I'm sure it makes zero difference but the one I purchased was "Dead Man's Crap". I'm not sure what the first one was called since I missed it. @sammydog01 was it the same?
Also, this was my first BOC! I know I'm way more excited than I should be but.... :)
@stardate820926 names make no difference. Manage your expectations. Still fun, but.... you know how when you buy a tv it comes with a bag that includes the instructions, warranty, remote, and power cord? One of my boc's included that bag. It must have fallen out of an RMA in the warehouse and they threw it in my box. :)
@sammydog01 so I just got the goods and they're pretty crappy. there's a 16k battery pack in here though so that's worth the price, plus it came with one of those nifty micro usb to lightning and ipod connector dealies, which I need since I found a 160gb ipod while riding my bike
@Lotsofgoats Nice- I would have liked that. I got a pair of gaming glasses that seem to sell for a lot of money, but I don't really have a use for them. The other stuff was trash.
In my last Fuku and BOC the one "high end" Item was DOA. the Fuku a monitor was very badly cracked, it has been delivered to the dump, and the BOC? I nice looking Solaeus Go that won't hold a charge. I'm SOL on both BUT all that together was like what 15$ and I got other neat stuff too. but If I had paid 50$ and most of it arrived DOA (which seems to be the case) I'd be considering chargebacks.
@DaveInSoCal I actually broke down and started to buy one. I then noticed that I haven't updated my shipping address in close to 2 years. Having to re enter all of my billing info again made me give up.
@togle weird, so they don't show up in community as an item anymore? ... oh could be leftover from the "clue" setup? maybee they are trying to throttle them since the oversell? (I mean it takes time to raid the dollar store dumpsters right?)
@thismyusername No idea... I had noticed the random Mandy mannequin head on the page earlier today and thought nothing of it; then I read this thread saying that was a link to a boc, so I went back to see if there happened to be a mannequin anywhere on the page, and there she was.
It seems like for the past couple months (at least?), theyve been trying to make it more difficult or tricky to get to the link to get one. I guess the immediate sell outs were getting too many complaints
If you think the electronics mystery bag is bad, check out furor over their latest "mystery watch" offer. Thanks to the comments, they already removed the Disney watches from the pool, and had to add a full refund guarantee so far.
@zeebobman They pulled the Mystery Watch sale from the main page and replaced it with a different item (some document scanner.) I think that this is the first time that a Woot main-page item has been pulled due to overwhelmingly bad comments in the deal comments.
@jareza Just wondering where all the Mehicans were over there and wasn't sure if you had the same User name. :) plus you were the first to bring up Meh and Just laughed I figured the crazies over there would have been removing those remarks.
@Foxborn Yup, same username, same disappointment I had when woot was sold to amazon. But hey, we have MEH a place where we mehicans can rejoice! Out with the old, IN WITH THE RETRO!
Looks like they had a Zumba thing listed and then they replaced it with a lenovo.
Had this note: Don’t panic. That sale we had wasn’t selling, so we’ve given you a whole bunch of options instead. Go on, browse around. We hope you find something you want! We hope it so so desperately.
Woot has something even worse now! A mystery suit! $40 plus shipping. They even say in the description "Each set will be worth about what you are paying for it (or a little more)."
@kadagan This is such a terrible deal. If you REALLY need a suit Macy's or Men's Wearhouse has $100 suits (with coupons and/or on sale) that you know will fit and at least look like a business suit.
@kadagan My mystery suit sucked. I got 2 pair of socks which I guess would account for half the price. Other people got good ones. My suit blows stinky goat balls.
I posted the last time I saw one:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/woot-mystery-box
and there are some results posts at the end of the woot thread for it:
https://electronics.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=6481553&pageindex=1
I think a good number of folks here have seen how bad these mystery boxes have fared already, so no need to reiterate the obvious.
There is a bag of crap on the front page that has been there for a long time if anyone is interested. Click on the weird girl.
@sammydog01 hey cool! I've never gotten one of those before. I thank you for the inevitable disappointment.
@sammydog01 Should I assume if I'm not seeing a 'weird girl' that it's done?
@PurplePawprints I don't see her anymore :\ ("weird girl" = that scaryface mannequin they love so much)
@Lotsofgoats You won't be thanking me after it arrives.:)
@sammydog01 (╯ಠ益ಠ）╯︵┻┻ (this is just a placeholder)
@PurplePawprints the weird girl is back again
@sammydog01 I swore I would never do this again. But thanks to you I'm out $10.44 for yet another, sure to be crappy, bag of crap.
@sammydog01 gotta link these things! -_0 depression
@stardate820926 where :(
@connorbush They sold out again, but maybe someone will spot another one and post it here.
@connorbush If it pops up again, I will post the link. This time she was sticking off the right side of the "discuss this deal" box on the main page.
