Happy Birthday, Woot!
Today (or tomorrow, depending on your time zone), July 12, is Woot's birthday.
Please join me in wishing Woot many more years of snarky product descriptions.
Oh, and for anyone who's still up and reading Deals.Woot, the main site should be listing a Bag Of Crap at the next item - coming up in about 12 minutes.
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anotherhiggins
asked 11 months ago
it's july 11th here.
is woot 21 yet?
This is OBVIOUSLY a reputation building question.
@coolphilip04: Bah.
I've been at #1 before. I've been off the site for months and my purple triangle is residual from back when I was very active. I don't give a crap about my score here. But I'm glad to see you're a cynic.
I honestly just wanted to wish woot well on her(?) birthday.
Happy Birthday! How old are you, Woot?
@anotherhiggins: I'm just trollin' for kicks as usual.
got my bag - forgot to use my free shipping code!
@vinithehat: What's the path? PM me it, please? I will love you for 12 and a half minutes.
@vinithehat: no no PM with it and i'll love you for 13 minutes! =P
I was messing around, and actually got a BOC. I even swore I'd stop trying for them! But... Since I didn't know it was there, and happened upon it... COOL! I have now popped my BOC cherry. Everything else seems so pale in comparison! I can't wait to see what kind of crap I get!
Happy Birthday woot! and thanks for finally letting me get another BOC!
@capguncowboy: I have been trying for two years as well! I really have no idea how I did it. I wasn't paying attention, because I didn't know it was there. I was just clicking through and was pleasantly rewarded for my efforts. Oh the things that amuse me... Sorry!
@capguncowboy: for the 503s hit f5 til the page shows stuff
@rlapid2112: woot is 7 today, according to their poll on the main page
argh!! i popped my BOC cherry! woot! just kept clicking and trying stuff over and over, hitting F5 when i got page errors. BTW my IE was not getting past the main woot page, i used chrome and got "tips" at the top right. i.e. go back, can't do that, etc
Got my bag within the first 2 minutes. That was great XD I chose the right option from the start
@anotherhiggins: Is your rep REALLY that important to you? Sad. Sad is what it is really. lol seriously though, you beat me to it by 20 minutes, and for that sir I salute you. Really, I guess I owe you - you saved me the time consuming process of starting a new question. HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOOT! (Sarcasm doesn't translate well on the internet and that's a concept I have trouble understanding. ^The insult part of that was a "joke" on the chance I didn't make that clear with the "lol" :D)
@coolphilip04: You wanna see (sad attempts at) reputation building questions? Meander on over to ol' @iggz place.
And actually, I just realized on the 12th of July in 2009 is when I signed up for Woot! It's my Woot-iversary too! Woot!
I got one too the first path I picked, I'm not sure if it was dumb luck. I'm pretty sure it was, because I forgot it was Woot's birthday (sorry Woot!) but I diligently check the site at 1am when I'm awake, and got very confused when I saw "Woot Quest". I even got to use my free shipping code, so it was a $3 crap, yay :)
My first Bundle of Carrots! Happy B-Day Woot!
YESSS I DID IT FOR ONCE. FREE SHIPPING WAS ONLY A 3 DOLLAR BOC AND I'M SO HAPPY I COULD DIE.
I'M GOING TO PEE MYSELF. AND I DON'T EVEN CARE. I'VE TRIED FOR SO LONG. NOW I CAN FINALLY BE PART OF THE BIG BOYS CLUB ON WOOT. WHOOHOO.
question asked by anotherhiggins
asked 31 minutes ago
made popular 12 minutes ago
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@coolphilip04: I would refrain from dying until AFTER you receive and open the box, or you'll linger as a spirit from regret at not doing so. But feel free to pee all you want, at least it wont be just the warmth of satisfaction alone that spreads all over. :)
i finally got a BOC! FORGOT FREE SHIPPING CODE!!!
@coolphilip04: Either they forgot to charge you shipping, or you applied a free shipping code, which is very brave indeed.
For those wondering, the BOC is sold out
http://imm.io/7nfU
I scored one (er, three) on my and my wife's accounts. WOOT!
Now that that's done, how y'all been?
The place looks different since I left. No more "Chat" tab and whatnot.
Sooooooo, I've got a 4 week old daughter now - hence my absence from the site. What's new with you?
WOO BIRTHDAY! Dance with Dragons and a BoC in one day? Big excitement! Thanks Woot!
