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Written by ircmaxell
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Monday, 11 December 2006 |
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Welcome to BagsOfCrap.com! For all things woot. We are a fan site for the popular online retailer Woot!. We provide woot-off checkers and trackers, forums, a wiki, a termonology glossary, item lists, games, and more! We also cache woot's blog by day with a calendar display. This site is 100% free to use, so feel free to come by and use it! If this is your first time here, be sure to check out the Bag of Crap (Random Crap) and woot off predictor. If you like the site, I encourage you to click the Del.icio.us and Digg It! tags at the top of the page. We also have a relevant link exchange program.
One new feature is the Ajax woot tracker on the main page. The "current woot" box is Ajax based, and refreshes itself every 30 seconds. During a wootoff, it will show the percentage remaining, including an estimated time remaining and sellout time display. Also available are four trackers. There is the Simple tracker which displays the item title, price, and estimated time remaining (including a buy one button). The Detailed trcker simply adds the item description from Woot!'s website. The Picture tracker uses the Little Woot display that is popular with other trackers. The final tracker, and the newest one, is the Sound! Tracker. It provides the same information as the Detailed tracker, but also plays a sound whenever an item sells out.
Be sure to check out the weekly poll. A new poll is posted every Monday night at 12am Eastern. The polls are kept secret until there release, so be sure to check often! Results to prior polls are available in the Weekly Poll Results section from the main menu.
There are also several flash based games to keep you entertained during a wootoff. The Current Woot box will keep refreshing on its own, so even in the middle of a game, you will always be aware of the current woot status.
Please be kind to my server, and let the trackers refresh themselves. During a wootoff, this site experiences very heavy loads, and every request just makes it worse. Results from the item lists may be delayed by up to two minutes due to caching. Due to some complaints with the meta refresh in the trackers, all four active trackers now use JavaScript to refresh themselves. If this is a problem, please contact us, and we will provide a non-java alternative.
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