@stardate820926 on the main page there is not discuss the deal box, only discuss this poll.
@connorbush the upper right hand corner has a box that says "More details | Discuss this deal"
@DaveInSoCal Yep, that's the one
@DaveInSoCal suave. okay I see I see.
@stardate820926 Thanks!
I'm sure it makes zero difference but the one I purchased was "Dead Man's Crap". I'm not sure what the first one was called since I missed it. @sammydog01 was it the same?
Also, this was my first BOC! I know I'm way more excited than I should be but.... :)
@stardate820926 names make no difference. Manage your expectations. Still fun, but.... you know how when you buy a tv it comes with a bag that includes the instructions, warranty, remote, and power cord? One of my boc's included that bag. It must have fallen out of an RMA in the warehouse and they threw it in my box. :)
@DaveInSoCal oh yeah, I have no expectations at all. I've been around long enough to know better but I'm still happy to have finally scored one.
@stardate820926 It was "At Crap's End", here: http://www.woot.com/offers/thwmmqgq8r9k8kpxybfw
@Lotsofgoats where was it? Another Mandy face?
@DaveInSoCal it was a front page Mandy face from when @sammydog01 originally posted
@sammydog01 so I just got the goods and they're pretty crappy. there's a 16k battery pack in here though so that's worth the price, plus it came with one of those nifty micro usb to lightning and ipod connector dealies, which I need since I found a 160gb ipod while riding my bike
^5
@Lotsofgoats Nice- I would have liked that. I got a pair of gaming glasses that seem to sell for a lot of money, but I don't really have a use for them. The other stuff was trash.
@sammydog01 I took a Razer Tiamet headset down to our local gaming/video store and they gave me cash.
@OldCatLady hey a bag of cash is nice
@Mick, are you by any chance the lady who's avatar looks like a dude at Woot?
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@mick I take it that's a no.
@sammydog01 shissh, i'm incognito, inconspicuous, undercover. lol (quietly)
In my last Fuku and BOC the one "high end" Item was DOA. the Fuku a monitor was very badly cracked, it has been delivered to the dump, and the BOC? I nice looking Solaeus Go that won't hold a charge. I'm SOL on both BUT all that together was like what 15$ and I got other neat stuff too. but If I had paid 50$ and most of it arrived DOA (which seems to be the case) I'd be considering chargebacks.
The bag of crap I got in the last Wootoff was pretty good.
@mick link>?
Jake undies spotted on woot! (highly relevant to meh obviously)
http://accessories.woot.com/offers/jake-face-print-boxer-13
@Lotsofgoats accidentally bought 3 in XL I needed 3 in L !!!!
@connorbush tbh it would be worth the weight gain cuz those are some sweet undies
Mandy the Laughing Mannequin
$42.38 on sale
@connorbush - Ew.
Can't believe people expected to get stuff worth $200... It's no surprise that the contents of the box were sub-par.
BOC available right now. Can't believe I am passing it up.
http://www.woot.com/offers/72xfwsmt21yst0ruz13k
@bruceoite Jinx?
@bruceoite damn. missed it.
There's another bag up right now (6:06 pm EST) http://www.woot.com/offers/72xfwsmt21yst0ruz13k
@cinoclav @bruceoite I snagged it and already have buyers remorse :S
@DaveInSoCal Ditto. Every damn time I say I'm done...
@DaveInSoCal I actually broke down and started to buy one. I then noticed that I haven't updated my shipping address in close to 2 years. Having to re enter all of my billing info again made me give up.
@bruceoite I like your style :)
@cinoclav damn. missed it.
@bruceoite So very Meh!
Also, still available (3:10 PM PT)
Any more bocs?
@bruinscbr Dead Craps Tell No Tales
Here's a link to the currently active BoC http://www.woot.com/offers/xnrf14i8ud59pxgtnb0f
@togle Valid until midnight (cdt) or until sells out
@togle weird, so they don't show up in community as an item anymore? ... oh could be leftover from the "clue" setup? maybee they are trying to throttle them since the oversell? (I mean it takes time to raid the dollar store dumpsters right?)
@thismyusername No idea... I had noticed the random Mandy mannequin head on the page earlier today and thought nothing of it; then I read this thread saying that was a link to a boc, so I went back to see if there happened to be a mannequin anywhere on the page, and there she was.
It seems like for the past couple months (at least?), theyve been trying to make it more difficult or tricky to get to the link to get one. I guess the immediate sell outs were getting too many complaints
Anyone have a screenshot of the crazy mannequin lady? Without a point of reference, it's very confusing.
@grammarsheriff - The woot off has ended.
@grammarsheriff http://www.woot.com/offers/mandy-the-laughing-mannequin
@boc Thanks - I've literally never seen her on the site before.
