Crappiest crap ever received from a bag of crap (Woot).

@Thumperchick You think so? I bet I could buy all of that stuff individually for less than $10.

@cengland0 I could get a lot of things for less than they're worth. I'm not saying you got great crap. I'm just saying the value you find in crap is really subjective and that they did give you at least $10 worth of crap.

@Thumperchick I'll sell all of it to you for $10.

@cengland0 Sorry, part of the price for me is the game. I know what's in your crap, it's not worth $10 to me. That said, ipads sell like crazy, but they aren't worth their price to me. You know what I'm saying - you knew it was a crap game when you spent $10.

@Thumperchick But in reality, if they showed the stuff you would be getting prior to selling it for $10, I bet nobody would be interested in buying it. That's how extra crappy it is.

In the past, you would at least get one item, whether you needed it or not, that was worth about $30. Then you got other cheap dollar-store type of items along with it.

To show you how crappy this is, I will send it to anyone in the 48 lower states for free if you paypal me $10. Most of the stuff is going in the trash on Tuesday if nobody takes me up on this offer. I'll probably keep the cleaning foam and the rest will be tossed except for the book light that I will donate somewhere.

@cengland0 post the offer in the crap thread on woot too.

@cengland0 "In the past, you would at least get one item, whether you needed it or not, that was worth about $30." This is so thoroughly not my experience. (And granted that the first one I bought had a Roomba, much like my first fukubukuro here had an Xbox One. After that, I'm not sure the value of the half-dozen bags I've bought would total $50.)

Also, with one exception -- I was in the legendary bag where most of us got apparently used washcloths -- they were all entertaining. I just don't think the Bag has ever been a giveaway of random pricey stuff. If you really consistently got that, especially to the point where it outweighed the entertainment value, you had a good run, but maybe it's time to join the crowd.

@cengland0 Try to find it all for $5 plus $5 shipping.

@cengland0 Woot has gotten into the gimic of offering the BOC too much. In order to do that, the things inside have to become crappier otherwise they would be throwing a lot of money away.

@Thumperchick "the value you find in crap is really subjective" -- I love that line! It's absurd, yet it makes total sense.

@Thumperchick Those items combined, even to someone who was a drink cozy, book light, folder, cleaning foam, bottle stopper, and sticker enthusiast, are not worth $10.

@narfcake I know what you mean. I ordered my FUKU first and the BOC arrived first. My FUKU tracking still says, "Shipping label has been created. The status will be updated when shipment begins to travel."

@narfcake https://meh.com/forum/topics/fukubukuro-4-fukubukuro#54ca4c283cfcded8099f3d60

@narfcake Just FYI

@RedHot Thanks. Now for my meh shirts to arrive before March ...

@narfcake Don't hold your breath. We're getting close to 3 months since I ordered that Fuku #3 that a few of us still haven't received.

@Bogie I won't. Still, I'd like to believe that at the minimum, meh wants to be better than Woot. And if they make it here within the next week and a half, then meh would also beat my last took-a-long-time shirt experience; TeeTurtle was going through growing pains and site crashes were the norm.

@narfcake meh is better than woot currently, they just don't have the fulfillment infrastructure that amazon(woot) has. Shipping times were slower when woot (when it was owned by who currently owns Meh had slower shipping times too)

@Bogie People are still waiting on fuku 3s?!?!?! Does Meh know?

@HELLOALICE Yes, they know. I am hoping the longer it takes, the greater the reward. Ha! I can dream, can't I.

@Chops What is that gunk on the box and is it on the crap, too?

@Chops lotion explode?

@barnabee It was either spilled unicorn seed, or an oil candle that was shipped without a lid in a glass container, in 100+ degree weather. (ETA: Heavily scented oil candle lol)

@Chops I seem to remember that one from quite a while ago. I thought we sent you a replacement. If it's recent, Private Message me on Woot with the details. I'm Thunderthighs.

