This one was indeed a marathon. Probably the hardest I've ever worked for a Bundle of Crops Lost hope several times in the process.

I got one.... i think... LOL

I got the error page every step of the way for about 30 minutes. But my persistence paid off!!

slightlyslapdash wrote:^ this

Although I got one back in 2008, so when this comes in, I'm going to wrap it up and give it to my brother, of whom has never gotten a Bundle of Crops

You are an honorable Wooter... you do us all proud!!!

eldiablohijo wrote:at least the forums are loading fast.

they were, until everyone started posting and then they went downhill fast

slightlyslapdash wrote:^ this

Although I got one back in 2008, so when this comes in, I'm going to wrap it up and give it to my brother, of whom has never gotten a Bundle of Crops

You are an honorable Wooter... you do us all proud!!!

yay! at least paypal thinks I got one...

sad that I can't even post my joy...damn 503

This was my first woot-off, and I was determined to get a Bundle of Crops I pulled up woot as the Bundle of Crops was up and the website loaded fine. When I clicked the gold "I Want One" button, it would just and load and load until a minute or so later I would get the webpage would not respond error.

The woot.com page would keep loading fine, and I could see the bar go down over like 15-20 minutes, but the "I Want One" button would never load the order page!

How does one get one of these? Do people mainly use bots? Are people just lucky? I thought I got it when I loaded the page as the bar was full, but apparently I didn't.

andrewkl wrote:...and they only sold 2500? The usual offering is 3000. Where are the other 500?

Does this mean we all get EXTRA crap, or will it just be extra crappier?

In the olden days Woot used to do 7500 craps but you had the option of buying 1, 2 or 3 of them. Now they do 2500 craps but each has 3, so it comes out the same.

Yeah!!!!!!!!! I must have refreshed the order page at least 20 times and the confirmation page 15 times. I only had the refresh the order status page twice! That was painfull. I better get some good crap! I am now getting the 503 error when I try to post! I will give it one last try.

yay! at least paypal thinks I got one...

sad that I can't even post my joy...damn 503

Woot must have gotten 500 (or maybe 503) order requests from me. I started up about 5 tabs, contrary to my typical strategy since I knew the 503 error was something out of the ordinary. I never got the confirmation page, but after a while the order page kept coming up saying I had already ordered it. Of course, I never got an email, confirmation page, and the my account page wasn't loading up at the time.

However, once again I'm glad I got in on this crap. Thanks woot!

Been a member since 2004 and this is only my 2nd Bundle of Crops in 7 years, the last one coming 4 years ago this month. Got to the order page, plugged in my info and posted.... 503. Refreshed for some 35 minutes before it finally took me to order confirmation. Clicked buy it.... and it churned for 5 or 10 minutes it seemed like and then forwarded me to status and then 503'd again. I was going to keep refreshing that page too, but I saw my account had been debited already so I just let it go. Refreshed a few minutes later and saw the receipt. I think fighting the servers is half the fun!

Wasn't even watching the WootOff! today, just happened to browse over to woot.com for something to do while I have some downtime at work and saw it up. Sometimes you just get lucky.

keiichi626 wrote:

...win?

Nah, I've seen that before. You only get one.

4 times, 4! I got the page to enter my CC security code. 503 every time, never got the stupidly large gold button to finally get a Box of Carp.

Well after 45 minutes of trying and reloading, I got to the order screen and got all my info in, then bam ... error... but to my surprise I just checked my account screen and apparently the order went through... sweeeeeeeet.... 2nd Bindle of Carrots for this guy... last time I got 45 mp3 players... hope the woot gods smile on me again.

wow long Bundle of Crops i dont dink any1 can get it... LOL

I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won, I won

This is the happiest day in my life.

Well that was certainly painful...

But, somehow, someway, I scored my first Bundle of Crops

WOOOO HOOO!

Well, one good thing came out of this... We got to really memorize our credit card code number. I hope this Bok of Choy is more Bok and less Choy.

This was my first woot-off, and I was determined to get a Bundle of Crops I pulled up woot as the Bundle of Crops was up and the website loaded fine. When I clicked the gold "I Want One" button, it would just and load and load until a minute or so later I would get the webpage would not respond error.

The woot.com page would keep loading fine, and I could see the bar go down over like 15-20 minutes, but the "I Want One" button would never load the order page!

How does one get one of these? Do people mainly use bots? Are people just lucky? I thought I got it when I loaded the page as the bar was full, but apparently I didn't.

rkenimer wrote:they were, until everyone started posting and then they went downhill fast

Yeah, that's the truth.

I spoke to soon, but I didn't have much else to do while refreshing my 503.

Well, one good thing came out of this... We got to really memorize our credit card code number. I hope this Bok of Choy is more Bok and less Choy.

Yeah!!!!!!!!! I must have refreshed the order page at least 20 times and the confirmation page 15 times. I only had the refresh the order status page twice! That was painfull. I better get some good crap! I am now getting the 503 error when I try to post! I will give it one last try.

Wooo! Two Woot-offs in a row w/ a Bundle of Crops and 9th overall. I am surprised I got this one, it took a lot of refreshin'.

Got one!

That was the strangest Barrel of Custard I have ever scored. Right off I got to the order screen, entered my info and clicked the button -- 503. Kept refreshing that window to no avail. Gave up and went to lunch.

