Ignoramus
Footballguy
Got the confirmation email! 3 Bags O' Crap coming my way!
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Ignoramus
Footballguy
Yeah, I saw (and missed out on) the BOC... I'm just waiting with bated breath for the report on what you receive.Recent WootsGot the confirmation email! 3 Bags O' Crap coming my way!
MrPhoenix
Ron Paul Soldier
Trust me, I'm waiting too. This is my first BOC! I've seen people get TV's, and I've seen people get, well, crap. I'm not expecting anything, so in the end, I'll be happy!Yeah, I saw (and missed out on) the BOC... I'm just waiting with bated breath for the report on what you receive.Recent WootsGot the confirmation email! 3 Bags O' Crap coming my way!
Otis
Footballguy
Might as well just take the day off :IBTL:
Das Boot
Footballguy
Insider trading info.
Received an email from Woot today with the following statement...Insider trading info.
Das Boot
Footballguy
BOC XX Zeitgeist: Stats O’ Crap
by Jason Toon Thursday, July 12 12:30 PM
News
Hoooo-weeee! The crap-dust has settled from our largest BOC offering ever, the recriminations are flying fast and thick, and the hamster is enjoying a well-deserved rest from running on our server-powering wheel. So how’d it go?
You people tried to order 140,000 craps, but we “only” had 10,000. 53,238 people placed orders for our 10,000 craps. Of those, 3,701 lucky wooters will be getting their crap (about 7%). 49,537 orders were denied (the other 93%). Assuming you were more or less as quick on the draw as everybody else, you had a roughly 1 in 14 shot at a BOC.
What about that official sell-out time of 1:30 AM? Many wooters are irritated, annoyed, or enraged by the idea that they lost out to people who placed orders after they did. Is that really what happened? Read on to find out...
Sort of. By 12:02:40 AM, this BOC was 98.8% sold out. In the ensuing technical delays, some 43 orders managed to slip in between then and the listed time of 1:30:39 AM. These 43 orders represent .08% of the total orders placed – less than one in one thousand. So yes, a tiny number of wooters did wind up with Bags O’ Crap that they may not “deserve.” We’re sending them anyway.
Before you go damning our servers for those delays, get a load of this: “It wasn’t our servers, it was our code,” says Luke Duff, Woot’s Retail IT Director. “We had to put some new code in for a not-so-secret upcoming project, and that was slowing down the inventory-reserving process. Once I commented that out, it was like taking the brake off. But it took us an hour to figure out what the problem was.”
While there was some momentary server crawl, the load they were operating under was pretty enormous. “At our peak, we were getting about 30,000 web requests per second,” Luke says.
Geographically speaking, 768 Californians scored a bag, the most of any state. On a per-capita basis, Oregon, Delaware and D.C. were the biggest winners. As you can see on this map, the West Coast grabbed more than their share, while the East Coasters lagged behind (red states bought the most per capita, followed by orange, pink, purple, and blue in descending order):
Nice job, Texas! Way to go, Missouri! Woot’s two “home states” didn’t let us down. And check Utah out – pretty hot for a state that doesn’t border the Pacific.
What have we learned? Well, a lot of you really want crap. Most of you won’t get it. Very, very few of you might essentially win the lottery and score a late Bag O’ Crap. Some states clearly need to pick up their game (we’re looking at you, Maine, Indiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and West Virginia). And we need to figure out how to handle that pesky line of code.
As always, let us know what you think about these stats in the discussion below. But if you want to talk about the BOC in general, head over to the BOC XX thread. That’s also where you’ll start seeing pictures from the lucky crap-nabbers, beginning in a couple of weeks.
by Jason Toon Thursday, July 12 12:30 PM
News
Hoooo-weeee! The crap-dust has settled from our largest BOC offering ever, the recriminations are flying fast and thick, and the hamster is enjoying a well-deserved rest from running on our server-powering wheel. So how’d it go?
You people tried to order 140,000 craps, but we “only” had 10,000. 53,238 people placed orders for our 10,000 craps. Of those, 3,701 lucky wooters will be getting their crap (about 7%). 49,537 orders were denied (the other 93%). Assuming you were more or less as quick on the draw as everybody else, you had a roughly 1 in 14 shot at a BOC.
What about that official sell-out time of 1:30 AM? Many wooters are irritated, annoyed, or enraged by the idea that they lost out to people who placed orders after they did. Is that really what happened? Read on to find out...
Sort of. By 12:02:40 AM, this BOC was 98.8% sold out. In the ensuing technical delays, some 43 orders managed to slip in between then and the listed time of 1:30:39 AM. These 43 orders represent .08% of the total orders placed – less than one in one thousand. So yes, a tiny number of wooters did wind up with Bags O’ Crap that they may not “deserve.” We’re sending them anyway.
Before you go damning our servers for those delays, get a load of this: “It wasn’t our servers, it was our code,” says Luke Duff, Woot’s Retail IT Director. “We had to put some new code in for a not-so-secret upcoming project, and that was slowing down the inventory-reserving process. Once I commented that out, it was like taking the brake off. But it took us an hour to figure out what the problem was.”
