diverscott wrote:I just hope they continue to confine their hunt for items to the break room. When they venture forth to the bathrooms, it'll give a whole new dimension to the Bundle of Crops

They did--it was!

sweetpea113377 wrote:Can someone please explain what this "Bags of Crap" &/or "Bundle of Crops" thingy is & how it works?

Basically, woot! offers what they call a Bindle of Carrots. It's shown as a brown paper bag with a question mark on it. It's one flat price, very reasonable, and can contain ANYTHING they have left over. It could be something worth $0.01, or something worth $250. You just never know.

Oh, and they are just about impossible to get!

And here I thought you could never actually buy one. I guess I'm too slow poke.

when you can only go on after 9 am the bar is too high to get a bag...perhaps woot should reset the scores and allow others to win.

shinma22 wrote:Has anyone been able to get a Ball of Chains this go-round? From the game perhaps?

Game? Was there a game? Where?

rickseiden wrote:Basically, woot! offers what they call a Bindle of Carrots. It's shown as a brown paper bag with a question mark on it. It's one flat price, very reasonable, and can contain ANYTHING they have left over. It could be something worth $0.01, or something worth $250. You just never know.

Oh, and they are just about impossible to get!

Thank you much!! Can anyone inform me how & when I can get in on this action?

Actually, I'm a liar..... You didn't have a simple "0" as an answer choice. I am a veteran Wootster.

I think I'm up to 15 bags now, but I've been Wooting for quite some time. The early bags were usually pretty unique and weird and not many were the same except for the bag, bucket, backpack or whatever the container happened to be for that particular sale. Lately there is a sameness to them which may reflect the popularity of the bags or corporate decisions to simplify the distribution of items. Woot used to have them with the buy 1, 2, or 3 buttons but people were always griping that they wanted 3 but chose 1 by mistake and Woot was usually kind enough to add in the extra craps. I imagine that got kind of old and they decided to just sell three at a whack and be done with it. Woot can't be making any money on the bags; it's a loss-leader and a way to keep interest in the rest of the Woot-off at a high level.


Best crap I think I've gotten was a Kodak 5100 color printer/scanner/copier that was new in the box. We use it all the time at the house (thanks again, Woot!). I've gotten monkeys in them (we have a rainbow assortment at the house from the bags plus the ones that I've purchased) and lots of earphones. I even got a Sansa once along with a digital camera/MP3 player and some portable speakers. The Pink Panther DVD collection was nice, too. Most of the stuff winds up as gifts to friends and relatives or donations to yard sales and the like.

Been here a while, never scored. I think the button on the poll was actually an email I sent them: I will never buy anything more until I get a Bundle of Crops

No crap yet. If I ever get 'lucky' enough to get a Bindle of Carrots it wouldn't surprise me at all to find it's a roll of toilet paper.

penguinsrcool wrote:Been fortunate to snag 5 bags of crap so far. Last one was the most useful. Most fun Bundle of Crops was getting about 30 3" long USB to mini-USB cables. A friend gave them out as Halloween treats. I can just hear the kids look at them and say, "What is this crap?" Exactly!

Next million dollar idea: Be an egg merchant near your friend's house next month...

Woot shopper since 2005, so multiple Bees Oh See.

• Best: Bag included two Power Squids, a Sansa, a Looj, and a Laptop, among other things.
  
• Worst: Mini-Tripod, Slinky Jr. and kid-sized earbuds, plus official Woot paper bag. Replacement bag for a lost-in-shipping 23.1lb. box! On second thought, the official bag wasn't half bad.
  
• Weirdest: 131 Popeye posters, all identical.
  

When do we get an opportunity to buy a Bindle of Carrots?

13 Bundle of Crops for me so far. Best one contained a roomba, and 12 plastic wonder woman rings.

mary9533 wrote:When do we get an opportunity to buy a Bindle of Carrots?

they come up during Woot offs, like today! You never know when, and sometimes they don't have them EVERY Woot off.And once it does pop up, the servers crash. It's a lot of fun!

I beat the game 4 times back in april, but there was a glitch and got an error that prevented the order button from appearing. I was very very angry.

Came the closest last wootoff. Actually was a "ridiculously large button" press away when the sold out notification appeared.

buphey wrote:Been trying but only got to 19690 points on Level 3 after trying for 20 minutes. Not good at this.

Game? Game? What game is this?

JoeJitsu wrote:I think I'm up to 15 bags now, but I've been Wooting for quite some time. The early bags were usually pretty unique and weird and not many were the same except for the bag, bucket, backpack or whatever the container happened to be for that particular sale....

I don't get it... Even with Comcast's "High Speed" or on my system at work or on my smart phone I catch the Bundle of Crops popping up in the first few seconds and lament at the timeout errors I continue to receive. You must live across the street from their servers ;)

17 for me so far and that is not including the times they did the whole buy WootOff Lights and depending on the Dow Jones you may win craps

xxooss wrote:i chose none but i still buy stuff. yall should have made on of the choices 0.

Toads agree

I have gotten two bundles of crap. The first one was full of all kinds of little things but my managers all took stuff from it. No one took the breast pump. LOL

The second one was nice also but the best was a deep fryer. It was really nice.

I have hard time getting one now because of the firewall on the computers at work.

