RNLori wrote:I don't know what kind of bug it is.. A small dead black bug firmly embedded in the washcloth. I tried to shake it of outside the door, and look at the name on the washcloth in case others got them. It says "Avanti", and it was tan with a tree like design on part of it. When I looked at the name, I noticed another dead bug, this one small and brown, like a waterbug of some type. Please wash these, if anyone else got the same, although I think we all did Mine is going in the trash, since it appears there are no takers.
Santa must have thought I was very bad this yea
Edit: Has anyone every returned a Bag of Coal? I really don't want the bag, or any of it in my house..

After I saw this post I immediately re-checked my crap and found a smallish brown something on the washcloth - the wife threw it away along with anything that came in direct contact with it (diva face mit and the ugly green flower bag).
I'm pretty sure dead squished things embedded into our crap items are not seen as a "good" thing - either by wootazon or by the crap purchasers.

Got my 2.9lbs of crap:

-HDMI cable
-Small duffel bag
-Igloo cooler bag
-Birthday survival kit (It's a spoon or something.... yeah...)
-A washcloth

In completely related news: my hamster has been sneezing a lot lately...

Got my goods. Good goods, not great goods this time.

1 duffel bag with broken strap
1 Max Cold insulated lunch bag
1 Diva Darling headband
1 decorative (I guess?) hand towel
1 package knock knock task clips

Thanks, Woot!

colonelcrap wrote:It sounds like the troops’ moral is diminishing. I have been sent to clean up the mess, address the issues and right the ship. It looks like I have an uphill battle, but I have a good battle plan. If you will give me time, you have my commitment that we be victorious in our pursuit of the best Beachhead of Ceasefire yet.
I know there is some dissension in the ranks due to the changing of the guard. I have read that some of you are grumbling about how your crap is too crappy, not crappy enough or too much like your neighbor’s crap. Instead of addressing each of those complaints individually, let me just say that I am aware of the issues and have the power to make changes where changes need to be made.
I am here to make sure that the items being shipped are more diverse, interesting, bizarre, broken, weird and worthy of blog banter. I am also here to make sure that every package has, at least, the minimum amount of crap and that the crap gets shipped in a timely manner. I am here to make sure that communication about the shipped crap is distributed so that everyone can start getting battle-ready to receive their crap.
I know that there is more to address, but a plan doesn’t work if it never gets started. I am sure that this plan will work and make this a mean, lean, crapping machine. See you in the trenches.
ColonelCrap

It's about time. Lets hope these words hold true.

Crap was waiting when I walked in the door to work this AM.

No recycled air...
(1) Woot Box
(1) Ugly orange bag (w/pink flower)
(1) can of 12 task clips (CACA)
(2) Lip gloss
(1) Diva headband
(1) Brown small hand towel (no bugs on/in it at first glance)

I didn't expect more as I was following the forum...but was hoping there was a chance. At least a tabletop tripod or something slightly useful.

WOOT...Please bring back broken and return electronics for the craps. I believe the minions of woot appreciated listening to old voicemails and seeing what was on refurbished hard drives that were recieved in previous craps. Even the broken Sansas from years past were a great surprise.

For my first crap since 2009, I am not impressed.

mariojill2001 wrote:Excellent use of the Wooted Skil blade (and children). I have that same Fuji XP camera, too. Excellent haul, cute family, cool video.

(PS: I fixed the embedding for you.)

You might as well have opened mine. I got the exact same items. Even the box looked taped the same way.

We got the Burgandy Olfactory Center#39;s on Saturday, but I was lazy about getting the post online.

Blatantly Obvious Culprit #1 (on the left):

• The bag: that typical flimsy red duffel bag (common).
  
• Crap1: 1 x basketweave finger towel (common).
  
• Crap2: 1 x 4' 1080p HDMI cable (common).
  
• Crap3: 1 x flat-folding tripod (uncommon).

• The bag: reusable grocery bag with flower (common).
  
• Crap1: 1 x Plant design washcloth (common).
  
• Crap2: 1 x "Excuses" spitball dart board (common).
  
• Crap3: 1 x Kids' Night Out Bingo (uncommon).
  
• Crap4: 1 x box of three Mini Giant Microbes: Mad Cow (a double oxymoron!) (rare).
  
