The "sold" number just went from 13xxx to 1395...

TJFoxxxx wrote:woot's costumer retention specialist must be on vacation. Or brain-damaged.

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The count is down to 1395...that's gonna be a lot of disappointed folks that had their confirmed orders pulled out from under their feet....yikes. And no explanation from wootstaff....boo.

so mine was processing and then went to the FAQ site.. what does that mean? rofl

Number of nags went down to 1395, there may be hope for another batch.

jfeise wrote:The "sold" number just went from 13xxx to 1395...

and the # of complaints might go the opposite direction.

tonycyndy wrote:The count is down to 1395...that's gonna be a lot of disappointed folks that had their confirmed orders pulled out from under their feet....yikes. And no explanation from wootstaff....boo.

Patience.

I'm sure Woot will come in here at some point.

DAOWAce wrote:This is the first company I've seen which doesn't accept standard Paypal payments.

You need money in your Paypal account to purchase via Woot. That is pretty asinine. Paypal by itself does instant withdrawals from your linked bank account, but Woot for some reason has to be different from everything else, and now I miss out on my first bag.

*sigh*

That's because the bank transfers can fail. You can place an order today linked to an empty or closed bank account, and only 4-10 days later will the transfer fail. Woot doesn't want to have to hang on to orders that might not actually be paid for, and then have to do something with inventory that was "sold" but no longer actually has a buyer. And no, they don't want to *plan* to put tons of $200+ stuff into $1 Bunnies Ogling Carrots.

Has anyone who got a "your order is NOT in" message since gotten an order confirmation?

I got an order confirmation (and my cc shows it too) after probably 14-15 earlier denials.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

I love woot!! I love that they change it up.... definitely not boring!!!

tonycyndy wrote:The count is down to 1395...that's gonna be a lot of disappointed folks that had their confirmed orders pulled out from under their feet....yikes. And no explanation from wootstaff....boo.

I was getting ready to guess that when they entered the number available, someone entered an extra 0, making the usual ~1500 into 15000. I imagine that Woot will chime in at some point with an explanation but right now there probably aren't too many people in the office and they're probably working to get the mistake rectified.

Edit: Page 37 sniper, lol

mlsapack wrote:Funny, the main screen said 1400, not 14000. At any rate, I got one!! Thank you ColonelCrap and Woot Gods!

Main Bunnies Ogling Carrots screen after 'Sold Out';
Sale Stats Snapshot
Full StatsSpeed to First Woot: 0m 5.900s First Sucker: akerman1 Sellout Time: 7:24:48 PM Central Time Item quantity: 1400
Quantity Breakdown
100% bought 1
100%
0% bought 2
0%
0% bought 3
0%
Full Stats →

Aha! I knew something was up. Plus, the first Carp was around 300, the second around 800, and this one at 1400 makes 2500, which is the 'normal' Bunnies Ogling Carrots amount for a given round of Wootoff.

BTW, this was Carp #10 for me. April 1st here we come!

I've purchased several Bunnies Ogling Carrots#39;s with an unfunded paypal account. It took it from my bank account without problem.

This was purposeful. 10% of the orders they took got approved, just as the item description eluded to.

tugnutt831 wrote:I was getting ready to guess that when they entered the number available, someone entered an extra 0, making the usual ~1500 into 15000. I imagine that Woot will chime in at some point with an explanation but right now there probably aren't too many people in the office and they're probably working to get the mistake rectified.

"Rectified" Meaning canceled orders. That's why I'm not getting excited about an order confirmation. (Until it ships...)

I got one!!!

denela wrote:Something must have worked....confirmation email (shut the front door!) and then I see it as pending on my cc...thank you woot! Delightful surprise!

Not sure which (of many attempts) went through, I was just stunned to see the confirmation email about four minutes after the item changed to something else.

This happened to me a few years ago, and Woot cancelled about half of the 4,000 orders that had gone through. They said there was an error, and they had sold too many. I got the notice late that night that my order was cancelled, after pending charges and a confirmation email. I mentioned this a few months ago, and some new folks didn't believe me. Whoops..

speekeazy wrote:I finally scored my first bag !!!!! That definitely made my day !

me too. so excited

Ouch, down to 1395 craps. so sad...

tugnutt831 wrote:I was getting ready to guess that when they entered the number available, someone entered an extra 0, making the usual ~1500 into 15000. I imagine that Woot will chime in at some point with an explanation but right now there probably aren't too many people in the office and they're probably working to get the mistake rectified.

