ayziggyzoomba wrote:Missed it...crap- Has woot ever offered 2 Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia in one woot off or am I just out of luck?

I remember one wootoff, the Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia came up 4 or 5 times with a few hundred winners each time.

Finally got one.

GuardianBob wrote:Read it again:
You want 3 random crap(s)
which each cost $3.00
for a subtotal of $3.00

It doesn't say you want 1 bag of crap, or 1 bag with 3 craps.

It's not what it says... but what I interpret it to mean.

It's confusingly worded, at any rate.

No sticker shock here. Got'em when I wanted 'em and now I am getting three of them. You know....3 beg of crop. E and O replaced the A.

dbcooper wrote:Its luck of the draw. I've found that a light-handed approach is much better than rapid-fire F5ing. *click* "I want one" wait...wait...wait... enter password, *click* "Info is correct" wait....wait....wait....wait....wait.....*click* "Buy It" wait....wait....wait....wait..... success.

I never F5 unless the waiting times out, then I hit F5 ONCE, and wait....wait....wait....

Honestly best advice I know of is on this blog... http://razor3dg3.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/obtaining-a-bag-of-crap/

amykinde wrote:No sticker shock here. Got'em when I wanted 'em and now I am getting three of them. You know....3 beg of crop. E and O replaced the A.

Woot!woot!woot!

Finally got to the final page for ordering what would have been my first Bang of Candoliers and ... finalization was DENIED!

wha wha wha

Story of my life, although I must also add that was the smoothest bandolier of carrots run I've seen yet. Thanks Woot!

Hopefully, we'll hear from TPW's replacement in this thread and end the mystery of who it is!

I, for one, am taking a moment of sad silence in respect for all that TPW did for us through the years. I think it is a fitting thing to do during this 1st WootOff since his departure for greener (manure laden) pastures.

God Speed threepiecewoot!

There, I feel better now!

Crap.... missed it again

Woohoo! Did an Ironman and scored a Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia in the same week!!!

dbcooper wrote:Its luck of the draw. I've found that a light-handed approach is much better than rapid-fire F5ing. *click* "I want one" wait...wait...wait... enter password, *click* "Info is correct" wait....wait....wait....wait....wait.....*click* "Buy It" wait....wait....wait....wait..... success.

I never F5 unless the waiting times out, then I hit F5 ONCE, and wait....wait....wait....

Yep, that's how it's been every time for me, too. Still, you have to get the initial page request in at just the right time or it's already too late.

This time it was pure luck. I had a feeling it would drop after the speaker/charger, but then the safty vest came up and I figured it would another hour or so. On a whim, I decided to check back to see how the vest was doing...and BOOM, B to the O to the C.

So, I missed this one, but got the last two.. Based on the contents of THOSE, I'm not terribly disappointed.

HOWEVER... I am curious to see what this first "post TPW" bag will contain.. I hope it's extra special crappy as a sort of 'adios' from TPW..

After many failed attempts over the years, finally got one! Thanks woot!

andrewkl wrote:So, I missed this one, but got the last two.. Based on the contents of THOSE, I'm not terribly disappointed.

HOWEVER... I am curious to see what this first "post TPW" bag will contain.. I hope it's extra special crappy as a sort of 'adios' from TPW..

Me too. I've never gotten one that was worth less than $8 to me, in all honesty. Teh Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia is always a bargain in that sense.

I was not able to get one from last 2 years.

Got one this time.

First. Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia since I've been wooting. Question are there bag tiers?

Dear Woot,

please remember some of us have kids and doing the Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia at the point I have to pick up my son from school the last two woot offs is hacking me off thoroughly.

sincerely,
not happy about Amazon's acquisition

7lords wrote:Then you've missed a lot of items. There have been LCD tvs , camcorders, mp3 players...

I got a media player once, couldn't get it to work. Gave it to a friend of mine who is an electronics guru, he took it apart, reattached the loose hard drive ribbon, and it works great! Have movies, music, pictures, everything on it, it is great to take on the plane when traveling. Definitely worth eight bucks!

valen2384 wrote:First. Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia since I've been wooting. Question are there bag tiers?

Tiers? No, what we get is all very random.

beggarscoin wrote:Dear Woot,

please remember some of us have kids and doing the Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia at the point I have to pick up my son from school the last two woot offs is hacking me off thoroughly.

sincerely,
not happy about Amazon's acquisition

They always do it in the afternoons of the last day during woot-offs. Amazon didn't have anything to do with that.

Got one. This is my second this year. 5th since 2006. So, now probably starts my drought.

Big ol' Cornucopia scored in consecutive Woot-Offs. Thank you Woot!

