egg thrown in for fun.

kingsofcrunk wrote:This may have been answered, but I can't find it. I saw the game but just ignored it. I clicked the "buy" button and instantly purchased a level 2 bag. Did the system mess up and reward me without having to play the game??

Short answer is yes.

I immediately clicked on the "I Want One" button at midnight and was launched into the game. I died quickly and was given the option to buy my bag, as it was processing, I got "This item is sold out" Went back and it said level 2, clicked the button again, no game straight to the ordering page etc.. it was the smoothest purchase of one of these that I have ever gotten. Then I went to work came home and worked very hard to get a level 8 crap, after that it would not let me buy any more. My game was up, but it was fun!

Kn1nJa wrote:I kind of like the different levels. This means we have a smaller group of friends to share our Big o' Cosmos fun with. We're like a little family here!

You have a good point but, the request to move the posts to the Level-10 thread makes sense in order to consolidate the posts to 1 thread as long as once the Big o' Cosmos's start rolling in, people also list what Level# theirs was.
Just "My $.02"

holyitz wrote:glad to score the coveted bag o cnotes, a letter to the editer would be super sweet! either way gotta yuoty tube the opening of the bank of capones hidden vault!!!

Bank Of Capones! LOL! I Like It! Just be sure to pay your TAXES!

So, anyone receiver their Box o' Cranberries yet?

whackmymole wrote:So, anyone receiver their Box o' Cranberries yet?

Not likely. They won't even be shipped until later on this week. BOCs typically ship a full 5 business days after the sale.

whackmymole wrote:So, anyone receiver their Box o' Cranberries yet?

Yes, mine was delivered this morning (Sunday) but I was told by threepiecewoot that I'm not allowed to open it until after they ship the FIRST one out!

But seriously, don't expect any of them to be delivered for at LEAST 1 week from now.

drgandalf wrote:Not likely. They won't even be shipped until later on this week. BOCs typically ship a full 5 business days after the sale.

Dog-Gone-It! You beat me to it!

By the way, love your Sig! I wonder if I could use it in conjunction with my current one? But of course, that's YOUR Sig.

redscot68 wrote:Dog-Gone-It! You beat me to it!

By the way, love your Sig! I wonder if I could use it in conjunction with my current one? But of course, that's YOUR Sig.

mine arrived this morning but it was from my damb cat.......

holyitz wrote:mine arrived this morning but it was from my damb cat.......

Your cat puts it in a Bag? How nice of it! I wish I could teach my oldest cat to do that! He's 17 years old and Apparently doesn't like using the litter box anymore! Talk about ANNOYING!

redscot68 wrote:By the way, love your Sig! I wonder if I could use it in conjunction with my current one? But of course, that's YOUR Sig.

Thanks, its a small paste-up I make in Photoshop, and update periodically, usually after I get another BOC.

It used to be a collage of thumbnails of all my purchases, but that got to be too cluttered when I got up to around 30.

kingsofcrunk wrote:This may have been answered, but I can't find it. I saw the game but just ignored it. I clicked the "buy" button and instantly purchased a level 2 bag. Did the system mess up and reward me without having to play the game??

My theory....
(FWIW)

It was April Fool's Day. That in itself implies "anything goes"....and I'm guessing now that some of these "glitches" may have been intentional. Why WOULDN'T they randomly reward some of those quick on the draw by bypassing the game altogether? Same can be said of allowing a purchase on each different level. You never know with Woot. They don't HAVE to tell us the "rules" ahead of time....and might get kicks from watching some of the smarter (not me!)....or even just luckier...wooters beat the system, so to speak. Wouldn't surprise me in the least, as that's just they way woot often is.

OR....

It could be that the programming/coding geniuses who work at woot just f'd up and didn't close all the back and side doors before the big party.

Who knows? Who cares? LOL

It was a FUN, DIFFERENT, and FAIR way to give EVERYONE a chance at the prize if they cared about it enough to participate, even if some of those people can't open their eyes and see that. Woot' site = Woot's rules, as far as I care. To those who want to "take their business elsewhere" because of THIS ONE APRIL FOOL'S SALE IDEA, I say: "Buh-bye, now. Take care, then." Go shop somewhere else. Sheesh. It's things like this that attracted most of us earliest-wooters to this site in the first place. There are tons of woot rip-off sites out there, but none.....NONE....compare to the original, imo. If people don't like it here, I don't see why they don't just go play with those others.

redscot68 wrote:You have a good point but, the request to move the posts to the Level-10 thread makes sense in order to consolidate the posts to 1 thread as long as once the Big o' Cosmos's start rolling in, people also list what Level# theirs was.
Just "My $.02"

I agree, but that doesn't mean we have to stop posting in here. ;)

I just have to say....

The "sense of entitlement" that has come to permeate our society just nauseates me.

