anniecs wrote:Please help me understand. I clicked immediately when the previous item ran out and then refreshed until the "bag" came up. I did everything very quickly but still failed. It seems to have something to do with the way the Internet works and the area of the country in which you live. Look at the past maps for Random cr*. The states are usually shaded in a similar way.

My connection is fast, but when I am at home rather than at work and can use those alarm sites, the alarm sites always have the new product before my woot.com page even runs out of the previous product. I have to refresh numerous times and it looks like the old item hasn't even run out when the wooters.us site has the new item posted. That doesn't make sense to me.

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Your time will come, Woot doesn't discriminate. Just stay with it and you'll get one. I didn't think it was possible until I got my first last year after being a member for five years. All you can do is try and hope for the best. There is no science to it.

uggghh i had to go to the college to pick someone up... who didn't show up. sooo mad..

but soooo glad I gave my boyfriend a quick run down on how to woot and he successfully got me my first Burgandy Olfactory Center

anniecs wrote:Please help me understand. I clicked immediately when the previous item ran out and then refreshed until the "bag" came up. I did everything very quickly but still failed. It seems to have something to do with the way the Internet works and the area of the country in which you live. Look at the past maps for Random cr*. The states are usually shaded in a similar way.

My connection is fast, but when I am at home rather than at work and can use those alarm sites, the alarm sites always have the new product before my woot.com page even runs out of the previous product. I have to refresh numerous times and it looks like the old item hasn't even run out when the wooters.us site has the new item posted. That doesn't make sense to me.

Today my pages would get stuck, say "done" and then I would have to refresh. By the time I finally got the "buy it" button, I clicked it and then was told "This sale is sold out." I babysat the computer the entire time, but I still failed. Will I ever get another Burgandy Olfactory Center Between all the woot sites, I have "wooted" 159 times (many times 3 items) for a total of 341 items. That's not even counting the two-for Tuesdays. Do you think having too many previous woot purchases has my user id blocked from rc? ...they know I'm going to buy anyway, so why should I have rc? Should I create a new user ID or start using my husbands? I have so much surplus woot I can't even put my(surplus) house on the market until I clear it out.

There is no rhyme or reason to it. Just dumb luck.

wallsg wrote:Maybe it's Two-fer Tuesday for you and you'll get double.

Ohh, I like the way you think!

YUP! Got mine! 1st time from my droid. WootWatcher is awesome!

phsu005 wrote:hey crown, any idea when the next woot-off will be?

Jan 14th. Duh.

[quote postid="4752135" user="loudheart"]I don't know where Woot hosts its servers, but I'm guessing in either in Texas or somewhere central of USA. If you reside far away from the servers, such as in the East or West coast, then your requests (those clicks) take further to travel from your PC to Woot's servers. So, for those that live closer to where the servers are located, their requests handle first because the distance travel is shorter.

You have a very good point.[/quote

I work across the street from the WOOT offices and get just as many errors as the rest. i have been doing this for years and only have 5 bags to date.

cmangel518 wrote:It's been over a year since my last Burgandy Olfactory Center I finally got one! Woohooooooooooooo! My screens were more plain text than HTML, but I'm not complaining. Also got the car tool that I have been looking for. Thank you Woot for making my day even better!!! (And it was a great day already...found out that I get my gift card for my new iPad tomorrow.) Happy Dance!

It's the same for me. I got 3 in a row last year but since last Oct I've come up with zilch, zip, zero and nada. Got my Christmas bonus today along with a Burgandy Olfactory Center Can't complain for sure today.

jthees wrote:You're hosed. That page is where you click another stupidly large gold button to confirm your order before it processes.

No, the first page is "I want one", followed by "this info is correct", and finally "buy it". If you get to the last page and click the button you have a chance. If the next page is blank or otherwise fails to render or times out I back up click the button again (can't hurt).

jthees wrote:You're hosed. That page is where you click another stupidly large gold button to confirm your order before it processes.

Erm, I was pretty sure I hit all of the pages, buddy.

I want one --> Credit Card security number --> Confirm address/order (pressed the buy it button at the bottom) --> Started going to but never finished loading "https://www.woot.com/Member/OrderConfirmation.aspx"

So what page is it that you believe I've missed?

wallsg wrote:Maybe it's Two-fer Tuesday for you and you'll get double.

Then again, perhaps the Woot Gods will do a Two-Fer Bundle of Crapasticness and offer another one later!

I go on a 15 min break and what comes up? Yup, you guessed it. No moar breaks for me! I will punish myself for this later...