While there was some momentary server crawl, the load they were operating under was pretty enormous. “At our peak, we were getting about 30,000 web requests per second,” Luke says.
Geographically speaking, 768 Californians scored a bag, the most of any state. On a per-capita basis, Oregon, Delaware and D.C. were the biggest winners. As you can see on this map, the West Coast grabbed more than their share, while the East Coasters lagged behind (red states bought the most per capita, followed by orange, pink, purple, and blue in descending order):
Nice job, Texas! Way to go, Missouri! Woot’s two “home states” didn’t let us down. And check Utah out – pretty hot for a state that doesn’t border the Pacific.
What have we learned? Well, a lot of you really want crap. Most of you won’t get it. Very, very few of you might essentially win the lottery and score a late Bag O’ Crap. Some states clearly need to pick up their game (we’re looking at you, Maine, Indiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and West Virginia). And we need to figure out how to handle that pesky line of code.
As always, let us know what you think about these stats in the discussion below. But if you want to talk about the BOC in general, head over to the BOC XX thread. That’s also where you’ll start seeing pictures from the lucky crap-nabbers, beginning in a couple of weeks.
MrPhoenix
Ron Paul Soldier
Steve in Minneapolis
Footballguy
I had someone else mention this website to me...
Is there a good spot to go to get the '101' on woot? Is it really just a liquidation site wrapped up in a pretty, smart-### package? I appreciate the schtick, but I have not yet figured out why there is the buzz...?
Is there a good spot to go to get the '101' on woot? Is it really just a liquidation site wrapped up in a pretty, smart-### package? I appreciate the schtick, but I have not yet figured out why there is the buzz...?
MrPhoenix
Ron Paul Soldier
They have pretty solid deals and keep you longing for more.
Otis
Footballguy
It's all about the shtick.
MrPhoenix
Ron Paul Soldier
Didn't we just do this?BTW, hopefully will receive my BOC's either thursday (today, really) or friday. *prays for something big*
MrPhoenix
Ron Paul Soldier
Aka the albatross that slows down the Wootoff for hours.
Otis
Footballguy
Seriously. 90 bucks for this thing? Ugh. Pass.
fasteddie_21
2006 NM Poker Champ
Learn me about the "woot-off" please?
TIA
TIA
MrPhoenix
Ron Paul Soldier
Instead of the customary 1-deal-per-day offers on Woot.com, a Woot-Off is when one item is sold until it's sold out, and a new item takes it's place until it's sold out, and so on. Woot-Offs typically last 1-3 days, although I see this one being quick because we just had a Woot-Off a month or so ago.
fasteddie_21
2006 NM Poker Champ
Thanks! And yay!Harry Beanbag
Sausage King of Chicago
Feel free to send me a PM (I doubt everyone on here will care) on what was in your Bandolier of Carrots. I was unable to get one and I am a masochist and want to know what i missed out on. And yes, the basketball thing brought the wootoff to a grinding slow pace.
fasteddie_21
2006 NM Poker Champ
I also am dying to find out what all y'all get in the various BOC's.
MrPhoenix
Ron Paul Soldier
From what I saw on the discussion boards, some people's shipping is a little more ahead on schedule compared to mine, so the possibility of my BOC's coming tomorrow or friday have almost flown out of the window. Might have to wait until next week.I saw someone get an IPhone as part of their BOC package, though. Gives me hope that my delay is being caused by a gigantic plasma TV.
fasteddie_21
2006 NM Poker Champ
iRiver Clix 2GB Media Player
$69.99
+ $5 shipping
$69.99
+ $5 shipping
Harry Beanbag
Sausage King of Chicago
This thing is dragging just like the basketball game
MrPhoenix
Ron Paul Soldier
Kinda surprising, but I think that's more of an oversaturation of MP3 players on woot plus having an excessive quantity than the quality of the actual item. I've heard good things about iRivers, but I don't need an MP3 player.This thing is dragging just like the basketball game
Otis
Footballguy
It's also almost 3am on the East Coast.Kinda surprising, but I think that's more of an oversaturation of MP3 players on woot plus having an excessive quantity than the quality of the actual item. I've heard good things about iRivers, but I don't need an MP3 player.This thing is dragging just like the basketball game
Harry Beanbag
Sausage King of Chicago
That's the mystery of the Woot off. No one knows. could be 24 hours. could be 72 hours. No one knows. Addictive huh?
Harry Beanbag
Sausage King of Chicago
Now that is very ribs.GB the woot ad-on for Firefox!!
MrPhoenix
Ron Paul Soldier
Not a bad setup, actually. You'll need to get a PCI-E video card for it, though.
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
I somehow missed the $59.99 digital photo thingy this morning.
They must have screwed something up because I was in the checkout and next thing I know it kicked me out. Sorry Mom, no birthday gift for you!
Got me the $19.99 ATI Radeon X600SE 128mb PCI Express
Video Card for the my new puter though.
They must have screwed something up because I was in the checkout and next thing I know it kicked me out. Sorry Mom, no birthday gift for you!
Got me the $19.99 ATI Radeon X600SE 128mb PCI Express
Video Card for the my new puter though.
