anybody planning on Bodog-ing it tonight?
What I learned from wasting a day on a Woot-off:
Woot-off is like watching a car wreck: Most of the things you see are horrible, you hear a lot of dumass comments and questions, you know you should be going somewhere else, doing something else… yet you can’t help but stand around and watch.
Even pictarz of cute LOLcatz become not funny… and eventually become down-right annoying.
Every post has to contain lame (and long since not funny) comment such as “where are the legs”, “does it work on mac”, “don’t want”, yada yada. Lame.
No work is getting done and most of the crap is not worth wasting time wating around for.
Many of the woot-off items are like broccolis - you don’t want, yet you have to have some just to get to the “desert” part, yet “desert” part doesn’t come. It’s just another broccoli, packaged in a different wrapper.
“Don’t want” comments and pictures get old after about… 5 minutes. the rest of the time, you just wish you could strangle someone.
Crap you buy: minute after you clicked “commit to buy”, someone posted either a) link same crap sold cheaper
Headhurtage is directly proportional to the number of times you hit F5 key
I think I’ll stop for now with this rant. I’m leaving and taking my soap box with me!
I don’t think I’d ever get tired of the funny pix that get posted during woot-offs. That’s the part of the woot-off I look most forward to, with the exception of the blinged out cabbage!
What I learned from wasting a day on a Woot-off:
Woot-off is like watching a car wreck: Most of the things you see are horrible, you hear a lot of dumass comments and questions, you know you should be going somewhere else, doing something else… yet you can’t help but stand around and watch.
Even pictarz of cute LOLcatz become not funny… and eventually become down-right annoying.
Every post has to contain lame (and long since not funny) comment such as “where are the legs”, “does it work on mac”, “don’t want”, yada yada. Lame.
No work is getting done and most of the crap is not worth wasting time wating around for.
Many of the woot-off items are like broccolis - you don’t want, yet you have to have some just to get to the “desert” part, yet “desert” part doesn’t come. It’s just another broccoli, packaged in a different wrapper.
“Don’t want” comments and pictures get old after about… 5 minutes. the rest of the time, you just wish you could strangle someone.
Crap you buy: minute after you clicked “commit to buy”, someone posted either a) link same crap sold cheaper
Headhurtage is directly proportional to the number of times you hit F5 key
I think I’ll stop for now with this rant. I’m leaving and taking my soap box with me!
Actually you’ve named all the reasonsd that make wooting so charming for me. It’s a complete but compelling waste of time. After 18 months I still love the cat pictures and the first post of Stokke in a wootoff still stes my heart aflutter. So enjoy or stuff a sock in it! I’m enjoying myself. Now somebody please post me a NEW catoon!
bbrain
August 30, 2007, 4:28pm
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wow. this thing is still here?
you know i’m just teasing!
bsamm97
August 30, 2007, 4:28pm
272
You mean they’re never going to offer the Sahara refurbished at half the price?
Even if they did, you still wouldn’t buy it, would you?
kippyj
August 30, 2007, 4:29pm
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you know i’m just teasing!
i know, but it’s not the first time…my kids’ friends call me psychomom