I'll hope for the Christmas Eve bag. I've been a good girl Santa, I swear ;) *fingers crossed*

bsmith1 wrote:Jan 14th. Duh.

how do you know that bsmith?

wallsg wrote:No, the HAPPY NEW YEAR! is "I want one", followed by "this info is correct", and finally "buy it". If you get to the last page and click the button you have a chance. If the next page is blank or otherwise fails to render or times out I back up click the button again (can't hurt).

Ughhhhhhhhh been trying for over 2.5 years now. Just feels like longer since I miss out every month. I finally got to that last "Buy It" button today and got a white page. Hour later - still no email or on my account. Sad face.

loudheart wrote:I don't know where Woot hosts its servers, but I'm guessing in either in Texas or somewhere central of USA. If you reside far away from the servers, such as in the East or West coast, then your requests (those clicks) take further to travel from your PC to Woot's servers. So, for those that live closer to where the servers are located, their requests handle first because the distance travel is shorter.

You have a very good point.

I live in CO and I got to the order page right away, but I didn't get a Ballast of Currents until they were almost sold out. It just seems totally random.
And the confirmation page didn't even load when I won the glorious Burgandy Olfactory Center I found out via email - which was probably the most exciting email I've gotten in years.

kin2all wrote:white screen

address states - ordered=yup Is this good news?

= YUP!

ipgreen wrote:

I work across the street from the WOOT offices and get just as many errors as the rest. i have been doing this for years and only have 5 bags to date.

Indeed. I don't think most people grasp the enormity of traffic a Burgandy Olfactory Center generates.

usty wrote:Ughhhhhhhhh been trying for over 2.5 years now. Just feels like longer since I miss out every month. I finally got to that last "Buy It" button today and got a white page. Hour later - still no email or on my account. Sad face.

ugh.. I can relate to your dissapointment.....


any idea when the next woot off will be? or when they happen?

Woooooooooot. I got one and I live in Kentucky. 6 years I've been trying for one of these. 6 years. Here's to hoping it was worth the countless hours spent. :P

Don't know why nobody ever does say what they got in their Bag of Coal..what I got was a bunch of crap...a 3 foot HDMI cable 720P only (real useful..a diploma that basically was a honey do list (totally worthless) some wooden monkey puppet (probally the best thing but still useless) I think there was something else but all in all considering I paid $5 for shipping I think I got ripped off...PS It took 45 minutes to get the order to go..thats costly also...

dambriz06 wrote:What sort of items are usually included in the bag??

For all of us who scored one, how does it feel to be part of the hated 1%?

ipgreen wrote this. Reply didn't work right.

I work across the street from the WOOT offices and get just as many errors as the rest. i have been doing this for years and only have 5 bags to date.[/quote]

HA! The next time one comes up you should sprint into their reception and yell I WANT ONE!!!!

Been a member since '07, tried and tried to get one of these... At first, I'd stay up for hours upon hours as you never knew when they were going to pop up. I was excited about trying and disappointed when I didn't get one. Lately, they have been popping up at about the same time every time. I check the videos on line and it seems like they have really been crappy these past few times. I no longer wait and I'm no longer disappointed. It was slow at work, checked the time and thought, its about time and so I logged on, I clicked the f5 numerous times after the camera sold out and sure enough, it popped up, and I immediately clicked "I want one" as I have numerous times and sure enough... error 503 as has happened so many times to me. didn't even get to an order page. But hey, I said I'm not disappointed and I'm sure I'll try again someday, but I'm in no hurry... congrats to all who got their umpteenth Burgandy Olfactory Center or for those who got their first, and for those who have been trying this as long as I have and got their first one, you are the ones that are keeping me believing that I will eventually get one.

W. Harold wrote:What's with the Utah hotspot?

I may have told some friends about this site... No but seriously here in Utah everywhere I go people have woot shirts so it doesnt surprise me.

anniecs wrote:Please help me understand. I clicked immediately when the previous item ran out and then refreshed until the "bag" came up. I did everything very quickly but still failed. It seems to have something to do with the way the Internet works and the area of the country in which you live. Look at the past maps for Random cr*. The states are usually shaded in a similar way.

People tend to blame Woot's servers, but the reality is, your connection takes multiple "hops" before it gets to Woot's server farm. Any one of those hops can fail, causing you to lose out on a Burgandy Olfactory Center

With that said, the critical failures tend to happen at the final "hop." What path your connection takes to Woot's servers determines where you enter their server farm... and that last "hop" into the server farm can actually be funneling in from multiple different paths, each with hundreds or thousands of other people all trying to squeeze through that last hop.

