It’s a woot-off! Those who have been around me for any significant amount of time later at night have heard the alarm I have set for 10pm at night and received my one word explanation, “Woot!” Woot.com is a quirky (no longer) little website that has the slogan “One Day, One Deal.” An apt slogan, as starting at midnight Central Time (or 10pm here) they put up one product (usually tech related) at a fairly substantial discount and flat five dollar shipping (whether it’s a iPod or a TV). Except when they don’t. . .
Once a month or so, upon arrival to the main page, you will see a set of flashing yellow lights and a yellow progress bar over the current item name. That means a woot-off has begun! If you click the link above and it is still Tuesday 1/17/13 (and probably Wednesday 1/18, as they often go for two days), you will be treated to a progression of products, one after the other as stock is depleted. As I type this, there is a wireless PC to TV connector for $69.99 which has been proceeded by a small fixed blade knife and, before that, a network backup drive. The more expensive items may take an hour or so to move, but you’ll probably see a fair variety of items over the course of 24 hours.
Woot was successful enough to A) be bought by Amazon, and B) spin off a number of sites that each have their own one day deals in various categories (kids.woot.com, wine.woot.com, sellout.woot.com, shirt.woot.com, and home.woot.com). Each offers products in their niche for the day, and some even feature their own woot-offs (kids.woot, home.woot, and wine.woot at the moment).
One thing that has stayed exclusive to the main Woot site, and one of the most fun items, often only shows up during woot-offs anymore. It is the legendary Bag of Crap (BoC). Whenever the BoC comes up on Woot, the servers immediately grind to a halt, and successfully ordering one is a feat unto itself (I have scored four in the roughly sixty some odd times it has been available, and two of those times were due to the fact that acquiring the BoC was a test of finding a hidden page). What is in a BoC? Well, exactly what it says, Crap, specifically three (or slightly more) items. This is where they stick all of the items that they can’t sell regularly, I have received many different items, from a strawberry planter, to Christmas cards (so many Christmas cards), to mini tripods (a box of 8 tripods counted as one item in an early BoC), and a musical Winnie the Pooh toothbrush holder (which kept going off whenever the box was jostled, poor delivery man). Other folks have been lucky enough to score a TV. For the low price of 3 dollars, plus the aforementioned shipping, you get to play the Crap lottery. It used to amuse Jess, now it kinda scares her.
Wish me luck as I hold out for Bag of Crap number five! (They have a bad habit of posting them when I’m at lunch on the second day of the woot-off, so we’ll see.)
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