I just made a nice score on Woot.com. For those who don't know, Woot is a website that usually sell one item a day, often at a good price. Every couple of months, they run what is called a woot-off, where they sell an item unit it sells out and move on to the next one till the whole set is gone. They can last a day or go to three but the average is two.

One of Woot's most coveted object is something known as the Bag of Crap (BOC). Basically is bunch of leftovers or odds and ends, a surprise or bundle or mystery box of sorts. A lot of the time the BOC contains some really wacky items, part of the fun. Their servers get so flooded when a BOC goes up, that it is very hard to actually buy it. Some people have tried for seven years and still can't get one.

I am lucky as I finally grabbed my fourth one since 2005. Very hard to get indeed. It costs $8 (plus sales tax here in TeXaS). Usually the items themselves barely worth that price but it is the randomness of the stuff (and how hard to get one) that is the appeal. And a few lucky ones get awesome stuff like a 42" LCD TV, a whole pallet of an oddball action figure (thousands) of them or this one guy who got a big shipment of video projectors, LCD monitors, flatbed scanners, printers and stuff like that. Of course the chances of getting such items is low, but one never knows.

Some of the weird items I got in the past includes a LED illuminated toilet flush handle, three Disney Rock-n-Rock High School clock, a picnic basket that unfolds to a large place-mat, a HP 4X DVD burner with missing faceplate, a laptop case with a broken clasp, lots of small stuff. It takes a couple of weeks to come in and I can't wait to see what manner of craziness coming my way. I shall update once the blessed event takes place.