Ever participated in a "Woot-Off"?

[Kryton]

There's this site that's basically a product liquidator...I picture it as just one huge-ass warehouse...and it's at woot.com. Generally speaking they sell ONE product per day. If it sells out, it sells out. If not, it goes back to the warehouse.

Sometimes the odds 'n' ends in the warehouse add up and they put the leftovers into a "Bag o' Crap". I knew a guy who actually got a 60" plasma TV in his bag o' crap. Total spent: $1 for the bag o' crap and $5 shipping & handling (every single item ships at that price).

Anyway, some days (like today) they do a "Woot-Off" in which they try to blast as much stuff out of their warehouse as possible. Once an item is sold out they put another one up right away...and it MIGHT be a bag o' crap (MOST of the time the bag o' crap has stuff like an extension cable, an iPod cover, and a sock monkey...plus the bag. You don't ALWAYS get a huge TV but you never know).

Stupid Woot-Off has me refreshing that browser tab over and over waiting for a cool bargain to catch my eye or the fabled bag o' crap even!

Firefox users can get an add-on with notifications of what percentage a deal is sold, etc. It's fun but distracting.

 

[Venardhi]

Yeup. They've been having a lot of them recently, every couple weeks at least.

I've never managed to be there at the right moment to get any of the good stuff though.

 

[cyph]

I was close to buying the 750gb seagate drive, but now that I got a 1tb external, I passed.

But I did get the 40" tri-pod. $12 with s&h!

Check kishk for their woot watcher. Auto refreshes and has optional alarms!

 

[Mr. B]

I've bought a few things from Woot, the first of which was my Zune 30 a good while back. I've bought a few things since but nothing expensive enough to use my BUMPYROAD coupon code. I always pay attention to woot-offs when I can, but I have yet to score any bags of crap. One wonders who actually does get them as the servers go down so fast.

 

[Kryton]

I so very ALMOST got one once...I managed to get through but before I finished filling out the info it had just sold out.