• Crap5: 2 x Ice Cream lip gloss(common).

duodec wrote:Dunno. We're leaving it sealed. The bubble blower has a star one one end and what I can see of the other end through the mesh bag says "2,1,bubbles" so maybe.

Yep, that's the same one I have, it actually says "5,4,3,2,1, BUBBLES". Since I opened mine, sounds like you know exactly what's in yours, too. I really like the bubble blower for some reason.

poppiesny wrote:Got my 2.9lbs of crap:

-HDMI cable
-Small duffel bag
-Igloo cooler bag
-Birthday survival kit (It's a spoon or something.... yeah...)
-A washcloth

In completely related news: my hamster has been sneezing a lot lately...

Oh, you got the birthday survival kit too? I got one, it's a set of pewter cast items: A cake candle holder, an ice cream spoon, and a bubble wand. At least, that's what's in mine, and they were rocket ship themed.

I hope your hamster starts feeling better soon!

5 pack of shirts,
1 footflush (uncommon)
1 florescent green bag
1 facial wipe glove
1 fancy lookin towel thingy

In all, not a bad SSoC. The towels and washcloths are useful, as are the standard bags. Most people got something unusual. Still, not the wildly random swag from days of yore.

We were lucky enough to score 2 Burgandy Olfactory Center after 30 minutes of the infamous errors - both Woot! boxes were 14x10x8 even though Fedex said one was 8.14x8.14x8.14 & 1.7lb - the other was originally 2lbs & 14X10x8 according to Fedex, but now Fedex has changed it to delivered & 4.5lbs and 11.4x11.4x11.4, which is incorrect... probably USPS input....

Burgandy Olfactory Center #1 (lighter)
1 red duffle
1 Avanti hand towel (no bugs!)
1 Avanti washcloth (no bugs!)
1 tabletop tripod
5 Texas airbags!

Burgandy Olfactory Center #2 (a tad bit heavier)
1 red duffle
1 Avanti hand towel
1 Super Special Birthday Survival kit (rocket)
1 Philips HDMI 1.3 cable (nice!)
10 Texas air bags!

Has been a while since we scored the coveted Burgandy Olfactory Center and we are happy with our Christmas Crap -but also miss the old days of randomness and Sansas & non-working digital cameras and unboxed garage door electronics of some sort... Welcome aboard Colonel Crap! We look forward to you motivating the Woot Troups to former days of fun Burgandy Olfactory Center glory! Thanks Woot!!

GeekyOne wrote:After I saw this post I immediately re-checked my crap and found a smallish brown something on the washcloth - the wife threw it away along with anything that came in direct contact with it (diva face mit and the ugly green flower bag).
I'm pretty sure dead squished things embedded into our crap items are not seen as a "good" thing - either by wootazon or by the crap purchasers.

I was thinking of leaving the Woot after this, but after I calmed down a bit, I realized this could happen anywhere. I did cancel one pending order, but probably shouldn't have. Bugs happen. Either where the washcloths came from, or our Bags of Crap partied their asses off in some seedy places on New Year's since my tracking never even noted a location from 12/30 when it departed until January 4th. They could have been anywhere, getting into all sorts of trouble It is disappointing when I wonder what I could have bought for that 8 bucks at the dollar store, bug free, but I will probably be back. I left for 2 years after an order was cancelled b/c they said too many Bags of Crap went through. I got over that too. Best of luck to all, and especially you ColonelCrap. Make their crap the crappiest ever next time, but I admit, this crap would be hard to make much crappier.

1.9lb Santa's sack had the following:

6 Bags Texas Air
1 Gwen's Nest bag, orange with pink flower
2 Donut Lip gloss- 1 pink, other brown
1 Mini projector folding screen
1 Diva Headband
1 Gold decorative Avanti towel
2 small bugs in towel.

Throwing away the towel and headband to be safe. Really disappointed in this Box of Chocolates. Momma said you never know what your gonna get, and this time around it contained possible health hazards for all who got the towels!

I'll try again next time, hopefully colonelcrap can right the ship!

Predetermined Krapp distributions (christmas, woot anniversary etc..) seem to be more or less identical and not the usual variety of brokens, returns and miscellaneous items sent in woot-offs.. Never then less, krapp is krapp and the commandments remain the same..

Its not the stuff but the acquisition and receipt that we should all remain excited about..