@Del But what are you going to do about the pissed off mail lady?

@Del Aha! I wondered if you had made it over here. I must remember this.

@Del Haha, hey TT. Nah, never got a replacement, thanks for the heads up though, I might take you up on that!

@Chops That is definitely one of the ugliest BOC's I have ever seen.

@barnabee Hope she doesn't know my address, I guess.

@Del Don't worry, if she's anything like my mail carrier, if she knows your address, she can't find it.

@Del Meh needs to steal you for sure. Customer service even when you are on your off time which just adds to how impressive you are.

@wisenekt On her off time, on a different website. Madness!

@Del Heya TT. You rock, btw :)

@Del I'm suprised you don't work here yet.....

@Del I have been curious about this for a while - is there a reason your username is different here?

@Thumperchick That's my Woot name & persona. Didn't seem right to use it over here. I don't want to piss in Meh's sandbox. I respect them too much for that.

@Del makes sense, I was j/c.

@Del Perhaps, but there was always a general community expectation that what one gets in a BOC would be worth at least what one paid for it, and often more. I'm no marketing guru, but "send us $10 and we'll send you $3 of garbage and maybe some stinky spilled liquid that will ruin your carpet" doesn't seem to be a long-term sustainable business plan.

@Starblind If you priced out the retail on the items, you'll find that the majority of BOCs exceed their cost. That doesn't mean that they're worth that to you, of course.

@Del I think over the years, the postings of all the good BOCs raised the expectations of what everyone should (would) be getting.

@Del true retail price that someone willingly paid or fantasy MSRP like some items that are perpetually for sale "85-90% off"?

@nadroj Most are actually near $5 at wholesale. I look at realistic prices, not MSRP. You're not gonna like everything you get. That's a given.

@narfcake There's always a few good ones and more crappy ones. We call it for what it is... crap.

@Del I guess none of you have ever gone to a casino or bought a lottery ticket? It's a game kids! You pay for the hunt, for the mystery, and for the comradery. And every once in a while, some lucky sap gets a couple thousand bottles of car wax or a XBox One or... a box of crap.

@Del I whined over on your board last week about wasting two days stalking my computer and hitting f5 (I know, a rule violation). This Monday I used my new stalking/refresh skills to score a monster hunter edition new 3DS XL for my daughter. She had been saving up and was bummed she missed the initial offer when it sold out in a day. Gamestop has been dribbling in a few more preorders on their website, and bam! I got her one. So who says Woot isn't educational?

@sammydog01 Awesome! And F5 is no violation. Heck, we sent out stickers to help brace up those poor F5 keys.

@Del Actually I meant a violation of the Holy Crap Commandments :)

@Del we love ThunderThighs.. you are awesome.

@Thumperchick I changed my name too. New place, new start!

@smilingjack Now I'm trying to figure out which wooter you are!

@Thumperchick I know.

@pooflady You gonna share it with me?

@Thumperchick dontwantaname, but you figured it out

@Starblind I don't visit every day like I used to. I subscribe to their email newsletter to see what Monty and Mortimer are up to. They show you some of the products for sale on the site and if I'm curious, I might click on one of the links from the email.

According to wootstalker, there are 1,453 active items on Woot right now. There is no way I'm going to look through that many items every day.

@Starblind We did not lower quality. We work to get an assortment of weird and crappy stuff.

@Starblind Yeah, the quality isn't any lower. I know, because I got the exact same crappy stuff in this $10 BOC as my last 4 other $8 BOC's (with exception to the cool custom one TT sent me). That being said, I've gotten more cool BOC's than I have crappy BOC's, just not lately.

I think lately, rather than spreading single cool items out into multiple BOC's, they are making single BOC's with an abundance of cool stuff.

Sometimes, if you are lucky, Wootbot and/or their assistant will randomly mail you rubber chickens or other fantastic stuff. That, imo, is far better than scoring a better than average crap.

