What is the sound of one site Wooting? It's a Woot-off!

I just knew last night when I read my newsletter that I would be waking up to this today! I love it.

thank you for the heads up! I never know when the woot offs are going on. Where can I sign up for this newsletter? I have to leave for the day soon though. Will this be going on until midnight?

This will be going somewhere between 24 and 72 hours. 24 is generally best guess. If they run out of stuff, they’ll just toss up a final item and it goes back to a one deal a day site.

If you sign up for an account on Woot, you can get the newsletter. I think they’ve sent four in the two or three years I’ve been a member.

The worst thing is when an item just languishes on there for two hours. Usually like a pool cleaning robot or some cables or something. These speakers have been on there for almost an hour!

The one thing about living in Canada that sucks is it’s so hard to get packages from America sent up here without either taking six weeks, or costing a ton of money in duty fees or both, which is more common. I would LOVE to participate in a Woot-Off, as well as a lot of other e-commerce, but the sad truth is that it’s too expensive and too much of a pain.

I mean, my last e-purchase was a set of unmounted rubber stamps. In a regular envelope. It never arrived. How could they mess that up?! But they did.

I have a theory that they put something lame up during the morning commute so that people don’t go insane (or get to work late because they were watching it change super fast).

Woooooooooooooooooooooottttttttttttt offfffffffffffff!!!!!!!!!!1!1!1!!!11!!1!

Time to spend some money on awesomely useless gadgets!!

Dammit! I went to the bathroom and missed out on that keyboard!

But you can have a roooooomba. And there will be other keyboards. (You know there will be.)

I hope so. Also, that OLED watch! I need to just hold it for the rest of the day.

ETA: Maybe I SHOULD get that Roomba. It can have so many uses! (clicky clicky!)

A site run by Semi-Def. Any relation, Tone?

Cool site, btw.

Oh Roomba… that’s always been one of my most wanted items… :(

There have already been 2 Roombas on here… I doubt there’ll be a third. Can’t hurt to check, though! I’d like a Scooba, myself.

I don’t get it… I looked at both links and just thought “huh?”

@btko: I’m with you. I never got the whole w00t thing. Just like I never get buffets.

@andrew – gasp! Buffets are the pinnacle of eating experience IMO, you get to try all different styles of dishes without having to make em yourself :)

…I don’t get it…. :(

WTF is a woot off detour! I want my gadgets now, not some stupid wine!

OMG, Eambos! I was about to come on here and bitch about that wine bullshit. Luckily, we’re back to R/C heli-copters.

Bought me one of em helis. I plan to attach a pin head camera and spy on the neighbors =P

@empress – that’s the thing, i do have an account but never get the newsletters! finally back home, did i miss anything gooooood?

Do you like helicopters and spying on people? If so, tear your hair out and begin to scream.

okay, the usb disco mouse and pliers thing is ridiculous. i don’t have much faith left in the rest of the woot off.

I’m disappointed. I haven’t picked up anything good today. I missed that watch and keyboard. And I still am dying to see what’s in those damn bags of crap.

I call for a re-woot. That couldn’t have been the real thing!

Oh, god. Did they really put this up?

The description for it is hilarious!
It’s like the J.Peterman catalogue on acid.
Had to cut and paste before they switched items.

The Elvish Mounted Policemen’s Union

Draining the last drops of peppermint whisky out of the buttercup and lowering it gently onto the nightstand, Inspector Twinkle Feathershine sighed, a wheezing rasp that stank of nicotine and regret. Somewhere, history laughed. The Elves, after their long travels, troubles, and travails, had carved something of a home out of the Yukon frost. The streets of Whitehorse, the provincial capital, rang with the bubbling songs of Elvish pipes. The smells of roasted ladybug and honeysuckle soup drifted through its snowy alleyways. Elves argued, cajoled, sang, wailed, and cast spells on its sidewalks and in its apartments.

This was where they’d been permitted to settle after the shocking collapse of Elfrealm in 1948, when the young nation was overrun by a coalition of militant pan-Arabs and unreconstructed Orc supremacists. Now, 60 years later, the Canadian government was preparing to take control of the Yukon Temporary Elf District. Once again, Feathershine’s people would be without a home, rootless, abandoned, as alone as they had been in the days when humans thought they were mythical. It was enough to make an elf turn to drink. Especially one who’d already made that turn every day for thirty years.

