vegasmaven wrote: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).

So your business plan is:

1. Get a $15 item
2. Sell it for $3
3. ???
4. Profit!!

Sign me up!

Merry Christmas.

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

Thank you woot for not sending crap, Merry Christmas to all!!!!!

I got mine sometime last week (I was away so I don't know exactly when). I decided to wait till Christmas to open it for a nice present to myself.
Here's what I got:
1 - Screaming Monkey Slingshot Keychain
1 - Red duffle bag (Will use I am sure)
1 - Cupcake lip balm (Girlfriend claimed this)
1 - Spitball dart board (this is going to work with me)
1 - 4ft HDMI cable new in box (don't know what to do with this since I have enough & would need longer ones)
Not bad for $8.

I would love to see more variety in the boxes going out (everyone gets different stuff), like the first Burgandy Olfactory Center I got several years ago, but this is still a nice box of stuff.

yup.. certainly was crap

I wrapped mine for my wife for Christmas. This one was the most basic default one we've ever received.

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

Last year the Burgandy Olfactory Center I gave her was awesome but this one was still ok; the duffle is useful, and the orange monkey will get recast in purple to replace a purple mute monkey.

speaky2k wrote:I got mine sometime last week (I was away so I don't know exactly when). I decided to wait till Christmas to open it for a nice present to myself.
Here's what I got:
1 - Screaming Monkey Slingshot Keychain
1 - Red duffle bag (Will use I am sure)
1 - Cupcake lip balm (Girlfriend claimed this)
1 - Spitball dart board (this is going to work with me)
1 - 4ft HDMI cable new in box (don't know what to do with this since I have enough & would need longer ones)
Not bad for $8.

I would love to see more variety in the boxes going out (everyone gets different stuff), like the first Burgandy Olfactory Center I got several years ago, but this is still a nice box of stuff.

ditto

I can almost just cut and paste Duodec here.

Content:

2 - Bags of Texas air
1 - Orange-caped Wooy Screaming Keychain Monkey
1 - Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 - Red Duffel Bag
1 - Spitball Procrastination Dartpad
1 - Bar Crawl Bingo
1 - Tin of Monkey Mints - Banana flavor.

Intent:

I wrapped mine for my wife for Christmas.

This was the first box of coal given as a Christmas gift and may I say that when she opened it she was the envy of our two sons (19 & 23). The boys immediately began scheming to con her out of the monkey and bar crawl bingo.

A pleasant time was had by all, and all for $8.

Merry Christmas to me !! I still have not even gotten mine.

It has been stuck "in transit" (probably at my post office) in Philadelphia, since december 19th.

Was hoping santa was going to deliver it for me, but that was not the case

sigh sigh sigh

Same lameup for me:

Red Bag
Cupcake Lipgloss
Spitball Dartboard
Monkey Keychain (Broken)
Bar Crawl Bingo

At least the family talked me out of saving the Burgandy Olfactory Center for last on Christmas morning. Got the crappy blues out of the way first.

1x blue bag
1x Keychain Monkey (working!)
1x Cupcake lip gloss
1x Spitball dartboard
1x Cafe Bingo
2x Texas Air

Deliciously crappy as always....I feel like that girlfriend who's guy treats her bad...she knows she should leave, but keeps on coming back for more. Though I have been scorned a couple of times now with craptacular Burgandy Olfactory Center#39;s, I'll keep coming back for more...just hoping that the Burgandy Olfactory Center will change

Always fun waiting in anticipation anyhow...got my 8 bucks in entertainment value. Thanks woot!

RebelTaz wrote:You can keep yelling THREE DOLLARS all you want, but unless you got free shipping, then you spent EIGHT DOLLARS, as did the rest of us. And yes, since that FIVE DOLLARS for shipping comes OUT OF MY POCKET, I take that into account.

So, to recap - I spent EIGHT DOLLARS, not THREE DOLLARS.

Okay, well for every woot its 5$ shipping, from queen and king sized mattresses, to 60 inch tvs, to paper kites sold for a penny and can be mailed with a 45 cent stamp.

most gas stations in america tack tax onto gas purchases, and most gas station signs I see say $amount +9/10 of a penny, but you rarely see people saying that the gas price is 2.999 or two dollars ninety-nine and nine tenths of a cent. its a given that unless you have a coupon, no matter what you wooted you spent 5$ on shipping so why mention it? The only variable is what they charge for the item itself

RebelTaz wrote:You can keep yelling THREE DOLLARS all you want, but unless you got free shipping, then you spent EIGHT DOLLARS, as did the rest of us. And yes, since that FIVE DOLLARS for shipping comes OUT OF MY POCKET, I take that into account.

