Woot-Off Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!1!!!!!!!!OMG1!!

[temke]

Anyone else get the newsletter?

 

"We have a ridiculously busy week ahead of us, with a ton of work to do between now and Thursday. So we're gonna leave you with this: make sure you get lots of rest and there's plenty of room on your credit card. You never know when you might need it."

 

Edit: For flair. - Toby

[DHonks]

yeah, my first thought was "wasn't the last time the sent the newsletter, the start of a woot-off?"

[pogokat]

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude...

 

how am i going to woot off while im pretending to be ron weasley at barnes and noble?

[And That]

how am i going to woot off

 

Dork.

 

while im pretending to be ron weasley at barnes and noble?

 

Ultra-dork.

 

When I got the newsletter, I knew there had to be something coming soon. I don't work until the late afternoon on Thursday. Do some wooting and some Brewer watching at the same time. Woot.

[DHonks]

what sucks is that I have two job interviews on Thursday. So I'll have to TiVo the game...can I TiVo the Woot-off?

[JoeHova]

what is a woot off in this context? (I assume you are talking about woot.com.)

[berniebrewer4life]

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what is a woot off in this context? (I assume you are talking about woot.com.)

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You are correct, a normal woot is one per night, then when it sells out, it's done. A woot off is a constant stream of products for usually well over 24 hours(longest i can remember is around 72). So much stuff, so great. And if this is true, for the 5th straight time, the woot off starts on my 2 days off. That's a happy BB4L, but a sad AmEx.

[berniebrewer4life]

It's offical, the woot off has started.

[DHonks]

I'm sportin'...wait, I don't think I can say anymore than that on this wonderful family site.

 

YAY!

[DHonks]

my woot tracker site is down...anyone have a good one with auto-refreshes?

[And That]

Doug, go to woot.com and tape down your F5 button. That's what works for me.

[And That]

$90 for an arcade basketball shooting game, and you only get two balls? Where's the back of the thing too? Booo.

[pitchleague]

yep, so far this woot-off blows. It's early.

 

I really wanted that slingbox, but it was a refurb so no way.

[pogokat]

i'm holding out for a personal helicopter that also is a slurpee machine...

[DHonks]

man, this is going pretty quick for the first 1:30 of a wootoff...item 6 I think

 

this camping light is kind of cool, but even at that price I can't imagine having a use for it

[And That]

I'd personally be concerned about buying a flashlight from Woot. Smartpost would crush the bulb quicker than they could get it out to the truck.

[JoeHova]

so, how reliable is woot? I'm intrigued, but does the stuff actually come undamaged in the mail? Is it what it's supposed to be and does it work? Is card information secure? I'm just looking for a little reassurance.

[DHonks]

Shipping has always been fine for me. I'd imagine it's no less secure than amazon or other online retailers.

 

Joe, a big part of the fun of Woot is that there's things you'd never buy, but at $20, they just are too good to pass up. Got some external speakers recently that are really nice.

[JumpinMacFlash]

I guess I never really figured out what a Woot off is all about...can someone give a lowdown? How can I tell what's available?

[Brian the Automator]

[ I guess I never really figured out what a Woot off is all about...can someone give a lowdown? How can I tell what's available? ]

 

Woot.com is a site that normally sells one item per day. Usually the price is way below where you'll find it somewhere else. Once they run out of stock, the sale is over for the day.

 

In a woot off, once they run out of stock, they immediately put another item online. This can last for several days.

 

The "shtick" is that you don't know what item's available until you look and see.

[temke]

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my woot tracker site is down...anyone have a good one with auto-refreshes?

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if you use firefox, download the check for change extension. you can select text and set it to refresh the page at any interval you wish.

 

it also plays a bit of david bowie's "changes" when it finds a change

 

/addons.mozilla.org/en-US...addon/3028

[temke]

who was looking for the roomba a couple weeks ago?? it is there!

[funkyplaidcoat]

I purchased the roombah, but nothing has been confirmed. Woot is just a sick joke, isn't it?

[recte44]

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[And That]

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