@cengland0 I do the same thing - check in on the monkeys, and casually glance at what's for sale. Fortunately, the wine selection is nearly always the main feature of the email (presumably because I've only ever bought wine).

@lichme yeah I was kind of hoping after 9 years and 230 woots I might get some cool stuff sent to me every once in a while from the woot gods... but nope, so far I've gotten more cool/free stuff from Meh than I ever did from woot, lol

@sushiboy Looks like yours is extra crappy too. I thought since the bag, file folders, and F5 sticker was created specifically for BOC, everyone was going to get those in the bare minimum. I'm actually surprised you didn't get those.

@cengland0 I've gotten some useful items before but now it seems that quality of crap is really really crappy. I'm getting stupid beer coozies, random office supplies and shit.

@sushiboy Well, crap. Which was advertised.

@editorkid Yes, I know it's advertised as crap and if they continue to actually give us crap at $10, then I'm not going to participate anymore. I hate getting useless items that can't even be donated or given away.

@sushiboy it sounds like BOC follow the same trend as Hobbit movies..

@cengland0 File folders are pretty common, I have seen them at Target and Walmart. Here they are on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Knock-Total-Crap-File-Folders/dp/B004Z6ZCYO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422569666&sr=8-1&keywords=crap+folder

@clonetek So they gave me left-over wedding favors from some random people? Unbelievable. Thanks for finding that by the way.

@cengland0 That's actually pretty funny. Laugh a little.

@cengland0 looks that way lol

@cengland0 Be sure to sign their guestbook thanking them for the coozie! http://www.theknot.com/wedding/Kealy-Chitwood/view/4042202129770261/42866449

@clonetek Any idea if the wedding went through? If not, maybe they were able to get a couple of bucks from Woot for their party favors.

@wisenekt If it didn't that would be heartbreaking. they should be "newlyweds for 138 days".

@clonetek Random wedding favors from someones wedding? Okay, that's freaking hilarious. That's good BoC fodder.

@Pavlov I saw a stack of Fact or Crap 2015 calendars on sale at B&N last week and had flashbacks to calendar crap.

@Pavlov I received some 2011 refrigerator magnet calendars and a 2011 desk calendar book. Another in a long string of disappointing bags of crap. I never seem to get anything good like some people post but I suppose I may be in the majority. I just don't know what I did to piss off @thunderthighs.

@Thumperchick Ordered.

@Del (*´>д<)

@ACraigL Congratulations. Looks like you scored a nice BOC.

@capguncowboy I agree with this exactly. The folders, the bag, and the F5 sticker were all obviously created specifically to offer in a BOC.

I believe the original concept of the BOC was to get rid of crap Woot didn't sell out of and to clean up the warehouse like you said. Today, it looks like the BOC is a profit generator for them.

@capguncowboy Agree. Years and years ago, BOCs had broken cables or cables that went with nothing, odd pieces of wire. As you said, off the warehouse floor or if someone was cleaning out their desk. I had BOCs that were nearly worthless seven or eight years ago. This is nothing new. Why would you expect more? It's great if you get it (I got a Robosapien in my first one), but don't complain it you get what they're advertising.

@tmwest87 I know. That's the silliest thing ever isn't it. The light coming from the monitor is usually enough illumination to see the keys in the dark.

Also, if you really did need a light for your keyboard, attaching this device to it as shown in the picture would make the laptop uneven on a table by adding an extra 3/4 inch of bulk underneath on that side.

@tmwest87 You are too young. Lights for laptops made sense for laptops made late last century.

@hamjudo …assuming you don't know how to type? Or do you mean something like, say, my beloved Cambridge Z88?

@tmwest87 Can I be that guy? If I'm working in anything that isn't full light, I turn my screen down. And a lot of times I have some reference stuff scattered around. In one of my earlier Bags of Crap I got a couple of small gooseneck USB LED lamps and when all that happens, they're worth every penny I paid.

