Friday, April 15, 2005

Woot! Come buy crap!

Woot! is an awesome little site. They sell one item and only one item per day until the end of the day or they run out of stock. And the sell it for a great price. They sell video projectors, home entertainment systems, remote control cars, you just never know. I've never bought anything from them before, but as an added bonus they're product descriptions are great to read. They also have an xml feed so you can subscribe to them with bloglines.
Today's product is a bag of crap. If you check their website today you can see, tomorrow it will be different of course. In case you missed it this is what they were selling today:

Random Crap

Episode V: The Puck Strikes Back

$1.00

ATTENTION!!
(this is misunderstood by some each time)

ORDER QUANTITY EQUATES TO BAG CONTENTS, NOT NUMBER OF BAGS. 1 BAG IS ALL YOU CAN GET, BUT ORDERING 3 GETS YOU 1 FULL BAG. WE RECOMMEND THAT.

It's time once again to lower your expectations and shell out your hard earned money for utter crap!

Fellow tax payers, welcome to the infamous money pit known as the Woot Bag O' Crap. Unlike our fine government, we promise you very little in return for your crap investment. We will not maintain the public roadways, we will not attempt to improve society with glorious social programs, and we will not keep your children safe from aging pop icons. Instead, for your investment of time and money, we will send you one fairly useless bag with (ideally) 3 random crappy items from our warehouse in it. Similar to the tax filing process, you may encounter confusing and annoying obstacles. Do not be alarmed, these are repeated random crappy server-crashes as your fellow wooter attempts to thwart you from fulfilling your curious obsession with crap. Hmm… If the IRS made things this difficult to file and then sent you back a box of random crap, would you rush to pay your taxes?

Bag O' Crap Rules:
  • Thou shalt not expect the world from your crap.
  • Thou shalt expect some people might get nicer crap than you.
  • Thou shalt consider if it is better to go through life without our crap.
  • Thou shalt not order just 1 crap and blame it on our server.
  • and... Thou shalt consider the empty bag worth $3 + $5 shipping,
  • ... otherwise this might seem like gambling.
Thanks for the continued success of woot!

Cheers! - the woot team

Disclaimers: This is a bag of below-average usage possibilities. Any Bag contents, ie.. "the crap" is going to be crap along with the bag itself being crap. The cardboard box we ship this in will likely be crappy. FedEx or UPS might give you crap when they deliver your shipment. Even if you are easily pleased, you should lower your expectations -- this is plain old utter crap. If you can't afford to waste money on a bag-o-crap, please do not. Yes, this is worse than checking that box to contribute a buck for presidential campaigning.

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