Woot-Off

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Woot-Off today May 14th. If they follow the usual pattern it will go on into tomorrow as well.

Woot normally sells an item a day until either Midnight or until it sells out. During a Woot-Off they put up a new item immediately upon the first item selling out. There are usually AMAZING deals to be had. Very random things too.

The little bar between the flashing lights indicates how many of an item are left. Once the bar empties there is a brief period where it will show sold out then a new item pops up.

To give an idea of the deals, I've picked up an HD upconverting HDMI enabled standalone DVD recorder for 29.99, an Epson scanner with backlit lid for also scanning negatives and slides for 24.99, an Orion Grill for 55.00 (Normally sells for 100-150), etc.

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Woo Hoo!! And I managed to score a Bag Of Crap today!

http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=8273

By the way, check out these numbers on it:


Random Crap
First sucker: paterala
Speed to first woot: 0m -44.-230s
Wooter to blame for sellout: aareed
Sellout time: 5:07:12 PM Central Time
Order pace: 0m 0.184s
Total woots: 1500

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Yeah man. Of course. I picked up a few other nice deals to. The tech stuff this time around wasn't much up my alley except for a few things which I missed.

I did pick one of these up - I've been wanting a new hand stick-type blender. This thing is on Amazon.uk for (the US equivalent of) $61.00. I snagged it for 30 bucks
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Richards-Blender-48952-Stainless/dp/B000HRELY2

I also picked up a really stupid Office desk toy, only because they had a pack of 4 for 4.99 and they play music and move and they somehow automatically synch up via IR when you get them near each other.
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/6335/hip-hop-hippie-drummer-toy.phtml

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So the Bag of Random Crap showed up today. Finally! Huzzah!

Not the most valuable of Craps but it's definately VERY random and was a lot of fun!

Contents:
1 Targus Bag (I think this is actually an old cassette carry case! lol )
1 10" Quick Grill
1 Bluetooth Ipod Adapter
1 Ipod portable power adapter
1 Sansa PC Cable (In a knot)
1 Gobbledygoop Slime Powder
1 Herb Egg
1 Yellow Screaming Flying Monkey - Score!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3301/3578295041_9810935662_b.jpg

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Im lovin it

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Yowza! A Tuesday Woot-Off! Woo Hoo.

I finally broke down and bought a 24" Monitor. Woo. $175.00.

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1 Targus Bag (I think this is actually an old cassette carry case! lol )
1 10" Quick Grill
1 Bluetooth Ipod Adapter
1 Ipod portable power adapter
1 Sansa PC Cable (In a knot)
1 Gobbledygoop Slime Powder
1 Herb Egg
1 Yellow Screaming Flying Monkey - Score!

Which item are those mats for, and what engineering level do you need to be able to be able to use it?




OMG, I think I need a WoW intervention.

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By the way, this is essentially the monitor I got off this last woot-off. It's a "debranded" HP w2408h which means basically that the company that makes it for HP also makes it for another no-name company.

What's great is it even has the little silver with black rectangle logo like HP but instead of the letters it has a globe. Way to really push yourselves there on the logo, guys. :P

This is the HP page:
http://www.amazon.com/W2408H-24-inch-Widescreen-LCD-Monitor/dp/B0013AHADQ

This is the one I bought:
http://www.displayblog.com/2008/12/17/ts-series-display-ts-24w8h-refurbished-24-lcd-monitor/

My final price: $184.99

I don't think I could possibly expect to beat that anytime soon for a 24" LCD monitor (with an HDMI port to boot). :wootrock:

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Of course, now the realization is setting in that I'm going to be sitting at a desk with a monitor that is essentially the same size as the family TV that we used to sit across the living room from. lol (We had the classic 25" Zenith Console when I was a little kid).