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I've been doing this woot stuff since u guys were just nut stains in your mommas panties. I dunno about ya'll but its impossible to get the Bag o' Crap. i tried the last 3 times and "server busy " all the time. It sux. my connection at work is slow.Last time they gave away a bunch of roombas. and a couple of wii's. Good luck on gettin that and that printer is almost done with now.
 
wtf is that crap? they've had a robotic vacuum cleaner 3 times in the past what, month mebbe?

time to run out and take care of errands, that's another item that'll be there for a while...
 
Originally posted by: briin79
I've been doing this woot stuff since u guys were just nut stains in your mommas panties. I dunno about ya'll but its impossible to get the Bag o' Crap. i tried the last 3 times and "server busy " all the time. It sux. my connection at work is slow.Last time they gave away a bunch of roombas. and a couple of wii's. Good luck on gettin that and that printer is almost done with now.
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I'm not going to bother trying to get one of those the Bags Of Crap anymore. From what I can figure, the odds go something like this:

About 500,000 people try to get the BOC.
4,500 people actually GET the BOC. That's less than 1%, with everyone else getting a "Server Too Busy" error message.
About 10 people actually get something valuable in their BOC. That's less than .25% of all the people who get a BOC.

In order words, it's in 1 in 50,000 odds of getting something good when you try to get a Bag Of Crap. With odds like that, you're better off buying $8 worth of lottery tickets.
 
wine... argh! i live in the nazi state of pa, i have seen item after item pass me by on wine.woot that i would purchase if only i could have it shipped... and now woot itself mocks me :|
 
Originally posted by: briin79
I've been doing this woot stuff since u guys were just nut stains in your mommas panties. I dunno about ya'll but its impossible to get the Bag o' Crap. i tried the last 3 times and "server busy " all the time. It sux. my connection at work is slow.Last time they gave away a bunch of roombas. and a couple of wii's. Good luck on gettin that and that printer is almost done with now.
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Thanks for phrasing it so eloquently . . .

As far as the BoC, I have a suggestion for you. If you're using firefox, type in about:config. When the options come up, search for 'pipe'. You should have three options:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
network.http.proxy.pipelining

Set 1 and 3 to true by double clicking on them and set max request to 16. It should help you get a response back faster. I set this on mine and it made a noticeable difference during wootoffs (I've managed to get the BoC personally). From what I hear it can make other sites load screwy, but you can turn it off later.
 
tripod did go fast... surprising i would think the $10 shipped sudoku game would go pretty quick too seems like a decent stocking stuffer if i knew anybody who did it.
 
i am trying to buy the sudoko as a xmas gift for my sister but i cant even get the page to load so i can buy it.

nm - shipping is $5 and retail is $10 so not a good deal
 
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