Woot doesn't "OWE" any of us the opportunity to even buy craps in the first place. They don't have to sell Big o' Cosmos's AT ALL. It was a (very clever, imo) unique idea they came up with to clear out the already unsold, rejected merchandise that was cluttering up their warehouses, and make a profit from doing it, to boot. The only thing that pisses me off about it is that I didn't think of it first. *kicks self in butt*

This is AMERICA, people!!! Land of the Free. Home of the Brave. (And also the home of capitalism, pure and simple.)

/end rant

ReginaFilangee wrote:My theory....
(FWIW)

It was April Fool's Day. That in itself implies "anything goes"....and I'm guessing now that some of these things were intentional. Why WOULDN'T they randomly reward some of those quick on the draw by bypassing the game altogether? Same can be said of allowing a purchase on each different level. You never know with Woot. They don't HAVE to tell us the "rules" ahead of time....and might get kicks from watching some of the smarter (not me!)....or even just luckier...wooters beat the system, so to speak. Wouldn't surprise me in the least, as that's just they way woot often is.

OR....

It could be that the programming/coding geniuses who work at woot just f'd up and didn't close all the back and side doors before the big party.

Who knows? Who cares? LOL

It was a FUN, DIFFERENT, and FAIR way to give EVERYONE a chance at the prize if they cared about it enough to participate, even if some of those people can't open their eyes and see that. Woot' site = Woot's rules, as far as I care. To those who want to "take their business elsewhere" because of THIS ONE APRIL FOOL'S SALE IDEA, I say "Buh-bye, now. Take care, then." Go shop somewhere else. It's things like this that attracted most of us earliest-wooter to this site in the first place. There are tons of woot rip-off sites out there, but none.....NONE....compare to the original, imo. If people don't like it here, I don't see why they don't just go play with those others.

I agree. While it may not have functioned properly at first, it worked great afterward. This is probably the only time I've EVER seen crap last until noon. Usually its gone in like 30 seconds. Also there were more craps than ever before.

I think a majority of people are mad because their auto-buy bot failed them. ;)

drgandalf wrote:Thanks, its a small paste-up I make in Photoshop, and update periodically, usually after I get another BOC.

It used to be a collage of thumbnails of all my purchases, but that got to be too cluttered when I got up to around 30.

I think he may have been phrasing that compliment in such a way as to hint that he'd also like your permission to do the same thing, IF it was okay with you. I second the compliment, and think it would look good if many posters had your sig with their own numbers on it. I'd ask for it myself, but would probably be too embarrassed at how high some of those numbers would be....along with my measly "2" for the bag.

Kn1nJa wrote:I agree, but that doesn't mean we have to stop posting in here. ;)

True.

ReginaFilangee wrote:My theory....
(FWIW)

It was April Fool's Day. That in itself implies "anything goes"....and I'm guessing now that some of these things were intentional. Why WOULDN'T they randomly reward some of those quick on the draw by bypassing the game altogether? Same can be said of allowing a purchase on each different level. You never know with Woot. They don't HAVE to tell us the "rules" ahead of time....and might get kicks from watching some of the smarter (not me!)....or even just luckier...wooters beat the system, so to speak. Wouldn't surprise me in the least, as that's just they way woot often is.

OR....

It could be that the programming/coding geniuses who work at woot just f'd up and didn't close all the back and side doors before the big party.

Who knows? Who cares? LOL

It was a FUN, DIFFERENT, and FAIR way to give EVERYONE a chance at the prize if they cared about it enough to participate, even if some of those people can't open their eyes and see that. Woot' site = Woot's rules, as far as I care. To those who want to "take their business elsewhere" because of THIS ONE APRIL FOOL'S SALE IDEA, I say: "Buh-bye, now. Take care, then." Go shop somewhere else. Sheesh. It's things like this that attracted most of us earliest-wooters to this site in the first place. There are tons of woot rip-off sites out there, but none.....NONE....compare to the original, imo. If people don't like it here, I don't see why they don't just go play with those others.

I AGREE wholeheartedly!

ReginaFilangee wrote:I think he may have been phrasing that compliment in such a way as to hint that he'd also like your permission to do the same thing, IF it was okay with you. I second the compliment, and think it would look good if many posters had your sig with their own numbers on it. I'd ask for it myself, but would probably be too embarrassed at how high some of those numbers would be....along with my measly "2" for the bag.

And you are very astute about my compliment/request. I would feel like I was being disrespectful to plagiarize drgandolf's Sig without asking if it was ok. I am also not sure if I could manage to combine it with my current Sig without assistance.

Please may I, drgandolf?