How come the Barf on Carpet is almost exclusively offered in the late afternoon East Coast time - never at a time those of us who live here actually have jobs and are commuting home or still slavving at work can order one...just sayin'. Be nice to once in a while offer it after 9 EDT time so even PST worker peeps can have a chance from home...or even early AM for the late nighters once in a while...losing interest in WOOT-Offs becasue of this, quite frankly - can only get so many Monkeys or Dysons, after all...

My first woot was in July 2006. I finally got my first Big ol' Cornucopia! woot!

peaceetc wrote:Tiers? No, what we get is all very random.

Thnx. I was wondering because people keep posting different versions of the name.

I got mine! My birthday is coming up in a few weeks please make it awesome!

By the way despite your best efforts at giving me the crappiest of crappy last time it ended up being a huge hit with my nieces who were in town for the first time in years... well since right after they were born!

It was a great visit "meeting" them for the first time and letting them open up my crappy Big ol' Cornucopia filled with little girl stuff.

I was a bit disappointed but once I saw their smiling faces I realized I couldn't have asked for a better Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia at the time!

But this one's for me.. please?!?

Score! Hoping its a nice Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia and not a steaming pile of $h!7 aagain muahhahahahha the suspense is killing me, hope it lasts!

Smoothest Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia purchase I've ever had. Last few times it kept timing out until it denied the purchase. This time I just had to be patient and not a single timeout!! Not sure what server upgrades you did (to the Amazon cloud maybe?), but it was much better experience!

valen2384 wrote:Thnx. I was wondering because people keep posting different versions of the name.

Ah. Well, the woot forum automagically replaces certain terms with other phrases (you can click on 'reply' after such a post to see what the person actually wrote) including any relating to this topic, so folks come up with their own, too, since it's going to be replaced, anyway.

I don't spend $8 in the hopes that I get a TV or pallet of action figures. Instead, I got a few weeks of anticipation. From the time my order goes through, to when I get the shipping place holder, to the moment it arrives in the mail.

It's $8 worth of fun & surprises.

beggarscoin wrote:Dear Woot,

please remember some of us have kids and doing the Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia at the point I have to pick up my son from school the last two woot offs is hacking me off thoroughly.

ME TOO, except maybe more annoyed than hacked off, and anyway it saves me the aggravation of clicking and waiting for nothing, once again confirming that my isp is not worthy of the bounty of cool.

Buut, next woot-off I'll make sure the kids have an extra snack, just in case I'm late.

valen2384 wrote:Thnx. I was wondering because people keep posting different versions of the name.

Woot! munges many words in posts; the container of warehouse sweepings would show up as something else if you enter its true name in a post, so many folks just come up with their own versions so they don't get changed.

The next line says the real name of this prize; you'll see what Woot! changes it to:

Big ol' Cornucopia

propenguin wrote:Honestly its all about knowing when to look, and then its luck. If you don't know the little tricks its easy to miss but I don't see why it takes people years to get one.

As one who took years to get one, I can say that I am not always RIGHTBY my computer when the Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia goes up. Many times I return and it is up, but alas, too late for me to get one. And yes, the area of the country probably has something to do with it too.

So it does take some of us years to get one, but we are elated when it finally happens. And that's worth the wait for us! It's about the chase...

Since I was the first wooter for this, I figured I would post what i used, and my computer/net.

Phenom 1075t X6
Verizon Fios 100mb/s Down - 35mb/s Up
Wootalyzer
Virginia Beach Area, VA

Seriously, the second the wootalyzer told me there was a Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia up, although it took me a minute to get the checkout page, I got through.

duodec wrote:Woot! munges many words in posts; the container of warehouse sweepings would show up as something else if you enter its true name in a post, so many folks just come up with their own versions so they don't get changed.

The next line says the real name of this prize; you'll see what Woot! changes it to:

Big ol' Cornucopia

Cool thnx. first time after 4 years off wooting lol. hence why i was wondering what name i was getting lol.

I had a feeling it was coming after the Flipshare. Only two items off! This makes my first bag of cats in over a year.

jdubyakc wrote:I have a Woot Virgin question ... $5 shipping per item or per order? Trying to figure out if 2 bags of crap are worth $10 in shipping.

You can't buy two.

DAMN MY JOB!!!! Got all caught up in actually working and freakin forgot about the Woot off and missed out on a Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia AAAAAAArrrrrrrghhhh!

EDIT: I love my job (thankful to have a job), still irked it pulled me away from grabbing a Bountiful Overflowing Cornucopia

If only people said No to the HP Touchpads yesterday, we might have seen a few of them slipped into our bags to help ease the pain of TPW moving on.