The only shocker for me was that there were no awesome ugly sweater desk calendars or good ol woot wall calendars.. Now I will ahve no clue as to what day it is..

Thanks woot for completing my holidays with a great box of towels, sprinkler heads and tee shirts.. love my hydrangea bag, but could have done without the opened edible shot glasses.. used food is kinda gross...

Who cares!

Thanks again.

PocketBrain wrote:
Can't find a link to the Woot (!) Logo shirt, any help?

Do you mean this one?

A tip: if you have this shirt, you probably bought it from Woot, so it's easy to find it in your "My account" page...

That said - for some reason this particular shirt was sold on Woot.com main site, not on shirt.woot. At least that's where I found it in my account page (sale from 12/09/09).

Hello,

I recieved 5 XL shirts. Would anyone want to trade L tee shirts for my XL shirts?

Got my crap today:

1 orange bag with pink flower
1 4ft premium hdmi cable
1 crappy brown towel
1 Precious Image photo transfer plate kit

Photo here: http://p.twimg.com/AiwV304CMAAxPjU.jpg:large

I am pretty sure Woot hates me. I ordered random shirts on shirt.woot last time and they never showed up. Had to email them and let them know and they have shipped a replacement that is sitting at the local Fed Ex, they would not deliver them today because it showed tomorrow as the expected delivery date so they are holding them until then.

Now, I haven't received my Santa's Sack of Crap. According to Fed Ex last week, it was suppose to be delivered 1/7. But it never came. Went back and checked and now it is still showing that it is in transit and has never made it to the local post office. It no longer shows a date at all as the expected delivery.

I am not feeling any love from Woot....or is it Fed Ex that has it in for me?

My 2.3lb basket of colanders arrived today:

1 small blue duffel bag, perfect airplane carry on size

1 Phillips 4' HDMI cable. This thing is solid and very heavy duty.

1 Kids Snuggie (not a knock off). Camo design, complete with socks

1 Hideous hand towel of indeterminate color; either blue or purple (red/green colorblind here).

Was hoping for the pirate shrinkey-dinks, but i can use 3 out of the four items, so i call this a win!

I got
1 - Red Duffle bag
1 - black Hand Towel
1 pk of 12 binder clips with the word "C R A P" in several different languages on each.
1 - SHAMWOW
and of course that wonderful texas air bags

penrog wrote:I got
1 - Red Duffle bag
1 - black Hand Towel
1 pk of 12 binder clips with the word "C R A P" in several different languages on each.
1 - SHAMWOW
and of course that wonderful texas air bags

Oh and left out the 1 Diva head band..

Mine & my wife's arrived today.

2x pop up sprinklers.
2x Hand towels
2x duffle bags
2x diva face cloths

Wife got pirate shrinky dinks & I got two donut lip gloss.

I'm a little disappointed that they were almost 100% identical, but I feel we got our money's worth.

dernst_ca1 wrote:Predetermined Krapp distributions (christmas, woot anniversary etc..) seem to be more or less identical and not the usual variety of brokens, returns and miscellaneous items sent in woot-offs.. Never then less, krapp is krapp and the commandments remain the same..

Its not the stuff but the acquisition and receipt that we should all remain excited about..

The only shocker for me was that there were no awesome ugly sweater desk calendars or good ol woot wall calendars.. Now I will ahve no clue as to what day it is..

Thanks woot for completing my holidays with a great box of towels, sprinkler heads and tee shirts.. love my hydrangea bag, but could have done without the opened edible shot glasses.. used food is kinda gross...

Who cares!

Thanks again.

The last half dozen or so baggies have been cookie cutter: didn't matter if they were from a 'special' event or woot-off.. Some have gone so far as to blame the lack of randomness on TPW's departure... The bland old caca began under his watch, but probably not his fault.

That said, the minions of woot have spoken, despite the commandments (I'm sorry, but I just WON'T drink the Kool-Aid!). ColonelCrap has stepped in and promised an eventual (hopeful?) return to the woot! of days past...

Like many of you, I am hoping he can deliver, but we must remember, he has to answer to a higher authority....

Amazon...

