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Why doesn't Woot, and the woot family of sites, have mobile versions?

So I can look all of the wootness on the go? Buy all of the coolness on my smartphone!? Enjoy all of the discounted...ness everywhere?

by wakingmind
asked 6 months ago

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So there is WootWatcher that will fit your needs. It is a nice app. But what I really want is a good deals.woot app.

miquinn
6 months ago

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@miquinn: does WootWatcher give you alerts each time a new deal is posted? This would be a nice feature, especially for Woot Offs! It would make for a quick work day if i was constantly checking each time there was a new deal. Gotta love the woot off

bellstl
6 months ago

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@bellstl: indeed it does! I actually have the notifications off... but for woot-offs it is great!

miquinn
6 months ago

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@miquinn: sweet... just downloaded it. Since I usually check woot at midnight, I should know when the woot off starts and turn on the notifications. Thanks for the help

bellstl
6 months ago

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@bellstl:

If you want it to work well for woot-offs, you really need to send Ben the $2 donation to get the push version. (No, I'm not associated with Ben; in fact, he's probably wondering why I'm using his first name as we've never met or communicated in any way.)

Regardless, read what the $2 gets you and you'll see that it is a no-brainer for yourself.

baqui63
6 months ago

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I think it isn't far off but it's woot. It took them years before a monthly newsletter. They would snag us with a bi annual email then quarterly. Not to often so that I wanted to read it each te it arrived. Now we love getting spammed each day by woot. They are patient and waiting us out.

Also I think they have a place in their hearts for the woot app and watcher site developers. They do care about their community.

gilfilent
6 months ago

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@gilfilent:

Huh? There is a monthly newsletter?

I can think of maybe three emails from woot that weren't coupons (Hope your Thanksgiving was GREAT, @Jumbowoot! ;) ;) ) or the daily woot notifications with Mortimer and Monte. (In fact, one came yesterday... about the Holiday Shirt/Cards/etc. offering.)

baqui63
6 months ago

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@miquinn: working on the deals.woot app. I haven't found much time, but I'm making some good progress.

edit: android app.

zarfus
6 months ago

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My bad I meant daily email. Was sleepy last night!

gilfilent
6 months ago

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I don't have an answer, but I do want to vote for an official app/site. I'll check out Woot Watcher, though - I've heard a lot of good things.

kentobi
6 months ago

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@zarfus: OH that is awesome! I was hoping a committed wooter would try. I have wanted to try but have never gotten around to doing it.

miquinn
6 months ago

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Hey, log in or sign up first!

Whatever it is you're trying to do can ONLY be done by registered, logged-in Deals.Woot members. Why? Because they're better people than you. Don't worry: you can easily improve yourself by logging into your Woot account or signing up for a new one.

Sorry

This is only for people who have bought woots

We restrict voting to users who have purchased something from one of the other Woot stores. It's not just because we want your money (which we do) - it's the best way to be sure all the votes are coming from real people and not spam-bots or phony accounts. The best way we can think of, anyway. For now.

You can always get voting rights by buying something from one of Woot's other sites:

Purchases through Deals.Woot don't count, because in that case you're not buying anything from us. And we don't have your account information for those purchases.

If you think you've bought something from Woot before and still can't vote, make sure you're logged in with the same account you used to buy from us.

Geez, why so negative?

You have to vote up more before you can vote down.

Don't get us wrong. Negativity has its place. And downvotes are just as essential as upvotes when it comes to making Deals.Woot a useful place to find deals.

But when your votes lean so heavily toward the dark side, we have to wonder. Go vote up a few things. Accentuate the positive for a little while. It'll do you some good, and it'll do the site some good, too. Then you can get back to dealing out the smackdowns, OK?

Too late, we all heard you!

Hmm... you're wanting to take your vote back?

Well, that's a bit tricky. See, we do a lot of stuff with your vote, using it to work out the popularity of what you voted for, compare that to all the other things voted on, tally up our leaderboard, work out your reputation. Someday we'll do a little cartoon showing just how hard your vote is working.

Anyway, taking votes back messes all that up, so we give you five minutes, in case you just mis-clicked. After that we've got to say no take-backs. Luckily, votes are free, so feel free to throw them around left and right wherever you see fit.