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How many Whiskey Stones will Woot sell this time?

Mar 15, 2012 4:34 AM

Thanks to woot.clue we all know whisky stones will be sold in about a half hour.
In November they managed to sell nearly 50,000

I thought it would be fun to have a little guessing game and see who gets the closest without going over (price is right style)

I don't have a prize for the winner...maybe a nice greeting card from me to you... Or maybe @jumbowoot could be really cool and sponsor this game with a free shipping coupon.
(That's just pie in the sky dreaming on my end of course.)

EDIT: No you're not dreaming. See the note from @jumbowoot here...
http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/f3d73c8f-2226-47cb-9db4-c02ae0f2b043/how-many-whiskey-stones-will-woot-sell-this-time

Like I said, I just thought this could be a little fun for all of us to guess. Especially since they sold so much last year.

What's your guess?

cowboydann cowboydann

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50,000

kamikazeken kamikazeken
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As a DBZ fan, I'm tempted to say "OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!!!!!!!", but I'll just say 49,982. Same number as November, minus the 18 I bought.

captainsuperdawg captainsuperdawg
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Hmmm...I'll venture 31,415.

aksman44 aksman44
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Edit: I'd like to make clear that I'm not counting individual stones, but individual woots.

cowboydann cowboydann
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31,415

In honor of Pi Day. EDIT: whoops, didn't see the other guess. Okay...42,000.

rprebel rprebel
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11,359

duckcake duckcake
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I need to pay more attention. I keep missing woot clue.

gideonfrost gideonfrost
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Nice! Good luck all! We do something similar internally for Woot.

thunderthighs thunderthighs
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31,414

spacemonkey6401 spacemonkey6401
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@cowboydann: in that case, cancel my 50,000. I'll say 5,000 woots and then sold out.

kamikazeken kamikazeken
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@kamikazeken: are you sure, they sold nearly 50k woots in november.

cowboydann cowboydann
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16,641

jseureau jseureau
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@cowboydann: "Woots sold: 49687."
http://www.woot.com/Forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=4735063

publicart publicart
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36,000

publicart publicart
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17,814

I see the future! :O

olleewood olleewood
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My guess? I'm going to wait until I see an answer I like and guess 1 woot more.

Nah, I'm just kidding with you all. 1 woot.

cowboydann cowboydann
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@cowboydann: Then my guess is 2 woots :P

teevoo teevoo
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49,875

eijisama eijisama
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45,572. No meaning. Just a random number haha

krazyk412 krazyk412
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I think they will sell sets of 9. That answer would have killed 3 hours ago.

gideonfrost gideonfrost
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42

wilcononomous wilcononomous
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46,932...no 33.... no 32. That's my final answer Regis.

jimmyd103 jimmyd103
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41,250

mrsbeny mrsbeny
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Well guessing that most people won't re-order.. 9,842.

druke druke
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I'll guess 40K woots (just cause I'm curious what the answer is)

theant theant
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My guess is 29,999

jml879 jml879
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42,314

lmensor lmensor
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49500

jdelvoie jdelvoie
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27,424

jhrdy724 jhrdy724
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Selling rocks...the most incredible business plan ever.

I love woot...

zott zott
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@zott

I'm old enough to remember the "Pet Rock" craze...

aksman44 aksman44
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34,241!

elizapipp elizapipp
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ya'll have anchor bias.

100,000.

figgers3036 figgers3036
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I'm in for 30,400

almirar almirar
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32489

natedogg828 natedogg828
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35,372 Including the one I bought. :)

claudicina claudicina
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@dinnelna:
@cowboydann:

Game on!
I'm sure we'll think of something.

Tell your friends! Let's make this thread longer than the @bkindustries thread!! :0

jumbowoot jumbowoot
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@jumbowoot: Thanks a lot Jumbowoot! I was just going to mail the winner a woot monkey keychain or something, but this is way better!

I'm actually going on vacation tonight but I'll try to check back and see who the winner is. Unless someone wants to come back and declare a winner for me.

cowboydann cowboydann
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@cowboydann:
@everyoneelse:

Ok.
Here's the deal.
We will have surprises for the 5 closest guesses.
@wootfast is keeping the list.

The game will end when we sell out or at 11:30PM CST (on @wootfast 's iphone!).

(edit) 1 guess per user please.

No bribing @wootfast to change your guess after midnight!

All told.

jumbowoot jumbowoot
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42,859

luvche21 luvche21
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@jumbowoot and @wootfast: thanks again for the prizes, and thanks a lot wootfast for stepping up to declare the winners.

cowboydann cowboydann
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Hmmmm, I'm gonna say 50064

linuxtrance linuxtrance
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@aksman44: you can still buy a pet rock from the store where I work, you can find it in the toy aisle hanging on a peg between the card games and the action figures.

theant theant
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@jumbowoot: can we have multiple guesses? or will or most recent guess negate any previous guess?

since it has become more interesting, I should likely be more accurate in my guess... so new guess (instead of 40K)

46,274 sets of 9 whiskey stones

theant theant
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28,042 woots.

jsimsace jsimsace
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@theant: One "guess" will be accurate enough, I suppose. After all, it is a guess.

jumbowoot jumbowoot
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I'm gonna say 58,000

icram icram
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45,009

heathhix heathhix
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My guess is that Woot will sell 32676 sets of these.

bigreddogatl bigreddogatl
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49,999

wingnutzero wingnutzero

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