The BlueRay burner is such a good deal its listed twice.
That means I gotta buy it now.

Oh boy. Nacho Libre, and it only costs $2.
I would gladly pay $2 to get back the 2 hours of my life I wasted watching that movie the first time.

@Mykro: The Blu-ray is a reader, not a burner.

It's a muther-funkin woot off! Day = planned.

Tried using Woot to order the digital wallet-picture things. After a long timeout, I saw a cat playing piano that was supposed to be telling me there was a server error.

Not sure what cats playing music have to do with server errors, but ... OK. Whatever. Trying to reload the page was useless. Later there's a completely different deal, which was NOT a bargain at all.

(Can you say ... "bait and switch"?)

The reason I was supposed to go to Woot was ... uh ... what was that again?

@PsiCop: Not bait and switch. It's a woot!-off. They sell one item until it sells out, then it's the next item.

@JerseyCam.orgFounder_GitEmSteveDave: How is it not a bait-&-switch, when:

1. I try to order something;

2. The order doesn't go through;

then

3. I'm offered something completely different which — not coincidentally — is so ludicrously expensive that I cannot believe anyone actually paid that much for it.

That's the very definition of "bait and switch."

Sorry but the evidence is in. Scam.

@PsiCop: You try to order something. In the time you are trying to order it, it sell out. The woot!-off continues along the same pattern it always has, and puts the next random item up for sale to everyone, until it itself sells out, when the cycle repeats.

@PsiCop: After your picture device, was a mandolin slicer. By the definition of "bait and switch", it should have tried to sell you a higher priced picture device, saying the lower priced one was not available.

woot!-offs have been going on for literally years, and always follow the same pattern.

@AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave: You can slice it and dice it any way you want. Rationalize it 'till you're blue in the face. But they did not have what I ordered, when I ordered it, and they offered something else that was laughably expensive.

Not to mention that the reason I couldn't get the item I wanted, was because THEIR own Web server was dishing up errors. Wasn't my doing!

If it quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, and waddles like a duck, then it's a duck. Same concept here.

It doesn't matter that they've been doing this for years. It looks like a scam. Years-old scams are still scams — as Bernie Madoff found out recently. You and maybe some other people may be willing to play whatever bizarre game they're playing, and end up buying stuff you don't want 'cause they break their own Web server when the good deals are going on ... but I have better things to do with my time and money than get flim-flammed by them.

@PsiCop: So during an event which is described as:

In Woot-Off mode, a new product is launched immediately after the sellout of the previous deal.

"The goal of the bait-and-switch is to convince some buyers to purchase the substitute good as a means of avoiding disappointment over not getting the bait, or as a way to recover sunk costs expended to try to obtain the bait."

So to get people over the disappointment of not getting a $6 Digital Picture Frame, they tried to "convince" you to buy a $200 vegetable slicer? And if you can honestly say that after going through woot!'s three separate screen order process, they "tricked" you into buying something, you need to step away from your keyboard.

This is as much a bait and switch as if I went to an auction, and because I didn't win the Hummel Figurine I was bidding on, I bought the Rolls Royce that was up for bid next.

@PsiCop: You should fire off a letter to them. I'd love to hear what they say in return.

@MostlyHarmless: Something similar to the person who said they were deceived into buying a iPod w/white earbuds?

@AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave: Yeah. And the subsequent barbs everytime theres an iPod of any kind on sale :P

@PsiCop: server was probably overloaded with everyone else trying to get a $6 digital thingamabob.

woot offs are not like shopping at amazon, it's a limited time, set amount kind of deal. When it runs out, it runs out.

The same concept goes when it isn't a woot off. If the item is sold out in ten minutes, then guess what, there is nothing else going on for the rest of the day, just a picture of the item that was for sale and the words "Sold Out!"

Good thing you weren't trying to get a BOC. Your computer would have exploded. Those sell out in SECONDS. Then you are left with the option to buy bacon salt. I think they do that so you can rub it into your wounds at not being able to get the BOC, personally.

Cool. I let my TONY subscription lapse, but I'll have it again for free. If you insist.

@PsiCop: Now now everyone... please don't feed trolls. Especially after midnight.

@locakitty: Don't forget screaming monkeys!

@AllToAll,ByMyMustard!_GitEmSteveDave: I have one in my car as a rearview mirror decoration. It's really great when I hit large potholes. And there are tons of them in Tucson.