Woot mystery box...

thismyusername had a video to watch said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 1:22am ET

It seems woot has stolen and idea from a company I won't mention...

https://electronics.woot.com/offers/mystery-box-of-electronics

$55... hmmm.... nope not gonna do it.

Have they done mystery boxes before???

video from the comments over there:

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narfcake said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 1:25am ET:

They've done some variations to these mystery boxes before. Some were good, most were meh, and others just plain horrible.

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stardate820926 said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 1:28am ET:

I was kind of interested until I saw the example items. No thanks

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DaveInSoCal said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 1:32am ET:

I think the problem is that they base the values of these boxes on msrp when they put them together. So, if they sell them for $50, and try to keep the value over $200 (just an example), it could be a few monster cables.

I'm passing, but am curious to see what people get.

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- @DaveInSoCal AND the stuff is refurbished, but they're going off the MSRP of a new item. Sure, the MSRP of a new set of Beats headphones might be $300, but what's it REALLY worth?
  
  medz said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 10:42am ET
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- @medz
  
  Saffer49 said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 4:06pm ET
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- @Saffer49 You overpay...
  
  tightwad said Wed, Sep 23rd 2015 at 2:18pm ET
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wilfbrim said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 9:03am ET:

As a refugee from deals.woot, I'd point out that back when deals.woot.com was a going concern, mystery box deals were expressly prohibited: too many shady businesses would use sell "mystery boxes" for 30 bucks each, and pack them with 2 bucks worth or garbage.

I'm curious to see what woot will put in them (hey, they were the originators of this thing) but almost positive that you won't get anywhere near $30 of value from it.

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Bogie said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 9:10am ET:

Based off the severely poor quality of BOCs received over the last couple years, I will pass on all things mystery from Woot.

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- @Bogie Damn straight... my guess is you could purchase the items from amazon for $25 but you're paying $55 shipped.
  
  sohmageek said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 9:19am ET
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- @Bogie Same gamble as a BOC with same low odds you'll get something good, but at 5 times the price! Hard pass!
  
  medz said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 10:44am ET
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- @Bogie I'm pretty much passing on all things non-mystery from Woot these days.
  
  cinoclav said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 3:55pm ET
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darksaber99999 said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 9:13am ET:

The mystery is why anyone buys it.

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marklog said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 10:00am ET:

I was just going to post on this. I don't spend a lot of time over there but while baiting my sports addicted brother with a Barry Sanders signed football I saw that box. Just silly.

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connorbush said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 10:14am ET:

Mehthren, forget not the mystery school crate, the nfl mystery bag, and other, depressing, mystery assortments. Do not fall to the illusions of woot, be privy to their trickery.

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Lotsofgoats said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 10:19am ET:

let's send one to JonT

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james_hardiman said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 10:49am ET:

If they called it a bag of crap and sold it for $10 they'd probably move five times as many units. (I'm not biting)

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ragestuff said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 11:26am ET:

still waiting on a mystery box from bk Industries that I purchased years ago from dealsWOOT

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stevenstepheni said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 2:39pm ET:

I miss the old Woot. Those were the good old days! :(

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- @stevenstepheni ah yes. A time when we were younger, less fat, further from death, better looking, more agile; with quicker wits and even quicker buy it now pointer finger. Good times mmm good times.
  
  the joys of waxing philosophically. ah to lament.
  
  connorbush said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 3:29pm ET
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gertiestn said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 3:29pm ET:

When I saw that mystery box deal at Woot last night, I wondered what I'd read about it today on meh. But I'll admit that I'll check back on Woot in a few weeks to see if anybody got a boat.

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luvche21 said Wed, Sep 9th 2015 at 3:57pm ET:

So, who's going to be the goat that's going to buy one and tell the rest of us what they get??

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