Claire's Random Thoughts

Ever since I heard of the “bag of crap” on Woot, I’ve always wanted one. It’s also tradition for woot to sell these during midnight between Christmas and Christmas Eve, which was tonight (or technically this morning).

Actually, I thought I had missed out, because after I clicked the final ordering button, I got some kind of internal server error message. Due to the high popularity of these bags of crap, I expected the server to be extremely slow during this sale, but I can’t say I wasn’t disappointed when I thought I had missed out when the server crashed instead of loading my confirmation page. I soon learned that I didn’t at 1:17 am when I got my confirmation email! I guess their servers were just a little slow due to the high volume of traffic.

For those of you who don’t know, Woot is the oldest one-deal-per-day site. They sell one miscellaneous item per day starting at midnight central time, and that item is for sale for either until it is out of stock or midnight the next day. They used to have excellent deals a couple years back, but their products and prices haven’t been as good lately, in my opinion.

Anyway, once in a while they have a random “bag of crap” sale, in which they sell miscellaneous junk that they couldn’t get rid of during their regular sales. The contents in their bags of crap range from merchandise with “Woot” logos to rumored excellent valuable products that some claim to be as good as a TV (which I highly doubt, but anyway, I want to try my luck).

This time, they did something a little different than they did with their previous bag of crap sales. Instead of making a single random bag of crap $1 and giving buyers the option of buying 1, 2, or 3, they made it $3 and only allowed the purchase of one. I guess this was done, because most people who purchased these in the past bought three due to the flat $5 shipping charge and the low additional cost of the next two items.

When I get my bag of crap, I’ll make sure to post pictures of what I got
Hopefully, I’ll have a firsthand experience in confirming the rumors of awesome “crap” items people claim to receive. I should, however, understand that I shouldn’t be too disappointed if my three items are really crappy.

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