Sold out -- DAMNIT! I've been defeated again!
I got in, and I had the payment screen loaded, but was looking for my free shipping code and it must have sold out while that was loading. I've been that close like 10 times, but can never defeat that screen!
@anotherhiggins: Congrats on your child, and welcome back!
@w00tgurl: In dog years :D
Took the quest forever to load...this is how all bags should be done :D (that snail game almost gave me a stroke. I won like eleventeen times but ended up with jack after like 4 hours lol)
Thanks Woot :D
@abramokids: I did do a free shipping code. Glad I didn't have to look up what it was, though.
@drchops: Oh, man, the snail game. That was just infuriating. I somehow wound up with a level 3 bag, but that was it.
I like these choose your own adventures better.
Oh, and Woot, adding the random string at the end of the URLs was a good move. In the past I've seen others post that they just go through incrementing the numbers at the end of the URL until they find the BOC's page. You're a clever 7-year-old.
@anotherhiggins: I thought about getting one via family, but my conscience wouldn't allow it heh...couldn't stand the thought of being the one to deprive little orphan Timmy out of the only gift the orphanage could afford him for his leap-year birthday.
Congrats on the new kid too, first one?
@anotherhiggins: now your 4 week old daughter needs her own account. consider it an investment in her future when woot and amazon run the world on just electrolytes :)
Happy birthday, Woot! Thanks for so much fun and wonderfully useless purchases over the past 7 years. I'm looking forward to throwing money at you for another 7 years!
@drchops: Don't think that I don't have a heart. I, too, paused and pondered, "Should I really take 2 BOCs? Is that fair to the other 'players'? I've been just barely missed out so many times and I'll probably be putting someone else in that position....."
Then I looked down and realized that my hands got tired of waiting and had already ordered the damned thing. Suck it, Timmy; no gift for you this year.
And thanks! Actually this is our second. We have a 2 1/2 year old daughter who alternates between being a very proud big sister and insisting that she, too, is a baby.
Oh, and - I LOVE this part - for reasons completely unknown to anyone but her, my 2.5 year old insists on calling the baby "Robot". She started calling her that about 2 months before her sister was born and shows no sign of stopping. How badass a nickname is that??
@anotherhiggins: when my second was about 6 weeks old, her 2/5 yr old sister asked "when baby go home?"
@anotherhiggins: Haha "Robot" that's awesome...I haven't laughed that hard in a long time man...I can't even put into words how awesome that is.
I typed some more stuff, but I accidentally clicked in the space that wasn't this small box and it disappeared. That's the whole story.
Happy Birthday WOOT! the coolest website out there where the people are awesome and the staff is even more awesome because they care and take care of their members.
BOC's for everyone!
Happy Birthday Woot! I'm sorry I forgot and wore your anniversary shirt on Monday. :( We can still be friends right?
Right?????
@gonffen: Your BFF status is questionable, but we're still good.
@vinithehat: did you want me to apply your coupon to that order or do you just want to keep it for later?
@agingdragqueen: i guess apply it please. thanks!
@agingdragqueen: awesome, thanks for the good eye. or did someone tip you off? either way, i'm glad you guys (woot) can do that. make sure it comes out of his count of 4, no freebies ;-)
I didn't get a free shipping code. I'm signed up for the newsletter and daily digest. What up with that?
@bsmith1: It had to do with having a top comment in June (I think)
@agingdragqueen: Would it be possible to use one of my codes for my BoC?
@rlapid2112 & @vinithehat applied to your orders, no problemo- credits should show in your account within a couple days (and yes, it won't be an extra coupon that I gave them).
I do stalk ALL forums, so be on your best behavior or call me up directly buy @'n me if you need anything immediately. Most of my afternoons are dedicating to stalking all our members.
@agingdragqueen: I feel so safe now. Thanks.
@agingdragqueen: i changed my original post from "thanks for stalking" to "thanks for the good eye" lol. i reconsidered thinking you'd take it wrong and think it was mean, but i'm glad you use the same wording i would've
@w00tgurl: oh no, in all my internet worlds I seem to be more of an e-listener and especially here where my priority job is to find people who need something from us I can do. I can accept I'm a stalker or at the very least a lurker.
@vinithehat: you don't have too much to worry about, I just have your home address is all ;)
@agingdragqueen: Thank you sooooo much!
Lucky...(said in a Napoleon Dynamite's voice)
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