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by **WarHorse** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:11 am

I'm not sure if anyone else cares but woot.com is having a Woot-Off today. I frickin love Woof-Off day!! :grin:

So have you purchased anything today? If not have you bought anything in the past. I got some pretty nice portable speakers a couple weeks ago but haven't bought anything today.

News Credits: 38 · by **TheMuffin** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:30 am

That **** completely kills my work progress.

by **WarHorse** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:04 am

Yep, it hasn't helped my productivity either.

News Credits: 150 · by **GetterDragun** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:06 am

Reopened after clarification.

by **Jazz Reborn** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:18 pm

whats a woot off?

News Credits: 38 · by **TheMuffin** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:04 pm

Woot is a site that sells one single item each day. They normally sell that item at a severely discounted price. The quantities are limited and once the item sells out, there won't be a new item until 12am the next day. The item is random. It might be a set of headphones or it might be a 50" LCDTV.

However, at random intervals they will have what is called a "Woot-Off". Whereby instead of having a single item for the day, they have a multitude. When one item sells out, another is placed up right after and this continues until they decide to end it. Once again at random. But what everyone wants to get during the "Woot-Off" is the "bag of crap". It costs a single dollar. But heres the catch, you don't know what it is. You might get a box with a bunch of BIC pens in it or you might get a home theater system.

They also have a shirt of the day which ranges from hilarious to WTF? And then a wine of the day as well. And they also have a partnership with Yahoo! and use this as sort of a secondary woot sale.

http://www.woot.com
http://www.shirt.woot.com
http://www.wine.woot.com
sellout.woot.com

Overall it ends up being pretty freaking addictive. It's like you're constantly bid sniping on ebay. Most people create an account, fill in all the checkout info for later use, so when they see a really good item, they just click the 'I want one' button and immediately buy it. Because the good items will be sold out by the time you fill all that in.

News Credits: 1 · by ***Galvatron*** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:27 pm

But what everyone wants to get during the "Woot-Off" is the "bag of crap".

eBay and other sites occupy enough of my time and money so I'm staying away from this one but is it really called "the bag of crap" ?

:lol:

by **Tangent** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:58 pm

So, it's like, extreme-ebay? I'm up for that.

News Credits: 38 · by **TheMuffin** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:41 pm

Yes it is indeed called the bag of crap. And it's kinda like ebay, but there is more than one of each item more often then not. They might have 1000 of one item and only 4 of the next.

News Credits: 1 · by ***Galvatron*** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:40 pm

Iron-Man wrote:Yes it is indeed called the bag of crap. And it's kinda like ebay, but there is more than one of each item more often then not. They might have 1000 of one item and only 4 of the next.

hahaha that's too funny calling it the bag of crap I might have to check it out as a joke unless I have to register everything up front first.

On a side note I noticed you changed your name, very cool, and I've never been much of an iron man fan before but the movie looks really really awesome and I'm definitely going to see it in the theaters.