2.1 lbs:

• 12-pack of crappy "task clips" (not really suitable for public use)
  
  
• One Diva Darling microfiber headband (my wife amazed me by saying that she will use it)
  
  
• One clean Avanti periodot Chelsea FT finger towel, made in Canada, decorated in Moonachie, New Jersey, and described in online ads as "Opulent, Elegant, Luxurious" (my wife says it will be used for cleaning)
  
  
• One recycled Gwen's Nest orange and red flowered tote bag (fine for grocery runs)
  
  
• One SENA ZipBook black leather iPad case, still selling online from some sites for the list price of $99, but close-outs offered by Amazon (of all companies) at $9.97 (don't have or plan to get an iPad in the foreseeable future and not worth enough to bother reselling, but it will be a nice gift for someone we know.)
  

I hate to join the ranks of the handily disappointed, but here's my 2.6lbs of crap:

1 Brown wash cloth
1 Spit ball excuse pad
2 Cupcake Lip gloss
1 Portable projection screen
8 bags of texas air, half deflated

Of 3, this is certainly the crappiest crap! But when the gamble is crappy, so sure are the results!

OK guys, now you have me worried about these bugs. I threw my hand towel into the wash with a load of towels. I didn't read this thread until after I washed it and didn't realize I needed to inspect it closely. Please don't tell me they were bed bugs!!!

prplmtngal wrote:My Bag of Coal was waiting on the porch for me when I got home from the mountain, yesterday. Just as craptacular as everyone else's. (except for duffleball's dell~ yay duffle!)

1 red duffle bag
1 brown hand towel with no bugs attached
1 Philips 4' HDMI Cable
1 Table Top Tripod
1 Melissa and Doug Police car (is this some kinda message?)

@speedogirl2, Sorry for your very sad news, hoping the best for your little furry friend.

Thank you prplmtngal. He is going to have surgery on Thursday to close his eye and back for more chemo in a couple of weeks.

After all of the hard fighting I had to do to get this Bag of Coal, I was on top of the world. Nothing could stop me... Then, i saw posts of the generic Burgandy Olfactory Center#39;s everyone was getting, and my hopes started sinking... But wait, mine was listed as a 4.8 Lbs box! For sure this is a good omen, since its not the same 2.9 lbs box that only has a washcloth a pico projector screen 2 lip gloss cupcakes, and a really crappy totebag with a flower on it...

then, the Burgandy Olfactory Center hit the post office, a re-weigh was done, and it became the above described Bag of S---.

I well know the rules on the Bag of Coal, but compared to the Burgandy Olfactory Center I got that had 3 busted cameras in it, or the one that had 7 copies each of superbad+Blades of glory+Team America (shrinkwrapped as 3packs) this one was a major disappointment. I mean if I were to add together the cost of everything in my sack, it didn't even come up to the $8 spent on the Burgandy Olfactory Center and the shipping. Heck, I'm hard pressed to believe it cost $3 for the pile of random chinese garbage, shoveled into the box. The labor, box, and packing tape probably cost more.

I seriously thought Woot cared about us, and although it is a business, the model they were using was one that made it fun and enjoyable to shop at. Unfortunately, the quality is slowly being phased out in favor of quantity, and quirky neat things, are being rapidly replaced with cheap Taiwanese goods.

The first 6 items I purchased from woot, I still use to this day... They were:

-Razer Diamondback Mouse
-Razer HP-1 Baracuda Headphones
-Motorola Bluetooth dongle
-Lyon Washburn Guitar kit (still learning, and have other guitars, but this one is my "I'm not afraid to play it when its too humid out" guitar)
-Wine Basics for Dummies
-Sony BluRay SATA burner.

The further from 2009 I go though, the less I use the stuff I've purchased, and for that matter, the less stuff I've felt worth while spending any money on.

I hope Colnel Crap can bring balance to the force, but I have my serious doubts. I mean the last woot off I kind of viewed not as a fun activity, but as a long drawn out struggle through tedium, and boredom.

Got my Crap the other day, but haven't had time to post it, and now I'm scared because I'm reading there are bugs in the washcloth's!
ICK!!! Now I'm scared to reopen the box and see what they've hatched into & will eat my brains out. Well, here's what I got:

1. 8 Pouches of TX air
2. Tabletop Tripod
3. 2 Bug infested Brown washcloth's with lace detail by Avanti
4. Craptastic red duffel bag
5. Something that looks like it might attach to my Wii remote for baseball-if anyone knows what this is, or if I'm right & how it's used...please hit me with a message back. I'm off to the washing machine to get rid of thos nasty bugs!