Edit: Page 37 sniper, lol

Nah, I'm guessing the totals just include orders that are denied after the product is sold out. Happens all the time... usually it's just a couple of a product, but because of weird server issues tonight it ended up being ~10,000.

I'm guessing/hoping most of those people didn't get confirmation e-mails, or Woot will have some apologizing to do.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I got to the order denied page well over 20 times for this third Baggie on this woot off (this one actually had about 500, because they keep adding to the total)

I was upset.

I had a temper tantrum.

And then I ate dinner.

I received and email saying I GOT THE BAG OF C-R-A-P

Yet I never got a page that said I did! YIPPEEE sorry guys who didn't but check your emails!!

broklynite wrote:Those of you who have never gotten a bag before and are lusting after one, after having heard the stories and seen the videos...don't. Seriously. You will never be that person. Years ago, back in the first bags, I nearly got one and then said "Why would I want to pay real money for random junk?" and turned away. Years later I tried and got one. It had a Mr. T. LP and a camera holder. Then couldn't get one for years. I got one last christmas. It had a bag with a flower on it and a couple of t-shirts that wouldn't fit me.

I know I'm not alone here. It really isn't worth the stress. Many of us are old addicts. You don't have to be. Woot used to be a very different place. We used to buy things to move the woot-off along to help each other, and congradulate each other for getting bags.

Don't believe posts like this! It's just an evil trick to keep you away from the best crap in a bag in a bigger box!

Ok, I've only gotten one in the past, and, yes, it was crap, but it was surprise crap. Surprise crap is always better than no crap. (actually, now that I think about it... in another context, surprise crap would actually be really bad.)

Epic Fail again, after being rejected this week from my top three college choices with a 3.5 gpa what else is new. Left hanging on the "buy" screen only to be denied 20 minutes later. "Being Ostracized by Colleges" fail is just a metaphor for my pathetic life

DAOWAce wrote:This is the first company I've seen which doesn't accept standard Paypal payments.

You need money in your Paypal account to purchase via Woot. That is pretty asinine. Paypal by itself does instant withdrawals from your linked bank account, but Woot for some reason has to be different from everything else, and now I miss out on my first bag.

*sigh*

Not sure where you are getting that idea from. I never have funds in PayPal and I bought a BoC today using an empty PayPal account that's funded by a debit card / bank account. I have purchased many items from woot this way.

Someone made a good point in reference to new commandment #2: II. Thou shalt probably expect not to even get a Bag o’ Crap at all. We only have enough for about 10% of the people who want them. Thou art probably in that other 90%.

And that's black and white at first, but after seeing this fiasco of an ordering process... Was it intended? If so, it's more mean than fun....

Worst one was the last one. Truly nothing. Before that I have to say was some gitchy, funny and even useful stuff. Rechargeable battery powered radio that sounds very nice was the best.

Forgot to add the fun is in the hunt...

mlsapack wrote:Aha! I knew something was up. Plus, the first Carp was around 300, the second around 800, and this one at 1400 makes 2500, which is the 'normal' Bunnies Ogling Carrots amount for a given round of Wootoff.

BTW, this was Carp #10 for me. April 1st here we come!

If you look at each of the three 'entries' today for the Bunnies Ogling Carrots it's all the same.....the stats for one are the stats for the others. I wonder if it won't come up one more time before this woot-off is over...assuming the usual number of bags sold to ultimately be 2500. Another time when it was offered many times throughout a day (a previous April Fool's maybe?), each time it was offered the stats updated/continued from the one before.

garaux wrote:Not sure where you are getting that idea from. I never have funds in PayPal and I bought a BoC today using an empty PayPal account that's funded by a debit card / bank account. I have purchased many items from woot this way.

That's not what he said.

Woot doesn't accept PayPal eCheck payments. These are transfers from a linked bank account. They don't accept them because the transfer can fail, leaving you with no payment for that order days later.

Woot does accept PayPal payments funded by any other method, including a linked credit/check card. Nobody said otherwise.

broklynite wrote:
Those of you who have never gotten a bag before and are lusting after one, after having heard the stories and seen the videos...don't. Seriously. You will never be that person. Years ago, back in the first bags, I nearly got one and then said "Why would I want to pay real money for random junk?" and turned away. Years later I tried and got one. It had a Mr. T. LP and a camera holder. Then couldn't get one for years. I got one last christmas. It had a bag with a flower on it and a couple of t-shirts that wouldn't fit me.

I know I'm not alone here. It really isn't worth the stress. Many of us are old addicts. You don't have to be. Woot used to be a very different place. We used to buy things to move the woot-off along to help each other, and congradulate each other for getting bags.

jmsonic6712 wrote:Don't believe posts like this! It's just an evil trick to keep you away from the best crap in a bag in a bigger box!

