Botched Orchiopexy Condolences
First of all, thanks to all of you who offered advice on what to do with my used books. In the end I decided to leave them for now in several stacks on a shelf in my office. Granted, that's really not exactly a decision, but it had the benefit of blocking off one of Marble's favorite perches, resulting in some entertaining displays of acrobatic fail on his part on the occasions when he forgets about this. Eventually when I get tired of this and find the time I'll be donating them to one of the places you mentioned.
So during a Woot Off a couple of weeks ago I managed to score my first ever Bag of Crap. For those of you who aren't familiar with Woot, the Bag of Crap (or Bowl of Cereal, Box of Cats, Bloomin' Onion Carousel, Bandolier of Carrots, etc.) is something Woot does where they throw some sort of bag and three or more random items into a box and ship it to everyone who successfully purchases the bag-- for three dollars plus five dollars shipping-- before they sell out. The selling out generally happens after a brief frenzy of server overload and timeouts, generally in less than a minute. The items in question generally are cheap and well, crappy, but Woot keeps things interesting by throwing in the occasional 61" HD TV or other nice, valuable, or unusual items. Anyway, yesterday I got this delivered to my house:
Packing materials, and something colorful underneath!
So, it's a little camera bag and a vinyl and cardboard picnic basket. Huh. That's... cool. Is there anything else in there?
Nope.
Ah well. I can't really complain. For one thing, it was eight dollars all told, and I got a good eight dollars worth of entertainment out of the process. Secondly, it says right on the site that you are purchasing a bag of crap. But then again, according to the Woot Bag of Crap Rules:
I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond ONE bag of some kind and THREE crappy items.
Well, the camera bag is a bag, and the picnic basket thing could either be considered a bag or a crappy item. Do the seven bags of air filling out the box count as items, or was I shorted two crappy items due to some sort of crappy oversight? I decided to risk being a bit of a douche and emailed Woot's customer service. This morning, I received the following reply:
Well, it appears you got 6 extra bags so we'll have to charge you for 2 more BOCs...if that were true, wouldn't we just be mean and cold for that? It's a good thing I'm just kidding! :)
Seriously though, that sounds more like you got all bags and no crap...we'll send some more actual crap your way. And we will definitely not be charging you for it!
Riley
Well that's amazingly cool and non-crappy! I have more exciting randomness heading toward my mailbox, and will post when it arrives. In the meantime I should probably post about other things too.
So during a Woot Off a couple of weeks ago I managed to score my first ever Bag of Crap. For those of you who aren't familiar with Woot, the Bag of Crap (or Bowl of Cereal, Box of Cats, Bloomin' Onion Carousel, Bandolier of Carrots, etc.) is something Woot does where they throw some sort of bag and three or more random items into a box and ship it to everyone who successfully purchases the bag-- for three dollars plus five dollars shipping-- before they sell out. The selling out generally happens after a brief frenzy of server overload and timeouts, generally in less than a minute. The items in question generally are cheap and well, crappy, but Woot keeps things interesting by throwing in the occasional 61" HD TV or other nice, valuable, or unusual items. Anyway, yesterday I got this delivered to my house:
Packing materials, and something colorful underneath!
So, it's a little camera bag and a vinyl and cardboard picnic basket. Huh. That's... cool. Is there anything else in there?
Nope.
Ah well. I can't really complain. For one thing, it was eight dollars all told, and I got a good eight dollars worth of entertainment out of the process. Secondly, it says right on the site that you are purchasing a bag of crap. But then again, according to the Woot Bag of Crap Rules:
I. Thou shalt expect nothing beyond ONE bag of some kind and THREE crappy items.
Well, the camera bag is a bag, and the picnic basket thing could either be considered a bag or a crappy item. Do the seven bags of air filling out the box count as items, or was I shorted two crappy items due to some sort of crappy oversight? I decided to risk being a bit of a douche and emailed Woot's customer service. This morning, I received the following reply:
Well, it appears you got 6 extra bags so we'll have to charge you for 2 more BOCs...if that were true, wouldn't we just be mean and cold for that? It's a good thing I'm just kidding! :)
Seriously though, that sounds more like you got all bags and no crap...we'll send some more actual crap your way. And we will definitely not be charging you for it!
Riley
Well that's amazingly cool and non-crappy! I have more exciting randomness heading toward my mailbox, and will post when it arrives. In the meantime I should probably post about other things too.