ReginaFilangee wrote:My theory....
(FWIW)

It was April Fool's Day. That in itself implies "anything goes"....and I'm guessing now that some of these things were intentional. Why WOULDN'T they randomly reward some of those quick on the draw by bypassing the game altogether? Same can be said of allowing a purchase on each different level. You never know with Woot. They don't HAVE to tell us the "rules" ahead of time....and might get kicks from watching some of the smarter (not me!)....or even just luckier...wooters beat the system, so to speak. Wouldn't surprise me in the least, as that's just they way woot often is.

OR....

It could be that the programming/coding geniuses who work at woot just f'd up and didn't close all the back and side doors before the big party.

Who knows? Who cares? LOL

It was a FUN, DIFFERENT, and FAIR way to give EVERYONE a chance at the prize if they cared about it enough to participate, even if some of those people can't open their eyes and see that. Woot' site = Woot's rules, as far as I care. To those who want to "take their business elsewhere" because of THIS ONE APRIL FOOL'S SALE IDEA, I say: "Buh-bye, now. Take care, then." Go shop somewhere else. Sheesh. It's things like this that attracted most of us earliest-wooters to this site in the first place. There are tons of woot rip-off sites out there, but none.....NONE....compare to the original, imo. If people don't like it here, I don't see why they don't just go play with those others.

At 1AM (eastern), the Big Orphaned Cetacea cam up, and I hit the big old button, taking me directly to the purchase screen. Bingo. I got a Big Orphaned Cetacea.

This process was the same as it EVER was, except there were only 750 bags for that first level.

My point? To all the whiners who claim it wasn't fair.... What if... just WHAT IF this was an actual woot-off that STARTED with the bag? It would have sold out in 10 seconds flat, and you'd all be complaining about the crappy servers and how woot sucks.

The game - even with all its warts and pimples - gave MORE people a GREATER chance to get a bag. Normal bag offering is around 3,000. This one was closer to 8,000.

Woot stepped up and offered a supply to meet the demand. It was that simple. Except... Woot doesn't just GIVE their crap away. You need to be quick, or cunning, or smart, or all three. Possess any of those traits (along with a healthy dose of luck), and you are rewarded for your efforts.

In a normal scenario, you try once, the bag is sold out. In this scenario, you have literally HUNDREDS of chances each and every hour.

Any ideas as to what to expect the quality of the craps to be? Not that quality matters much or anything; just wondering if maybe the larger quantity of craps given out implies lesser quality.

Also, March's Big o' Cosmos hasn't had any reported letters yet? What's up with that? Are they saving all the big ticket items for now? :D?

andrewkl wrote:

This process was the same as it EVER was, except there were only 750 bags for that first level.

My point? To all the whiners who claim it wasn't fair.... What if... just WHAT IF this was an actual woot-off that STARTED with the bag? It would have sold out in 10 seconds flat, and you'd all be complaining about the crappy servers and how woot sucks.

The game - even with all its warts and pimples - gave MORE people a GREATER chance to get a bag. Normal bag offering is around 3,000. This one was closer to 8,000.

twipps wrote:Any ideas as to what to expect the quality of the craps to be? Not that quality matters much or anything; just wondering if maybe the larger quantity of craps given out implies lesser quality.

Point of clarity:

Each Level had up to 750 Carps available X10 = 7500 total @ 3 per order = 2500 total Woots.
So IF my understanding is correct, there were about the same # of Carps available as usual.

andrewkl wrote: Woot stepped up and offered a supply to meet the demand. It was that simple. Except... Woot doesn't just GIVE their crap away. You need to be quick, or cunning, or smart, or all three. Possess any of those traits (along with a healthy dose of luck), and you are rewarded for your efforts.

In a normal scenario, you try once, the bag is sold out. In this scenario, you have literally HUNDREDS of chances each and every hour.

HOLY CARP! I think I'm wrong! Looking back at March's Big o' Cosmos it says 3000 total Woots. On each Level of the 4/1 Big o' Cosmos it says roughly 750 each. WOW, that's a CARP load of CARPS!

Just "My $.02"

twipps wrote:Any ideas as to what to expect the quality of the craps to be? Not that quality matters much or anything; just wondering if maybe the larger quantity of craps given out implies lesser quality.

Also, March's Big o' Cosmos hasn't had any reported letters yet? What's up with that? Are they saving all the big ticket items for now? :D?

Condition: Crappy

THE HOLY CRAP COMMANDMENTS v3.0

I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond ONE bag of some kind and THREE crappy items.


The letters don't generally come out until the boxes themselves get sent. In it, some boxes will have a letter that one of their craps couldn't fit into the box and would be shipping separately via an alternative carrier. THAT's how you know you got a "big ticket" surprise....at least, that's how it's been in the past. Since I haven't scored a Big o' Cosmos in a looooooooooooooooooong time, I haven't kept up with reading those threads to see if things have changed or notl

redscot68 wrote:
Point of clarity:

Each Level had up to 750 Carps available X10 = 7500 total @ 3 per order = 2500 total Woots

I could certainly be wrong, redscot68, but I think it was 750 ORDERS (bags) per level = 7500 ORDERS (each bag containing 3 craps)

Otherwise, each level would have sold out @ 250 (if they were counting each item in the order...ie, each item in each bag...separately.)