@grammarsheriff She goes back a ways. Here is an appearance from 2010: http://www.woot.com/offers/myvu-crystal-personal-media-viewer
I think this was her debut: (from 2008) http://www.woot.com/offers/otto-ot-6-multimedia-stereo-headset-with-boom-mic
If you think the electronics mystery bag is bad, check out furor over their latest "mystery watch" offer. Thanks to the comments, they already removed the Disney watches from the pool, and had to add a full refund guarantee so far.
@zeebobman Link
thanks
@Foxborn Here ya go, still for sale but hiden
@zeebobman that's crazyness, and on the first page no one thinks its a good idea
@zeebobman They pulled the Mystery Watch sale from the main page and replaced it with a different item (some document scanner.) I think that this is the first time that a Woot main-page item has been pulled due to overwhelmingly bad comments in the deal comments.
@boc @zeebobman the comments are Awful, so scathing. What's funny is the people trying t defend the watches.
Also TESTING @jareza
but @kurtk2000 Wins the day with this comment
@Foxborn yo wat up!?
Im here 😉
Woot is now a joke really bad joke
@jareza Just wondering where all the Mehicans were over there and wasn't sure if you had the same User name. :) plus you were the first to bring up Meh and Just laughed I figured the crazies over there would have been removing those remarks.
@Foxborn Yup, same username, same disappointment I had when woot was sold to amazon.
But hey, we have MEH a place where we mehicans can rejoice!
Out with the old, IN WITH THE RETRO!
@boc I think they pulled the item again today.
Looks like they had a Zumba thing listed and then they replaced it with a lenovo.
Had this note:
Don’t panic. That sale we had wasn’t selling, so we’ve given you a whole bunch of options instead. Go on, browse around. We hope you find something you want! We hope it so so desperately.
Wish I could have read the forum posts.
@darkzrobe The few reviews they got were actually pretty good. The sales stats showed sales every hour with every state represented.
@Foxborn ALL of the comments are gone if you go by the link posted in this thread.
@Kidsandliz They changed the page layout and removed the links to comments for most things. You have to hunt for them.
http://www.woot.com/forums/viewpost.aspx?postid=6506786&pageindex=1
@sammydog01 - Wow, they just keep getting better and better.
Woot has something even worse now! A mystery suit! $40 plus shipping. They even say in the description "Each set will be worth about what you are paying for it (or a little more)."
Who has money to burn!??
@kadagan At a 93% discount, can you afford not to buy it???
@kadagan goodness gracious
@kadagan woot sells those suits for $50. It's a deal!
@kadagan This is such a terrible deal. If you REALLY need a suit Macy's or Men's Wearhouse has $100 suits (with coupons and/or on sale) that you know will fit and at least look like a business suit.
Sorry, actually, best I can find right now at Macy's is $120 (Kenneth Cole on sale for $150, then use a 20% off coupon).
@medz so that means it's $55 on amazon with prime right? :)
@kadagan My mystery suit sucked. I got 2 pair of socks which I guess would account for half the price. Other people got good ones. My suit blows stinky goat balls.
@medz I'm truly shocked anyone bought one!!
@medz Seriously, we need a photo. I heard some of the suits were white.
@sammydog01
Bonus fact, i wasn't wearing pants when i took the photo.
@medz I didn't know they made suits in that color. I hope you were wearing at least the bonus socks.
@sammydog01 very difficult to capture how bad the color is with the lighting in here. Need to take outdoor pic in the sunlight.
@medz You could totally go to prom in that!
@medz looooooool that is awful
@medz You know what? I lived through disco. That is worse. Wow.
@medz Damn. Am I that weird that I actually like that? I mean, it's just a sort of light blue suit right?
@Bingo
get it like BINGO YOU ARE INDEED WEIRD BUT THAT'S ALSO YOUR NAME BINGO LOL
bye
@Bingo I wouldn't mind the color if it wasn't SO MUCH OF IT! Like use it as an accent, or have some other color to accent it..
@Bingo No, it's gold.
@jaremelz Oh god. Not that again.
@Bingo Only fitting that it should come back to haunt you this month.
@Bingo Make me an offer.
@kadagan No kidding. The ENTIRE thing is blue. Lining, collar, buttons, lapel, all of it. MAYBE I could make it work with a different vest?
@medz What sizes are the coat/pants?
@Bingo Don't tell anyone, but:
44R
CHEST 46
SHOULDER 20
LENGTH 30.5
SLEEVE 17.5
WAIST SIZE 38
OUTSEAM (UNHEMMED) 45
INSEAM (UNHEMMED) 37
FABRIC TO LET OUT 1.5
@Bingo I assume you pass on this once in a lifetime opportunity? Just curious as I have many interested parties waiting in line.
@medz Oh that's odd. Could have sworn I posted yesterday. Yeah unfortunately that wouldn't fit me. Thanks though. Otherwise I would be all over it!