My Bag of Crap from Woot

One of my favorites online retailer is Woot.com.  They sell one discounted item per day and charge a flat $5 shipping no matter what the item is or how many you buy (the max is 3).  Every so often instead of business as usual, they have what’s called a Woot Off.  During this time, they sell products one after another until sell out.  Often this culminates with a Random Crap offering that gives you a “Bag of Crap” for $3.  The site’s servers usually overload when this happens and the item sells out in seconds.  I’ve been trying for 4 years to order a Bag of Crap and a few days ago I was able to thanks to my secret weapon, wooters.us.

Woot Bag of Crap

Today I received my Bag of Crap, which came in a box Fed Ex Smart Post.  I was dissapointed that the box was only 5 pounds, but here’s what I got:

• ¤ Ezyflare Emergency Electronic Flare [$19.95 from Sears]
• ¤ iPower² iPhone 3G Battery Backup Power [$79.99 from Costco]
• ¤ Trend Micro Internet Security (3 User) [$30.49 from Amazon]
• ¤ Digital Concepts 2 Hour Charger (with Car Charger) [$19.99 from Amazon]
• ¤ Daiwa Zipper Binder (of undetermined origin)
• ¤ 25 Sandisk MP3 Player Clear Plastic Case (worthless)
• ¤ Targus Notebook Cooling Chill Mat (no power cord)
• ¤ Some kind of Back Pain Relief System (incomplete, untested, and not pictured)

For $8, this was a great deal.  I figured I could sell 3 installs of Trend Micro for $20 each and make a pretty healthy profit.

I was shocked to find out that the iPower² was worth sold for as much as it does.  So what did I do, I listed it on eBay.

The Sandisk Cases are worthless.

I think the Daiwa case has something to do with fishing.