Deals.Woot

I have a method for finding deals, but I'm not telling.

For getting stuff to hit popular, it is sort of hit or miss. Unusual items seem to have a pretty good chance to be voted to popular. Remember even if something gets enough votes it does not mean it will hit popular.

@weakgeek: What does it matter whether or not you get to Popular? I'm always puzzled by those people who submit deal after deal, for no real reward that I can see. Post stuff you'd want. If you post too many deals, you start to look like a bot, or like a representative of a particular site.

Now, mind you, I'll vote for something from a site, posted by one of those accounts, IFF the site is reputable, and the deal seems worthwhile. I often vote for BH photo stuffs. There are other sites where I not only don't vote when I see them from that role account, I'll go off and look at the user tab of someone ELSE who posts deals from that site, just to see if they're a shill. I wondered about you (weakgeek) for quite a while, since it seemed that you were always posting for the same web site, but looking at the intermediate links suggests that you were after nothing but fame and glory.

Remember, less is more.

@shrdlu: I like to think of myself more as a tool rather than a shill. :)

I posted a lot of stuff from geeks because they run their site like a tech rummage sale which I think is a nice change from the neweggs and amazons of the world.

Then I realized that there's a reason the big sites are so big, people usually prefer to buy expensive items from nice stores and not from the back of a van with dark tinted windows in a parking lot. People also like convenience. Everything in one shopping cart is easy, real or virtual. So, I started to looking for deals from more main-stream sites.

So the bottom line: I'm a tool pwned by woot. But I'm no shill...

@shrdlu: Popularity is more of a game for me. Why do people climb ridiculously tall mountains at the risk of their own life? Beats me. Why does weakgeek want to post and item that goes viral on deals.woot? Because the numa numa trick probably won't work again. Without video. On a site just for deals.

@shrdlu: Posting deals with pics of scantily clothed models is not very sportsman-like. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

I like the kinetic clock that shot up to the top the other day (http://tinyurl.com/y9q9v8m). It was posted by what I think is a bot (@snagstuff) yet it still had a meteoric rise to popularity before crashing to earth.

Anyway, I'll just have to discover my inner-dealmeister or else remain a tool.

Thanks for the answers!

@hobbit: Sorry, I was referring to the first paragraph of shrdlu's post about all those lingeriedealoftheday.com items that become popular. I wasn't targeting anyone in particular.

I don't think I have good enough taste in women's shoes, either. :)

@weakgeek: @wootiewooterson and @prettywootprincess don't really count for deals. They are staff members. Honestly if you are this stressed out about getting popular deals I would just take a break for a few days/weeks and then come back and ONLY post a FEW deals a day, JUST the good ones not EVERY SINGLE deal from a site.

@hobbit: Thanks! Is this the first woot intervention? Perhaps I should register a domain name, woot12stepprogram.com. :)

My humor tends to run a bit sardonic so don't mind me. I'll always be @weakgeek.

Thanks for the tip on those accounts, @shrdlu.

Maybe this is better asked in a new question. I've noticed that sometimes users will add another user's name to the item tags. For example, @hobbit, you added "shrdlu" as a tag here: http://tinyurl.com/y9x93aa. Is that to make it easier for someone to find it via a search?

@weakgeek: I did that for that deal, because it was a challenge deal. She challenged us to find her a camera. We do that once in a while when we are posting challenge deals.

@shrdlu: I used to go to geeks dot com. It was located in an industrial park in Oceanside, CA. I do not know if they are in the same location, as I no longer drive. If you were into personal computers in the 70's and 80's, then you have seen those stores that sort of looked like tech garage sales. Geeks reminded me of those. Yes, I actually visit here, now and then, just to see what is happening. Keep up the good work.