sussler wrote:Would that not be "THE" definition of crap.

BINGO!

2.4 lb. package arrived today but won't find out what's inside until friend opens up 'coolest present ever'! Fingers crossed in shape of W.

722lad wrote:Most humans are, by nature, communicators...

We are also related to primates, so....while we are fascinating to analyze and observe, be careful, we will be slinging our own excrement at any minute.

LEM- wrote:

1 x Collectors edition screaming monkey keychain (screams its guts out when proper pressure applied to an appropriate part of a body)!

Why is it a collectors edition?

Bag of Coal left on my porch by the jolly old elf...
2 - Texas air
1 - Orange-caped Screaming Monkey
1 - Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 - Red Duffel Bag
1 - Spitball Dartpad
1 - Bar Crawl Bingo

Thank you woot, not a bit of crap in this box.

mariojill2001 wrote:Why is it a collectors edition?

Well, usually the coins, newspapers, official signs and other things of that nature that contain typographical mistakes, messed up facts, or just about any other errors are quickly claimed by collectors before the officials pull the plug on them. Years later they are sold for big-big bucks....

The said monkey has "woot.com" misspelled as "wooy.com" on his cape as somebody mentioned earlier... So I guess a number of years later, when Woot subsidiary overgrows its parent Amazon and takes over the world - those innocent little screaming primates with misspelled URL may become quite a valuable collector item... :/

mariojill2001 wrote:We are also related to primates, so....while we are fascinating to analyze and observe, be careful, we will be slinging our own excrement at any minute.

We have long outgrew our primate ancestors at a level of our own "intelligence". Have you ever seen a Gorilla or a Chimp mob fight over a right to buy (or in monkey terms exchange one of their toys for) a box of excrement and then the lucky few who got it cry foul that they received said excrement in the box and not a juicy bunch of bananas? But this happens among humans just about every month....

barkwoot wrote:I got the standard 2 lb. Burgandy Olfactory Center

1 Mini SuperFly Monkey Keychain w/orange cape
1 Spitball Dartpad
1 Cafe Bingo
1 Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 Red Bag
2 Bags of Texas Air

Add 1 tin of Monkey Mints to this, and my third B..O..C.., opened today, was identical. I recorded the opening, but as it seems most got the same crap, I'm not going to bother to upload.

Value to me:

Actual items: probably worth $3 collectively, but I wouldn't have spent that much.

Entertainment value as an $8 lottery ticket - as worth it as any other lottery ticket I suppose. Some people got Buckyballs, Dremel tools, etc., and it could've been me, so I'll try to play again next time.

Congrats to those who got stuff they liked or value at $8 or more.

barkwoot wrote:I got the standard 2 lb. Burgandy Olfactory Center

1 Mini SuperFly Monkey Keychain w/orange cape
1 Spitball Dartpad
1 Cafe Bingo
1 Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 Red Bag
2 Bags of Texas Air

Change cafe bingo to "kids night out bingo", add "Monkey mints" and that was my crap this time

Yes, maybe I can guess what will be in my Burgandy Olfactory Center but I still am exited with the prospect of opening it.

Could it have something completely different?

Could it contain the mythical letter?

Could woot be spelled correctly on the monkey?

Could it be opened in transit and empty?

Does only the Shadow know? (or maybe whoever opened the box and emptied it)

This is what keeps me going this week and worth the $3 to $8.

Mine was as expected given weight:

2 - Texas air
1 - Orange-caped Screaming Monkey
1 - Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 - Red Duffel Bag
1 - Spitball Dartpad
1 - Bar Crawl Bingo

What they should do is show up at someone's door to repo the existing crap received for (deep announcer voice)what is on truck #1(end announcer), but only if that person still has all the crap.

Do it a random number of days after it was received. Imagine the flurry of publicity if someone lost (insert big item here) because they gave a flying monkey to their nephew or tossed out some texas air, or even threw out the box.

I wish I had TPW's old job....although I'd probably save empty paper towel rolls for a year (with lots of help, I'm sure) and send them to someone.

2 cupckake lip gloss
1 screaming monkey key chain (orange, working)
1 Bar Crawl Bingo
1 Spitball Dartboard (procrastination)
1 Red gym bag
2 bags of Texas air

My first Burgandy Olfactory Center Can't wait for my next.

kin2all wrote:

P.S. - if anyone knows the trick to get the monkey to scream, please let me know. I've pinched him, squeezed him, begged, thrown him across the room, pulled his arms, I've even pushed his tummy ....nothing.

What I did to get my non screaming monkey to scream was to push the button on his tummy in farily hard, and move it around (left, right, up, down) it then popped out and would scream like normal until little one pushed the button in too hard and it stuck again.... see step 1

Hope it works for you

LEM- wrote: The said monkey has "woot.com" misspelled as "wooy.com" on his cape

Mine was spelled properly. I think that in honor of the holidays that the Gentiles got Woot monkeys and the Chosen People received the OY! monkeys.