Came back from lunch and tried refreshing that window and it went right through. Got to the last page with the big button and pushed it. It thought for a while and then bam, my browser tab closed all by itself. I thought I had missed it. A few seconds later I got an email from Paypal saying that the have processed an $8 order from woot. Went to my Account page and saw the 9/14 Barrel of Custard. My 9th Crap is in the Bag.

Edit: Looks like I got the last one!

Alot of wine to go with the cheese around this woot off. (Take a look at wine woot) I have been a member since March 2005, to many new members who have not bought a thing complaining about not getting a bag as I did not get my first until 2009!!!! Get a grip and play the game as the ride is very fun for $8.00. Peace and word out., Oh and yes I did get a bag after hitting the button 5000 times and getting the 503 error for over 40 min. try try try again.......

yni wrote:maybe someone have this discussed already, then sorry for re-asking:

what kind of tax is that - order for $3(Bundle of Crops + 0.71 in taxes?
that's over 23%!!!!
and no, i didn't get it

anyone?

Yeah, I didn't notice that.

Woot Gods, you're not allowed to charge tax on shipping.

Got one in the account but no order conf email. Time will tell. Thanks woot for the 503 festival

Yeeeeehaaaa! got one too after so many failures in recent months. No email, but it does show under "my account". Persistence on the 503, 503, 503, 503's ... for almost 1 hr pays off! Took screenshots of my account too just to prove it, should there be issues with woot! having doled out too many Bundle of Crops. That was the strangest and prolonged aiCache crap in the Amazonian clouds I've ever seen.

My experience was pretty similar to the others I see just skimming this page. No receipt, but it's showing up on my account, so I guess I'm in for crap. Yay! It's a good thing I had a free hour in middle of the day.

That's three in a row for me, which is a freakin' miracle since I only won one in the previous four years.

Thanks woot!

Wonder why everyone isnt getting order confims. The servers always suck, but generally right after the purchase goes through I get a confirm email. Nothing yet =/

Holey carrots, a b of c on an iPhone with a 3G connection? I am amazed I actually got one.

I've still got a browser window open that seems to be loading. Is it possible that it will eventually load?

Finally! After much mashing of the F5 button and lots of cursing, I managed to snag my first Bundle of Crops!

Woot needs to offer new monitors now because I just threw my shoe at my old one.
I'm spending the rest of the afternoon picking up the pieces.

Zeno wrote:this is why it says "aicache". this is why the comment section still works while the woot-off servers don't. They are separate.

from https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/aicache/

AWS Case Study: AiCache and Woot.com

Woot.com chooses aiCache Web Accelerator instances running on the Amazon EC2 cloud to manage traffic spikes. Woot.com is a well known online e-tailer, famous for creating the “one day one item sale” business model. Woot’s main website offers one discounted product each day, often a piece of computer hardware or an electronic gadget.

Periodically Woot announces a “Woot-Off”, a short term frenzied mutation of the product posting procedure. In Woot-Off mode, a new product is launched immediately after the sellout of the previous deal. As the news about Woot-offs goes viral in just a few short minutes, traffic to Woot’s website spikes to tens of thousands of connections a second. These orders-of-magnitude spikes can overwhelm Woot’s datacenter.

Woot.com needed a solution that would not require a massive investment in additional hardware, software, and support. The AWS pay-as-you-go model enabled Woot to choose a cloud based solution over additional capital expenditure. Woot chose aiCache Web Accelerator as a pre-configured instance from the Amazon Solutions Catalog. Woot turned on the instances and moved all traffic to the aiCache accelerators.

Using the flexible caching configuration of the aiCache software, Woot accomplished a caching ratio of 96%. This means that while thousands of requests a second are fulfilled by aiCache, barely any load trickles through to Woot’s datacenter. Woot now uses their load balancer to move all Woot-off traffic from their datacenter to the aiCache instances in the cloud. Once complete, they scale back the instances on Amazon reducing the cost.

“With less than a day’s work total, we were able to configure aiCache for use during Woot- Offs. Our site stays up under the crush, and we’ve saved quite a bit on hardware purchases and time spent optimizing,” said Luke Duff Retail manager at Woot.com. Woot.com was founded by electronics wholesaler Matt Rutledge. Woot debuted on July 12, 2004 quickly becoming one of the Internet’s most successful sites.

aiCache.com helps top-tier web sites scale while reducing cost, enabling mobile aware Web Application Acceleration for the datacenter and Cloud.

So I wonder whether this might change, given the release of Amazon's new ElastiCache product. It looks very promising, and it is extremely simple and easy to use.

Woot, are you going to try out ElastiCache?

Wonder why everyone isnt getting order confims. The servers always suck, but generally right after the purchase goes through I get a confirm email. Nothing yet =/

That was the strangest Barrel of Custard I have ever scored. Right off I got to the order screen, entered my info and clicked the button -- 503. Kept refreshing that window to no avail. Gave up and went to lunch.

Came back from lunch and tried refreshing that window and it went right through. Got to the last page with the big button and pushed it. It thought for a while and then BAM, my browser tab closed all by itself. I thought I had missed it. A few seconds later I got an email from Paypal saying that the have processed an $8 order from woot. Went to my Account page and saw the 9/14 Barrel of Custard. My 9th Crap is in the Bag.