Who broke the Woot-Off??

IndifferentDude had a quick thing to say said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 1:20pm ET

Was trying to snag a coveted Bag-'O-Crap today and now the Woot! site has crashed and they are now offering just 1 item for the remainder of the day!! I demand a refund for my time wasted hitting F5 over and over! Do we get a do-over tomorrow??

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tinamarie1974 said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 1:48pm ET:

Likely those damn monkeys!!!

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tinamarie1974 said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 1:49pm ET:

Also they have a fake woot-off link where you can just buy the items with no need to continue to F5

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- @tinamarie1974 Except for crap. I GOT CRAP.
  
  sammydog01 said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 2:50pm ET
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- @sammydog01 lucky dog! I got nuttin!!
  
  tinamarie1974 said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 3:21pm ET
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- @tinamarie1974 You just have to sit there and refresh the screen over and over and over and over…
  I miss the old days before the stupid app.
  
  sammydog01 said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 3:49pm ET
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- @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 That sounds extra-annoying, glad I got last Friday’s unexpected app crap (but congratulations to you!). Just curious–when you reload, does it show up at the top or the bottom of current sales? I’m envisioning refreshing and then having to scroll to the middle of page.
  
  mossygreen said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 4:00pm ET
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- @mossygreen @tinamarie1974 It appeared just before the sold out items. You should be able to sit there and refresh on a computer screen. The app makes it hard.
  
  You call it extra annoying but I call it the only way I can get crap when it’s not the middle of the night.
  
  sammydog01 said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 4:05pm ET
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- @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 I’ve heard it can be two things.
  /youtube simpsons it can be two things
  
  mossygreen said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 4:11pm ET
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- @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 Oh, that’s not right.
  
  mossygreen said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 4:11pm ET
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- @sammydog01 @tinamarie1974. I scored crap too!!
  
  cbilyak said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 11:32pm ET
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- @cbilyak @tinamarie1974
  /giphy woo!
  
  sammydog01 said Wed, Jan 20th 2021 at 12:11am ET
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bobby555 said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 2:37pm ET:

It was me! Baawahaa

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IndifferentDude said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 3:31pm ET:

Well now!! Guess the original Woot-off breaking wasn’t so bad after all. I just scored my 1st Crap in 6 months!! Oh Happy Day!!

/giphy happy dance

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ruouttaurmind said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 3:36pm ET:

You know, they’ve been through this process enough times you’d think they would have sorted their servers to not crap out in the middle of a Woot-off.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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- @ruouttaurmind It was the android app that broke.
  
  sammydog01 said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 3:48pm ET
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- @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 Correct.
  
  https://forums.woot.com/t/android-app-failure-1-19-2021-issues/708991
  
  narfcake said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 4:16pm ET
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yakkoTDI said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 4:39pm ET:

There’s a Wootazon Off going on?

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mike808 said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 8:46pm ET:

Why do we care about a wootoff?
Does it matter, working or broken?

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- @mike808 Absolutely it matters!! They are connected to the Mother Ship!! They graciously send us their table scraps; otherwise meh. could not survive!!
  
  IndifferentDude said Tue, Jan 19th 2021 at 10:05pm ET
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phr said Wed, Jan 20th 2021 at 12:14am ET:

Mehrathon is also broken. We’re supposed to be able to buy stuff from old offers, but all of them are sold out, even the perennial ones that nobody wants to buy.

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frankthehobo said Wed, Jan 20th 2021 at 12:32am ET:

Its all fake news…

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Star2236 said Wed, Jan 20th 2021 at 11:43am ET:

My boc came yesterday, some good stuff some junk like always.

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cfg83 said Wed, Jan 20th 2021 at 6:27pm ET:

I blame the clowns. I always blame the clowns.

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