Unboxing Video: Lots Of Jewelry

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Alexander

Take a look at this unboxing video from UndefeatableTwilight opening assorted jewelry bought by the bot. Note the trademark challenging packaging and wildly off-base customs description. Sound quality is not great, but it always good to see what the bot is actually sending to people!

Item Of The Day: Infants Skinny Headband

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Alexander

This headband the bot has been buying has received nothing but positive feedback. It comes in pretty much every color and has a “super lovely design”.

Item Of The Day: Robot USB Convertor

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Alexander

The bot has ironically been buying this nifty bot-shaped USB convertor, which lets you connect a USB memory stick, a USB memory card reader, or a keyboard to your phone.

Item Of The Day: Robot Silicone Mold

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Alexander

The bot has been getting quite a bit of good feedback from folks who have received this robot shaped mold. From the description it sounds like you can use it for anything from ice cubes to chocolates.

Item Of The Day: Lego Knockoff

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Alexander

I noticed the bot buying quite a few of these and items like it. Note that these aren’t being sold as Lego, but look pretty much identical to them. The actual figures must be marked as something besides Lego.

Real Bobcat In A Real Box

Posted on October 11, 2016 by Alexander

I came across this short video on YouTube of an actual bobcat, named Bobby, generally confused by being put in a box. Would not want to open!

Bobcat Returns

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Alexander

I have added a few new sites to the bot that require return addresses in order to order a package. Most of these are postcards or sites that specialize in gifts.

I wasn’t quite sure what return address to put. So I have created a new positive keyword ‘Bobcat Returns’. If you login to your account and select the keyword ‘Bobcat Returns’, we’ll use your address as a return address on some of the packages.

This will not change at all what the bot orders for you… but you might get some strange return mail!

Top Keywords By Country

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Alexander

Take a look at the below lists I put together of the most common keywords (positive and negative) that have been selected by folks using the bot from different countries. The data are quite noisy, but there are some interesting nuggets.

The US and UK share about half of their top positive and negative keywords. No other countries have nearly as much overlap in the top keywords they select.
Pretty much everyone likes Legos
The keywords ‘crafts’ is a top positive in New Zealand and a top negative in Ireland

PS – These are the most common keywords selected through the bot. That is, these are the keywords that participants have told the bot that they want/don’t want. This is not a list of items by the frequency that they have actually been ordered (for example, we have not ordered any ‘nazis’ items for obvious reasons).