So, to recap - I spent EIGHT DOLLARS, not THREE DOLLARS.

yes, you did spend 8 dollars... you spend 3 dollars on crap, and 5 dollars to have it delivered to you

not 8 dollars on crap

I was giving a couple days for those opening their bags on Christmas, but no letter again? No crazy bags posted either? The commandments should be amended to include "You must describe your crap online." On second thought that sounds really bad.

stele2 wrote:I was giving a couple days for those opening their bags on Christmas, but no letter again? No crazy bags posted either? The commandments should be amended to include "You must describe your crap online." On second thought that sounds really bad.

Well it's really nice to share, but we know some people are just shy. Or don't ever visit the forums (we are sad about that).

inkycatz wrote:Well it's really nice to share, but we know some people are just shy. Or don't ever visit the forums (we are sad about that).

I intend to share when I return from vacation (on the 8th)and can finally open my Burgandy Olfactory Center! Mine is 1lb so I am even more curious as to the contents. It is sitting at home waiting for me!

I have been spoiled. I have received 4 bags of crap and the first three had something in them that was worth way more then the 8 dollars I paid for them. I do not really care what I receive but this last batch of crap it seemed like the majority of us all got the same stuff. Is this usual?

This is what I got like many of you.

2 - Texas air
1 - Orange-caped Screaming Monkey (working condition so annoying but i love it)
1 - Chocolate Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 - Black Duffel Bag
1 - Spitball Dartpad
1 - Cafe Bingo

The Ghetto Wii is actually a "Jakks Pacific Ultimotion Swing Zone Sports Motion Controller Video Game"

I'm going to break it out on New Years Eve and hope that it works!

Link off of Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Jakks-Pacific-Ultimotion-Sports-Controller/dp/B001535JG6/ref=sr_1_5?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1325179955&sr=1-5

This is what I got like many of you.

2 - Texas air
1 - Orange-caped Screaming Monkey keychain (working)
1 - Chocolate Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 - Red Duffel Bag
1 - Spitball Dartpad
1 - Cafe Bingo

All in a reuseable woot box.

The orange caped monkey will replace one that was "stolen" by a coworker, though my cats really don't like the monkeys so I'm not sure why I like them so much.

The lip gloss went to my daughters and the red bag is actually pretty nice ("that's better than the ones we sell at work," said Daughter#1).

Daughter#1 may take the games with her back to college.

All in all, not bad crap.

I went to the post office to get my woot box with the rest of the mail. The minute we got home the boys and I opened the package.

A lot of suspense and waiting ......

Inside..... No letter.

Nothing completely different.
Just

Cupcake Lip Gloss
Spitball Dart board
Bar Bingo
Flying Monkey with correctly spelled orange cape
One red duffle bag.

4 craps one bag. You Could call this a bonus box with 4 items.
A little boring but the monkey makes it better than some of my Burgandy Olfactory Center#39;s.

I missed Christmas crap due to errors but will try again.

1 - Red Duffel Bag
1 - Screaming Monkey Keychain with orange cape
1 - Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 - Spitball Dartpad
1 - Star Wars metal lunchbox that looked like Chewbacca had jumped on it. The thing was completely bent out of shape and caved in. The 2 sandwich cutters inside the lunch box (TIE fighter and Millennium Falcon) were in mint condition, though.

After waiting til christmas morning to open mine, i finally remembered to get on here and see what others got.

Mine (ranked best to crap):
3 - sets of bucky cubes (nice, almost bought these)
1 - RC car (which later dropped in the rankings, doesn't work)
1 - Orange-caped Screaming Monkey keychain
1 - Spitball Dartpad
1 - Cupcake Lip Gloss (my daughter was happy)
4 - Texas air
1 - Blue Duffel Bag (get ready goodwill)

Very happy with it, but did make me wonder why do they have cupcake lip gloss and crappy duffel bags sitting around the warehouse.

Pretty standard here:

1 Woot Monkey Keychain - orange cape - complete with misprint
2 bags Texas Air
1 Cafe Bingo
1 Spitball Dartboard
1 Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 Cheap Red Duffel Bag

Not as good as my last one, but still good. I'll probably use the bag as a gym bag, gift the spitball game and lip gloss, and definitely enjoy the screaming monkey (my friend says it's creepy). :D

Just open my Christmas crap and received the except same Burgandy Olfactory Center as I did from the Dec 6 Burgandy Olfactory Center

1 Coffee House Bingo
2 Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 Wash cloth
1 flower Tote Bag

I’m a long time Wooter and have sent 1000s of new Wooters to your site over the years talking about the Burgandy Olfactory Center & and how awesome the Woot experience is.