@brhfl Last century goes up to the year 2000. That includes laptops with a 386, 486, and many Pentiums. You need an external light to put the floppy or CDrom in right side up, or to work one of the many obscure switches along the outside edge of the laptop. On some laptops it was easy to find the phone jack for the modem in the dark, but on most of them it was one of many little connectors on the back. Quite a pain to operate in the dark.

I will admit, that this applies to any laptop with switches and connectors around the outside edge of the laptop, but only if you need to use them. Modern laptops rarely have physical brightness and volume controls in weird spots. And how often do you plug things into your laptop these days?

And yes, I only knew how to type on a few keyboards back then in the dark. I could do the alphabet in the dark, but laptops were notorious for moving around function keys and things like "Del" and "Page up".

@hamjudo Yeah, I do understand how centuries work. The only differences I could possibly fathom between Ye Olde Laptoppes and todays are the proliferation of backlit keys, and the ubiquity of backlit displays. I've never owned a laptop with backlit keys, and aside from the laptops I've owned without backlit displays, I've never had any issue using them throughout the night with no other light source. Thus, my curiosity.

@dashcloud I think @Del was sent to get top secret information. Like who the next scapegoat is going to be.

@TheCO2 You bring up an interesting point- is @Del eligible for Scapegoat of the Month, and would she accept the position if "elected"?

@dashcloud We could blame all of our Woot problems on @Del, if she was. Wait; everyone already does.

@naropa Hey, if you want a second set, I'll sell you mine for $10.

@hems79 Ditto, though I'll get around to posting it. Only thing I got of any value was the stupid speakers.

@mikey I got one of the disposable underwear too. Really thinking about putting them on, taking a picture of my ass and sending it to them. Your box is literally ten times better than mine. I'd have been happy with the multi-tool at least.

@Cinoclav I'd say you should definitely send it, but they'd probably just post it all over the forums with your name attached. And the multi-tool is yours next time there's a fukubukuro if you also agree to take the Hershey's candle. It smells like sweaty death.

@mikey Just wait until you light it. It'll smell like really hot sweaty death.

@mikey @Cinoclav If I got that multi-tool, I wouldn't be as disappointed. At least that item seems useful. The cleaner is useful too but I use pre-moistened Zeis lens cleaners for my electronics.

@mikey Why in the world would anyone make disposable underwear? This is far too intriguing for me…

If I need emergency underwear, I need better coverage. Otherwise why not go commando?

@mehmeyousweet http://www.amazon.com/THUMBS-UP-USB-Humping-Beagle/dp/B000LA8ZBA

@HELLOALICE Maybe everyone misread it, and was expecting a bag of carp?

@HELLOALICE The point is, as a whole they've become really, really, really bad. It's very few and far between anymore that have something worthwhile. It used to be like the Fukus have been, where you'd typically get one decent item. Hell, my very first BoC ever I received a pretty nice Sansa. I'm far from having bought the most of them here but after 16 of them I can guarantee you that the overall quality has just gone screaming downhill.

@Cinoclav They haven't become really, really, really bad. They are crap. In the past they were sometimes not crap. They have never pretended to be anything but crap. That the quality has, according to you, gone downhill, doesn't change that it is, was, and always will be advertised as crap. That it exceeded expectations in the past doesn't change that it's supposed to be crap.

@Cinoclav After 16 of anything it isn't the same. Remember how that first beer was OH MY FREAKING GOD THIS IS BEER and you probably weren't even all the way through the next sixer when you thought "Nah, I'll save it for later." Compare your first visit to RedTube to... do you even remember your 16th trip to RedTube? Was the 16th time you saw your favorite band as great as the first?

@Cinoclav I'm not sure exactly how many I got but it's probably around 15 BOC's and I can also confirm that the last two were super crappy compared to what they were before. I used to enjoy donating most of the crap that I didn't need and this time most of it is going in the trash instead.