Happy Everything!

tic toc tic toc talk people!!! Its not long until the excitement and anticipation can begin again for those of us lucky enough to score the Christmas Bushel of Cheer (assuming history repeats itself)

Good luck and Woot cheer to all.

Mike (You get what you get and you don't get upset) Bass

mariojill2001 wrote:Mine was spelled properly. I think that in honor of the holidays that the Gentiles got Woot monkeys and the Chosen People received the OY! monkeys.

Happy Everything!

Not the big "WOOT" in the middle of the cape, but in a fine print below... By the way I just looked at a purple caped monkey one fellow wooter gave to me a while ago - and that one has the same misspelling on his cape!

HUZZAH! WOOO! Opened my Barking Ocelot Carry-on Today! Was so excited- Contained
1. Spitball Dart Board
2. Birthday Survival Kit
3. Wash Clothes (With some fancy emblem on them)
4. Screaming Monkey
5. Small Red duffel bag

YAY!
Wishing you guys a Barking Ocelot of Cheer this holiday season :-)

devoyr wrote:How the heck did they pack a "real nice brushed bronze floor lamp" in a box 18.0" x 12.6" x 12.5" ???

it unscrews in about 7 spots, just had to put it together

Man... I cannot believe Woot didn't send out 2500 TVs!

My box is the same size listed by most, weighing in at 2.2 lbs, and will be opened sometime over the weekend. Hopefully the monkey screams so I can use it to annoy everyone around me until they leave me alone.

nangtadam wrote:Might be the unboxing from the letter, at work and cant verify:

see the unboxing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WKP0aOobKU

Yeah, thats the video; I got a 32" HD TV, which works great and have been using ever since.

Woohoo... Big ole Car was pretty decent this year. It was a 4.7 lb "bag". I received:

-1 cardboard box (not labeled woot :-( )
-16 bags of Texas Air
-1 screaming monkey keychain (and it worked!)
-1 Spitball Dartboard
-1 red duffel bag
-1 "Ghetto Wii" as someone else put it.

Pretty crappy! And I wouldn't have it any other way! :-)

MagicCripple wrote:Change cafe bingo to "kids night out bingo", add "Monkey mints" and that was my crap this time

That's exactly what I got as well!

1 - Orange-caped Screaming Monkey
1 - Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 - Blue Duffel Bag
1 - Spitball Dartpad
1 - Coffee Shop Bingo

Everything but the monkey and bag has made it's way to the garbage can. Bleh. Bag of coal.

LEM- wrote:a purple caped monkey one fellow wooter gave to me a while ago - and that one has the same misspelling on his cape!

Ummmm.....My lawyer will be contacting you if that thing turns out to be worth something.....

dreamforjesus wrote:Woohoo... Big ole Car was pretty decent this year. It was a 4.7 lb "bag". I received:

-1 cardboard box (not labeled woot :-( )
-16 bags of Texas Air
-1 screaming monkey keychain (and it worked!)
-1 Spitball Dartboard
-1 red duffel bag
-1 "Ghetto Wii" as someone else put it.

Pretty crappy! And I wouldn't have it any other way! :-)

ok, what is the "ghetto Wii" ??

My crap is truly crappy:

2 bags of Texas air
The bar bingo game
The spitball dartboard game
A blue or dark green nylon duffle bag

Thanks anywho!

vegasmaven wrote:I agree.
I just got my Burgandy Olfactory Center
2 cupckake lip gloss
1 screaming monkey key chain
1 Bar Crawl Bingo
1 Spitball Dartboard
1 Red gym bag (the best of the Burgandy Olfactory Center

Woot should put in at least one decent item that most people would value at $15+ and could use, say a nice LED flashlight or an interesting electronic gizmo (doesn't need to be expensive, just decent).

Woot stumbled on this great marketing gimmick, I'm sure most people end up buying something they would not have bought, while waiting for the Burgandy Olfactory Center to appear. That is means big $'s to Woot when you figure there are 10's of thousands of people waiting for the silly Burgandy Olfactory Center People are not going to stick around long term with this non-sense.

My guess is the Burgandy Olfactory Center buyers are the most hardcore Woot supporters that tell friends and family about the site, that too will end. The product descriptions are tired and tedious too, like a joke that is funny the first time you hear it, but after 20 tellings, not so much.

I've been saying this for quite some time.. I'm just not excited about the bags of crap anymore, yet I am drawn to the forum to see if someone - ANYONE can report craps like bags of old... No such luck.. I haven't even seen a letter pop up in QUITE some time. Once I read the first few posts of Burgandy Olfactory Center recipients, I can pretty much put the forum to rest, as they are cookie-cutter bags rather than the true, RANDOM crap they once were... The element of surprise is gone.

The Bag of Coal made woot! a stand-out amongst its peers: the one they all wanted to be. With the advent of kids.woot, shirt.woot, wine.woot, home.woot, handguns.woot, sextoys.woot, and who knows what other sister sites will spring up - woot! has sold out.. They have become more and more like the sites that wanted to be like woot... Instead of raising the bar, they lowered their standards, and that's quite sad to see happen...