When you're coming from a high populace state with a lot of people Wooting, and when you're using the same provider most of those people are using (Comcast, Time Warner, etc.) you're going to have a higher chance of running into a bottleneck because more of you are following the same path to that final hop.

The speed of your connection can conceivably have impact too, if only from the standpoint of your connection going out a few milliseconds before everyone else on your path - if you get to that last hop before everyone else, you're probably going to get through.

Could Woot open up more paths into their servers? Yes. But if their peers (the places your connection is hopping from) don't play along, it isn't going to do a bit of good.

Anyone who has done a lot of MMO gaming has probably run afoul of this same issue a time or two.

Note for IT pro's: Yes, I have simplified this explanation down to the level of a kindergartener and left a lot out, I know. :p

Damn fire pager. Couldnt it have gone off an hour later?

I guess why nobody ever says what they actually get in this thing is becasue if they did it would take all the fun out of it...they should throw a few 10G gold mini-ignots in some of them....then at least some of us could GOLD instead of KRAPP

Dear TPW,

In the spirit of the holiday season, I respectfully request good craps and electronics! Though thou shalt not whine about the crappiness of the crap received, I have little use for a seahorse bag, solar powered doll house, and a set of climate cubes. In all seriousness, really jazzed about winning my 2nd, really hoping it's of more use to me than the last, but i'll appreciate it any which way. Thanks Woot!!!

Einsteinus wrote:Don't know why nobody ever does say what they got in their Bag of Coal..what I got was a bunch of crap...a 3 foot HDMI cable 720P only (real useful..a diploma that basically was a honey do list (totally worthless) some wooden monkey puppet (probally the best thing but still useless) I think there was something else but all in all considering I paid $5 for shipping I think I got ripped off...PS It took 45 minutes to get the order to go..thats costly also...

If you check this forum once people start receiving their Burgandy Olfactory Center, they have posted in the past

man I got taken on that one. At the password screen it said Bag of Coal and I hit the big button and get an email saying I got an emergency light. Something messed up there.

Feels great!.... now I dont have to throw away usless Items I get in the mail, and I am $8 richer!

wallsg wrote:For all of us who scored one, how does it feel to be part of the hated 1%?

usty wrote:Ughhhhhhhhh been trying for over 2.5 years now. Just feels like longer since I miss out every month. I finally got to that last "Buy It" button today and got a white page. Hour later - still no email or on my account. Sad face.

When you hit that last button and get a white page, reload it. All it takes is one successful POST attempt from the very last page to get an order through.

wallsg wrote:Maybe Santa likes Bad Girls more...

Well, I think in either case, I'm covered. Ha ha!

Haven't won a Burgandy Olfactory Center since April 1st 2011.
But today I did. Bag of Coal!!!!!!!!! Bringing my total of Burgandy Olfactory Center to 8. Thank you Wootazon
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Went through so smooth too. It's usually not that smooth. Have the Burgandy Olfactory Center been crappy lately? Haven't really checked back to see what Bag of Coal people are getting. Bag of Coal use to be pretty cool.
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Woohoo!!! Now the countdown until the Burgandy Olfactory Center is delivered.
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Will it be a Christ-mas themed Burgandy Olfactory Center 8)
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Looks like the last craps were crappy without a letter. Do the letters occur anymore?
Last crap was Nov, 9th.

wallsg wrote:For all of us who scored one, how does it feel to be part of the hated 1%?

Greatest feeling in the world.

TheFaz wrote:ipgreen wrote this. Reply didn't work right.

I work across the street from the WOOT offices and get just as many errors as the rest. i have been doing this for years and only have 5 bags to date.

HA! The next time one comes up you should sprint into their reception and yell I WANT ONE!!!![/quote]

make sure you bring a video camera with to tape it for us

wallsg wrote:For all of us who scored one, how does it feel to be part of the hated 1%?

Not sure if I feel hated...but I did score one!

Looking forward to loving the Kindle Fire I'm going to get in this most awesome Boogers on Challah yet.

jthees wrote:You're hosed. That page is where you click another stupidly large gold button to confirm your order before it processes.

That's exactly what happened to me. I was happy to at least get that far this time....

laxls8 wrote:make sure you bring a video camera with to tape it for us

That would be great. I have been over there to take a tour of the building and the glory that is the warehouse. It was heaven for a geek.