@cengland0 @Cinoclav I mean, you both know that both of you are coming across as "I know there have been people trying for Bags since 2005 who haven't gotten one, and as far as I'm concerned they can have them, because my 16th one didn't have anything expensive," right?

@editorkid @HELLOALICE Neither of you are really getting what @cengland0 and I are saying about these. Do we expect crap? Yes. But part of the charm of the BoC was that the warehouse staff would throw random items in the box, be it something of value or a bunch of cables to a Kodak camera that no one has owned in 10 years. Recently the boxes have simply contained contrived shit bought specifically to fill these boxes. This isn't what the BoC was based on and isn't what we (and basically every other woot user who has been around for at least 5 years) are used to seeing. Maybe if they announced they were going to fill the boxes with these type of items, along with raising the price of them, it would at least have set the expectations. When even the namesake item (the BAG) has gone from an actual decent bag to the shitty paper one, it's time to give up on the BoC for good, which I have.

@editorkid No, that's not what I am saying. Why do you think the BOC is highly sought after? Because you get $10 worth of crap for $10? No. Because you typically get stuff that gives you a good value for your $10. Sure you may not need it but you can usually find someone that does and the value is always worth more than you paid.

My comment now is about how they have changed after all these years and that it is no longer worth what you pay for.

All those people that have been trying to get it since 2005 are lucky because they will have one less person (me) trying to get one. That gives them a better chance next time it is offered.

@editorkid @HELLOALICE Just to give you an idea of what the BoC used to be and why so many people are so pissed off about them, here's an old picture of one I had received. (Apologies for the darkness and to note, my now passed kitty did not come in the box though that would have made it the best damn box in the world.) You'll notice, the other items besides the Sansa are not necessarily great items (that's 2 High School Musical alarm clocks on the left) but at least they're not a mini pad of paper with 15 sheets in it.

@Cinoclav @cengland0 No, I do get it -- I've been buying them since '08 myself, and got the same alarm clocks as you, @Cinoclav. And in your protests you both pretty much repeated what I said, the same but different. Plus neither of your bags this round can compete with my shitty bag from a while back, which had the question mark bag, the apparently used washcloth, and two half-inch cupcake refrigerator magnets, and nothing more. And I still try, because crap, and Crap. I'm just not feeling the empathy here.
One of the best Bags I got had nothing but stuff that looked like it had been bought for the bag -- a couple of action figures, a bottle opener, a couple of toys including a helicopter but not RC or battery operated, just a little toy helicopter. Its propellers spun if you flicked them with your finger and making helicopter noises was optional. It was awesome. It would have pissed you guys off something fierce, it sounds like. * shrug *

@editorkid @Cinoclav @cengland0 @HELLOALICE I agree with every word each one of you has said so you all get stars. I've been a woot member since 2005. It's only been within the last couple years that I've managed to get ANY BOCs. I was thrilled to get them. I wasn't expecting anything, but was happy to have 'won'. As the bags have become more standard and less random (in a sense) and it's become more tedious to get them, I'm less inclined to try. So yes, BOCs are crappy, they've always been crappy, and now, they're crappier.

@cengland0 @Cinoclav Y'all still ain't pickin' up what I'm putting down.
The bags are crap. You're disappointed in them. The "fun, random" stuff from the warehouse isn't crap, obviously. You enjoyed it. You're disappointed, now, because after buying these BOCs for years, they are no longer far-exceeding their claims. They're meeting them. It's not that they are now disappointing, it's that you're now putting unreasonable expectations on them.
They're crap. They're supposed to be crap. Don't be mad because it wasn't crap in the past, because it was always supposed to be crap.

@Cinoclav I've bought four BOCs. Two were awesome. Two were crap. I didn't let the two awesome ones make the crappy ones disappointing because I was literally buying crap. That's the point. It's a gamble. When you reach the point where you expect not-crap, you're no longer understanding the BOC.

It's not--and never was--Bag of Cool Stuff Although Some People Might Receive Sort of Crap. You've been lucky all these times. Now you're getting crap. Keep gambling or don't, but don't say you were expecting to win the lottery when you buy a lottery ticket.

