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Friday, July 13th, 2007
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3:22a - W00t!
Crap: srs bizness.
Woot.com is an online retail site with a "one day, one deal" business model. The new product goes up midnight CST, which is where Woot's headquarters are located.
Last night they offered the hallowed Bag of Crap as their item--a blind grab bag that costs one dollar, and usually does contain crap (I got a patriotic mousepad and a mini basketball in my previous crap) but very rarely has big ticket items--Roombas, Wiis, mp3 players, etc.
It was sold out within minutes, but the buy button was working for a good hour after all the product (10,000 craps) was gone, causing much disappointment when orders didn't go through. A Woot staffer posted a rundown later that day. 140,000 crap purchases were attempted, 7% succeeded! 43 latecomers got in on crap because of "technical delays"! Most of the craps were sold to West Coast people!
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I just said crap a whole lot.
Edit: Found a one person pity party. Complete with nerdy server talk and overuse of the term fanboys. Hee hee hee.
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