What shopper in their right minds would order “Random Crap” from an etailer who describes the offering thusly:
Little do they know, when their packages arrive
They’ll open them up and exclaim, “What’s this jive?
“I thought I might get a giant-screen TV
Or at least a pair of sunglasses that play MP3s.”
Instead they’ll find garbage that the city dump
Rejected, so we sold it to you chumps.
And so we exclaim, to those let down by their loot:
“Merry Crapmas to all, and to all a crappy woot!”
Hordes of WOOTAHOLICS, that’s who! I just made that word up, to refer to those crazed die-hard addicts of Woot.com who wait up til midnight every night to see what the next day’s product is so they can order it before it sells out.
I am not a Wootaholic, but every once in a while around midnight CST I check what’s on offer, and for the first time ever I saw the fabled “Bag of Crap” for sale!
I was SO EXCITED to see that fabled brown bag! Until… I noticed the SOLD OUT message. Damn!! Alas, I was too late.
ARRRRGGGGH!
Turns out the entire B.O.C. (affectionately referred to as “Blinged Out Cabbages” to the Wooter insiders) inventory of 3000 pieces was sold out in just ELEVEN MINUTES! Jeez, don’t these Wootaholics have anything else to do on Christmas!?!? I wonder if I’m destined to ever lay my hands on a B.O.C.
Ah, to be an etailer like Woot who gets overwhelmed by frenzied mobs of shoppers on Christmas Day. That’s brand devotion.
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Even though the sale time was 11 minutes, if you didn’t START the checkout process within the first minute, you would not get a Bandolier Of Carrots. That time is the time for the last paypal to be cleared, when everyone is through checkout. Some people even started the process exactly at midnight, and didn’t get one due to server lag. I was not one of those. I got 3 😛
I love your blog,
Jacob
i have purchased over 70 woot thus far and on Christmas was my first BOC and i just opened the box on friday and yep…it was crap alright, no TV for this wooter. just in case you wanted to know what it was i opened? 3 gel pens, a broken beyond repair doll and a screaming monkey. lucky me!
I too am an avid wooter. I’ve been trying for a couple of years to get the BoC but have not been able to. I’ve missed the last 6 (yes it’s sad but I do keep track). If you’re really into deal-a-day sites like myself go to www.zerodaydeals.com. It lists a bunch for you and includes thumbnails and brief descriptions.
Great blog btw.
lol, great story this one 🙂
This is the living proof, how a site, how a community can produce the best results and leave thousands of people doing crazy things. Long live the internet 🙂
Woot woot! w00t