w00t w00t at Woot.com!

I have never hacked into NASA, nor upload a virus to a major networking system. I doubt I will ever break into a backing backbone server and steal large amounts of E-money, or add trojan keystroke tracker to some important computer. But you and I can still live like "HaXors" with Woot!

Woot.com is a great site, but the excitement is more difficult to explain than to enjoy. My Woot review can better be understood by actually wooting, but I will try to define the way of Woot! Basically, woot brings you cool gadgets, electronics & toys at low prices. Unlike some regular store however, woot only has one item for sale on any one day (except for woot-offs, more on those later). So we have 24 hours of sale for one random item, simple enough right? Well kind of, but woot does not have infinite quantities, so items can sell out at any moment. That's right, you can check it at Midnight (CST) and by 1:00 AM everything be sold out, or by midnight the next day they still could have plenty of the items.

So now your getting it, woot! is great prices, random products (kind of like this blog) and random quantities. Cool, but it's is missing something right? Well every so often you will be able to catch a Woot-off. Including right this second! (As of posting) A woot off is Woot! on 12 Red Bulls. It is better deals, lower quantities, but also as soon as an item sells out, or time expires, a new item is instantly posted. So it could be 300 television remotes, which take 2-3 hours to sell out, followed by 20 bluetooth headsets (at a ridiculously low price) which sell out in less than a minute, etc etc etc.

But wait, Woot has even more! Perhaps my favorite thing about woot.com is the "Random Bag of Crap." So what is it? It is a bag, with three items in it. Each item costs $1 (plus $5 shipping) and each bag is a random selection of things. In the past big screen tv's, xbox 360's and other valuable items have been in the bags. A vast majority of bags get more random things, like books on origami or a camera bag. Still, the mystery is amazingly fun and intriguing. Bags of crap sell out within minutes, one must be diligent and not think but simply buy when one presents itself. A tip, Woot-offs usually have bags of crap as the penultimate item, so try to guess when that may happen.

Also, check out wine.woot.com for the same idea only with wine instead of gadgets!