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Has anyone ever bought a BOC off ebay?

May 6, 2012 9:08 PM

Someone's trying to sell an unopened Santa's sack of crap on Ebay from Dec 2011. It looks like he or she has several for sale (bid price $9.99, BIN $19.99). I considered it up until my common sense clicked in and reminded me it would be stupid and undoubtedly disappointing.

However it did spark my curiosity: Do you know anyone that's actually bought one this way?

daveinsocal daveinsocal

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I have bought plenty of crap on eBay, but not in bag form. Santa's bag sucked, so they lost me there, and they have several? I guess it is possible, but it seems more likely that thay had some empty Woot! boxes and filled them with their own junk. (lightbulb goes off!) I wonder if they included the bugs. I also recall, it is/was against eBay rules to sell mystery boxes.

pickypickypicky pickypickypicky
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I was thinking the same. How do you know they didn't open them already to pilfer the "good" stuff first?

jjilk jjilk
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Ebay actually has a policy now against Random Grab Bag Listings. You can report the item and it will be removed.

I know this because I used to sell grab bags of 15-20 Vinyl Records for $20 w/ $5 shipping, and guaranteed 5 of the records to be "named" from a list posted in the auction (AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, etc)

devexityspace devexityspace
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Wow, that seller is charging a ton of money for those BOC's. The person wants $10-20 for the item and then $9.87 for shipping. So the minimum this person is going to make is $19.87 (well minus the shipping costs). And I am sure the person opened them.

Item: http://www.ebay.com/itm/WOOT-UNOPENED-BAG-OF-CRAP-SANTAS-SACK-O-CRAP-2011-/170835301489?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27c693d471#ht500wt1287

(they have three of them)

hackman2007 hackman2007
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The way my luck has been with the BOC, that would be the only way I could get one!

107bear 107bear
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@devexityspace: Thanks for the info. I reported them. It's hard enough to get a BOC these days without people buying them just to resell. And if he/she is making fake ones to trick the unwary that's just despicable.

daveinsocal daveinsocal
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"Item 170835301489 is no longer available."
Dang old counterfeit crap. I see a foot flush for $35 BIN haha.

xdavex xdavex
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@xdavex: wow! Ebay acts quickly!

daveinsocal daveinsocal
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Wow that was very quick.

Wonder if they will end up back on there at some point.

hackman2007 hackman2007
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Nope, and I wouldn't.

jsimsace jsimsace
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Black-market Crap?!

lumpthar lumpthar
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You're better off not buying the Santa's Sack BOC; they're the ones that had the infamous Critters (whole and parts) inside them! Stick with the standard "run-of-the mill" crap!

dealseekerdude dealseekerdude
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I was tempted until I realized the one I saw was a Santa's version and they wanted $30 for it! I already got one full of critters that just went into the garbage. No critters for me, thanks. Didn't have any really exciting stuff in it anyway. I heard some people got thier's replaced & I never even thought of trying to do that. Not sure if I still could anyway. I haven't even tried for one since.

dfunk29 dfunk29
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I saw that exact same listing after missing the BOC 3 of the 4 times during the last woot-off.

Not gonna lie, really considered it...

But then I saw the size of the box, and decided to pass!

Which I suppose was the same reason they didn't open it? Or was Santa's Bag of Coal not good last Christmas?

grimskull89 grimskull89
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I'll admit to buying one at $25, but that was only because their bag of crap included 3 random AA/Woot shirts that was in my size too. ^_^

@grimskull89: Santa's BOC = Box Of Critters. Woot did send a replacement BOC (a nice surprise), but the general consensus was Santa's sack was a "you got what you paid for" BOC.

narfcake narfcake
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Reading the various topics about the Santa's BOC critters. Gross.

geognerd geognerd

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