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[Woot off...on] My poor wallet

cyphrcyphr Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Games and Technology
So you guys should probably know what this is by now, but if you don't, I've gone to the trouble of copying and pasting for you:
Woot wrote:
I see some orange flashing lights on the main page – what do they mean?
No, you aren't seeing a side effect from your allergy medication. You have found a Woot-Off, a short term frenzied mutation of our product posting procedure. In Woot-Off mode, a new product is launched immediately after the sellout of the previous deal. There is a half-Woot-life of 12 hours maximum on any product within a Woot-Off that does not sell out. The number of Woot-Off items, sequence, and quantity will not be announced. When Woot-Off mode is over, the orange lights will disappear and our normal schedule will resume. Depending on its success, this may be a mode we would go into once or twice a month for a relatively short duration of time (24-72 hours generally.)

And here's a link!

ITT: Talk about spending money you don't have

or alternatively

Convince people to buy the goddamn Roomba (you'll need 3!)
Also, today's shirt.woot is fantastic

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    oh no not a woot off

    Woot just made me spend $100 on that 500g seagate hdd (it was $50), plus an external enclosure and another external enclosure for a drive I had sitting around (another $45 including shipping). Plus it's a great game week and I'm missing hours.

    Damn you, woot!

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  • BubbaTBubbaT Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    wtf they started off with Elvis?

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm still hoping that buttkicker gamer shows up again. Now its a 30 piece roadside kit.

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  • LockeColeLockeCole Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The roadside kit is pretty cool for 13 bucks, but not really worth it unless you don't have jumpers already for some unknown reason.

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I know I'm echoing about a million people, but who ever is writing their product descriptions needs to have his pay tripled.

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Recertified hard disk? no thanks.

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    FUCK YOU WOOT

    I just bought a 500gb hdd for $50. Now there's a 750 for $70?

    fuck you.

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  • iusehappymodiusehappymod Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Viscountalpha wrote: »
    Recertified hard disk? no thanks.
    woot.com wrote:
    Say you’re the kind of soulless skeptic who can’t be convinced there’s anything good in the cold, cruel universe. So use this drive to back up your music or something. Then you only need it to fire up twice: Once when you load the files onto it, and once when you take it out of its fireproof safe inside your extra-large safe-deposit box at the bank to recover the files.

    Boy, you really do have serious trust issues, don’t you?

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    iusehappymod wrote: »
    Viscountalpha wrote: »
    Recertified hard disk? no thanks.
    woot.com wrote:
    Say you’re the kind of soulless skeptic who can’t be convinced there’s anything good in the cold, cruel universe. So use this drive to back up your music or something. Then you only need it to fire up twice: Once when you load the files onto it, and once when you take it out of its fireproof safe inside your extra-large safe-deposit box at the bank to recover the files.

    Boy, you really do have serious trust issues, don’t you?

    Yep. I don't screw around with my magnetic media. Why buy something sub-par when for 20-30$ you get a 3 to 5 year warranty ?

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  • BubbaTBubbaT Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Some nice (not mine) hauls from previous Boxes of Cabbage
    Woot_BOC2.jpg

    2635052266_6cb3460e92.jpg

    DSC_3228.jpg

    1001791kg0.jpg


    and the not-so-awesome
    DSC_0009.jpg

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  • METAzraeLMETAzraeL Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    oh god, I need a new hd, but I really shouldn't spend the money...

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  • BursarBursar Hee Noooo! PDX areaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Damn it, Woot, nobody wants your power inverter. Get off the stage!

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    that tv went fast.

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  • RancedRanced Default Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    What kind of tv was up?

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  • Dr Mario KartDr Mario Kart Games Dealer Austin, TXRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm buying 3 leakfrogs the moment I see them. A necessity for homeowners.

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  • wasted pixelswasted pixels Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Maybe there will be a Zune. And if there is, maybe I will buy one.

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    All I need is an SD card reader, and those wireless Senheiser A/V headphones they have every damn woot-off.

    C'moooon woot!

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  • UEAKCrashUEAKCrash heh Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Must.

    Resist.

    Keyboard.

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Lookit that ridiculous keyboard. I must have it.

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  • psyck0psyck0 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    WHY DON'T THEY SHIP TO CANADA???

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  • cyphrcyphr Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    This product blurb deserves to be recorded for posterity:
    Awesome Woot writers wrote:
    Data Rollin’ Stone

    A Kingston 8GB Data Traveler took a wrong turn somewhere and got lost out in the country. Finally, after several exhausting hours of trying to find its way back to the main road, it stopped at a farmhouse. A grizzled old farmer answered.