But Feathershine was still an RCMP inspector, for two more months, anyway. He was a Mountie from his pointy ears down to the curled leather toes of his Elvish police boots. And that was why he was getting ready to head over to the Pini Hotel. They’d found a dead elf in one of the flophouse’s rooms, evidently strung out on fairydew like so many others these days. Sure, he wouldn’t have had long. But a bullet got him first. And Feathershine, well, he didn’t want to care. But he couldn’t just look away.

Feathershine made it as far as the door before it occurred to him: better bring his Yukon 15003 Elf-1 Generation 1 Night Vision Monocular. Its IR emitter allowed Feathershine to see for up to 30 feet in total darkness. The Pini was a gloomy place, but he was thinking about the network of tunnels below it. They say the tunnels were built by the Commando E partisans back in the ‘60s, when it looked like the Elves and the Eskimos were going to war. They’d fallen into semi-disrepair and were rarely ventured into by sensible Elves – in other words, the perfect hiding place for a killer. Feathershine didn’t know what its infrared vision would reveal, what he’d see through its 22mm objective lens. But whatever it was, it wouldn’t be as frightening as the future.

I almost bought that, Nimis- that was the nightvision monocular, right? It sounded cool, but I couldn’t justify that price.

But the product descriptions really are literature. They’re just so good!

Well, ladies and germs, the Woot-off has concluded. Now there’s some Star Wars bullshit going on. Did anyone make any purchases? I purchased this little gem. Can’t wait for it to come in the mail!

(I still don’t understand why people say ladies and germs)

THE WOOT OFF IS BACK ON, BITCHES!

GRAB YOU A ROOMBA WHILE THEY’RE HOT!

Tonedef: Uggg! My boyfriend and his roommates really wanted a Roomba, but I can’t get any of them on the phone. This is the second one today and for the first time ever, I’m worried there won’t be enough Roombas in a Woot-off!

Hahaha! There are ALWAYS enough roombas in a Woot-Off. My checker estimates that these will be around for the next 101 minutes.

But they usually get suckier as time goes by. The best Roomba pack already happened. I don’t want them to get a suck-tastic Roomba. They’d blame me!

Yeah, this is the barebones roomba model, now. Its the ugliest one. I swear, this time, I’m GOING to get a freaking keyboard!

Also, they must be behind in shipping, because I just got something I ordered from the last Woot-Off 3 days ago.

I just got the ship notice on my wine.woot gift week items from Dec 2. I think they may be busy trying to get the gift week stuff out since it was much heavier traffic than they are used to with wine.woot.

Can I just say I hate their product descriptions? Ugh. Say something useful people.

I love them! (And I appreciate that the useful stuff is at the bottom in bullets. Honestly, I’d rather read the truncated useful bits than a long, prose-style useful bits.)

I love them! If you want real info, scroll below the narrative- everything is there. If that’s not enough, the discussion behind each item is startlingly vast.

Also, I hope that other people are still following this. I’d like to make a tradition of coming here whenever there’s a Woot off.

I’m all about that tradition. I like having somewhere to discuss the Wootoff that isn’t quite as insane as the db on Woot. I love discussion boards, but “Bandoleer of Carrots! What is this carp??? OMG WOOT OFF KILLER” isn’t my idea of discussion.

Yep, that’s what I do…ignore the prose and scroll down to the bullets. As for the woot off DBs, I usually only read the first page and then get bored. Those boards go too fast and I feel a little sick thinking of all the consumerism taking place. (especially when I see people saying things like “JUST BOUGHT 10!”...i mean…wtf???? 10???)

I always think of already in debt people buying this stuff, going more in debt, not realizing that a credit card is not just a piece of plastic. Okay, i might be a tad scarred and skeptic of consumers due to my mother being a bank manager. I just hear such ridiculous stories….like the girl who is a lawyer and has a great salary but still is in debt because she refuses to shop anywhere but saks fifth avenue. sigh.

A 10 dollar tire gauge?? Come on, where are the treasures?

But gone super fast at least.

Also, I got a tired gauge for my birthday as punishment for not saying what I wanted. Seriously. I don’t own a car or bike.

Aw-right. This night vision monocular has been all over the internet lately. What’s the big deal? Why is it special?

This night vision monocular… I wanted it the last time it was on a woot-off. It’s just too pricey for what essentially is a novelty item. It’s not really good for anything I can think of. It’s just cool.