RNLori wrote: It is disappointing when I wonder what I could have bought for that 8 bucks at the dollar store, bug free, but I will probably be back. I left for 2 years after an order was cancelled b/c they said too many Bags of Crap went through. I got over that too. Best of luck to all, and especially you ColonelCrap. Make their crap the crappiest ever next time, but I admit, this crap would be hard to make much crappier.

Story is, you get an average 8 insect legs per candy bar. True?

1x Spitball Dartpad (Excuses)
1x Orange Flower Bag
1x Pico Projector screen
2x Cupcake lip gloss

Buy crap, get crap, works out!

Mine:
Pico Pocket Projector
Orange bag with pink flower (LOVE!!)
1 - Shamwow
Brown fringed indian looking hand towel
Drinking spitball dartboard thing


My husbands:
Periwinkle colored washcloth with sad flower on it.
Yellow bag with blue flower
Drinking spitball dartboard thing
1 - Cupcake lipgloss
Footflush toilet foot flusher



We've had better crap. My personal favorite was the orange bag with pink flower. Both bags are already in my car and have been used at the grocery store. All hail ColonelCrap.

meh3884 wrote:I hate to join the ranks of the handily disappointed, but here's my 2.6lbs of crap:

1 Brown wash cloth
1 Spit ball excuse pad
2 Cupcake Lip gloss
1 Portable projection screen
8 bags of texas air, half deflated

Of 3, this is certainly the crappiest crap! But when the gamble is crappy, so sure are the results!

What, no bag? You should complain! Crappe commandment one clearly states you should expect a bag. And shipping air pillows don't count, dude.

So you paid for a Burgandy Olfactory Center then they refunded your money and said "Sorry, no Burgandy Olfactory Center for you?" ORRRRR, did you get to a processing page and THINK you had a Burgandy Olfactory Center only to miss out?

I find it hard to believe the entire, "we gave out too many Burgandy Olfactory Center#39;s, so we wont give you one," deal. All woot would have to do is send you some random stuff.

Sounds like sour apples to me.

RNLori wrote:I was thinking of leaving the Woot after this, but after I calmed down a bit, I realized this could happen anywhere. I did cancel one pending order, but probably shouldn't have. Bugs happen. Either where the washcloths came from, or our Bags of Crap partied their asses off in some seedy places on New Year's since my tracking never even noted a location from 12/30 when it departed until January 4th. They could have been anywhere, getting into all sorts of trouble It is disappointing when I wonder what I could have bought for that 8 bucks at the dollar store, bug free, but I will probably be back. I left for 2 years after an order was cancelled b/c they said too many Bags of Crap went through. I got over that too. Best of luck to all, and especially you ColonelCrap. Make their crap the crappiest ever next time, but I admit, this crap would be hard to make much crappier.

dexdcat wrote:Now, I haven't received my Santa's Sack of Crap. According to Fed Ex last week, it was suppose to be delivered 1/7. But it never came. Went back and checked and now it is still showing that it is in transit and has never made it to the local post office. It no longer shows a date at all as the expected delivery.

I am not feeling any love from Woot....or is it Fed Ex that has it in for me?

My Woot calendar has done the same thing. It was supposed to be delivered yesterday, but still shows as "in transit" with the scheduled delivery removed. The post office doesn't have it yet either.

Got my crap. Standard stuff:

5 XL t-shirts
1 Diva Darling Facial Mitt
1 Orange bag with pink flower
1 Fun Foot Flush
1 washcloth (no bugs found, but went right in the trash... same "Avanti" brand and not worth the risk)

GeekyOne wrote:After I saw this post I immediately re-checked my crap and found a smallish brown something on the washcloth - the wife threw it away along with anything that came in direct contact with it (diva face mit and the ugly green flower bag).
I'm pretty sure dead squished things embedded into our crap items are not seen as a "good" thing - either by wootazon or by the crap purchasers.

does anyone have a pic of the bugs they are finding? i started a question on it in deals.woot
http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/8f77a5bc-ab41-4002-9cea-19c66d9f16f8/has-anyone-identified-the-type-of-bug-that-was-found-in-the-washclothes-in-the-ch#8

and one of the responders said they would be able to identify if it is a bed bug if we could post a pic.