@PurplePawprints @editorkid @Cinoclav @cengland0 @HELLOALICE Who didn't love those crappy High School clocks? A lot of us transformed them.

@Teripie Love the clock. I wish I had one of those :)

@carl669 Should I ask them if they recognize it?

@carl669 And maybe @cengland0 could send it to them.

@carl669 I was going to post that earlier, but I think that's the groom dancing with his mother.

@carl669 Yup, that's probably them because the name and date on the Facebook page matches the koozie. Makes me curious how Woot/Amazon ended up with them.

@StrangerDanger The one I received was acquired during a Woot-off. When a product sold out on the main page, they would offer a very small quantity of BOC's before the next product appeared. If you were quick enough and kept trying, you could score one.

@Jocosity I'm not complaining -- just disappointed. I've purchased a lot from Woot and am just a few purchases away from a black square (I already have the black triangle). I have purchased a lot of BOC's in the past and am merely trying to explain to the readers of this thread that, in my opinion, the contents of the BOC has become extra crappy compared to what they used to be.

Even if the products were worth $10 retail, I would rather have my $10 back so I can buy something that I would find more useful. That was not a problem in the past because I have always received merchandise valued in excess of what I paid.

Let me put it this way. If I told you that I will send you $10 worth of random merchandise for $10, would you buy it? I doubt most people would. They buy with the expectations that at least one of those products would be worth more than $10.

@TerriblyHuang Couldn't you just as easily ask why people get so offensive when their bags of crap actually end up being crappy?

@thismyusername Is the 4s case the one that has the battery in it? I got one a while back in a boc and could use another.

@speediedelivery naw it's just a shell one... called "metallic" but its not, its just black ;)

Boo. Worth a shot.

@speediedelivery I got a BuiltNY iPhone 4s case for sale, cheap

@Pamtha Those Built NY ones are rare and too expensive for me.

@iluvmingos I dunno I was really wanting that poo dough...

@thismyusername 'Make your own poo!' makes me laugh a little too hard, not going to lie…

@Trin I bought a few shirts after that, but even that died out because of the mutant blanks.

I got suckered in that School Crate fiasco also. I did wind up using my coupon to buy a couple random shirt bundles, but of the six shirts I received, five were "seconds" with production defects. All in for $40 on that mess and got about $10 value. No, thank you.

@ruouttaurmind Random doesn't mean defects; did you email customer (dis)service about this?

@narfcake I did not. Still stinging from the poor way in which CS handled the coupon fiasco I simply chalked it up to "lesson learned". Particulary after reading several threads regarding the (poor) quality of Woot shirts I chose this as the least frustrating path.

@Mehrocco_Mole You can only blame the scapegoat for what meh does. Woot's stuff isn't on our scapegoat, even if it is @joelmw ;)

@Mehrocco_Mole @Thumperchick The Lytro @editorkid just talked me into buying is only my fourth purchase in 4.5 years at Woot. Two of those purchases were a gift t-shirt for my wife-to-be and a gift hoodie for my kid. I've bought more than that from meh in a month (probably in a week). All of which is to say that I'd be an even shittier Woot goat than I am a meh goat. I'm not the goat you're looking for.

@Mehrocco_Mole @Thumperchick Oh, and I've had three fukus and never ever tried for a BOC. It's just too complicated over there. I'm a simple man. I need things to be easy.

@Mehrocco_Mole Unfortunately, the new Holy Crap Commandments V.5 have removed the Bag from what thou shalt expect:
II. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond THREE crappy items of some kind.

@curtise I didn't even notice the change in commandments. When ordering, you have to be quick so reading the fine print is not an option before placing an order.

@Mehrocco_Mole I'm a huge fan of whining about how shitty a BOC is, but not in the context of "Woot has gone downhill, this isn't what a BOC is supposed to be."