My Bag of Coal comes with a little story...

We have all of our packages shipped to my husband's office so there is always someone there to claim them when they are delivered. However, sometime between our last Woot purchase and this Burgandy Olfactory Center he moved locations. We didn't realize the mistake until the package shipped. We also didn't think there would be a problem because the US postal service completed the delivery, he put in a change of address with the post office, and the new address (0.5 miles away) is clearly posted on the old door.

When I saw on the FedEx website that the package read as "delivered", I called him - only to be told there was no package! I checked with all the old neighboring businesses, and they all stated they had not taken receipt of it. I called FedEx who said its out of their hands once it arrives at the post office and I should inquire there. I visited the post office, who also checked with the carrier and no one knew where it disappeared to!

My very first Burgandy Olfactory Center had vanished without a trace!

So I emailed the fine people at Woot and told them what happened, and that the package may be coming back to them. I also told them if it did I would happily pay the shipping to have it sent out again, as it was a clerical issue on our end and no fault of theirs.

Now you can say what you want about Woot as a company, or the condition of their people since Amazon took over, but they are replacing my lost Burgandy Olfactory Center at no charge to me even though the fault was mine. To me that says class and customer satisfaction. I don't care if I get three used straws and a paper bag. I will keep supporting Woot through my purchases, and trying to score future Boxes Of Cats for years to come.

I wish the random crap were truly random. Most of us got the same thing.

Random to the receivers? Perhaps, but obviously not at all random to Woot!

crap finally arrived. . . . in box I got
in it was
1 cheap red duffel bag,
2 cupcake flavored lip glosses,
1 spit ball dart board game with super hard straw,
1 screaming monkey key-chain and
a three in one Dremel saw/drill kit

Finally got mine
got:

1x Screaming monkey keychain (orange)
1x spitball dartboard (procrastination)
4x brown hand towels
1x birthday survival kit
1x red duffle bag

For those folks who choose to complain that their "Crap" is crap, and for those that complain that they have the same "crap" as everyone else, please in the future don't buy a bag. I'd love to get one even if it was a box of nothing but Texas air. Be glad you got something in the first place sweaters of the finest ugly and carry on.

This was the first Burgandy Olfactory Center I intentionally avoided, as I'd scored the previous two in succession (my third and fourth bag of kraps in my 5 years).

My wife had become bored and tired of the bargains I was hunting, as they were comprised of stuff you really wouldn't love, even if it was the stuff you got. So I decided to pass on this latest one. Seems as tho it was like the previous ones. Perhaps I'll have more wooters joining me in the decision to pass of the next one.

I agree that too much complaining is going on here, remember the Holy Crap Commandments, and if you can't abide by them, don't order one.

THE HOLY CRAP COMMANDMENTS v3.0
I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond ONE bag of some kind and THREE crappy items.
II. Thou shalt not whine and complain when some people’s crap turns out to be nicer than yours.
III. Thou shalt take a moment to consider whether you might be better off just not buying this crap.

IV. Thou shalt not expect better crap just because things are different this time. Crap is crap.
V. To paraphrase Stephen Stills, shalt thou not get the crap you want, want the crap you get.

Crap Contents : 1 real woot box
3 bags of air (contents not determined)
1 birthday survival kit
1 barcrawl bingo
1 procrastination spitball game
1 teething ring (?)
1 screaming monkey!
Thanks woot! Have a Crappy Christmas everyone.

andrewkl wrote:I've been saying this for quite some time.. I'm just not excited about the bags of crap anymore, yet I am drawn to the forum to see if someone ANYONE can report craps like bags of old... No such luck.. I haven't even seen a letter pop up in QUITE some time. Once I read the first few posts of Burgandy Olfactory Center recipients, I can pretty much put the forum to rest, as they are cookie-cutter bags rather than the true, RANDOM crap they once were... The element of surprise is gone.

I agree. They're becoming more like a competitor's Mystery Box. That doesn't mean I won't still try to get them though. Of the 11 prior BOCs the last one had a stroller worth in excess of $100 at Amazon (that I have no use for and I'll probably donate) and an earlier one had a large (about 11") digital picture frame that at least the compact flash reader works even if the SD reader doesn't.

I didn't open the box when it came, but put it under the tree. Hey, how many times do two adults have absolutely no idea what's in that present? Opened it this xmas morning. Luckily I had already had a few Mimosas. Same stuff as everyone got. At least we can probably get some use out of the dufflebag.

Resisted the urge to open early and wrapped as a surprise Christmas gift. Below is my haul

1 Screaming Monkey Keychain (with orange cape)
1 Spitball Dartboard
1 Ghetto WII
1 Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 Red Duffle Bag
6 bags Refreshing Texas Air

keyserbones wrote:Resisted the urge to open early and wrapped as a surprise Christmas gift. Below is my haul

1 Screaming Monkey Keychain (with orange cape)
1 Spitball Dartboard
1 Ghetto WII
1 Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 Red Duffle Bag
6 bags Refreshing Texas Air

ok, just what is the Ghetto WII? splaine plz