Ok, I've only gotten one in the past, and, yes, it was crap, but it was surprise crap. Surprise crap is always better than no crap. (actually, now that I think about it... in anotheer context, surprise crap would actually be really bad.)

Seconded!

And, can I just say? I kind of hate when people complain about shirts that don't fit or random shirts they don't like. There's all kinds of great stuff you can do with them. And if you're not handy with scissors and thread (pillow, bag, shirt for your dog, etc), you can donate them or gift them to relatives or friends (or their kids). Really. There's no such thing as a useless shirt.

RNLori wrote:This happened to me a few years ago, and Woot cancelled about half of the 4,000 orders that had gone through. They said there was an error, and they had sold too many. I got the notice late that night that my order was cancelled, after pending charges and a confirmation email. I mentioned this a few months ago, and some new folks didn't believe me. Whoops..

I'm a glass-half-full kinda gal ;) and it's only crap anyway, right?

Thanks for the update, TT.

DanGrossman wrote:That's not what he said.

Woot doesn't accept PayPal eCheck payments. These are transfers from a linked bank account. They don't accept them because the transfer can fail, leaving you with no payment for that order days later.

Woot does accept PayPal payments funded by any other method, including a linked credit/check card. Nobody said otherwise.

I use PayPal with a linked bank account on my other woot account. PayPal only has my debit card number as a back-up funding source but not as the primary one. I don't know if that matters, but I thought I'd toss it in there. I used that PayPal account funded by bank transfer successfully on woot this morning.

Thanks, TT. That makes sense, but it still kind of hurts. ; ) I vote we take it out and teach it a lesson about playing with crap sacks...

ThunderThighs wrote:Evening all. I'm just starting up for the night but I checked into this. Seems that the server got stuck on the Bunnies Ogling Carrots and wouldn't turn over to the new product. Developers were called in to fix the problem. I blame the same jerk server that's caused problems the last 2 nights.

So the 13000 sales number was not real. Just the ramblings of one jerk server.

Ok so the big question, the people that still have the Bunnies Ogling Carrots listed in their account. Are we going to get them?

I'm not sure what you guys plan to do to make people "happy" again, but I'm foreseeing a lot of pissed off people and just from reading this thread.

I'm guessing the conversation at headquarters.woot went something like this:

"Wow, the comments on the last woot-off are really nasty since we didn't sell a Bunnies Ogling Carrots"

"You read that stuff? Are you new here? Everyone complains about a Bunnies Ogling Carrots whether they get one or not."

"Yeah, I read the forums. I'm not jaded yet."

"Well what do you want to do about it?"

"I know! Let's offer the elusive Bunnies Ogling Carrots so many times that people think the servers are broken."

"Oooh! Then we can leave it up for a really long time to get as many orders that we can, then we'll dust off the old random-number-generator-inator and we can play Bunnies Ogling Carrots Roulette!"

"Wow. I'm shocked. I think this is a win-win here. Let's eat some of that bacon spread. Yum."

ThunderThighs wrote:Evening all. I'm just starting up for the night but I checked into this. Seems that the server got stuck on the Bunnies Ogling Carrots and wouldn't turn over to the new product. Developers were called in to fix the problem. I blame the same jerk server that's caused problems the last 2 nights.

So the 13000 sales number was not real. Just the ramblings of one jerk server.

Thanks TT and thanks be to the woot gods that let those of us lucky ones get in on the fun

denela wrote:I'm a glass-half-full kinda gal ;) and it's only crap anyway, right?

Yes, it is crap. That's why I haven't even tried for any of these today. I bought what I liked, instead of dollar store items that I can't seem to give away, even to the neighbors that I hate!

Sigh... Thanks, TT. I'm glad it wasn't some cruel prank at least. Now I can have peace.

woot wage at $427? with orders at 1395 woots. i smell bacon. im no math magician but i'm pretty sure that 1395 x 3 equals $4185 which would hopefully be a gross profit which means that at fair market value the net would be $427. that means the average value per woot would be around 269 cents. that's some crap right there the shipping will surely out way the value of the Burnt orange cuda. so for those of you missing out you can rest assured that your better off because the credit card interest on this after one year at 24% apr (thanks for nothing Chase) will be 193 cents, slightly lower then the value of this Bunnies Ogling Carrots

ThunderThighs wrote:
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So the 13000 sales number was not real. Just the ramblings of one jerk server.

Good evening! (or is it good morning for you?)