@tonedef: Congratulations. I’m now looking at all of this crap. Thankyouverymuch! :)

oh andrew, you know you want the “Wine Basics for Dummies with 4 Wine Glasses” only for 3.99$ !!!

i got 10!!!! j/k

I want a new keyboard!!!

I better nott have missed anything good while I was at my classes.

Oh, man!! I missed the Scooba! I was in a meeting. Dang. And @eambos, you’ll have to fight me for a keyboard.

Buy 3, and i’ll take one off your hands

This crappy ass hp is taking too long.

I know! You should have seen it earlier! A roomba hit the 2-hr limit and got dropped.

Now there’s some garbage Pentax camera…

Eambos, it’s like that old platitude: “the crap before the storm.” (edit for clarity: storm = bitchin’ backlit keyboards)

I hope I get some bags of crap this time. I’ve always been so curious about the craps.

why does everyone want a keyboard so bad? Or rather, what’s wrong w/ your current keyboard?

My shitty wal-mart usb keyboard has to be unplugged and plugged back in every time my computer wakes from sleep. I spilled diet coke on my flashy Apple bluetooth one.

@Eambos, the good news is that no keyboards have come up yet. So you know that “gaming keyboard” with the blue lights is just waiting to pounce. Like a lynx. A backlit lynx.

My keyboard doesn’t light up all nice and blue like my case! And it doesnt have an lcd on it…

I spent $7 and it works great for that price, but I’d like a new one – for cheap.

Man, this deal sucks! ROFLCOPTER. It’s a vacuum machine.

Edit: Whoa. Those dysons came and went.

Tonedef: There was 1 (one) Dyson.

Oh, that explains it. These wine detours really blow. Where’s the deals?

The wine detours are GREAT. They often come right when I need to go home. Speaking of… should be safe until I get there :)

Hey, eambos! A gaming mouse! My guess is that there will be one more deal after this, and then the keyboard. Let’s see.

I have a G5 mouse, so i’ll skip it. Now they have a cheap dvd player. Who needs those?

Nobody… but I can just tell… the keyboard is after these dvd players.

I’d like a bag of crap, too.

Me & eambos: keyboards and craps, keyboards and craps.

When you wish upon a star…

(bag of) crap! I have to go home now. I hope I don’t miss it…

Non-contact Handheld Infrared Thermometer?
Sometimes when we touch, the honesty’s too much.
Here, use this Non-Contact Handheld Infrared Thermometer.

Hahaha…this stuff cracks me up.

Might buy that one…

USB Powered Woot Off Light???? Now they are just getting ridiculous….

Bought a nice Saitek Eclipse for $30 at Newegg. I couldn’t wait =/

I’m still holding out, eambos… I hope it’s not in vain.

I officially declare this woot off as crap. A big, steaming pile of crap.

Goodnight, my good sirs, and good luck.

It’s a…. razor? An electric razor? Well at least I didn’t miss anything last night!

Yeah! No craps have happened yet. Also, I’m still holding out for the keyboard. All there was was a dumb HP media keyboard last night. I almost bought those Woot off USB lights, but my partner convinced me otherwise.

It was a total bust. Nothing good.

Eam! It’s not over yet! There haven’t been craps. I really want some.

And also, who can afford 300 dollar knife sets in this economy?

Ha! The longer this goes on, the more tempted I am to get the Wine.Woot.

It’s still going on?!?!

Now I’m going to miss everything at class…

Oh it is definitely still going on.

What is the sound of no one buying? Googly webcams.

I bought one of those googly webcams for my sister. They retail for a hundred bucks! This laptop bag is cute, but… I’m ready for the next thing. It’d be awesome if it had RF shielding built in. Does RF shielding block all EMR, or just radio? Hm…

How is this toy that electrocutes you not selling faster???

I’m guessing they had a billion jillion million of them. Still… the implications for russian roulette shocking drinking game were interesting…

wow. i didn’t realize it was still going on! i’ve lost faith in the woot-offs though :(. most of the things have been useless, and the useful items are all from such horrible brands that i doubt they will last.

Did anyone grab the diamond earrings? I was so surprised! What’s next? An engagement ring? Yes, I’ll marry you, Woot!

diamond earrings?? reallly? what did they look like?

