I spent the day at Legoland, they had a huge star wars extravaganza which was awesome. Then went out for chinese food with the fiancee and drank something called a volcano that came in a bowl and was literally ON FIRE. Also awesome.

If you had the misfortune of spending the whole day searching through code trying to find the ever elusive bushel o carrots and are mad because it didn't appear that one was offered, i suggest to take a look at the @wootlive twitter feed today. It might make you feel better.

inkycatz wrote:That's totally legit feedback, I appreciate you all saying it, and I'll make sure folks see it.

Thank you. I do not use any social network (except for this site).
I appreciate you taking us into consideration.

yrguide wrote:

If you owned a store and had a surprise sale every year on a specific day for 6 years running and then on the 7th year a long line of people lined up would you a. tell them sorry we aren't having the surprise sale this year or b. let them stand out there in the rain until the day was over without acknowledging the expectation of your customers based on your own action from years past?

Online or B&M woot is still a store.

Now this is the best analogy I have seen all day! Thank you for finding the right way to express the situation! Love ya, Woot, but you needed to think this one through a bit more thoroughly. No Carp is OK and we realize you have all the cards, but you just don't have to rub our noses in it.

Well, I gotta say, I find the psychology of this whole deal more than a little fascinating. In the past, I have flamed whining wooters who were WAY too obsessed about not getting a Barrel of Crops. When I finally realized what was apparently going down (which was only after a couple of post-midnight hours of just KNOWING something was afoot, and if I just expended a little more effort, all would be revealed) I have to admit I felt as if I had been a bit betrayed. I have been a member here for a while. I have hyped this outfit relentlessly, spent WAY more on impulse buys than I should have. The "clubbiness" of the community led to a sense of ownership to some degree. Who else promised that I was going to heaven, or that I was better than anybody else? I have scored crap many times. I have failed to score crap many more times. Without complaint. I was unlucky, inattentive, beat by bots, too dense to unlock the puzzle -- hell -- I've experienced crap fail in just about every imaginable way. But this is the first time I've felt even a little unhappy with the experience of having tried.
That said, the joke's on me. I get that. But the joke, frankly, isn't that clever. I wasn't outrun or outwitted this time. I was simply disappointed. And it had nothing to do with a box of screaming monkeys, Chinese toys, mystery cables and a bag.
Woot is in no way obligated to offer up anything other than what's clearly advertised. And regarding the strike stuff and other red herrings, I'll write that all off as ideas-not-realized-or-thought-through. So, no worries, wooteroos. No harm, no foul. My thoughts are offered here not to teach anyone a lesson, just as fodder for consideration. FWIW. Woot on, boys and girls!

DaveInSoCal wrote:I spent the day at Legoland, they had a huge star wars extravaganza which was awesome. Then went out for chinese food with the fiancee and drank something called a volcano that came in a bowl and was literally ON FIRE. Also awesome.

If you had the misfortune of spending the whole day searching through code trying to find the ever elusive bushel o carrots and are mad because it didn't appear that one was offered, i suggest to take a look at the @wootlive twitter feed today. It might make you feel better.

Dude. I am all about feeling better, but I do not tweet. A cultural/religious thing. Are you saying Bunnies Ogling Carrots WERE offered? If they were, and I did not figger it out, I'm feeling better for sure. Please explain. My cryptic deciphers is all used up.

Hmm ... wonder whats in those 5 boxes ...

lichme wrote:I think this was pretty damn funny, and quite brilliant actually. Train the wooters to associate April Fools with a guaranteed Bunnies Ogling Carrots then after years leading up, take it all away. Then leave random statements that may be interpreted as "clues" to have people keep coming back.<>

This reminds me of the folks looking for the "Paul is dead" clues on Beatles' albums.

maui wrote:Dude. I am all about feeling better, but I do not tweet. A cultural/religious thing. Are you saying Bunnies Ogling Carrots WERE offered? If they were, and I did not figger it out, I'm feeling better for sure. Please explain. My cryptic deciphers is all used up.

They put up a picture of 5 packed woot boxes and said they were for people who were loyal yesterday.

DaveInSoCal wrote:They put up a picture of 5 packed woot boxes and said they were for people who were loyal yesterday.

Oh. Saw the photo. Strikes me as odd, if true. I thought it was maybe a reward for the "scabs."
Whatever.

ok - "March till we stop."

If it's March till they stop, does that make the day after they stop the first day in April?

Tuesday's Woot Daily Digest featured Mortimer & Monte in a conversation that seemed like it was written by S.C.A.B.

Today's digest had no Mortimer & Monte at all.

The "strike" is not over.

Follow me?

olcubmaster wrote:ok - "March till we stop."