@darksaber99999 3 Boc's 1 Fuku( another in 3 days yet to be seen ) I would rank it boc boc fuku boc in terms of awesomeness and value so far. It wouldn't take much to dethrone the top 2 bocs but straw glasses and stickers won't do it.

@okaytodd The other day they litterally had 10 BOC's between each item during the wootoff.

@thismyusername And they were impossible to get. I tried for about a dozen of them and got so frustrated that I reminded myself I didn't really want one anyway. Then I tried for a few more.

@cengland0 That bag is awesome.

@DaveInSoCal I know. It's much better than the paper bag with a questionmark printed on it from Woot.

@mdrcoast It's all about your commitment to getting one. I'm on the east coast and I am up at midnight to see what is being offered for the next day and I start my work day at 4:00 am. I had to change my sleep schedule a little to accommodate my wish to get a FUKU.

I doubt I will ever be able to purchase a Bag of Crap as the time they come up, ten at a time, time consuming contests, account randomly logged-out if I get one in my cart, whatever. (I am at work 9:00 - 18:00 CST as I have to pay bills) so congrats to those who can score them.

@nadroj The way things are going, it's not so much a congratulations but a consolation that's needed.

@BillLehecka Nice, I caved earlier and scored one myself. It was surprisingly easy.

@BillLehecka Was that you???? It was in my cart then POOF vanished before I could even click checkout. (I've been that close 3 times between yesterday and today.) ... and you are not weak, you know one day you will get a pallet of pallets... going for the big score ;)

@BillLehecka now they are totally messing with me... last boc i clicked it to add it and got this:

@BillLehecka you're not weak. You're a sucker for randomness. I mean how many built ny sleeves did you get? I ended up buying one from woot and one from that other site someone posted. I expect it is all crap. I find meh has a much higher quality in their fukubukuros than the box and other random things.

@thismyusername that is one of the ones that you can try to buy on the iPhone app and for some reason when the site has issues it seems to work on the iPhone.

@sohmageek weird.. thanks for the info... it seems to have raised some eyebrows with other wooters http://www.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=6169336

@BillLehecka @studerc I remain strong. Not only did I barely even check the woot-off, I made not one attempt to obtain said Bag of (steaming pile of) Crap. All I could think while it was running was, "Fuck 'em."

@Cinoclav They just sent a nice form letter to me, though... "Hi there OldMatador, Congratulations on your recent Bag o' Crap purchase from the Woot-Off. Half the fun of receiving a BOC is gloating about it in the forums (we're still trying to figure out the other half), so here's the link to this BOC's forum thread in case you lose it: http://ow.ly/J0BSh Go ahead and post your pictures, unboxing videos, rants, and whatever else you feel like sharing. Or don't. Congrats again on joining the hallowed ranks of Crappists. - Woot "

@BillLehecka Me too.

@BillLehecka I got one in the Moonage Crapdream sale. Should be more entertaining than the Powerball tickets I bought this week, at least.

@pooflady As stated previously, it was exactly that crazy randomness that made them so much fun. Now it's utter junk that is actually purchased specifically AS cheap junk to put in the boxes. I would always prefer a pile of completely useless yet oddly mysterious stuff to the routine can koozie, notepad, and paper bag.

@Cinoclav While I agree with this sentiment, I did receive an awesome bag last year that included a pogo stick and a train set.... Right around the time this site started. So there is still hope.

@BillLehecka Yeah, you might get lucky. For me, it's not worth the $10 anymore to have that hope. I would honestly rather give $10 to a homeless person.

@Cinoclav But they're just going to waste their money on hooch. Part of the game is the mystery. I've gotten shitty BOCs and I've gotten great ones. It's just like buying a 10 dollar lotto ticket, except you're guaranteed to get that value back. While you might not think that recent BoC was worth anything.... wait, yeah, it was kind of shitty. A nice ZONK, if you will.

@BillLehecka Hooch is never a waste of money.