I have obtained 6. Back a few years, I seemed to be on a lucky streak, unfortunately my last was in '08 (not for the lack of trying...

Those days camera bags were the bag de jour. They have been the most usefull for me.

Well I've only received one Bundle of Crops so far, thou I hope to get more My Bundle of Crops was pretty awesome for a first time.

A broken RC NISSAN GT-R car.
An umbrella hat.
A bag with a crab on it.
A shock absorber for your tennis racket.
Star Wars headphones.
Two rubbery fun toy balls.

I ended up working with my dad to fix the RC car. We took it apart, soldered it, made a pin for the gear, and put it all back together. Thing works great and is a blast:D I also gave the umbrella hat to my dad, and the bag to my mom Overall, awesome Bundle of Crops! Thanks Woot!

sweetpea113377 wrote:Can someone please explain what this "Bags of Crap" &/or "Bundle of Crops" thingy is & how it works?

They put it up, you try to get it, their servers crash.
Now all you need is a bag cuz you get crap.

I think everyone who says they ever got one works for Amazon.

I've gotten 3 bundles... All have been crap... Has anyone received a non crap item?

And it's on now! Trying, but I know I can never get another one.


edit: I stand corrected. I lucked into one! :-)

Between my wife and I, we've snagged about 20 or so of them. The early ones were more interesting than the later ones which seemed to mostly be chock full of craptacular cordless phones.

The 503 madness meant this was the first time I thought I had a shot at a Bundle of Crops for longer than two seconds.

... and I didn't. Also because of 503s.

The 503 madness meant this was the first time I thought I had a shot at a Bundle of Crops for longer than two seconds.

... and I didn't. Also because of 503s.

And this is the reason my child should be homeschooled.

Sat here refreshing all day...had to go pick kid up at school...

came back and freakin box of chiclets was up, but nooooooooo I couldnt get one.

bastards!

And this is the reason my child should be homeschooled.

Sat here refreshing all day...had to go pick kid up at school...

came back and freakin box of chiclets was up, but nooooooooo I couldnt get one.

bastards!

And this is the reason my child should be homeschooled.

Sat here refreshing all day...had to go pick kid up at school...

came back and freakin box of chiclets was up, but nooooooooo I couldnt get one.

bastards!

The 503 madness meant this was the first time I thought I had a shot at a Bundle of Crops for longer than two seconds.

... and I didn't. Also because of 503s.

The 503 madness meant this was the first time I thought I had a shot at a Bundle of Crops for longer than two seconds.

... and I didn't. Also because of 503s.

madhatt3r111 wrote:I don't get it... Even with Comcast's "High Speed" or on my system at work or on my smart phone I catch the Bundle of Crops popping up in the first few seconds and lament at the timeout errors I continue to receive. You must live across the street from their servers ;)

I'm in Alabama, actually. Usually it's just dumb luck and/or persistence that seems to get them. I was able to get one today by continually reloading/resending in the face of the 503 errors until I got a legitimate page where I could enter my code and click the gold buttons. I have also found that Firefox works like a charm for me while IE is only okay and Chrome stinks for getting the bag, though I don't know why. Other people have reported different results with the same browsers. Several of the bags I've gotten have been the special day bags, such as April Fool's day. I get them over AT&T DSL at work and Charter cable modem at home so I don't think the carrier makes much difference.

The 503 madness meant this was the first time I thought I had a shot at a Bundle of Crops for longer than two seconds.

... and I didn't. Also because of 503s.

And then I was unable to post forever. Because of 503s.

Over an hour to sell out the Bundle of Crops this time, wow! And I still couldnt get through. Amazing.
I really hope their servers arent Dallas based, otherwise it would just be embarrassing that I couldnt get through.

madhatt3r111 wrote:I don't get it... Even with Comcast's "High Speed" or on my system at work or on my smart phone I catch the Bundle of Crops popping up in the first few seconds and lament at the timeout errors I continue to receive. You must live across the street from their servers ;)

I'm in Alabama, actually. Usually it's just dumb luck and/or persistence that seems to get them. I was able to get one today by continually reloading/resending in the face of the 503 errors until I got a legitimate page where I could enter my code and click the gold buttons. I have also found that Firefox works like a charm for me while IE is only okay and Chrome stinks for getting the bag, though I don't know why. Other people have reported different results with the same browsers. Several of the bags I've gotten have been the special day bags, such as April Fool's day. I get them over AT&T DSL at work and Charter cable modem at home so I don't think the carrier makes much difference.

old timer, got em before it was crazy

madhatt3r111 wrote:I don't get it... Even with Comcast's "High Speed" or on my system at work or on my smart phone I catch the Bundle of Crops popping up in the first few seconds and lament at the timeout errors I continue to receive. You must live across the street from their servers ;)

I'm in Alabama, actually. Usually it's just dumb luck and/or persistence that seems to get them. I was able to get one today by continually reloading/resending in the face of the 503 errors until I got a legitimate page where I could enter my code and click the gold buttons. I have also found that Firefox works like a charm for me while IE is only okay and Chrome stinks for getting the bag, though I don't know why. Other people have reported different results with the same browsers. Several of the bags I've gotten have been the special day bags, such as April Fool's day. I get them over AT&T DSL at work and Charter cable modem at home so I don't think the carrier makes much difference.