I’ve been blessed by the Woot gods more often than most. For this alone I am grateful. But there is no more random in the Bag of Coals.

Woot please make it interesting again. I used to love to read the forums and enjoy the random craziness other people received even if my Burgandy Olfactory Center was not the best.

Gone are the days of Anvils, Blow up dolls, or Pinatas full of broken computer parts.

Now it’s just page after page of I received the standard Blah Blah Blah

It’s kind of like the old married couple, Who get it over with quick.

I guess all good things must end.

You are still the best & in my memories you always will be!

but it just is not the same.

A Broken Hearted Wooter

Mine was somewhat disappointed, but then again, I've never been overly impressed with the Burgandy Olfactory Center anyway, yet I still try for them.

I got mine today.

* 7 bags of Texas air.
* 1 four ft 1.3 HDMI cable (useless for me since I already have 1.4 everywhere and in surplus)
* 1 tabletop tripod. So small, it isn't very useful, plus I already have one with bendy legs.
* 1 ugly hand towel
* 1 blue duffel. At least I can put crap in it.

I was hoping for the keychain monkey like most others, or even the spitball dart board could make a good gag gift...

Maybe I will wait another 3.5 years before my next crap attempt.

Gotta say, even though I was initially a bit let down that my crap was actually standard crap and not a monster truck or lifetime supply of mac&cheese, I'm pretty happy with it. My daughter is stoked with the cupcake lip goo. My son filled the duffel bag with baku-mon-blades or whatever his crap is. And I just had a few more banana monkey mints and easily would have spent $0.75 on them in a store. Kids night out bingo might even get some play on the next family dinner out. Basically, without the kids I'd be hard pressed to find use for my crap.

I live in Florida and we have a lot of canals near the roads. I'm thinking of tossing the 2 bags of Texas air in the car in case it gets submerged in one, it'll give me that much more time to wait for a rescue.

I'm going to give the spitball procrastination to the homeless guy at the intersection near the highway. Maybe he'll use it to make signs or spitball passing cars.

Pretty late to report but I was on vacation and only just got to mine.

- 2 bags of Texas air
- Orange Woot monkey key chain
- 6 brown frilly hand towels
- Spit ball dart board
- Birthday kit (I think it is a recipe for bubbles with stirring spoons, I am unsure)
- Red duffle bag

My first and I have to say I am very happy. I have used the bag a bunch, I love the monkey key chain and the hand towels are ugly but super useful! I will try again for sure.

Sorry I never posted, had a pretty satisfying bag!

The little object on the foot flusher is a red robot-santa 2GB flash drive with a light-up chest. So cool! Thank you Woot!!!

CapnJB wrote:So your business plan is:

1. Get a $15 item
2. Sell it for $3
3. ???
4. Profit!!

Sign me up!

Barrels of Crud is like a loss leader in a supermarket, it gets you in the "store". For every person that gets a Barrels of Crud many many more fail to get a Barrels of Crud but, end up buying other stuff while glued to their screen waiting for the Barrels of Crud

For the loss leader to work, the Barrels of Crud has to have real value to those that are lucky enough to get one. For now the Barrels of Crud still seems to get enough attention to still work, but I suggest this is short sighted, in that attention will dwindle if the Barrels of Crud are all truly Barrels of Crud.

vegasmaven wrote:Barrels of Crud is like a loss leader in a supermarket, it gets you in the "store". For every person that gets a Barrels of Crud many many more fail to get a Barrels of Crud but, end up buying other stuff while glued to their screen waiting for the Barrels of Crud

For the loss leader to work, the Barrels of Crud has to have real value to those that are lucky enough to get one. For now the Barrels of Crud still seems to get enough attention to still work, but I suggest this is short sighted, in that attention will dwindle if the Barrels of Crud are all truly Barrels of Crud.

Amen Vegasmaven,

Even getting broken or missing parts is funnier and exciting to wait for, then,,,, this. You have to hear of someone getting the 100" Plasma without a remote every once in a while.

rickystyx wrote:2.3 lbs
12 in. x 9.5 in. x 5 in.
Expected delivery: 12/21/2011

The haul...