ReginaFilangee wrote:Condition: Crappy

THE HOLY CRAP COMMANDMENTS v3.0

I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond ONE bag of some kind and THREE crappy items.


The letters don't generally come out until the boxes themselves get sent. In it, some boxes will have a letter that one of their craps couldn't fit into the box and would be shipping separately via an alternative carrier. THAT's how you know you got a "big ticket" surprise....at least, that's how it's been in the past. Since I haven't scored a Big o' Cosmos in a looooooooooooooooooong time, I haven't kept up with reading those threads to see if things have changed or notl

OOPS, you missed it! twipps was saking about March's Big o' Cosmos. (Other than that, correct!)

andrewkl wrote:
In a normal scenario, you try once, the bag is sold out. In this scenario, you have literally HUNDREDS of chances each and every hour.

*Laughs*
I can't help but think that that's what has caused the whiners the most grief: that even with BETTER odds and MORE chances and MORE time, they STILL couldn't pull it off and buy themselves some crap. (I also agree with whoever said that the most vocal whiners are probably those whose auto-buy-bot programs were foiled.)

ReginaFilangee wrote:I could certainly be wrong, redscot68, but I think it was 750 ORDERS per level = 7500 ORDERS (each containing 3 craps)

Otherwise, each level would have sold out @ 250 (if they were counting each item in the order separately.)

You may be correct on that. Like I said "IF my understanding is correct" If I'm wrong, it wouldn't be the first time and hopefully not the last. :-D

MODERATOR! Please clarify this for us.

HOLY CARP! I think I'm wrong! Looking back at March's Big o' Cosmos it says 3000 total Woots. On each Level of the 4/1 Big o' Cosmos it says roughly 750 each. WOW, that's a CARP load of CARPS!

redscot68 wrote:OOPS, you missed it! twipps was asking about March's Big o' Cosmos. (Other than that, correct!)

Oops....*flips my calendar page over to the current month*....how did MARCH go by so quickly????? Thanks for pointing out my error; I totally missed it and thought twipps was talking about THIS Big o' Cosmos.

(Yes, I *am* aware that April Fool's Day occurs in April, not March, LOL!)

To answer twipp's question: not everyone posts in the forums is my guess. I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to come brag about it if they got something great, but some people just don't share such information. *shrug*

drgandalf wrote:Thanks, its a small paste-up I make in Photoshop, and update periodically, usually after I get another BOC.

It used to be a collage of thumbnails of all my purchases, but that got to be too cluttered when I got up to around 30.

Hey, drgandalf....back to your cool sig:

Maybe you should "borrow" from redscot68's sig and add an icon in yours for screaming monkeys! (Since so many consider that to be a status symbol or "collector's" item, also.) Perhaps y'all could work out such a "trade" of ideas?

:-)

redscot68 wrote:
HOLY CARP! I think I'm wrong! Looking back at March's Big o' Cosmos it says 3000 total Woots. On each Level of the 4/1 Big o' Cosmos it says roughly 750 each. WOW, that's a CARP load of CARPS!

*gently pats redscott68 on the back*

There, there....don't fret. We've ALL been wrong at some point in our lives. At least you've gotten it out of the way now.

My idea re: the quality of woots and this time's larger quantity:

One of these days, Woot needs to consider having one of the "big ticket" items be a freaking STORAGE BUILDING in which to put all the crap. In my case, I'd be very happy to actually receive a new HOUSE for that. :-)

so here's a woot fantasy...maybe instead of having a woot off, they just split all the carp up between the 7500 bocs!

at least it's not snowing in dallas this time ;)

ReginaFilangee wrote:Hey, drgandalf....back to your cool sig:

Maybe you should "borrow" from redscot68's sig and add an icon in yours for screaming monkeys! (Since so many consider that to be a status symbol or "collector's" item, also.) Perhaps y'all could work out such a "trade" of ideas?

:-)

I never thought of the monkeys as a status symbol, I just call it the new toy my parrot will destroy in 8 minutes flat

bryanws wrote:True. If people had known beforehand how ridiculous it was going to be, that would have been the case in all probability. The trouble is that people entered into the gambit without such knowledge available and only came to the realization AFTER a significant investment in time. When people invest so much effort and come so close, it becomes very hard to let go, let all the effort go to waste, and have nothing to show for it in the end. At that point people's frustration and stubbornness are competing. As seen, when frustration finally wins out, it's not a pretty sight.

So I actually got one by playing the game!!