LOL It’s probably an auto-loader, every day just before midnight, “the sale is over, you missed it” shows up, most likely to prevent anyone from purchasing something and taking their sweet time about it – that might cause errors in Woot’s system due to timecodes.
I just finished wooting for the netgear router and came back to find “Sale’s over…”
My guess is that this is the next produxt in the woot-off, but they ended the woot-off a few minutes before midnight cst, so the product had a 0 minute woot time.
This was a great price for this type of enclosure. They don’t really go any lower than $20 each, although you can find some for a little less on eBay. Those, however, are usually only simple USB models with no fan. This one was a good buy because it had both USB & IEEE1394 for only $20. There are many other reasonably priced enclosures on www.meritline.com, such as this one, for about $20 (plus shipping), mentioned last time in the forum for the 250GB HDD. That one’s only USB, however it has a fan to keep the drive cool. I’d personally prefer one with a fan versus one with both interfaces.
Edit: Bah, this is the first time I’ve tryed using the BBCode to make a hyperlink. It didn’t work out too well, but it’s not difficult to edit out the real link from what the forums have generated.
hehe, I got 3, I saw this pop up when it hit midnight, error in the woot server showed me it was next, or soon to be next, so I spent the next 30 mins just trying to see it come up, Im glad I got em, this is PERFECT for me with the firewire, thanks woot!