    “Excuse me, sir,” said the Kingston 8GB Data Traveler. “I’m lost and very tired. Might you have a place where I can sleep for the night? I’m very compact, so I won’t take up much room.”

    “Sure, stranger,” the farmer answered. “as long as you don’t mind sleeping in my 19-year-old daughter’s room.”

    The Kingston 8GB Data Traveler happily agreed.

    The next morning at breakfast, the farmer said, “Hope you got a good night’s sleep last night. Good thing my daughter’s away at college, or you wouldn’t have been able to sleep in her room.”

    The Kingston 8GB Data Traveler replied, “It wouldn’t have mattered. As an inanimate object, I’m not capable of feeling carnal desires anyway.”

    The farmer answered, “Yeah, I guess that’s true. Say, are you USB 2.0 compatible?”

    “Sure am,” the Kingston 8GB Data Traveler answered. “Thanks for the bed, and for breakfast.”

    “OK, then,” the farmer said.

    Two hours later, the punchline showed up, gasping out an excuse about a late train. But by then the Kingston 8GB Data Traveler had moved on.

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh, a woot-off? Count me in.

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  • ChronicChronic Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Work productivity slipping away as I constantly glance at my woot tracker waiting for the next item...

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Is that TV any good?

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  • SceptreSceptre Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I've heard it's the best tv of all time ever.

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  • BubbaTBubbaT Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    You can get a new 22" LCD monitor for less, so unless you need the built-in tuners...


    edit: err, I mean you should buy 3

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Man, the only fun I get to have during woot-offs is watching people in this thread scream at other people to buy some useless item or other.

    When I grow up, I'm going to open a UK arm of Woot. And it shall be glorious.

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  • EvanderEvander Disappointed Father Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    man, that tablet looks awesome, but the processor just sounds too slow

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  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm so glad I bought a 30gb Zune for cheaper than that 8gb nano. Thanks woot! Also, no thanks woot!

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    That reminds me: If zune shows up, buy.

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  • SorensonSorenson Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Aw, man, a Dazzle. On one hand, those fuckers usually go for three-four times this amount. On the other, I've heard their Vista compatability is shit...

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  • BubbaTBubbaT Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    That thing really costs $80? It doesn't even have component-in.

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  • JerikTelorianJerikTelorian Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Dehumanized wrote: »
    That reminds me: If zune shows up, buy.

    Same for hard disks.

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    Shade wrote: »
    EtherealWalrus wrote: »
    Anyone notice how some things (mattresses and the copy machines in Highrise) are totally impenetrable? A steel wall, yeah that makes sense, but bullets should obliterate copy machines.

    I don't know about you, but I always buy a bullet proof printer. Its a lot more expensive, but I think the advantages are apparent.
  • PjstelfordPjstelford Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Someone is finally buying up the Dazzles.

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  • JerikTelorianJerikTelorian Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The MicroSD is a great deal, if I had a reason to own one or more.

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    Shade wrote: »
    EtherealWalrus wrote: »
    Anyone notice how some things (mattresses and the copy machines in Highrise) are totally impenetrable? A steel wall, yeah that makes sense, but bullets should obliterate copy machines.

    I don't know about you, but I always buy a bullet proof printer. Its a lot more expensive, but I think the advantages are apparent.
  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I could use a Ti-89. I totally fell asleep in class and woke up leaving my TI-83 Plus.

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  • JerikTelorianJerikTelorian Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Cantido wrote: »
    I could use a Ti-89. I totally fell asleep in class and woke up leaving my TI-83 Plus.

    The headset sold out hella fast.
    EDIT: Quite the TV, now.
    EDIT2: I assume you were saying that a TI89 was up. This was not the case.

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    Shade wrote: »
    EtherealWalrus wrote: »
    Anyone notice how some things (mattresses and the copy machines in Highrise) are totally impenetrable? A steel wall, yeah that makes sense, but bullets should obliterate copy machines.

    I don't know about you, but I always buy a bullet proof printer. Its a lot more expensive, but I think the advantages are apparent.
  • Shady3011Shady3011 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh goodness, I'm glad the TV sold out before I tried to checkout.

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  • TrevorTrevor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Sometimes I'm glad I don't have the reflexes needed to buy things, because I know my wallet doesn't need that.

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  • PjstelfordPjstelford Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I love that they had one TiVo.

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