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Woot.com
Woot is a shopping website. Their usual model is to sell ONE product per day, at a big discount. If they sell out, that's it for the day. You have to wait until midnight (CST) to see the next product.
A Woot Off is when they sell one product at a time, until it sells out, then immediately start selling another product.
Usually, at some point in the Woot Off, they will sell a "Bag of Crap", also known as a "BOC", which has led to many other names such as "Bandolier of Carrots", "Bushels of Carp", etc. The BOC is usually miscellaneous stuff that they have lying around in their warehouse wrapped in a decent bag, but in general is usually worth more than the $5.99 price or whatever they charge. They usually sweeten the deal by giving out something really valuable to one or two people, like a Wii or a big-screen TV. When the BOC's come up for sale, their server usually gets pounded into paste because everybody wants them. I've seen BOC's for sale, but have never been able to complete a transaction.
Woot usually has an unbelievable number of roombas, iPods, MP3 players, and junk for sale. If you read the discussion comments, you'll see many references to these, and everybody's waiting for the BOC.
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Original Post:
I just got this email:
Yup, Woot Off going on right now!
Woot.com
Woot is a shopping website. Their usual model is to sell ONE product per day, at a big discount. If they sell out, that's it for the day. You have to wait until midnight (CST) to see the next product.
A Woot Off is when they sell one product at a time, until it sells out, then immediately start selling another product.
Usually, at some point in the Woot Off, they will sell a "Bag of Crap", also known as a "BOC", which has led to many other names such as "Bandolier of Carrots", "Bushels of Carp", etc. The BOC is usually miscellaneous stuff that they have lying around in their warehouse wrapped in a decent bag, but in general is usually worth more than the $5.99 price or whatever they charge. They usually sweeten the deal by giving out something really valuable to one or two people, like a Wii or a big-screen TV. When the BOC's come up for sale, their server usually gets pounded into paste because everybody wants them. I've seen BOC's for sale, but have never been able to complete a transaction.
Woot usually has an unbelievable number of roombas, iPods, MP3 players, and junk for sale. If you read the discussion comments, you'll see many references to these, and everybody's waiting for the BOC.
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Original Post:
I just got this email:
Yup, Woot Off going on right now!