If it's March till they stop, does that make the day after they stop the first day in April?

Tuesday's Woot Daily Digest featured Mortimer & Monte in a conversation that seemed like it was written by S.C.A.B.

Today's digest had no Mortimer & Monte at all.

The "strike" is not over.

Follow me?

I follow you. If this is the case woot wins. My mind is blown. I never expected them to arbitrarily decide when the month of March would be over.

I was disappointed they had not wrapped up strike storyline so this might explain it.

I'm kind of sad that no staffers have responded HERE to the Barrel of Crops concerns.

Perhaps they're under their desks waiting for the tornado to pass.

yrguide wrote:I follow you. If this is the case woot wins. My mind is blown. I never expected them to arbitrarily decide when the month of March would be over.

I was disappointed they had not wrapped up strike storyline so this might explain it.

^This would be interesting. I've been lurking here the past few days mainly just to see Woot's response to all of the April 1st craziness. Aside from that one Facebook post there really hasn't been anything (which does strike me as being odd). Through the years I have been here, my observation is that Woot really does try to keep their customers happy; hence why no statement of any real substance seems odd to me. With all of the random "clues" and even the odd price points of April 1, it really wouldn't surprise me if we all missed something. What would be even more strange (to me at least) though is if five people did find something but never shared their findings with anyone else.....

teamstortz wrote:^This would be interesting. I've been lurking here the past few days mainly just to see Woot's response to all of the April 1st craziness. Aside from that one Facebook post there really hasn't been anything (which does strike me as being odd). Through the years I have been here, my observation is that Woot really does try to keep their customers happy; hence why no statement of any real substance seems odd to me. With all of the random "clues" and even the odd price points of April 1, it really wouldn't surprise me if we all missed something. What would be even more strange (to me at least) though is if five people did find something but never shared their findings with anyone else.....

I tried every possible IP address off those price points, tried to decode them as secret code, used them as endings to URLs...I have zero idea what they meant but I'm betting they meant something.

Hmmmmmm, I may go back & dig around some more with the price points....we'll see.

olcubmaster wrote:ok - "March till we stop."

If it's March till they stop, does that make the day after they stop the first day in April?

Tuesday's Woot Daily Digest featured Mortimer & Monte in a conversation that seemed like it was written by S.C.A.B.

Today's digest had no Mortimer & Monte at all.

The "strike" is not over.

Follow me?

Interesting...from the wootlive twitter feed.

The plot thickens:

https://twitter.com/#!/WootLive/status/187223686129004544

Wootlive The strike negotiations required Mortimer and Monte to be retired. @ModerateRadical Did Mortimer and Monte go on strike this time?

Who knows if they meant anything, but for reference it looks like the prices were 120.48, 14.94, and 298.89.

Thanks for keeping us knuckle-draggin non-tweeting, facebookless cave dwellers in the outer loop!

We all have been having our say this week on the Fool's Day situation, but on a serious note we hope that all of the Woot! staff and their families are safe after what appears to be devastation in the Dallas area. God bless.

Is everyone actually typing 'Bunnies Ogling Carrots' or is that the filter?
Test: Barrel of Crops

Edit: Okay because I don't ever remember 'Bunnies Ogling Carrots' being the filtered replacement. Would have been an interesting note considering what's coming up on Sunday.
/shrug

Well played Woot! Well played.

I truly thought the "strike" was the April Fool Joke. Still think so, but I have been wrong about everything for the past two years!

yrguide wrote:Interesting...from the wootlive twitter feed.

The plot thickens:

https://twitter.com/#!/WootLive/status/187223686129004544

Wootlive The strike negotiations required Mortimer and Monte to be retired. @ModerateRadical Did Mortimer and Monte go on strike this time?

And Motimer and Monte are back to normal in the 04/04 Daily Digest which ends with Mortimer saying, "MY VOICE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!"

...or was it "Paul is dead" backwards?

FROM : march 'til we stop discussion
Updated by : Staffer Matthew
Updated on :Apr 3, 2012 2:38 PM

By now you all may have noticed that we're back at work. The Woot writing staff labor action of 4/1 may have been short-lived, but its effects will continue to reverberate through this company for years to co-- oh, who am I kidding; we folded like lightweight washi.

This video stays up all week, though! Because the bosses may have gotten us all to slink immediately back to work, but we'll be darned if they think they're going to get us to make an EXTRA video to replace this one!

Let it serve as an inspiration to comrades-in-arms everywhere who, like us, posses both an unjustified discontent and an utterly flaccid backbone!

We knew we didn't really have the fortitude to pull off a strike. (We would have just staged a work slowdown instead, but we couldn't figure out what would distinguish it from our regular working habits.)