# I Just Bought Something **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502 "2013-08-17T18:12:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/1 "2013-08-17T18:12:39Z")
[No idea what it was, though](http://www.somethingstore.com/index.html). More info in a week or so. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/2 "2013-08-17T18:17:58Z")
It’s a thing. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/3 "2013-08-17T18:31:03Z")
Looks sketchy to me… Yeah, they guarantee that whatever they send you will have an MSRP of at least $10, but there are a lot of pieces of junk out there with an MSRP that high that wouldn’t be worth it if they were free. It seems pretty obvious to me that the purpose of the website is to act as a clearinghouse for those things that companies couldn’t get rid of any other way, with a handful of nice things like Kindles and remote-controlled helicopters thrown in just so they can put them on the front page. ---
**Author:** ![NotDeadYet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotDeadYet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotDeadYet)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/4 "2013-08-17T19:04:29Z")
Sucker here. Just bought “Something” too. Woot does the “Random Bag of Crap” every now and then and sells out very fast, so who knows. I will be interested in how many e-mails from online retailers the purchase will generate. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/5 "2013-08-17T19:20:25Z")
Hmm. Clicking on the buy button gives me a “cross-site scripting” warning from Firefox. I’m not sure what that means. Sounds like a fun idea, a good way to use up those few extra dollars on a promotional debit card maybe, but I think I’ll pass for now. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/6 "2013-08-17T19:36:25Z")
It looks like that thing that my aunt got me which I don’t know what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/7 "2013-08-17T19:52:40Z")
Just hope it isn’t a boat. A boat’s a boat but a box could be anything! It could even be a boat! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/8 "2013-08-17T20:36:12Z")
My spousal unit is very suspicious. I think it sounds like cheap fun for $10. We’ll see who wins this battle! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/9 "2013-08-17T20:40:51Z")
My roommate got one of those. Guarenteed to be worth $40. I think it was. Among other stuff there was one of those battery operated RC helicopters. If you don’t need or can’t use all the stuff, you can use it for gifts. Maybe I’ll figure out how to fly the chopper to torment the cat. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/10 "2013-08-18T03:42:45Z")
I already have one. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/11 "2013-08-18T04:09:52Z")
Tosh.0 did that a while ago with his staff. They got a bunch of hats, some other crap and one person got a Kindle. A FOAF (or rather a friend of one of my employees) did that bag of crap from Woot and ended up with something like 300 calculators or 400 of something or other. It was some ridiculous amount of something they just couldn’t sell and just tossed it all in a box and shipped it off. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/12 "2013-08-18T04:54:57Z")
I got mine last week. It’s a sponge sharpener. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/13 "2013-08-18T05:19:53Z")
Nice! I always feel self conscious after bathing with a dull sponge. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2013, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/14 "2013-08-18T07:07:11Z")
Maybe you will get a marvelous toy that goes “zzzzip” when it moves, “boppp” when it stops, and “whirrrr” when it stands still. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/15 "2013-08-19T21:44:12Z")
The Other Shoe & I tried it after seeing the Tosh.0 bit. It \*\*\*is \*\*\*kinda fun - he got a wallet that’s printed with all sorts of references and conversions, and I got a bracelet. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/16 "2013-08-19T22:54:33Z")
It’s a Dead Vole. Trust me on this one. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/17 "2013-08-20T01:11:12Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I got mine last week. > It’s a sponge sharpener. Kewl! I want one! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/18 "2013-08-20T01:54:38Z")
Doesn’t SDMB do that for free every fall or so? You know, the White Elephant Exchange. I think I missed last year, but I’ve participated in several. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/19 "2013-08-20T03:05:02Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Doesn’t SDMB do that for free every fall or so? You know, the White Elephant Exchange. I think I missed last year, but I’ve participated in several. Sure enough. As a matter of fact, I’m relatively sure I either sent you a package or received one from you several years ago. Been awhile for me as well, though – have to get back into it this year (since we had a yard sale a couple of weeks ago and there’s still some decent leftovers). ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502/20 "2013-08-20T03:27:27Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Maybe you will get a marvelous toy that goes “zzzzip” when it moves, “boppp” when it stops, and “whirrrr” when it stands still. OOOOH! I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will! As soon as I have $10 to spare… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-bought-something/666502.md?page=2)