@BillLehecka No, they're not all going to drink away that money. I've given homeless people money and watched them go buy food. My gf and I have gone into a convenience store (Wawa ftw!) and bought $10 gift cards and given them to homeless people so they can get something to eat. Not every homeless person is a drug addled alcoholic.

@Cinoclav I'm sorry, I didn't add the sarcasm alert and/or emoticon signifying humor (AKA :) ) to my post. I wasn't being serious. Do whatever you want. I've had homeless guys come up to me in NYC and talk 2 inches away from my face... Not pleasant.

@BillLehecka Well, now you can give them a few dozen Built NY cases to sell to tourists.

@Cinoclav I've seen a lot of people say, "Hey, they called it crap, you bought crap, you got crap. What's the beef?" The beef is this is RANDOM crap. There is nothing random about the BOC anymore. Everyone gets the same thing. And I greatly doubt they payed for these misprinted pieces of junk (it would be an insult to crap to call it crap) but got them by having their employees dumpster-dive in the neighbors dumpsters.

@Teripie Sometimes they will add a letter - Thunderthighs stated how the letters are picked. When she is told how many letters, she will randomly grab the number out of the stack of shipping labels and add the letters into the boxes from "wootbot". She said she will not ship the "third item" until someone post their original BOC with the pic of the letter. So, yes, they still do letters. Someone received a Pallet of Crap and they still pick on @lichme. As a matter of fact, he just got a glitterbomb to go with the pallet of zipties from last year.

@Teripie Yes, there's a reveal thread. They send an email 'congratulating you' on your purchase with a link where to discuss it. I'm sure they would prefer I not share my opinions... Apparently they're still sending letters but I haven't seen what anyone has received.

@trlenoir OMG I just listened to that recording about them shipping @lichme 800+ pounds of zipties. That is freaking hilarious.

@studerc That's beyond crappytown and into shittyville. What exactly is the Other Worlds thing?

@dashcloud it's some random shirt.woot comic book thing. Ive got two already from the shirt.woot boc months ago.

@studerc I get mine tomorrow. It weighs in at 14 pounds. Looking at that thread, it looks to be the heaviest one they sent out.

@BillLehecka mine was less than 1 pound. Fucking bastards.

@studerc I'm sad to see mine was better. I got: 1 Terrible retro cell phone handset 1 dead format invader zim memory card 1 "joke" underwear 1 horrible smelling chocolate candle 2 misprint planners 2 misprint cds 1 misprint luggage tag 1 OMFG status symbol bag.

@studerc No complaints with mine.

I'd call it equivalent to at least one of the fukubukuros I've gotten.

FOR THOSE FOLLOWING ALONG: Emailed Customer Service...I got a canned response with the crap commandments. According to them, it counts because it's three items and a bag. Even second chances are fucked up with Woot.

@studerc I agree that the contents suck but it is exactly what they said it was. It is crap.

@conandlibrarian Hey man, i do understand it. At the same time however there is an unwritten rule that youll at least get your moneys worth in the BOC. I didnt even get that. Retail cost was probably about $2. I shouldnt complain so much but it really is a ridculously terrible BOC. One of the worst ive ever seen without CS stepping in to remedy the situation.

@studerc I've never seen that rule.

@editorkid because its unwritten haha.

@studerc I agree with you. It was always understood that something in the bag was worth it. HDMI cables, MP3 player, a t-shirt, or something that was at one time or another offered up on Woot. This is not the case anymore. You see one bag you've pretty much seen them all. If you see a 14 pounder described its nothing but a lot of the same trash. There is no more randomness. There are no more surprises. The magic is gone.

@BillLehecka Congrats man, it's good to see some quality stuff still out there.

I love purple.

@juststephen Yup, I'm jumping back on this bandwagon. One can hope things will get better, but one should expect that they won't.

@studerc I always wished I would've gotten a bag of crap, but it's probably better I never did because I don't have fond memories of the good crap times then.