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What do you think about there being 10,000 pages on the top deals tab?

May 30, 2012 11:51 PM

I was just looking through the top deals tab and realized that it was at exactly 10,000 pages. I bet many of those deals are expired but have not been. What do you think about there being that many pages? And what is your guess to how many posts are expired?

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I think that the more Woot!ers help clean up old deals, the better it would be. But it's also indicative of an awesome community where a ton of great deals get posted for all to see.

ki4rxm ki4rxm
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Well, at least a dozen or so are expired...since I did them yesterday.

But that's a whole lotta deal.

okham okham
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I blame wootbot

lichme lichme
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There's a whole lotta tattle'n to be done!

lpgstock lpgstock
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I try to tattle at least once a week and usually get about 20-30 tattles in each time.

Here are some tips to shoot down the easy tattles:

Check out wootbot's deals added and go back a month or two. Almost all of those deals are different prices now and can be tattled.

Type in a holiday/holiday sales: Halloween, Easter, Chirstmas, Black friday. I guarantee there are still xmas deals that need to be reckoned so to say

Search 'Today only' that tends to yield a few responses whenever i do it.

Remember to look out for non-deals. A lot of vendors post deals at list price and usually have 0 votes. keep an eye out for those too

Also always expire your own deals. With your help we can keep DW clean.

cowboydann cowboydann
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I tattle as much as I can but 10,000 is a whole lot to go through and sort out. I think people need to be more vigilante in expiring their own posts. I am one of those people. I do also blame wootbot

segafanalways segafanalways
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I actually wouldn't mind if there was some sort of repository for past deals, though. I like to search through deals.woot whenever I'm looking to buy something I could see being listed on here to see what sort of prices it's been offered at in the past.

racinreaver racinreaver
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yea, i tattle a lot. i mean A LOT. i average a minimum of 30 on a slow day. i have days that i do 60 or 90. i feel sorry for @thefenst for having to deal with me and all my tattling. however i know it is a necessary thing. i feel that if they did a blanket rip on anything more than a year old it would be a lot easier and effective. also there would be a lot less newbies posting "why do i click on the deal listing $1.00 and it shows up at $98?"

my tips find a bigish company and do an advanced search excluding expired posted before jan 1, 2011. i've been working on one company for weeks now. finally down to 200+ to go. i have had 9 items that were still accurate price and available at this time from the 40 pages i started with.

moosezilla moosezilla
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I blame the "deal-a-day" sites as well as certain vendors(not @ocheri...she is vigilant). Oh, and wootbot. I tattle whenever I get the chance, but I seem to not have enough hours in a day. Spring cleaning headed by @moosezilla helped a lot, but can't TPTB do their part as well? I would think there should be a script run to RIP deals over XX number of days old. Please?

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