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Anyone else's "Woots" number get put back at 0/1?

Dec 7, 2011 5:46 AM

So I just bought the calendar at the end(?) of the Wootoff and I noticed that my square was back at yellow. Thinking that maybe I had passed into a new color of Woots, I checked it, and to my horror it says I only have 1 Woot. I've definitely got more than that shakes fist

I attempted to log out and log back in but I keep getting server errors; makes me believe that it's just a glitch. Wishful thinking? Anyways, anyone else in the same boat? And I would have searched to see if someone else asked this but I got more server errors.

holymythos holymythos

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it's a glitch. yesterday i was yellow square and white triangle. most of the day today i was back to normal (purple/black). but now, i'm yellow/black.

it'll pass.

carl669 carl669
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Okay good. I was about to freak haha.

holymythos holymythos
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I want my green back. The yellow color is ugly

flashkill flashkill
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It may have struck everyone who made a purchase today. I noticed it right after I purchased the calendars (I don't think I'd made a purchase on Woot for a couple of weeks before today).

There are at least three questions right now concerning this, so it's a pretty recent event.

shrdlu shrdlu
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@shrdlu: Yeah, I just noticed after the calendar. The last purchase was the night vision goggles and I was fine after that.

holymythos holymythos
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@holymythos: Interesting. It was the calendars that did it, then.

{Double Ninja pretty funny, BTW}

http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/e4223d45-8955-4e72-913c-30de64ff833a/do-we-have-another-box-and-triangle-problem

It's a revisit of the problem from yesterday, but more widespread.

shrdlu shrdlu
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@shrdlu: Pesky calendars.

And the problem seemed to fix itself at their daily refresh time. I'm back at green :)

holymythos holymythos
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@flashkill: I spoke up minutes too soon. I am back at green and happy again.

flashkill flashkill
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I hate yellow :(

angelsgirl2002 angelsgirl2002

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