Portable Wine Cellar

[sammitch]

I love woot, but c’mon!

[AricC]

@lifemalfunction

Honestly. Why are you all complaining that this is the worst Woot Off! Ever? There’s been worse, way worse.

In the Beginning the servers would go down every few minutes, syntax errors left and right. Most of you haven’t been around for that long or have even bought that much. I haven’t bought a WHOLE lot, but I’ve bought enough and been around long enough to know how things work.

The Woot! Staff have had their hands pretty full with their newest additions (Sellout! and Shirt.Woot.com). They’re working hard to bring you guys new stuff to keep the site fresh and that takes a lot of time and effort. So please, stop whining if you don’t think this was even worth the time – it might not have been. Please just move on with your life and I’m sure you’ll still be checking the site at Woot!-O’clock seven days a week.

The servers would most likely be more stable if you guys would use a tracker/checker. There’s TONs of them out there these days. I’m a part of TrackWoot so of course I recommend that one, check my sig for the link. Also to the people that DO run trackers, there’s a wiki for a reason, please stop spamming the forums so much. It’s gotten so bad I just skip the very fi-rst page of posts and start the conversation on page two.

As a fellow Woot!er I ask that you guys give them a little bit of a break – running this site has to be hard work, and I think they do a good job. They’re one of the pioneers of this business model, so they’re their own guinea pigs in this. They have a few servers issues to work out, but I assure that I’ll be around until and when they do.

To Woot!, keep on doing what you’re doing. You are doing an amazing job and I salute you.

P.S. Please put the RSS feed back on Sellout.woot.com so our sellout tracker will work again, thanks

Oh, and yes I know I signed up in 2006, took me a while before I actually had enough money to buy something. College sucks.

Nice post. Just think of all the extra people that have started checking the site since they got this gig with Yahoo. I’m sure their servers took a beating today. As the site gets more popular I’m sure they will add hardware to accommodate.

[ianaberle]

WOW! That sucked. Some woot off!

[doctorj381]

Now that things have settled down, I have a question for you more experienced wooters. I recently bought that Mustek Bluetooth headset on sellout.woot.com, and after charging it won’t turn on. Best I can tell the battery isn’t taking the charge. Assuming someone out there has had experience with this company or wound up with some sort of defective product from woot before: is there any hope of the manufacturer replacing it or should I keep my eyes open for another deal and try to get my money back from woot? Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

[lifemalfunction]

@AricC

Nice post. Just think of all the extra people that have started checking the site since they got this gig with Yahoo. I’m sure their servers took a beating today. As the site gets more popular I’m sure they will add hardware to accommodate.

Hopefully they’ll take a nice chunk of Yahoo’s wonderful, wonderful money and get some new hardware. It’d be nice. But I’m sure their databases take massive hits from all the requests. SELLING 128MB RAM modules, you better jump on this Woot!

[lifemalfunction]

@doctorj381

Now that things have settled down, I have a question for you more experienced wooters. I recently bought that Mustek Bluetooth headset on sellout.woot.com, and after charging it won’t turn on. Best I can tell the battery isn’t taking the charge. Assuming someone out there has had experience with this company or wound up with some sort of defective product from woot before: is there any hope of the manufacturer replacing it or should I keep my eyes open for another deal and try to get my money back from woot? Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

Your best bet is to shoot Woot an email.
Write Us - Sellout.Woot is a good place to start.

[K9itty]

@Zarabear

Now that things have settled down again, I’ll post to see if anyone might have a suggestion.

I bought one set of 10 bags, and my order seemd to go through fine. I never received email confirmation from Woot. (At least not yet) I do however, have an email from Paypal saying that I’ve paid.

Just wondering if there is a log jam of confirmation emails in cyberspace or what.

I haven’t received an e-mail yet but woot shows that my order went through.

[doctorj381]

@lifemalfunction

Your best bet is to shoot Woot an email.
Write Us - Sellout.Woot is a good place to start.

Thanks for the quick reply. Am I right in assuming that Woot refunds money and doesn’t replace product? I would think after the woot off they’re pretty much cleaned out. Sorry to be a pain, but very broke and don’t want to wind up with 2 BTs when I haven’t really convinced myself I even need one!

[traildragon]

Now that the dust has settled, I’m inclined to think this is some sort of joke…I mean, it’s bags for wine - WHINE? Get it? That’s all we do is WHINE about bags. Bags of C/R/A/P, sure, but these are Crappy Bags, one’s that separate wine with a B.it O.f C.anvas. I think woot is telling us all to STFU about the Bags - ya want yer bags?? Here…have 10.

[lifemalfunction]

@doctorj381

Thanks for the quick reply. Am I right in assuming that Woot refunds money and doesn’t replace product? I would think after the woot off they’re pretty much cleaned out. Sorry to be a pain, but very broke and don’t want to wind up with 2 BTs when I haven’t really convinced myself I even need one!

It depends on what they have. I’ve returned one thing and gotten a replacement, I’ve also gotten a refund. It really is just handled on a case by case basis, and that is what makes Woot! great!

[shalpass]

woot off over?

[doctorj381]

@lifemalfunction

It depends on what they have. I’ve returned one thing and gotten a replacement, I’ve also gotten a refund. It really is just handled on a case by case basis, and that is what makes Woot! great!

Then I won’t jump the gun on another purchase. Thanks again for your help!

[lifemalfunction]

@doctorj381

Then I won’t jump the gun on another purchase. Thanks again for your help!

You’re very welcome! They’re very good about helping and making sure the situation is right and that both parties were treated fairly and are comfortable

Maybe I should be a CSR

[shenc]

@bhazlewood

It ends with… THIS???

congratulations! you’re right!

[Zarabear]

Thanks everyone for replying. I need to stick around to chat with the level headed woot-fanatics. It can get pretty bad with incoherant posts and such at times.

[lifemalfunction]

@Zarabear

Thanks everyone for replying. I need to stick around to chat with the level headed woot-fanatics. It can get pretty bad with incoherant posts and such at times.

It can, that’s why I try to answer questions as quickly as possible. So they don’t get lost in the post beyond post of uselessness.

[crimsonclay]

http://www.woot.com/special.aspx?k=vipzune

[aznfire21]

its done?

[jcorn]

@SinnFein

Are they serious?

Yes, would work in apartments or small spaces?

[shalpass]

@zulfy26

Woot wage: $77,058.09??

yea wtf