They were just little studs. Which slant rhymes with “dud,” which is what this Woot Off is so far. I only bought one thing for my sister to give to her boyfriend, and she doesn’t even want it.

Okay, if there is anyone on Woot who doesn’t have a watch after this and even marginally wants one, I might die of shock.

(I won’t have one, but I don’t do watches.)

hahahha pixie! had to lurve ya for that.

Eight hundred infinity watches later, there’s… wtf was that toddler lamp person thing? And then more watches.

Seriously, who is buying all these $100 watches like candy? Don’t they know we have this here depression on?

I totally wanted that lamp for my neighbor and just missed it. I would have gotten one for ME too. I like sleeping with a nightlight on while I fall asleep. Otherwise my bad eyes make the shadows move too much and I’m always looking to see what’s there. But that one cuts out which means I wouldn’t wake up two hours later to turn the lamp off. Double nice.

Ha! If you thought the previous diamonds were small….

This is the “I’m sorry I’ve been glued to the computer for three straight days spending all our money” gift, right? It could be better.

DANG, I WANT SOME CRAP!

It seems like the servers have completely crashed.

This is hilarious. They purposefully crash their own servers.

I couldn’t get it. They crashed hard.

Dang! Zero craps for me. At least we tried.

Yep! That’s the fun :)

And that, ladies and gentlemen, was the Woot Off. I hope that everyone scored some booty. And I will see you guys here in a month or two. :D It was fun!

Now, I have to set these ninety four watches I bought.

The only booty I scored was wine. The longer the woot-off went off, the harder it was to not buy the wine they were all raving about on wine.woot. Oops!

See you guys next Woot off!

Adieu, wine wooter!

Helllllllllloooooo, Woot-Off 2009!

I just got the email, but I’ll be in a car all day!

Someone buy me some craps?

We’ll try, @Eambos. I reaaaaally wanted that solar charger that went up at 4:00 AM. And I just utterly failed in my attempt to get a usb wifi adapter, I couldn’t remember my credentials.

I’m hoping that the solar charger comes up again (at a reasonable time). What’s on y’all’s wish lists?

edit: These roombas always take forever.

It looked like they did a lot of really good stuff in the middle of the night. I can’t quite bring myself to regret going to sleep, though.

Nooooo! I tried to buy that shaver, but forgot my CV2 code for my card, and it SOLD OUT. I’m so bad at Woot, y’all guys. Be sure to document any loot you score.

I swear to god, I just saw the number of the Charade accessories INCREASE! The yellow bar grew!

It would totally believe it. Charades and a guitar! Who knew that would be the sound of a woot off dying?!

Oh thank goodness! SOLD OUT.

Haha! Why were there 1394 of them?!

I think what you really meant was, “Why did anyone buy enough to SELL 1394 of them?”

I’m convinced that people buy a lot of crap on here just to keep the woot off going. Like, 1/3 of the people bought 3!!

Don’t we have a recession/depression? Did anyone tell Woot that? Or at least the Woot-off watchers?

I take it all back! I didn’t mean anything by it! Keeping BUYING so I DON’T HAVE TO!

Um…Bacon Salt…what?

They always have it in the woot offs and—get this—it usually sells out WAY faster.

But bacon salt?? In this economy?

i failed this woot-off really horribly. i wanted 2 things, but bungled and both sold out. i’m sad. no shaver or solar charger for me.

Anyone score loot?

Not a thing…

I walked out with all my money still in my wallet. Which isn’t an awful thing.

Git yr woot on, y’all. It’s back on! Is it just me, or does it feel like there just was one?

I’m away from home all day and won’t be able to buy anything :(

It kinda feels like we just had one, but I’m pretty sure it was a few months ago.

Too bad Fluther doesn’t timestamp. I guess wisdom is timeless. :)

Also, I got this shirt.woot in the mail yesterday! It’s my second woot shirt. They have some really interesting designs.

Awww, he’s a little cutie. I love their subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) gaming shirts. There was a great Zelda one like a year ago.

I love subtle nerd gear. I also have this watch (the “Breakout” one. It looks a lot classier in person than it does in this photo, though). Happy wooting! Anything on y’alls’ wish lists? I’m looking for a nice solar charger (of course there was one in the middle of the night) and an electric shaver. Same as last time, I guess.

Possibly a solar charger. A wine.woot detour. Um… I’m not sure what else. Hopefully I know it when it goes up for half a second.